* GMAN 1000a, German for Reading  Staff

Students learn the skills with which to read German-language texts of any difficulty with some fluency. Study of syntax and grammar; practice in close reading and translation of fiction and expository prose in the humanities and sciences. Conducted in English. Does not satisfy the language distributional requirement.
TTh 11:35am-12:50pm

* GMAN 1100a, Elementary German I  Staff

A beginning content- and task-based course that focuses on the acquisition of spoken and written communication skills, as well as on the development of cultural awareness and of foundations in grammar and vocabulary. Topics such as school, family life, and housing. Course materials include a variety of authentic readings, a feature film, and shorter video clips. Tutors are available for extra help. Class meets M T W Th in person; students work asynchronously on Fridays. To be followed by GMAN 120. Enrollment limited to 14 per section.  L1  1½ Course cr
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GMAN 1200a, Elementary German II  Staff

Continuation of GMAN 110. A content- and task-based course that focuses on the acquisition of communicative competence in speaking and writing and on the development of strong cultural awareness. Topics such as multiculturalism, food, childhood, and travel; units on Switzerland and Austria. Course materials include a variety of authentic readings, a feature film, and shorter video clips. Tutors are available for extra help. Class meets M T W Th in person; students work asynchronously on Fridays. To be followed by GMAN 130. Enrollment limited to 14 per section.  L2  1½ Course cr
MTWTh 9:25am-10:15am

GMAN 1300a, Intermediate German I  Staff

Builds on and expands knowledge acquired in GMAN 120. A content- and task-based course that helps students improve their oral and written linguistic skills and their cultural awareness through a variety of materials related to German literature, culture, history, and politics. Course materials include authentic readings, a feature film, and shorter video clips. Tutors are available for extra help. Class meets M T W Th in person; students work asynchronously on Fridays After GMAN 120 or according to placement examination. Followed by GMAN 140. Enrollment limited to 14 per section.  L3  1½ Course cr
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GMAN 1400a, Intermediate German II  Staff

Builds on and expands knowledge acquired in GMAN 130. A content- and task-based course that helps students improve their oral and written linguistic skills and their cultural awareness through a variety of materials related to German literature, culture, history, and politics. Course materials include authentic readings, a feature film, and shorter video clips. Tutors are available for extra help. Class meets M T W Th in person; students work asynchronously on Fridays. After GMAN 130 or according to placement examination. Normally followed by GMAN 150 or, with permission of the director of undergraduate studies, by GMAN 171. Enrollment limited to 14 per section.  L4  1½ Course cr
MTWTh 9:25am-10:15am

* GMAN 1660a, From Wandervogel to Fridays for Future―German Youth and Student Movements From 1800 To Today  Theresa Schenker

This course takes a look at youth and student culture, movements and organizations from the early 1800s to today. We begin by looking at the development of the first fraternities (Urburschenschaften) at the beginning of the 19th century, and then discuss the Wandervogel movement of the late 19th century, the Bündische Jugend and a variety of other youth and student organizations during the Weimar Republic. We then discuss the different types of youth groups during the Third Reich including the official groups as well as as student opposition groups such as Die Weiße Rose, Edelweißpiraten, and Swing Jugend. Next, we learn more about youth organizations in former East Germany―the official Freie Deutsche Jugend but also counter-groups such as Blueser, Tramper and Punks―and groups in West Germany, such as the Deutsche Waldjugend. We discuss the 68er student movement, and several more recent youth organizations and finally movements of today including Fridays for Future. In this course we analyze youth culture from a variety of perspectives exploring their attempts at defining their own holistic values and ideals, their agendas and characteristics, as well as problems they were (and are) facing. Prerequisite: A previous L5 course or instructor permission.  L5, HU
TTh 11:35am-12:50pm

* GMAN 1740a / MUSI 239, Literature and Music  Kirk Wetters

An advanced language course addressing the close connection between music and German and Austrian literature. Topics include: musical aesthetics (Hoffmann, Hanslick, Nietzsche, Schoenberg, Adorno); opera (Wagner, Strauss-Hofmansthal, Berg); the "art song" or Lied (Schubert, Mahler, Krenek); fictional narratives (Kleist, Hoffmann, Mörike, Doderer, Bernhard). Prerequisite: GMAN 140 or higher.   L5, HU
TTh 1:05pm-2:20pm

* GMAN 2151a / CPLT 2151a / HUMS 2151a, Rilke and Woolf, Prose or Poetry  Rudiger Campe

