Germanic Languages and Literatures
GER 465 - Die deutsche Sprache in Österreich
Explore the German language in Austria from a sociolinguistic perspective.
GER 473 - Protest Memory: Post-1989 Literature, Film, and Theory
We will discuss a diverse archive of post-1989 literature, film, and memorials in order to reexamine the so-called Peaceful Revolution and the interval year of ’89-90.
GER 396 - Babylon Berlin
In 1929, Berlin was known to be a hedonistic city of extremes: corrupt wealth existed alongside destitute poverty and an underground world of wild parties and glamour.
GER 201 - German Popular Culture: Tales of Horror
It is hard to overstate how central vampires and zombies, doppelgänger and killers, ghosts and artificial humans—haunted hybrids—have been to the construction of German identity.
GER 261 - The Holocaust on Film
We investigate literary and filmic representations of the Holocaust.
Check us out in Spring 2024! Some of our courses are highlighted here, and contact Charlie Webster (cwebste@illinois.edu) for more information about our full range of offerings!