Four-skills introduction to the German language and culture. Develops proficiency in speaking, writing, reading and listening skills through the use of basic texts, multi-media and communicative language activities. Online tools required. May not be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Tuesday section is a mandatory hour.

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM, T 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Djapo, Hervé Boza; Mifflin, Deborah McGee
• Room: Gilman 17
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Continuation to the introduction to the German language and a development of reading, speaking, writing & listening through the use of basic texts and communicative activities. The culture of the German-language countries is also incorporated into the curriculum. May not be taken on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis. Choose your section based on MWF schedule. Tuesday hour is mandatory but flexible and conflicts with Tuesday hour can be resolved after the start of the semester.

• Days/Times: MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, T 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Gray, Glen Eric Stewart; Mifflin, Deborah McGee
• Room: Gilman 313
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/17
• PosTag(s): n/a

Continuation to the introduction to the German language and a development of reading, speaking, writing & listening through the use of basic texts and communicative activities. The culture of the German-language countries is also incorporated into the curriculum. May not be taken on a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis. Choose your section based on MWF schedule. Tuesday hour is mandatory but flexible and conflicts with Tuesday hour can be resolved after the start of the semester.

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM, T 10:30AM - 11:20AM
• Instructor: Dargan, Gargi; Mifflin, Deborah McGee
• Room: Gilman 10
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Taught in German. This course is designed to continue the four skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) approach to learning German. Readings and discussions are topically based and include fairy tales, poems, art and film, as well as readings on contemporary themes such as Germany’s green movement. Students will also review and deepen their understanding of the grammatical concepts of German.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Wheeler, Heidi L
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Whether we consider them enchanting or naive, fairy tales and their narrative forms have inspired a wealth of cultural production. In this course, we will read and talk about German fairy tales (in German) and look at some spin-offs and parodies they have inspired. Students will hone their skills in reading, identifying plot, settings, characters and symbols while expanding their bank of vocabulary and grammatical structures. Speaking activities in class will be adjusted to the level of participants. Short creative writing assignments throughout the semester will culminate in students writing their own version of a fairy tale. Not for German major or minor credit. May be taken S/U

• Days/Times: Th 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Wheeler, Heidi L
• Room: Maryland 202
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 17/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Taught in German. Topically, this course focuses on contemporary issues such as national identity, multiculturalism and the lingering social consequences of major 20th century historical events. Readings include literary and journalistic texts, as well as radio broadcasts, internet sites, music and film. Students read a full-length novel. Emphasis is placed on improving mastery of German grammar, development of self-editing skills and practice in spoken German for academic use. Introduction/Review of advanced grammar.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Mifflin, Deborah McGee
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Continuation of Advanced Yiddish I (AS.210.367). Students will continue to hone their skills in all four language areas: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. In addition to advanced grammar study and readings in Yiddish literature, the course will take into account the interests of each individual student, allowing time for students to read Yiddish texts pertinent to their own research and writing.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Lang, Beatrice
• Room: Smokler Center 214
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Taught in English. Seniors by permission & Graduate students only. This course is designed for graduate students in other departments who wish to gain reading knowledge of the German language and translation practice from German to English. This course is a continuation of the Fall semester. Focus on advanced grammatical structures and vocabulary. For certification or credit.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Wheeler, Heidi L
• Room: Bloomberg 172
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is an approach to Twentieth century German history and culture via film and related readings in English translation. We will emphasize the national division thematically, and explore the audio and visual aspects of cinema by focusing on representative films embedded in larger narratives. Some prior familiarity with German culture is recommended but not required.

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Rhee, Sharlyn
• Room: MSE Library LRG AV
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL

That the nations of the world could ever work together seems utopian, but also unavoidable: migration, war, and not least climate change make some form of global coordination increasingly necessary. This course will give historical and philosophical depth to the idea of a cosmopolitan order and world peace by tracing it from its ancient sources through early modernity to today. At the center of the course will be the text that has been credited with founding the tradition of a world federation of nations, Immanuel Kant’s "Toward Perpetual Peace" (1795). Confronting recent and current political discourse, literature, and philosophy with Kant’s famous treatise, we will work to gain a new perspective on the idea of a world order. In addition to Kant, readings include Homer, Erasmus, Pico della Mirandola, Rousseau, Jeremy Bentham, Emily Dickinson, Tolstoy, Whitman, Rosa Luxemburg, Gandhi, Hannah Arendt, John Lennon, and Martin Luther King as well as lesser-known authors such as the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Ellen Key, Odette Thibault, Simone Weil, and Claude Lefort. Taught in English.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Frey, Christiane; Seguin, Becquer D
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): INST-PT

