Study Abroad Courses
Courses

For more information on language acquisition courses — GERM numbered up to 302, with the exception of FSEM; RUSS numbered up to 310 — contact the Center of the Study of Languages (CSL), Rayzor Hall 235, (Telephone) 713-348-5844, (E-Mail) csladmin@rice.edu.

Course Syllabi and Web Pages

German Courses

  • GERM 121 / FSEM 121 From Kafka to the Holocaust: Discourse in Alienation (Professor Weissenberger)
  • GERM 123 / FSEM 123 Through Time and Space: European Travel Stories (Professor Steiner)
  • GERM 126 / FSEM 126 The Legend of King Arthur in the Middle Ages (Professor Westphal)
  • GERM 128 / FSEM 128 The Culture of War: Violence, Conflict, Representation (Professor Emden)
  • GERM 129 / FSEM 129 Literary Love Affairs: Love and Passion in European Literature (Professor Steiner)
  • GERM 130/FSEM 130/SWGS 130 Women and National Socialism  (Professor Kecht)
  • GERM 135/FSEM 135/SWGS 135 Women and Performance in Modern Literature and Culture (Professor Dupree)
  • GERM 303  Compostion and Conversation I:  Language and Style in German Literary and Cultural Texts (Faculty)
  • GERM 304 Composition and Conversation II: Language an Style in German Literary and Cultural Texts (Faculty)
  • GERM 322 / HUMA 322 Marx, Freud, Einstein: Forebears of Modernity (Professor Weissenberger)
  • GERM 324 / HUMA 324 Berlin: Residence, Metropolis, Capital (Professor Steiner)
  • GERM 326 / HUMA 372 The German Fairy Tale: Old and New (Professor Weissenberger)
  • GERM 327 German Expressionism (Professor Weissenberger)
  • GERM 329 / HUMA 329 Literature of the Holocaust and Exile (Professor Weissenberger)
  • GERM 330 / HUMA 330 / SWGS 330 / MDST 335 Courtship, Love and Marriage in the Age of Chivalry (Professor Westphal)
  • GERM 331 / HIST 431 Political Culture in Weimar Germany (Professor Emden and Professor Caldwell)
  • GERM 333 Nietzsche:  Philosophy, Politics, History  (Professor Emden)
  • GERM 334 Nation and Memory (Professor Emden)
  • GERM 340/HUMA 340 Walter Benjamin: Aesthetics, History, and Politics (Professor Steiner)
  • GERM 349 German Political Thought since 1750 (Professor Emden)
  • GERM 353 Literature and Death (Professor Emden)
  • GERM 410 Advanced Composition and Conversation: Language Style in Cultural Texts (Professor Steiner)
  • GERM 411 German Enlightenment to Romanticism, 1700-1850 (Faculty)
  • GERM 412 German Realism to Modernism, 1850-Present (Faculty)
  • GERM 425 Vienna and Its People  (Professor Kecht)

Humanities Courses

  • HUMA 101 From Ancient Greece to Medieval Islam: Introduction to Western Literature, History, and Philosophy (Professor Westphal)
  • HUMA 102 From the Renaissance to the Present: Introduction to Western Literature, History, and Philosophy (Professor Emden)
  • HUMA 102 From the Renaissance to the Present: Introduction to Western Literature, History, and Philosophy (Professor Steiner)
  • Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

  • SWGS 403 Women's Stories and Legal Change (Professor Westphal)

Polish Courses

  • PLSH 101 Introduction to the Polish Language (Center for the Study of Languages)

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