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German,Scandinavian, and Dutch (GSD) Courses

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GSD 3451V - Honors Major Project Seminar [WI]
(3 cr; Prereq-Honors student; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was GSD 3452 until 10-FEB-00, GSD 3451W (starting 07-SEP-99, was GSD 3451 until 10-FEB-00)
Major project under supervision of faculty member. Oral exam based on project.
GSD 3451W - Major Project Seminar [WI]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was GSD 3451 until 10-FEB-00, GSD 3451V (starting 07-SEP-99, was GSD 3452 until 10-FEB-00)
Students prepare major project under supervision of faculty member.
GSD 3511W - Vikings, Knights, and Reformers: German and European Culture and Controversies to 1700 [WI]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was GER 3511W until 04-SEP-12, was GER 3511 until 05-SEP-00
Survey of representative cultural-historical events in Europe (German-speaking countries, Scandinavian, the Netherlands) from early Germanic times to 1700.
GSD 3512W - Imagined Communities: German and European, Culture and Controversies, 1700 to Present [WI]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GER 3512W until 04-SEP-12, was GER 3512 until 05-SEP-00
Survey of representative cultural-historical events in Europe (German-speaking countries, Scandinavian, the Netherlands) from 1700 to present.
GSD 3656 - Existentialism [CIV HIS]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Spring Even Year)
Equivalent courses: PHIL 5009 (inactive, starting 18-JAN-22), PHIL 3009, PHIL 4009 (inactive, starting 18-JAN-22, was PHIL 4009W until 02-SEP-03), FRIT 3656
What do we mean when we call something "existential?" What do we mean when we speak of an "existential" crisis? We seem to mean that our core beliefs and assumptions are affected and the relationship with our environment is ruptured; we have fallen out of normalcy. The term existentialism -- turning existential into a noun -- came into being in the 1940s in France, reflecting the collective experience of societal breakdown, of Nazism, and WW2. It has since been applied to all modes of philosophical inquiry that take an individual's experience of alienation from society as their point of departure. The advantage of making alienation the focus of this class, too, is that it allows us to recognize the precise historical and sociological index of the emergence of an existentialist mode of thought and practice. Existentialism looks very different when it responds to a 19th century crisis of faith (S?ren Kierkegaard), to 1950s colonialism (Frantz Fanon), to Weimar Germany's new democracy and the specter of a mass society (Martin Heidegger), or to the neo-authoritarian French society of the 1960s (Simone de Beauvoir). Existentialism then is understood in this class not as a conversation between great thinkers or ideas across time and space, but as a response to a specific crisis of norms and values. It only exists in plural. If existentialist concepts -- like being-in-the world, being-towards-death, or the gaze of the other -- are carried forward, then not without being repurposed. Such situatedness is inherent to existentialism itself. Accordingly, existentialist writers have no creed or ethical stance in common; they are found both on the far (fascist) right and on the Marxist left. They do share though a keen interest in a new language and in literary forms of expression and subsequently, they insist on the individuals' capacity of "world-making" -- in rupture and rebellion -- against seemingly compromised societal norms.
GSD 3681 - Black Central & Nordic Europe [AH GP]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Spring Even Year)
Equivalent courses: AFRO 3681
Europe is constantly associated with whiteness, yet Black people have existed in Northern and Central Europe (the contemporary spaces known as Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Scandinavia) for centuries. To counter this imagined whiteness, students will be reading histories and Black authors? experiences in these nations. A closer investigation will show that Black people have been traveling to Europe (willingly and unwillingly) for centuries.?While Afro-Europeans remain at the margins of these nations, they find avenues to survive and thrive in the face of microaggressions and racism. As the semester progresses, we will examine the following questions: What is daily life like in a majority white country? In what ways are these authors included or excluded from national discourses? What ways do they bring attention to anti-Blackness in their local contexts? How do they define home and belonging? These questions will help us understand the imagined citizens of Central Europe and the people trying to tear these false images down.
GSD 5103 - Teaching of Germanic Languages
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Second language acquisition theory, methods, testing, and technology applicable to teaching of modern Germanic languages.
GSD 8001 - Approaches to Textual Analysis
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was GER 8002 until 02-SEP-08
Theoretical approaches to textual analysis that shape disciplinary discussions in Germanic studies.
GSD 8002 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Textual Analysis
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Spring Odd Year)
Theoretical approaches in textual studies that challenge conventional notions of boundaries between disciplines and between national literatures/cultures.
GSD 8103 - Advanced Teaching Methods: Integrating Language and Disciplinary Content
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: FRIT 8999
This course explores theoretical and practical approaches to cultivating students? advanced literacies in a second language through the integration of language proficiency development and the study of disciplinary content in upper-level literature, linguistics, and culture courses. Students must have passed FRIT 5999 or GSD 5103 or SPPT 5999 or have permission from the instructor in order to take this course.
GSD 8333 - FTE: Master's
(1 cr; Prereq-Master's student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall & Spring; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)
Equivalent courses: was SCAN 8333 until 04-SEP-01
TBD
GSD 8444 - FTE: Doctoral
(1 cr; Prereq-Doctoral student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)
Equivalent courses: was SCAN 8444 until 04-SEP-01
TBD
GSD 8666 - Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits
(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-Doctoral student who has not passed prelim oral; no required consent for 1st/2nd registrations, up to 12 combined cr; dept consent for 3rd/4th registrations, up to 24 combined cr; doctoral student admitted before summer 2007 may register up to four times, up to 60 combined cr; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Equivalent courses: was SCAN 8666 until 04-SEP-01
TBD
GSD 8801 - Dissertation Seminar
(3 cr; S-N or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
For doctoral students in German and Scandinavian studies who are beginning to establish topics and do research for their dissertations. Discussion of a variety of topics related to this process as well as presentation of some written work.
GSD 8802 - Dissertation Writing Seminar
(3 cr; Prereq-8801, completion of doctoral preliminary examinations; S-N or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Critical, supportive forum for discussion of problems/issues related to dissertation research/writing. Shaping/controlling one's topic. Developing chapter outlines. Questions of audience. Careful uses of language. Turning a dissertation into a book.
GSD 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral
(1 cr [max 24]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 100 credits; may be repeated 10 times)
Equivalent courses: was SCAN 8888 until 04-SEP-01
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