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Department Updates

NEW COURSES

--Announcement of two new Course Sequences in English

German 157 Intellectual History

(Courses require no German and are offered one each semester)

German 157 A: Luther, Kant, Hegel
German 157 B: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
German 157C: Heidegger, Arendt, Gadamer
German 157 D: Adorno, Benjamin, Habermas

German 160: Politics and Culture.

(Courses require no German and are offered one each semester)

German 160 A: A Century of Extremes
German 160 B: Fascism and Propaganda
German 160 C: East Germany from Cold War to Past Wall.
German 160 D: Multicultural Germany

PREVIEW OF COURSES OFFERED IN 2004/05

Graduate Seminars in 2004/05
(Preliminary List)

Fall Semester 2004

Proseminar: Literary Theory and Methodology
Kleist's Dramas: The Staging of Modernity
Beyond the Word-Image Opposition: Theories and Practices
Spectacle and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Germany
Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert: Exotische Begegnungen (201 E)
German-Jewish Modernism (Visiting Prof. Todd Presner)
Discourse Analysis
Old Saxon
Morphology
Dialectology
Teaching Methodology

Spring Semester 2005

Enlightenment (201 C)
German Orientalism
Introduction to German Cinema
The Holocaust in Film
Nietzsche and Freud
Taste and Touch: Toward an Anthropology of the Senses
Hermeneutics: Understanding Understanding (Visiting Prof. Kurt Müller-Vollmer)
Old High German
Phonology
Language Pedagogy

Selection of Upper Division Courses (2004/05)

Intellectual History I: Luther, Kant, Hegel
Intellectual History III: Heidegger, Arendt, Gadamer
Cultural Decline
Literacy through Literature
Transnational Cinema
Fascism and Propaganda
Germany and the French Revolution
Mittelhochdeutsch
Family Disasters in German Literature (Bachmann/Jelinek)
Kafka and Modernism
Vienna/Berlin: Cultural Topographies