fall 2012 courses
GER 201W Introduction to German Studies
GER 390 Romanticism: Transmission of an Aesthetic Idea
undergraduate courses
GER 201 Introduction to German Studies
GER 213 Intermediate Conversation & Composition (I)
GER 214 Intermediate Conversation & Composition (II)
GER 222 German Culture & Literature
GER 243 The Aesthetics of Violence
GER 244 German Fairy Tales: From Brothers Grimm to Walt Disney
GER 265 Revolutionizing Twentieth Century German Drama
GER 266 Mimesis: Nineteenth Century German Prose
GER 275 Art & Rebellion. Literary experiments of the 1960s and 1970s
GER 294A Literature & Terrorism
graduate courses
GER 314 Bibliography and Methods
GER 390 (a) "Werteverlust:" Literature and Inflation in Weimar Germany
GER 390 (b) Nature - History of an Illusion: German Literature from Eden to Ecocriticism
GER 390 (c) Romanticism: Transmission of an Aesthetic Idea
GER 391 Literary Experiments: Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Movements
GER 391 The Aesthetics of Violence: From Jünger to Jelinek
Encouraging students to cultivate their own thoughts and unique observations is essential to the learning process. Hence, I attempt to create an environment that engages students in classroom discussions, generates curiosity, evokes questions, and helps to develop independent ideas. In my language classes, students should expect to gain a solid foundation of foreign language skills, including the use of grammatical structures as well as idioms and expressions based on intercultural understanding
