German Studies

More information about courses applicable to the German studies focus or the German studies minor is available from the undergraduate advisor for German or the director of the German Studies Committee.

For students interested in combining such a major or minor with a European studies certificate, see the European Studies section of this catalog.

German Studies Focus

German studies is a focus for the German major offered by the Department of German and Scandinavian.

Requirements

1. Five upper-division courses taught in German (20 credits)

2. Four upper-division courses (16 credits) from at least two of the three following fields:

• Philosophy and religion
• History and politics
• Art history and music

3. Three elective upper-division courses (12 credits)

4. German advising conference workshop taken pass/no pass (1 credit)

5. Of the twelve courses in (1), (2), and (3), five must be at the 400 level

6. One course must address topics from the period before 1800

The German Studies Committee encourages its majors to spend all or part of a year studying abroad through the Baden-Württemberg exchange program, sponsored by the Oregon University System.

Minor in German Studies

The German studies minor requires—in addition to second-year language proficiency—seven courses (28 credits) distributed as follows:

Requirements

Three upper-division German courses (12 credits) selected from the following:

• Intermediate Language Training (GER 311, 312, 313)
• Study in Germany (GER 317)
• Introduction to German Culture and Society (GER 340, 341)
• Genres in German Literature (GER 350)
• Diversity in Germany (GER 351)
• Authors in German Literature (GER 352)
• German Gender Studies (GER 354)
• German Cinema: History, Theory, Practice (GER 355)
• German Fairy Tales (GER 356)
• Introduction to German Literature: Poetry, Plays, Prose (GER 360)
• Introduction to German Literature: Literary Movements (GER 361)
• Introduction to German Literature: Interpretive Models (GER 362)
• Themes in German Literature (GER 366, 367, 368)
• Special Studies (GER 399)
• Seminar (GER 407)
• Practicum: Internship Teaching German (GER 409)
• Experimental Course (GER 410)
• Advanced Language Training (GER 411, 412, 413)
• Play Performance (GER 425)
• German Culture and Society (GER 440)
• German Literature (GER 460)

Four upper-division courses (16 credits) in at least two of the following fields:

Philosophy and Religion

• Experimental Course: Modern European Social Thought (HIST 410)
• Intellectual History of Modern Europe (HIST 427)
• 16th-Century European Reformations (HIST 441)
• Early Modern German History (HIST 442)
• History of Philosophy: 19th Century (PHIL 312)
• Critical Theory (PHIL 343)
• Continental Philosophy (PHIL 415)
• 17th- and 18th-Century Philosophers (PHIL 433)
• 19th-Century Philosophers (PHIL 453)
• 20th-Century Philosophers (PHIL 463)

• Medieval and Early Modern Judaism (JSTD 212)
• The Jewish Encounter with Modernity (JSTD 213)

History and Politics

• German History: I, II, III (HIST 342)
• The Idea of Europe (HIST 420)
• Cultural History of the Enlightenment (HIST 426)
• Europe in the 20th Century (HIST 428)
• Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe (HIST 435)
• Early Modern German History (HIST 442)
• Modern Germany (HIST 443)
• Political Theory: Renaissance, Reformation, and Early Modern (PS 431)
• Marxism and Radical Thought (PS 433)
• Marxist Sociological Theory (SOC 475)

Art History and Music

• Cultures of the Medieval West (ARH 331)
• Northern Renaissance Art (ARH 343)
• Northern Baroque Art (ARH 344)
• History of Prints (ARH 349)
• 19th-Century Art (ARH 351)
• Modern Art, 1880–1950 (ARH 353)
• History of Design (ARH 358)
• Gothic Architecture I (ARH 438)
• Renaissance Architecture (ARH 448)
• Modern German Art (ARH 454)
• The Music of Bach and Handel (MUS 351) 

Three courses must be taken on the University of Oregon campus, at least one of them in the Department of German and Scandinavian. Grades of at least mid-C or P (pass) must be earned in all courses used to satisfy requirements for the minor. Only one course may be taken pass/no pass.

To count toward the German studies minor, generic courses numbered 399, 407, 410, and permanently numbered courses with changing topics must have approval from the German studies advisor to ensure that the course has a substantive emphasis on German studies.