01:470:255
The Faust Legend Through the Ages (3)
Relevance of the Faust theme to Western civilization from biblical days to the present, with emphasis on Goethe's Faust.
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01:470:261,262
Major German Writers (3,3)
Selected masterpieces of German literature from the Middle Ages to the present.
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01:470:275
German Studies Seminar (3)
Survey of topics, theoretical approaches, and research methods in German studies. Interdisciplinary examination of 20th-century German culture.
Required for all German studies majors; should be taken in the sophomore or junior year, to be taught in English.
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01:470:349
Contemporary German Cinema (3)
New German cinema as a contemporary mode of artistic expression. Viewing and analysis of films by such outstanding directors as Fassbinder, Herzog, Schloendorff, and Wenders. Emphasis on the "literary" aspects of the German cinema.
One section taught in German.
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01:470:350
The Nazi Period in Film (3)
Feature and documentary films dealing with the cultural, historical, and political development of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and its global implications.
One section taught in German.
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01:470:364
Big Bang: The Literature of Chaos and Order (3)
Representations of dramatic upheavals in the physical universe as analogies for crisis and revolution in history, politics, psychology, science, and the arts. In literature and philosophy from the Renaissance to the present.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:371.
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01:470:365,366
Literature and Social Change from Nietzsche to Brecht (3,3)
Interaction between German literature and society from the unification (1871) and industrialization of Germany to the end of World War II.
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01:470:367
Self and Society in the Postwar German Novel and Short Story (3)
Major prose writers of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland since the end of World War II.
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01:470:368
Self and Society in the Postwar German Drama (3)
Major playwrights of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland since the end of World War II.
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01:470:373
Bertolt Brecht, Dramatist and Marxist (3)
Study of Brecht's epic (Marxist) theater and its impact on contemporary
dramatic theory and theatrical practice; an introduction to Brecht's
poetry of engagement.
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01:470:375
New Subjectivity in Literature and Film (3)
Literature
and film in the context of political, social, and cultural developments
since the late 1960s. Topics include the politics of the personal,
reconciliation with the Nazi past, the "death of literature," and the
rise of German feminism.
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01:470:376
German Culture through the Arts (3)
Introduction to the visual arts, music, and dance created in German-speaking countries in the 19th and 20th centuries. Taught at the Zimmerli Art Museum by a team of curators, art historians, guest musicians, and dance scholars, and with visits to museums and performances in Manhattan.
Open to all students; of special interest to those considering enrolling in the German department's Berlin Summer Program.
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01:470:380
German-Jewish Literature and Culture (3)
Survey of German-Jewish culture, 18th century to present. Literature in political-historical context, with some attention to music, philosophy, and film.
Special permission required for credit toward major. Credit not given for both this course and 01:563:380.
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01:470:381
Cultural Foundations of Germany (3)
Significant aspects of German civilization from the age of Charlemagne to the unification of Germany in 1870. Focus on the German contribution to music, the arts, the sciences, philosophy, and literature.
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01:470:383
Germanic Mythology (3)
Myths and religious practices of the migration period and the age of the Vikings. Sources: the Eddas, Christian and pre-Christian documents and texts, archaeological finds, place names, modern folkloristic beliefs.
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01:470:384
Yiddish Literature from Tradition to Enlightenment (3)
Traces the cultural dynamics of Ashkenazic Jews in 16th- to 19th-century Europe through Yiddish religious writing, folktales, fiction, memoirs, and poetry. All readings in translation.
Prerequisites: 01:563:202, 260, or permission of instructor. Credit not given for both this course and 01:563:384 or 01:988:391.
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01:470:385
The Changing Image of Women in German Literature (3)
Selected works of German literature that convey the experience of women cast into socially prescribed roles.
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01:470:388,390,392
Topics in German Literature and Civilization (3,3,3)
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