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Courses

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Courses

Fall 2025 Spring 2026 Year-Round Tutorials

Fall 2025

Gateway Courses

FIRST YR. SEM 64S: What is it Like to Not Be Human? Metamorphosis in Myth & Poetry (Carranza)\ FIRST YR. SEM: Caravaggio and the Beginning of Modern Art (Burgard)\ FIRST YR. SEM: Humans at Play (Pirozhenko)

Language Courses

GERM 10a: Beginning German I (1st semester)\ GERM 10b: Beginning German II (2nd semester)\ GERM 10ab: Beginning Intensive (8 credits)\ GERM 20a: Intermediate German I (1st semester)\ GERM 20b: Intermediate German II (2nd semester)\ GERM 20ab: Intermediate Intensive (8 credits)\ SCAND 10a: Beginning Swedish I (1st semester) (Broomé)\ SCAND 20a: Intermediate Swedish I (1st semester) (Broomé)

Advanced Courses Conducted in German

GERM 61: Advanced Grammar and Reading (Burgard)\ GERM 64: Crime (Pirozhenko)\ GERM 173: German Poetry Today (Stirner)

Advanced Courses (Discussion in English)

GERM/MBB 113: Your Brain on Poetry (Dymek)\ GERM 172: Cinematic Angst (Dymek)\ GERM 165: Postmodern Prose. The Literary Avant-Garde in the Age of Electronic Media (Stewart)\ GERM 188: Angst, Sex, Dreams. Freud, Kafka, Bachmann (Stewart)\ HIST 1265: German History (Johnson)\ HIST 1953: Religion & Popular Culture in Modern Europe (Johnson)\ HIST 83: Heidegger’s Being and Time (Gordon)

Graduate-Level Courses

GERM 277: Creative Non-Fiction (Stirner)\ GERM 275: German Ecological Imagination (Carranza)\ GERM 287/COMP LIT 212: Literature on Trial. Kafka in Paris (Hamilton)\ GERM 291/ROMSTD 201: Questions of Theory (Hamilton & Schnapp)\ GERMPHIL 280: Approaches to Foreign Language Pedagogy (Parkes)

Spring 2026

Gateway Courses

GEN ED 1197: Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Pirozhenko) T/Th 10:30 - 11:45 pm\ GERM 100x: Introduction to German Literature, History, and Thought (Hamilton)  W 3:00 - 5:00 pm

Language Courses

GERM 10b: Beginning German II (2nd semester)\ GERM 10ab: Beginning Intensive (8 credits)\ GERM 20b: Intermediate German II (2nd semester)\ GERM 20ab: Intermediate Intensive (8 credits)\ GERM AX: German for Reading Knowledge (Stewart) T/Th 12:00 - 1:15 pm

SCAND 10b: Beginning Swedish II (2nd semester) (Broomé)\ SCAND 20b: Intermediate Swedish II (2nd semester) (Broomé)

Advanced Courses Conducted in German

GERM 62: Advanced Conversation and Composition (Dymek)  T/Th 10:30 - 11:45 am\ GERM 118: German Drama and Theater (Parkes) W/F 9:45 am - 12:45 pm\ GERM 119b: Great Works, Short Texts (Dymek) T/Th 12:00 - 1:15 pm

Advanced Courses (Discussion in English)

SCAND 55: One Hundred Years of Scandinavian Cinema (Broomé) M 12:00 - 2:45 pm\ \ GERM 167: Contemporary German-Jewish Culture (Stirner)  M 3:00 - 5:00 pm\ GERM 171: Introduction to German Film: The Regime on the Screen (Stewart)  W 12:45 - 2:45 pm  \ GERM 157k: The Age of Albrecht Dürer (Koerner) Th 12:00 - 2:45 pm

Graduate-Level Courses

GERM 210: Baroque (Burgard) M 12:00 - 2:45 pm\ GERM 271: Theories of Poetic Language (Carranza) Th 1:30 - 3:30 pm\

Year-Round Tutorials

These language and concentration tutorials are offered year-round. Enrollment is based on petition-approval. Click here for more information about that: Link to petition!

*For students to design their own course with the guidance of a GLL faculty member. This course is designed to provide letter-graded concentration credit for research and academic study not available in regular course work.