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As you think about autumn quarter 2025 course registration, check out these fun English-language courses in German Studies! Open to everyone -- no prerequisites!
GERMAN 120A
This class provides an introduction to the modern university and an exploration of the relationship between knowledge and power. Using the lens of visual and written contributions from German speaking lands, we will examine how they speak to contemporary issues such as race, gender and climate change. Readings will include thinkers whose marginalized status have challenged and produced alternatives to the dominant culture.
You will learn about the foundations of the modern university, why you are studying here, and what you can get out of your college experience.
Andre Schuetze, German Studies
5 credits, (DIV) Diversity, (SSc) Social Science
THE RESISTANCE STARTS NOW: MEDIA AN D POPULAR CULTURE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST AUTHORITARIAN POWER.
GERMAN 285A / GLITS 251 D , CHID 270 A , LIT 298 A
Across the globe, democracy is under siege. How can we protect our basic rights, once thought to be inalienable, and restore those that have been stolen? The simple answer: Resistance. Through film and texts — including the writings of Martin Luther King, Malcom X, and Angela Davis —students will explore a partial history of protest and resistance, strategies and tactics of resistors, and the role of violence, if any, in resistance.
Richard Block, German Studies
5 credits, (DIV) Diversity, (SSc) Social Science
CONTESTING EXTINCTION: IMAGINING MULTISPECIES FUTURES
GERMAN 285B / GLITS 251 E / ENGL 365A / CHID 270 B
Through a multi-disciplinary approach, we will look at how current threats to the planet's biodiversity are inseparable from threats to cultural diversity. Course readings will indulge in, but ultimately resist, the apocalyptic appeal of art that depicts terminal extinction scenarios. Course assignments are oriented toward imagining and generating collective, livable futures in the wake of biodiversity loss associated with the Sixth Mass Extinction. All readings in English.
Jason Groves, German Studies
5 credits, Diversity (DIV); Social Sciences (SSc)
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These courses are open to all students, have no prerequisites, fulfill Areas of Knowledge requirements as noted, and are taught in English.