German Studies|

First-Year Writing Seminars:

Please consult John S. Knight Institute for additional information.

• GERST 1109 - FWS: From Fairy Tales to the Uncanny: Exploring the Romantic Consciousness
• GERST 1118 - [FWS: Let’s Play!]
• GERST 1121 - FWS: Writing Berlin
• GERST 1122 - [FWS: Love and Death in Vienna]
• GERST 1123 - FWS: Romanticism on Film: International Horror Cinema
• GERST 1124 - FWS: Writing Between: Here, There, Everywhere, Nowhere
• GERST 1125 - FWS: Media Studies
• GERST 1170 - FWS: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
• GERST 1175 - FWS: Small Forms, Big Ideas

Courses Offered in German:

• GERST 1210 - Exploring German Contexts I
• GERST 1220 - Exploring German Contexts II
• GERST 1230 - Expanding the German Dossier
• GERST 2000 - Germany: Intercultural Context
• GERST 2020 - Literary Texts and Contexts: The Myth of 1968
• GERST 2040 - Perspectives on German Culture
• GERST 2060 - German in Business Culture
• GERST 3013 - German Language Across the Curriculum (LAC)
• GERST 3070 - [Challenge of Literary Language]
• GERST 3075 - Print Matters (crosslisted)
• GERST 3080 - German Digital Culture
• GERST 3215 - Performance Theater and Politics
• GERST 3320 - [Stories of Love: Joy and Heartbreak in German Literature]
• GERST 3225 - [Bestseller]
• GERST 3260 - [Oddballs, Outcasts and Rebels]
• GERST 3290 - Mean Streets: German Crime and Detective Fiction
• GERST 3300 - [West Germany 1968-1977]
• GERST 3310 - [Come Together: Public Spaces and German Culture]
• GERST 3330 - [Laughter and Wit in German Lit]
• GERST 3350 - [Kafka in Context: Trials of Modernity]
• GERST 3410 - [History Will Be Televised]
• GERST 4002 - [Changing Worlds: Migration, Minorities, and German Literature]
• GERST 4100 - The Seminar

Courses Offered in English:

• GERST 2700 - Introduction to German Culture and Thought
• GERST 2703 - Thinking Media (crosslisted)
• GERST 3511 - [Media in Transit] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3512 - [No Rest: The Exhausted Self] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3515 - [Cinema of the Weimar Republic] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3525 - [New German Cinema] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3535 - [Science, Fiction, Media] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3550 - [Political Theory and Cinema] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3560 - [Metropolis: Urban Sites in Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3561 - [Freud and the Invention of Psychoanalysis] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3580 - Nineteenth Century Philosophy (crosslisted)
• GERST 3581 - [Imagining Migration in Film and Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3590 - Kant (crosslisted)
• GERST 3610 - Fables of Capitalism (crosslisted)
• GERST 3620 - [Introduction to Critical Theory] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3640 - [Me, Myself, I: Subjects of Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3642 - Dealing with the Devil: Music’s Faustian Bargain with Literature (crosslisted)
• GERST 3770 - [The Art of the Historical Avant-Garde] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3800 - [Kafka’s Worlds: Castles, Trials, and Tribulations] (crosslisted)

Advanced Undergraduate Courses:

• GERST 4210 - [Existentialism] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4211 - [Beyond the Limits of the Human: Explorations in German Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4245 - [Critical Thinking and Literary Methods] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4250 - Marx, Nietzsche, Freud (crosslisted)
• GERST 4255 - [Freudo-Marxism: Theory and Praxis] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4260 - [The Animal] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4285 - [Premodern Literature and Media] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4290 - Spinoza and the New Spinozism (crosslisted)
• GERST 4312 - [What was Film?] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4351 - [Critical Theory and Climate Change] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4370 - [Topics in German Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4375 - [The Holocaust and History Writing] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4411 - [The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961)] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4413 - [Walter Benjamin] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4471 - [Premodern-Postmodern] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4510 - Independent Study
• GERST 4520 - Independent Study
• GERST 4530 - Honors Research
• GERST 4540 - Honors Thesis

Graduate Courses:

• GERST 5070 - Teaching German as a Foreign Language: Principles and Practices
• GERST 6040 - [Tragic Modernity] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6050 - Classicism: Goethe and Schiller
• GERST 6070 - [Prose of the World: 19th C. Letters] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6090 - Poetologies and Dramaturgies After 1945
• GERST 6100 - [Marx and Marxisms] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6131 - German Philosophical Texts (crosslisted)
• GERST 6150 - Jews in German Literature and Culture Since 1945 (crosslisted)
• GERST 6160 - [Spaces of Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6175 - [Empathy: Affects and Sociality in Literature and Theory] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6190 - [Introduction to Systems Theory] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6210 - [Writing the Self] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6221 - Topics in Modern Philosophy (crosslisted)
• GERST 6230 - [Aesthetic Turns: The Fin-de-Siecle]
• GERST 6241 - [Topics in German Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6255 - [Freudo-Marxism: Theory and Praxis] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6285 - [Premodern Literature and Media] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6310 - Reading Academic German I
• GERST 6315 - [Posthumanism, Cybernetics, Systems Theory] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6320 - Reading Academic German II
• GERST 6340 - [German Romanticism]
• GERST 6351 - [Critical Theory and Climate Change] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6375 - [The Holocaust and History Writing] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6400 - The Modern German Novel
• GERST 6411 - [The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961)] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6413 - [Walter Benjamin] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6470 - [Post-War German Literature from 1945 to 1989]
• GERST 6471 - [Premodern-Postmodern] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6481 - [Literature, Media, Form] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6510 - [Contemporary Aesthetic Theory and its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6511 - Illness as Metaphor (crosslisted)
• GERST 6515 - [German Modernism]
• GERST 6525 - [Violence in Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6535 - [Literature and Psychoanalysis: Kindred Spirits] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6560 - Aesthetic Theory: The End of Art (crosslisted)
• GERST 6586 - [Schmitt, Strauss, Arendt] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6600 - Visual Ideology (crosslisted)
• GERST 6610 - [Fictions of Law: Literature, Philosophy, and Culture in the Long 18th Century]
• GERST 6630 - Nietzsche and Heidegger (crosslisted)
• GERST 6720 - [Futures in German Studies]
• GERST 6730 - Prophetic Realisms: Literature and the Shape of Things to Come, 1830-1930-2030 (crosslisted)
• GERST 6740 - [German Critical Theory and American Radical Thought] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6780 - [Persecution and the Art of Writing] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6850 - [Gramsci and Cultural Politics] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6866 - [Global Avant-Gardes] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6910 - [Vision in Theory] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6960 - [Rites of Contact: Emergent German Literatures and Critical Method] (crosslisted)
• GERST 7530 - Independent Study
• GERST 7531 - Colloquium
• GERST 7540 - Independent Study
• GERST 7541 - Colloquium

Dutch:

• DUTCH 1210 - Elementary Dutch I
• DUTCH 1220 - Elementary Dutch II
• DUTCH 2030 - Intermediate Dutch I
• DUTCH 2040 - Intermediate Dutch II
• DUTCH 3020 - Advanced Dutch I
• DUTCH 3021 - Advanced Dutch II
• DUTCH 5010 - 17th Century Dutch Texts

Swedish:

• SWED 1210 - Elementary Swedish I
• SWED 1220 - Elementary Swedish II
• SWED 2030 - [Intermediate Swedish I]
• SWED 2040 - [Intermediate Swedish II]

Yiddish:

• GERST 1776 - Elementary Yiddish I (crosslisted)
• GERST 1777 - Elementary Yiddish II (crosslisted)