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German Studies Home  Undergraduate Program German Studies
Program Description
German studies is a transnational and transdisciplinary major that deals with the various German-speaking regions of central Europe. Whether one thinks of philosophy, music, art, education, religion, or political and social history, German culture has exercised a profound and often decisive influence on Europe. Some of the most important ideological debates in Western culture have arisen in the German-speaking area, and changes in German culture and society have sometimes had devastating effects on world history. Events and political developments of recent years such as the unification of East and West Germany and the emergence of the German-speaking region of Europe as a major player in world affairs have had important impacts.
A German studies major provides students with an intellectually diverse program covering history, history of art and visual culture, literature, and philosophy in which students and faculty come together in exciting, and demanding pursuits.
Major Requirements
All students are required to take a total of 10 courses, including a minimum of three courses in German literature and two courses in German history. No more than two of the 10 required courses may be lower -division courses, and no more than two may come from the Germany in a European or World Context list.
A minimum of five of the 10 required courses must be taught in German or principally
through German-language texts. Language competency to level five is required
in order to pursue a German studies major.
All students must complete a senior oral examination (given by two faculty members) as part of the requirements for the major.
German 5 is a pre requisite for all upper-division courses taught in German. Students are encouraged to take German 5 as early as possible in their academic program.
Regular consultation with a program faculty adviser is required.
It is strongly recommended that students spend a period of time in residence in Germany through the University of California Education Abroad Program to further enrich their program of study and ensure a command of the language. Students are allowed to transfer up to five courses taken at German universities toward the requirements for the major. However, the five core courses in German literature and history must be taken at UCSC.
Declaration of Major Procedure
- Pick up two forms:
A declaration of major/minor form at your college office. Make sure that Section 1 (monitoring of completed GEs) is completed.
A major planning worksheet, available at the History Department, 32 Merrill
or online at http://history.ucsc.edu/undergraduate/german.
- Meet with one of the German Studies faculty advisers to plan an individualized program of study. Obtain your faculty adviser's signature in Section II of the declaration of major/minor form and on your departmental plan of study.
- Go to the History Department with your signed declaration of major form and your program of study. The undergraduate adviser will complete Section III. If no further advising from other departments is required, the adviser will then forward the completed declaration to the Registrar, your college office, and second department of study (when applicable).
Faculty Advisers
- Mark Cioc, Professor of History
281 Stevenson
459-3817 voice/459-2555 message
cioc@ucsc.edu
- Gary Lease, Professor, History of Consciousness (leave
2007-2008)
459.4310 voice / 459.2813 message
rehbock@ucsc.edu
- Loisa Nygaard, Associate Professor, German Literature
188 Kresge
459-2842 voice/459-2781 message
nygaard@ucsc.edu
German Studies Program Faculty
- Walter Campbell, Lecturer in German Language
Language teaching, 18th-and 19th-century German literature, history of German
- Mark Cioc, Professor of History
German history, modern European history, environmental history
- Judith Harris-Frisk, Lecturer in German Language
German language and cultural studies; German literature and intellectual history, 1750-present; turn-of-the-century Vienna and Weimar German; German issues of national identity and multiculturalism
- Theo Honnef, Lecturer in German Literature
- Donna Hunter, Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
European painting (especially French) from 1600 to the 1960s; German art and visual culture between the two world wars; art as a social practice, portraiture
- Virginia Jansen, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture (Emerita)
- Gary Lease, Professor of History of Consciousness
Theory and origins of religion, history of religions (Hellenistic mysteries, Christian origins, 19th-and 20th-century Germany, German Judaism), religion and political orders
- Loisa Nygaard, Associate Professor of Literature
Eighteenth-and early 19th-century German literature, romanticism;
aesthetics and politics of landscape; military theory
German Studies Curriculum
Core Courses
German:
119, German Media
German Literature:
102, Introduction to German Literature
120, Fear of the Foreign: Xenophobia in German Literature and Culture
150, German Romanticism
History:
80W, The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry
172A, German History
172B, German Film, 1919-1945
185B, Rethinking the Holocaust
185E, The Historiography of the Holocaust
196P, Hitler and Stalin
History of Art and Visual Culture
136, German Art, 1905-1945
History of Consciousness:
80 O, Hitler, National Socialism & Religion
123, Culture in Crisis: Weimar Germany
Context Courses
History of Art and Visual Culture:
105R, The Northern Renaissance
164, Early Medieval and Romanesque Architecture
165B, Gothic Beyond
190Q, Portraiture: Europe and America, 1400-1990
History:
70A, Modern European History, 1500-1789
70B, Modern European History, 1789-1914
70C, Modern European History, 1914-Present
65A, Medieval Europe, 200-1000
183, Fascism and Resistance in Italy
Philosophy:
106, Kant
108, 19th Century Philosophy
110, Heidegger
139, Freud
Politics:
105B, Early Modern Political Thought
105C, Modern Political Thought
175, The New Europe
176: International Political Economy
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