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090:293 Honors Seminar: World Languages: History and Theory
090:296 Honors Seminar: How to Disappear Completely
090:296 Honors Seminar: What was the University?
090:297 Honors Seminar: Reparations: An International Perspective
195:301 Introduction to Literary Theory
470:101 Elementary German
470:101 Elementary German
470:102 Elementary German
470:103 German for Travel
470:104 German Conversation
470:105 German for Reading Knowledge
470:106 German for Reading Knowledge
470:109 Introductory Business German I
470:110 Introductory Business German II
470:131 Intermediate German I
470:132 Intermediate German II
470:135 & 470:301 Certainty In Uncertain Times: Über Gewißheit
470:135 German Conversation & Composition
470:225 Fairy Tales Then and Now
470:227 Tales of Horror
470:231 Advanced German I
470:232 Advanced German II
470:244 Topics in German Culture: Ambitious Creators, Scary Creatures
470:244 Topics in German Culture: Cities of Dreams
470:244 Topics in German Culture: The Language of Music
470:246 German Culture: Girls and the City: A Walk Through Modernity
470:246: German Culture: Early German Horror Films
470:247 Psy Fi: Literature and Psychoanalysis
470:247 Psy-Fi: Literature & Psychoanalysis
470:275 Introduction to German Studies
470:277 Radical Modernism and Anti-Art
470:277 Radical Modernism and Anti-Art
470:280 Culture of Yiddish
470:285 Enchanted Worlds
470:299 Contemporary German Media and Society
470:299 Contemporary German Media and Society
470:301 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis
470:301 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis [Topics vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for credit.]
470:302 Introduction to Cultural and Literary Analysis [Topics vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for credit.]
470:302 Introduction to Cultural and Literary Analysis: Identity and Belonging in German Culture
470:303 Critical Issues in German Studies [Topics vary from semester to semester.]
470:304 German and Comparative Literature [Topics vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for credit]
470:304 German and Comparative Literature: Subversive Bodies, Bodily Subversions
470:304 German and Comparative Literature: Technology and Melancholia
470:309: Justice and Violence
470:329 Heroes and Monsters
470:349 Contemporary German and European Cinema
470:353 The Nazi Period in Film
470:354 Kafka and World Literature
470:355 German Thought in the 20th Century: Heidegger
470:360 Classics of German Cinema
470:364 Big Bang: The Literature of Chaos & Order
470:369 Remembering the Holocaust
470:371 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
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