| AS.210.161 (01) |
German Elements I |
MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM |
Liao, Jiantong (Jackson) |
Shaffer 301 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: An introduction to the language and culture of the German-speaking world. Provides students with a foundation to communicate in German. Students will learn to speak, comprehend, and write German at the elementary level while exploring universal themes and culturally specific topics. Students will practice and apply what they learn in communicative activities in class. This course is for true beginners. May not be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Students with any prior knowledge of German must take the placement test:
https://krieger.jhu.edu/modern-languages-literatures/german/undergraduate/german-language-placement/
- Credits: 4.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 2/17
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.162 (01) |
German Elements II |
MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM |
Liu, Demi |
Shaffer 303 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: Continuation of the introduction to the language and culture of the German-speaking world. Students will build on their fundamental ability to communicate in German. Students will learn to speak, comprehend, and write German at the beginning level while exploring universal themes and culturally specific topics. Students will practice and apply what they learn in communicative activities in class. May not be taken on a S/U basis.
- Credits: 4.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 2/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.162 (02) |
German Elements II |
MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM |
Schmitz, Lisa Katharina |
Krieger 180 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: Continuation of the introduction to the language and culture of the German-speaking world. Students will build on their fundamental ability to communicate in German. Students will learn to speak, comprehend, and write German at the beginning level while exploring universal themes and culturally specific topics. Students will practice and apply what they learn in communicative activities in class. May not be taken on a S/U basis.
- Credits: 4.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 1/13
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.261 (01) |
Intermediate German I |
MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM |
Wheeler, Heidi L |
Gilman 443 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: 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. May not be taken on an S/U basis.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 8/10
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.262 (01) |
Intermediate German II |
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM |
Gray, Glen Eric |
Bloomberg 176 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: 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. May not be taken on an S/U basis.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 5/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.362 (01) |
Advanced German II: Contemporary Issues in the German Speaking World |
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM |
ter Haseborg, Heiko Everwien |
Gilman 479 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: Taught in German. Designed for students with a solid grasp (not mastery) of German grammar and vocabulary who wish to deepen and extend their knowledge of the language and culture of German-speaking communities through readings, films, discussion and writing. Students will read literary works by Judith Hermann, Franz Fühmann, and Alfred Andersch, as well as watch the films “Goethe!” and “Das Leben der Anderen”. Through these works, the course addresses themes such as Life in the GDR, forms of civil resistance, pop culture, fame, and love. Emphasis is placed on improving mastery of German grammar, development of self-editing skills and practice in spoken German. Introduction/Review of advanced grammar. May not be taken on an S/U basis.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 1/15
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.368 (01) |
Advanced Yiddish II |
W 11:00AM - 1:30PM |
Lang, Beatrice |
Smokler Center Library |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 9/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.662 (01) |
Reading & Translating German for Academic Purposes II |
MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM |
Wheeler, Heidi L |
Gilman 443 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 6/10
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.211.372 (01) |
German Cinema: The Divided Screen |
Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM |
Rhee, Sharlyn |
Gilman 413 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 7/15
- Tags: INST-GLOBAL
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| AS.213.379 (01) |
Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in the German-Speaking World |
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM |
Haubenreich, Jacob |
Gilman 443 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: Taught in German. In today’s globalized world, what does it mean to live and to write in more than one language? In this course, we will explore texts, popular music, and films by multilingual writers and directors reflecting on the experiences of the multilingual subject, from the turmoil of living between languages, identities, and cultures, to the pleasurable, playful experience of reality opened up through thinking and writing in multiple languages. The course begins with introductions to the history and politics of the Gastarbeiter program in West and East Germany, debates about assimilation, and critiques of conceptions of multiculturalism, before turning to examine a range of texts, films, and popular music by multilingual creators.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 8/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.384 (01) |
Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, Mind: Thinking in the 21st Century |
WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM |
Tobias, Rochelle |
