Graduate Program in German Studies

Selected Graduate Course Offerings

Taught by German Studies Core Faculty:

Sex, Gender, and Love in Medieval German Literature
Theories of Orality and Literacy
Seminar in German Studies
Renaissance and Reformation Literature
Goethe Seminar
Reason and Imagination: The German Eighteenth Century
German Romanticism
Science and Technology in Nineteenth Century German Culture
The Twentieth Century
Postwar German Literature
Research Methods in Literary Scholarship
Second Language Acquisition Theory and Practice
History of the German Language
Consciousness and Modern Society
Contemporary Theory and the German Tradition
Poetry and Modernity
Literature by Women
Inventing the Museum: Collecting and Cultural Discourses of the Nineteenth Century
Rituals of Commemoration in German Culture

Taught by German Studies Affiliated Faculty:

The Origins of Totalitarianism
Criticism and Literary Theory in the Twentieth Century
Critical Theory: Adorno and Habermas
German Aesthetic Theory
Kant and Foucault
Paradigms of Modern Thought
Literature and Ideology
Topics in Feminist Theory
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Political Philosophy
Nietzsche´s Political Philosophy
Hegel´s Political Philosophy
Heidegger
History of Netherlandish Art and Visual Culture in a European Context
Art and Memory
Art, Violence and Taboo
History of Sexuality in Europe
Bodies and Texts
The German "Lied"
Selected Topics in Women's Studies
Marxism and Feminism
Luther and the Reformation in Germany