Union College · Courses

GER

38 courses with the subject GER, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.

GER 100Basic German 11.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu

GER 101Basic German 21.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 100 or two years of secondary school German. CQ: LCCG, HUM, JWOL, JCHF

GER 102Basic German 31.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 101 or three years of secondary school German. CQ: LCCG, HUM

GER 200Intermediate German 11.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 102 or equivalent. CQ: LCCG, HUM, GWOL

GER 201Intermediate German 21.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 200 or equivalent. CQ: LCCG, HUM

GER 202Advanced German1.0

Course Mastery of the spoken and written language, with an emphasis on the finer points of grammar, style, and colloquial expression. Prerequisite(s): GER 201 or equivalent. CC: LCCG, HUM

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 201 or equivalent. CQ: LCCG, HUM

GER 204TGerman Language and Culture Studies Abroad1.0

Course See International Programs. CC: HUM, LCCG, JWOL

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu

GER 205TGerman Language and Culture Studies Abroad1.0

Course See International Programs. CC: HUM, LCCG, JWOL

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu

GER 206TGerman Language and Culture Studies Abroad1.0

Course See International Programs. CC: HUM, LCCG, JWOL

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu

GER 207TGerman Language and Culture Studies Abroad1.0

Course See International Programs. CC: HUM, LCCG, JWOL

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu

GER 250TThe German Language Studied Independently Abroad1.0

Course CC: HUM, LCCG

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu

GER 251TThe German Language Studied Independently Abroad1.0

Course CC: HUM, LCCG

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu

GER 296HGerman Honors Individual Project 2

Subject: GER
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu

GER 300TGerman Culture & Society1.0

Course (Also MLT-238T) See International Programs. An introduction to the cultural history of German speaking Europe. Prerequisite(s): GER 201 or permission of the instructor. CC: HUM, LCCG, JCHF, JLIT, WAC Note: Spring term in Freiburg/Berlin.

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 201 or permission of the instructor. CQ: HUM, LCCG, JCHF, JLIT, WAC

GER 301German Culture and the Professions1.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 201 or permission of the instructor. CQ: LCCG, HUM

GER 302Topics and Themes in German Prose1.0

Course Selected works representing literature and society from the late eighteenth century to the present. Readings of works from each period to illustrate cultural, historical, and artistic trends. Prerequisite(s): GER 201 or permission of the instructor. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM ISP: FLM

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 201 or permission of the instructor. CQ: HUL, LCCG, HUM ISP: FLM

GER 303Topics and Themes in German Drama1.0

Course Theory and practice of German theater from the Enlightenment to the Present. Prerequisite(s): GER 201 or permission of the instructor. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 201 or permission of the instructor. CQ: HUL, LCCG, HUM

GER 304Once Upon a Time: German Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Fantasy1.0

Course Exploration of the genre and tradition of the German Fairy Tale, its reception within various cultural frameworks, and its influence on later literature of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with special focus on identifying aesthetic, sociological, psychological, and psychoanalytical implications and gender issues. The Grimm Brothers' Kinder- und Hausmarchen (and their revisions in popular and literary culture) will provide a basis for discussing the fairy tale's role in culture and its continued vitality within the different cultural frameworks of classical, romantic, and modern folklore and fantasy storytelling. Prereq/Corequisite(s): GER 201 or permission of the instrucutor. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM, WAC

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Corequisite: GER 201 or permission of the instructor. CQ: HUL, LCCG, HUM, WAC

GER 305Topics and Themes in German Poetry: Love, Songs and Love Songs1

Course Students in this advanced intermediate course will increase their written and spoken language proficiency through an examination of the "love song" in the German language. Students will engage critically with the concept "German love songs," in part guided by the questions "what is German?" "what is love?" and "what are songs?" The tradition of nineteenth-century German Art Song, perhaps the most well known songs about love in the German language, will form the basis for an examination of diverse articulations of "love" in this course in a variety of media, from medieval up to contemporary. Prerequisite(s): GER 201 or instructor permission. CC: LCC

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 201 or instructor permission. CQ: LCC, JCHF, JLIT & JWOL

GER 306Twentieth and Twenty-First Century German Literature1.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 201 or permission of the instructor. CQ: HUL, LCCG, HUM

