Past Undergraduate Courses

Spring 2024

Language Courses

GER 100Y1/101HS Introduction to German

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101 -online-	MW 9-11	V. Curran
L0201	MW 11-1	S. Jordan
L0301*	MW1-3	V. Curran
L0401	TR 11-1	H.-S. Kim
L0501*	TR 10-12	V. Shewfelt
L0601	TR 4-6	M. Harutyunyan
L5101	MW 6-8	J. Evjen
L5201 -online-	TR6-8	L. Lackner

This introductory German course is for students with no prior knowledge of the language. It is a year course divided into two sections. Based on a communicative and task-based approach, it is designed to develop proficiency in oral and written communication skills while providing students with knowledge and understanding of the societies and cultures of German-speaking countries. Students will develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through a variety of stimulating off- and on-line activities, both during live meetings and on the reliable online platform accompanying the textbook. Topics cover areas such as introducing and talking about oneself, shopping, telling time and recounting a day, family life, describing and renting an apartment, travel, health and fitness or studying abroad. Vocabulary will be presented in the context of culturally significant issues. Additionally, the course will provide students with a foundation in a number of basic grammatical structures and concepts. Live online sessions will be devoted mostly to communicative and interactive exercises. In addition to preparation at home, regularly participating in and attending the online sessions is paramount in order to successfully complete the course.
GER 200Y1/*201HS (GER) Intermediate German I

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	R. Laszlo
L0201	TR 10-12	M. Harutyunyan
L5101 -online-	MW 6-8	S. Gargova

This intermediate German language course builds on skills acquired in beginner’s German. It is a year course divided into two sections and is designed to provide students with genuine communication experiences while reviewing and further developing participants’ linguistic and cultural competencies. Students will have a chance to practice and enhance their German speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills by engaging with a variety of texts and media during live classes, as well as on the reliable online platform accompanying the textbook. The themes in the textbook provide a springboard for various online activities, assignments, and vocabulary building tasks. All class readings, videos, projects, and presentations will explore historical, social, political, and popular topics while aspects of Germanic and North American cultures are being compared. Learning strategies and self-assessment are part of every chapter, allowing for differentiation among various types of learners. Students will further practice grammatical structures and acquire vocabulary that will allow them to express opinions, agreements, and disagreements in communicative situations encountered in work, school, and travel. By learning about German, Austrian, and Swiss cities featured in the textbook and supporting materials, students will get to explore regional differences in German-speaking countries. Regular online meetings will be devoted mostly to communicative and interactive exercises and group work. In order to successfully participate in these activities, independent work and preparation are paramount.
GER 300Y1/*301HS (GER) Intermediate German II

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	A. Flicker
L0201	TR 10-12	E. Lange
L5101	TR 6-8	F. Rössler

This intermediate German language course builds on GER200Y. It is a year course divided into two sections and focuses on effective oral and written expression, hearing and reading comprehension, in-depth review of grammar as well as the study of more complex structures. Through engagement with a variety of readings, videos, and films on important historical, cultural, social, and political topics in German-speaking countries, students will have the opportunity to practice grammar and vocabulary in embedded and culturally relevant contexts. The aim of this course is to equip students with the skills to understand extended speech, to read articles on contemporary problems, to describe personal experiences and to explain viewpoints on topical issues in speech and in writing. The textbook offers engaging culture topics, authentic readings, contextualized grammar and a reliable online platform. Regular online meetings will be devoted to communicative and interactive exercises and group work. In order to successfully participate in these activities, independent work and preparation are paramount.
GER 401HS (GER) Advanced German 2

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	TR 10-12	E. Boran

This course is aimed at students with a high level of competence in German. Building on material covered in GER 100/200/300, it offers advanced studies of German language, including text-based analysis and with a focus on improving communication skills. It includes a systematic review and expansion of grammar and stylistics, and additional emphasis lies on vocabulary building. The course is partly based on newspaper articles, literary texts, films and websites.
GER 260Y1 (YID) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	MWF 12-1	S. Edelhart

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	T 2-5	A. Shternshis

Advanced reading, writing, vocabulary and conversation. Study of poetry, short fiction and memoir literature by Zeitlin, Bergelson, Gladshteyn, Sholem Aleichem and I.B. Singer. Selected advanced grammatical topics presented in conjunction with the study of texts. (Conducted entirely in Yiddish.)

Topic Courses

GER 150HS (ENG) German Culture & Civilization

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	F 11-1 Tut F1-2/2-3	H.-S. Kim

This is an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of the contemporary cultural, social, economic, and political life of the German-speaking peoples in their historical and international context. Intended for students who are relatively unfamiliar with German culture, the course demonstrates the diverse ways students may understand and interpret “things German” [Taught in English and open to students across disciplines.]

GER 205HS (GER) German Literature I

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	T 1-3/R 1-2	E. Boran

This prerequisite course offers an introduction to work methods and skills pertaining to the study of German literature. As such, the course is meant to provide a transition from language to topic courses. Students will receive training in how to give a successful presentation, how to read and analyze texts, how to find secondary literature and how to write short papers. The course is required for majors and specialists and a pre-requisite course for most of the other topic courses. It should be taken as early as possible.
GER 251HS (ENG) Topics in German and European Cinema: The Aesthetics and Politics of 21^st-Century Precarity

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	R 9-1 (incl. screening)	A. Fenner

In Europe, as across the planet, more and more people are encountering precarity, whether stemming from endemic poverty, social exclusion, political instability in conflict zones, or climate change leading to loss of home and livelihood.This course explores these topical concerns in 21-century German cinema alongside other European productions. Attending to their social discourses, poetics, and reception,we’ll explore how innovations in film form enable us to rethink precarity in its existential and material dimensions? Can insights gleaned from the German context inspire more sustainable social relations, economic justice, and a rethinking of our place in and relationship with broader ecologies? Rubrics include ‘Berlin School’ films, Austrian experimental film, digital videos by Syrian refugees assembled from footage shot in transit, documentaries by German environmental activists, another about a German call center in Turkey, Italian documentaries about Mediterranean border crossing, the Greek Weird Wave, Romanian New Wave, the Belgian Dardenne brothers, the Finnish Aki Kaurismäki and British Andrea Arnold. Class time is devoted to lecture, discussion, and group work drawing from course texts accompanying weekly screenings. Course given in English, with subtitled films.

GER 270HS (ENG) Money and Economy in German Literature and Culture

Section	Time	Instructor
T0101	W 10-12	C. Lehleiter

In this course, we examine key literary, philosophical, and cultural texts, in order to understand how modern culture approaches problems such as property, debt, and exchange value.
GER 272HS (GER) Introduction to Business German

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	TR 10-12	S. Gargova

This course introduces students to basic concepts and vocabulary necessary for the German business context. All the language skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) will be practiced in appropriate business contexts.

GER 290HS (ENG) Global Issues: German Contexts

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	W 2-4	S. Soldovieri

The movement of cultural products, material goods, capital, people, ideas, and information across national border s has resulted in a new quality of global inter dependency. The course examines the contemporary character of globalization with a special focus on its environmental impacts in German-speaking contexts. We consider artistic, cultural, technological, and social practices in German-speaking and global contexts that explore questions of sustainability and a livable future. The course is highly recommended as preparation for students interested in participating in the Department’s iPRAKTIKUM Internationalization & Experiential Learning internship program – particularly for placements with futurGenerator organizations in Germany. (Visit: https://german.utoronto.ca/ipraktikum/)
GER 326HS (GER) Writing Memory: Post 1945

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	T 2-4	J. Noyes

German culture over the past seven or eight decades can be read as a struggle for memory. This struggle can be called memory-work. What aspects of the past are preserved, how, and by whom? How do narrative and visual media privilege certain aspects of the past while eclipsing others? This course will follow the three main strands of memory-work that have defined German culture since 1945: the rise and fall of fascism and the murder of the European Jews, German colonialism and the genocide of the Herero, and the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the German Democratic Republic. In the process we will examine strategies for writing and re-writing history, questions of how individual memories mesh with collective memories and historical narratives, and how political struggles for recognition and representation interact with memory-work.
GER 336HS (GER) Focus on Berlin – What Lies Beyond the Wall

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	F 10-12	E. Boran

Vor sechzig Jahren, am 13. August 1961, wurde fast von einem Tag auf den nächsten die berüchtigte Berliner Mauer hochgezogen, die danach Jahrzehnte lang das Schicksal aller Deutschen, vor allem aber der Berliner prägte – ein Symbol des Kalten Krieges und eine Trennlinie zwischen gegensätzlichen Ideologien, die das Land in zwei Teile spaltete. Am 9. November 1989 fiel die Mauer, und im Jahr darauf feierte Deutschland die Wiedervereinigung. Trotzdem scheint die Trennung bis heute nicht ganz überwunden, der Schatten der Mauer liegt immer noch über der Stadt. Die physische Mauer mag mehr oder minder verschwunden sein, eine mentale Mauer aber ist geblieben – ganz wie der Autor Peter Schneider 1982 vorhersagte: “Die Mauer im Kopf einzureißen wird länger dauern, als irgendein Abrissunternehmen für die sichtbare Mauer braucht.”

GER 430HS (ENG) Topics in German Lit. & Culture

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	M 2-4	J. Noyes

Beginning in the 1970’s German literature began to rethink its colonial past. Still trying to evaluate the brutality of Nazi government and the Holocaust, the relationship with the colonial past complicated the general picture of German history. Writers began to ask how to portray the colonial past. It immediately became apparent that the struggle to understand the colonial past set up interferences with the Nazi past and the cold-war present. As the present moved from the cold war to post-wall Germany and then neoliberal globalism, this struggle became even more complex. In this course we will follow literary experiments with the colonial, postcolonial, and decolonial past and present from roughly 1975 until the present. We will relate this to major moments in postcolonial and decolonial theory. Texts will include novels by Germans reconsidering colonialism, such as Uwe Timm Morenga (1978), Urs Widmer, Im Kongo (1996), Christian Kracht, Imperium (2012), Sharon Dodua Otoo, Adas Raum (2022), but also poems and short prose by writers from colonial or postcolonial backgrounds writing in German, such as May Ayim, Jean-Félix Belinga-Belinga, André Ekama, and others. All novels are available in English translation.

Fall 2023

Language Courses

GER 100Y1/*102Y (GER) Introduction to German

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101 -online-	MW 9-11	S. Gargova
L0201	MW 11-1	A. Klee
L0301*	MW1-3	T. Humeniuk
L0401	TR 11-1	H.-S. Kim
L0501*	TR 10-12	O. Meunier
L0601	TR 4-6	E. Lange
L5101	MW 6-8	H. Robinson
L5201 -online-	TR6-8	L. Cote-Pitre

GER 200Y1 (GER) Intermediate German I

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	R. Laszlo
L0201	TR 10-12	E. Boran
L5101 -online-	MW 6-8	S. Gargova

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	A. Flicker
L0201	TR 10-12	E. Lange
L5101	TR 6-8	L. Lackner

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	TR 10-12	A. Flicker

GER 260Y1 (YID) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	MWF 12-1	M. Borden

GER 360HF Intermediate Yiddish

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	W 12-1/F 12-2	J. Hermant

This course will build on the knowledge and skills you’ve acquired in beginner’s Yiddish. Emphasis will shift slightly towards reading literature and conducting conversations. We will continue to work with In Eynem, completing the second volume of the book, with additional materials from College Yiddish. You will write compositions and summaries, acquire new vocabulary words, listen to recordings, watch films, and give presentations.

Topic Courses

GER 194HF (ENG) Our Vampires, Ourselves
*FYF (First-Year-Foundation) seminars exclusively for first-year students*

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	T 2-4	E. Boran

Vampires are among the most fascinating figures of popular culture. Since Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) – and, in fact, well before that – they have been haunting the human imagination in various shapes and forms. But, of course, vampires have existed much longer than that – first in folktales and later, well before Stoker’s ominous Count, in German poetry. This course examines the figure of the vampire as a potent cultural metaphor showing how every age embraces the vampires it needs and gets the vampires it deserves. The goal is to teach students to reflect critically and independently on issues of self and society and to develop a structured approach to critical thinking in general. While focusing on what may be called the “Stoker paradigm”, we will go far beyond the portrayal of vampires as the absolute other. Students will have the opportunity to research individual topics to be presented in class.
GER 195HF Cities – Real and Imagined
*FYF (First-Year-Foundation) seminars exclusively for first-year students*

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	F 12-2	H.-S. Kim

Cities have been described as places of desire and places of fear. They pulse with life, bringing together people from different class, gender, and ethnic backgrounds, simultaneously giving rise to a sense of freedom and oppression, a sense of belonging and alienation. This course will explore the city as a physical reality that shapes our lives, but is also a projection of our deepest imaginings. Through readings of philosophical and sociological texts by influential theorists of the city, we will consider various ancient and modern conceptions of urban space and subjectivity. Alongside these theoretical readings, we will also examine literary and filmic representations of the city as a space of desire, memory and power.
GER 305HF (GER) German Literature II

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	T 3-5/R 1-2	J. Noyes

PREREQUISITE: GER 205H
Building on GER 205H, this course provides an introduction to German literature and culture from the 18th to the 21st century. Within a chronological and thematic framework, we will read and analyze excerpts from representative works of major German writers. Students learn to read critically and to consider the literary qualities of the German language. The course is required for majors and specialists; it should be taken as soon after GER 205 as possible.
NOTES: Required course for majors and specialists. / Prerequisite for 400-level topic courses in German.
GER 310HF (GER) Contemporary Culture & Media

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	M 11-1	C. Lehleiter

This course focuses on selected aspects central to contemporary German culture and society. Topics such as current political and societal debates, the production of art and culture, and the sentiment of the everyday life will be explored. Based on intriguing reading selections from various media, including news sources, literary works, columns, film and video, the course offers a diverse view of contemporary German life. Students will gain practice in all four language skills (reading and listening comprehension, writing, speaking) and have opportunities for creative work in addition to traditional assignments.
GER 320HF (GER) The Age of Goethe

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	W 3-5	W. Goetschel

This course introduces to the rich life of the various literary movements during the Age of Goethe (1750-1830). Readings include seminal texts of early European modernity – among them Lessing’s Nathan the Wise and Goethe’s Faust drama – as well as some of the great poetry by the most eminent literary figures active during the period from Enlightenment to Romanticism and the “Ende der Kunstperiode” (Heine).

GER 321HF (GER) 19th Century German Literature

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	T 1-3	C. Lehleiter

When in 1899 an anonymous writer sent the New Year’s card displayed above, he could look back at a century that had brought enormous changes for the territory that today is Germany. Fighting against Napoleon, Germany’s national feelings had been strengthened and a German state had emerged from a conglomerate of small duchies governed by absolutist rulers. Political revolts had challenged these absolutistic forms of government and had started to replace it with a democratic state of classes. The composition of German society had changed dramatically as a result of the industrial revolution which had replaced traditional manufacturing with mass production by machines and with private capital. The human suffering and social challenges triggered by the industrial revolution had led to new political movements like communism and socialism. Despite these challenges, however, the century had been shaped by the belief in progress and the optimism that new scientific discoveries would lead to a better life for Germany and mankind. In this course, we will study how German authors reflected on these changes in literary, political and philosophical texts. Our work in class will be shaped by class discussions, group work, and occasional lectures. Assignments and discussions will be in German.