Gilman 413 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: The advent of artificial intelligence has brought to the fore how much we have taken the idea of thinking for granted in the past fifty years. This course will trace the development of the notion of mind in ancient Greece through the exploration of consciousness in eighteenth-century German thought and physiological explanations of thought beginning with Nietzsche in the nineteenth century. We will compare these historical accounts to the statistical models and neural network theories that dominate today. We will also read a selection of short(er) literary works in which the question of who, or what, is speaking brings the traditional aesthetic concept of mimesis into contact with mimetic theory in machine learning.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 3/15
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.446 (01) |
Nature and Ecology in German Literature and Thought |
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM |
Gosetti, Jennifer Anna |
Gilman 10 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: Nature and Ecology in German Literature and Thought examines the representation of the natural world and ecological thinking in literary works and aesthetic theory from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Themes include the aesthetics of nature, poetic reverence for nature, anthropocentric depictions of nature, the thematization of landscape, the representation of animal life and environment, the impact of technology, urbanization, and industrialization on our sense of nature. Readings may include works from poetry, novels, or short fiction and fairy tale, as well as philosophy and theory. Readings may include poetry by Goethe, Novalis, Hölderlin, Rainer Maria Rilke, and WG Sebald, fairy tales or Märchen by the brothers Grimm, and fiction by Adalbert Stifter, Wilhelm Raabe, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Horst Sternn and Christa Wolf, along with theoretical works by Goethe, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Jakob von Uexküll, Hans Jonas, and Gernot Böhme, and contemporary German ecocriticism. The course is taught in English with texts in English translation; German speakers will be invited to use original texts.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 0/10
- Tags: ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR, CTAL-CONCEPT
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| AS.213.688 (01) |
Identity and Alterity |
T 4:00PM - 6:00PM |
Pahl, Katrin |
Gilman 414 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: This seminar explores the notions of identity and alterity in ways that undo their oppositional configuration. Around two German novels, available in translation (probably Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina, 1971, and Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Ada’s Room, 2021), we will discuss a variety of theoretical approaches to questions of identity and alterity (Hegel, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminist and queer theory, post- and de-colonial theory, postmigrant thinking, new materialisms, translation studies).
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 5/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.708 (01) |
Stagecoach, Railway, Aeroplane: Mobility, Perception, and Literary Form |
Th 4:00PM - 6:00PM |
Torra-Mattenklott, Caroline |
Gilman 479 |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: Unlike “traffic” or “transportation,” “mobility” is a holistic concept from the social sciences that not only refers to the question of how people and things can be moved from one place to another, but also encompasses individual experiences and habits, social aspects, and ecological implications of human motion in space. Since Homer’s Odyssey, literature has intensely participated in reflecting on and shaping our experience of mobility, reporting on travel routes, means of transportation, risks and dangers, as well as on changing perceptions of space, velocity, bodily motion, landscape, and cultural difference. In this seminar, we will examine exemplary scenes of mobility in eighteenth- to twentieth-century German literature, from Klopstock, Moritz, and Goethe, via Heine and Stifter, to Kafka, Uwe Johnson, and W.G. Sebald. Our particular focus will be on the interplay between transportation, spatial perception, and literary form: How do the differences between walking, riding on a stagecoach, or travelling by boat affect the way travelers perceive and describe their environment? How do writers respond to technical innovations of modernity, such as the railway and the airplane? Which techniques of writing are used to record and convey experiences of mobility? Taught in German.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 4/10
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.800 (01) |
Independent Study |
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Gosetti, Jennifer Anna |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.800 (02) |
Independent Study |
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Tobias, Rochelle |
|
Spring 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 4/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.800 (03) |
Independent Study |
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Pahl, Katrin |
|
Spring 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 4/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.800 (04) |
Independent Study |
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Frey, Christiane |
|
Spring 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 4/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.812 (01) |
Dir Dissertation Rsrch |
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Gosetti, Jennifer Anna |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.
- Credits: 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 3/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.812 (02) |
Dir Dissertation Rsrch |
|
Tobias, Rochelle |
|
Spring 2026 |
- Description: Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.
- Credits: 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 4/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.812 (03) |
Dir Dissertation Rsrch |
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Pahl, Katrin |
|
Spring 2026 |
- Description: Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.
- Credits: 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 4/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.812 (04) |
Dir Dissertation Rsrch |
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Frey, Christiane |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.
