Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: German Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GERMAN ENLIGHTENMENT TO ROMANTICISM (1700-1850) ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1 ***** An introduction to the major social, political and cultural developments in the period that marks the emergence of a specifically German cultural identity. "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is Kant's famous answer to the question "What is Enlightenment?" For German intellectuals this was to define their role in European culture and to raise the problems of modernity. Ambiguous terms such as Enlightenment, Classics, and Romantics hide problems and questions, which continue to demand our interest. A wide range of theoretical and poetic works by authors and poets such as Kant, Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, Eichendorff, Hoffmann and Heine. Taught in German. *****