Germanic Languages & Literatures

Washington University

314.935.5106; Fax: 314.935.7255; german@artsci.wustl.edu

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W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz

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Courses

Course Archive for Interdisciplinary and Cross-listed Courses

The German department faculty has active relationships with other departments and disciplines. Our cross-listed courses can be found most often in the following departments: Comparative Literature; Film and Media; Art History; Women's Studies; Renaissance Studies; European Studies; International Areas Studies; History; English; Philosophy; Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies; and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities. Links to the departments are available in the Related Departments and Programs section on our Resources page.

Below is a list of recent courses which have been cross-listed in other departments. Currents students interested in more information regarding these courses should see Webstac.

Spring 2008

GER 521 THE THIRTY YEARS WAR REVISITED
Level: Graduate
L16 Comp Lit 5295
Instructor: Medick

L21 GER 328 GERMAN ART SONG FROM SCHUBERT TO SCHOENBERG
Level: Undergraduate
L27 428
Instructor: Snarrenberg

L16 COMP LIT 393 LITERARY THEORY: UNWRAPPING PSYCHOANALYSIS
Level: Undergraduate
L14 393
Instructor: Schindler

L16 COMP LIT 411 TOPICS IN LITERATURE AND HISTORY: THE PRICE OF CULTURE: ECONOMICS AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL
Level: Undergraduate
L08 Classics 456
Instructor: Erlin

Fall 2007

Ger 4911 EUROPE, AN IMAGINED COMMUNITY: IDENTITY DISCOURSES SINCE 1750 IN LIT, THOUGHT, ART & POLITICS
Level: Graduate
IAS 422, EuSt 422 and Comp Lit 469
Instructor: Lützeler

Ger 340C GERMAN LITERATURE AND THE MODERN ERA
Level: Undergraduate
L79 EuSt 3400, L97 3402
Instructor: Tatlock

Ger 404 GERMANY TODAY
Level: Undergraduate
L79 EuSt 404 and L97 IS 4040
Instructor: Kapczynski

Ger 331 TOPICS IN HOLOCAUST STUDIES: CHILDREN IN THE SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA
Level: Undergraduate
L56 Children’s Studies 331 and L75 JNE 387
Instructor: McGlothlin

Old Europe: The Quality of Life
Level: Undergraduate
U85 IA 590
Instructor: Schindler

TEXT AND TRADITION: THE RISE OF THE EUROPEAN STATE
Level: Undergraduate
L93 Hum 207C
Instructors: Erlin; Okenfuss

LITERATURE AND ART: MODERNISMS: LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS OF THE NEW
Level: Undergraduate
L16 Comp Lit 332
Instructor: Koepnick
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MAKING WAR
Level: Undergraduate
L53 Film 371
Instructor: Kapczynski

Spring 2007

German Literature and the Modern Era
Level: Undergraduate
Ger 340C, Same as L79 EuSt 3400, L97 IS 3402
Instructor: McGlothlin

Studies in Genre: Modern German Drama
Level: Undergraduate
Ger 4104, Same as L79 EuSt 4104 and L97 IAS 4104
Instructor: Layher

Topics in German Studies: Tales of Travel: Encounters with the Foreign in German Literature, Art, and Culture
Level: Undergraduate
Ger 4105, Same as L79 EuSt 4105 and L97 IAS 4105
Instructor: Koepnick

Yidishkayt: Yiddish Literature in English Translation
Level: Undergraduate
Same as Comp Lit 3492, L75 JNE 349
Instructor: McGlothlin

Aesthetics: The Aesthetics of the Interface/Media and the Arts as Windows onto the World
Level: Undergraduate
Same as L53 Film 438, L16 Comp Lit 438
Instructor: Koepnick

Methodology and Literary Theory
Level: Graduate
Ger 450, Sames as L16 Comp Lit 550
Instructor: Lützeler

Methods of Literary Studies: Cultural Pluralism: From Modernity to Globalization
Level: gradaute
Ger 550, Same as L16 Comp Lit 550
Instructor: Lützeler

