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RELG 571 - The Victorian Crisis of Faith: Its Religious and Literary Expressions
Studies the religious dilemmas at the center of English thought in the 19th century, from the time of Keble’s Assize sermon and the advent of the Oxford Movement into the period of Thomas Hardy. The focal figures include Newman, Tennyson, Clough, Arnold, Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. (IR)
Credits: 3
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RELG 573 - Theology of Culture
Studies the relationship between religion and culture. Topics include a theological assessment of the value of culture; the impact of secularization; the critique of religion levied by various disciplines; and the problems of theology in a pluralistic context. (IR)
Credits: 3
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RELG 575 - Myth and Ritual
Studies theories of myth and ritual from an interdisciplinary perspective, including selected mythological and ritual texts. (IR)
Credits: 3
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RELG 578 - Wallace Stevens and the Absolute
A close reading of Wallace Steven’s major poems and an evaluation of their theological significance. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Graduate seminar plus advanced undergraduates in approved.
Credits: 3
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RELG 585 - Narrative in Ethics and Theology
Examines the nature of narrative modes of representation and argument, and how narrative theory has been employed in contemporary ethics and religious thought. (SI)
Credits: 3
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RELG 592 - Theology and Politics
Investigates the relationship between theological reflection and political thought, focusing on how theological positions may have implications for political theory and vice-versa. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Graduate status or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELG 705 - Myth and Modern Drama
Studies the religious and narrative elements of Greek, biblical, and other mythic traditions as they exist in the works of modern dramatists. (Y)
Credits: 3
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RELG 714 - Comparative Indo-European Mythology
Studies structural parallels between myths of the Indo-European language family, based on the methods pioneered by Georges Dumezil. (IR)
Credits: 1
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RELG 721 - Kant and Philosophy of Religion
Examines Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason and Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone, with special attention to Kant’s view of the relation between the theoretical and practical employments of reason, and the implications for theistic belief. (SI)
Credits: 3
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RELG 722 - Rationality, Justification, and Religious Belief
Examines several major contemporary approaches to the question of the justification of religious belief, involving issues of relativism and kinds of rationality. (SI)
Credits: 3
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RELG 725 - Kierkegaard and Philosophy of Religion
Examines Søren Kierkegaard’s contribution to the philosophy of religion through his major philosophical works, Philosophical Fragments and Concluding Unscientific Postscript. Their bearing on the philosophical study of religion is highlighted by a prefatory examination of some works by Hume or Kant which provide useful contrast. (IR)
Credits: 3
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RELG 728 - Topics in Modern Religious Thought
Examination of a major topic in modern religious thought—e.g., religious imagination, ethical and religious subjectivity, ethical and religious conceptions of love. (SI)
Credits: 3
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RELG 745 - Phenomenology and Theology
This seminar investigates the relations between phenomenology and theology. (IR)
Credits: 3
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RELG 800 - Negativity and Religious Imagination
Examines the ways in which imaginative literature, theological reflection, and hermeneutical inquiry interpret aspects of negativity in human experience and understanding. (E)
Credits: 3
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RELG 809 - Proseminar on Current Controversies in Bioethics
Studies controversies regarding research with the embryo and fetus, issues in AIDS prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and requests for assistance with suicide or euthanasia. (Y)
Credits: 3
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RELG 810 - Proseminar in Clinical Ethics
Explores ethical perspectives and clinical decisions, including situation ethics, casuistry, principlism, and feminist perspectives. (Y)
Credits: 3
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RELG 812 - Figures and Traditions in Philosophical and Religious Ethics
A two-semester course that introduces the basic ethical works and
theories of central figures in the Western tradition: Socrates, Plato,
Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Bentham,
Mill, Buber, Dewey, and Rawls. (Y)
Credits: 1 to 3
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RELG 813 - Figures and Traditions in Philosophical and Religious
A two-semester course that introduces the basic ethical works and
theories of central figures in the Western tradition: Socrates, Plato,
Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Bentham,
Mill, Buber, Dewey, and Rawls. (Y)
Credits: 1 to 3
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RELG 831 - Trinity
This seminar develops a systematic theology of the doctrine of the Trinity. (IR)
Credits: 3
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RELG 833 - Comparative Religious Ethics
Examines the theoretical and methodological questions underlying comparative studies of religious ethics. Tests several methods in relation to materials from different religious traditions. (E)
Credits: 3
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RELG 834 - Contemporary Theological Ethics
Examines trends and controversies in contemporary theological ethics. (O)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELG 840 - Historiography Seminar in American Religion
Examines current historiographical issues in the interpretation of religion in American history. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELG 855 - Seminar in the Thought of Martin Heidegger
Examines the works of Heidegger (especially Being and Time) and their contribution to contemporary theology. (SI)
Credits: 3
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HIST 501 - Documentary Editing: Procedures and Practice
The principles and methods of interpreting and editing historical
manuscripts, emphasizing the colonial and early national periods. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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HIST 502 - Documentary Editing: Procedures and Practice
The principles and methods of interpreting and editing historical
manuscripts, emphasizing the colonial and early national periods. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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HIST 503 - Quantitative Analysis of Historical Data
The social scientific approach to historical inquiry, the formulation of theories, and their testing with historical data. Includes extensive directed readings in quantitative history and training in quantitative methods, sampling, the organization of a data-set, and data analysis. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Introductory course in statistics or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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HIST 504 - Monticello Internship
Directed research, largely in primary source materials, on topics relating to Jefferson’s estate, life, and times. Directed by senior members of the Monticello staff. A maximum of two students each semester are admitted to the course. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Instructor permission; graduate status or fourth-year undergraduate history majors.
