Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: POLISH DRAMA I ***** The reading of Polish 19th-and 20th-century plays with a view to improving student's comprehension of Polish. Equivalent to Second Year Polish. Taught in Polish. ***** Prerequisite(s): PLSH 102 or equivalent. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: POLISH DRAMA II ***** The reading of Polish nineteenth-and twentieth-century plays with a view to improving student's comprehension of Polish. Equivalent to Second Year Polish. Taught in Polish. ***** Course offered Spring 2005 ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS *****

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SLAVIC CULTURES ***** Interdisciplinary introduction to the main currents of Russian, Czech, and Polish cultures. Key moments in history, social trends, music and the arts, the construction of national mythologies through literature. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONTEMPORARY POLISH AND CENTRAL EUROPEAN POLITICS AND CULTURE ***** Intensive study of Polish and Central European popular culture, literature, and the changing tides of politics. Emphasis on the post-communist period. Taught in English. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET LITERATURE ***** The course will provide students with an introduction to 20th century Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet literature and culture by reading works by authors such as Bulgakov, Zamiatin, Akhmatova, Yetushenko, and Pelevin. Some attention will be paid to 20th-Century film and popular music. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Ludwig

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN POLISH POETRY IN TRANSLATION ***** This course presents the living poets of Poland, from Nobel Prize winners Czeslaw Milosz (1980) and Wislawa Szymborska (1996) to their youngest competitors, Krzysztof Koehler and Maciej Swietlicki. The course explores how resistance and collaboration, Catholicism and Communism, have shaped and continued a major literary tradition of Europe based on a selection of poetry in English translations. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN FILM ***** Based on a selection of the best films by the best directors of the region (Forman, Holland, Kieslowski, Polanski, Szabo, Wajda), this course presents Central-Eastern European filmmaking against a background of a totalitarian political system. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY ***** Content varies depending on student interests and availability of instructors. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.