printer friendly pageGERMAN 116: Writing About Germany: New Topics, New Genres
Writing about various topics in German Studies. Topics based on student interests: current politics, economics, European affairs, start-ups in Germany. Intensive focus on writing. Students may write on their experience at Stanford in Berlin or their internship. Fulfills the WIM requirement for German Studies majors.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
;
Kramer, K. (PI)
GERMAN 120: Contemporary Politics in Germany
This course provides an opportunity to engage with issues and actors, politicians and parties in contemporary Germany, while building German language abilities. We will work with current events texts, news reports, speeches and websites. Course goals include building analytic and interpretive capacities of political topics in today's Europe, including the European Union, foreign policy, and environmentalism. Differences between US and German political culture are a central topic. At least one year German language study required.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Kramer, K. (PI)
GERMAN 120Q: Contemporary Politics in Germany
This course provides an opportunity to engage with issues and actors, politicians and parties in contemporary Germany, while building German language abilities. We will work with current events texts, news reports, speeches and websites. Course goals include building analytic and interpretive capacities of political topics in today's Europe, including the European Union, foreign policy, and environmentalism. Differences between US and German political culture are a central topic. At least one year German language study required.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
GERMAN 130N: Nobel Prize Winners in German Literature
Readings from some of the best German-language authors, including Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Heinrich Boll and Herta Muller. How imaginative literature engages with history, and how great authors address the major questions in politics and philosophy in modern Germany. Taught in German. German language equivalent to high school AP.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Starkey, K. (PI)
GERMAN 132: Dynasties, Dictators and Democrats: History and Politics in Germany (COMPLIT 132A)
Key moments in German history through documents: personal accounts, political speeches and texts, and literary works. The course begins with the Prussian monarchy and proceeds to the crisis years of the French Revolution. Documents from the 1848 revolution and the age of Bismarck and German unification follow. World War I and its impact on Germany, including the rise of Hitler, as well as the aftermath, divided Germany in the Cold War through the fall of the Berlin Wall. Taught in German.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
GERMAN 191: German Capstone Project
Each student participates in a capstone interview and discussion with a panel of the German Studies faculty on topics related to German cultural and literary analysis. In prepration for the interview/discussion, students submit written answers to a set of questions based on several authentic cultural texts in German. The written answers, normally in English, should be well-formed and coherent. Within the interview/discussion, students must demonstrate a further understanding of the topic(s) posed, through cogent argument.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Starkey, K. (PI)
GERMAN 199: Individual Work
Repeatable for Credit. Instructor Consent Required
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
for credit
GERMAN 221: German Literature 2: Selfhood and History (COMPLIT 321A, GERMAN 321)
How the literature of the period between 1750 and 1900 gives voice to new conceptions of selfhood and articulates the emergent self understanding of modernity. Responses to unprecedented historical experiences such as the French Revolution and the ensuing wars, changes in the understanding of nature, the crisis of foundations, and the persistence of theological motifs. Lessing, Herder, Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin, Kleist, Heine, Buchner, Keller, and Fontane. Taught in English, readings in German. (Note: Fulfills
DLCL 325 for AY 1415 for the PhD Minor in the Humanities)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Daub, A. (PI)
GERMAN 240: Short Fiction as Genre
Exploration of various short fictional forms in German literature and their narrative capacities. Selections from the eighteenth century to the present.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
GERMAN 321: German Literature 2: Selfhood and History (COMPLIT 321A, GERMAN 221)
How the literature of the period between 1750 and 1900 gives voice to new conceptions of selfhood and articulates the emergent self understanding of modernity. Responses to unprecedented historical experiences such as the French Revolution and the ensuing wars, changes in the understanding of nature, the crisis of foundations, and the persistence of theological motifs. Lessing, Herder, Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin, Kleist, Heine, Buchner, Keller, and Fontane. Taught in English, readings in German. (Note: Fulfills
DLCL 325 for AY 1415 for the PhD Minor in the Humanities)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-5
Instructors:
Daub, A. (PI)
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