Credits: 3
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HIST 505 - History, Memory, Subjectivity
Considers a portion of the very extensive, and growing, literature on issues of memory, subjectivity, and historical evidence. “Memory” is taken in a broad sense, to include not only the recall and narrativization of experience but also tradition and commemoration, since in the historical literature these different senses of memory are often mixed together. Students must find their own paper topics, and are encouraged to discuss the course with the instructor in advance. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 506 - Philosophy of History
Examines the theoretical presuppositions of historical research and writing. (SI)
Credits: 3
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HIST 507 - Internship in History: Interpreting African-American Life at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
This internship program, devised and presented by Monticello staff, and offered in conjunction with UVa, is designed for students interested in the interpretation of African-American history to the public. The interns are trained as historical interpreters and to present Monticello’s Plantation Community tour. This walking tour explores Mulberry Row, the center of plantation activity where enslaved African-American families lived and worked, and examines the philosophical issue of Thomas Jefferson and slavery. Lectures, discussions and readings cover the historical content and interpretive techniques that allow interns to develop their individualized Plantation Community tours. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 509 - Multiculturalism in the Ottoman Empire
Study of how a large empire governed a diverse population, between 1453 and 1981, from the perspective of concerns about recent nationalist, racial and ethnic conflicts in modern nation-states. Course first examines how the Ottomans managed relations between ethnic and religious groups to 1750. Course then examines reasons for increased communal conflict after 1750, and Ottoman efforts to re-engineer relations among groups along liberal, constitutional lines. (Y)
Credits: 3
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HIST 511 - Slavery in World History
Historical study of “slavery” from very early times through the nineteenth century, on a global scale (including ancient Mediterranean, Islamic world, Africa, Europe, and the Americas).(IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 513 - The Atlantic Slave Trade
Studies the growth and development of the international slave trade from Africa to the New World from the 15th to the 19th centuries. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 529 - History of US Intelligence in the 20th Century and its Impace on Policymaking
The course traces the development of U.S. intelligence activities in the 20th Century. It focuses on the origins, creation, and development of CIA and the U.S. intelligence community and their impact on U.S. policymaking. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 562 - Genocide
Readings and discussion of the history of genocide and other forms of one-sided, state-sponsored mass killing in the twentieth century. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: instructor permission
Credits: 3
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HIST 589 - South Atlantic History
This class explores the history of the South Atlantic by focusing on Africa and Brazil. It is divided into three major section. The first section consists of a historiographical analysis of concepts such as Atlantic history, African diaspora, and the Black Atlantic. The second section looks at the interaction between Europeans and indigenous people in Brazil and Africa. The last section deals with the abolition of the slavic trade. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 701 - Atlantic World
Introduces graduate students in all fields of history to their overlapping and complementing aspects in an Atlantic context from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It distinguishes a historical epistemology significantly distinct from, but also integral to, any of its component fields. Thus it supports regional graduate history fields and dissertation research. It also orients students toward development of qualifications to meet the “world history” component of many current teaching positions. Graduate students in other departments may find the colloquium a useful enhancement to their primary academic agendas, as well as for reflection on the relationships of thinking historically to their own academic disciplines. ABDs are welcome to participate in the colloquium as a dissertation-writing workshop. (SI)
Credits: 3
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HIST 705 - Economic History
Extensive directed readings on selected topics, covering both substantive historical literature and relevant theoretical works. Students must write a minimum of two papers during the term. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 706 - Comparative Readings in British America and Latin America Before 1800
Graduate colloquium devoted to comparative readings in colonial Latin America and colonial British America, co-taught by specialists in each of the respective fields. Identifies broad areas of similarity and contrast in the settlement and development of the two colonial societies. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 707 - Methods in Social History
A colloquium open to students in all fields and periods. Examines new approaches, methods, and subject matter in the broad area of social history. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 708 - Colloquium in Methodological Perspectives
Surveys different methodological perspectives currently exhibited in historical scholarship, such as social history, intellectual history, political history, feminist history, and economic history, as reflected in distinctive works of scholarship. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 711 - Modern French Imperialism
Topics in the study of France’s political, social, and cultural influence in Africa and Asia since 1798. Emphasis on indigenous perspectives of those who lived under French colonial rule in the Middle East and North Africa. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 720 - History of Environment and Technology
This seminar introduces graduate students to environmental history and the history of technology, with an emphasis on their overlap. Environmental historians study the role of nature in the human past. Historians of technology examine the role of tools in history. This course emphasizes the synthesis of ideas from both fields to help us understand environmental, technological, and social change. Students read, discuss, and write about classic and new works of scholarship. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 723 - Topics in Environmental History
Introduces students to the literature and methods of environmental history from a global perspective. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of the instructor
Credits: 3
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HIST 801 - Summer Research Seminar
A general research seminar for students needing to meet seminar requirements for the M.A. or Ph.D. degrees during the nine-week summer session. Not open to degree candidates enrolled during the regular academic session. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Permission of the director of graduate studies or chair of the department.
