Selected topics dealing with contemporary German society and culture. Introduction to materials, resources, and forms of communication available on the Internet, and in other electronic and print media. Selected readings in German literature from Classicism to present. Emphasis on techniques of reading and analysis of literary texts. F., offered 2002.
Topics vary according to student and faculty interest.
Author, genre or period study chosen in light of student and faculty interest. F., offered 2001. For fourth credit, six credits in German at the 300 level. Examination of such topics as the origins and expressions of Anti-Semitism in central Europe, the political events and structures of the Holocaust, the reality of ghettos and concentration camps, the impact of technological modernization on the Final Solution, and resistance to the Nazis. Materials will include non-fictional texts, literature, art, and music.