GER 323HF (GER) Weimar Culture & Beyond

Section	Time	Instructor
T0101	W 12-2	J. Noyes

The political instability of the Weimar Republic, fueled by the effects of the Global Economic Crisis, facilitated Hitler’s election in 1933. Yet at the same time it was a period of extraordinary political, social and artistic achievements. Expressionism, Dada, Neue Sachlichkeit, Bauhaus, and the Golden Age of German Film are some of the buzz words which belong to the legacy of Weimar. This course studies literary, historical, and artistic documents of this extremely significant period in German history.
GER 334HF (GER) Transnational Literatures

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	F 10-12	E. Boran

This course looks at the 50+ year cultural history of Germany’s largest ethnic minority. Starting in the 1960s, Turks first came as labour migrants (‘guest workers’) and later, in the 1980s, as asylum seekers; there were always artists among them. With them new impulses and perspectives reached German culture. First in Turkish, but soon also in German the migrants reacted to and interacted with their new surroundings. Over the years a vibrant Turkish-German cultural scene developed. Comparable to the political realm, their cultural integration was filled with challenges and obstacles. Nonetheless artists of Turkish origin have since become such an integral part of Germany’s cultural landscape that the scholar Leslie Adelson talks about a Turkish turn of German literature. This development is not restricted to literature, but also encompasses film, political cabaret, stand-up comedy, rap and hip-hop, etc.
GER 361HF (ENG) Topics in Yiddish/German Jewish Literature Culture

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	F 1-3	R. Seelig

An overview of the major figures and tendencies in modern Yiddish literature and culture from the beginning of the 19 th century to the present, featuring readings of mode rn Yiddish prose, poetry, drama and cinema. Students with knowledge of Yiddish are encouraged to read some original texts. [Taught in English and open to students across disciplines.]
GER 426HF (GER) Introduction to Medieval German

Section	Time	Instructor
L0101	M 2-4	M. Stock

This course offers an introduction to the German language, literature, and culture of the Middle Ages. We will read and translate Middle High German texts, study facsimiles of medieval manuscripts, and inquire into epochal cultural concepts like courtly love and chivalry as well as courtly and clerical designs of identity. Authors discussed will include Hartmann von Aue and Walther von der Vogelweide among others. The course fulfills the departmental requirement in Middle High German.

Spring 2023

Language Courses

GER101H Introduction to German (GER100Y second term)

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101 -online-	MW 9-11	N/A	S. Gargova/L. Lackner
L0201	MW 11-1	CR403	H-S. Kim
L0301	MW 1-3	CR103	A. Klee/S.Bein
L0401	TR 8-10	CR103	S. Jordan/M. Harutyunyan
L0501	TR 10-12	CR103	M. Harutyunyan/V.Shewfel
L0601	TR 1-3	CR103	F. Röessler/S. Mostafa
L5101	MW 6-8	CR103	J. Evjen
L5201 -online-	TR 6-8	N/A	E. Lange/V.Curran

GER201H Intermediate German I (GER200Y second term)

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	CR405	R. Laszlo
L0201	WF 8-10	CR103	V. Curran
L5101 -online-	MW 6-8	N/A	L. Cote-Pitre/S. Gargova

GER301H Intermediate German II (GER300 second term)

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	TF102	E. Lange
L0201	TR 8-10	OI4426	A.Flicker/N. Sachdeva
L5101	TR 6-8	TF200	F. Müeller

GER401H Advanced German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	AH302	E. Boran

This is a course for advanced learners of German reviewing complex features of the language and introducing them to aspects of German stylistics. The emphasis lies on oral and written communication.

Topic Courses

GER150H Introduction to German Culture

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	F 11-1	CR103	H-S. Kim

This course is taught in English and is geared toward students with no prior knowledge of German culture. Drawing on thought-provoking literary and historical texts, cultural artifacts, and films, this course provides an interdisciplinary approach to an exploration of German culture primarily from the 19th century to the present. Students will gain familiarity with prominent figures, ideas and movements in the realms of literature, film, philosophy, media, art, architecture, and industrial design that have shaped German culture, while also influencing much of the rest of the world. In the process of exploring German culture and the question of what constitutes “Germanness,” students will have the opportunity to think about their own cultural background and to develop a critical cultural awareness.

NOTES: Required course for Specialists & Majors. / Taught in English, open to students across disciplines.

GER205H German Literature I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 1-3 W 1-2	AH302	W. Goetschel

PRE-/CO-REQUISITE: GER 200Y/201H or placement test

This offers an introduction to work methods and skills pertaining to the study of German literature. As such, the course is meant to provide a transition from language to topic courses. Students will receive training in how to read and analyze short literary texts, how to find secondary literature and how to write short papers.

NOTES: Required course for majors and specialists; it should be taken as early as possible (and can’t be taken after completion of GER300Y/301H). / Prerequisite course for 300-level topic courses in German.

GER220H German Literature in Translation

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 10-12	NF007	E. Boran

This course offers a survey of important themes and topics in German literature from the eighteenth century to the present. In individual years, it may examine literary milestones by major authors, placing them in social and historical context, or it may focus on genres, motives or specific event, as they are reflected in literature and the arts. Texts are studied within their historical context in terms of such aspects as plot, characterization, theme, structure, style, language and theory.

NOTE: Taught in English, open to students across disciplines.

GER332H Madness-Deviance-Outsider

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 10-12	TF201	E. Lange

PREREQUISITE: GER 205H

What does it mean to be “normal” or “sane”? What do these categories signify and what value do they hold in our society? How can a “normal human experience” be distinguished from an “abnormal” one? What does it mean to be human in the first place?

In this course, we will examine a number of texts that deal with perspectives, states of beings and roles that were deemed “different” or “deviant” in present or past societal contexts. We will engage with the topic of deviance from a range of different literary eras, genres and styles and will thereby grasp for (a) meaning(s) of the terms “outsider” and/or “deviance.” What are examples for outsiders of the past and the present and what can we learn from them? What are positive and negative aspects of deviance?

We will discuss how our desire to belong and be recognized as normal stands in relation to past and present societal dynamics, our human condition, and the workings of our subjectivity.

We will engage with short forms of prose, excerpts from novels as well as poetry.

The primary literary texts will mostly be accompanied by philosophical texts (in English) on the concepts of deviance, madness, or related fields.

The methodology in this course will be a combination of close readings and broad historical and cultural perspectives. Our work in class will be shaped by class discussions, group work, and occasional lectures.

GER372H Business German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 12-2 R 12-2	CR405	S. Gargova

PREREQUISITE: GER 370H

This course offers an intensive development of the linguistic skills needed in the context of business transactions and management in German-speaking countries. Through materials from various sources, students develop oral and written skills for competence in German business communication as well as cross-cultural awareness.

NOTES: Required course for the Business German minor. / GER 270H and 272H alternate with GER 370H and 372H and are only offered every other year.

JGJ360H Holocaust in Literature

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 2-4	UCD301	Y. Wang

GER431H Open Topics in German Studies

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	F 10-12	CR106	E. Boran

PREREQUISITE: GER 305H OR permission of the department.

An open course which explores specific aspects of Germanic Studies.

Fall 2022

Language Courses

GER 100Y Introduction to German

GER 100Y Introduction to German
GER 101H F Introduction to German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101 -online-	MW 9-11	N/A	S. Gargova/L. Lackner
L0201	MW 11-1	CR 404 F CR403 S	H.S. Kim
L0301	MW1-3	CR405 F CR103 S	A. Klee/S. Bein
L0401	TR 8-10	CR103	S. Jordan/M. Harutyunyan
L0501	TR 10-12	CR404 F CR103 S	M. Harutyunyan/V. Shewfelt
L0601	TR 1-3	TF200 F CR103 S	F. Röessler/S. Mostafa
L5101	MW 6-8	CR405 F CR103 S	J. Evjen
L5201 -online-	TR6-8	N/A	E. Lange/V.Curran

GER 200Y1/*201H (GER) Intermediate German I

GER 200Y Intermediate German
GER 201H F Intermediate German 1

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	CR405	R. Laszlo
L0201	WF 8-10	CR103	V. Curran
L5101 -online-	MW 6-8	N/A	L. Cote-Pitre/S. Gargova

GER 300Y1/*301H F (GER) Intermediate German II

GER 300Y Intermediate German 2
GER 301H F Intermediate German 2

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	CR406 F TF102 S	E. Lange
L0201	TR 8-10	AH302 F OI4426 S	A.Flicker/N. Sachdeva
L5101	TR 6-8	TF200	F. Müeller

GER 400H F (GER) Advanced German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	AH302	A. Flicker

GER 260Y Beginner’s Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MWF 12-1	AH108	E. Jani/S. Edelhart

GER 360Y F Intermediate Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 12-1/F 12-2	AH402	M. Schwartz

Topic Courses

GER 275H F (ENG) Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 2-4 Tut: R 12-1	AH100 TF101	W. Goetschel

This is an introductory course to the thought of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud and their pioneering contributions to the understanding of the individual and society in modernity. Readings include selections from writings of the early Marx, the Communist Manifesto, and Capital, Nietzsche’s critique of culture, academe, and nationalism, and Freud’s theory of culture, his views on the psychopathology of everyday life, on the meaning of dreams, symptoms, the return of the repressed, and what it might mean to live in a free society.

NOTE: Taught in English, open to students across disciplines.

GER194H F (ENG) Our Vampires, Ourselves
*FYF (First-Year-Foundation) seminars exclusively for first-year students*

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	F 10-12	SK100	E. Boran

195H F Cities – Real and Imagined
*FYF (First-Year-Foundation) seminars exclusively for first-year students*

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 10-12	AH103	H.-S. Kim

GER 305H F (GER) German Literature II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 1-3 / W 1-2	TF102	J. Noyes

PREREQUISITE: GER 205H

Building on GER 205H, this course provides an introduction to German literature and culture from the 18th to the 21st century. Within a chronological and thematic framework, we will read and analyze excerpts from representative works of major German writers. Students learn to read critically and to consider the literary qualities of the German language. The course is required for majors and specialists; it should be taken as soon after GER 205 as possible.

NOTES: Required course for majors and specialists. / Prerequisite for 400-level topic courses in German.

GER 410H F (ENG) German Intellectual History

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 2-4	CR103	J. Noyes

PREREQUISITE: Permission of department.

German intellectual history has provided some of the most important statements of Western culture from Kant to Luhmann, Hegel to Heidegger, Marx, Freud and Nietzsche, etc. In this course, we will examine select aspects of German intellectual history in detail. The content of the course will vary, please check back here for details or ask us!

GER 370H F (GER) German Business Culture 1

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	TR 12-2	CR405	S. Gargova

PREREQUISITE: GER 200H

This course provides students with a working knowledge of German business culture that allows them to navigate the German workplace. The main focus is to deepen students’ knowledge of business concepts.

NOTES: Required course for the Business German minor. / GER 270H and 272H alternate with GER 370H and 372H and are only offered every other year.

GER 350H F (GER) German Visual Cultures

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	F 10-2	CR103	A. Sharifi

PREREQUISITE: GER 205H

An overview of select writings on the emerging role of visual cultures within mass media across the 20th-century. Theorists may include Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Bela Balazs, Jürgen Habermas, Friedrich Kittler, Niklas Luhmann and secondary scholarly articles. Texts are read in conjunction with weekly screenings from the German film canon that illustrate the concepts under study. We also review basic principles of film analysis and integrate vocabulary specific to the study of German visual texts.

GER 334H F (GER) Turkish-German Intersections

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 10-12	TF101	E. Boran

PREREQUISITE: GER 205H

Identities in Process, Writing Outside the Nation, The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature – the titles of recent studies emphasize that German literature has long since left the national corner. Specific topics of this course may vary, but broadly speaking the focus of this course is on minor(ity) perspectives and on voices from the ‘off’ of the past 40 years (i.e. the literary works that arose from post-war migration).

GER 322H F Kafka in Context

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 10-12	CR403	E. Boran

PREREQUISITE: GER 205H

How do we know how to live life in the modern world, when none of our points of reference seem to hold any reliability or stability? How can we even be sure that we are human, and not some strange, deformed animal with consciousness? For Kafka, the German-Jewish-Czech writer who lived most of his life in Prague, the only way to answer such troubling questions was to make them the basis of his writing. His works offer a unique model for thinking about human life in the modern world, about consciousness, the body, dreaming and waking, the nature of the social world, and many similar issues. And embedded in his writing is a set of unique ideas about how to read literature.

Spring 2022

Language Courses

GER 100Y1/*102Y1/101HS (GER) Introduction to German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
*L9901	MW 9-11	online synchronous	L. Lackner
L9902	WF 8-10	online synchronous	L. Côté-Pitre
L0101	MW 11-1	M: EM 108, W: VC 206	V. Curran
L0201	MW 1-3	M: EM 108, W: NF 113	V. Shewfelt
L0301	TR 10-12	TF 202	S. Jordan
L0401	TR 1-3	TF 102	S. Mostafa
L5101	MW 6-8	CR 406	V. Curran
L5201	TR 6-8	TF 201	J. Evjen

GER 200Y1/*201HS (GER) Intermediate German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 2-4	TF 101	M. Harutyunyan
L0201	TR 2-4	CR 404	R. Laszlo
L0301	WF 8-10	AH 107	F. Mueller
L519901	MW 6-8	online synchronous	S. Gargova

GER 300Y1/*301HS (GER) Intermediate German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L9901	MW 8-10	online synchronous	E. Lange
L0101	TR 9-11	CR 406	A. Flicker
L5101	MW 6-8	TF 201	T. Wilczek

GER 401HS (GER) Advanced German 2

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	TF 200	T. Wilczek

GER 260Y1 (YID) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MWF 2-3	AH 103	S. Edelhart

Topic Courses

GER150HS (ENG) German Culture & Civilization

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 1-3 Tut: R 1-2	NF 004 Tut: VC 215	J. Zilcosky

GER194HF (ENG) Our Vampires, Ourselves
*FYF (First-Year-Foundation) seminars exclusively for first-year students*

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	F 10-12	IN 312	E. Boran

GER 205HS (GER) German Literature I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 1-3/W12-1	AH 302	W. Goetschel

GER 220HS (ENG) German Literature in Translation: The Nobel Laureates

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 3-5	LA 211	J. Noyes

What do Peter Handke, Elfriede Jelinek, Hermann Hesse, and Günter Grass all have in common? Who was Paul Heyse? Nelly Sachs? They are the German Nobel laureates. Did their fame last to match their laurels? Should they have ever received the prize in the first place? What?! Kafka never got the prize? Brecht didn’t? Seems unfair, doesn’t it. Well, you can judge for yourself. In this course, we will come to know the German poets who were once held in such esteem that they received what is arguably the highest literary award, to rub shoulders with Kasuo Ishigugo, Bob Dylan, and J. M. Coetzee. Each week, we will read a sample of the writings of one of these German authors, in English translation. We will talk about the context that gave rise to their writing, and we will puzzle over what it might have been that spoke to the moment in such a way as to reap them this high reward.

GER 270HS (ENG) Money and Economy

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
T0101	M 1-3	VC 211	C. Lehleiter

In this course, we examine key literary, philosophical, and cultural texts, in order to understand how modern culture approaches problems such as property, debt, and exchange value.

