First-Year Seminar: Nature and Death: Ecological Crises in German Literature and Film

This seminar explores ecological crises and their depiction in German literature and film. The texts and films we will discuss will range from early Romantic fairy tales to present-day documentaries and climate-change literature (cli-fi). Together, we will face nuclear catastrophes, flooding, landslides, mass extinction, and climate change. Films with English subtitles; readings and discussions in English. Students may not receive credit for both GSLL 52 and GERM 255 .