German Studies|

First-Year Writing Seminars:

Please consult John S. Knight Institute for additional information.

• GERST 1102 - [FWS: Disorderly Subjects: Building, Breaking, and Remaking Culture]
• GERST 1103 - FWS: Fables of Capitalism
• GERST 1109 - FWS: From Fairy Tales to the Uncanny: Exploring the Romantic Consciousness
• GERST 1112 - FWS: Music and Letters
• GERST 1113 - [FWS: Participatory Culture]
• GERST 1150 - FWS: German Lyric Poetry
• GERST 1160 - FWS: Serial Storytelling
• GERST 1170 - FWS: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

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 2002 - [Abroad to Germany]
• GERST 2020 - [Literary Texts and Contexts]
• GERST 2040 - Perspectives on German Culture
• GERST 2060 - German in Business Culture
• GERST 3011 - Green Thought in German Culture
• GERST 3015 - Cinema of the Weimar Republic
• GERST 3050 - [Brecht and 20th-Century German Drama]
• GERST 3070 - [Challenge of Literary Language]
• GERST 3080 - German Life Style Going Digital
• GERST 3090 - [Berlin: Fast Forward]
• GERST 3221 - [Lyric Poetry]
• GERST 3260 - [Eccentric Subjects in German Literature]
• GERST 3270 - [Too Much to See: German Literary and Visual Cultures, 1900 - 1933]
• GERST 3290 - [Mean Streets: German Crime and Detective Fiction]
• GERST 3300 - [West Germany 1968/1977]
• GERST 3400 - [The Colors of Literature]
• GERST 3410 - History Will Be Televised
• GERST 4080 - [Uncanny Communities]
• GERST 4100 - Senior Seminar
• GERST 4130 - [Christa Wolf: Literature and Politics]
• GERST 4420 - Changing Worlds: Migration, Minorities, and German Literature

Courses conducted in English:

• GERST 2250 - Genius and Madness in Literature
• GERST 3522 - Dark Passages: Film Noir (crosslisted)
• GERST 3530 - Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Thought (crosslisted)
• GERST 3540 - [Success and its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3542 - [Death of God] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3550 - [Political Theory and Cinema] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3560 - [Metropolis: Urban Sites in Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3561 - Psychoanalysis, the Unconscious, and Mental Life (crosslisted)
• GERST 3570 - [The Average Man] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3580 - [Nineteenth Century Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3581 - [Imaginative Arts of Migration] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3590 - [Kant] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3600 - [Words and Music] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3610 - [Homo Oeconomicus] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3620 - Introduction to Critical Theory (crosslisted)
• GERST 3630 - [My Other Self (Friendship)] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3640 - Me, Myself, I: Subjects of Literature (crosslisted)
• GERST 3770 - [The Art of the Historical Avant-Garde] (crosslisted)

Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate Courses:

• GERST 4010 - Existentialism or Marxism (crosslisted)
• GERST 4030 - [Writing America Post 9/11] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4050 - [Introduction to Medieval German Literature I]
• GERST 4060 - [Introduction to Medieval German Literature II]
• GERST 4090 - [Spinoza and the New Spinozism] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4150 - Marx, Freud, Nietzsche (crosslisted)
• GERST 4165 - [In the Vein of Kafka] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4170 - Topics in German Philosophy (crosslisted)
• GERST 4200 - [Faust: Close Reading]
• GERST 4231 - [Perspectives in Intellectual History: Modernity, Cataclysm and the Jews (1880-1930)] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4260 - [The Animal] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4280 - [Genius and Madness in Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4411 - [The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961)] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4431 - [Melancholy Left: Marx to Benjamin] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4440 - Screening the Environment (crosslisted)
• GERST 4506 - European Temporal Imagination (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 6010 - [Friendship] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6020 - [Writing the Present: Pop Literature]
• GERST 6040 - [Tragic Modernity] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6050 - [Classicism: Goethe and Schiller]
• GERST 6090 - [Poetologies after 1945]
• GERST 6100 - [Marx and Marxisms] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6110 - [Narration and Knowledge] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6131 - [German Philosophical Texts] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6150 - [Jews in German Culture Since 1945] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6160 - [Spaces of Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6190 - Introduction to Systems Theory (crosslisted)
• GERST 6210 - [The Diary: Writing Time and Self] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6230 - Aesthetic Turns: The Fin-de-Siecle
• GERST 6231 - [Perspectives in Intellectual History: Modernity, Cataclysm and the Jews (1880-1930)] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6241 - Topics in German Philosophy (crosslisted)
• GERST 6260 - Nuremberg
• GERST 6310 - Reading Academic German I
• GERST 6320 - Reading Academic German II
• GERST 6340 - German Romanticism
• GERST 6370 - Nineteenth Century Fiction: The Realist Project
• GERST 6400 - [The Modern German Novel]
• GERST 6411 - [The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961)] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6420 - Operatic States: Imagining Community in Music Drama (crosslisted)
• GERST 6430 - [Classicism: The Rise of Aesthetics]
• GERST 6431 - [Melancholy Left: Marx to Benjamin] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6440 - Screening the Environment
• GERST 6450 - [Aesthetic Phenomena and Art: 1900 - 1970] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6460 - [Hans Blumenberg: Metaphore, Myth, Paradigm] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6470 - [Post-War German Literature from 1949 to 1989]
• GERST 6480 - [Critical Theory and Literature: Lukacs, Benjamin, Adorno] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6490 - Collapse of the Secular Future (crosslisted)
• GERST 6500 - [The Culture of Weimar Germany]
• GERST 6510 - [Contemporary Aesthetic Theory and its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6560 - Aesthetic Theory: The End of Art (crosslisted)
• GERST 6600 - [Visual Ideology] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6620 - [Reassembling Culture: Montage and Collage] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6630 - [Nietzsche and Heidegger] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6720 - Futures in German Studies
• GERST 6760 - [Alexander Kluge, the Writer]
• GERST 6780 - [Persecution and the Art of Writing] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6850 - Gramsci and Cultural Politics (crosslisted)
• GERST 6870 - [History and Ideology] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6960 - [Rites of Contact] (crosslisted)
• GERST 7530 - Independent Study
• GERST 7540 - Independent Study

Dutch:

• 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