GER 272HS (GER) Introduction to Business German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 10-12/R 10-11	CR 404	S. Gargova

GER 326HS (GER) Writing Memory: Post 1945

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 12-2	TF 200	A. Sharifi

German literature in the aftermath of World War II started from a new beginning, with many authors attempting to find a way of describing the shocking, nihilistic experience of war and devastation – often taking their cue from foreign models or existentialist and traditional Christian trains of thought. This course offers an examination of this post-War literature and culture from ‘Zero Hour’ through to contemporary debates about the Holocaust and its memorization. Texts by authors such as Günter Grass, Herinrich Böll, Ulrich Plenzdorf, Christa Wolf, Peter Schneider, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Weiss, Zafer Senocak and others.

GER 340HS (GER) German Theatre Production

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	TR 10-12	TF 101	E. Boran

Prerequisite: GER200Y

This course focuses on reading, interpreting, contextualizing, rehearsing & staging a German play. In the process of the course, students become familiar with the different steps of a theater production – from read-through to tech- run & dress rehearsal. They take on various responsibilities that go along with any theater production, such as playbills, programs, costumes, set, sound & lights, dramaturgy, etc. Students will be introduced to basic acting & staging techniques and get acquainted to leading 20th century theories of theater.

[Plays staged to date: Die Physiker by F. Dürrenmatt (2010), Drakul(j)a by E. Boran (2012), Hochwasser by G. Grass (2015), Woyzeck by G. Büchner (2016). Coming up in 2019: Struwwelpeter]

GER 430HS (ENG) Envisioning postmigrant Germany through cultural productions

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	F 1-3	NF 235	A. Sharifi

German society has changed dramatically in the past decades. And it has led to a shift and transformation of how it can be socially and culturally defined, especially in regards to the discourses on identity and belonging. Artists of color and those whose families once immigrated to Germany are pushing boundaries and claiming (public, political, artistic and aesthetic) space! This course offers a conversation on how contemporary ‘postmigrant’ German society is envisioned through theatre, film and writing. Cultural productions by artists like Fatma Ayedemir & Hengameh Yaghoobifarah, Max Czollek, Olga Grjasnowa, Arkadij Khaet, Olivia Wenzel, Necati Öziri and others will be discussed and examined.

Fall 2021

Language Courses

GER 100Y1/*102Y1 (GER) Introduction to German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
*L9901	MW 9-11	online synchronous	S. Gargova
L9902	WF 8-10	online synchronous	Z. Deng
L0101	MW 11-1	M: EM 108, W: NF 119	V. Curran
L0201	MW 1-3	M: VC 206, W: VC 101	N. Roethlisberger
L0301	TR 10-12	TF 202	M. Harutyunyan
L0401	TR 1-3	TF 102	F. Roessler
L5101	MW 6-8	CR 406	A. Klee
L5201	TR 6-8	TF 201	J. Yang

GER 200Y1 (GER) Intermediate German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0201	TR 2-4	CR 404	S. Mostafa
L0301	WF 8-10	AH 107	F. Mueller
L519901	MW 6-8	online synchronous	S. Gargova

GER 300Y1 (GER) Intermediate German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L9901	MW 8-10	online synchronous	E. Lange
L0101	TR 9-11	CR 406	A. Flicker
L5101	MW 6-8	TF 201	A. Popovich

GER 400HF (GER) Advanced German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	NF 006	E. Boran

This is an advanced German language course aimed at students with a high level of competence in German. Building on material covered in GER 100/200/300, it offers advanced studies of German language, including text-based analysis and a focus on improving communication skills. The course design provides a systematic review and expansion of grammar and stylistics, with additional emphasis on vocabulary building. The course is based on a German textbook, engaging and reliable online platform, as well as a carefully curated selection of authentic newspaper articles, literary texts, films and websites. Regular online meetings will be devoted to communicative and interactive exercises and group work. In order to successfully participate in these activities, independent work and preparation are paramount.

GER 260Y1 (YID) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MWF 2-3	AH 103	E. Jany

This course is an introduction to the Yiddish language suitable for students with no prior Yiddish knowledge. You will begin by learning to read and write the Yiddish alphabet (the alef-beys), and will continue to develop your speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills throughout the year via in-class conversations and activities, homework, and individual assignments. The goal of this course is to enable you to communicate and understand basic information in Yiddish, to expose you to the culture and history of Yiddish-speaking communities, and to provide you with a foundational understanding of Yiddish grammar. Throughout the course, songs, dialogues, artwork, and historical and literary materials will help you gain an appreciation for the language in a variety of authentic contexts. We will be using the communicative approach-based textbook In eynem. Please note that the first term of this course will be online via Zoom and the second term will be in-person.

GER 360HF (YID) Intermediate Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 12-1, F 10-12	NF 008	M. Schwartz

This course will build on the knowledge and skills you’ve acquired in beginner’s Yiddish. Emphasis will shift slightly towards reading literature and conducting conversations. We will continue to work with In Eynem, completing the second volume of the book, with additional materials from College Yiddish. You will write compositions and summaries, acquire new vocabulary words, listen to recordings, watch films, and give presentations.

Topic Courses

GER 197HF (ENG) Poets & Power: Art under the Nazis
*FYF (First-Year-Foundation) seminars exclusively for first-year students*

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 10-12	NF 235	J. Zilcosky

Did you know that Hitler was a failed artist? Goebbels a poet? Göring a collector of art? That there was an orchestra in Auschwitz? In this course, we will examine the ways in which politics and aesthetics intertwined in Nazism: the fascist cult of beauty; the theatrics of political propaganda; anti-Semitic entertainment films; and the eroticization of the Führer-figure. We will investigate this marriage of beauty and violence, and ask ourselves: What made the “Third Reich” so attractive to so many? Beginning with the great aesthetic movements from the pre-Nazi era, we will analyze Hitler’s 1937 ban on “degenerate,” modern art, as well as his return to Greek and Roman images of beauty. Throughout the course, we will consider some of the high points of German culture – in philosophy, music, and literature – and ask: How did a society that produced such works of genius also create Nazism and the Holocaust?

GER 290HF (ENG) Global Issues: German Contexts

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 1-3	AH 302	S. Soldovieri

GER 305HF (GER) Introduction to German Literature II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 12-2, W 12-1	NF 006	J. Noyes

This course provides an introduction to German literature and culture from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Within a chronological framework, we will read and analyze excerpts from representative works of major German writers. Some of the literary texts will be complemented with examples selected from the visual arts, music and film. Throughout the course, our focus will be on three sets of questions: 1. What is the leading question of the text? 2. What are the formal means that the authors employ in order to express their concerns and to conceptualize the topic under discussion? 3. What is the historical and cultural context of the text? By asking these questions, we will not only strive to come to a better understanding of individual works, but also of German literature, its developments and themes. However, although the structure of this course is governed by literary periods, it will also be our aim to question their validity and definition. We will approach the texts with a combination of close readings and broad historical and cultural perspectives. Among the authors we will discuss are Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Joseph von Eichendorff, Franz Kafka, Irmgard Keun and Ilse Aichinger. In addition, we will work on our reading techniques for primary and secondary literature and improve our research skills in the university library system. Sessions involve class discussions, group work, readings, and occasional lectures.

GER 310HF (GER) Contemporary Culture & Media

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	T 6-8	CR 403	R. Laszlo

GER 336HF (GER) Focus on Berlin – What Lies Beyond the Wall

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 10-12	TF 201	E. Boran

GER 367HF (ENG) Topics in Yiddish/German Literature & Culture

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 2-4	CR 405	R. Seelig

Shtetl: The Jewish Town in Modern Yiddish Literature & Culture

The shtetl is often invoked as a symbol of East European Jewish life before the Holocaust. But what exactly was the shtetl? Since the late nineteenth century, Jewish writers have mocked, satirized, mythologized and memorialized the shtetl, especially in Yiddish. This course explores manifold representations of the Jewish town—ranging from epic to ridiculous—and considers why the shtetl maintains a unique hold on the Jewish imagination.

GER 426HF (GER) Introduction to Medieval German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	F 10-12	UC 67	M. Stock

Summer 2021

Language Courses

GER 100Y1 (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	MTWR 6-8pm	online	Y. Aly / D. Khamseh

The GER 100Y language course is an introductory German course divided into two sections for students with no prior knowledge of the language. Based on a communicative and task-based approach, it is designed to develop proficiency in oral and written communication skills while providing students with knowledge and understanding of the societies and cultures of German-speaking countries. Students will develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through a variety of stimulating activities. Vocabulary will be presented in the context of culturally significant issues. Topics cover areas such as introducing and talking about oneself, shopping, telling time and recounting a day, family life, describing and renting an apartment, travel, health and fitness or studying abroad. Additionally, the course will provide students with a foundation in a number of basic grammatical structures and concepts. Class periods will be devoted mostly to communicative and interactive exercises. In addition to preparation at home, regular class attendance is paramount in order to participate successfully in these activities.

GER 200Y1 (GER) Intermediate German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	MTWR 6-8pm	online	R. Laszlo / F. Müller

This language course will provide students with genuine communication experiences in order to deepen their understanding of German-speaking countries. It has been designed to further develop communicative proficiency in each of the four language skills listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The textbooks are motivating and encourage interest in culture and language through their unique approach to authentic material illustrating vocabulary in context, communicative functions of grammatical structures, and cultural highlights. All readings, videos, projects, and presentations in class explore historical, social, political, and popular topics while aspects of Germanic and North American cultures are being compared. Learning strategies and self-assessment are part of every chapter, allowing for differentiation among various types of learners. The topics cover areas such as introducing and talking about oneself, shopping, telling time and recounting a day, family life, describing and renting an apartment, health and fitness etc. Cultural and linguistic variants of all three German-speaking countries are featured. Class periods will be devoted mostly to communicative and interactive exercises. In order to participate successfully in these activities, preparation at home and regular class attendance are paramount.

Topics Courses

GER260Y1 (YID) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L9901	MWF 5-7pm	online	S. Hoffman / V. Shewfelt

Spring 2021

Language Courses

GER 100Y/*102Y (GER) Introduction to German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 9-11	online synchronous	V. Abletshauser
L0102	WF 8-10	online synchronous	S. Mostafa
L0201	MW 11-1	online synchronous	V. Curran
L0301	MW 1-3	online synchronous	S. Mostafa
L0401	TR 10-12	online synchronous	V. Shewfelt
L0501	TR 1-3	online synchronous	Y. Aly
L5101	MW 6-8	online synchronous	J. Evjen
L5201	TR 6-8	online synchronous	S. Sun

This synchronous online introductory German course is for students with no prior knowledge of the language. It is a year course divided into two sections. Based on a communicative and task-based approach, it is designed to develop proficiency in oral and written communication skills while providing students with knowledge and understanding of the societies and cultures of German-speaking countries. Students will develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through a variety of stimulating off- and on-line activities, both during live meetings and on the reliable online platform accompanying the textbook. Topics cover areas such as introducing and talking about oneself, shopping, telling time and recounting a day, family life, describing and renting an apartment, travel, health and fitness or studying abroad. Vocabulary will be presented in the context of culturally significant issues. Additionally, the course will provide students with a foundation in a number of basic grammatical structures and concepts. Live online sessions will be devoted mostly to communicative and interactive exercises. In addition to preparation at home, regularly participating in and attending the online sessions is paramount in order to successfully complete the course.

GER 200Y (GER) Intermediate German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	WF 8-10	online synchronous	T. Wilczek
L0201	MW 2-4	online synchronous	C. Gerber
L0301	TR 2-4	online synchronous	S. Gargova
L5101	MW 6-8	online synchronous	R. Laszlo

This synchronous online intermediate German language course builds on skills acquired in beginner’s German. It is a year course divided into two sections and is designed to provide students with genuine communication experiences while reviewing and further developing participants’ linguistic and cultural competencies. Students will have a chance to practice and enhance their German speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills by engaging with a variety of texts and media during live classes, as well as on the reliable online platform accompanying the textbook. The themes in the textbook provide a springboard for various online activities, assignments, and vocabulary building tasks. All class readings, videos, projects, and presentations will explore historical, social, political, and popular topics while aspects of Germanic and North American cultures are being compared. Learning strategies and self-assessment are part of every chapter, allowing for differentiation among various types of learners. Students will further practice grammatical structures and acquire vocabulary that will allow them to express opinions, agreements, and disagreements in communicative situations encountered in work, school, and travel. By learning about German, Austrian, and Swiss cities featured in the textbook and supporting materials, students will get to explore regional differences in German-speaking countries. Regular online meetings will be devoted mostly to communicative and interactive exercises and group work. In order to successfully participate in these activities, independent work and preparation are paramount.

GER 300Y (GER) Intermediate German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 8-10	online synchronous	E. Lange
L0201	TR 1-3	online synchronous	D. Khamseh
L5101	MW 6-8	online synchronous	A. Flicker

This synchronous online intermediate German language course builds on GER200Y. It is a year course divided into two sections and focuses on effective oral and written expression, hearing and reading comprehension, in-depth review of grammar as well as the study of more complex structures. Through engagement with a variety of readings, videos, and films on important historical, cultural, social, and political topics in German-speaking countries, students will have the opportunity to practice grammar and vocabulary in embedded and culturally relevant contexts. The aim of this course is to equip students with the skills to understand extended speech, to read articles on contemporary problems, to describe personal experiences and to explain viewpoints on topical issues in speech and in writing. The textbook offers engaging culture topics, authentic readings, contextualized grammar and a reliable online platform. Regular online meetings will be devoted to communicative and interactive exercises and group work. In order to successfully participate in these activities, independent work and preparation are paramount.

GER 401HS (GER) Advanced German 2

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	online synchronous	W. Ohm

GER 260Y (YID) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MWF 3-4	online synchronous	E. Jany

GER 460HS (YID) Advanced Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 1-2/ F 12-2	online synchronous	S. Hoffman

Topics Courses

GER150HS (ENG) German Culture & Civilization

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	asynchronous	online asynchronous	C. Lehleiter

GER 205HS (GER) Introduction to German Literature I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 1-3/W 1-2	online synchronous	W. Goetschel

This course offers an introduction to the study of literature in German. It is aimed at students who have been studying German language for 3 semesters, and are continuing with their 4th semester concurrently with the course. It is intended as a continuing course in language competence, but also an introduction to reading literature in German. We will be reading a number of short literary texts and a few non-fiction texts, specifically with the aim of expanding your working knowledge of the German language, and familiarizing yourself with the subtleties of literary language. As such, the course is meant to provide a transition from the study of language to the topic-based literature courses offered in undergraduate studies in German. Students will receive training in how to read and analyze texts, and how to understand “grammar at work” in literature. Classes will involve reading, discussions, group work, and exercises. Reading assignments will be in German. As far as possible, the classroom language will be German.

GER 290HS (ENG) Global Issues: German Contexts

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 4-6	online synchronous	S. Soldovieri

GER 322HS (GER) Kafka in Context

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 3-5		J. Noyes

How do we know how to live life in the modern world, when none of our points of reference seem to hold any reliability or stability? How can we even be sure that we are human, and not some strange, deformed animal with consciousness? Are we perhaps moving through life in a dream, or a nightmare? For Kafka, the German-Jewish-Czech writer who lived most of his life in Prague, the only way to answer these and other similarly troubling questions was to make them the basis of his writing. His works offer a unique model for thinking about human life in the modern world, about consciousness, the body, dreaming and waking, the nature of the social world, and many similar issues. And embedded in his writing is a set of unique ideas about how to read literature. In this course we will set out in pursuit of his models and ideas.