Credits: 3
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HIST 805 - Economic History
In-depth exploration of selected problems in United States economic history. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Some background in economics, particularly micro-economics.
Credits: 3
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HIST 821 - English Legal Thought
Studies English legal thought in the nineteenth century, particularly the background, opinions, and conception of law held by Blackstone, Bentham, John Austin, Lord Eldon, Sir Henry Maine, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, A.V. Dicey, and F.W. Maitland. (See School of Law listing. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 822 - English Legal History
Research seminar on topics of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English legal history. Limited (if necessary) to 18, and preference is given (if necessary) to those who have taken English Legal Thought. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 842 - Writing Transnational History
This seminar will focus on ways of writing about the past that transcend the limitations of strictly national history. Students will be encouraged to develop substantial research projects concerning the movement of individuals, peoples, goods, or ideas across national boundaries or the establishment of transnational and/or colonial relationships, associations, or spaces. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 897 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected. (IR)
Credits: 3 to 12
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HIST 898 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. (IR)
Credits: 3 to 12
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HIST 901 - Advanced Research Seminar
A general research seminar for students preparing for the oral qualifying examination and for the dissertation. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Third-year standing in the graduate program, or permission of the graduate committee.
Credits: 3
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HIST 902 - Advanced Research Seminar
A general research seminar for students preparing for the oral qualifying examination and for the dissertation. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Third-year standing in the graduate program, or permission of the graduate committee.
Credits: 3
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HIST 993 - Independent Research
Credits: 3
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HIST 995 - Supervised Research
Normally required of first-year graduate students in the second semester. Reading and/or research in particular fields under supervision of an instructor. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIST 996 - Independent Research
Credits: 3
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HIST 997 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. (IR)
Credits: 3 to 12
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HIST 999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. (IR)
Credits: 3 to 12
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HIUS 502 - Counterpoint Seminar: Teaching Post-Civil War American History
This course offers future elementary, middle and high school teachers of American History the opportunity to reflect on their own college learning of the subject; it teaches those future teachers how to convert that earlier learning into the stuff of K-12 teaching. Specifically, the course looks back at HIUS 202 (or equivalent courses that future teachers may have taken elsewhere) and reconsiders that content for its applications to K-12 classrooms. The course is co-taught by instructors from the Curry and the Department of History. (E)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: HIUS 202 or its equivalent or permission of instructor
Credits: 3
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LNGS 701 - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
Credits: 3
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LNGS 702 - Historical and Comparative Linguistics
Studies linguistic change focusing on the methods of comparative and internal reconstruction. (O)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LNGS 701 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ENGN 831 - The Lyric Genre
Surveys English lyric poems from Chaucer to Auden; designed to isolate what is lyrical (i.e., unprosaic, musical, aesthetic, reflexive, egotistical, or sublime) in this body of literature. (SI)
Credits: 3
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ENGN 840 - Drama From 1660 to the Late Nineteenth Century
Studies drama in England, from Dryden and Congreve, to Wilde and Shaw. (SI)
Credits: 3
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ENGN 981 - Seminar in Literary Genres I, II
Topics range from comedy as an art form to a study of various approaches to the novel. (SI)
Credits: 3
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ENGN 982 - Seminar in Literary Genres I, II
Topics range from comedy as an art form to a study of various approaches to the novel. (SI)
Credits: 3
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GERM 500 - Critical Writing and Bibliography
Supervised practice in the organization and writing of articles for scholarly journals. Includes introduction to bibliography. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 505 - Special Topics
Major figures, genres, or literary problems serve as the focus for an intensive course within any literary period. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 510 - Middle High German
Introduces Middle High German grammar and included readings in Middle High German literature. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 512 - Medieval German Lyric Poetry
Selections from the Minnesang in the context of the development of Middle High German poetry. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Knowledge of Middle High German.
