AP/GER 3751 3.0 Utopias and Nightmares: Visions of the Future in Modern German Culture

AP/GER 3751 3.00

Utopias and Nightmares: Visions of the Future in Modern German Culture

CROSSLISTED COURSE: AP HUMA 4884

This course examines utopian and dystopian discourses in Modern German culture. Studying a variety of texts from literature, cinema and other forms of cultural production, students will examine the texts’ visions for the future within the context of prevailing discourses on science, technology, and modernity’s promise and destructive potential.
Course credit exclusions: AP/GER 3751 3.00 (prior to Fall 2012), AP/GER 4751 3.00, AP/HUMA 4884 3.00.

PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Prerequisite: AS/GER 2200 6.00 or permission of the Department. Course credit exclusions: None.