GER 326HS (GER) Writing Memory

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 3-5	online synchronous	H.-S. Kim

Prerequisite GER205H

GER 372HS (GER) Business German 2

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 10-12/R 10-11	online synchronous	S. Gargova

This synchronous online course is a continuation of German Business Culture II. It is designed as a fourth-year language course for students who have completed at least the first three years of college German or the equivalent. Course objectives are to increase the student’s proficiency in the four skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing with special emphasis on selected German business topics. Participants will engage with various authentic text and media from the textbook, online platform, relevant social media accounts, as well as top German business magazines. Regular online meetings will be devoted to communicative and interactive exercises and group work. In order to successfully participate in these activities, independent work and preparation are paramount.

GER 391HS (GER) iPRAKTIKUM

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101			S. Soldovieri

The course provides a curricular complement to placements in the Department’s internationalization and experiential learning initiative, iPRAKTIKUM, which provides U of T students with high-impact work and community-engaged, work-related placements in the GTA and in German-speaking countries. The placements are designed to deepen linguistic, cultural, and analytical skills acquired in the classroom in work-related environments, create an awareness of the translatability of academic knowledge to other contexts, promote global competency, and foster links to the community. Students who have completed or are completing an iPRAKTIKUM placement are eligible for GER391. Typically, students complete the placement in the summer and enroll in GER391 in the fall term. Other arrangements are possible in consultation with iPRAKTIKUM administrators and the undergraduate coordinator. Students must seek advising before being admitted to the course. The course learning objectives and assessments are formulated on an individual basis and are designed to build on and deepen the internship experience and associated reflective activities (eJournals, mentorship meetings, etc.). Course requirements may include poster presentations, podcasts, research papers or projects, post-placement interviews, peer-to-peer mentoring, and other forms of assessment and reflection.

GER 431S (ENG) Goethe’s Novels

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	F 10-12	online synchronous	J. Noyes

From the moment he published his first novel, Die Leiden des jungen Werther, at the age of 24 to the appearance of Wilhelm Meister’s Wanderjahre three years before his death, Goethe’s novels set the tone for prose writing in German. His novels are daring, bold, experimental, never satisfied with repeating formula or meeting reader – expectations. In this course we will read all of Goethe’s novels. It is a cross-listed graduate and senior undergraduate course. The classroom language is English. Students in the German department are expected to read the novels in German. For students in Comparative Literature, all the novels are available in English translation.

First Year Seminars

GER 195HS (ENG) Cities, Real and Imagined

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 10-12	online synchronous	H.-S. Kim

Fall 2020

Language Courses

GER 100Y/*102Y (GER) Introduction to German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 9-11	online synchronous	L. Côté-Pitre
L0102	WF 8-10	online synchronous	F. Müller
L0201	MW 11-1	online synchronous	V. Curran
L0301	MW 1-3	online synchronous	Y. Aly
L0401	TR 10-12	online synchronous	A. Warren
L0501	TR 1-3	online synchronous	Y. Aly
L5101	MW 6-8	online synchronous	J. Evjen
L5201	TR 6-8	online synchronous	M. Harutyunyan

GER 200Y (GER) Intermediate German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	WF 8-10	online synchronous	T. Wilczek
L0201	MW 2-4	online synchronous	C. Gerber
L0301	TR 2-4	online synchronous	S. Gargova
L5101	MW 6-8	online synchronous	R. Laszlo

GER 300Y (GER) Intermediate German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 8-10	online synchronous	D. Khamseh
L0201	TR 1-3	online synchronous	H.-S. Kim
L5101	MW 6-8	online synchronous	A. Flicker

GER 400HF (GER) Advanced German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	online synchronous	W. Ohm

This is a synchronous online advanced German language course aimed at students with a high level of competence in German. Building on material covered in GER 100/200/300, it offers advanced studies of German language, including text-based analysis and a focus on improving communication skills. The course design provides a systematic review and expansion of grammar and stylistics, with additional emphasis on vocabulary building. The course is based on a German textbook, engaging and reliable online platform, as well as a carefully curated selection of authentic newspaper articles, literary texts, films and websites. Regular online meetings will be devoted to communicative and interactive exercises and group work. In order to successfully participate in these activities, independent work and preparation are paramount.

GER 260Y (YID) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MWF 3-4	online synchronous	S. Hoffman

This course is an introduction to the Yiddish language and culture of Ashkenazic Jews. It will begin to prepare you to be able to express yourself in Yiddish, acquire strategies to learn Yiddish independently by developing your ability to understand the structure of the language and to cue in on the features of spoken and written Yiddish.
Yiddish is old and new, pious and rebellious, stateless but international. It was born about a millennium ago in what is today Germany, called Ashkenaz in Jewish texts, and has traveled wherever Ashkenazim traveled, immigrated, exiled. Yiddish is still spoken as a native language by more than a million people, and is studied and spoken by Jews and non-Jews around the world who want to access the vast legacy of literature, music, religious and folk traditions, politics and history, theatre, film, and humour that exist only in Yiddish. Yiddish is a Germanic language, so it is relatively easy for English-speakers to learn.
You will not regret opening the door to Yiddish, I promise! In this course, you will acquire basic reading, writing, speaking and listening skills in Yiddish. You will learn to talk and write about yourself and your interests, surroundings, friends & family. You will also learn about the history, sociology and culture of Yiddish and how Jewish life of the past centuries is reflected in the language. We may start a correspondence with Yiddish students somewhere else. As you can see from the grading system, active classroom participation is very important. You will learn more by bravely speaking with some errors than by staying silent. Please help ensure that other students feel comfortable doing the same. Homework assignments are given daily and are always due the next class. There will be occasional quizzes, mainly “take-home.”Some themes or modes of communication may come easier to you than others. I am always happy to meet with you to discuss any questions or concerns you may have about the class, or to give you additional help that you might need.
The last class will be dedicated to presentations of a small creative project. The main idea is that you get a chance to create something that will be useful to you outside of class, whether personally, academically,or professionally. Some past projects have been:translation of a historical document or a Dr. Seuss book, deciphering an old family letter, performing a song, a poem, or a skit, a cooking project, a computer game. You may want to work on your project individually or in a group. I will ask you to evaluate some of your own effort and achievement, to guide me in providing you with a final grade. Please don’t hesitate to email or call me with any questions, concerns, comments, etc.

GER 360HF (YID) Intermediate Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 1-2, F 12-2	online synchronous	M. Borden

This course will build on the knowledge and skills you’ve acquired in Elementary Yiddish. Emphasis will shift slightly towards reading, listening and speaking. We will read poetry and selections from classic literature, working through the second half of the College Yiddish textbook while consulting a variety of materials from the Yiddish school system in its heyday, the 1940s and 50s. You will write compositions and summaries, acquire new vocabulary words, listen to recordings, watch films, and give presentations. We will sing and play games, often! We will also go on a tour of Yiddish-speaking Toronto (past and present), using archival Yiddish materials as our guide to understanding our local Yiddish landscape. This course will be conducted in Yiddish, using English only when necessary.

Topics Courses

GER 275HF (ENG) Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 4-6 (Tutorials R 3-4, 4-5, 5-6)	online synchronous	W. Goetschel

This is an introductory course to the thought of K. Marx, F. Nietzsche, and S. Freud and their pioneering contributions to the understanding of the individual and society in modernity. Readings include selections from writings of the early Marx, the Communist Manifesto, and Capital, Nietzsche’s critique of culture, academe, and nationalism, and Freud’s theory of culture, his views on the psychopathology of everyday life, on the meaning of dreams, symptoms, the return of the repressed, and what it might mean to live in a free society. [Taught in English and open to students across disciplines.]

GER 305HF (GER) Introduction to German Literature II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 3-5, W 3-4	online synchronous	J. Noyes

GER 310HF (GER) Contemporary Culture & Media

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	F 10-12	online synchronous	E. Lange

GER 323HF (GER) Weimar Culture & Beyond

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 10-12	online asynchronous	C. Lehleiter

GER 332HF (GER) Deviance, Madness, Outsiders in Literature

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 3-5	online asynchronous	C. Lehleiter

What does it mean to be sane? To be normal? To be human? Throughout modern history, writers have tested the limits of normal human experience by casting their protagonists into the depths of madness and following them through their trials, their elation, their despair. In a speech in 1970 Michel Foucault pointed out what he called “a curious affinity between literature and madness. Literary language is not constrained by the rules of everyday language. For example, it is not subject to the severe rule of constant truth-telling, any more than the teller is under the obligation to always remain sincere in what he thinks and feels. In short, unlike the words of politics or the sciences, those of literature occupy a marginal position with respect to everyday language.” Taking these ideas as our starting point, we will examine a number of texts written between 1800 and 1970. Our aim will be to analyze the literary descriptions of the limit experiences that separate sanity from madness. In the process, we will discuss topics such as truth and truth telling, exclusionary and assimilating practices for dealing with madness, discourses of containment, and how the outsider perspective of madness unsettles truth in literature.

GER 361HF (ENG) Yiddish Literature in Translation

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 11-1	online synchronous	S. Hoffman

An overview of the major figures and tendencies in modern Yiddish literature and culture from the beginning of the 19th century to the present, featuring readings of modern Yiddish prose, poetry, drama and cinema. Students with knowledge of Yiddish are encouraged to read some original texts. [Taught in English and open to students across disciplines.]

GER 370HF (GER) Business German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 10-12, R 10-11	online synchronous	S. Gargova

This synchronous online course will provide students with an exciting opportunity to learn about and experience German business culture, all awhile helping them strengthen and develop their cross-cultural competencies, as well as intercultural communicative skills and sensitivity. Students will learn how to competently engage in business communications, as well as navigate phone and email etiquette. In addition, participants will work on compiling their own job application portfolio. The course will further help participants build and expand their German speaking, hearing, reading and writing skills relevant to various professional contexts and prepare them for the Goethe-Zertifikat B2. An authentic German textbook, as well as regular exploration of relevant media and top German financial and business magazines alongside exciting hands-on projects make this course a valuable learning experience for anyone who wishes to prepare themselves for successfully navigating the global business community. Prerequisites: GER272H OR GER300/301. Regular online meetings will be devoted to communicative and interactive exercises and group work. In order to successfully participate in these activities, independent work and preparation are paramount.

GER 410HF (ENG) Introduction to German Intellectual History

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 1-3	online synchronous	J. Zilcosky

German intellectual history has provided some of the most important statements in Western culture, from Kant to Hegel to Marx to Nietzsche to Heidegger to Freud to Adorno. The list could go on. In this course, we will examine key moments and themes from German intellectual history in its modern period—from the Enlightenment to the present. Taught in English and open to students across disciplines.

First Year Seminars

GER 194HF (ENG) The Age of Reason & The New World

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 10-12	online synchronous	J. Noyes

Summer 2020

Language Courses

GER 100Y1 (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L9901	MTWR 10-12	online	E. Lange / Y. Aly

GER 200Y1 (GER) Intermediate German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L9901	MTWR 10-12	online	C. Gerber / F. Müller

Topics Courses

JGJ360H1 (ENG) Holocaust in Literature

Section	Time	Room	Insttor
L9901	T 10-1, R 10-12	online	A. Shternshis, D. Bergen

This course examines literary works written in different languages, in ghettos and concentration camps during the Holocaust, as well as those reflecting on the genocide in its aftermath. We focus on literature as a means of engaging with the unimaginable and on the cross analysis of eye-witness and memory writing.

Spring 2020

Language Courses

GER 100Y/*102Y/101HS (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
*L0101	MTWF 9-10	TF102	A. Flicker
L0102	MTWF 9-10	AH302	R. Laszlo
L0201	MTWF 1-2	TF200	A. Warren
L0301	MW 11-1	VC101	A. Flicker
L0401	MW 2-4	TF201	S. Mostafa
L0501	TR 10-12	TF102	K. Rabey
L0601	TR 2-4	TF101	W. Horsfall
*L5101	MW 6-8	TF102	S. Gargova
*L5201	TR 6-8	TF200	V. Shewfelt

GER 200Y/201HS (GER) Intermediate German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	CR403	A. Warren
L0201	MTWF 11-12	M&F: AH107, T: CR106, W: AH304	M. Hager
L0301	MW 3-5	M: TF203, W: CR403	S. Gargova
L5101	TR 6-8	TF102	R. Laszlo

GER 300Y/301HS (GER) Intermediate German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	TF102	S. Gargova
L0201	TR 9-11	CR404	C. Gerber
L5101	MW 6-8	TF201	E. Lange

GER 401HS (GER) Advanced German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	TF201	A. Botcharova

GER 460HS (YID) Advanced Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 12-1/ F 10-12	AH306	S. Hoffman

Topic Courses

GER 150HS (ENG) Introduction to German Culture: The Story of Germany

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 1-3	EM302	J. Zilcosky

This course tells the story of modern Germany, beginning with the birth of a unified Germany in 1871. We will investigate the vibrant ways in which writers, thinkers, and artists related to this new country, beginning with the powerful tradition of nineteenth-century German thought. Continuing into the twentieth century, we will examine the great artistic experiments before and after World War I, the arguments for and against the war by those who fought in it, and the deliberately “aesthetic” propaganda of the Nazi period. Throughout the course, we will discover the high points of German culture – in philosophy, literature, and film – and ask: How did a society that created such works of genius also produce the Holocaust? And how has German society today tried to come to terms with its past, including the trauma of being divided into two countries at the end of World War II?

GER 205HS (GER) German Literature I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 1-3, R 1-2	CR404	S. Soldovieri

GER 220HS (ENG) German Literature in Translation: Monsters, Murderers and Magic

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R10-12	VC215	E. Boran

This course covers a time period of roughly 200 years dealing with the nightmares of the Romantic psyche with its witches & vampires all the way to the evil offspring of the postmodern era. Reading tales by J.W. Goethe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, A. v. Droste-Hülshoff, Th. Storm and P. Süskind, among other, we investigate instances of the grotesque and the macabre, the mysterious and the uncanny, the monstrous and the sublime. Our guiding questions are: In what ways do the works discussed mirror modern life experience? How do these monsters of the imagination interrelate to German culture & society? And what do they ultimately tell us about ourselves?

GER 272HS (GER) Introduction to Business German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MWF 1-2	CR404	M. Hager

GER 321HS (GER) 19th Century German Literature

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 1-3	NF113	C. Lehleiter

GER 322HS (GER) Kafka

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 2-4	CR107	W. Goetschel

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GER 334HS (GER) Transnational Literatures

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 3-5	CR405	E. Boran

This course looks at the 50+ year cultural history of Germany?s largest ethnic minority. Starting in the 1960s, Turks first came as labour migrants (?guest workers?) and later, in the 1980s, as asylum seekers; there were always artists among them. With them new impulses and perspectives reached German culture. First in Turkish, but soon also in German the migrants reacted to and interacted with their new surroundings. Over the years a vibrant Turkish-German cultural scene developed. Comparable to the political realm, their cultural integration was filled with challenges and obstacles. Nonetheless artists of Turkish origin have since become such an integral part of Germany?s cultural landscape that the scholar Leslie Adelson talks about a Turkish turn of German literature. This development is not restricted to literature, but also encompasses film, political cabaret, stand-up comedy, rap and hip-hop, etc.

