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Germany's postwar economic and political fortunes have been decisively shaped by the car, in particular the car industry and its international luster. At the same time, Germans have usually associated car culture with the United States ¿ its highways, scenic routes and road trips. But that doesn't mean that the car hasn't impacted German culture ¿ this class investigates the way the car has shaped postwar German literature, philosophy, film, music and television. And it helps students investigate how the car has structured German domestic politics and foreign policy. Finally, students will explore our current moment ¿ and how the challenges of climate change and the rise of the electric car are remaking German labor, politics and culture.

Many of us have heard his declarations of the death of God, the arrival of the Superman, and the need to live beyond good and evil. But what, beyond such sound bites, did Nietzsche actually teach? How can his writings be understood in the context of their own time? And what significance might they hold for us today? Taught in English.

This course is for anyone who has ever been afraid of poetry, anyone who has ever thought that poems are too difficult to understand, a course for anyone who has fallen in love with poetry before, and for anyone who has used a poem to make a difference in someone's life. You will learn how to read, understand, and if you don't already like poetry. We will read poems from different centuries, different kinds of writers, and different media (paper, computer screens, and even DNA); they will be about loss and love and war and loyalty and bacteria. Some of them will be about you. You will develop interpretive skills that come with this range of poetic forms and structures and will learn how to think about what it means for something to be poetic, whether it is a poem, a Leonard Cohen song, a last minute field goal, or a toilet. Can the poems in this class really change your life? (What would that even mean? We'll discuss.) Maybe; maybe not. But they're certainly going to try. Taught in English

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.

This small, individualized course will offer students the chance to work on their spoken expression and critical thinking, in German. Topics will change each quarter but will span contemporary politics and culture, film, literature, and visual arts. The focus will be on speaking German in small groups, as opposed to formal presentations or written assignments. Students will have the opportunity to pursue topics of personal interest, as well as work collaboratively and individually on projects intended to foster advanced communicative skills.

This course takes students on a trip to major capital cities at different moments in time, including Renaissance Florence, Golden Age Madrid, colonial Mexico City, imperial Beijing, Enlightenment and romantic Paris, existential and revolutionary St. Petersburg, roaring Berlin, modernist Vienna, and transnational Accra. While exploring each place in a particular historical moment, we will also consider the relations between culture, power, and social life. How does the cultural life of a country intersect with the political activity of a capital? How do large cities shape our everyday experience, our aesthetic preferences, and our sense of history? Why do some cities become cultural capitals? Primary materials for this course will consist of literary, visual, sociological, and historical documents (in translation).

Repeatable for Credit. Instructor Consent Required

This small, individualized course will offer students the chance to work on their spoken expression and critical thinking, in German. Topics will change each quarter but will span contemporary politics and culture, film, literature, and visual arts. The focus will be on speaking German in small groups, as opposed to formal presentations or written assignments. Students will have the opportunity to pursue topics of personal interest, as well as work collaboratively and individually on projects intended to foster advanced communicative skills.