See HONR 216. A wide range of audio-visual aids, as well as lectures, will be used to illustrate the interrelationship of politics, art, literature, and culture. Offered alternate years. Offered on demand.
Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of a broad vocabulary.
Topics of discussion and reading center upon contemporary German culture as well as current events. By the end of the semester, students will be expected to be thoroughly familiar with the major writers of the German works of Realism from the period between 1815 and 1900 and to have read, analyzed, and discussed representative important works by those writers. Readings will be in German. The content of the course will demand the acquisition of an intimate awareness of the artistic, historical, philosophical, cultural, and political influences bearing upon, and deriving from, the literature of the period. Offered every third year.