Spring 2023 Germanic Studies

Location: 1524 UH; Phone: (312) 996-3205.

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NOTE: 500 level courses require graduate standing

GER 100

Introduction to Germanic Cultures and Literatures

3 hours. No credit toward a major or minor program offered by the Department of Germanic Studies. Lectures, discussion, and readings in English. Creative Arts, and World Cultures course.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
32976LCD12:00 PM - 12:50 PMMWF1072LHFortmann, POn campus and online
"Mapping Germany, Traveling the World" Unlike any other nation, Germany is faced with the impossibility of telling a straightforward narrative of its cultural history. Politically refracted, ideologically divided, linguistically split, and ethnically diverse for much of its history, Germany entertains a unique relation to its cultural memory. Rather than looking chronologically at this twisted history, the course will examine the formative period, named after its towering figure, the Age of Goethe, but it will do so from the point of view of the present day. Why is it that this period in particular occupies a privileged place in the collective memory of the Germans, so much so that many artifacts, images, and texts from that time are readily available and immediately present to this day? Drawing on the rich German tradition, we will examine objects, paintings, and texts both from the Age of Goethe and from the present day by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Alexander von Humboldt, Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel Kehlmann, and Werner Herzog. All readings and discussions will be in English. Course Information: No credit toward a major or minor program offered by the Department of Germanic Studies. Lectures, discussion, and readings in English.

GER 101

Elementary German I

4 hours. Credit is not given for GER 101 if the student has credit for GER 106. This is a blended-online and classroom course. Use of computer and internet access is required. A high speed connection, while not required, is strongly suggested. Prerequisite(s): For students who have not studied German or placement as determined by test score.

Blended - Online & Classroom

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
15902LCD11:00 AM - 11:50 AMMWF1072LHAjeboriogbon, T; Rott, SOn campus and online
LCDARRANGEDAjeboriogbon, T; Rott, SOn campus and online

GER 102

Elementary German II

4 hours. Credit is not given for GER 102 if the student has credit for GER 106. This is a blended-online and classroom course. Use of a computer and internet access is required. A high speed connection, while not required, is strongly suggested. Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or better in GER 101; or appropriate score on the department placement test.

Blended - Online & Classroom

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
31389LCD09:00 AM - 09:50 AMMWF1002LHDuncker-Hoffmann, K; McGinnis, K; Rott, SOn campus and online
LCDARRANGEDDuncker-Hoffmann, K; McGinnis, K; Rott, SOn campus and online
15906LCD10:00 AM - 10:50 AMMWF1002LHMcGinnis, K; Rott, SOn campus and online
LCDARRANGEDMcGinnis, K; Rott, SOn campus and online

GER 103

Intermediate German I

4 hours. Credit is not given for GER 103 if the student has credit for GER 107. This is a blended-online and classroom course. Use of computer and internet access is required. A high speed connection, while not required, is strongly suggested. Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or better in GER 102 or grade of C or better in GER 106; or appropriate score on the department placement test.

Blended - Online & Classroom

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
15911LCD01:00 PM - 01:50 PMMWF1072LHRott, S; White, POn campus and online
LCDARRANGEDRott, S; White, POn campus and online

GER 104

Intermediate German II

4 hours. Credit is not given for GER 104 if the student has credit for GER 107. A blended-online and classroom course. Use of computer and internet access is required. A high speed connection, while not required, is strongly suggested. Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or better in GER 103; or appropriate score on the placement test.

Blended - Online & Classroom

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
15916LCD01:00 PM - 01:50 PMMWF1042SHJohnson, C; Rott, SOn campus and online
LCDARRANGEDJohnson, C; Rott, SOn campus and online
15914LCD02:00 PM - 02:50 PMMWF1072LHAkyar, I; Rott, SOn campus and online
LCDARRANGEDAkyar, I; Rott, SOn campus and online

GER 214

Conversational German through Popular Culture and Media

3 hours. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in GER 104 or Credit or concurrent registration in GER 107 or the equivalent.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
27669DIS11:00 AM - 12:15 PMTR2072GHAjeboriogbon, T; Hall, SOn campus and online
This intermediate-level course offers focused practice in speaking German via discussions about recent German films. Hone your speaking and pronunciation skills while watching and analyzing a variety of movies and reading and listening to movie reviews and interviews with members of the German film industry. Our structured conversation practice will help you refine your pronunciation and grammar, expand your vocabulary, and gain facility with idiomatic phrases. The class will meet one day per week on campus and one day online and films will be watched outside of class as homework. Course Information: May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in GER 104 or Credit or concurrent registration in GER 107 or the equivalent.

