christoph zeller

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