A special offering of third-semester German taught during the summer in Vienna, Austria. Students take part in a four-week intensive language course at University of Vienna, as well as a precept with a Princeton faculty member that covers the literary component of 105. Students are chosen by application from 102 in the spring. Five three-hour classes, two preceptorials per week.

A special offering of fourth-semester German taught during the summer in Vienna, Austria. Students take part in a four-week intensive language course at the University of Vienna, as well as a precept with a Princeton faculty member that covers the literary component of 107. Students in 102-5 are eligible by application for this course. Five three-hour classes, two preceptorials per week.

This Berlin-based seminar provides a survey of the major writings of German critical theorists on the media, totalitarianism, and the public sphere along with responses from several Anglo-American and French cultural theorists. In the final week we explore structuralism as an alternative model of critical philosophy. Each week includes one required excursion germane to the reading; optional excursions to various museums and cultural sites around Berlin will be organized for other afternoons.

This course immerses students in the art and culture of early twentieth-century Vienna, a center of radical experimentation across literature, philosophy, and the arts. Through select readings and site visits, we will explore how writers like Schnitzler and Musil traced the dynamics of consciousness, how Freud revealed instinctual forces beneath the rational self, and how painters like Klimt and Schiele captured these forces on canvas. We will also survey Vienna's formative influence on modern philosophy (Wittgenstein) and music (Schönberg), and study how these movements both arose from and contended with the city's turbulent history.

Coinciding with the International Bach Festival in June, this intensive one-month course provides the opportunity for students to study German and music in Leipzig, a city renowned for its rich musical culture. Language study in the morning at the InterDaF German Language Institute, supervised by Jamie Rankin, will be supplemented with afternoon classes in music and culture with Wendy Heller; coaching in vocal and instrumental chamber music with Ruth Ochs, culminating in a final performance on June 25; Bach Festival concerts; museum visits (Bach Archive, Mendelssohn-Haus, Schumann-Haus); possible travel to nearby cities (Berlin, Dresden).