Courses

German Lang Exempt

Readings may include works of such writers as Hauptmann, Kafka, Mann, Brecht, Frisch, Durrenmatt, and Grass.

Readings may include the works of authors such as Buchner, Keller, Meyer, Grillparzer, Hebbel.

Readings in English translation of some outstanding works of literature written in German, illustrating a variety of genres. The specific works to be considered will vary from semester to semester and from section to section, and will be announced in advance. May be taken more than once for credit provided topic is different.

Readings in English translation of some outstanding works of literature written in German, illustrating a variety of genres. The specific works to be considered will vary from semester to semester and from section to section, and will be announced in advance. May be taken more than once for credit provided topic is different.

An introduction to contemporary information sources and their influence on German society through an analysis of print, visual, and computer media. 673 / 1272 Queens College

Novels of such authors as Goethe, Keller, Meyer, Fontane, Kafka, Mann, Musil, Walser, Frisch, and Grass may be considered.

Sources and development of painting, woodcut, and engraving in Germany from the late Gothic period to the Reformation, concentrating on the work of Schongauer, Dürer, Grünewald, and Holbein.

Poems of such authors as Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin, Morike, Meyer, Trakl, Brecht, and Bachmann may be considered.

Emphasis on Germany in world politics, industrial transformation and social change, the nature and origins of National Socialism, and the development of East and West Germany since 1945.