printer friendly pageGERLIT 16N: Music, Myth, and Modernity: Wagner's Ring Cycle and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (MUSIC 16N)
Preference to freshmen. Roots of Wagner's operatic cycle and Tolkien's epic trilogy in a common core of Norse, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon mythology. The role of musical motive and characterization in Wagner's music dramas and the film version of Tolkien's trilogy. Music as a key element in the psychological, political, and cultural revision of ancient myth in modern opera and film.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Grey, T. (PI)
GERLIT 127: Uncanny Literature in the Nineteenth Century
From ghost children and animated statues, the walking dead to machine women and doppelgangers, 19th-century German literature teems with things that go bump in the night. The history of this tradition of fantastic literature in Germany, its origins, main authors, and defining features. Authors include E.T.A. Hoffmann, Wilhelm Hauff, Friedrich Schiller, Joseph von Eichendorff and Jeremias Gotthelf. Readings and writing in German.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Daub, A. (PI)
GERLIT 127A: German Sports Movies
How sports movies represent changing body cultures and conceptions of sports and media, and allow a glimpse into the life of German societies and history since the 20s. Sports include alpinism, boxing, cycling, football (soccer), gymnastics, track and field, and volleyball. Movies in German.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Junghanns, W. (PI)
GERLIT 131: Goethe: Poetic Vision and Vocation in the Age of Reason
Introduction to Goethe¿s major works, reading across genres of poetry, drama, the novel, and autobiography; critical writings on art, nature, and aesthetics. Central trends in Goethe¿s thought; the interrelatedness of poetic vision and philosophical thinking in his works. Goethe in relation to other intellectual and philosophical movements of the period, including romanticism.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Shamel, M. (PI)
GERLIT 132: German Sports Culture
Peculiarities of sports in Germany as a point of access to past and present German culture. Concepts of competition and performance; relations between sports and politics in different periods of modern German history. Sources include theoretical and literary texts in English and German, and media representations of athletic contests.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Junghanns, W. (PI)
GERLIT 136: Berlin Topographies in the 20th Century
Development of Berlin¿s spatial imaginaries from the boulevards of the late 19th century to the Weimar Republic's urban agendas, and to the repeated reconstructions by the Nazis, the GDR and Berlin Republic. Sources: Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Berthold Brecht, Peter Weiss, Mascha Kaleko, Peter Schneider, Blixa Bargeld, Wolf Biermann, Christoph Hein, Monika Maron, Thomas Hettche, and Wim Wenders. In German.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Daub, A. (PI)
GERLIT 137: Introduction to German Poetry
Major poets writing in German including Gryphius, Goethe, Hölderlin, Novalis, Eichendorff, Heine, Rilke, Lasker-Schüler, Trakl, Benn, Celan, Brecht, Enzensberger, and Falkner. Close reading technique. Interpretive tools and theoretical concepts. Poetic form, voice, figural language, and the interaction of sensory registers. In German.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Dornbach, M. (PI)
GERLIT 138: Introduction to Germanic Languages (GERGEN 38A)
The oldest attested stages of the Germanic language family, including Gothic, Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Low Franconian (Old Dutch), and Old High German. The linguistic interrelationships, prehistory, Germanic tribal groupings, and literature.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Robinson, O. (PI)
GERLIT 147: The Avant Garde (GERLIT 247)
What happens to art in an age of movies, machines, and two world wars? Who is still making it, and why? What does the avant garde actually mean, and to whom? What are the techniques that distinguish it, in the minds of its most revolutionary practitioners, from all that came before? And why should people care about these techniques today? German materials explored in a wider European context, with emphasis on the avant garde movements of France and Russia.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Pourciau, S. (PI)
GERLIT 189A: Honors Research
Senior honors students enroll for 5 units in Winter while writing the honors thesis, and may enroll in 189B for 2 units in Spring while revising the thesis. Prerequisite:
DLCL 189.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
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Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)
;
Daub, A. (PI)
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