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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.
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Classes
GERST 1109
Course Description
How did bawdy tales of peasants using magic to climb the social ladder get transformed into moral lessons for children? The answer lies in Romanticism and its appropriation of the imagination as a force ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 158
Instructors
McBride, D
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Additional Information
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FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 350
Instructors
Pirozhenko, E
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GERST 1170
Course Description
A basic understanding of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud is a prerequisite for participating in critical debates in the humanities and social sciences. Our seminar will explore key terms in the revolutionary ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Kennedy Hall 105
Instructors
Thomson, J
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Additional Information
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FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 114
Instructors
Gindner, J
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FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3331
Instructors
Stoltz, M
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Additional Information
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FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Ives Hall 103
Instructors
Rigo, M
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Additional Information
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FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Quintero, G
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GERST 1210
Course Description
Students develop basic abilities in listening, reading, writing, and speaking German in meaningful contexts through interaction in small group activities. Course materials including videos, short articles, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall 106
Instructors
Phillips, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode:
Intended for students with no prior experience in German or with LPG score below 37 or SAT II score below 370. Must enroll in one lecture and one discussion.
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- T White Hall 106
Instructors
Lischke, G
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Must enroll in one lecture and one discussion.
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- MWRF Uris Hall 303
Instructors
Brown, A
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- MWRF Uris Hall 303
Instructors
Lischke, G
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- MWRF Uris Hall 303
Instructors
Krieger, W
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- MWRF Uris Hall 303
Instructors
Phillips, A
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GERST 1220
Course Description
Students build on their basic knowledge of German by engaging in intense and more sustained interaction in the language. Students learn more advanced language structures allowing them to express more complex ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R White Hall B14
Instructors
Matthias, G
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Additional Information
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Prerequisite: GERST 1210, or LPG score of 37-44, or SAT II score of 370-450. Must enroll in the lecture and the discussion.
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWF Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Matthias, G
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GERST 1230
Course Description
Students continue to develop their language skills by discussing a variety of cultural topics and themes in the German-speaking world. The focus of the course is on expanding vocabulary, reviewing major ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWF Uris Hall 312
Instructors
York, L
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode:
Limited to students who have previously studied German and have an LPG score of 45-55 or an SAT II score of 460-580. Successful completion of GERST 1210, 1220 and 1230 satisfies Option 2.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWF Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Matthias, G
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode:
Limited to students who have previously studied German and have an LPG score of 45-55 or an SAT II score of 460-580. Successful completion of GERST 1210, 1220 and 1230 satisfies Option 2.
GERST 2000
Course Description
Content-based language course on the intermediate level. Students examine important aspects of present-day German culture while expanding and strengthening their reading, writing, and speaking skills in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 382
Instructors
Nousek, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode:
Prerequisite: GERST 1230, LPG score of 56-64, or SAT II 590-680 or placement by examination. Satisfies Option 1. A content-based language course on the intermediate level.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall 106
Instructors
Matthias, G
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Additional Information
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.Prerequisite: GERST 1230, LPG score of 56-64, or SAT II 590-680 or placement by examination. Satisfies Option 1. A content-based language course on the intermediate level.
GERST 2040
Course Description
This course aims to sharpen your awareness of personal and cultural subjectivity by examining documents in a variety of media that treat the social, cultural, and historical significance of 1968, the watershed ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall B14
Instructors
Mascan, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode:
Prerequisite: GERST 2000, or placement by examination (placement score and CASE). Satisfies Option 1 and is the prerequisite for Study Abroad in a German-speaking country.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Morrill Hall 110
Instructors
McBride, D
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Additional Information
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Prerequisite: GERST 2000, or placement by examination (placement score and CASE). Satisfies Option 1 and is the prerequisite for Study Abroad in a German-speaking country.
GERST 3070
Course Description
Why do literary texts insist on bending (and even breaking) the rules that govern everyday language? Could we improve our mastery of colloquial German by accepting literature's challenge and investigating ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 160
Instructors
McBride, D
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Additional Information
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Taught in German. Satisfies Option 1. Prerequisite: GERST 2020, 2040, 2060 or equivalent. This course may be counted towards the requirement for 3000-3200-level language in the major.
GERST 3290
Course Description
This class aims at surveying the history and contemporary developments of crime and detective fiction in German. In addition, we will read a number of theoretical reflections on the figure of the detective, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Kennedy Hall 105
Instructors
Gilgen, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode:
Taught in German. Any course at the 3000-3209-level in German or permission of instructor. Satisfies Option 1.