Prose or poetry? The course discusses the literary and political question by juxtaposing two transformative writers of modernism: the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke – who authored one significant novel – and the British novelist Virginia Woolf – who wrote a few idiosyncratic poems and whose novels are often marked by lyrical composition. Both writers’ works are closely read and discussed against the backdrop of debates about prose-versus- poetry in literature, and about the "prose" of modern times versus the "poetic" old world, respectively. Readings include: Rilke, ‘object poems’ (Ding-Gedichte), prose poems, Duino Elegies, and the novel Malte Laurids Brigge; Woolf, the novels Mrs. Dalloway and The Waves, and occasional poems; debates on prose and poetry in Hegel, Heine, Baudelaire, Merleau-Ponty, Agamben and others. The Course offers an optional German section, 1 hr a week, time to be determined, which counts toward the certificate of advanced language proficiency in German.  WR, HU
M 1:30pm-3:25pm

GMAN 2330a / ANTH 237 / ANTH 2837a / CPLT 2420a / HUMS 4325a / PHIL 2219a, Karl Marx's Capital  Paul North

A careful reading of Karl Marx's classic critique of capitalism, Capital volume 1, a work of philosophy, political economy, and critical social theory that has had a significant global readership for over 150 years. Selected readings also from Capital volumes 2 and 3.  HU  0 Course cr
TTh 9:25am-10:15am

* GMAN 3074a / CPLT 3074a / FILM 3257a, German Cinema 1918–1933  Jan Hagens

The years between 1918 and 1933 are the Golden Age of German film. In its development from Expressionism to Social Realism, this German cinema produced works of great variety, many of them in the international avantgarde. This introductory seminar gives an overview of the silent movies and sound films made during the Weimar Republic and situate them in their artistic, cultural, social, and political context between WWI and WWII, between the Kaiser’s German Empire and the Nazis’ Third Reich. Further objectives include: familiarizing students with basic categories of film studies and film analysis; showing how these films have shaped the history and the language of film; discussing topic-oriented and methodological issues such as: film genres (horror film, film noir, science fiction, street film, documentary film); set design, camera work, acting styles; narration in film; avantgarde cinema; the advent and use of sound in film; Realism versus Expressionism; film and popular mythology; melodrama; representation of women; modern urban life as spectacle; film and politics. Directors studied include: Grune, Lang, Lubitsch, Murnau, Pabst, Richter, Ruttmann, Sagan, von Sternberg, Wiene, et al.
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W 4pm-5:55pm

* GMAN 3400a / CPLT 2320a / FREN 3400a / HUMS 3429a / JDST 2586a, Paul Celan  Thomas Connolly

An undergraduate seminar in English exploring the life and work of Paul Celan (1920-1970), survivor of the Shoah, and one of the foremost European poets of the second half of the twentieth century. We will read from his early poems in both Romanian and German, and his published collections including Der Sand aus den Urnen, Mohn und Gedächtnis, Von Schelle zu Schelle, Sprachgitter, Die Niemandsrose, Atemwende, Fadensonnen, Lichtzwang, and Schneepart. We will also read from his rare pieces in prose and his correspondence with family, friends, and other intellectuals and poets including Bachmann, Sachs, Heidegger, Char, du Bouchet, Michaux, Ungaretti. A special focus on his poetic translations from French, but also Russian, English, American, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese, and Hebrew. Critical readings draw from Szondi, Adorno, Derrida, Agamben, and others. Readings in English translation or in the original languages, as the student desires. Discussions in English. None.  WR, HU
M 1:30pm-3:25pm

* GMAN 3440a / FILM 3440a, Landscape, Film, Architecture  Fatima Naqvi

Movement through post-1945 landscapes and cityscapes as a key to understanding them. The use of cameras and other visual-verbal means as a way to expand historical, aesthetic, and sociological inquiries into how these places are inhabited and experienced. Exploration of both real and imaginary spaces in works by filmmakers (Wenders, Herzog, Ottinger, Geyrhalter, Seidl, Ade, Grisebach), architects and sculptors (e.g. Rudofsky, Neutra, Abraham, Hollein, Pichler, Smithson, Wurm, Kienast), photographers (Sander, B. and H. Becher, Gursky, Höfer), and writers (Bachmann, Handke, Bernhard, Jelinek). Additional readings by Certeau, Freytag, J.B. Jackson, L. Burckhardt.  HU
Th 9:25am-11:20am, W 7pm-10pm

* GMAN 4100a / CPLT 4110 / PHIL 4100, The Invention of Psychoanalysis  Paul North

Psychoanalysis is a critical theory of society that, confronting asocial and anti-social behavior, at first largely in women, became a science of the self that promised to explain and treat its maladies. From its earliest phases, this science and practice thought of itself as a route to human freedom, through special kinds of interactions. Along the way, it produced theories of personality, human development, drives and inhibitions, the membranes and mechanisms linking an internal space to an external space, and the possibility of an improved Mitwelt, of living together well. We read writings by early diggers in the garden of the psyche—Freud, of course, but also Klein, Ferenczi, Jung, Horney, Deutsch, Rank, and Anna Freud—to feel the possibilities they felt and to understand how the theory was constructed, taught, learned, and critically modified. We pay special attention to two aspects relevant today: narcissism and aggression, or the death drive. Our readings span the end of the 19th century, roughly to the second World War.  HU
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