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Fall 2025 Undergraduate Course Descriptions

 

 

Below is a listing of course descriptions for Fall 2025.  To view the meeting schedule for these courses, go to the course schedule page below:

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  • Fall 2025 course descriptions - expanded view

 

Fall 2025 Core Courses

Intermediate German I, 01:470:131 - AHq
Cultural and Literary Analysis, 470:301, AHp, WCd
Justice & Violence, 470:309, AHo, CCD-2
Contemporary German & European Cinema, 01:470:349, AHp, WCd
Kafka: Rehearsing the Metamorphosis, 01:470:354, AHo, AHp
Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, 01:470:371, HST-1, AHp

 


  • 470:101 Elementary German

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  • 470:104 German Conversation

  • 470:105 German for Reading Knowledge

  • 470:131 Intermediate German I

  • 470:135 & 470:301 Certainty In Uncertain Times: Über Gewißheit

  • 470:227 Tales of Horror

  • 470:231 Advanced German I

  • 470:244 Topics in German Culture: Cities of Dreams

  • 470:299 Contemporary German Media and Society

  • 470:309: Justice and Violence

  • 470:349 Contemporary German and European Cinema

  • 470:354 Kafka and World Literature

  • 470:371 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

 

Courses taught by German Faculty in other programs

Introduction to Literary Theory, 01:195:301:01- Professor Michael Levine

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