JFG388HS (ENG) Bilingualism, Multilingualism & Second Language Acquisition

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 2-4	tba	J. Steele

Tutorial	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 4-5	tba	tba

GER 426HS (GER) Medieval Language & Culture

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	W 3-5	TF203	N. Vohringer

First Year Seminars

GER 199HS (ENG) The Pleasure of Reading: Reading as Self-Emancipation in the German Literary Tradition

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 2-4	CR107	W. Goetschel

In this course we read some of the most enjoyable plots and stories in German Literature and examine how the pleasure of reading sets readers free to re-imagine themselves and the world released from everyday pressures and the repressive weight of the status quo. Readings are all in English translation and include texts by Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Keller, Heine and Kafka. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Fall 2019

Language Courses

GER 100Y/*102Y (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
*L0101	MTWF 9-10	TF102	Y. Aly
L0102	MTWF 9-10	AH302	S. Youssef
L0201	MTWF 1-2	TF200	M. Hager
L0301	MW 11-1	VC101	S. Gargova
L0401	MW 2-4	TF201	M. Harutyunyan
L0501	TR 10-12	TF102	H.-S. Kim
L0601	TR 2-4	TF101	J. Noyes
*L5102	MW 6-8	TF102	F. Müller
*L5201	TR 6-8	TF200	J. Evjen

GER 200Y (GER) Intermediate German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	CR403	T. Wilczek
L0201	MTWF 11-12	M&F: AH107, T: CR106, W: AH304	M. Hager
L0301	MW 3-5	LA341	S. Gargova
L5101	TR 6-8	TF102	C. Gerber

GER 300Y (GER) Intermediate German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	TF102	H.-S. Kim
L0201	TR 9-11	CR404	S. Gargova
L5101	MW 6-8	TF201	E. Lange

GER 400HF (GER) Advanced German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	VC211	M. Burks

GER 260Y (YID) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MF 2-3, W 2-4	M&F: AH402, W: BC20	M. Borden

GER 360HF (YID) Intermediate Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 12-1, F 10-12	AH402	S. Hoffman

This course will build on the knowledge and skills you’ve acquired in beginner’s Yiddish. Emphasis will shift slightly towards reading, listening and speaking. We will read selections from folk tales, Glatshteyn’s Emil un karl (or another text), and finish College Yiddish. You will write compositions and summaries, acquire new vocabulary words, listen to recordings, watch films, and give presentations. We will sing and play games. We will also go on a tour of Yiddish-speaking Toronto (past and present).

Topic Courses

GER 251HF (ENG) German & European Cinema

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 1-5 (incl. screening)	CR403	T. McDonald

This course examines German cinema against the backdrop of European film history. European films share common references points anchored in the cataclysms of two world wars, and have also negotiated analogous postwar transformations in family life, urbanization, the regional and the national, cultural identity, labour relations, post-socialist societies, and state security. A comparative approach enables examination of what binds German cinema to European cinema – shared histories and political concerns – as well as what is nationally unique and distinctive. By matching select films with readings from social theory, cultural studies, and film studies, we will compare and contrast these sociohistorical concerns while also attending to the medium specificities of film style, aesthetics, and narrative form.

GER 270HF (ENG) Money and Economy

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
T0101	R 10-12	VC212	J. Noyes

Can money buy you love? Can it buy you justice? Is money a crime? Is everything for sale? What do we owe when we are in debt? Is there a philosophy of money? These are some of the questions we will be examining in this course, with the help of select works of German literature and philosophy. In a world where every aspect of life is constantly converted into money, or at least into the potential to create money – up to the point where it becomes difficult to speak of anything divorced from its financial value – these are clearly not trivial matters. This course will provide historical and cultural depth to the problem of money, exchange and debt in everyday life.

GER 305HF (GER) German Literature II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
T0101	M 1-3, W 1-2	M: VC206/ W: VC304	E Boran

Building on GER 205H (“German Literature I: Working Methods”), this course takes you on a journey back through time through various periods of German literature starting in the present and concluding in the era of the Weimar Classic. We analyze representative works of major writers such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Heine, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Christa Wolf, Zafer Şenocak and Jenny Erpenbeck. We look at different genres and periods, prominent authors, and ideas/movements that have shaped German-language literature. Approaching the texts through close reading and contextualization (broader historical and cultural perspectives), students learn to read critically and to consider the literary qualities of the German language. The course aims at teaching you to critically approach and assess progressively more complex literary texts in the German language to prepare you for advanced literature courses on the 4xx-level. (Note: GER 305H is a prerequisite course for 400-level literature courses.)

GER 310F (GER) Contemporary German Culture and Media

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 11-1	CR403	C. Lehleiter

As the concept of culture in today’s world becomes more and more associated with globalisation and international influences, it seems appropriate to supersede the traditional question of ‘What is German culture?’ with the more open question of ‘Where is German culture?’ This course provides an introduction to contemporary German culture and its roots from 1945 onwards, focusing particularly on them es of travel and migration. The course will examine cultural texts and objects including poetry, prose, film, songs and old and new media forms. Sessions involve class discussions, group work, readings, and occasional lectures. The course will be taught in German.

GER 320HF (GER) The Age of Goethe

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	T 5-7	CR103	W. Goetschel

GER 367F (ENG) Topics in Yiddish and Jewish Literature and Culture

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 1-3	NF119	S. Hoffman

Subtitle: “It Sounds Better in Yiddish: An Introduction to Jewish Humour”
What is Jewish about humour and what is humorous about Ashkenazi Jewishness? What’s so funny about Yiddish? These are the basic questions that inspire this course. To experience the richness of Jewish European humour, we will analyze a variety of humorous genres (short fiction, film, stand-up, jokes, music) using a variety of analytical perspectives (historical, psychological, ethnographic, queer, and literary). A central theme will be the ways in which humour, through translation and adaptation, accompanied Jewish migrations within Europe and beyond.

GER 430F (ENG) The Countercinema of the Berlin School and Beyond

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 10-1 (screening R 6-8)	IN313 (screening Media Commons Theatre)	A. Fenner

The moniker ‘Berlin School’ references a heterogenous body of German films whose directors first gained sustained attention for their subtle approach to tracking dramatic social changes in the new “Berlin Republic,” following transfer of the governmental seat of power from Bonn to its pre-World War II location. Resisting the temptation to deliver escapist narratives to a public struggling with the erosion of the social welfare state under the pressures of globalization, these directors have instead pursued an uncompromising realism focusing in exacting and uncanny detail upon the forms of subjectivity, both ordinary and extraordinary, produced among different social groups and classes. We’ll engage methodologies from phenomenology, performance studies, theories of affect, practices of the everyday, post-Bergsonian/Deleuzian philosophies of temporality and duration, feminist film theory, genre theory, and the aesthetics of cinematic realism. These readings accompany our exploration of the proposition that this movement, taken as a whole, constitutes a counter cinema, one whose auteurist ambitions accord with concurrent transnational art cinema practices and retraces its lineage to the Nouvelle Vague and the New German Cinema. Directors covered include M. Ade, T. Arslan, V. Grisebach, B. Heisenberg, C. Hochhäusler, U. Köhler, C. Petzold, A. Schanelec, and M. Speth, with occasional screenings of intertextually pertinent global art films. All films are subtitled and class discussions (including course readings) conducted in English.

First Year Seminars

GER 196HF (ENG) German with Fairy Tales

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 12-2	TF102	E. Boran

Grimm’s Fairy Tales – we all know and love them. But what do we really know? Which versions are we familiar with? Most likely not the ones by the Brothers Grimm. And certainly not in German! This course is a journey into the mythical German Schwarzwald, a place of wolves and witches, the realm of the fantastic. It is not a traditional language course, as we won’t be cramming grammar. We will be reading fairy tales, their adaptations and some interpretations; we will learn to approach them critically taking into consideration their historical conditions and intertextual relations; and we will be looking at language-specific aspects. Students are required to read the tales in the original German. Classes will be held partly in English and partly in German, depending on the language level of the participants. Note: This is a FYF-Seminar open to first-year students only. Prerequisite: one year of German (or equivalent).

Summer 2019

Language Courses

GER 100Y1 (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	MTWR 6-8	CR403	S. Gargova / Y. Aly

GER 200Y (GER) Introduction to German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	MTWR 6-8	TF102	A. Warren

Topic Courses

GER 354Y (GER) A Tale of More Than Two Cities

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	July 22 – Aug 15	course taught in Berlin, Germany	E. Boran

More info at https://summerabroad.utoronto.ca/ger354y0-a-tale-of-more-than-two-cities/

Spring 2019

Language Courses

GER 100Y/*102Y1/101H1 (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	TF201	Aly
L0102	MTWF 9-10	TF101	Cote-Pitre
L0201	MTWF 10-11	TF101	Hager
L0301	MW 11-1	TF102	Aly
*L0401	MW 2-4	TF101	Khamseh
L0501	TR 2-4	TF102	TBA
L5101	MW 6-8	TF101	Laszlo
*L5102	MW 6-8	TF200	Curran
L5201	TR 6-8	TF202	Gargova
*L5202	TR 6-8	NF119	Curran

GER 200Y (GER) Introduction to German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	CR405	A. Warren
L0201	MTWF 11-12	TF101	M. Hager
L0301	MW 2-4	TF200	H.-S. Kim
L5101	TR 6-8	TF200	C. Gerber

GER 300Y (GER) Intermediate German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	AH302	H.-S. Kim
L0201	TR 9-11	CR404	E. Lange
L5101	MW 6-8	CR107	A. Warren

GER 260Y (YID) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MWF 2-3	TF2	A. Hoffman

GER 462HS (YID) Advanced Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 12-1, F 10-12	AH402	A. Hoffman

Topic Courses – Fall 2018 / Spring 2019

GER150HS (ENG) German Culture & Civilization

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 3-5	VC215	TBA

Tutorial	Time	Room	Instructor
T0101 T0201 T0301	R 1-2 R 2-3 R 3-4	AH304 AH302 TF201	TBA

GER 205HS (GER) Introduction to German Literature I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 1-3, R1-2	NF119	N. Vöhringer

This course offers an introduction to the study of literature in German. It is aimed at students who have been studying German language for 3 semesters, and are continuing with their 4th semester concurrently with the course. It is intended as a continuing course in language competence, but also an introduction to reading literature in German.We will be reading a number of short literary texts and a few non-fiction texts, specifically with the aim of expanding your working knowledge of the German language, and familiarizing yourself with the subtleties of literary language. As such, the course is meant to provide a transition from the study of language to the topic-based literature courses offered in undergraduate studies in German. Students will receive training in how to read and analyze texts, and how to understand “grammar at work” in literature. Classes will involve reading, discussions, group work, and exercises. Reading assignments will be in German. As far as possible, the classroom language will be German.

GER 275HS (ENG) Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T3-5	VC323	W. Goetschel

GER 290HS (ENG) Global Issues: German Contexts

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 11-1	NF007	S. Soldovieri

NEW COURSE! The movement of cultural products, material goods, capital, people, ideas, and information across national border s has resulted in a new quality of global inter dependency. The course examines the contemporary character of globalization with a special focus on its environmental impacts in German-speaking contexts. We consider artistic, cultural, technological, and social practices in German-speaking and global contexts that explore questions of sustainability and a livable future. The course is highly recommended as preparation for students interested in participating in the Department’s iPRAKTIKUM Internationalization & Experiential Learning internship program – particularly for placements with Eco-Hub Freiburg organizations in Germany. (Visit: https://german.utoronto.ca/ipraktikum/)

GER 310HS (GER) Contemporary Culture & Media

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 6-8	NF006	S. Soldovieri

PREREQUISITE: GER 200Y This course provides students with the opportunity to encounter more advanced texts focusing on modern German culture, as expressed through a variety of media. It examines a range of issues that have changed the way we look at culture, as well as the impact of these changes on national identity. Based on thought provoking texts and visuals, the course offers a diverse view of German life based on reading selections from literary works, memoirs, newspaper reports, commentaries, and interdisciplinary materials which highlight important cultural movements.

GER 326HS (GER) Writing Memory

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	F 2-4	NF007	H.-S. Kim

Prerequisite GER205H

GER 330HS (GER) Introduction to Poetry

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M1-3	NF006	E. Boran

Prerequisite GER205H

An exploration of representations and articulations of the self in German poetry, this class typically examines forms and topics of the lyrical genre over the ages. Specific discussions may include the debate over the role and function of the poetic form (ranging from traditional concepts to the rejection of traditional forms and structures for poetry that began in the first half of the 20th century).

GER 340HS (GER) German Theatre Production

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	TR 6-9	NF003	E. Boran

Prerequisite: GER200Y

This course focuses on reading, interpreting, contextual- lizing, rehearsing & staging a German play. In the process of the course, students become familiar with the different steps of a theater production – from read-through to tech- run & dress rehearsal. They take on various responsibilities that go along with any theater production, such as playbills, programs, costumes, set, sound & lights, dramaturgy, etc. Students will be introduced to basic acting & staging techniques and get acquainted to leading 20th century theories of theater.

[Plays staged to date: Die Physiker by F. Dürrenmatt (2010), Drakul(j)a by E. Boran (2012), Hochwasser by G. Grass (2015), Woyzeck by G. Büchner (2016). Coming up in 2019: Struwwelpeter]

GER 372HS (GER) German Business Culture II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MWF 12-1	CR103	M. Hager

This course is designed as a fourth year language course for students who have completed at least the first three years of college German or the equivalent. Course objectives are to increase the student’s proficiency in the four skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) – with special emphasis on selected German business topics to help the student better understand the German business world.

JFG388HS (ENG) Bilingualism, Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 2-4	VC215	J. Steele

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
T0102	R 4-5	AH105	S. Mostafa

GER 425HS (GER) Romanticism: Dreams-Desire-Delusions

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 2-4	VC206	J. Noyes

Prerequisite: GER 305H

The closing years of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century saw some of the most innovative, radical and influential writing in the history of German literature & philosophy. In the stories, novels & poems of the Romantic period, but also in their theoretical writings, a generation gave expression to the sense of giddiness, awe & inspiration caused by a rapidly changing world. Modern life required a modern form of expression, and the Romantics wanted to do everything they could to find this form. This seminar follows them on their encounters with modernity.

CCR199Y (ENG) Poets and Power: Art under the Nazis

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0251	M 11-1	NF332	J.Zilcosky

Did you know that Hitler was a failed artist? Goebbels a poet? Göring a collector of art? That there was an orchestra in Auschwitz? Why did art have this peculiar prominence under Nazism? In this course we will examine how politics and aesthetics interlace in various ways: the fascist cult of beauty; the theatrics of political propaganda; anti-Semitic “entertainment” film; and the eroticization of the Führer-figure. We will investigate this marriage between beauty and violence, and ask ourselves: what made Nazism so attractive to so many? We will begin by examining the great aesthetic movements from the pre-Nazi era through to Hitler’s 1937 ban on “degenerate,” modern art—in favor of returning to Greek and Roman images of beauty. Throughout the course, we will consider some of the high points of German culture—in philosophy, music, and literature—and ask: How did a society that produced such works of genius also create Nazism and the Holocaust? Are there any similar mixtures of art and politics in our world today?

