AP/GER 4751 3.00

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

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, AP/GER 4571 3.00 (prior to Fall 2012).
PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Prerequisite: AS/GER 2200 6.00 or permission of the Department. Course credit exclusions: None.