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  • GERM 2559

    New Course in German
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    Spring 2025

    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German.

  • GERM 3290

    German Studies Roundtable
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    Fall 2025

    One-credit conversation on current themes. May be taken more than once for credit, but only once for major credit. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

  • GERM 3300

    Language House Conversation
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    Fall 2025

    For students residing in the German group in Shea House. May be taken more than once for credit. Departmental approval needed if considered for major credit. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

  • GETR 3472

    Hollywood Exile: German Filmmakers Flee Fascism
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    Fall 2025

    In the 1930s, many people employed in the German film industry whose lives were threatened by Nazism took refuge in Hollywood. This course examines the contributions exiled directors, writers, actors, and others made in genres ranging from comedy and melodrama to film noir. In addition to indicting fascism and reflecting on the trauma of forced migration these films often turned a critical eye on the U.S..

  • GETR 3600

    Faust
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    Fall 2024

    Taking Goethe's Faust as its point of departure, this course traces the emergence and transformations of the Faust legend over the last 400 hundred years. We explore precursors of Goethe's Faust in the form of the English Faust Book, Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, and possibly other popular re-workings of the text. We will Goethe's Faust in its entirety, and then proceed to Bulgakov's response to Stalinism in The Master and Margharta and

  • GETR 3710

    Kafka and His Doubles
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    Fall 2025

    Introduction to the work of Franz Kafka, with comparisons to the literary tradition he worked with and the literary tradition he formed.

  • GETR 3780

    Memory Speaks
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    Fall 2025

    Interdisciplinary course on memory. Readings from literature, philosophy, history, psychology, and neuroscience.

  • GERM 3993

    Independent Study
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    Spring 2025

    Generic course to be used when students are taking independent study with a faculty member. May be repeated for credit.

  • GETR 4493

    Independent Study
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    Fall 2025

    Guided study

  • GETR 4559

    New Course in German in Translation
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    Fall 2025

    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German in translation.