CCR199HF (ENG) Our Vampires, Ourselves

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0251	R 10-12	TF202	E. Boran

CCR199HS (ENG) Common Humanity

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0251	M 2-4	AH304	J. Noyes

Fall 2018

Language Courses

GER 100Y/*102Y1/101H1 (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	TF201	T. Wilczek
L0102	MTWF 9-10	CR403	Henning
L0201	MTWF 10-11	TF101	Flicker
L0301	MW 11-1	TF102	Shewfelt
*L0401	MW 2-4	TF101	Gerber
L0501	TR 2-4	TF102	Khamseh
L5101	MW 6-8	TF201	Rabey
*L5102	MW 6-8	TF200	Evjen
L5201	TR 6-8	TF202	Gargova
*L5202	TR 6-8	TF101	Koniouchine

GER 200Y (GER) Introduction to German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	TF102	A. Warren
L0201	MTWF 11-12	TF101	M. Hager
L0301	MW 2-4	TF200	H.-S. Kim
L5101	TR 6-8	TF200	A. Warren

GER 300Y (GER) Intermediate German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	AH302	H.-S. Kim
L0201	TR 9-11	CR404	E. Lange
L5101	MW 6-8	CR403	A. Warren

GER 400HF (GER) Advanced German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	LA340	TBA

GER 260Y (YID) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W2-4, F 2-3	Wed JHI235 Fri JHI100B	Borden

GER 360HF (YID) Intermediate Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 12-1, F 10-12	AH402	Lightstone

Topic Courses

GER 240HF (ENG) German Drama in Translation

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 10-12	TF101	J. Noyes

This course offers a window into salient moments in 19th/20th century German drama. We study texts within their historical context in terms of such aspects as theme, plot, structure, characterization, style & language, and we examine aspects of their realization (& potential for realization) on stage. Course emphasis is on the reading & discussion of the texts. In addition, we pay attention to dramatic theory and to practical aspects of theater productions. Course Goals: Gain insight into the literary form of drama and the development of German drama, as well as its realization on stage and adaptation to film.

GER 305HF (GER) Introduction to German Literature II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 1-3, R 1-2	VC101	E. Boran

GER 321HF (GER) 19th Century German Literature

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 2-4	AH306	C. Lehleiter

GER 338HF (ENG) Narratives of the Body

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	M 4-6	NF007	J. Noyes

In this course, we examine literary and cinematic explorations of bioethical questions, in order to understand how artistic discourse approach es problems such as normality, madness, and biopower. Readings could include texts by G. Buechner, H. Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann, F. Kafka, and T. Mann, among others. All material will be read in English translation. [Taught in English and open to students across disciplines.]

GER 361HF (ENG) Yiddish Literature in Translation

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 2-4	AH108	A. Hoffman

GER 370HF (GER) German Business Culture I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MWF 12-1	CR103	M. Hager

This course has been designed to provide students with practical experience setting up their own company while reviewing and supplementing material from Deutsch im Berufsalltag with information from other authentic texts. This course meets three times a week. “The project” found in Deutsch im Berufsalltag will be used as guidelines for setting up a fictive German company.

GER 410HF (ENG) Introduction to German Intellectual History

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 3-5	NF008	W. Goetschel

GER 430HF (GER) Stories of the Mind

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 11-1	TBA	C. Lehleiter

Spring 2018

Language Courses

GER 100Y/*102Y1/101H1 (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	TF102	W. Horsfall
L0201	MTWF 10-11	TF102	V. Curran
L0301	MTWF 11-12	TF102	K. Rabey
L0401	MTWF 12-1	TF102	T. Wilczek
*L0501	MTWF 1-2	TF102	J. Wakelin
L0601	MW 2-4	TF102	S. Oghatian
L0701	TR 10-12	VC215	Y. Aly
*L5101	MW 6-8	VC304	S. Gargova
L5102	MW 6-8	TF102	A. Warren
*L5201	TR 6-8	CR406	Y. Aly
L5202	TR 6-8	TF102	A. Warren

GER 200Y (GER) Introduction to German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	AH302	A. Warren
L0201	MTWF 10-11	TF201	M. Hager
L0301	MTWF 11-12	TF201	M. Hager
L5101	TR 6-8	TF101	E. Lange

GER 300Y (GER) Intermediate German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	CR405	H.-S. Kim
L0201	TR 12-2	AH302	V. Melnykevych
L5101	MW 6-8	TF101	M. Kumanatasan

GER 260Y (YID) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 10-12, F 1-2	OH323	A. Hoffman

GER 462HS (YID) Advanced Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	F 10-12	OH323	A. Hoffman

Topic Courses

GER 150HS (ENG) German Culture & Civilization

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 2-4	VC115	P. Schweppe
Screenings: (TBA)

This course is for students who are pretty unfamiliar with German culture, and the goal is, simply put, to familiarize you with it. To do so, we’ll be highlighting various aspects of modern Germany: historical and cultural developments, poets and thinkers, radicals and liberals, scientists, artists and film stars, soccer players – and not to forget the Otto Normalverbraucher (i.e. the common man) who don’t make it into the headlines on a daily basis. What clichés abound about ‘Germany,’ how do we challenge them and take a look behind the façades? Will we find there anything more ‘real’? What is it about the Germans? Why are they hated? Why loved (Are they loved?) Or more to the point: Why is it so difficult to feel indifferent towards them? These are some of the questions we’ll be tackling this semester. The course puts you into the position of a culture detective whose task it is to explore in groups and on your own: You embark on a 12 – week mission, you collect evidence and reach conclusion. (Don’t take the analogy too far: There is no corpse! In fact, Germany is quite alive & kicking these days!) The course consists of lectures, viewing and discussing of film clips, group works and brief group presentations. In addition there is a one – hour tutorial each week.

GER 205HS (GER) Introduction to German Literature I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 12-2, R 12-1	NF007	J. Noyes

GER 220HS (ENG) German Literature in Translation

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	F 2-4	TBA	H. Kim

GER 272HS (GER) Introduction to Business German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MWF 12-1	CR403	M. Hager

GER 310HS (GER) German Culture

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 2-4	NF007	S. Soldovieri

Futur II is a grammatical tense (‘future perfect’ in English) that can be understood as combining the future and the past. It is a verbal form that throws up a challenge to the present in questions like ‘Wie wirst du gelebt haben?’ / ‘How will you have lived?’ How will we talk about the past in the future? The manner in which we have lived as human beings on this planet is the prime concern of our present Anthropocene. In this course we will consider artistic, cultural, technological, and social practices in German-speaking and global contexts that engage questions of sustainability and a livable future. Practical, creative, and reflective work is required.

GER 332HS (GER) Deviance, Madness, Outsiders in Literature

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 2-4	CR405	C. Lehleiter

GER 336HS (GER) Focus on Berlin

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	T 6-8	NF006	A. Gerstner

Berlin is, and always was, multiple places, with shifting identities throughout the decades and a different perspective depending on specific groups of inhabitants (compare e.g. the Jewish, Multicultural, Gay Berlin). In this course, we will explore cultural and historical accounts of the city, putting the emphasis on the 20th century. Who are the people that shaped the German capital, its culture and language? What did “Weltstadt” Berlin of the 1920s contribute to modern culture, in Germany and around the world? We will also look into how writers and filmmakers from East and West portrayed the divided city and how the meaning of Berlin’s “Erinnerungsorte” (memory sites) has shifted over the past decades. Sessions will involve class discussions, group work, student presentations, and occasional lectures. The course is also designed to improve German language skills in reading, writing, and speaking with assignments, as well as class discussions, taking place in German. English will be used only be for purposes of clarification.

CCR 199HS (ENG) Cities, Real and Imagined

L0251

W 2-4

NF231

H.-S. Kim

Fall 2017

Language Courses

GER 100Y/*102Y1/101H1 (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	TF102	W. Horsfall
L0201	MTWF 10-11	TF102	V. Curran
L0301	MTWF 11-12	TF102	D. Mezini
L0401	MTWF 12-1	TF102	S. Mostafa
*L0501	MTWF 1-2	TF102	R. Laszlo
L0601	MW 2-4	TF102	H.-S. Kim
L0701	TR 10-12	VC215	T. Wilczek
*L5101	MW 6-8	VC304	S. Gargova
L5102	MW 6-8	TF102	L. Cote-Pitre
*L5201	TR 6-8	CR406	C. Gerber
L5202	TR 6-8	TF102	V. Shewfelt

GER 200Y (GER) Introduction to German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	AH302	A. Warren
L0201	MTWF 10-11	TF201	M. Hager
L0301	MTWF 11-12	TF201	M. Hager
L5101	TR 6-8	TF101	E. Lange

GER 300Y (GER) Intermediate German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	CR405	H.-S. Kim
L0201	TR 12-2	AH302	W. Goetschel
L5101	MW 6-8	TF101	W. Ohm

GER 400HF (GER) Advanced German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	NF007	C. Lehleiter

GER 260Y (YID) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 10-12, F 1-2	OH323	A. Hoffman

GER 360HF (YID) Intermediate Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 12-1, F 10-12	OH323	A. Hoffman

Topic Courses

GER 250HF (ENG) Topics in German Film History: Women’s Film Authorship in Contemporary German Cinema

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 4-8 (incl. 2 hours of viewing)	Media Commons Theatre	A. Fenner

This course draws inspiration from Maren Ade’s recently acclaimed film, Toni Erdmann (2016), whose nomination for an Academy Award has brought renewed attention to women’s film authorship in Germany and a growing cadre of directors making films that are engaging, intelligent, and deeply thought-provoking without being didactic. Via readings in feminist film theory, new materialism, animal studies, gender and queer theory, and cultural studies, we will place these compelling contemporary productions into conversation with those of pioneers the feminist film movement of the 1970s, such as Helke Sander and Ulrike Ottinger. Echoes of that movement are, for example, evidenced in the way Maren Ade has leveraged her success to draw public attention to imbalances within the German film industry and called for gender parity in the distribution of subsidies. With an eye towards both continuities and divergencies in aesthetics, mode of production, and culture, we will investigate to what extent recent German and Austrian directors, e.g. Barbara Albert, Angela Schanelec, Valeska Grisebach, Tanja Turanskyj, and others share among themselves and/or with an earlier generation a common focus on disparate experiences of gender, sexuality, intimacy, and precarity. How does their work – feature films, fun and funky experimental works, and documentary — accord with such labels as ‘oppositional,’ ‘subversive, or ‘resistant’, and in what ways does it enact intersectional alliances with feminist, queer, anti-heteronormative and anti-racist projects?

GER 270HF (ENG) Money and Economy

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 2-4, W 3-4	CR406	C. Lehleiter

In this course, we examine key literary, philosophical, and cultural texts, in order to understand how modern culture approaches problems such as property, debt, and exchange value.

GER 305HF (GER) Introduction to German Literature II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 4-6, W 4-5	VC212	Y. Aly

GER 320HF (GER) The Age of Goethe

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
T0101	M 12-2	NF007	J. Noyes

When Germany’s most famous poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, died at the age of 82, he had seen German literature move through the most innovative, daring and experimental stage of its entire history. Between the years 1774, when he published his first novel, and 1832, when – just months before his death – he completed Faust, the literary world was torn between the revival of classical aesthetics and the shock of the new. Storm and Stress, Romanticism, and various other movements forced the reading public to ask difficult questions about what literature was, what it could do, and how to read it. In this course we will take a tour through some of the salient moments in this age of innovation, under the headings of Reason and Passion, Revolution and Reform, Education, Cultural Difference and Humanity, Science and the Psyche, Men and Women.
We will read works by Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Alexander von Humboldt, Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Hölderlin, Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis and others.

GER 322HF (GER) Kafka in Context

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 2-4	VC304	J. Zilcosky

How do we know how to live life in the modern world, when none of our points of reference seem to hold any reliability or stability? How can we even be sure that we are human—and not some strange, deformed animal with consciousness? Are we perhaps moving through life in a dream, or a nightmare? For Kafka, the German-Jewish-Czech writer who lived most of his life in Prague, the only way to answer these and other similarly troubling questions was to transform them into literature. His works offer unique models for thinking about human life in the modern world, about the mind, the body, dreaming and waking, and the nature of the social world. And embedded in his writing is a set of inimitable ideas about how to read literature. In this course we will set out in pursuit of these models and ideas.

GER 323HF (GER) Weimar Culture & Beyond

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
T0101	W 1-3	NF006	C. Lehleiter

GER 411HF Introduction to Critical Theory (ENG)

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
T0101	W 3-5	AH204	J. Noyes

Critical theory as developed by the so-called Frankfurt School is an attempt to formulate a philosophical response to the problem of injustice in the modern world. Its basic idea has been described (by Terry Pinkard) as “extracting the conceptions necessary for the actualization of freedom from out of the existing dynamic of social life itself.” This advanced undergraduate seminar examines problems of freedom, forms of living, history, reason, and other key concepts discussed by the Frankfurt School and expanded on by subsequent critical theorists. We will examine the premises and strategies of critical theory under the headings of Enlightenment, History, Public, and Mediated Consciousness. Our aim will be to show how these central concepts emerged, and how they figure in critical theory. We will read works by Kant and Marx, as well as the first generation of critical theorists, focusing on Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. We’ll also study subsequent generations of Frankfurt School theorists, including Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth. In order to situate critical theory in an age of global capitalism, a digital age, a media age and a postcolonial age, we will also read select writings by Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht, Rahel Jaeggi, Oskar Negt, Alexander Kluge, Amy Allen and Nancy Fraser. Class language is English. Texts are available in English and German.

GER 423HF (GER) Transnational Literatures

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 4-6	CR103 / OH323	E. Boran

GER 426HF (GER) Introduction to Medieval German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	F 2-4	AH302	M. Stock

CCR 199HF (ENG) Our Vampires, Ourselves

L0251

R 10-12

NF007

E. Boran

This course examines the figure of the vampire as a potent cultural metaphor showing how every age embraces the vampire it needs and gets the vampire it deserves. Our course consists of three parts:
1. First we focus on the best-known and most influential vampire novel: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). We critically engage with the Stoker paradigm and learn about Victorian times, issues of race and colonization, sex and gender, illness, religion and the Enlightenment, as well as the novel’s relevance for today’s vampires and readers.
2. Next we investigate a German novel that introduces a rather unusual vampire figure: Patrick Süskind’s The Perfume (1985). Instead of drinking his victims’ blood, he inhales their scents – but still killing them in the process. Where Dracula represented, among other things, an archaic past that comes to haunt the present, Süskind’s Grenouille (‘frog’) personifies the dark side of Enlightenment.
3. Finally we probe contemporary representations of the vampire. This part is substantially driven by student presentations, which allows participants to develop and share their own interests and points-of-view, as well as raise relevant questions. Throughout the course we reflect on issues of self and society and develop a structured approach to critical thinking. Attention: There will be four film screenings scheduled outside of class, either on Mondays or Wednesdays 7-9:30pm (to be determined in class). Attendance is mandatory.

CCR 199HF (ENG) Common Humanity

L0252

R 10-12

VC206

J. Noyes

Since antiquity, philosophers and writers have struggled to understand what humans have in common. This is a matter of fundamental importance to society, since it determines how laws are formulated, how other cultures are treated, and it ultimately grounds the idea of human rights. We will begin with an overview of the idea of common humanity in the Western tradition. Then we will examine the Enlightenment, a period in which most of the modern positions on common humanity were formulated. Following that, we will ask what the idea of common humanity means for societies whose past is marked by racial injustice and exploitation. In this connection we will pursue an understanding of common humanity in indigenous thought in Canada. What can Canadians schooled in the western tradition learn from this? Finally, we will take as a case study South Africa in the decades after the end of apartheid. The question here will be: how does the idea of common humanity relate to the persistence of racial inequality? And can the ideal of common humanity survive the leveling effects of the global economy?