GER 307East German Culture1.0

Course This course offers an overview of life in East German socialism, with a focus on cultural, societal and political themes. Centrally, we consider the ways the both literature and film became essential outlets for cultural expression in the GDR, as well as the constraints placed upon such expression. Moreover, we devote time to examining political and social topics affecting cultural production and consumption in the GDR (known as a quintessential "Leseland" - country of readers). Our materials span the critical to the celebratory, and the sober to the comical, capturing important 'snapshots' of this small, short-lived (1949-1990), yet vital country. Prerequisite(s): GER 201 Corequisite(s): GER 201 or permission of instructor. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM, JCHF, JLIT, JWOL

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 201
Corequisite: GER 201 or permission of instructor. CQ: HUL, LCCG, HUM, JCHF, JLIT, JWOL

GER 334Femme fatales? Women in 19th and 20th Century German Culture and Society1.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 201 CQ: HUL, LCCG, HUM

GER 335Voices from Abroad: German Exile Culture, 1933-19901.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 201 or permission of the instructor CQ: HUL, LCCG, HUM

GER 336The Thrill of Victory: Reading German Sports and Culture1.0

Course This course traces the ways that Sports have reflected and influenced German culture through the 20th century, analyzing links between athleticism and conceptions of gender, nationhood, individuality and race set out in literary texts, films, and visual arts. Exploring notions of victory, physical perfection, and spectatorship, we will consider works by some of Germany's greatest authors and artists, including Kafka, Schnitzler, Brecht, Riefenstahl, Kirschner and Handke. Cross-Listed: MLT 336 Prereq/Corequisite(s): GER 201 or permission of the instructor. CC: HUL, LCCG, HUM

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2024-2025
Source: catalog.union.edu

GER 337Flashy Erotics to Forbidden Laughter: German Cabaret through the 20th Century1.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu

GER 338Poetry, Performance, Protest & Power: A History of Twentieth-Century Germany1.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu

GER 339The Holocaust in Film: Cinematic Treatments of Violence, Trauma and Memory1.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 201 or permission of the instructor. CQ: HUM, LCCG, JLIT, WAC ISP: FLM

GER 340Beyond Bedtime Stories: Retelling the Tales of the Brothers Grimm1.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 201 or permission of the instructor if student seeking GER credit. CQ: HUL, HUM, LCCG ISP: GSWS

GER 341Grounding in German Texts1

Course This course will explore an array of perspectives implied by the term "ground" and how these perspectives define the human relationship to the world. The ground offers a complicated and sometimes controversial focal point for a consideration of human activity. Many possible correlates of "ground" in German-the terms "Grund," "Boden," and "Erde," for example-include semantic fields that extend to reason, basis, territory, soil, earth, and world. Through the examination of perspectives ranging from metaphorical, to philosophical, to material, we will investigate how the ground functions in diverse contexts, forming at times the basis for human exceptionality, becoming the great unifier of organic and inorganic matter, and finally setting the scene for a decentering of an anthropocentric understanding of the world. Readings and discussion in English. Prerequisite(s): GER 201 or instructor permission

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2024-2025
Source: catalog.union.edu

GER 401Meeting the Other: Migration and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Germany1.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: Any 300-level course or permission of the instructor. CQ: HUL, LCCG, HUM

GER 402German Film Studies1.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: Any 300-level course or permission of the instructor. CQ: HUM, LCCG, JWOL ISP: FLM, GSW

GER 403Shoah: Literary, Artistic and Filmic Representations of the Holocaust1.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: Any 300-level course or permission of the instructor. CQ: LCCG, HUM, HUL

GER 404Kafka and Mann: German Modernism1

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: 300-level German course or instructors permission. CQ: HUL, HUM, LCCG, JLIT, JWOL

GER 406The City in German Cinema1

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: GER 300-level course or permission of the instructor. CQ: JCHF, JLIT, JWOL, WAC ISP: FLM

GER 489German Senior Writing Project1.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu

GER 490German Independent Study 11.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: At least one course at the 400-level and permission of the instructor.

GER 491German Independent Study 21.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: At least one course at the 400-level and permission of the instructor.

GER 492German Independent Study 31.0

Subject: GER
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Units
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: Academic Catalog 2026-2027
Source: catalog.union.edu
Prerequisite: At least one course at the 400-level and permission of the instructor.

Source: Union College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61