GER 217

Introduction to German Cinema

4 hours. Taught in English. No knowledge of German required. Area literature/culture. Creative Arts, and World Cultures course.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
29710LCDARRANGEDAdamczyk, WOnline with deadlines
Online
29711LCD12:30 PM - 01:45 PMTR2072LHJanatka, E; Meyer, IOn campus and online
This course will provide an overview of German film history, one of the most influential national cinemas in the world: beginning with the celebrated films of Weimar Germany (1919-1933), we will examine how cinema reflects and comments upon specific socio-historic contexts and shifting notions of German national identity. We will discuss films made under the Nazis (1933-45); post-war cinema; films of the critically acclaimed New German Cinema of the 1970s; cinema made in socialist East Germany after World War II; historical dramas; and art house and international favorites of the contemporary period. We will consider the parameters of national cinema, asking to what extent a nations films can be seen as a projection screen for cultural hopes and anxieties. Along these lines, we will examine the ways in which the specters of fascism and the Holocaust loom in post-war German cinema along with the history of the division of Berlin and Germany from 1945-89. We will likewise consider German film in light of the limits of national categorizations for cinema in a globalizing world. In addition to screening and analyzing films, we will read a number of theoretical texts that will provide an aesthetic and cultural frame for interpretation. Course Information: Taught in English. Films with subtitles. No knowledge of German required. Area literature/culture. General Education credit for Creative Arts and World Cultures. Course Information: Taught in English. No knowledge of German required. Area literature/culture.

GER 219

Vikings and Wizards: Northern Myth and Fairy Tales in Western Culture

3 hours. Taught in English. Area literature/culture. No knowledge of German required. Students who intend to use GER 219 toward an undergraduate major or minor in the Department of Germanic Studies will do assignments in German. Creative Arts, and Past course.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
19518LCD11:00 AM - 11:50 AMMWF2052GHFortmann, P; Janatka, EOn campus and online
"Vikings and Wizards Northern Myth and Fairy Tales in Western Culture: The Brothers Grimm and Their Cultural Legacy" The course examines the cultural legacy of the Brothers Grimm, renowned nineteenth-century collectors and editors of Germanic fairy tales, legends and myths. The Brother Grimms life-long pursuit of fairy tales launched a tidal wave of folkloric collecting throughout Europe and led to significant advances in research. Their search for the origins of German cultural material drove groundbreaking studies of newly discovered Old Norse and Old Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, as well as of Germanys national myth, The Song of the Nibelungs. The questions they posed about oral and literary transmission later gave rise to the oral-formulaic model and continues to shape modern scholarship. The course will consider various interpretive strategies developed to classify and read this new material, from Propps morphology and Aarne-Thompsons typology to feminist, historical and animal studies approaches. Through close readings of literary tales, the course provides basic tools for narrative interpretation and critical argumentation. Course Information: Taught in English. Area literature/culture. No knowledge of German required. Students who intend to use GER 219 toward an undergraduate major or minor in the Department of Germanic Studies will do assignments in German.

