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 1107 - [FWS: Robots, Cyborgs, and Automata in Literature and Film]
• 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 1115 - [FWS: Sports Fanaticism]
• GERST 1117 - [FWS: Just Friends?]
• GERST 1118 - FWS: Let’s Play!
• GERST 1150 - [FWS: German Lyric Poetry]
• GERST 1160 - [FWS: Serial Storytelling]
• GERST 1170 - FWS: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
• GERST 1190 - [FWS: Evil, God, and Modern Thought: Exploring the Enlightenment]

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 Contexts and Texts: The Myth of 1968
• GERST 2040 - Perspectives on German Culture
• GERST 2060 - German in Business Culture
• GERST 3011 - [Green Thought in German Culture]
• GERST 3050 - [Brecht and 20th-Century German Drama]
• GERST 3070 - Challenge of Literary Language
• GERST 3075 - [Print Matters]
• GERST 3080 - German Life Style Going Digital
• GERST 3215 - Performance Theater and Politics
• GERST 3221 - [Lyric Poetry]
• GERST 3225 - [Bestseller]
• GERST 3235 - [Cult of the Silent Woman: Male Fantasies in 18th Century German Thought] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3260 - [Oddballs, Outcasts and Rebels]
• 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 4002 - [Changing Worlds: Migration, Minorities, and German Literature]
• GERST 4080 - [Uncanny Communities]
• GERST 4100 - The Seminar
• GERST 4130 - [Christa Wolf: Literature and Politics]

Courses conducted in English:

• GERST 2250 - Genius and Madness in Literature
• GERST 2700 - Introduction to German Culture and Thought
• GERST 3511 - [Media in Transit] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3515 - Cinema of the Weimar Republic (crosslisted)
• GERST 3522 - [Dark Passages: Film Noir] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3542 - [Death of God] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3550 - [Political Theory and Cinema] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3552 - [Marx as Philosopher] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3560 - [Metropolis: Urban Sites in Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3561 - [Freud and the Invention of Psychoanalysis] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3565 - [Introduction to Authority] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3570 - [The Average Man] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3580 - Nineteenth Century Philosophy (crosslisted)
• GERST 3581 - [Imagining Migration in Film and Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3590 - Kant (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)
• GERST 3800 - [Kafka’s Worlds: Castles, Trials, and Tribulations] (crosslisted)

Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate Courses:

• GERST 4210 - Existentialism or Marxism (crosslisted)
• GERST 4220 - Technologies of Verse (crosslisted)
• GERST 4231 - [Perspectives in Intellectual History: Modernity, Cataclysm and the Jews (1880-1930)] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4250 - [Marx, Nietzsche, Freud] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4260 - [The Animal] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4280 - [Genius and Madness in Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4290 - [Spinoza and the New Spinozism] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4312 - [What was Film?] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4330 - [Writing America Post 9/11] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4355 - Images and History: Siegfried Kracauer (crosslisted)
• GERST 4370 - [Topics in German Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4375 - The Holocaust and History Writing (crosslisted)
• GERST 4400 - [Faust: Close Reading]
• GERST 4411 - [The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961)] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4413 - Walter Benjamin (crosslisted)
• GERST 4414 - [The Sound of Literature] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4421 - [Topics in Modern Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4431 - [Melancholy Left: Marx to Benjamin] (crosslisted)
• GERST 4440 - [Screening the Environment] (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 6020 - [Writing the Present: Pop Literature]
• GERST 6040 - [Tragic Modernity] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6050 - [Classicism: Goethe and Schiller]
• GERST 6070 - Prose of the World: 19th C. Letters (crosslisted)
• GERST 6090 - Poetologies & Dramaturgies After 1945
• GERST 6100 - [Marx and Marxisms] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6110 - [Narration and Knowledge] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6131 - German Philosophical Texts (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 6231 - [Perspectives in Intellectual History: Modernity, Cataclysm and the Jews (1880-1930)] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6235 - [Intensity: Recent Critical Models]
• GERST 6241 - [Topics in German Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6260 - [Nuremberg]
• GERST 6310 - Reading Academic German I
• GERST 6315 - [Posthumanism, Cybernetics, Systems Theory] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6320 - Reading Academic German II
• GERST 6340 - [German Romanticism]
• GERST 6355 - Images and History: Siegfried Kracauer (crosslisted)
• GERST 6370 - [Nineteenth 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 6431 - [Melancholy Left: Marx to Benjamin] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6440 - [Screening the Environment]
• GERST 6470 - [Post-War German Literature from 1945 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 6515 - [Culture of Weimar and Nazi Germany]
• 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 6620 - [Reassembling Culture: Montage and Collage] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6630 - [Nietzsche and Heidegger] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6720 - [Futures in German Studies]
• 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] (crosslisted)
• GERST 7530 - Independent Study
• GERST 7531 - Colloquium
• GERST 7540 - Independent Study
• GERST 7541 - Colloquium

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