German Studies Requirements and Recommendations
The Major
A minimum of 30 credits beyond the intermediate sequence (German 201-202)
is required (the equivalent of 10 3-credit courses). Requirements include
A. German 301 and 302 (Advanced German I and II: Contemporary German Life and Culture).
B. German
330 and 331
(Introduction to German Literature and Culture I and II).
C. German
230 (Crisis and Continuity: German Culture and Society in the 20th Century).
D. German
250 (German Culture from Luther to Hegel); or History
328 (Germany to 1815) and
History 329 (Germany, 1815-1945).
E. Two or three additional courses, to be selected with major adviser's
approval, from those offered by German studies faculty and from courses
outside the department.
If requirement D is met by the History
328 and 329
sequence, only two additional courses must be taken under this requirement;
if requirement D has been met by German
250 three courses must be taken. Courses may be selected from the
following lists, but at least one course selected must be offered by
a department other than Modern Languages. No more than two courses from
list c) may be counted for the major.
a)Courses offered by German faculty in the Modern Languages Department
(Please note: some of these courses are offered only occasionally, when
demand and resources permit):
German
C165 (Masterpieces of German Literature)
German
208 (Business German)
German
260 (Aspects of Modern German Literature)
German
263 (Germany in the Twentieth Century: Weimar and Nazi Culture)
German
275 (Images of Women and Men in German Literature)
German
277 (The World of Kafka)
German
279 (Thomas Mann: The Writer and His Times)
Any 400-level course offered in German
Human
C271 (Literature of the Holocaust)
B) Courses with a significant German component: (1/3 or more)
Art 347
Arts of Power (when relevant)
Hist
327 (Germany sicne 1945)
Hist
328 (Germany to 1815)
Hist
329 (Germany, 1815-1945)
Hist
358 (War in the 20th Century)
Hist
428 (The Germanies since 1945)
Hist
429 (Hitler, a Man and His Times)
Human
254 (Romanticism and European Literature)
Music
202 (Music History II: Bach, HŠndel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert)
Phil
455 (Hegel)
Phil
462 (Critical Philosophy of Kant)
Phil
465 (Kant's Moral Philosophy and Its Critics)
Phil
470 (Wittgenstein)
PolSci
472 (Political Philosophy of Hegel)
c)Courses with general European content and minor German component:
Art 202
(Renaissance to Modern Art)
Art 210
(Studies in the History of Art) (when relevant)
Art 314
(Northern Painting of the 17th Century)
Art 316
(Painting 1780-1850 (including Runge, Friedrich)
Art 339
(Twentieth Century - Architecture)
Econ
208 (History of Economic Thought) (including Marx, the German History
School)
Econ
334 (International Trade)
Econ
372 (Comparative Economic Systems)
Hist
313 (19th Century Europe)
Hist
315 (Europe, 1900-1945)
Hist
316 (Europe since 1945)
Hist
338 (Jewish History since 1500)
Hum
220 Mod Lang 220 (Hades, Heaven, and Hell)
ModLng
LC275/WoSt LC275 (Women in European Thought and Literature)
Music
203 (Music History III)
Phil
219 (19th Century Philosophy)
PolSci
C252 (Modern Political Thought)
PolSci
220 (International Relations)
PolSci
224 (The Political Novel)
PolSci
305 (Images of World Politics in Film and Literature)
PolSci
353 (European Political Development)
PolSci
354 (Postwar European Problems)
PolSci
361 (The Politics of Eastern Europe)
ThrArt
218 (Modern European Drama)
F. German 490, the German Studies Seminar, an integrative and in-depth
seminar on a topic in German Studies, taught by German Studies program
faculty from Modern Languages or another department. May be taken more
than once if seminar topic is not repeated.
G. A semester or year of study abroad is strongly recommended for German Studies majors. (See the Study Abroad adviser for information concerning the Baden-WŸrttemberg Partnership Program.)