- Credits: 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 4/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.813 (01) |
German Qualifying Paper Preparation |
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Gosetti, Jennifer Anna |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.813 (02) |
German Qualifying Paper Preparation |
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Tobias, Rochelle |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.813 (03) |
German Qualifying Paper Preparation |
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Pahl, Katrin |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.813 (04) |
German Qualifying Paper Preparation |
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Frey, Christiane |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 4/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.850 (01) |
Professional Training - German |
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ter Haseborg, Heiko Everwien |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: Training for professional academic purposes.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 11/15
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.161 (01) |
German Elements I |
MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM |
Zhang, Kunning |
Gilman 313 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: An introduction to the language and culture of the German-speaking world. Provides students with a foundation to communicate in German. Students will learn to speak, comprehend, and write German at the elementary level while exploring universal themes and culturally specific topics. Students will practice and apply what they learn in communicative activities in class. This course is for true beginners. Students with any prior knowledge of German must take the placement test: https://krieger.jhu.edu/modern-languages-literatures/german/undergraduate/german-language-placement/ May not be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 10/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.161 (02) |
German Elements I |
MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM |
Liu, Demi |
Gilman 219 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: An introduction to the language and culture of the German-speaking world. Provides students with a foundation to communicate in German. Students will learn to speak, comprehend, and write German at the elementary level while exploring universal themes and culturally specific topics. Students will practice and apply what they learn in communicative activities in class. This course is for true beginners. Students with any prior knowledge of German must take the placement test: https://krieger.jhu.edu/modern-languages-literatures/german/undergraduate/german-language-placement/ May not be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 2/15
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.161 (03) |
German Elements I |
MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM |
Higgins, Gabriella Renee Rohde |
Gilman 77 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: An introduction to the language and culture of the German-speaking world. Provides students with a foundation to communicate in German. Students will learn to speak, comprehend, and write German at the elementary level while exploring universal themes and culturally specific topics. Students will practice and apply what they learn in communicative activities in class. This course is for true beginners. Students with any prior knowledge of German must take the placement test: https://krieger.jhu.edu/modern-languages-literatures/german/undergraduate/german-language-placement/ May not be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 6/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.162 (01) |
German Elements II |
MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM |
Beller, Luke Skyler |
Gilman 313 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: Continuation of the introduction to the language and culture of the German-speaking world. Students will build on their fundamental ability to communicate in German. Students will learn to speak, comprehend, and write German at the beginning level while exploring universal themes and culturally specific topics. Students will practice and apply what they learn in communicative activities in class. May not be taken on a S/U basis.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 5/10
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.261 (01) |
Intermediate German I |
MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM |
Dargan, Gargi |
Gilman 413 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 12/15
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.261 (02) |
Intermediate German I |
MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM |
Schmitz, Lisa Katharina |
Gilman 277 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Waitlist Only
- Seats Available: 0/10
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.361 (01) |
Advanced German I: Cultural Topics of the Modern German-speaking World |
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM |
ter Haseborg, Heiko Everwien |
Gilman 479 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: Taught in German. Students will read literary works by Heinrich Böll, Hermann Hesse, and Gertrud Wilker, as well as watch the film “Die Welle”, to explore themes like the “Wirtschaftswunder”, work and productivity, the role of women in society, the pursuit of happiness, youth slang, and much more. 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.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 6/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.361 (02) |
Advanced German I: Cultural Topics of the Modern German-speaking World |
MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM |
Harmon, Brad |
Gilman 10 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: Taught in German. Students will read literary works by Heinrich Böll, Hermann Hesse, and Gertrud Wilker, as well as watch the film “Die Welle”, to explore themes like the “Wirtschaftswunder”, work and productivity, the role of women in society, the pursuit of happiness, youth slang, and much more. 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.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 10/10
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.365 (01) |
German for Science and Engineering |
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM |
ter Haseborg, Heiko Everwien |
Gilman 479 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: Taught in German. This course is designed to provide language training in German tailored to students of science & engineering. Germany has long been a world leader in engineering, most notably in chemical and mechanical engineering. Over the past decades, Germany also has taken a lead in environmental sciences and information technology. In addition, Germany is now becoming an increasingly attractive place to pursue degrees in the technical fields. This course will provide practice and expansion in all language skill areas: analysis of texts, hands-on-activities, preparation of presentations, and discussion of topics. Specific areas of interest to the course members will be taken into consideration for the selection of materials. [Does not replace 210.362 as prerequisite for upper level courses or as major requirement.]
