Spring Quarter 2026

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Catalog Descriptions

Language Courses

GER 003 Elementary German
001 Yingwei Mu
002 Seva Shinde
Completion of grammar sequence and continuing practice of all language skills through cultural texts.
Prerequisite(s): GER 002.
GER 022 Intermediate German
001 Kirsten Harjes
Review of grammatical principles by means of written exercises; expanding of vocabulary through readings of modern texts.
Prerequisite(s): GER 021.

Undergraduate Course Descriptions

GER 010 German Fairy Tales from the Grimms to Disney [Taught in English]
Elisabeth Krimmer
Introduction to the genre of fairy tale with a focus on the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen in their respective political/cultural contexts. Discusses filmic adaptations by Disney, the East German DEFA and Hollywood. Taught in English - Knowledge of German not required.
GER 112 Topics in German Literature: Life Writing, Graphic Novels, and the Holocaust [Taught in English]
Elisabeth Krimmer
This course examines the genre of life writing in the context of the Holocaust with particular attention to graphic novels. We will discuss works on graphic novels along with a number of graphic memoirs, including Charlotte Salomon's Life? or Theatre?, Art Speigelman's Maus, Barbara Yelin's Irmina, and Nora Krug's Belonging. Knowledge of German not required. All texts are available in English.
GER 118A Vienna at the Turn of the 20th Century (The End of the Habsburg Empire) [Taught in English]
Sven-Erik Rose
This course explores the explosion of modern(ist) culture in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, both before World War One, when Vienna was the capital of the multinational Habsburg empire, and in the early post-WWI (and post-imperial) years. We will study innovations in literature (e.g., Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Robert Musil, Arthur Schnitzler, Stefan Zweig), architecture (Adolf Loos), painting (Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele), psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud), and music (Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schönberg). Recurrent themes of the course will include theories and representations of gender roles in the context of increasingly commodified modernity (especially men depicting women); tensions between an aesthetic of ornamentation and a spare, functional aesthetic; the dialectic of surface and depth; and social ferment amid mass migration, cosmopolitanism, and increasingly racialized ways of defining national groups. Can be taken for credit toward the minor in Jewish Studies.
The language of instruction and readings will be ENGLISH; however, interested students will have the option of reading some or all the course texts, and writing papers, in German.

Courses Outside of the Department

Elective Options for German Majors and Minors
German majors can use up to 2 courses outside of the department toward the major.
German minors can use 1 course outside of the department toward the minor.