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GER 101This online course will be offered during the second half of the Fall 2020 semester. Vienna, Austria will be your virtual classroom as you learn German!
GER 199 / CWL 199 - FALL 2020Now that HBO’s blockbuster series is over, it is time to critically study Game of Thrones as a reflection of our times.
GER 331 - FALL 2020This class introduces students to major works of literature and film from the German tradition from the late eighteenth through the twentieth century.
GER 496 / CWL 496 / PHIL 411 - FALL 2020We explore hope and redemption, health and illness, and self and community in texts written before, during, and after the flu pandemic of 1918.
SCAN 251 / CWL 251 / MDVL 251 / REL 251 - FALL 2020We explore the pre-Christian beliefs of the North Germanic peoples as reflected in medieval Icelandic texts (in translation), place names, runic inscriptions, and archeological finds from the late Iron Age and Viking Age.
GER 470 / GER 572 / MDVL 470 - FALL 2020“Transgressions” explores various kinds of transgressive behavior surrounding themes of money, sex, knowledge, and violence in early modern German literature by reading and discussing key works from the period before 1700.
