How was gender portrayed in Vienna 1900, and what did people do to resist and undercut rigid definitions. How does a society react when their stable, comfortable world begins to collapse?
This seminar will provide you with a new understanding of the “not-so-dark” Middle Ages through aspects of diversity, including race and racism, religion,
What happens when you sell your soul to the devil?
Was Shakespeare actually German?
Just how relative is time and does that affect deadlines for this course?
WITCHCRAFT - FROM HISTORY TO POP CULTURE
The fascination with witches developed in parallel in different cultures and languages and is unbroken as the recent iterations of Japanese anime and Disney live-action movies show. Due to the “power to create life”–connected with menstruation and birth–women have been associated with special powers in different cultures and centuries as already one of the very first artworks (the so-called Venus of Willendorf, from around 28,000-25,000 BCE) illustrates.
Origins Of The Germanic Languages
This class offers an introduction to the origins of German, English, and their closest relatives with a special focus on the sociolinguistic context. Over the course of the quarter, students will familiarize themselves with Old High German, Old English, Gothic, Old Norse, Old Saxon, and Old Low Franconian regarding their linguistic features, the people who spoke it, and the literature they produced. Taught in English.
Writing the Present, Writing the Self: Voices and Themes in Contemporary German Literature
Rotating special topics in literature and culture of the twentieth century, such as particular movements, authors, genres, themes, or problems. Offered: Sp.
Popular Film And The Holocaust
Modern German Prose: Travel and Narration
Introduces literary works and cultural artifacts from a variety of different traditions, cultures, and periods. Helps students to acquire basic tools for analyzing literature and culture.
Cultures of Extinction
Through a multi-disciplinary approach, we will look at how current threats to biodiversity are inseparable from threats to cultural diversity and how the history and concept of extinction is implicated in histories of colonialism and imperialism.
What happens when you sell your soul to the devil?
What happens when you sell your soul to the devil? Was Shakespeare actually German? Just how relative is time and does that affect deadlines for this course?