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 1118 - FWS: Let’s Play!
• GERST 1121 - FWS: Writing Berlin
• GERST 1122 - FWS: Love and Death in Vienna
• 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 - German Digital Culture
• 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 3330 - [Laughter and Wit in German Lit]
• 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 2700 - Introduction to German Culture and Thought
• GERST 2703 - Thinking Media (crosslisted)
• GERST 3511 - [Media in Transit] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3512 - [No Rest: The Exhausted Self] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3515 - [Cinema of the Weimar Republic] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3525 - [New German Cinema] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3535 - [Science, Fiction, Media] (crosslisted)
• GERST 3550 - Political Theory and Cinema (crosslisted)
• GERST 3560 - [Metropolis: Urban Sites in Literature] (crosslisted)
• 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 3620 - Introduction to Critical Theory (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 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 4312 - [What was Film?] (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 6070 - [Prose of the World: 19th C. Letters] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6090 - [Poetologies and Dramaturgies After 1945]
• GERST 6100 - [Marx and Marxisms] (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 6230 - [Aesthetic Turns: The Fin-de-Siecle]
• GERST 6235 - [Intensity: Recent Critical Models] (crosslisted)
• 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 6370 - Nineteenth Century Fiction: Writing Revolution, 1830-1848
• 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 6470 - [Post-War German Literature from 1945 to 1989]
• GERST 6471 - [Premodern-Postmodern] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6481 - [Literature, Media, Form] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6490 - [Collapse of the Secular Future] (crosslisted)
• GERST 6510 - [Contemporary Aesthetic Theory and its Discontents] (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 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 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: Emergent German Literatures and Critical Method (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

Swedish:

• 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)