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 5/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.210.661 (01) |
Reading and Translating German for Academic Purposes |
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM |
Staff |
Gilman 377 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 10/15
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.312 (01) |
Topics in German Literature: Theater Heute |
M 3:00PM - 5:30PM |
Pahl, Katrin |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: Wie antwortet das Theater heute auf die dringenden Fragen unserer Zeit? In Deutschland und Österreich hat das Theater traditionell und aktuell einen hohen gesellschaftlichen Stellenwert. Aufgrund langjähriger großzügiger Förderung konnte das nicht-kommerzielle Theater im deutschsprachigen Raum eine Vielfalt von zunächst experimentellen Ästhetiken entwickeln. Das postdramatische Theater hat die Theaterlandschaft geprägt. Das postmigrantische Theater hat die Theaterkultur verändert. Queere und feministische Themen und Ästhetiken haben sich etabliert. Theaterkollektive sowie namhafte Regisseur*innen arbeiten in den Kulturhauptstädten sowie in der Provinz auf vielfältige Weise daran, die wichtigen Themen unserer Zeit zu reflektieren. Wir werden zusammen Videos von Inszenierungen anschauen, Theatertexte lesen und uns mit den jeweiligen sozialen und politischen Kontexten sowie mit der Geschichte und Theorie des Theaters beschäftigen. Language of Instruction: German
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 10/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.332 (01) |
Literature and the Visual Arts |
T 3:00PM - 5:30PM |
Gosetti, Jennifer Anna |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: Literature and the Visual Arts is devoted to exploring the resonances between literary and visual forms of artistic expression and their enrichment of the modernist cultural landscape. We will aim to understand how the interest in visual art by modernist writers, and the impressions of literature on modernist and contemporary artworks newly illuminate or challenge traditional aesthetics of the temporality and spatiality of the work, aesthetic judgment, and the phenomenology of aesthetic attention. Readings may include works of literature or aesthetics by Immanuel Kant, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Klee, Stefan Zweig, Martin Heidegger, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Siegfried Lenz, and Virginia Woolf, alongside work of many visual artists from van Gogh and Cézanne to German Expressionism and Anselm Kiefer. Taught in English.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 7/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.386 (01) |
Panorama of German Thought |
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM |
Tobias, Rochelle |
Krieger 180 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: This course introduces students to major figures and trends in German literature and thought from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. We will pay particular attention to the evolution of German political thought from the Protestant Reformation to the foundation of the German Federal Republic after WWII. How did the Protestant Reformation affect the understanding of the state, rights, civic institutions, and temporal authority in Germany? How did German Enlightenment thinkers conceive of ethics and politics? How do German writers define the nation, community, and the people? What is the link between romanticism and nationalism? To what degree is political economy, as developed by Marx, a critical response to romanticism? What are the ties that bind as well as divide a community in this tradition? We will consider these questions through a careful reading of selected works by Luther, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Weber, and Arendt.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 9/15
- Tags: INST-GLOBAL, INST-PT
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| AS.213.398 (01) |
Speaking Truth to Power: From Martin Luther to Audre Lorde |
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM |
Frey, Christiane |
Gilman 377 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: “Here I stand; I can do no other.” With these words, Martin Luther challenged the greatest powers of his time. Centuries later, Audre Lorde declared that “your silence will not protect you,” reframing truth-telling as a tool for survival and liberation. This course explores the ethics and aesthetics of fearless speech (Parrhesia). We will examine how individuals and literary figures—from 16th-century reformers to modern activists, from Sophocles’ Antigone to Wieland’s Diogenes—risked their lives and reputations to speak a truth that disrupts the status quo. How does language become a weapon? What is the cost of breaking the silence? And can truth remain “true” once it enters the arena of political power? These and other questions will be at the core of our inquiry in this seminar as we navigate the boundary between private conscience and public defiance. Readings include: Martin Luther, Plato, Sophocles, Wieland, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Audre Lorde. A section in German will be offered for interested students.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Waitlist Only
- Seats Available: 0/15
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.606 (01) |
The Melancholic Imagination |
Th 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
Tobias, Rochelle |
Gilman 479 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: Melancholia is marked by two competing tendencies: on the one hand, it clings to the objects of this world as if they could provide a path to transcendence and, on the other, it recognizes the weight of these objects, their transience, and concomitant senselessness. This course will examine the melancholic disposition from Robert Burton’s 1621 tome The Anatomy of Melancholy onward to Martin Heidegger’s analysis of boredom in Being and Time. We will consider the religious dimensions of melancholia as explored in different contexts by Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg and will pay particular attention to Warburg’s notion of the Pathosformel while reflecting on literary works by Flaubert, Adrian, Chekhov, Hofmannsthal, Musil, Pessoa, Rilke, and W. G. Sebald.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 8/15
