This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German in translation. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: …
This course explores how West German art cinema of the 1960s-80s reinvented filmmaking, remembered the Nazi past, and rebelled against cultural and political institutions. In dialogue with films by Werner …
Reading and discussion of German texts compared to texts from other literatures (all in English translation), with the aim of illuminating a central theoretical, historical, or social issue that transcends …
Taking Goethe's Faust as its point of departure, this course traces the emergence and transformations of the Faust legend over the last 400 hundred years. We explore precursors of Goethe's …
Major forms and themes in German lyric poetry. Prerequisite: GERM 3010.
In ¿New Voices in German¿ we will explore a selection of contemporary prose works and ask how these works critically engage with Germany¿s multilingual and transnational literary landscape. Readings include …
This course aims to clarify basic facts and explore competing explanations for the origins and unfolding of the Holocaust--the encounter between the Third Reich and Europe's Jews between 1933 and …
This course explores what it means not only to read or listen to but also to see testimony by Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. We will also view and analyze …
This course explores the pursuit of legal justice after the Holocaust. Study of legal responses to the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews in Europe, Israel, and the United States from …
Introduction to the work of Franz Kafka, with comparisons to the literary tradition he worked with and the literary tradition he formed.