Taught in German. The capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Vienna was the center of extraordinary cultural and intellectual flourishing around the turn of the 20th century. A monumental building campaign along the Ringstrasse, which replaced the old city walls, massively transformed the urban fabric of the city. The founding of the Vienna Secession marked a period of re-birth that spread throughout the visual arts, literature, theater, music, architecture, and design. Literati and intellectuals including Sigmund Freud, who revolutionized psychology through the founding of psychoanalysis, gathered at now-famous Viennese Kaffeehäuser. This course surveys the artistic, cultural, intellectual, and political landscape of Vienna from ca. 1890 to the First World War. Figures to be examined include Hoffmansthal, Schnitzler, Rilke, Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Loos, Wagner, Schönberg, Freud, and Wittgenstein, among others.

• Days/Times: MW 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Haubenreich, Jacob
• Room: Greenhouse 113
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

What does it mean to exist, and to be able to reflect on this fact? What is it mean to be a self? This course explores the themes of existentialism in literature and philosophy, including the meaning of existence, the nature of the self, authenticity and inauthenticity, the inescapability of death, the experience of time, anxiety, absurdity, freedom and responsibility to others. It will be examined why these philosophical ideas often seem to demand literary expression or bear a close relation to literary works. Readings may include writings by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Heidegger, Rilke, Kafka, Simmel, Jaspers, Buber, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, and Daoud.

• Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

When the German astronomer Johannes Kepler in his famous "Somnium" (1608) creates a fictitious dream narrative in which the earth is observed from the moon, it becomes clear that the shift from the geocentric to the heliocentric worldview entails a radical change of perspective that can be achieved only by means of the imagination. What appears as a sunrise is in reality due to the earth's own movement. Where appearance and reality diverge, the new model requires a fictional account without which it remains incomprehensible. Orbiting around Kepler’s short tale, this seminar will focus on cosmic narratives and poetic explorations of outer space, from Lucian's True Stories and Icaromenippus (2nd century CE), one of the earliest literary treatments of a journey through space, Plutarch’s dialogue On the face of the Moon (late 1st century CE), to Godwin's The Man in the Moone (1638) and Kant's »Of the Inhabitants of the Stars« (1755). What is the epistemic function of literary representations of the cosmos? Are space-travel narratives thought experiments? What role does fiction and the imagination play in the science of astronomy? By pursuing these and related questions, this course will question common assumptions about the relationship of science to fiction and the literary imagination while tracing key junctures in the history of astronomy.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Frey, Christiane; ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room: Gilman 132
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

This course critically engages the presentation and imagination of animals and other non-human life in modern literature, philosophy, and thought. We will examine the figure of the animal and the means of conceptual differentiation between the animal and the human, considering animals' relation to or perceived exclusion from language, pain, embodiment, sexuality, and the visual gaze. The course is ideal for students interested in fascinating themes in literature and how they reflect philosophical concerns. No prior courses in philosophy are required. Students will read philosophical texts alongside literary works in learning the conceptual history of animals and of humanity as a distinct species. Expect fascinating readings and engaging, lively discussions. Readings may include works by Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger Derrida, Agamben, Poe, Kleist, Hofmannsthal, Rilke, Kafka, Mann, Pirandello, and Coetzee.

• Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
• Room: Bloomberg 276
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course critically engages the presentation and imagination of animals and other non-human life in modern literature, philosophy, and thought. We will examine the figure of the animal and the means of conceptual differentiation between the animal and the human, considering animals' relation to or perceived exclusion from language, pain, embodiment, sexuality, and the visual gaze. The course is ideal for students interested in fascinating themes in literature and how they reflect philosophical concerns. No prior courses in philosophy are required. Students will read philosophical texts alongside literary works in learning the conceptual history of animals and of humanity as a distinct species. Expect fascinating readings and engaging, lively discussions. Readings may include works by Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger Derrida, Agamben, Poe, Kleist, Hofmannsthal, Rilke, Kafka, Mann, Pirandello, and Coetzee.

• Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
• Room: Bloomberg 276
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/4
• PosTag(s): n/a

In recent years, Walter Benjamin has become one of the most quoted media theorists. His philosophy of technology is not as widely known as the concept of aura he developed in his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility." The contemporary relevance of his philosophy of technology lies in the fact that Benjamin establishes a connection between technology and different forms of habitation, and between the latter and the concept of habit (Gewohnheit), which is etymologically related to the concept of habitation (Wohnen). This enables a comparison of Benjamin's approach with the philosophies of technology developed by Heidegger, Deleuze/Guattari, and Simondon, all of whom associate technology with the shaping of environments and the problem of poses. In our seminar, we will reconstruct Benjamin's media anthropology of technology through a close reading of his diaries and essays and compare it to philosophies of technology very much being discussed today.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 3:30PM
• Instructor: Deuber Mankowsky, Astrid; Frey, Christiane
• Room: Mergenthaler 266
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): MLL-ENGL, MLL-FREN, MLL-GERM, MLL-HEBR

When the German astronomer Johannes Kepler in his famous "Somnium" (1608) creates a fictitious dream narrative in which the earth is observed from the moon, it becomes clear that the shift from the geocentric to the heliocentric worldview entails a radical change of perspective that can be achieved only by means of the imagination. What appears as a sunrise is in reality due to the earth's own movement. Where appearance and reality diverge, the new model requires a fictional account without which it remains incomprehensible. Orbiting around Kepler’s short tale, this seminar will focus on cosmic narratives and poetic explorations of outer space, from Lucian's True Stories and Icaromenippus (2nd century CE), one of the earliest literary treatments of a journey through space, Plutarch’s dialogue On the face of the Moon (late 1st century CE), to Godwin's The Man in the Moone (1638) and Kant's »Of the Inhabitants of the Stars« (1755). What is the epistemic function of literary representations of the cosmos? Are space-travel narratives thought experiments? What role does fiction and the imagination play in the science of astronomy? By pursuing these and related questions, this course will question common assumptions about the relationship of science to fiction and the literary imagination while tracing key junctures in the history of astronomy.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Frey, Christiane; ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room: Gilman 132
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course surveys the history of twentieth-century German literature through the lens of textual materiality. Reading both canonical and lesser known works, we will consider how material circumstances of textual production, circulation, and consumption inform and are entangled within formal, stylistic, semantic, and political dimensions of literature. In some cases, authors explicitly experimented with the writing process and/or visual/typographic form. In others, authors’ aesthetic and poetological programs extended into the material design of their books. We will also examine writer-artist collaborations and graphic novel adaptations of literary works. The course thus combines literary criticism with textual criticism, hermeneutic with materialist approaches. Much of the material we will examine is housed in the Sheridan Library Special Collections, where numerous class sessions will take place. Works by writers/artists such as Stephan George, Else Lasker-Schüler, Kurt Schwitters, Paul Celan, Eugen Gomringer, Dieter Roth, the Vienna Group, the Rixdorfer Workshop, Günter Grass, Herta Müller, Yoko Tawada, Nicolas Mahler, and Veronika Schaepers, among others. The majority of readings in German will also be available in English translation.

• Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Haubenreich, Jacob
• Room: MSE Library Special Co
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor. Students are expected to meet regularly with the mentor and to write a lengthy paper, or several short papers, on the chosen topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor. Students are expected to meet regularly with the mentor and to write a lengthy paper, or several short papers, on the chosen topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Tobias, Rochelle
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor. Students are expected to meet regularly with the mentor and to write a lengthy paper, or several short papers, on the chosen topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pahl, Katrin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor. Students are expected to meet regularly with the mentor and to write a lengthy paper, or several short papers, on the chosen topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Frey, Christiane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Tobias, Rochelle
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pahl, Katrin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Frey, Christiane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for graduate students to prepare one of their two required qualifying papers. One qualifying paper should be article-length and present work that will not be part of the dissertation. The second should be the draft of a chapter for the dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for graduate students to prepare one of their two required qualifying papers. One qualifying paper should be article-length and present work that will not be part of the dissertation. The second should be the draft of a chapter for the dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Haubenreich, Jacob
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for graduate students to prepare one of their two required qualifying papers. One qualifying paper should be article-length and present work that will not be part of the dissertation. The second should be the draft of a chapter for the dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Frey, Christiane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Training for professional academic purposes.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Mifflin, Deborah McGee
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Four-skills introduction to the German language and culture. Develops proficiency in speaking, writing, reading and listening skills through the use of basic texts, multi-media and communicative language activities. Online tools required. May not be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Tuesday section is a mandatory hour.

