Course Requirements
Students who begin their study of German at DePaul with GER 202 or higher may substitute a 300-level German elective course for any of the required 200-level courses.
GER 201
ADVANCED COMMUNICATION I
Developing culturally appropriate speech and writing through the study of speech acts and written documents within the context of a systematic study and review of grammar.
GER 202
ADVANCED COMMUNICATION II
Focus on the differences between speech and writing with an emphasis on the latter as expressed in compositions, editing and other writing activities.
HAA 363
ART & THE HOLOCAUST (FORMERLY ART 356)
This course explores the relationship of art and architecture to the development of National Socialist Germany and Nazi policies of genocide towards the European Jews. It deals with artists that resisted the Nazi rise to power, those that supported it, and those that were persecuted by the new state. In addition, we will look at a wide range of art, architecture and film produced from 1933-1945 which were mobilized as part of the radicalizing anti-Semitic policy. The central questions will be how does art intersect with one of the most criminal regimes in the modern period and what can we learn from an understanding of the political history of art during the period? The course will be lecture/discussion format and include a research paper. Formerly ART 356. PREREQUISITE(S): Previous 100 or 200 level art history course or permission of instructor.
HAA 384
BERLIN: UNIFICATION/REUNIFICATION (WORLD CITIES) (FORMERLY ART 367)
The influence of art and architecture on the development of Berlin from 1871 to the present. How major figures (from Bismarck to Kohl) and major events (from World Wars to the fall of the Berlin Wall) affected the city and its culture. (Cities Minor) Formerly ART 367. PREREQUISITE(S): 100 or 200 level art history course or permission of instructor.
GER 203
ADVANCED COMMUNICATION III
Developing a sophisticated spoken fluency using authentic oral texts as models for elaborated discourse. Written texts and writing exercises reinforce oral expression.
GER 304
GERMAN DRAMA
Topics include: the classical period; drama of the 19th century; drama of the 20th century.
GER 305
GERMAN PROSE
Topics include: prose from 1600 to Goethe; from the Romantic to the Realistic periods; prose of the 20th century.
GER 306
THE NOVELLE
From Goethe to Grass.
GER 307
GERMAN POETRY
Topics include: from the Baroque to Holderin; from Romanticism to the present.
GER 309
GERMAN CIVILIZATION I
The rise and fall of the "Holy Roman Empire'': Social, intellectual and artistic background of Germany from its origins to 1871.
GER 310
GERMAN CIVILIZATION II
Social, intellectual and artistic developments in Germany from unification in 1871 to reunification in 1990.
GER 311
GERMAN CIVILIZATION III
Contemporary Germany.
GER 312
GERMAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Marx, Nietzsche, Freud; their decisive influence on the twentieth century.
GER 313
TURN OF THE CENTURY VIENNA
A world center of modern art and thought: Freud, Wittgenstein, Klimt, Kokoschka, Kafka, Shoenberg.
GER 314
BERLIN AND THE GOLDEN TWENTIES
Expressionist film, Bauhaus, Dada, Brecht, Thomas Mann.
GER 315
LITERATURE AFTER 1945 (EAST AND WEST)
Reconstruction of German literature and coming to terms with the past: "Gruppe 47'', Grass, Boell, Enzensberger.
GER 316
LITERATURE OF THE WEIMAR YEARS
Mann, Hesse, Kafka, Brecht.
GER 317
WOMEN WRITERS OF GERMAN EXPRESSION
Studies in literature and social issues from all periods of German, Austrian and Swiss history.
GER 319
MULTICULTURAL CONTEMPORARY WRITERS
Focus on the critical bicultural awareness of immigrant writers of German expression whose original language is not German.
GER 320
ADVANCED COMMERCIAL GERMAN
Advanced preparation for the use of German in the business world.
GER 329
THE GERMAN FILM
Topics from all periods.
GER 397
SPECIAL TOPICS IN GERMAN
See schedule for current offerings.
HST 272
FASCISM AND COUNTER REVOLUTION
An analysis of the various ideological trends that form the mature Fascism from 1920 to the present.
HST 330
TOPICS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY
PREREQUISITE(S): HST 199 or 299 or consent of instructor.
Prerequisites:
HST 199 or HST 299 is a prerequisite for this class.HST 349
THE HOLOCAUST
This course places the Shoah, the Holocaust of European Jewry, at the center of a broader discussion of anti-Semitism, the rise of Nazism, the conduct of World War II, and the persecution and murder of other groups designated as outsiders or as enemies of the Nazi regime. Close attention is given to interpreting the behavior and experiences of perpetrators, victims, bystanders, and resisters, to the role of the churches, and to the politics of post-Holocaust legal proceedings and the complex work of memory and representation. Prerequisite(s): HST 199 or HST 299 or consent of instructor.
Prerequisites:
HST 199 or HST 299 is a prerequisite for this class.PHL 325
BASIC CONCEPTS OF PHENOMENOLOGY
This course emphasizes the principal themes of such thinkers as Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger. PREREQUISITE(S): PHL 100
PHL 368
GERMAM IDEALISM
Germam Idealism
PHL 369
KANT
PREREQUISITE(S):PHL 100
PHL 370
HEGEL
PREREQUISITE(S):PHL 100
PHL 372
MARX
PREREQUISITE(S):PHL 100
PHL 380
SELECTED FIGURES AND TEXTS
PREREQUISITE(S):PHL 100
PSC 245
FOREIGN POLICIES OF WESTERN EUROPE
This course examines the content and domestic and international contexts of the foreign policies of Western European nations, NATO, and the European Union.
PSC 250
WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS
An overview of select Western European political and economic systems (including those of Britain, France and Germany); examination of the European Union and relations between Western Europe and the international community.
PSC 340
THE EUROPEAN UNION
This course examines the history, institutional structures and processes, and policies of the EU. It will look at how the EU is unique, sharing characteristics of states and of international organizations.