Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: POLISH DRAMA I

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): PLSH 102 or equivalent. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: POLISH DRAMA II

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics change from year to year. Cross-list: RELI 320. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SLAVIC CULTURES

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY POLISH AND CENTRAL EUROPEAN POLITICS AND CULTURE

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET LITERATURE

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: MODERN POLISH POETRY IN TRANSLATION

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN FILM

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Content varies depending on student interests and availability of instructors. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.