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      Courses that may apply to the German Studies Option come from several disciplines, including:
      Other courses may be added to the list as well. Contact the Acting Undergraduate Director, Michael Levine, at mglevine@rci.rutgers.edu for approval.
       
  Anthropology  
         
    01:070:238 ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE (3)
     
European societies and cultures in modern history; changing anthropological perspectives. Gender, ethnicity, and class. Representations and realities of Europe in the making, including issues of nation-building, colonialism, mass culture, and violence.
       
  Art History  
         
    01:082:300 (3) HISTORY OF MODERN CRAFTS AND DESIGN (3)
     
Crafts from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, with particular attention to major developments such as art nouveau, art deco, and functionalism. Developments in England, France, Germany, and the United States.
         
    01:082:313 THE RENAISSANCE IN NORTHERN EUROPE (3)
     
Religious and secular art in Germany, the Netherlands, and France during the sixteenth century; painting, sculpture, and prints; impact of reformation and humanism.
         
    01:082:347 EARLY NORTHERN EUROPEAN PAINTING (3)
     
Development of fifteenth-century easel painting in France, the Netherlands, and Germany; relationship of painting to decorative arts; symbolism, realism, invention from Van Eyck to Bosch.
         
    01:082:374 ROMANESQUE AND GOTHIC ART (3)
     
Art and architecture of Western Europe from AD. 1000 to 1400, from Romanesque symbolic style to Gothic realism.
         
    01:082:375 RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE (3)
     
Survey of the most important buildings, architects, and stylistic developments from 1400 to 1750 in Italy, France, England, and Germany.
         
    01:082:384 ROMANESQUE AND GOTHIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN GERMANY (3)
     
Taught in connection w/ German Summer Program in Constance.
Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture in Germany, with particular attention given to major monuments in southern Germany. Field Trips to the monuments are an important aspect of this course.
         
    01:082:385 RENAISSANCE TO MODERN ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN GERMANY (3)
     
Taught in connection with German Summer Program in Constance.
German Painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance to the present. Special attention given to southern German development of baroque and rococo styles. Field trips to various architectural monuments and museums in Germany.
         
    01:082:390 MODERN ART: TWENTIETH CENTURY (3)
     
European painting and sculpture to World War II; emphasis on American art from 1945 to the present. Field trips to museums.
         
    01:082:482 GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM AND EUROPEAN DADA (3)
     
German Painting from 1900 to 1930. Dada in Europe and its impact on later developments, including contemporary art.
         
    01:082:485 SURREALISM (3)
     
The origins and influences of surrealist art forms and their relationship to Freudianism. Fantastic art, psychotic art, and related tendencies.
       
  Comparative Literature  
         
    01:195:135 INTRODUCTION TO SHORT FICTION (3)
     
The novella, short story, and short novel in Western and non-Western literary traditions. Authors: Boccaccio, Kleist, Hoffmann, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Mann, Kafka, Gide, and Akutagawa.
         
    01:195:304 FICTION AND IDEOLOGY (3)
     
Fictional narratives as statements about the social order. Texts by major thinkers such as Marx, Lukacs, Goldmann, Benjamin, and Williams.
         
    01:195:312 LITERATURE AND THE PSYCHE (3)
     
Texts by Freud, Lacan, and Jung. Introduction to the various literary questions raised by modern theories in psychology, particularly psychoanalysis.
         
    01:195:320 WORLD CINEMA I (3)
     
Developments in French, Italian, British, Russian, and other national cinemas from 1896 to World War II; also examines cross-influences between foreign and American cinema.
         
    01:195:321WORLD CINEMA II (3)
     
Developments in French, Italian, British, Russian, Japanese, and other national cinemas after World War II; also examines cross-influences between foreign and American cinema.
         
    01:195:328 MATRIARCH AND MODERNITY (3)
     
Study of matriarchal undercurrents and their revolutionary shifts and subversions in major literary and theoretical texts from twentieth century German, British, American, and French culture.
         
    01:195:342 THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT (3)
     
Intellectual currents and representative works, including lyric, prose fiction, and drama of the European romantic movement. Major romantic texts of France, Germany, and Russia.
         
    01:195:356 MODERN FICTION (3)
     
Major works of fiction from 1900 to 1945 in their historical and political context. Works by such authors as Lawrence, Gide, Woolf, Mann, Malraux, Kafka, Proust, Soseki, and Lu Xun.
         
    01:195:385 MODERN POETRY
     
Comparative survey of poetry in languages other than English from 1850 to the present. Poets include: Baudelaire, Mallarme, Rimbaud, Rilke, Brecht, Neruda, Vallejo, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Pessoa, Apollinaire, and Artaud.
       
  Economics  
         
    01:220:343 EUROPEAN ECONOMIC HISTORY (3)
     
Emergence of the modern economy in Europe from the sixteenth to the twentieth centruy. Price revolution and mercantilism. Industrial revolution in England and the continent and the formation of international markets. The Great Depression and renewed prosperity.
       
