German: Language, Literature, Culture (including courses in English)

• CAS LG 402: Senior Independent Work
  
• CAS LG 403: Fourth-Year German: Vocabulary and Idiom
  Advanced study of German idiomatic usage and subtleties of grammar in cultural context, aiming to increase students' range and accuracy of expression in speech and writing. Texts from contemporary media, popular music, literature, film. Frequent short essays.
• CAS LG 450: Origins of German Culture
  Survey of major developments in the cultural history of German-speaking countries, from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. Literature, expository texts, music, art and architecture, and their influence on contemporary cultural debates. Course conducted in German.
• CAS LG 453: Romanticism
  Poetry and prose of major authors (Tieck, Novalis, Schlegel, Brentano, Günderode, Eichendorff, Hoffmann), their connection to music and art and to German Idealism. Emergence of the fairy-tale. Women and the literary salons.
• CAS LG 455: Twentieth-Century Culture: Before 1945
  Surveys a period of critical change and tremendous vitality in German-speaking culture and literature. Works by Rilke, Hofmannsthal, Mann, Kafka, Brecht, and others. Topics in politics, society, film, the arts. Practice in writing and interpretation.
• CAS LG 456: Twentieth-Century Culture: Since 1945
  Survey of postwar and contemporary German-language literature in its cultural-historical context. The Nazi past and the Holocaust; the economic rise of West Germany and accompanying disillusionment; East Germany's socialist ideal and reality; German reunification; women's voices; migrant literature.
• CAS LG 463: German Theatre
  Masterpieces from the German theater viewed chronologically (from Lessing to the present) or according to a particular period. Development of the theater, history of acting. Relationship between genre (puppet theater, bourgeois and classical tragedy, comedy) and class.
• CAS LG 491: Directed Study: German
  Application form available in department.
• CAS LG 492: Directed Study: German
  Application form available in department.

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