2012-2013 Pitzer Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2012-2013 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

German Studies Courses


Please refer to the Schedule of Courses published each semester by the Registrar’s Office for up-to-date information on German course offerings. For course descriptions, see appropriate catalog.

Language Acquisition Courses


  • 1 - Introductory German
  • 2 - Introductory German
  • 22 - Accelerated Elementary German
  • 33 - Intermediate German
  • 44 - Advanced German
  • 55 - Advanced Composition

Literature and Culture Courses


Prerequisites: For admission to all courses above 100, German 44 or the equivalent is normally required. For majors, German 55 or the equivalent is strongly recommended. Note: Courses taught in English are identified with an asterisk.

  • 101 - Introduction to German Culture
  • 116 - The Decadents *
  • 117 - Berlin in the ‘20s: An Experiment in Modernity *
  • 118 - Culture and the Society of Spectacles *
  • 124 - The Individual and Society in Twentieth-Century German Literature and Film *
  • 131 - Political Activism in Film and New Media: Public Sphere Theory *
  • 143 - The German Novelle
  • 146 - Fairy Tales and the Female Story Teller152. Drama as Experiment
  • 154 - Great German Fiction *
  • 161 - Nation-Building and Nationalism: A German Cultural History *
  • 164 - Gender Issues in German Romanticism
  • 167 - Metropolis: Imagining the City *
  • 170 - The Culture of Nature *
  • 176 - Moscow-Berlin/Berlin-Moscow: Europe in Transformation *
  • 177 - Faust: The Myth of Modern Man *
  • 179 - Comparative Germanic/Slavic Linguistics *
  • 189 - German Across the Curriculum