Summer 2017

Language Courses

GER 100Y/*102Y1/101H1 (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWR 2-4	TF102	T. Sudenis / S. Gargova

GER 200Y (GER) Introduction to German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWR 2-4	AH302	H.-S. Kim / Y. Aly

Topic Courses

JGJ 360H1 (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 10 am – 1 pm	TBA	D. Bergen / A. Shternshis

Note: This course runs from May 3 to May 19, 2016. To enrol in the course, please contact the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. Enrolment begins on April 5 and ends on May 4. To cancel this course, you need to contact the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. Waiting lists are effective April 5 to May 4 only. Please note this course has different add, drop and CR/NCR opt-in/out dates and the refund schedule is different from regular F section code courses:
Last day to add course: May 4
Last day to cancel without academic penalty: May 16 (contact the Centre to drop the class)
Last day to add/remove CR option: May 16
Examination period: May 20 to May 27
Refund dates for JGJ360H1F
Refund: 100% – Deadline May 6
Refund: 75% – Deadline May 12
Refund: 50% – Deadline May 19

Spring 2017

Language Courses

GER 100Y/*102Y1/101H1 (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	AH302	A. Warren
L0201	MTWF 10-11	AH302	A. Warren
L0301	MTWF 11-12	AH302	A. Warren
*L0401	MTWF 12-1	AH302	S. Oghatian
L0501	MTWF 1-2	AH302	T. Sudenis
L0601	MW 2-4	AH302	S. Gargova
L0701	TR 10-12	CR406	D. Khamseh
*L5101	MW 6-8	CR406	A. Warren
L5102	MW 6-8	CR406	E. Luzi
*L5201	TR 6-8	AH302	T. Sudenis
*L5202	TR 6-8	CR406	J. Wakelin

GER 200Y (GER) Introduction to German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	TF102	K. Heinz
L0201	MTWF 10-11	TF102	H.-S. Kim
L0301	MTWF 11-12	TF102	M. Hager
L5101	TR 6-8	TF102	Y. Aly

GER 300Y (GER) Intermediate German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	CR403	D. Khamseh
L0201	TR 10-12	CR403	Y. Aly
L5101	MW 6-8	CR403	S. Gargova

GER 260Y (ENG) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 10-12, F 10-11	OH323	A. Hoffman

GER 462HS (ENG) Advanced Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 12-2	OH323	A. Hoffman

This course conducted entirely in Yiddish focuses on advanced reading, writing, vocabulary and conversation. We will workshop reading handwritten documents in Yiddish. We will analyze poetry and short fiction by Yiddish women authors. We will also go through selected advanced grammatical topics from Mordkhe Schaechter’s Yiddish II. We will, goes without saying, sing songs and play games.

Topic Courses

GER 205HS (GER) German Literature I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	T 6-8, R 6-7	TF101	Viktoriya Melnykevych

GER 275HS (ENG) Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 2-4	AH400	W. Goetschel
Tutorials: (students must also chose one tutorial)
T0101	R 12-1	AH204	Y. Wang
T0201	R 1-2	AH204	Y. Wang
T0301	R 2-3	AH204	Y. Wang

GER 310HS (GER) Contemporary Media

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 3-5	NF007	S. Soldovieri

Futur II is a grammatical tense (‘future perfect’ in English) that can be understood as combining the future and the past. It is a tense that throws up a challenge to the present in questions like ‘Wie wirst du gelebt haben?’ / ‘How will you have lived?’ How will we talk about the past in the future? A moral question. The manner in which we have lived as human beings on this planet is perhaps the prime concern of our present Anthropocene. In this course we will engage artistic, cultural, technological, and social practices in German-speaking and global contexts that attempt to imaginatively explore and shape a different, sustainable future. Readings in range of media (literature, film, architecture, performance art, etc.). Practical, creative, and reflective work is required.

GER 336HS (GER) Focus on Berlin

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	T 6-8	AH103	A. Gerstner

GER 372HS (GER) German Business Culture 2

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MWF 12-1	CR403	M. Hager

GER 425HS (GER) Dreams-Desire-Delusions

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 1-3	NF231	C. Lehleiter

The closing years of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century saw some of the most innovative, radical and influential writing in the history of German literature and philosophy. In the stories, novels and poems of the Romantic period, but also in their theoretical writings, a generation gave expression to the sense of giddiness, awe and inspiration caused by a rapidly changing world. Modern life required a modern form of expression, and the Romantics wanted to do everything they could to find this form. This seminar follows them on their encounters with modernity. Our work in class will be shaped by class discussions, group work, and occasional lectures. Assignments and discussions will be in German.

GER 430HS (ENG) Critical Theory in Context: The French – German Connection

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 3-5	AH105	W. Goetschel

This course examines central theoretical issues in contemporary thought with particular attention to the role that the “Frankfurt School” and its affiliates such as Benjamin, Kracauer, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Habermas and others play in the context of modern German social and cultural thought. In France, thinkers like Levinas, Foucault, and Derrida respond to this tradition and enrich it. The course explores in which way the continuing dialogue between these thinkers informs current critical approaches to rethinking issues and concerns such as theorizing modernity, culture, secularization, multiculturalism, and the vital role of cultural difference.

CCR 199Y (ENG) Cities, Real and Imagined

L0251

W 1-3

NF332

H.-S. Kim

Fall 2016

Language Courses

GER 100Y/*102Y1/101H1 (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	AH302	T. Wilczek
L0201	MTWF 10-11	AH302	M. Hager
L0301	MTWF 11-12	AH302	A. Bowes
*L0401	MTWF 12-1	AH302	L. Pehar
L0501	MTWF 1-2	AH302	V. Curran
L0601	MW 2-4	AH302	H.-S. Kim
L0701	TR 10-12	CR406	L. Pehar
*L5101	MW 6-8	CR406	W. Horsfall
L5102	MW 6-8	AH302	L. Cote-Pitre
*L5201	TR 6-8	CR406	E. Lange
L5202	TR 6-8	AH302	S. Gargova

GER 200Y (GER) Introduction to German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	TF102	L. Pehar
L0201	MTWF 10-11	TF102	H.-S. Kim
L0301	MTWF 11-12	TF102	M. Hager
L5101	TR 6-8	TF102	W. Ohm

GER 300Y (GER) Intermediate German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	CR403	V. Rummel
L0201	TR 10-12	CR403	T. Sudenis
L5101	MW 6-8	CR403	C. Bohnke

GER 400HF (GER) Advanced German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	VC212	Y. Aly

GER 260Y (YID) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 10-12, F 10-11	OH323	V. Lightstone

GER 360HF (YID) Intermediate Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 10-12, F 10-11	NF205	A. Hoffman

Topic Courses

GER 150HF (ENG) German Culture & Civilization

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 4-6	AH400	E. Boran
Tutorials: (students must also chose one tutorial)
T0101	W 4-5	AH204	tba
T0201	W 4-5	AH206	tba
T5101	W 5-6	AH204	tba
T5102	W 5-6	AH206	tba

GER 305HF (GER) Introduction to German Literature II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 1-3, W 1-2	TF202	M. Burks

GER 321HF (GER) 19th Century German Literature

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 3-5	TF102	C. Lehleiter

GER 340HF (GER) German Theater Production

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	MW 6-9	NF003	E. Boran

The goal of this course is to stage a German theatre production! It consists of classroom sessions, theater workshops, rehearsal sessions and public performances. It is held entirely in German. We focus on reading, interpreting, contextualizing, rehearsing and staging a play. In the process, students become familiar with the different steps of a theater production – from read – through to dress rehearsal and preview to the performance, as well as the various responsibilities that go along with any production, such as playbills, programs, costumes, set, sound & lights and dramaturgy. The course focuses on the German language through repetition & creative practice.

GER 367HF (ENG) Introduction to Yiddish Humour

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 12-2	OH323	A. Hoffman

What is Jewish about humour and what is humorous about Ashkenazi Jewishness? What’s so funny about Yiddish? Why does it sound better in Yiddish? These are the basic questions that inspire this course. To experience the richness of Jewish European humour, we will analyze a variety of humorous genres (short fiction, film, stand-up, jokes, music) using a variety of analytical perspectives (historical, psychological, ethnographic, queer, and literary). A central theme will be the ways in which humour, through translation and adaptation, accompanied Jewish migrations within Europe and beyond.

GER 370HF (GER) German Business Culture 1

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MWF 12-1	CR403	M. Hager

GER 410HF (ENG) Introduction to German Intellectual History

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 3-5	NF235	J. Zilcosky

CCR 199Y (ENG) Poets and Power

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0251	M 11-1	VC304	J. Zilcosky

CCR 199HF (ENG) Our Vampires, Ourselves

L0251

T 2-4

SS1069

E. Boran

Summer 2016

Language Courses

GER 100Y (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	MTWR 6-8	CR103	L. Pehar / A. Warren

GER 200Y (GER) Introduction to German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	MTWR 6-8	CR406	S. Gargova / M. Burks

JGJ 360H1 (ENG) Holocaust in Literature

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	TR 12-3	TBA	D. Bergen / A. Shternshis

Spring 2016

Language Courses

GER 100Y/*102Y1/101H1 (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	VC206	A. Bowes
L0201	MTWF 10-11	VC206	H.S. Kim
L0301	MTWF 11-12	VC212	H.S. Kim
*L0401	MTWF 12-1	VC101 (MWF), NF119 (T)	A. Warren
L0501	MTWF 1-2	NF119	A. Warren
L0601	MW 2-4	NF004	S. Gargova
L0701	TR 10-12	TF200	A. Warren
*L5101	MW 6-8	AH204	A. Warren
L5102	MW 6-8	CR406	R. Muff
*L5201	TR 6-8	VC212	R. D’Souza

GER 200Y (GER) Introduction to German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	CR406	W. Ohm
L0201	MTWF 10-11	CR406	J. Wakelin
L0301	MTWF 11-12	CR406	V. Shanmuganathan
L5101	MW 6-8	TF102	T. Sudenis
L5201	TR 6-8	CR406	K. Heinz

GER 300Y (GER) Intermediate German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	CR403	S. Gargova
L0201	TR 10-12	UC85 (T), NF119 (R)	E. Boran
L5101	MW 6-8	VC101	A. Stainton
L5201	TR 6-8	NF009	A. Stainton

GER 260Y (ENG) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 12-2, R 12-1	JH235	A. Shternshis

GER 463Y (ENG) Yiddish for German Speakers

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 12-2, R 12-1	JH235	A. Shternshis

The course is designed as an intensive Yiddish language training. The goal is to teach German speakers to read, write and speak in Yiddish. The curriculum relies on the German language skills of the students, and focuses on differences between Yiddish and German grammar and vocabulary. Upon the completion of the course, students should be able to read Yiddish literary texts with a minimal use of dictionary. Note: Graduate students can take the course in preparation for their Yiddish competency test.

Topic Courses

GER 150HS (ENG) German Culture & Civilization

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 2-4	AH400	E. Boran
Tutorials:
T0101	T 4-5	AH204	R. Muff
T5101	T 5-6	AH304	R. Muff
T5201	W 5-6	TF102	R. Muff

GER 205HS (GER) German Literature I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 2-4, R 1-2	NF006	H.S. Kim

GER 251HS (ENG) German & European Cinema

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 2-6 (incl. screening)	Media Commons Theatre	A. Fenner

An investigation of a stylistically diverse body of contemporary films thematizing the heightened mobility (social, economic, and spatial) that increasingly defines life in 21st-century German and European societies. Readings from social and cultural theory will be paired with weekly screenings whose compelling narratives capture disparate forms of volitional and enforced movement (migration, exile, job relocation, tourism, flanerie) as well as their modern antithesis – stasis and entrapment – following national nification, establishment of the Euro pean Union, and accelerated globalization. We will also examine how the search for new modes of storytelling finds expression in counter cinematic aesthetic, transnational film styles, minor modes of filmmaking, and the renewal of realist aesthetics.

GER 272HS (GER) Introduction to Business German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 12-2, W 12-1	VC212	T. Sudenis

GER 275HS (ENG) Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 2-4	AH400	W. Goetschel
Tutorials:
T0101	R 1-2	AH204	B. Beizaei
T0201	R 2-3	AH206	B. Beizaei
T0301	R 3-4	AH206	B. Beizaei

GER 310HS (GER) German Culture

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 2-4	CR406	A. Stainton

GER 322HS (GER) Kafka in Context

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 2-4	NF113	J. Zilcosky

How do we know how to live life in the modern world, when none of our points of reference seem to hold any reliability or stability? How can we even be sure that we are human, and not some strange, deformed animal with consciousness? Are we perhaps moving through life in a dream, or a nightmare? For Kafka, the German-Jewish-Czech writer who lived most of his life in Prague, the only way to answer these and other similarly troubling questions was to make them the basis of his writing. His works offer a unique model for thinking about human life in the modern world, about consciousness, the body, dreaming and waking, the nature of the social world, and many similar issues. And embedded in his writing is a set of unique ideas about how to read literature. In this course we will set out in pursuit of his models and ideas.

GER 326HS (GER) Writing Memory

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 4-6	NF113	S. Soldovieri

GER 431HS (GER) Turkish-German Literature

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 2-4	OH323	E. Boran

Seit den 1960er Jahren bilden Türken die größte ethnische Minderheit in der Bundesrepublik. Mit ihnen kamen neue Impulse und Perspektiven.
Erst auf Türkisch, doch bald auch auf Deutsch reagierten die Migranten auf die neue Umgebung. Über die Jahre entstand eine türkisch-deutsche Kulturszene. Dieser Kurs betrachtet die 50-jährige Entwicklungsgeschichte türkisch-deutschen Kunstschaffens. Der Fokus der Sitzungen liegt je auf zentralen Künstlern und ihren Werken. Die Ziele des Kurses sind, die kulturell aktivste ethnische Minderheit der BRD und ihren Beitrag zur deutschen Kultur kennen zu lernen, die Merkmale türkisch-deutschen Kunstschaffens zu untersuchen (Stichwort: Kunst mit Akzent) und die deutsche Nachkriegsgeschichte aus dem Blickwinkel dieser Minorität zu betrachten.

GER 450HS (GER) Visual Culture

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 2-6	NF231	S. Soldovieri

What do the movies tell us about history? What does history tell us about the movies? Whether in the form of epic, farce, or costume drama, history has been a preferred subject since the beginnings of narrative film. The course explores the various ‘uses’ of history in the cinema, with a focus on German-language productions. We will examine the different modes in which German cinemas have engaged and continue to engage German history and how they shape the public memory of historical events. The course films will draw on all eras of German Cinema.

CCR 199HS (ENG) The Grail

L0251

M 3-5

WE74

M. Stock

The course investigates one of the most potent cultural symbols: the Grail. The course traces the history of this object back to its origins in the European imagination of the High Middle Ages. Topics of the course include the Grail’s prominent roots in medieval European culture and the significance of Christianity and medieval chivalric culture for these roots; Grail narratives in high medieval European literature; imaginations of a ‘Grail castle’ and a ‘Grail realm;’ and how medieval audiences linked the Grail to fabulous notions of ‘India’ and ‘Asia.’ In a second step, the course moves on to modern renderings of the Grail and new Grail narratives, especially in opera and film.

