GER 340 Inventing Germanness
This course investigates the ways the German language and concepts of the German nation have developed and changed over the centuries. The course examines these ideas through readings in literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, and journalism, and through film. It aims at a survey of the history of ideas of “German,” “Germany,” and “Germanness” with emphases on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and on contemporary diversity in German.