GERST 3075

Print Matters

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2018-2019 Catalog.

German Print Culture from the Medieval to the Modern employs texts and images in the Kroch Rare Books and Manuscripts Library and Herbert Johnson Museum of Art as a prism to study how printing transformed everyday life in German-speaking Europe by making verbal and visual literacy possible for almost any member of society. Thematic units: Book-Making before the Printing Press; The Printing Press and Reformation; Endless War and Serialized Satire; Romanticism and the Birth of Children's Literature; Bourgeois Book Culture and Political Unification; Popular Press and Propaganda. All discussion, readings, and writing in German.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: GERST 2020 or GERST 2040 or GERST 2060 or placement by language exam.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to 12 students due to seminar format and physical constraints of viewing holdings in the Kroch Rare Books and Manuscripts Library and Herbert Johnson Museum of Art.

Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

When Offered Fall.

Comments Taught in German.

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