Berlin: An Excursion to Modernity (GER-0073)

Fall 2025 · GER 0073 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Investigation of the co-emergence of metropolitan Berlin and modernist art and thinking from the early twentieth century to the present. Themes include utopian/dystopian urbanity, the relation between art and propaganda, the politics of memory, the aesthetics of terrorism as well as the creative force of cultural hybridity. Emphasis on literature, film, and visual culture, supplemented by readings in philosophy, (cultural) history, and urban studies. In English. No prerequisites.

Course codes: GER-0073, GER 0073, GER0073, GER-73, GER 73, GER73

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