Winter 2026

Winter Quarter 2026

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Expanded Course Descriptions

• GER 002-001 Elementary German
  Yingwei Mu
• Continuation of GER 001 in areas of grammar and basic language skills. Prerequisite: GER 001. GE: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC).
• GER 002-002 Elementary German
  Seva Shinde
• Continuation of GER 001 in areas of grammar and basic language skills. Prerequisite: GER 001. GE: Arts & Humanities (AH); World Cultures (WC).
• GER 011 Travel & Modern World
  Chunjie Zhang
• Examination of travel as an essential human activity and experience of global modernity and cross-cultural encounters from the 18th to the 21st century with an emphasis on German-speaking culture. Travelogues, literature, art, memoirs, and films in English translation. GE: Arts & Humanities (AH); Visual Literacy (VL); World Cultures (WC); Writing Experience (WE).
• GER 021 Intermediate German
  Aaron Saint John
• Review of grammatical principles by means of written exercises; expanding of vocabulary through readings of modern texts; addresses social relations and cultural practices in Germany; discusses history of Germany. Prerequisite: GER 020. GE: Arts & Humanities (AH); Oral Skills (OL); World Cultures (WC); Writing Experience (WE).
• GER 114 German Women & Film
  Elisabeth Krimmer

• This course explores the work of some of the most important German actresses and women filmmakers from the Weimar Republic to the present, including the Nazi director Leni Riefenstahl and the German-American film star Marlene Dietrich. We will focus on changing conceptualizations of gender against the historical backdrop of 1) the Weimar Republic, gender experimentation and transgression; male anxiety in a Germany that lost the Great War 2) the Third Reich, the question of fascist aesthetics; gender and Nazi ideology; the documentary; 3) the post-war period: attempts to come to terms with the Nazi past, the melodrama; women as victims and perpetrators; 4) terrorism in 1970s Germany, German terrorism and its link to the Nazi past; women as terrorists and icons of innocence 5) recent internationally successful German films. Taught in English.
   
  If you have questions, please contact emkrimmer@ucdavis.edu
  GE: Arts & Humanities (AH); Visual Literacy (VL); World Cultures (WC); Writing Experience (WE)

  
• GER 120 Survey of German Culture
  Chunjie Zhang

• Major developments in German arts, philosophical thought, social institutions, and political history. Prerequisite: GER 022 or consent of instructor. GE: Arts & Humanities (AH); Oral Skills (OL); Visual Literacy (VL); World Cultures (WC); Writing Experience (WE).

• GER 143 Language Through Media
  Carlee Arnett

• This course will focus on the various types of media in the German-speaking world. We will look at what types of media are popular, such as television, Internet and social media and who the participants in the use of media. We will address such questions as who makes films and what are they trying to show about Germany. What role to contemporary writers play on talk shows structuring discourse about current political events or societal concerns? What social critique is made in television programs and who controls the programming? Why has radio fallen out of favor or who is listening and to what? What role in society do blogs, cabaret, hip-hop and other creative expressions play and what is their media outlet?
   Prerequisite: GER 022 or consent of instructor. GE: Arts & Humanities (AH); Oral Skills (OL); Visual Literacy (VL); World Cultures (WC); Writing Experience (WE).