GER 299

Becoming Transcultural: Study Abroad

0 TO 17 hours. May be repeated. May be repeated for a maximum of 34 hours of credit per academic year. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or above; and approval of the department and approval of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In exceptional cases students may be permitted to take this course after the first freshman semester. Students must be in good academic standing. Instructor Approval Required

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
42348STAARRANGEDMeyer, I

GER 300

Writing in the Study of German

1 hours. Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above; or approval of the department. Must be taken concurrently with a course that receives credit toward a major offered by the Department of Germanic Studies, as specified in the Timetable. Restricted to majors and minors in the Department of Germanic Studies. Instructor Approval Required

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
35902CNFARRANGEDMeyer, I

GER 302

Topics in German Cinema

3 hours. Taught in English. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 or MOVI 102; or ENGL 120; or ENGL 121 or MOVI 121; or GER 217; or GER 207 or LCSL 207 or SPAN 207; or ENGL 232 or AH 232 or MOVI 232; or ENGL 233 or AH 233 or MOVI 233.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
41056LCD09:30 AM - 10:45 AMTR1152LHMeyer, IOn campus and online
New German Cinema "New German Cinema" Same as MOVI 331 and ENGL 331. This course will focus on one of the most consequential movements in post-war West German film history, namely that of New German Cinema (1962-1982). We will examine the movements origins and formation as a critical response to German fascism; its historical and socio-political contexts; its formal features; the auteurs and actors shaping its profile; and its impact on German film history writ large. Directors whose work we will discuss include Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Werner Herzog; Margarethe von Trotta; Wim Wenders; Alexander Kluge; Helma Sanders-Brahms; Volker Schlndorff; Rosa von Praunheim; Helke Sander; Hans-Jrgen Syberberg, Edgar Reitz, and Ulrike Ottinger. The class will meet on campus (LH 115) and online as needed. Readings and class discussions will be in English, and films will be available with English subtitles. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 or MOVI 102; or ENGL 120; or ENGL 121 or MOVI 121; or GER 217; or GER 207 or LCSL 207 or SPAN 207; or ENGL 232 or AH 232 or MOVI 232; or ENGL 233 or AH 233 or MOVI 233.

GER 398

Honors Project

3 hours. May not be taken in the term in which student expects to graduate. Prerequisite(s): Completion of 12 hours of courses toward the major, with a grade point average of at least 3.60 in these courses, and prior approval of the department. Restricted to majors in the Department of Germanic Studies. Instructor Approval Required

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
35915CNFARRANGEDFortmann, P
34906CNFARRANGEDHall, S
15926CNFARRANGEDLoentz, E
35910CNFARRANGEDMeyer, I
35913CNFARRANGEDRott, S
35916CNFARRANGEDSchlipphacke, H

GER 399

Independent Study

1 TO 3 hours. May be repeated. Students may register in more than one section per term. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. Instructor Approval Required This course counts toward the limited number of independent study hours accepted toward the degree and the major.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
35921CNFARRANGEDFortmann, P
35919CNFARRANGEDHall, S
24355CNFARRANGEDLoentz, E
35917CNFARRANGEDMeyer, I
35920CNFARRANGEDMeyer, I
35918CNFARRANGEDRott, S
35922CNFARRANGEDSchlipphacke, H

GER 439

Gender and Cultural Production

3 OR 4 hours. Same as CEES 439 and GWS 439. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated up to 1 time(s) if topics vary. Taught in English. Students who intend to use GER 439 toward a degree offered by the Department of Germanic Studies will do assignments in German. Area: literature/culture. Prerequisite(s): GER 212 or consent of the instructor.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
27666LCD03:30 PM - 06:00 PMT2052LHHall, SOn campus and online
3 hours "Feminist Film Practice in Germany, Austria and the Transnational Beyond" Centering on films connected with German-speaking parts of the world, this course will explore the plurality of late 20th and early 21st century feminist filmmaking practice and mobilize current intersectional feminist approaches to film criticism and research in film studies. Filmmakers include Maren Ade, Sheri Hagen, Ines Johnson-Spain, Branwen Okpako, Helke Sander, Ula Stckl, Angela Schanelec, Tatjana Turanskyj, and Margarethe von Trotta. The course will be taught in English and all readings will be available in English and films will have English subtitles. The films will be watched outside of class as part of weekly homework assignments. Restricted to Undergrad - Chicago.
27683LCD03:30 PM - 06:00 PMT2052LHHall, SOn campus and online
4 hours "Feminist Film Practice in Germany, Austria and the Transnational Beyond" Centering on films connected with German-speaking parts of the world, this course will explore the plurality of late 20th and early 21st century feminist filmmaking practice and mobilize current intersectional feminist approaches to film criticism and research in film studies. Filmmakers include Maren Ade, Sheri Hagen, Ines Johnson-Spain, Branwen Okpako, Helke Sander, Ula Stckl, Angela Schanelec, Tatjana Turanskyj, and Margarethe von Trotta. The course will be taught in English and all readings will be available in English and films will have English subtitles. The films will be watched outside of class as part of weekly homework assignments. Restricted to Graduate - Chicago or Graduate Non-Degree Chicago.

