GERMAN 221: German Literature 2: Selfhood and History (COMPLIT 321A, GERMAN 321)
How the literature of the period between 1750 and 1900 gives voice to new conceptions of selfhood and articulates the emergent self understanding of modernity. Responses to unprecedented historical experiences such as the French Revolution and the ensuing wars, changes in the understanding of nature, the crisis of foundations, and the persistence of theological motifs. Lessing, Herder, Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin, Kleist, Heine, Buchner, Keller, and Fontane. Taught in English, readings in German. (Note: Fulfills
DLCL 325 for AY 1415 for the PhD Minor in the Humanities)
Terms: Aut
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Units: 1-5
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UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Daub, A. (PI)
GERMAN 222: German Literature 3: Myth and Modernity (COMPLIT 222A, GERMAN 322)
Masters of German 20th- and 21st-Century literature and philosophy as they present aesthetic innovation and confront the challenges of modern technology, social alienation, manmade catastrophes, and imagine the future. Readings include Nietzsche, Freud, Rilke, Musil, Brecht, Kafka, Doeblin, Benjamin, Juenger, Arendt, Musil, Mann, Adorno, Celan, Grass, Bachmann, Bernhardt, Wolf, and Kluge. Taught in English. Undergraduates enroll in 222 for 5 units, graduate students enroll in 322 for 8 units.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 1-5
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UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Eshel, A. (PI)
GERMAN 223: GERMANY BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
A consideration of German political culture and its contradictory orientations toward alternative poles: the Russian East and the American West. How historical traditions inform current debates, such as the response to the Ukraine crisis. Conflicts between liberal and populist paradigms, enlightenment and romantic legacies. Germany and its geopolitical imagination. The German image of Russia. Texts such as Th. Mann, ¿The German Republic,¿ Carl Schmitt, Land and Sea, Wolf, Divided Heaven, and documents of contemporary popular culture.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
GERMAN 239: Queer Theory (FEMGEN 239)
This course is designed to introduce graduate students and advanced undergraduates to the core texts of queer theory. Topics will include: the relationship between queer theory and feminism, between queer theory and psychoanalysis, and between queer theory and gay and lesbian history. At the same time, the course will investigate how queer theory has been put to use in literary study, musicology and art history.
Terms: Win
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Units: 1-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Daub, A. (PI)
GERMAN 240: Short Fiction as Genre
Exploration of various short fictional forms in German literature and their narrative capacities. Selections from the eighteenth century to the present.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
GERMAN 245: German Idealist and Romantic Aesthetics
Focus on influential theories of aesthetic experience as an autonomous cultural domain that supplements science and morality. How the discovery of beauty and sublimity in nature led to an unprecedented celebration of art as the highest form of human activity. The problem of the relation between aesthetic experience and conceptual understanding. Readings by Kant, Schiller, Friedrich Schlegel, Schelling, Hegel, and more recent responses to their works. Taught in English.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
GERMAN 246: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel's groundbreaking work models the mind's efforts to understand itself and tells a historically rich story of the evolution of social forms of life. The book begins with basic sensory awareness and ends with the recognition that thought is not finite and constrained by an inert reality but absolutely free, the only source of authority for modern subjects. Topics include the question of whether the human standpoint is inherently limited and fixed, the role of history, knowledge and agency, political conflict and power, rationality and religion, the ancient and the modern world.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
GERMAN 250: Humanities Education in the Changing University (COMPLIT 275, DLCL 320)
Advanced study in the humanities faces changes within fields, the university and the wider culture. Considers the debate over the status of the humanities with regard to historical genealogies and current innovations. Particular attention on changes in doctoral education. Topics include: origins of the research university; disciplines and specialization; liberal education in conflict with professionalization; literature and literacy education; interdisciplinarity as a challenge to departments; education policy; digital humanities; accountability in education, assessment and student-centered pedagogies.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
GERMAN 251: Youth Culture
Beginning after World War I, the seminar discusses youth as a special phase in life course in the context of political, social and cultural change. Which tasks and problems did society, schools, and parents submit to youth, and how did that change throughout the history of the twentieth century? Youth cultures of different social classes in Germany, and German youth literature will be analyzed. In the seminar, it will also be discussed if youth and youth culture became of more importance for the growing ups throughout the twentieth century. It will be analyzed, if the generational conflicts in society and families have increased in the twentieth century. The impact of political regimes, economy and media on youth and youth cultures will be discussed, too. The seminar starts with the Bündische Jugend in the Weimar Republic, continues with the Hitler-Jugend in Nazi-Germany and the Halbstarke in the 1950ies and goes to the movement of 1968 at the German universities.
Terms: Win
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Units: 1-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Groppe, C. (PI)
GERMAN 252: F. W. J. Schelling
Schelling is the most enigmatic figure of German idealism, whose works have influenced a host of theoretical paradigms from existentialism through materialism to psychoanalysis. We will read selections from Schelling's early writings on transcendental philosophy, his philosophy of art and his philosophy of nature. Close attention will be paid to the Treatise on the Essence of Human Freedom, the Weltalter fragments and the late Berlin lectures. Readings and discussion in English, though those who can are invited to read the original.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 1-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Dornbach, M. (PI)
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