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.634 (01) |
Phenomenology of Literature |
W 1:00PM - 3:00PM |
Gosetti, Jennifer Anna |
Gilman 479 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: Phenomenology of Literature is a graduate-level course devoted to exploring the vital interchanges between philosophy and literature in the 20th century, focusing on the roots of phenomenology in German philosophy, its adaptations in French theory, and its connections with and expansion to literary writing. Themes may include: the nature of literary experience, including the experience of reading and writing, the acts of attention in literature, phenomenological and literary descriptions of reality, the literary construction of the self, the nature of perspective, intersubjectivity, limit-experiences, the phenomenology of literary imagination, and ecophenomenology in literature. We will read philosophical and theoretical texts by Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Blanchot, Beauvoir, Bachelard, and Ricoeur in connection with literary works, which may include fiction and poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, and Wallace Stevens, among others. This course is taught in English with texts available in translation, but those participants with language capacities in the relevant language are welcome to use original language texts.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Waitlist Only
- Seats Available: 0/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.702 (01) |
Aesthetic Judgment, Political Agency: Kant to Kafka |
T 3:00PM - 5:00PM |
Frey, Christiane |
Gilman 443 |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: Following Hannah Arendt’s seminal claim that Kant’s “Critique of Judgment” contains his unwritten political philosophy, this seminar investigates how the structure of aesthetic judgment defines the possibilities of political agency. We begin with Kant’s aesthetic theory and Arendt’s “Lectures on Kant” to understand how the ability to think from the standpoint of others constitutes the core of the political. Through this lens, we trace the genealogy of aesthetics from Baumgarten’s sensuous cognition to Herder’s empathy, Schiller’s aesthetic education, and Novalis’ poetics of the state. The course then examines exemplary and radical challenges to these models: the fanaticism of justice in Kleist’s “Michael Kohlhaas,” the aesthetic appeal for social justice in Bettina von Arnim’s “This Book Belongs to the King,” the fragmented political consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s “Three Guineas,” the transition from disinterested distance to radical attention in Simone Weil, and finally, the law as inscrutable form in Kafka’s “The Trial.” Readings include: Baumgarten, Kant, Herder, Schiller, Novalis, Kleist, Arnim, Arendt, Weil, Woolf, and Kafka.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 5/12
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.800 (01) |
Independent Study-German |
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Gosetti, Jennifer Anna |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.800 (02) |
Independent Study-German |
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Tobias, Rochelle |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.800 (03) |
Independent Study-German |
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Pahl, Katrin |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.812 (01) |
Directed Dissertation Research |
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Gosetti, Jennifer Anna |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.
- Credits: 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.812 (02) |
Directed Dissertation Research |
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Tobias, Rochelle |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.
- Credits: 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.812 (03) |
Directed Dissertation Research |
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Pahl, Katrin |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.
- Credits: 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 4/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.812 (05) |
Directed Dissertation Research |
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Haubenreich, Jacob |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.
- Credits: 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.812 (06) |
Directed Dissertation Research |
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Frey, Christiane |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: Students are expected to meet regularly with their dissertation director to ensure they adhere to a research and writing schedule for their dissertation.
- Credits: 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.813 (01) |
German Qualifying Paper Preparation |
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Gosetti, Jennifer Anna |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.813 (02) |
German Qualifying Paper Preparation |
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Tobias, Rochelle |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.813 (03) |
German Qualifying Paper Preparation |
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Pahl, Katrin |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.813 (04) |
German Qualifying Paper Preparation |
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Frey, Christiane |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.813 (05) |
German Qualifying Paper Preparation |
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Haubenreich, Jacob |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 5/5
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.213.850 (01) |
Professional Training - German |
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ter Haseborg, Heiko Everwien |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: Training for professional academic purposes.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 8/10
- Tags: n/a
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