How was gender portrayed in Vienna 1900, and what did people do to resist and undercut rigid definitions and stereotypes?  Why were healthy expressions of sexuality forbidden during this time?  How does a society react when their stable, comfortable world begins to collapse?  What do you do when language fails and you can no longer describe your thoughts and feelings?  This course, The Naked Truth: Crisis and Dissolution in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, seeks to hold up a mirror to Vie

How are modern travel and migration experiences narrated by a diverse group of writers? Whose voices do we hear in their stories? How are they portraying self and Other? Which encounters and adventures do they feature in their texts? We will discuss the poetics of walking and contemporary slow travel, fictional East-West travelogues, Arctic adventures, Italian journeys, tales of displacement and post-migration stories.

Have we learned nothing?  Recent events around the globe and here at home have revived frightful memories of the Holocaust and the devastating possibility that history could repeat itself. 

Delve into the rich linguistic history of English, German, and their Germanic relatives while gaining insights into language evolution and creating a collaborative digital exhibition. 

In this course we will marvel at how fairy tales are part of ecologies of storytelling that stretch from 16th century Italy to present-day Coast Salish nations.

We will explore the history of musical experience in Germany and beyond. We will listen to Bach and Turkish-German Rappers, watch films about Mozart and Cabaret, and even have a night at the opera.

Modern research universities like the UW are a 19th-century German invention. This course
provides an introduction to the modern university, exploring the relationship between
knowledge and power.

This class explores inflections of cross-cultural interactions in the Middle Ages as well as representations of "Otherness" in various cultural settings and discourses.

In this course, you will gain a better understanding of the “biography” of the German language in the geographical areas of its origin as well as abroad. English-language course!