2005-06 - Office of the Registrar - Duke University

Expressionism to poets active since 1989. Taught in German, every second year. Instructor:
Rolleston. 3 units.
235S. Sex and Gender in 19th-Century German Prose. Developments in German
literature from 1795-1914 from the perspective of gender and sexuality in social and
historical context. Topics include: the relationship of ghosts, madness, incest, and murder
to desire; gendered responses to industrialization; the gendering of nationalism;
intersections of race and gender; male and female Bildung, feminine aesthetics; canonicity
and gender. Texts in a variety of genres. Instructor: McIsaac. 3 units.
245S. German Literature and Culture 1900-1945. Radical social shifts and their
disruption of German culture and literary conventions during the first half of the 20th
century. From the poetry, film, manifestoes, and revolutionary theater of Expressionism, to
the high modernism of Rilke, Kafka, Hesse, and Mann, to the didactic literary program of
Brecht and his circle, including Kurt Weill and Marieluise Fleisser, to the internationalist
goals of the Frankfurt School of Social Research. Emphasis on relations between text and
history, from WWI to Weimar to the persecutions and systematic destructions of the Nazi
era. Instructor: Rolleston. 3 units.
247S. Contested Memories in German Culture since 1945. Major German literary,
filmic, and cultural works since 1945. Topics vary: representations of National Socialism
and the Holocaust in German culture; "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" (dealing with the past)
in German literature and culture; history, memory and national identity in German, Austrian,
and Swiss Literature. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
258S. Special Topics in German Literature and Cultural Studies. Instructor: Staff. 3
units.
260. History of the German Language. Phonology, morphology, and syntax of German
from the beginnings to the present. Instructor: Keul or Rasmussen. 3 units. C-L: Medieval
and Renaissance Studies 260B, Linguistics 260
261S. Second Language Acquisition Theory and Practice. Overview of current research
in the fields of second language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy, and its
implications for the teaching of the German language, literature, and culture at all levels.
Readings and discussions on competing theories of language acquisition and learning, issues
of cultural identity and difference, learner styles, and the teaching of language as culture;
training in contemporary teaching techniques and approaches. Instructor: Walther. 3 units.
C-L: Linguistics 261S
270. Consciousness and Modern Society. The German tradition of political theory
conceptualizing social transformation through consciousness both of alienation and of
ethical ideals; the ongoing debate between activist and radically critical perspectives. Marx,
Nietzsche, Lukacs, Freud, Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas. Taught in English.
Instructor: Rolleston. 3 units. C-L: Literature 270
276S. Nietzsche's Political Philosophy. 3 units. C-L: see Political Science 226S; also C-
L: Philosophy 237S
280S. Music in Literature and Philosophy: 1800-1945. Readings in the philosophy of
Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century "classical" music and in literature as a source for
and response to musical composition, performance, and listening experience. Taught in
English. Instructor: Pfau. 3 units. C-L: English 250S
285S. Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century German Culture. Literature and
science writing by literary figures (such as Goethe, Novalis, Kleist, Stifter, Musil), the social
history of technology, the history of science (especially physics, anthropology, and biology),
and philosophy (such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber). The German historical context as
seen from contemporary American and German understandings. Taught in English, with an
optional German section for those reading in the original. Instructor: McIsaac. 3 units.
286S. Inventing the Museum: Collecting and Cultural Discourses of the Nineteenth
Century. Examines the rise of the German public museum in its European cultural contexts
German Studies Program (GERMAN) 169