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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Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
Berlin is a city that reinvents itself by rewriting itself. In this writing seminar, we'll study a variety of literary, visual, and sonic texts to create a mythical map of the city from its emergence as ... view course details
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How can we reorganize society based on principles of shared resources, direct democracy, gender equality, and mutual aid? For centuries, radical thinkers have responded with the same answer: the commune. ... view course details
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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
3100GERST 1132 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
MW
Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Groundwater-Schuldt, W
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/.
This course is designed for first year students interested in how ideas – across time and with changing valences – shape and help us navigate our world. At stake are conversations and contestations across ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.Choose one lecture and one discussion.
Combined with:
NES 1591, PHIL 1991
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits
Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
7781GERST 1191 LEC 001
Meeting Pattern
MW
Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Fleming, P
Monroe, L
Pereboom, D
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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
7782GERST 1191 DIS 201
Meeting Pattern
R
Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Pereboom, D
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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
7783GERST 1191 DIS 202
Meeting Pattern
F
Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Monroe, L
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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
7784GERST 1191 DIS 203
Meeting Pattern
F
Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Fleming, P
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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 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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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
7737GERST 1220 SEM 102
Meeting Pattern
MTWF
Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Brink, 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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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
7738GERST 1220 SEM 103
Meeting Pattern
MTWF
Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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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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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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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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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Learn German and understand German business culture at the same time. This is a German language course that examines the German economic structure and its major components: industry, trade unions, the ... view course details
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From hieroglyphs to HTML, ancient poetry to audiotape, and Plato's cave to virtual reality, Thinking Media offers a multidisciplinary introduction to the most influential media formats of the last three ... view course details
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This course introduces the prehistory of “artificial intelligence” (AI), from ancient automata through medieval combinatorics to early modern calculating machines. Putting contemporary debates into historical ... view course details
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This 1-credit optional course aims to expand the students' vocabulary, and advance their speaking and reading skills as well as enhance their knowledge and deepen their cultural understanding by supplementing ... view course details
Topic: Introduction to Comparative Government & Politics
Class Number & Section Details
7762GERST 3013 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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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This course is aimed to increase your linguistic competencies in German, your cultural awareness, as well as critical thinking skills. We will discuss different perspectives of the German Reunification ... view course details
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This seminar, taught in German, 1) continues the rigorous trajectory of language study by introducing students to longer literary texts and full-length movies; by introducing students to theoretical, critical, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.Choose one seminar and one research.
Combined with:
GERST 3340
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits
Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
7763GERST 3340 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
TR
Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Siegel, E
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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
Enrollment limited to: German Studies majors in their junior or senior year.
Class Number & Section Details
7765GERST 3340 RSC 701
Meeting Pattern
Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
Instructors
Siegel, E
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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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An introduction (without prerequisites) to fundamental problems of current political theory, filmmaking, and film analysis, along with their interrelationship. Particular emphasis on comparing and contrasting ... view course details
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The generative age of AI has arrived—and with it a profound question: what happens when machines begin to write the humanities? This seminar takes the most extreme case of modern violence, the Holocaust, ... view course details
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The most intense public encounter between Existentialism and Marxism occurred in immediate post-WWII Europe, its structure remaining alive internationally. Existentialist questions have been traced from ... view course details
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Violence is on the rise across the political spectrum. While the left has a long tradition of pacifism, the prevalence of political violence today suggests that we can no longer equate leftism and nonviolence. ... view course details
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This seminar examines “experimental media”, an umbrella term for experimental literature, poetry, film, video, photography, music, radio, theater, sound art, computer games, and other new media. With ... 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
7748GERST 4530 RSC 701
Meeting Pattern
Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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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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
7749GERST 4530 RSC 702
Meeting Pattern
Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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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required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
Department Consent Required (Add)
Syllabi:
none
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits
Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
7751GERST 4540 IND 602
Meeting Pattern
Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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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This seminar examines “experimental media”, an umbrella term for experimental literature, poetry, film, video, photography, music, radio, theater, sound art, computer games, and other new media. With ... view course details
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This course will offer a survey of critical and interpretive approaches to literature. Based on works by Goethe, Kleist, Hoffmann, Tieck, Keller, Stifter, Rilke, Kafka, Celan, Beckett, Joyce, Woolf and ... view course details
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What does it mean to think through stories, especially when one’s métier is theory? This seminar considers modes of non-conceptual thought as an essential practice of twentieth-century theory. Here the ... view course details
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This seminar will be devoted to the careful reading of a single significant and challenging work of political theory, accompanied by consideration of the author's reception of the work of their predecessors; ... 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: Independent Studies
Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
Department Consent Required (Add)
Syllabi:
none
Project Session Full.
Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits
Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
7753GERST 7540 IND 602
Meeting Pattern
Jan 25 - May 11, 2027
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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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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