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. Taught in English and German. Meeting times are arranged with the professor.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Brus, A. (PI)
;
George, A. (PI)
GERMAN 120B: Fairy Tales
Fairy tales loom largely in our lives. They are 'weird,' but not shallow or irrelevant: they tell the 'extraordinary' in different traditions and facilitate cross-and transcultural dialogues between them. In this course, we will read German fairy tales from the Grimm Brothers, Novalis, Tieck, Bettina von Arnim, E.T.A. Hoffmann, etc., focus on their connections to the stories in other traditions, and explore their transformations in various media from oral storytelling to films, comic books, and music videos. We will reinterpret these fairy tales by using methodologies derived from psychoanalysis, folklore, gender, and race studies and open a creative environment for your own tales. Taught in German. Prerequisite:
GERLANG 3 or permission of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
George, A. (PI)
GERMAN 129: German Film Series
Cinephiles the world over have recognized German film production as the avant-garde for more than 100 years. From the expressionist cinema of the Weimar Republic, which helped to define modern film aesthetics, to UFA and the East German DEFA, from the Oberhausen Manifesto and the New German Cinema to the Berlin School, the Nouvelle Vague Viennoise, and beyond¿ This film series will cover a century of German-language cinema - including the "golden age" of German filmmaking all the way up through this year's Oscar contenders. Join for one quarter or all three in the academic year 2024-25. No German knowledge required. Films will be screened in German with English subtitles, and discussions will be in English.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
Instructors:
George, A. (PI)
GERMAN 187: Virtual Realities: Goethe's Faust
From the movie camera to smartphones, modern technology has played an enormous role in how we see the world. Advancements in VR and AI constantly push the boundaries of how we view art and society, even nature, so much that it has become almost impossible to separate reality from the virtual. How do the technologies that mediate our lives shape our understanding of culture or politics? What about ethics or consciousness? In collaboration with ars electronic, ZDF, and the German National Library, this course turns to one of the most iconic works of world literature, Goethe's Faust, in order to examine the surprising ways these questions already arise for art and philosophy at the outset of modernity. Examining Goethe's masterpiece alongside more recent representations of Faust using film, VR headsets, and other artistic media, the course reflects on the impact of technology on modern society, the way different media can form perception differently, and what it means to experience a centuries-old classic in new formats.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Norton, B. (PI)
GERMAN 199: Individual Work
Repeatable for Credit. Instructor Consent Required
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
;
Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)
;
Daub, A. (PI)
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Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
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Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)
;
Daub, A. (PI)
;
George, A. (PI)
;
Pao, L. (PI)
;
Smith, M. (PI)
;
Starkey, K. (PI)
GERMAN 223: Looted Art: Histories and Restitution (GERMAN 323)
Artworks from Benin City, which were looted by British troops from the Edo Kingdom in Nigeria in 1897, are at the center of a public debate about a violent colonial past and the (involuntary) complicity of museums in its aftermath. The return of the so-called "Benin bronzes" in 2023 has shaken the foundations of the "universal museum" model. Colonial narratives and the legitimacy of collections are being put to the test. How do museums in Germany position themselves in these debates and the political struggles that have evolved around it?
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Brus, A. (PI)
GERMAN 231: German Literature (1700-1900) (GERMAN 331)
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. This class is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
GERMAN 289: Directed Reading: Comprehension Research in Second-language Contexts
This course reviews the research literature on comprehension with a particular emphasis on reading comprehension.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)
GERMAN 291: Mann, Mahfouz, Agnon: Novels, Nations and Genre (COMPLIT 289, JEWISHST 289)
A comparative study of three twentieth-century novels by Thomas Mann, Naguib Mahfouz and Shmuel Agnon that treat historical formations of German, Egyptian and Israeli nationhood through variations of the genre. Attention to essayism in the novel of ideas, claims of realism, and structures of subjectivity. This class is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
;
Galietti, A. (PI)
GERMAN 292: Gender and Intersectionality in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (COMPLIT 292, ENGLISH 229, FEMGEN 292A)
The course will focus on the paradigms of gender theory and intersectional theory in dialogue with selected premodern literary texts. The construction of gender roles and identities, the potential for social discrimination, and the negotiation of power relations are key aspects of pre-modern literature. On the one hand, these texts are highly heteronormative and ideologically centered on a certain form of heroic masculinity; on the other hand, they are replete with remarkable 'deviations' from this model. There are, for example, supernaturally gifted and powerful women, Amazons, figures with fluid sexuality and non-normative body images. These figures challenge the supposedly fixed social norms and stereotypes, but are often sanctioned though exclusion, violence and/or the deconstruction of their power and agency. Drawing on relevant theoretical texts (e.g. Judith Butler, Kimberle Crenshaw, Kathy Davis, Katharina Walgenbach), we will discuss central positions of gender and intersectional theory. These paradigms, which were developed for the analysis of gender conceptions and social injustices in modernity, will then inform our close readings of various literary texts/text excerpts (e.g. Parzival, Nibelungenlied, Eneasroman). All texts available in English.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
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