Courses Taught in German

Featured Courses for Fall 2020

First-Year Seminar: The History of Diversity: Race, Language, Species

GER 89S.02

Starting in the late eighteenth century, Europeans began to classify global human populations into vast families using two primary systems. The first was the invention of race. The second categorized cultures according to language family, focusing on two groups they called Aryan and Semitic. ...

Germanic Myths & Legends

GER 323S

Exploration of ancient Germanic fantasy worlds with their gods, giants, dwarves, dragon-slayers, werewolves, shapeshifters, and witches. Readings of short texts and excerpts from myths, epics, legends, fairy tales, riddles, and incantations. Where do the figures, beasts, creatures appear and what...

Germany Confronts the Holocaust

GER 387

The ways in which official German culture comes to terms with its Nazi past. Background reading in history and politics; primary focus on films, dramas, novels, and poetry, as well as public memorials, monuments, and museums. Authors treated include: Wolfgang Borchert, Rolf Hochhuth, Peter Weiss,...

Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

GER 380D

Three principle sources of the twentieth (and now twenty-first) century: the insistence on an ultimate convergence of (revolutionary) theory and practice; the phenomenon of nihilism and the challenge of overcoming it; the exploration of the hidden foundations of the self and of culture. A critical...

Course Numbering Scheme

0-99 Advanced Placement Credit; House Courses; First-Year Seminars; First-Year Writing; Registrar/Department special purpose
100-199 Introductory-level undergraduate courses; basic skills/activity courses; foundation courses; Focus program courses
200-399 Undergraduate courses above introductory level
400-499 Advanced undergraduate, senior seminars, capstone courses, honors thesis courses
500-699 Graduate courses open to advanced undergraduates
700-999 Graduate only courses (not open to undergraduates)

These are courses taught in German, that meet the Foreign Language requirement for graduation with a bachelor degree at Duke.

Course Number	Title	Curriculum Codes	Crosslisting Numbers
GER 111	Intensive First-Year German	FL
GER 306S	Advanced German II: Text and Context	W, CZ, FL, ALP
GER 323S	Germanic Myths & Legends	CZ, CCI, FL, ALP
GER 334S	Projekt Theater: German Theater and Performance	FL, ALP
GER 335S	Modern German Theater and Drama	CCI, FL, ALP	THEATRST223S, ICS
GER 358S	Sociolinguistic Landscapes: German Language, Society, and Identity	SS, CZ, FL	LINGUIST 358S
GER 390S	Special Topics in German Literature and Culture	FL
GER 430S	German Literature and Culture	CCI, FL, ALP
GER 435S	German Politics and Society	CZ, CCI, FL
GER 443S	GEFANGEN! Stories of Entrapment in the 20th & 21st Centuries
GER 724	Form & Theory of the Lyrical Image: Goethe, Hölderlin, Mörike, Eichendorff, Trakl

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Featured Courses for Fall 2020

First-Year Seminar: The History of Diversity: Race, Language, Species

GER 89S.02

Germanic Myths & Legends

GER 323S

Germany Confronts the Holocaust

GER 387

Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

GER 380D

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Featured Courses for Fall 2020

First-Year Seminar: The History of Diversity: Race, Language, Species

GER 89S.02

Germanic Myths & Legends

GER 323S

Germany Confronts the Holocaust

GER 387

Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

GER 380D

Courses Taught in German

Course Numbering Scheme

German Studies Department

Undergraduate Program

Graduate Program

Research

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