Intermediate German II |
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Professor:
Jana Schmidt |
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Course Number: GER 202 |
CRN Number: 10115 |
Class
cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Wed Thurs 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Olin Languages Center 118 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign
Languages and Lit |
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For students who have completed three semesters of college
German (or the equivalent). The course is designed to deepen the proficiency gained
in the German Intensive and the January program in Berlin by increasing
students’ fluency in speaking, reading, and writing, and adding significantly
to their working vocabulary. Students improve their ability to express their
own ideas and hone their strategies for understanding spoken and written
communication. We will read a contemporary novel supplemented by audiovisual
materials. Please consult with the instructor if you are unsure about your
proficiency level. |
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Talking Cures: Psychoanalysis and the
Invention of Sex |
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Professor:
Jana Schmidt |
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Course Number: GER 327 |
CRN Number: 10116 |
Class
cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 3:30 PM
- 4:50 PM Olin Languages Center 120 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign
Languages and Lit |
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The most famous patient in the history of psychoanalysis,
the vivaciously intelligent “Anna O,” gave two names to her therapist’s practice
of making her speak. While the first of these – the “talking cure” –
underlines psychoanalysis’s aspiration to becoming a respectable science, the
second – “chimney-sweeping” – hints at the more salacious sides of
psychoanalysis. In order to cure the patient of her symptoms, it appeared the
therapist had to become complicit with the illicit urges, coax them to the
surface, and make them proliferate. Most of all, sexuality had to be spoken –
and hence imagined. In this course we will trace back how modern sexuality is
“invented” by making it speak. From the beginning, this story is intimately
connected to the way literary texts imagine sex. So we will consider a
variety of theoretical paradigms – from psychoanalysis to queer studies – to
read and analyze how German literary texts from the turn of the century
onward construct the relationship between speech and sex. Does speaking and
writing about sexuality bring it into existence? What is the connection
between the expansion of a language of sex and desire? What does literature
know about sex? Starting with early psychoanalytic texts, we will consider
contemporary narratives by German-speaking authors like Leopold von
Sacher-Masoch and Arthur Schnitzler. We will then turn to more recent
theoretical models, including poststructuralism, gender and media studies,
and authors (Fleur Jaeggy, Ronald Schernikau, Elfriede Jelinek) who challenge
what we may think sex is. Toward the end of the semester we will also look at
concepts like consent, risk, and jouissance to connect our readings in the
history of psychoanalysis with modern debates and contemporary psychoanalytic
writers like Adam Philips, Patricia Gherovici, and Avgi Saketopoulou.
Readings and discussions will be in German with supplementary readings in
English. |
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Contemporary German Literature and
Film |
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Professor:
Thomas Wild |
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Course Number: GER 422 |
CRN Number: 10117 |
Class
cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Campus
Center Red Room |
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Mon 6:00 PM - 8:00
PM Olin 102 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign
Languages and Lit |
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Crosslists: Literature |
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What is at stake for contemporary German writers, filmmakers,
and public intellectuals? Which problems do they address in their novels,
poems, and plays, what topics do they challenge us with in their movies and
documentaries? How do these artworks respond to Germany's multi-ethnic
society and its pivotal role in a rapidly changing Europe? During the Cold
War, the country had been divided between East and West for forty years – how
present is this past in contemporary Germany, over thirty years after the
fall of the Berlin wall in 1989? The basis for our discussion of these
questions will be texts by eminent contemporary writers and performers such
as Katja Petrowskaja, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Pina Bausch, Thomas Brasch, René
Pollesch, Tankred Dorst, and Senthuran Varatharajah. Intertwined with our
textual analysis, we will examine films of the so called “Berlin School”
including filmmakers such as Christian Petzold, Angela Schanelec, and Maren
Ade. Our scrutiny of literary texts and films will be complemented by close
readings of these artists’ theoretical writings as well as contemporary
criticism. Conducted in German. |
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Cross-listed
Courses:
The Courage to Be: Courage in the
Universities |
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Course
Number: CC 108 B |
CRN Number: 10331 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor: |
Maxim Botstein |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Olin 204 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA MBV Historical Analysis Meaning, Being, Value |
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Crosslists: |
German
Studies; Philosophy |
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The Age of Extremes: Modern European
History since 1815 |
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Course Number: HIST 192 |
CRN Number: 10694 |
Class
cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: Gregory Moynahan |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 1:30 PM
- 2:50 PM Olin 202 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical
Analysis |
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Crosslists: German Studies; Global &
International Studies |
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Marx as Literature |
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Course Number: LIT 261 |
CRN Number: 10371 |
Class
cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: Alys Moody |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
5:10 PM - 6:30 PM Olin
204 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary
Analysis in English D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: German Studies; Politics |
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Kafka & Brecht: Myth & Theater |
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Course
Number: LIT 283 |
CRN Number: 10378 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor: |
Thomas Bartscherer |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed 3:30 PM
- 4:50 PM Olin Languages Center 115 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary
Analysis in English |
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Crosslists: |
German
Studies |
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Hannah Arendt: Reading The Human
Condition and the Plurality of Languages |
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Course
Number: LIT 318 |
CRN Number: 10391 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor: |
Thomas Wild |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue 3:10 PM
- 5:30 PM Olin 303 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary
Analysis in English |
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Crosslists: |
German
Studies; Human Rights; Philosophy |
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Myth and Modernity in Wagner's Ring
Cycle |
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Course
Number: MUS 286 |
CRN Number: 10537 |
Class cap: 20 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor: |
Peter Laki |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 10:10 AM
- 11:30 AM Blum Music Center N217 |
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Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis
of Art |
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Crosslists: |
German
Studies |
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Marx, Nietzsche, Freud |
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Course
Number: PHIL 245 |
CRN Number: 10286 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits:
4 |
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Professor: |
Ruth Zisman |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Olin 203 |
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Distributional Area: |
MBV Meaning, Being, Value |
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Crosslists: |
German
Studies |
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