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
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For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
Singing boys. Dancing horses. Waltzing debutantes. Those fortunate enough to live in a city where each day begins with a pastry and ends with a two-liter bottle of wine must live a charmed existence! Not ... view course details
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For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
Syllabi:
none
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits
Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
2439GERST 1122 SEM 102
Meeting Pattern
TR
Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Walkinshaw, S
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
A dragon-slayer wins a kingdom—then loses everything to betrayal. A young fool wanders into King Arthur’s court and embarks on a quest for the Holy Grail. The Nibelungenlied and Wolfram von Eschenbach’s ... view course details
3 Credits
GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
Class Number & Section Details
2451GERST 1132 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
MW
Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Groundwater-Schuldt, W
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
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
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
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
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Instruction Mode: In Person
Syllabi:
none
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits
Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
8791GERST 1210 SEM 102
Meeting Pattern
MTWF
Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Rahl, A
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Instruction Mode: In Person
Syllabi:
none
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits
Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
8792GERST 1210 SEM 103
Meeting Pattern
MTWF
Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Lischke, G
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Instruction Mode: In Person
Syllabi:
none
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits
Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
8793GERST 1210 SEM 104
Meeting Pattern
MTWF
Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Staff
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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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
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Syllabi:
none
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits
Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
8795GERST 1220 SEM 102
Meeting Pattern
MTWF
Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Matthias Phelps, G
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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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
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Enrollment limited to: students who have previously studied German and based on German Placement test result.
Elementary Yiddish I is the first in a three-class sequence that will enable students to meet their Arts & Sciences language requirement in Yiddish. It provides an introduction to reading, writing, listening, ... view course details
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Students examine important aspects of present-day German culture while expanding and strengthening their reading, writing, and speaking skills in German. Materials for each topic are selected from a variety ... view course details
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Instruction Mode: In Person
Taught in German.
Syllabi:
none
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits
Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
8798GERST 2000 SEM 102
Meeting Pattern
MWF
Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Beese, B
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Intended for intermediate students, this is the third in a three-course sequence, designed to enable students to meet the College of Arts & Sciences language requirement. Students will increase ... view course details
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Babylon Berlin is the most expensive and elaborate television series in German history. The neo-noir police procedural set in a mythical Berlin of 1929 was already a global hit when it entered its current, ... view course details
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Taught in German. Can be used in partial fulfillment of the humanities distribution requirement. Students must take one of the following courses as a prerequisite for Study Abroad in a German-speaking country: GERST 2020, GERST 2040, or GERST 2060. This course counts toward the German Studies Minor.
This course aims at sharpening your awareness of personal and cultural subjectivity by examining texts in a variety of media against the backdrop of cultural, political, and historical contexts. We will ... view course details
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This course counts toward the German Studies Minor. Taught in German.
This class offers students a selective introduction to the work of Hannah Arendt, one of the most brilliant, maddening, controversial, and unclassifiable political thinkers of the twentieth century, through ... view course details
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Big names, Big ideas, and Big events are associated with German culture and thought: Luther, Faust, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Mozart, Beethoven, Kant, Hegel, Goethe, Einstein, Kafka and Thomas ... view course details
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This course offers a new way of understanding both the Holocaust and the broader history of modern Europe—from the ground up. Moving from Greece to France, and from Amsterdam to Moscow, we explore how ... view course details
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As Schiller's famous treatise on the stage as moral institution (1784) depicts it, Germanophone theater fulfills a particularly strong moral, pedagogical, public task. The landscape of German theater is ... view course details
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Manifestos provoke, estrange, condemn, inspire, and mobilize. In this seminar, we will examine the manifesto as a genre at the intersection of politics and aesthetics. From revolutionary manifestos (communist, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.Choose one seminar and one research.
Credits and Grading Basis
3-4 Credits
Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
18532GERST 3245 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
TR
Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Jarris, M
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Class Number & Section Details
18556GERST 3245 RSC 701
Meeting Pattern
Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Jarris, M
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Instruction Mode: Directed Research
Syllabi:
none
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits
Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
18533GERST 3245 SEM 102
Meeting Pattern
TR
Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Jarris, M
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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More than thirty years after the end of the Soviet Union, we have the distance needed to view the twentieth-century state socialist project from a historical perspective--even as Cold War tropes are revived ... view course details
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This seminar will explore the unique “Kafkaesque” universe of metamorphoses, labyrinthine systems of law and (in)-justice, and uncanny societies of humans and animals. Focusing on Franz Kafka’s novels ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.Choose one seminar and one research.
Combined with:
COML 3688, GERST 3800
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits
Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
8814GERST 3800 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
TR
Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Schwarz, A
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Class Number & Section Details
18457GERST 3800 RSC 701
Meeting Pattern
Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Schwarz, A
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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This is an introduction to the three 'master thinkers' who have helped determine the discourses of modernity and post-modernity. We consider basic aspects of their work: (a) specific critical and historical ... view course details
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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
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The Reading Course is administered by the director of the honors thesis. It carries 4 hours credit, and may be counted towards the work required for the German Major. The reading concentrates ... view course details
4 Credits
Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Class Number & Section Details
8802GERST 4530 RSC 701
Meeting Pattern
Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Staff
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Instruction Mode: Directed Research
Department Consent Required (Add)
Syllabi:
none
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits
Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Class Number & Section Details
8803GERST 4530 RSC 702
Meeting Pattern
Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Staff
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials
required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Designed to familiarize students with current thought and approaches in the field of applied linguistics and language pedagogy. Introduces different models of foreign language approaches and discusses ... view course details
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Primarily for: graduate students preparing to teach German and undergraduate students interested in deeper understanding of language study and teaching. Taught in German; readings are in English and German.
From Sigmund Freud to Magnus Hirschfeld, Michel Foucault to Judith Butler, the 20th century witnessed the development of radically new understandings of gender and sexuality. At the turn of the century, ... view course details
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This required seminar for the new graduate minor in media studies considers media from a wide number of perspectives, ranging from the methods of cinema and television studies to those of music, information ... view course details
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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
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The course consists of a bi-weekly workshop series focusing on a range of interdisciplinary topics and sponsored by the Institute for German Cultural Studies (IGCS). Speakers include prominent scholars ... view course details
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