The German Studies Curriculum will be enriched by three new courses designed for the Common Curriculum:

Prof. Anna Horakova developed GERM 3210W Engineering Texts: German Culture and Technology in the 20th and 21st Centuries (TOI 1 and TOI 2). This course “explores German-language literacy and artistic reflections on technology as well as authentic texts by German-speaking scientists on art, culture, and politics.”

Prof. Manuela Wagner developed GERM 2600 Fostering Intercultural Citizenship for Sustainable Futures through Creative Solutions and Human Rights Advocacy (TOI 1 and TOI 4). In her words “students will gain and apply the knowledge and skills of intercultural competence which are connected to criticality ad creativity and will apply what they learned in the culminative collaborative action projects addressing a problem related to a U.N. SDG related to the environment of their choice.”

And Prof. Anke Finger developed GERM 2500 Sensation, Perception, Expression: Media Aesthetics and Environmental Humanities (TOI 1 and TOI 4). This course focuses on “today’s digitized worlds and diversified public spheres where environmental literacy is unthinkable without fostering an understanding of media ecologies and media production. Media aesthetics, from the viewpoint of German-speaking media philosophy, presents a pivotal linkage between the traditional study of aesthetics/aisthesis/perception and the (digital) media environments we must assess anew given media revolutions that include artificial intelligence, algorithms, and automation/robotics. Creativity is key for this assessment.”

All three courses will be developed over the next academic year. Congratulations!