Principal faculty mentor: Michael Stern
This pathway is designed to provide:
- Philosophy students with a broader perspective that illuminates the cultural, political, and literary environments within which German and Scandinavian philosophers lived, thought, and worked.
- Students of German and Scandinavia with a perspective on how thought from the region spread geographically and was extended intellectually through time.
- Take GER 101-103 and 201-203; or SWED 101-103 and 201-203 (or place out)
- Take 4 upper-division courses taught in German or a Scandinavian language (e.g. GER 311-313 and one other; SWED 405: Third Year Swedish)
- Take 4 courses from the “German and Scandinavian Philosophical Culture” list below
- Take 4 courses from the “German History and History of Philosophy” list below
- Make sure you end up with
- A grand total of 12 courses beyond GER 101-203 or SWED 101-203
- At least 8 of the 12 at the upper division
- At least 6 of the 12 with a GER or SCAN subject code
- Consult your faculty mentor about
- the capstone requirement
- study abroad (if you’re interested)
ELIGIBLE COURSES INSIDE THE DEPARTMENT
GER 251 Culture of Money
GER 252 War, Violence, Trauma
GER 341 Introduction to German Culture and Society
GER 407 (when taught as Philosophical Prose)
GER 220M From Kierkegaard to Kafka (also offered as SCAN 220M)
SCAN 251 Text and Interpretation
SCAN 341 Revisions of the Scandinavian Dream
SCAN 351 Periods in Scandinavian Literature
SCAN 408 (when taught as a Kierkegaard seminar)
Other GER and SCAN courses also count
ELIGIBLE COURSES OUTSIDE THE DEPARTMENT
HIST 342 German History
HIST 420 The Idea of Europe
HIST 427 Intellectual History
HIST 443 Modern Germany
HIST 444 The Holocaust
PHIL 211 Existentialism
PHIL 308 Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL 312 History of Philosophy (19th Century)
PHIL 343 Critical Theory
PHIL 350 Metaphysics (contingent upon content)
PHIL 415 Continental (contingent upon content)
PHIL 433 17th and 18th century Philosophers (contingent upon content, e.g. Kant)
PHIL 453 19th century Philosophers (contingent upon content, e.g. German Idealism, Marx, Nietzsche)
PHIL 463 20th century Philosophers (contingent upon content, e.g. Heidegger, Wittgenstein)