German Studies

2026-2027

68 courses

GERST 1109FWS: From Fairy Tales to the Uncanny: Exploring the Romantic Consciousness
GERST 1121FWS: Writing Berlin
GERST 1122FWS: Love and Death in Vienna
GERST 1126FWS: Philosophies of Violence: Conceptualizations of Force from Kant to Zizek
GERST 1129FWS: Phoniness and Awkwardness
GERST 1131FWS: The Commune
GERST 1132FWS: Epic, Romance, and Fate: Medieval Germanic Literature
GERST 1170FWS: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
GERST 1191As, Ideas: Big Ideas
GERST 1210Exploring German Contexts I
GERST 1220Exploring German Contexts II
GERST 1230Expanding the German Dossier
GERST 1777Elementary Yiddish II
GERST 2000Germany: Intercultural Context
GERST 2020Literary Texts and Contexts
GERST 2040Perspectives on German Culture
GERST 2060German in Business Culture
GERST 2655Politics in Dark Times
GERST 2700Introduction to German Culture and Thought
GERST 2703Thinking Media
GERST 2721The Holocaust in Europe:A Victim-Centered History
GERST 2727AI Before AI: From Automata to Thinking Machines
GERST 3013German Language Across the Curriculum (LAC)
GERST 3080Walking the Line: East and West Germany Then and Now
GERST 3105Performance, Theater and Politics
GERST 3211Sharing Space: Fantasy and Form in German Architectural Imaginations
GERST 3212Germanophone Science and Speculative Fiction
GERST 3245Manifestos
GERST 3340Working Through Working
GERST 3514Trash Talk: Garbage and Beauty
GERST 3550Political Theory and Cinema
GERST 3561Freud and Psychoanalysis
GERST 3610Fables of Capitalism
GERST 3612Remembering Socialism: Literature and Film After the End of History
GERST 3630Friendship: Other Loves, Other Selves
GERST 3709Testimony and Technology: The Holocaust in the Age of AI
GERST 3800Kafka's Worlds: Castles, Trials, and Tribulations
GERST 3825The Past and Future of Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
GERST 4210Existentialism
GERST 4225Arboreal Humanities: Ecology, Aesthetics, and Literature
GERST 4250Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
GERST 4295Violence and the Left
GERST 4444Experimental Media
GERST 4471Premodern-Postmodern
GERST 4509Contemporary Aesthetic Theory and Its Discontents
GERST 4510Independent Study
GERST 4520Independent Study
GERST 4530Honors Research
GERST 4540Honors Thesis
GERST 5070Teaching German as a Foreign Language: Principles and Practices
GERST 6320Reading Academic German II
GERST 6335The Science and Fiction of Sexuality
GERST 6395Writing Revolution: France, Haiti, 1848 Europe, and the Paris Commune
GERST 6405Thinking Media Studies
GERST 6444Experimental Media
GERST 6471Premodern-Postmodern
GERST 6510Contemporary Aesthetic Theory and its Discontents
GERST 6511Illness as Metaphor
GERST 6522Methods of Interpretation: Critical Approaches to Literature
GERST 6615Philosophy for Anti- or Non-Philosophers
GERST 6630Nietzsche and Heidegger
GERST 6730Prophetic Realisms: Literature and the Shape of Things to Come, 1830-1930-2030
GERST 6770Thinking Through Stories: Benjamin, Adorno, Freud, and Others
GERST 6875Key Works in Political Theory
GERST 7530Independent Study
GERST 7531Colloquium
GERST 7540Independent Study
GERST 7541Colloquium