CCR 199HS (ENG) Technology and the Human

L0252

W 10-12

SS2101

C. Lehleiter

Technology has changed our lives: from railway to car and plane, from telegraph to phone and e-mail, and from wooden artificial limbs to organic prosthetics, scientific knowledge has enhanced human capacities. At the same time, though, this development is also experienced as a threat: killing missiles, controlling ‘Big Brothers,’ and frightening monstrous creatures are the flip-side of technological advancement. This course examines the following questions: What is the relationship between technology and the “human”? Can there be progress of technology without a regress of humanity? Or is technology liberating us from the bonds of nature? We will discuss possible answers by looking at some of the most relevant materials in literature, philosophy, and cultural history (including film) from the eighteenth century to Post-Modernity. However, we do not want to deal with this pressing topic only theoretically. Since technology does not remain in the ivory tower of academia but concerns our every-day life, we will strive to find our own stance towards technology by observing our daily experiences. Therefore, some of the assignments will prompt you to explore your own technological environment.

CCR 199Y (ENG) Our Vampires, Ourselves

L0251

T 2-4

SS1069

E. Boran

Fall 2015

Language Courses

GER 100Y/*102Y1/101H1 (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	VC206	D. Khamseh
L0201	MTWF 10-11	VC206	H.S. Kim
L0301	MTWF 11-12	AH107 (MTF), NF006 (F)	H.S. Kim
*L0401	MTWF 12-1	VC101 (MWF), NF119 (T)	B. Nimani-Gashi
L0501	MTWF 1-2	NF119	V. Rummel
L0601	MW 2-4	NF004	S. Gargova
L0701	TR 10-12	TF 200	J. Zilcosky
*L5101	MW 6-8	VC212	S. Gargova
L5102	MW 6-8	CR406	J. El-Cassabgui
*L5201	TR 6-8	VC212	W. Horsfall

GER 200Y (GER) Introduction to German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	CR406	Y. Aly
L0201	MTWF 10-11	CR406	V. Rummel
L0301	MTWF 11-12	CR406	V. Rummel
L5101	MW 6-8	TF102	T. Sudenis
L5201	TR 6-8	CR406	E. Luzi

GER 300Y (GER) Intermediate German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	CR403	E. Boran
L0201	TR 10-12	NF006	E. Boran
L5101	MW 6-8	VC101	C. Bohnke
L5201	TR 6-8	NF009	V. Shanmuganathan

GER 400F (GER) Advanced German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	NF004	Y. Aly

GER 260Y (ENG) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 12-2, R 12-1	OH323	V. Lightstone

GER 360HF (ENG) Intermediate Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 3-5, R 3-4	T: JH214, R: JH235	A. Shternshis

This course will help you write, speak, and understand Yiddish better. We will use College Yiddish as a primary textbook. We will also read original Yiddish poetry, prose, and press, study Yiddish songs, jokes and folklore. In addition, there will be a guest lecture presented (by native Yiddish speakers of Toronto community).

GER 463Y (ENG) Yiddish for German Speakers

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 12-2, R 12-1	JH235	A. Shternshis

Topic Courses

GER 270HF (ENG) Money and Economy

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
T0101	M 12-2, W 12-1	CR406	C. Lehleiter

In this course, we examine key literary, philosophical, and cultural texts, in order to understand how modern culture approaches problems such as property, debt, and exchange value.

GER 305HF (GER) German Literature II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
T0101	M 1-3, W 1-2	VC101	C. Bohnke

GER 320HF (GER) The Age of Goethe

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
T0101	M 3-5	NF006	W. Goetschel

Germany’s most famous poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, lived from 1749 to 1832. Arguably, his lifetime spanned the end of the feudal age and the rise of the modern period in Germany. The French Revolution shook the world when he was 40, and the daring experiments of the Romantic poets burst onto the artistic scene in the decade after that. Napoleon brought the Holy Roman Empire to an end as Hegel was completing his Phenomenolgie des Geistes in 1806. Three years later, Goethe produced what he considered his “best book” Die Wahlverwandtschaf-ten. And in the coming years, as the German political landscaped was changed by war and reform movements, Heinrich von Kleist and E. T. A. Hoffmann produced remarkable and troubling works of fiction. Our aim in this course is to provide a survey of this innovating period in German literature.

GER 323HF (GER) Weimar Culture & Beyond

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
T0101	W 2-4	NF119	A. Gerstner

GER 411HF Introduction to Critical Theory (ENG)

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
T0101	W 3-6	AH100	W. Goetschel

This course on current debates in critical theory will familiarize students with some of the key issues in critical theory today, and provide the background to these debates. The course content varies from year to year, so check the departmental website for details.

CCR 199Y (ENG) Our Vampires, Ourselves

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0251	T 2-4	SS 2128	E. Boran

Summer 2015

Language Courses

GER 100Y (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	MTWR 6-8	AH107	E. Luzi

GER 200Y (GER) Introduction to German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	MTWR 6-8	AP120	V. Pfeiffer / J. Wakelin

Spring 2015

Language Courses

GER 100Y/101HS/102Y1* (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	CR406	Y. Aly
L0201	MTWF 10-11	CR406	Y. Aly
L0301	MTWF 11-12	AB114	L. Pehar
*L0401	MTWF 12-1	CR406	R. D’Souza
L0501	MTWF 1-2	NF119	T. Sudenis
L0601	MW 2-4	VC206	A. Warren
L0701	TR 10-12	TF201	H.S. Kim
*L5101	MW 6-8	CR403	L. Pehar
*L5201	TR 6-8	EM108	A. Stainton
L5202	TR 6-8	EM302	L. Pehar

The GER 100Y1Y language course is an introductory German course divided into two sections for students with no prior knowledge of the language. Based on a communicative and task-based approach, it is designed to develop proficiency in oral and written communication skills while providing students with knowledge and understanding of the societies and cultures of German-speaking countries. Students will develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through a variety of stimulating activities. Vocabulary will be presented in the context of culturally significant issues. Topics cover areas such as introducing and talking about oneself, shopping, telling time and recounting a day, family life, describing and renting an apartment, travel, health and fitness or studying abroad. Additionally, the course will provide students with a foundation in a number of basic grammatical structures and concepts.
Class periods will be devoted mostly to communicative and interactive exercises. In addition to preparation at home, regular class attendance is paramount in order to participate successfully in these activities.

GER 200Y (GER) Introduction to German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	VC211	T. Sudenis
L0201	MTWF 10-11	TF102	T. Sudenis
L0301	MTWF 11-12	CR406	M. Hager
L5101	MW 6-8	TF102	A. Stainton

GER 300Y (GER) Intermediate German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	NF007	H. Van Bael
L0201	TR 10-12	TF200	V. Shanmuganathan
L5101	MW 6-8	CR405	N. Vohringer

GER 260Y (ENG) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 12-2, R 1-2	JH235	A. Shternshis

GER 462HS (ENG) Advanced Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	R 2-4	JH235	A. Shternshis

Topic Courses

GER 150HS (ENG) German Culture & Civilization

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 4-6	AH400	E. Boran
Tutorials:	T 4-5, T 5-6, W 5-6	L0101/5101/5201 in AH204	A. Stainton
		L0102 in TF103, 5102 in TF102, 5202 in TF203	K. Heinz

GER 175HS (ENG) German Cultural Studies: Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 2-4, Tutorial R 1-2, 2-3, 3-4	AH400, Tutorials in AH204	W. Goetschel, Tutorials: B. Beizaei

GER 205HS (GER) Introduction to German Literature I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 12-2, R 12-1	NF004	A. Warren

GER 250HS (ENG) Recent Trends in German Cinema

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 1-5 (incl. 2 hours of viewing)	VC101	A. Fenner

In this 25th anniversary year of the Berlin Republic, this course takes stock of the extraordinary proliferation and diversification of output in recent German cinema. We will examine how these films engage key issues facing the state and its populace since unification, but also trends in how they’ve been theorized and interpreted in historiographical scholarship of the past decade. Topics explored will include the legacy of East German communism, the commodification of history on film as well as the cinephilic citation of film history itself, globalization processes and their economic and social impact, the consolidation of the European Union, and Germany’s emerging status as multicultural nation. We will also take account of the transformation of film financing and material production circumstances as a result of European funding structures, and contemplate whether it is possible to discern an emergent ‘transnational aesthetic.’ Both big budget blockbusters and independent films will be considered in regard to the implications for film content, style, and social content.

GER 310HS (GER) Contemporary German Culture and Media

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	R 6-8	NF113	Y. Aly

GER 336HS (GER) Focus on Berlin

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 2-4	TF201	S. Soldovieri

“Sich in einer Stadt nicht zurechtfinden heißt nicht viel. In einer Stadt sich zu verirren, wie man in einem Walde sich verirrt, braucht Schulung.” Walter Benjamin,“Berliner Kindheit”
Taking as our inspiration Benjamin’s seemingly paradoxical notion of the training required to “get lost” in the city, this course will consist of a set of cultural excursions into Berlin’s past and present. Focusing for the most part on the Twentieth Century, we will explore a range of literary, filmic, architectural, and historical texts charting Berlin’s shifting identity as an industrial metropolis, centre of Nazi Germany, divided cold war city and finally its postmodern reinvention as the capital of the ‘Berlin Republic.’

GER 340HS (GER) German Theater Production

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	T/R 6-8	BR200	E. Boran

After a fiercely comical production of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Physicists in 2010 and a weirdly scary one of Drakul(j)a in 2013, this year’s project is an adaptation of Günter Grass’ Hochwasser, a slightly absurd play about humans and beasts stranded in a house together. Outside, there is rain, nothing but rain. The waters are rising, and soon the protagonists are faced with a flood of almost biblical proportions. While strange visitors invade the house, rats, soaking wet, are trapped on the roof and reflect on God and the world.
“Rats are humans too,” one character claims and, sure enough, when the humans are finally forced to head to the roof, they gradually turn into rats themselves. The class is limited to 20 participants, but don’t be deterred: If it’s full, simply put yourself on the waiting list and attend session 1 anyway. Some students are bound to drop the course. If you miss the first weeks – registered or not – you may not take the course. (Please check the detailed course syllabus under Course Syllabi.)
http://erolaner.wix.com/theater-du

GER 367HS (ENG) Holocaust in Literature

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 10-12	SS1085	A. Shternshis & D. Bergen

Topics in modern Yiddish or German Jewish literature and culture from the beginning of the 19th century to the present, featuring a selection of readings of modern Yiddish prose, poetry, drama and cinema. (Taught in English and open to students across disciplines.)

GER 372S (GER) German Business Culture 2

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MWF 12-1	VC206	M. Hager

GER 426HS (GER) Introduction to Medieval German

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L5101	M 5-8	VC304	M. Stock

GER 430S (ENG) Goethe’s Novels

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 3-5	AH103	J. Noyes

From the moment he published his first novel, Die Leiden des jungen Werther, at the age of 24 to the appearance of Wilhelm Meister’s Wanderjahre three years before his death, Goethe’s novels set the tone for prose writing in German. His novels are daring, bold, experimental, never satisfied with repeating formula or meeting reader – expectations. In this course we will read all of Goethe’s novels. It is a cross-listed graduate and senior undergraduate course. The classroom language is English. Students in the German department are expected to read the novels in German. For students in Comparative Literature, all the novels are available in English translation.

CCR 199S (ENG) Circles of Celluloid

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0251	W 1-5	SS1080	S. Soldovieri

The remake is as old as the cinematic medium itself. In many ways film is ‘repetition’ – the recycling of other films and literature. Films are forms of repetition in series, different cuts or versions (as the result of censorship, synchronization, restoration, etc). In fact the very first film by the Lumière brothers, La sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon’ (1895), exists simultaneously in three variations. And films are structured by repetitions in the form of intertextual associations, processes of cultural flow and exchange, visual and aural quotes, homages, etc. The course will explore the remake phenomenon in its historical, industrial, transnational and theoretical dimensions.

CCR 199Y (ENG) Our Vampires, Ourselves

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0251	R 10-12	UC87	E. Boran

Fall 2014

Language Courses

GER 100Y/102Y1* (GER) Introduction to German I

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	CR406	D. Khamseh
L0201	MTWF 9-10	CR406	D. Khamseh
L0301	MTWF 11-12	BA3116	M. Swatuk
*L0401	MTWF 12-1	CR406	W. Ohm
L0501	MTWF 1-2	CR406	C. Miller
L0601	MW 2-4	VC212	C. Bohnke
L0701	TR 10-12	TF201	H.S. Kim
*L5101	MW 6-8	CR403	E. Luzi
*L5201	TR 6-8	EM108	E. Boran
L5202	TR 6-8	EM302	C. Miller

GER 200Y (GER) Introduction to German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MTWF 9-10	VC211	H.S. Kim
L0201	MTWF 10-11	TF102	M. Hager
L0301	MTWF 11-12	CR406	M. Hager
L5101	MW 6-8	TF102	V. Pfeiffer

GER 300Y (GER) Intermediate German II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	VC211	C. Bohnke
L0201	TR 10-12	TF200	H. Van Bael
L5101	MW 6-8	CR405	V. Melnykevych

GER 400F (GER) Advanced German Practice

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MW 10-12	VC212	M. Burks

GER 260Y (ENG) Elementary Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 12-2, R 1-2	JH235	A. Shternshis

GER 360F (ENG) Intermediate Yiddish

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 2-3, R 2-4	JH235	A. Shternshis

Topic Courses

GER 240F (ENG) German Drama in Translation

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 4-6, Tutorial W 4-5, 5-6	TF102	E. Boran

GER 305F (GER) Introduction to German Literature II

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 1-3, W 1-2	AH400	A. Gerstner

GER 330F (GER) Introduction to Poetry

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 2-3, R 2-4	NF004	Y. Aly

Poetry provides an excellent way of looking at German culture through art. The foundation of the course will be close reading and of poems in the German language across a variety of subgenres through different epochs. The texts we read & discuss are (mostly) short & (always) challenging and allow for ample contextualization and interpretation. The course will be taught in German. Some of the poems may be available in English translation, but close reading and class discussions will be based on the German originals.

GER 332F (GER) Deviance, Madness, Outsiders in Literature

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	T 1-3	TF201	J. Noyes

GER 370F (GER) German Business Culture 1

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	MWF 12-1	VC206	M. Hager

GER 423F (GER) Transnational Literatures

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	W 2-4	IN223	A. Fenner

Our understanding of the defining parameters of German cultural production has dramatically transformed in the course of the latter 20th-century and beyond. Both literary and filmic output are now defined by an unprecedented heterogeneity in form, thematics, and language. This is attributable not only to the dramatic changes in national self-understanding to which Germany has been subject since 1945 through the respective founding of the Federal and Democratic Republics, the ensuing construction of the Wall, and its demise 50 years later amidst unification. The recruitment of foreign labour to both Germanies beginning in the 1950s also infused new cultural perspectives; today, authors of extraordinarily diverse background – both recent arrivals to Germany and those of the second and third generation – continue to vitalize the parameters of what constitutes German cultural production. This seminar takes stock of a cross-section of literary, and to a limited extent, also filmic texts that provoke us to rethink the linguistic and cultural bounds of German culture. The thematics of crossing boundaries, or indeed, of their dissolution will surface across a swath of texts now identified as transnational in scope and thrust.

CCR 199F (ENG) The Grail

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0101	M 3-5	LM123	M. Stock

CCR 199Y (ENG) Our Vampires, Ourselves

Section	Time	Room	Instructor
L0251	R 10-12	UC87	E. Boran