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Freshman level
From Fairy Tales to the Uncanny: Exploring the Romantic Consciousness GERST 1109
- Goethe, Tieck, Foque & Brentano: Romantic Fairy Tales
- The Marquise of O & Other Stories by Heinrich Von Kleist
Love & Death in Vienna GERST 1122
- The Book of Franza & Requiem for Fanny Goldmann by Ingeborg Bachmann
- Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
Exploring German Contexts I GERST 1210
- DaF leicht: German as a Foreign Language for Adults, A1.1 by Jentges et al.
- DaF leicht: German as a Foreign Language for Adults, A1.2 by Jentges et al.
Exploring German Contexts II GERST 1220
- DaF leicht: German as a Foreign Language for Adults, A1.2 by Jentges et al.
- DaF leicht: German as a Foreign Language for Adults, A2.1 by Jentges et al.
Expanding the German Dossier GERST 1230
- DaF kompakt neu: German as a Foreign Language for Adults, A2 by Braun et al.
Elementary Yiddish I GERST 1776
- In eynem: The New Yiddish Textbook by Schulman et al.
Sophomore level
Literary Texts & Contexts GERST 2020
- The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun
- Das lyrische Stenogrammheft by Mascha KalΓ©ko
Perspectives on German Culture GERST 2040
- Kontext: German as a Foreign Language, B2.1
Politics in Dark Times GERST 2655
- Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt
- The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
- Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, Thoughts on Politics & Revolution by Hannah Arendt
Junior level
Remembering Socialism: Literature & Film After the End of History GERST 3612
- Free: A Child & a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi
- Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin
- The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia by Ludmilla Petrushevskay
- Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
- The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugresic