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 1121 - [FWS: Writing Berlin]
• GERST 1122 - FWS: Love and Death in Vienna
• GERST 1125 - [FWS: Media Studies]
• GERST 1126 - FWS: Philosophies of Violence: Conceptualizations of Force from Kant to Zizek
• 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 - Against and Beyond the Digital in German
• GERST 3215 - [Performance Theater and Politics]
• 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 3320 - Stories of Love: Joy and Heartbreak in German Literature
• GERST 3330 - [Laughter and Wit in German Lit]
• GERST 3340 - Working Through Working
• 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 2567 - [History of Holocaust] (crosslisted)
• GERST 2700 - Introduction to German Culture and Thought
• GERST 2703 - Thinking Media (crosslisted)
• GERST 3512 - [No Rest: The Exhausted Self] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3525 - [New German Cinema] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3535 - Science, Fiction, Media (crosslisted)
• GERST 3545 - Imagining the Middle Ages: Films, Games, and Media (crosslisted)
• GERST 3550 - Political Theory and Cinema (crosslisted)
• GERST 3555 - [Comics as a Medium]
• 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 3612 - Remembering Socialism: Literature and Film After the End of History (crosslisted)
• GERST 3620 - Introduction to Critical Theory (crosslisted)
• GERST 3770 - [The Art of the Historical Avant-Garde] (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 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 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 6224 - [Writing for the Public: Adapting Academic Work for a General Audience] (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 6355 - Images and History: Siegfried Kracauer (crosslisted)
• GERST 6363 - [Queer Marxism]
• GERST 6370 - 19th Century Fiction: The Realist Project
• 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 6445 - [German Media Theories]
• 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 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 6820 - Hölderlin: Philosophy, Poetry
• GERST 6850 - [Gramsci and Cultural Politics] (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)