Germany Today

This course examines historical, political, social and cultural developments, movements, and transformations in Germany since reunification. Students explore the fall of the Berlin Wall, Holocaust memory and memorialization, the GDR past, reunification, multiculturalism, environmentalism, and how Germans engage with these topics in literature, film, exhibits, memorials, and the media. In addition to the primary sources, course materials will include secondary sources on German history, politics, society, and culture. Conducted in English. (Gen.Ed. I, DG)

The Holocaust

This course explores the causes and consequences of what was arguably the most horrific event in all of history. Topics include both the long-term origins of the Holocaust in European racism and anti-Semitism and the more immediate origins in the dynamics of the Nazi state and the war against the Soviet Union.

The Holocaust

This course explores the causes and consequences of what was arguably the most horrific event in all of history. Topics include both the long-term origins of the Holocaust in European racism and anti-Semitism and the more immediate origins in the dynamics of the Nazi state and the war against the Soviet Union.

The Holocaust

This course explores the causes and consequences of what was arguably the most horrific event in all of history. Topics include both the long-term origins of the Holocaust in European racism and anti-Semitism and the more immediate origins in the dynamics of the Nazi state and the war against the Soviet Union.

The Holocaust

This course explores the causes and consequences of what was arguably the most horrific event in all of history. Topics include both the long-term origins of the Holocaust in European racism and anti-Semitism and the more immediate origins in the dynamics of the Nazi state and the war against the Soviet Union.

Reading German Culture

This class will give you the chance to explore the German culture of the 20th and 21st centuries by reading selected prose, poems, song lyrics and newspaper articles. Our main focus will be on the current German pop/hip hop/techno culture in literature in contrast to more traditional texts of the past. Prerequisite: German 240 or 310.

ST-Germans and Jews

This seminar will be taught in English and will investigate German-Jewish writers, artists, and filmmakers from the late 18th century to the post-Holocaust present. Readings from figures such as Heine, Kafka, Lasker-Schuler, Celan.
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