  History  
         
    01:506:111 WORLD HISTORY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (3)
     
Focus on an era dominated by violence and unprecedented change. The World Wars, Marxist revolutions, fascist movements, and third-world struggles culminating in Vietnam.
         
    01:506:211 WOMEN IN EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS UNTIL 1800 (3)
     
Survey of women's roles in Western society and culture-covering Europe and the New World up to about 1800.
         
    01:506:212 WOMEN IN EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS SINCE 1800 (3)
     
Survey of women's roles in Western society and culture-covering the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
         
    01:506:375 JEWISH IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE (3)
     
Modern Jewish immigrant experience, focusing on European and Middle Eastern communities resettled in America, Israel, and Europe.
         
    01:510:101 DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPE I (3)
     
Introductory survey of European history from ancient times to the early modern period. Introduction to historical interpretation and historical inquiry.
         
    01:510:102 DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPE II (3)
     
Introductory survey of European history from the early modern period to the present. Introduction to historical interpretation and historical inquiry.
         
    01:510:245 THE ARTS OF POWER: RITUAL, MYTH, AND PROPAGANDA (3)
     
Investigates how paintings, movies, poems, and ceremonies have been manipulated to bolster the political authority of rulers, including Louis XIV, Lincoln, Hitler, and Elizabeth II.
         
    01:510:261 HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST (3)
     
Developments of anti-Semitism in modern European history culminating in the "Final Solution"; special emphasis on Jewish responses and resistance.
         
    01:510:325 NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE (3)
     
Examination of the formative period of modern Europe, including the industrial and democratic revolutions, nationalism, imperialism, and the crises culminating in World War I.
         
    01:510:327 TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE (3)
     
Major economic and social forces shaping life in twentieth-century Europe, and efforts of major social groups to cope with and shape these forces.
         
    01:510:355 NATIONALISM AND FASCISM IN ITALY (3)
     
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy. Emphasizes economic, political, and social cultural changes.
         
    01:510:361 HISTORY OF GERMANY TO 1914 (3)
     
History of Germany from the Reformation to World War I, emphasizing absolutism, militarism, unification, the rise of nationalism, and anti-Semitism.
         
    01:510:363 HISTORY OF GERMANY SINCE 1914 (3)
     
Analysis of the collapse of imperial Germany, the failure of democracy in the Weimar Republic, Hitler's Third Reich, the Holocaust, and restructuring of Germany since 1945.
         
    01:510:383 NATIONALISM AND SOCIALISM IN EASTERN EUROPE (3)
     
Creation of nation-states after World War I. The problems of under-development, national minorities, and international tensions. The solutions offered by nationalist, fascist, and communist regimes. The formation, experiences, and breakup of the Soviet Bloc.
         
    01:510:385 THE HISTORY OF EAST EUROPEAN JEWRY (3)
     
Economic, legal, and political conditions of Jewish life from the sixteenth century to World War II. Forms of Jewish response: autonomism, messianism, Hasidism, emigration, and socialism.
         
    01:510:390 JEWISH MEMORY (3)
     
Course explores various forms of Jewish memory shaped in response to major events, including myths, holidays, monuments, pilgrimages, testimonies, museums, literature, and film.
       
  Philosophy  
         
    01:730:205 INTRODUCTION TO MODERN PHILOSOPHY (3)
     
Study of the formative period of modern philosophy. Readings selected from works of Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant.
         
    01:730:310 CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENTS IN PHILOSOPHY (3)
     
Prerequisite: One course in philosophy other than 01:730:101 or 102.
Major movements in twentieth century philosophy, such as American pragmatism, development of logic, logical positivism, existentialism, phenomenology. Philosophers such as Peirce, James, Frege, Russel, Carnap, Wittgenstein, Sartre, Heidegger, Husserl.
       
  Political Science  
         
    01:790:204 CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM, AND DEMOCRACY (3)
     
Genesis and development of democracies and dictatorships in advanced industrial societies and in the third world. Role of capitalism; revolutionary, conservative, and liberal movements; contemporary forms of imperialism and dependency.
         
    01:790:210 COMPARITIVE POLITICS (3)
     
Selected political systems considered in a comparative framework. Cases taken from among both more and less economically developed countries. Focuses on governmental process and institutions.
         
    01:790:311 EUROPEAN POLITICS (3)
     
Analysis of national governments in western Europe and of the European Union (EU). Focus on contemporary issues including economic liberalization, welfare state reform, European law, foreign policy, and enlargement to eastern Europe.
         
    01:790:315 POLITICS AND CULTURE (3)
     
Relationship among various aspects of culture, e.g., the role of symbol, myth, ritual, and religion and its relationship to politics.
         
         
         

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