Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
Germanics (GMAN)

GMAN 351   MYTHS OF MODERN INDIVIDUALISM: FAUST AND Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A critical examination of two literary myths and their cultural transformations
since Marlow, resp.  Tirso de Molina.  Detailed analysis of a small number of
representative works (by Goethe, Th.  Mann; Moliere, Byron, Shaw etc.),
including non-literary representations, such as Mozarts's opera, Don Giovanni.
Comparative, cross-cultural approach; readings in translation, discussions in
English.
001 TBA                                 Winkler, Michael          Enr: 0 Max: NA

GMAN 361   IMPERIAL SPLENDOR MADE IN AUSTRIA: THE H Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to the Habsburg dynasty
ruling Austria from 1278 to 1918.  The course will analyze those forces which
brought the collapse of the multinational, dynastic state of the Habsburgs at
the beginning of the twentieth century and those which held it together through
the end of the nineteenth.  Special emphasis will be placed on the diverse
cultural manifestations in music, architecture, fine arts, and literature that
made Austria a leading force in European cultural history.
Also offered as HIST 364
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

GMAN 392   GERMAN FAIRY TALE-OLD & NEW (IN TRANSLAT Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Discussion of several prototypes from the fairy-tale collection of the Brothers
Grimm and the subsequent development of the "literary" fairy tale from Goethe
and the Romantics of the 20th century.
Also offered as GERM 392
001 TBA                                 Weissenberger, Klaus H.   Enr: 0 Max: NA

GMAN 402   WOMEN FILMMAKERS                         Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Filmmaking is celebrating its first hundred years.  Women's contributions among
it were significant throughout and deserve a particular reviewing to help widen
the established film canon.  To assess women directors of the 20th century and
their use of filmlanguage should provoke not only debates amoung feminists, but
among filmgoers of other genders and persuations.  The course will concentrate
on films by European and American women directors, taking into account
historical pioneering, cultural identities, aesthetic particularities, gender
commitment, subject orientations and post-feminist attempts.  Importance will
also be given to the contexts and conditions of women's film
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

GMAN 406   ADAPTATIONS:FROM TEXT TO FILM            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Readings in English. Many novels and short stories by prominent German writers
were brought to the screen. This course will study T. Mann's Death in Venice,
Doeblin's Alexanderplatz, K. Mann's Mephisto, Grass' Blechtrommel, Boell's
Katarina Blum, Frisch's Homo Faber, Bachmann's Malina, and others.  Questions
will be assessed such as what the two media might have in common, how they
express differently, and how author versus film director should be perceived.
Open to graduate students for credit.
001 TBA - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM         Eifler, Margret E.        Enr: 0 Max: 20

GMAN 437   ADAPTATIONS:FROM TEXT TO FILM            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Many novels and short stories by prominent German writers have been brought to
the screen.  This course will focus on works by Kafka, Doeblin, Mann, Grass,
Boell, Frisch, Bachmann and others.  Questions will be assessed such as what
have the two media in common, how do they express differently, and how should
the literary author versus the film dirctor be perceived.  Interpretative
readings and class discussions in English.  German majors may read and write in
German.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA