GM 220 Goethe und Schiller (Fall: 3)
Satisfies Foreign Language Proficiency Core Requirement
Offered Biennially
Conducted in German.
Counts toward German major, German minor, and
German Studies minor.
This course is for students with at least a third
year level of German.
A study of selected dramas and lyrics of Goethe and Schiller. The development
on the part of both poets from early Storm and Stress to the later Classicism
will be systematically traced. Throughout the course, the literature will
be linked to the larger cultural context of its age, with particular attention
to the philosophical (Herder, Schiller, Winckelmann, and Kant) and musical
(Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven) heritage of Germany in the eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries.
Michael Resler
Last Updated: 19-DEC-08