Credits: 3
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GERM 514 - Arthurian Romance
Theory and analysis of the chief German Arthurian romances: Erec, Parzival, Iwain, and Tristan. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Knowledge of Middle High German.
Credits: 3
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GERM 521 - Reformation to Baroque, 1700
German literature from 1500 to 1680. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 523 - Weise to Wieland
Studies German literature from 1680 to 1750. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 525 - Age of Goethe I
Studies German ‘Storm and Stress’ and classicism, focusing on Goethe and Schiller. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 526 - Age of Goethe II
Studies representative romantic works against the background of German intellectual history, 1795-1830. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 530 - Romanticism
German literature and intellectual history from 1795 to 1830. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 537 - Nineteenth Century
Major writers and works from 1830 to 1890, including Grillparzer, Stifter, Heine, Hebbel, Keller, Storm, Fontane. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 547 - Turn of the Century
Discusses the major literary movements at the turn of the century with analysis of representative works by Hofmannstahl, Schnitzler, George, Rilke, Thomas Mann, Musil, Kafka, and others. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 548 - Twentieth Century
Introduces the main currents of German literature since 1920, emphasizing major authors and traditions. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 550 - Studies in Lyric Poetry
Investigates the theory and practice of lyric poetry in Germany, emphasizing major authors and traditions. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 551 - Studies in Prose Fiction
Studies representative works of fiction—either novels or shorter forms—with special attention to formal and thematic developments, and representative theories of fiction. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 552 - Studies in Drama
Investigates dramatic theory and practice in Germany, emphasizing major authors and traditions. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 560 - Old Icelandic
An introduction to the language and literature of the Vikings, with exercises in the grammar and basic vocabulary of Icelandic. Includes readings of passages from the classical literature and the whole of Gisla saga. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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GERM 584 - Introduction to Literary Theory
Current theories of literature, including Marxist, psychoanalytical, formalist, structuralist, and hermeneutic approaches. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 588 - Linguistic Approaches to Literature
Aspects of literary style in the light of modern linguistics. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 595 - Guided Research
Individually directed special research projects. (S)
Credits: 3
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GERM 596 - Guided Research
Individually directed special research projects. (S)
Credits: 3
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GERM 740 - German Intellectual History From the Enlightenment to Nietzsche
Studies the development of the concepts of “education” and “evolution,” and the predominance of aesthetics in German culture. Includes lectures on the impact of Leibnitz, Kant, and Schopenhauer; and readings in Lessing, Kant, Schiller, Fichte, Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, and Nietzsche. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 741 - Nietzsche and Modern Literature
Reading and discussion of the major works of Nietzsche, in English translation, from The Birth of Tragedy to Twilight of the Idols. Emphasizes the impact of Nietzsche on 20th-century literature and thought in such diverse authors as Shaw, Rilke, Thomas Mann, and Kafka. Includes a term paper to be submitted in two stages and a final examination. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 742 - German Intellectual History from Nietzsche to the Present
Readings in and discussion of the intellectual, philosophical, and social history of Germany from the late nineteenth century to the present. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 750 - German Cinema
Studies the aesthetics and semiotics of German film, with a focus on expressionism and New German Cinema. (E)
Credits: 3
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GERM 751 - Advanced Topics
Investigates subjects requiring considerable previous knowledge. (S)
Credits: 3
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GERM 770 - Narrative Theory
Study and comparison of major theories of narrative, including Booth, Stanzel, Barthes, Genette, Cohn, Bakhtin, and others. (IR)
Credits: 3
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GERM 881 - Pre-Dissertation Research I
Supervised reading, directed toward the formulation of a dissertation proposal by the individual student. (Y)
Credits: 3
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GERM 882 - Pre-Dissertation Research II
Supervised reading, directed toward the formulation of a dissertation proposal by the individual student. (Y)
Credits: 3
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GERM 891 - Seminar
Special problems in German literature and linguistics. (S)
Credits: 3
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GERM 892 - Seminar
Special problems in German literature and linguistics. (S)
Credits: 3
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GERM 893 - Seminar in Language Teaching
Studies the theory and practice of language teaching with supervised
classroom experience. One group meeting per week plus extensive
individual consultation. Required of all teaching assistants in the
teacher training program. (S)
Credits: 3
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GERM 894 - Seminar in Language Teaching
Studies the theory and practice of language teaching with supervised
classroom experience. One group meeting per week plus extensive
individual consultation. Required of all teaching assistants in the
teacher training program. (S)
Credits: 3
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GERM 895 - Guided Research
Special research projects for advanced students. Individually directed. (S)
Credits: 3
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GERM 896 - Guided Research
Special research projects for advanced students. Individually directed. (S)
Credits: 3
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