{"id":73,"date":"2017-10-16T21:22:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T21:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-german\/literature\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T18:31:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T18:31:44","slug":"literature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/german\/majorsminors\/literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Literature &amp; Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upper-level courses focus on literature, history, film, and other aspects of German culture. All of the following courses are taught in German<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German 308: German Cultural History I. Critical investigation of political, social and aesthetic topics in the context of German cultural history from 1871 through German unification in 1990. Prerequisite: German 305 or permission of the instructor. Every fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German 309: German Cultural History II. Prerequisite: German 305 or permission of the instructor. Every spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The prerequisite for the following courses is German 308 or 309 (may be taken concurrently), study abroad, or permission of the instructor. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German 360: Proseminar in German Studies. Topics vary and may be thematic (\u201cSex and the German City\u201d), geographical (\u201cBerlin: Imperial City, Metropolis, and Divided City\u201d), and\/or historical (\u201cGerman Jewry\u201d). Every fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German 363: Romanticism. Study of the Romantic Movement in literature and philosophy from Herder, Goethe, and Schiller to Tieck and Hoffmann. Fall of even-numbered years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German 364: Politics, Class, Culture. This course explores depictions and concepts of &#8220;class&#8221; in literature, film, and political discourse since the French Revolution. Discussion topics include the invention of the bourgeois family; the Lumpenproletariat (prostitutes, rogues, vagabonds) in literature and art; revolutionary culture and politics in the inter-war period; depictions of class in contemporary mass culture. How does &#8220;class consciousness&#8221; emerge in German history? Is class an economic necessity or a consequence of culture and politics? Why is culture still fascinated by class? Taught in German. Offered fall term of odd-numbered years. Prerequisite: GERM 308, 309, or the equivalent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German 365: Modernism and the Avant-Garde. Study of literature and film in the early 20th century. Spring of even-numbered years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German 366: Post-War Germany. Study of cultural, political, and literary developments from the end of National Socialism through the fall of the Berlin wall and beyond. Spring of odd-numbered years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German 488: Senior Seminar. A capstone experience in German Studies that focuses on various interdisciplinary areas of investigation. Recent topics have included: \u201cStardom and Charisma\u201d or \u201cContemporary Immigrant Culture in Germany.\u201d May be taken during the Junior year. Offered once an academic year in either spring or fall.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upper-level courses focus on literature, history, film, and other aspects of German culture. All of the following courses are taught in German. German 308: German Cultural History I. Critical investigation of political, social and aesthetic topics in the context of German cultural history from 1871 through German unification in 1990. Prerequisite: German 305 or permission [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":64,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/505"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}