European Masterpieces
Prerequisites: UCLR 100, UCLR 100C, UCLR 100E, UCLR 100M, or equivalent; please check requirements for declared majors/minors for exceptions.
Major European literary texts will be examined in a historical and cultural context and in their transhistorical, universal aspects that make them masterpieces. Students will understand how literary masterpieces help us develop critical consciousness of our experience.
Modern German Classics and Bestsellers
Prerequisites: UCLR 100, UCLR 100C, UCLR 100E, UCLR 100M, or equivalent; please check requirements for declared majors/minors for exceptions.
Major European literary texts will be examined in a historical and cultural context and in their transhistorical, universal aspects that make them masterpieces. Students will understand how literary masterpieces help us develop critical consciousness of our experience.
Tier 2 Literary Knowledge
European Studies
Global Studies
This course explores what literature is and what it does, drawing upon classics and bestsellers in modern German-language literature read in translation. This will enable us to analyze and discuss what has motivated German, Austrian and German-Swiss writers to pick up on certain themes and thus to contribute to the cultural discourse of their countries and beyond. A highlight of the course will include a visit to the Chicago International Film Festival to view a German-language film (subtitled in English). Through the analysis of these works of literature (and film), students will gain new perspectives with which to see their own (American) culture in a different light. This class fulfills the requirement of a Tier II Literature Course in the Core Curriculum.
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