GER 449

Teaching Second Language Literacy and Cultural Awareness

3 OR 4 hours. Same as FR 449, and SPAN 449. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Taught in English. Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above; and consent of the instructor and three courses at the 200 and 300 levels. Restricted to Teaching of French or Teaching of German or Teaching of Spanish major(s). Instructor Approval Required

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
23756LCD03:30 PM - 06:00 PMR1332BSBTaboada, IMeet on campus
3 hours Restricted to Undergrad - Chicago.
23757LCD03:30 PM - 06:00 PMR1332BSBTaboada, IMeet on campus
4 hours Restricted to Graduate - Chicago or Graduate Non-Degree Chicago.

GER 461

German Abroad

0 TO 17 hours. May be repeated to a maximum of 34 hours. Prerequisite(s): GER 104 or the equivalent, a 2.75 overall grade point average, a 3.00 grade point average in Germanic Studies, and approval of the department. Departmental Approval Required

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
15930STAARRANGEDRott, S

GER 492

Internship in International Business

0 TO 12 hours. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated with approval. Approval to repeat course granted by the department. Prerequisite(s): GER 211; and consent of the instructor and a GPA of 2.00. Recommended background: Concurrent registration in GER 493 or registration in GER 493 in the semester immediately following. Departmental Approval Required

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
36380PRARRANGEDMeyer, I

GER 493

Internship Seminar: Business

1 TO 4 hours. May be repeated with approval. Approval to repeat course granted by the department. A maximum of 3 hours of credit may be applied toward an undergraduate degree offered by the Department of Germanic Studies, and a maximum of 4 hours of credit may be applied toward a graduate degree offered by the Department of Germanic Studies. Prerequisite(s): GER 211 and credit or concurrent registration in GER 492 and consent of the instructor and a grade point average of 2.00. Departmental Approval Required

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
36381CNFARRANGEDMeyer, I

GER 494

Educational Practice with Seminar I

6 hours. Graduate credit only with approval of the department. Prerequisite(s): Good academic standing in a teacher education program, completion of 100 clock hours of pre-student-teaching field experiences, and approval of the department. To be properly registered, students must enroll in one Lecture-Discussion and one Practice.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
30438PR - APARRANGEDTaboada, I

GER 495

Educational Practice with Seminar II

6 hours. Graduate credit only with approval of the department. Prerequisite(s): Good academic standing in a teacher education program, completion of 100 clock hours of pre-student-teaching field experiences, credit or concurrent registration in GER 494, and approval of the department. To be properly registered, students must enroll in one Conference and one Practice.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
30437CNF - ACARRANGEDTaboada, I
30436PR - APARRANGEDTaboada, I

GER 513

Germanic Culture from the Enlightenment to the 1848 Revolution

4 hours. May be repeated if topics vary.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
32982LCD03:30 PM - 06:00 PMR2142LHSchlipphacke, HMeet on campus
"Novel Worlds: Germanic Culture from the Enlightenment to the 1848 Revolution" This course will focus on the emergence of the modern German novel in the period of the European Enlightenment. We will read a variety of novels written between 1747 and 1848, tracing the emergence of notions such as the modern interior subject (the object of psychoanalysis), the nuclear family, modern kinship and social forms, and the imagined modern nation. The modern novel represents itself as a world, a space within which the (normative, European male) protagonist can develop, and we will analyze critically this process as depicted in the genre of the Bildungsroman and in epistolary novels of the period. We will read novels by canonical (Gellert, Goethe, and others) and lesser-known (La Roche, Willebrand, and others) German authors, both male and female, exploring the potentialities of the novel to imagine and stage social worlds. Along these lines, we will explore the ways in which the German novel has been shaped by colonial fantasies and by literary works from a wide variety of other cultures to offer the reader a world that transcends the boundaries of the German territories.Longer novels will be read over multiple weeks. We will likewise read seminal theories of the novel, of colonial fantasies, and of canonization and gender. Students will also have the opportunity to analyze a contemporary novel.

