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# Courses

**Source**: https://german.fas.harvard.edu/courses
**Parent**: https://german.fas.harvard.edu/

## 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\
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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!](https://harvard.pdx1.qualtrics.com/jfe/preview/previewId/f44fc455-0640-4e6a-b347-0b910759508a/SV_bwTaSTCCca0cg5M?Q_CHL=preview&Q_SurveyVersionID=)

- GERM 99 – Senior Thesis (full year)
- GERM 98 – Junior tutorial
- GERM 99c – Senior Capstone Seminar
- GERM 91R | SCAND 91 R: Supervised Reading and Research\*

- Dutch (GER 90R)
- Danish (SCAND 90R.A)
- Finnish (SCAND 90R.B)
- Norwegian (SCAND 90R.C)
- Old Norse (SCAND 90R.D)

\*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.