Seminar: Witches, Ghosts, and Vampires: Constructing the Occult Other
Level: Graduate
Same as L77 Women’s Studies 512, L16 Comp Lit 512
Instructor: Williams

Fall 2006

Old Europe: The Quality of Life
Level: Undergraduate
U85 IA 590
Instructor: Schindler

Aesthetic Negativity: Adorno, Benjamin, Kracauer, and Marcuse on Literature and Art
Level: Undergraduate
Ger 329, Same as Comp Lit 393
Instructor: Koepnick

History of German Cinema
Level: Undergraduate
Ger 328 (home-based in Film & Media Studies)
Instructor: Kapczynski

The Vikings
Level: Undergraduate
Ger 327, Same as Med-Ren 327, History 3265

Spring 2006

Scandinavian Cinema - Nordic Light
Level: Undergraduate
L53 Film 321, Same as: L79 EuSt 3210, L97 IS 3210
Instructor: Segerberg

Fall 2005

History of German Cinema
Level: Undergraduate
Ger 328, (home-based in Film & Media Studies)
Instructor: Kapczynski

Seminar in Cultural Theory: Move On: Modernism and the Aesthetics of Motion
Level: Graduate
Ger 529, Same as: Art-Arch 4529 / Comp Lit 5295
Instructor: Koepnick

Methods of Literary Study: The Theory and Practice of Literary Translation
Level: Graduate
Ger 550, Same as: Comp Lit 551
Instructor: Williams

Spring 2005

Yidishkayt: Yiddish Literature in English Translation
Level: Undergraduate
L 75 JNE 349, Comp Lit 3492
Instructor: McGlothlin

Seminar: Constructing Strangeness: Witches, Ghosts, and Vampires
Level: Graduate
L16 Comp Lit 512
Instructor: Williams

Topics in German Studies: Reverse Angles: The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, and Wim Wenders
Level: Undergraduate
Ger 328, Same as: Art/Arch 328, E Lit 4502, Comp Lit 4585, FMS 458, EuSt 458, IS 459
Instructor: Koepnick

Fall 2004

Seminar in Cultural Theory: M
Level: Graduate
Ger 529, Same as: Comp Lit 5295
Instructor: Koepnick

Text and Tradition: The Emergence of the Mdern Mind: Modern Literature
Level: Undergraduate
Instructor: Erlin

Spring 2004

Imagining the Holocaust in Contemporary Jewish Literature
Level: Undergraduate
Ger 331, Same as: L75 JNE 344
Instructor: McGlothlin

Fall 2003

Seminar in Reformation and Humanism: The 16th Century Reformers - Travelers - Witches
Level: Graduate
Ger 521, Same as: History (L95)
Instructor: Williams

Spring 2003

Aesthetic Politics: Art, Power, and Modern Culture
Level: Graduate
Ger 4911, Same as: Comp Lit 4900, EuSt 4911, Film 4911, IS 4913
Instructor: Koepnick

Methods of Literary Study: Cultural Pluralism: From Modernity to Globalization
Level: Graduate
Ger 550, Same as: Comp Lit 550
Instructor: Lützeler

German Literature and Fascism, 1933-1945: Representing the Holocaust
Level: Graduate
Ger 435, Same as: Comp Lit 4350, JNE 4351, LH 4351
Instructor: Schindler

Spring 2002

Benjamin Remastered: From Mechanical Reproduction to the Digital Divide
Level: Graduate
Ger 529, Same as: Art/Arch 5010, English 562, Comp Lit 5290, Phil 529
Instructor: Koepnick

Spring 2001

The Dark Mirror: Film Noir and the Exile of German Film Makers in Hollywood
Level: Graduate, undergraduate (with permission)
Ger 494, Same as: Comp Lit 4949, E Lit 4501, Film 490, LH 4941
Instructor: Koepnick

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Germanic Languages & Literatures

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