GER 540

Topics in Contemporary Germanic Literature and Film

4 hours. May be repeated for a maximum of 8 hours of credit if topics vary.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
38288LCD03:00 PM - 05:30 PMW2072GHLoentz, EOn campus and online
This course is an introduction to contemporary German-language transnational literature. Broadly defined, transnational literature transcends, crosses, or challenges traditional national or national-cultural boundaries. We will examine texts by immigrant and refugee writers; ethnic, national, and religious minority writers; bilingual writers; and others whose work challenges traditional national boundaries or the paradigm of national literatures, examining how the diverse voices of contemporary German culture contribute to new conceptions of German national or cultural identity in the late 20 th and early 21 st centuries. We will focus both on the political, social, and cultural contexts in which our readings emerged (debates over multiculturalism, Leitkultur, integration; Audre Lordes influence on the Afro-German Womens Movement; Nationality Law reform and Immigration Law; Vergangenheitsbewltigung or Germanys reckoning with the Holocaust and its National Socialist past; the new antisemitism, rightwing extremism, and the rise of the AfD party and PEGIDA; Germanys role in the recent refugee crisis) and on theoretical and critical approaches to transnational writing. We will also consider other paradigms and concepts, such as Minor Literature, Diaspora literature, Intercultural Writing, Multiculturalism, Cosmopolitanism, Globalization, and Migrant Writing.

GER 593

Internship Seminar: Academic Training

4 hours. Restricted to graduate students in Germanic studies. Students will attend the faculty-taught culture/literature class. To be properly registered, students must enroll in one Conference and one Discussion/Recitation.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
15940CNF - AC1ARRANGEDLoentz, E
Instructor Approval Required
15941DIS - AD1ARRANGEDLoentz, E
34074CNF - BCARRANGEDFortmann, P
Instructor Approval Required
34075DIS - BDARRANGEDFortmann, P
34076CNF - CCARRANGEDHall, S
Instructor Approval Required
34077DIS - CDARRANGEDHall, S
34080CNF - ECARRANGEDRott, S
Instructor Approval Required
34081DIS - EDARRANGEDRott, S
35923CNF - FCARRANGEDMeyer, I
Instructor Approval Required
35924DIS - FDARRANGEDMeyer, I
35925CNF - GCARRANGEDSchlipphacke, H
Instructor Approval Required
35926DIS - GDARRANGEDSchlipphacke, H

GER 596

Independent Study for Graduate Students

1 TO 4 hours. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
34083CNFARRANGEDFortmann, P
34084CNFARRANGEDHall, S
34082CNFARRANGEDLoentz, E
35927CNFARRANGEDMeyer, I
15942CNFARRANGEDRott, S
35928CNFARRANGEDSchlipphacke, H

GER 598

Master's Thesis Research

0 TO 16 hours. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): Consent of supervising faculty member and committee approval.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
34086CNFARRANGEDFortmann, P
34089CNFARRANGEDHall, S
15943CNFARRANGEDLoentz, E
35930CNFARRANGEDMeyer, I
34093CNFARRANGEDRott, S
35931CNFARRANGEDSchlipphacke, H

GER 599

Ph.D. Thesis Research

0 TO 16 hours. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): Approval of the department and consent of the instructor.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
34087CNFARRANGEDFortmann, P
34088CNFARRANGEDHall, S
15944CNFARRANGEDLoentz, E
35932CNFARRANGEDMeyer, I
34092CNFARRANGEDRott, S
35933CNFARRANGEDSchlipphacke, H