SHUM 3075

Print Matters

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023.

"Print Culture from the Medieval to the Modern" employs texts and images in the Kroch Rare Books Library and Johnson Museum of Art as a prism to consider how advances in printing technology transformed life in Germany by making verbal and visual literacy possible for most members of society. Topics include Martin Luther and the Creation of a National Language, Albrecht Dürer and the Creation of Print Art, and Käthe Kollwitz and the Politics of Print Art. All discussion, reading, and writing in German.

When Offered Fall.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: one of the following: GERST 2020,  GERST 2040, GERST 2060 or placement by language exam.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS, LA-AS)
Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

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