GERST 3610
Course Description
This course examines the economic forces at work in defining and configuring the modern subject, from Adam Smith through Marx and Nietzsche, Simmel and Weber, up to the current neoliberal subject. The ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3542, GOVT 3606
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 142
Instructors
Fleming, P
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GERST 4070
Course Description
Designed to familiarize students with current ways of thinking in the field of applied linguistics and language pedagogy. Introduces different concepts of foreign language methodology as well as presents ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 312
Instructors
Lischke, G
- M Uris Hall 331
Instructors
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Additional Information
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Taught in German. Intended primarily for and enrollment preference given to graduate students preparing to teach German.
GERST 4100
Course Description
'Literature of the Exile', written between 1933 and 1945 by authors who had fled Germany (e.g., Seghers, Brecht, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Feuchtwanger, Zweig, Lasker-Schüler), provided most of the enduring ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: Writing in/from Exile
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Siegel, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode:
Taught in German. Satisfies Option 1. Prerequisite: Any German course at the 3000-level or equivalent or permission of instructor.
GERST 4165
Course Description
The course begins with the banal observation of Franz Kafka's pervasive influence on many, many later writers. The more important beginning, though, is the understanding that we will be done with Kafka ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4165
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Maxwell, B
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GERST 4411
Course Description
There is an astonishing discrepancy between our perception of the Holocaust as a central event of the twentieth century and its marginal place in postwar culture. It is during those years, nevertheless, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4415, COML 6415, FREN 4415, FREN 6415, GERST 6411, GOVT 4786, GOVT 6786, HIST 4233, HIST 6233, JWST 4410, JWST 6415, ROMS 4410, ROMS 6410
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall 104
Instructors
Traverso, E
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Additional Information
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GERST 4431
Course Description
The fall of "real socialism" in 1990 put an end to the experience of twentieth century Marxism. Its ideas, debates and controversies could be viewed-historicized and revisited-in a different light. The ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4416, COML 6416, FREN 4435, FREN 6435, GERST 6431, GOVT 4696, GOVT 6696, HIST 4234, HIST 6234, ROMS 4430, ROMS 6430
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R White Hall 114
Instructors
Traverso, E
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Additional Information
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GERST 4530
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Gilgen, P
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Additional Information
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Grade of R at end of semester, must take GERST 4540 in spring.
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GERST 4996
Course Description
A graduate level discussion of the role of sensation in philosophy of art, and its relation to conceptions of objectivity and perfection. We'll aim to transform our understanding of a range of issues raised ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4604, PHIL 4596, SHUM 4996, VISST 4996
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R A D White House 110
Instructors
McGonigal, A
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GERST 6090
Course Description
Since the 1950s, many of the important poetological reflections by German-speaking authors were produced in the context of lectures upon receiving prizes, at universities or simply in the public sphere. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Olin Library 403
Instructors
Siegel, E
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Additional Information
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Anchor course. Taught in German.
GERST 6131
Course Description
Reading, translation, and English-language discussion of important texts in the German philosophical tradition. Readings for a given term are chosen in consultation with students. view course details
GERST 6310
Course Description
This course emphasizes the acquisition of reading skills in German, using a variety of prepared and authentic texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Klemm, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode:
Enrollment preference given to: graduate students with no prior experience in German. This course only offered in Fall.
GERST 6411
Course Description
There is an astonishing discrepancy between our perception of the Holocaust as a central event of the twentieth century and its marginal place in postwar culture. It is during those years, nevertheless, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4415, COML 6415, FREN 4415, FREN 6415, GERST 4411, GOVT 4786, GOVT 6786, HIST 4233, HIST 6233, JWST 4410, JWST 6415, ROMS 4410, ROMS 6410
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall 104
Instructors
Traverso, E
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Additional Information
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GERST 6431
Course Description
The fall of "real socialism" in 1990 put an end to the experience of twentieth century Marxism. Its ideas, debates and controversies could be viewed-historicized and revisited-in a different light. The ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4416, COML 6416, FREN 4435, FREN 6435, GERST 4431, GOVT 4696, GOVT 6696, HIST 4234, HIST 6234, ROMS 4430, ROMS 6430
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R White Hall 114
Instructors
Traverso, E
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Additional Information
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GERST 6510
Course Description
After having been reduced to a mere ideological formation of bourgeois origin, aesthetics has recently made a strong comeback in the field of theory. This course probes the reasons for this historical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6510, COML 6370, VISST 6500
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Olin Library 403
Instructors
Gilgen, P
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Additional Information
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GERST 6960
Course Description
New forms of German literature emerged in the wake of transnational labor migration, especially after 1989. Taking leave of a sociological model that interprets this literature as a plea for compassionate ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 6960
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Olin Library 403
Instructors
Adelson, L
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Additional Information
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Prerequisite: reading knowledge of German and English.
GERST 7531
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode:
Instructor Consent Required (Add)