Academic Catalog 2022-2023 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Academic Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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GER 336 - The Thrill of Victory: Reading German Sports and Culture

Course Units: 1.0
(Not Offered this Academic Year) This course traces the ways that Sports have reflected and influenced German culture through the 20th century, analyzing links between athleticism and conceptions of gender, nationhood, individuality and race set out in literary texts, films, and visual arts. Exploring notions of victory, physical perfection, and spectatorship, we will consider works by some of Germany’s greatest authors and artists, including Kafka, Schnitzler, Brecht, Riefenstahl, Kirschner and Handke. Cross-Listed: MLT 336   Prereq/Corequisite(s): GER 201    or permission of the instructor. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM



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