• Days/Times: MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, T 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Liao, Jiantong; Staff
• Room: Gilman 77
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Four-skills introduction to the German language and culture. Develops proficiency in speaking, writing, reading and listening skills through the use of basic texts, multi-media and communicative language activities. Online tools required. May not be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Tuesday section is a mandatory hour.

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM, T 10:30AM - 11:20AM
• Instructor: Mifflin, Deborah McGee; Staff
• Room: Gilman 443
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Continuation to the introduction to the German language and a development of reading, speaking, writing & listening through the use of basic texts and communicative activities. The culture of the German-language countries is also incorporated into the curriculum. May not be taken on a S/U basis. Prerequisites: AS.210.161 or Placement Exam. Tuesday hour is mandatory.

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM, T 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Djapo, Hervé Boza
• Room: Gilman 10
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Taught in German. This course continues the same four-skills approach (speaking, writing, reading and listening) from the first-year sequence, introducing and practicing more advanced topics and structures. Expansion and extension through topical readings and discussion and multi-media materials. Online tools required. Prereq: 210.162 or placement exam. May not be taken on an S/U basis.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Wheeler, Heidi L
• Room: Gilman 443
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Taught in German. This course continues the same four-skills approach (speaking, writing, reading and listening) from the first-year sequence, introducing and practicing more advanced topics and structures. Expansion and extension through topical readings and discussion and multi-media materials. Online tools required. Prereq: 210.162 or placement exam. May not be taken on an S/U basis.

• Days/Times: MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Dargan, Gargi
• Room: Gilman 219
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Taught in German. Topically, this course focuses on defining moments in cultural history in German speaking countries in the 2nd half of the 20th century. Films, texts, including a full-length novel, and other media provide a basis for discussing events in post-war Germany from 1945 to 2000. A review and expansion of advanced grammatical concepts and vocabulary underlies the course. Focus on improving expression in writing and speaking. May not be taken on an S/U basis.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Beller, Luke Skyler
• Room: Gilman 10
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Taught in German. Course is designed to familiarize students with the vocabulary and standards for doing business in Germany. Taking a cultural approach, students read texts and engage in discussion that elucidate the works of business, commerce & industry in Germany, the world’s third largest economy. Emphasis is placed on vocabulary expansion and writing as it relates to business and business cases. May not be taken S/U. Recommended background: at least 4 semesters of college German (210.262) or equivalent.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Wheeler, Heidi L
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate students only. Seniors may enroll with permission from LPD and instructor. Taught in English. This is the first semester of a year-long course designed for graduate students in other fields who wish to gain a reading knowledge of the German language. Seniors who intend to do graduate study in other disciplines are also welcome. Instruction includes an introduction to German vocabulary and grammatical structures as well as discussion of relevant translation practices. The goal of the course is for students to gain confidence in reading a variety of texts, including those in their own fields of study. No knowledge of German is assumed.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Wheeler, Heidi L
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course will survey German ideas—in philosophy, social and political theory, and drama—since the Enlightenment. Authors include Kant, Schiller, Lessing, Goethe, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Horkheimer, and Adorno.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Egginton, William
• Room: Wyman Park N105
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/18
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-PT, HIST-EUROPE, MLL-GERM

Dystopia (from the Latin) means “bad place.” Classic literary dystopias such as We, 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451 depict societies gone wrong, bad places in which socioeconomic ideas promise harmony but produce nightmarish, even apocalyptic outcomes. A common theme of dystopian fiction is the conflict between collective need and individual desire. In this course we will pursue this theme, and others, as we read works of fiction alongside influential works of socio-economic thought. One of our aims will be to tease out the buried dreams and latent possibilities in the historical realities and literary imaginings of dystopic worlds. Readings include selections from popular fiction and contemporary media as well as texts by authors such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Hayek, Rosa Luxemburg, W.E.B. Du Bois, Franz Kafka, Juli Zeh, Olivia Wenzel, Elias Canetti, Brigitte Riemann, Hannah Arendt, Frantz Fanon, Herta Müller, and Philip K. Dick.

• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Maryland 309
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): MLL-GERM

Taught in German. Goethe’s novel is among the most influential in the German tradition and established the genre of the Bildungsroman. Although the novel is often considered a tale of personal formation and social integration, the reverse of this statement is true as well. Wilhelm Meister is a novel of splintered relations and social disintegration, as even the best laid plans are disrupted by unexpected circumstances and uncontrollable desires. We will read the entire novel in German over the semester with an eye toward the motif of theater and the question of puppets, puppet masters, and invisible hands, especially as thematized in the mysterious Turmgesellschaft introduced at the novel’s conclusion.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Tobias, Rochelle
• Room: Gilman 443
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course considers the importance of philosophical, literary, aesthetic, and other humanist approaches to ecology and environmental issues.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 17/20
• PosTag(s): ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR

The privilege of thinking has faced two challenges in recent years. The advent of artificial intelligence has called into question how unique thinking is when cognition can easily be mimicked, if not (re)produced, in machines through statistical models of language. An equally prevalent, if opposing, development in critical theory is the expansion of thought to include all purposeful action, such as the spreading of information among trees regarding available resources. The first half of the semester will be devoted to the definition of thinking offered by Aristotle and its interpretation in selected texts by Fichte, Hegel, and Marx. The second half will consider the surge of interest in automatons in romantic literature (Novalis, Hoffmann, Kleist and Poe) and culminating in Kafka’s “Report to an Academy.

• Days/Times: Th 2:00PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Tobias, Rochelle
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course explores literature in the context of the aesthetic tradition in philosophy. Themes include literature as mimesis, or the representation of reality, its relation to truth, untruth, and possibility, literature as the revealing of being, literary imagination, the distinctiveness of literary language and expression, the role of the literary author. Readings may include background selections from Plato and Aristotle, but the course will focus on philosophical interest in literature since the late 18th century, and may include Kant, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Blanchot, Bachelard, among other readings. Course will be taught by the Kurrelmeyer Chair in German. Taught in English.

• Days/Times: T 1:00PM - 3:00PM
• Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor. Students are expected to meet regularly with the mentor and to write a lengthy paper, or several short papers, on the chosen topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor. Students are expected to meet regularly with the mentor and to write a lengthy paper, or several short papers, on the chosen topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Tobias, Rochelle
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for a graduate students pursuing an independent research project with a faculty mentor. Students are expected to meet regularly with the mentor and to write a lengthy paper, or several short papers, on the chosen topic.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pahl, Katrin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Tobias, Rochelle
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pahl, Katrin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Haubenreich, Jacob
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is for graduate students to prepare one of their two required qualifying papers. One qualifying paper should be article-length and present work that will not be part of the dissertation. The second should be the draft of a chapter for the dissertation.

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• Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
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This course is for graduate students to prepare one of their two required qualifying papers. One qualifying paper should be article-length and present work that will not be part of the dissertation. The second should be the draft of a chapter for the dissertation.

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• Instructor: Tobias, Rochelle
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This course is for graduate students to prepare one of their two required qualifying papers. One qualifying paper should be article-length and present work that will not be part of the dissertation. The second should be the draft of a chapter for the dissertation.

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• Instructor: Pahl, Katrin
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• Seats Available: 4/5
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This course is for graduate students to prepare one of their two required qualifying papers. One qualifying paper should be article-length and present work that will not be part of the dissertation. The second should be the draft of a chapter for the dissertation.

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• Instructor: Frey, Christiane
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This course is for graduate students to prepare one of their two required qualifying papers. One qualifying paper should be article-length and present work that will not be part of the dissertation. The second should be the draft of a chapter for the dissertation.

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• Instructor: Haubenreich, Jacob
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• Seats Available: 5/5
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Training for professional academic purposes.

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• Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
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• Seats Available: 9/10
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