Requirements for the Major in German Studies at Colby College
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009Requirements for the Major in German Studies
The major in German Studies requires 10 semester courses: six courses taught in German numbered above 127 including a 200-, a 300-, and a 400-level course and four additional courses chosen from the German curriculum, taken abroad, or from courses with a substantial German component in departments such as Arts, Government, History, Philosophy, and Music. Once declared, all majors must take at least one course in the German program each semester they are on campus until graduation.
Courses approved for the major in German Studies:
Art
331 Art of the Renaissance in Northern Europe
English
271 Critical Theory
493 Seminar: Franz Kafka
Government
257 Politics & Government of West Europe
266 German Politics
272 Modern Political Theory
354 The European Union
358 Political Ideologies & Revolutionary Movements in Europe
359 Political Ideologies
History
111 Europe from Late Antiquity to 1618
112 Survey of Modern Europe
182 Jewish History II
186 The Holocaust
215 Heresy, Humanism, and Reform
223 European Politics, Culture, Thought, 1789-1914
224 Germany and Europe, 1871-1945
321 The First World War
322 Europe and the Second World War
397 German Culture and Politics between the World Wars
421 Debating the Nazi Past
Music
242 Music History II
352 Beethoven and the Myth of Beethoven
493 Seminar: Death in Venice
Philosophy
314 Karl Marx and Marxist Philosophical Thought
359 19th-Century Philosophy
Religious Studies
186 God After Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Theory
Sociology
215 Classical Sociological Thought