All courses taught in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies will be meeting in virtual spaces throughout W2020. Check below to see how your course will be taught: synchronously (with scheduled meetings), asynchronously (without scheduled meetings), or in hybrid format (with some scheduled meetings, but mostly asynchronous).
If you have questions about our offerings, in the upcoming term or in general, feel free to connect with one of our undergraduate advisors:
Bozena Karwowska: Slavic
Lena Karlström: Scandinavian
Florian Gassner: German
You can also reach out to one of our language coordinators:
Angelika (Gela) Struch: 1st-year German
Florian Faller: 2nd-year German
Uma Kumar: Business German
Veta Chitnev: Russian
Course Delivery for Winter 2020 Term 2
This list will be updated weekly as needed.
The following courses will be taught asynchronously, meaning that students can complete the courses without attending scheduled meetings.
- CENS 201-004 Contrasts and Conflicts: The Cultures of Central, Eastern and Northern Europe (in English), taught by Katherine Bowers
- GERM 303-002 German Literature Before 1900 (in English), taught by Ilinca Iurascu
- GERM 304-003 German Cinema (in English), taught by Ilinca Iurascu
- RUSS 323A-001 Fantastic Worlds in Russian Fiction (in English), taught by Katherine Bowers
The following courses are taught synchronously or in hybrid format, meaning that students are required to attend or complete an activity at a scheduled time. (Hybrid courses will be mostly asynchronous but are likely to have some scheduled components.)
- CENS 202-002 Great Works of Literature from Central, Eastern and Northern Europe (in English), taught by Markus Hallensleben (hybrid)
- Only Tuesday lessons will be synchronous.
- CENS 202-004 Great Works of Literature from Central, Eastern and Northern Europe (in English), taught by Florian Gassner
- CENS 404-001 Gender and Nation: Women’s State in Modern Central, Eastern and Northern European Literatures and Cultures, taught by Ervin Malakaj (hybrid)
- Classwork will entail both synchronous and asynchronous components.
- GERM 100 Beginners’ German I, all sections
- GERM 110 Beginners’ German II, all sections
- GERM 200-004 Intermediate German I, taught by Sara Pashan
- GERM 206-001 Exile, Flight and Migration (in English)/GERM 302-002 German Literature after 1945 (in English), cross-listed, taught by Markus Hallensleben (hybrid)
- Only Tuesday lessons will be synchronous.
- GERM 210 Intermediate German II, all sections
- GERM 302-001 German Literature after 1945 (in English), taught by Daniela Hempen
- GERM 310-001 Intermediate German IV, taught by Sabine Zimmermann
- GERM 313-001 Conversational German II, taught by Florian Gassner
- GERM 426-001 German Representations of the Holocaust (in English), taught by Uma Kumar
- GERM 433-905 German for Reading Knowledge I, taught by Ihar Maslenikau
- GERM 433-906 German for Reading Knowledge I, taught by Adelheid O’Brien
- GERM 433-907 German for Reading Knowledge I, taught by Adelheid O’Brien
- RUSS 102-001 Basic Russian II, taught by Veta Chitnev
- RUSS 202-001 Second-Year Russian II, taught by Veta Chitnev
- RUSS 400B-001 Fourth-Year Russian, taught by Veta Chitnev
- SCAN 336-001 Scandinavian Crime Fiction, taught by Lena Karlstrom (hybrid)
- A mix of mainly synchronous and some asynchronous classes.
- SCAN 415-001 The World of the Sagas (in English), taught by Kyle Frackman (hybrid)
- The course will be mostly asynchronous but with opportunities for synchronous interaction, including in group discussions and with student hours with professor and TA.
- SLAV 307A-001 Literature and Film in Eastern Europe, taught by Ania Switzer
- SWED 110-001 Elementary Swedish II, taught by Lena Karlstrom (hybrid)
- A mix of mainly synchronous and some asynchronous classes.
- SWED 210-001 Intermediate Swedish II, taught by Lena Karlstrom (hybrid)
- A mix of mainly synchronous and some asynchronous classes.
Course Delivery for Winter 2020 Term 1
This list will be updated weekly as needed.
The following courses will be taught asynchronously, meaning that students can complete the courses without attending scheduled meetings.
- CENS 201-001 Contrasts and Conflicts, taught by Elizabeth Nijdam
- CENS 202-003 Great Works of Literature from Central, Eastern and Northern Europe (in English): The Uniform, taught by Ilinca Iurascu
- CENS 303A-99A Representations of the Holocaust, taught by Anja Nowak
- CENS 303B-99A Representations of the Holocaust, taught by Anja Nowak
- GERM 301-002 German Literature 1900 – 1945 (in English): The Literature of Interior Spaces, taught by Ilinca Iurascu
- GERM 390-001 Progress and Disaster: Studies in the 20th and 21st Centuries, taught by Daniela Hempen
- RUSS 306A-001 Russian Literature in Translation (The 19th-Century Novel), taught by Katherine Bowers
- RUSS 321A-001 Imagining Location in Russian Literature (Imagining St Petersburg), taught by Katherine Bowers
The following courses are taught synchronously or in hybrid format, meaning that students are required to attend or complete an activity at a scheduled time. (Hybrid courses will be mostly asynchronous but are likely to have some scheduled components.)
- GERM 100, all sections
- GERM 110, all sections
- GERM 200, all sections
- GERM 304-002 German Cinema, taught by Ervin Malakaj
- GERM 325-001 German Translation, taught by Caroline Rieger
- GERM 412-001 German Media Studies, taught by Elizabeth Nijdam
- GERM 501A-001 Literary Theories, taught by Ervin Malakaj
- SCAN 336-001 Scandinavian Crime Fiction, taught by Lena Karlstrom
- SCAN 337-001 Scandinavian Cinema, taught by Lena Karlstrom
- SWED 100-001 Elementary Swedish I, taught by Lena Karlstrom
- SWED 110-001 Elementary Swedish II, taught by Lena Karlstrom
- SWED 200-001 Intermediate Swedish I, taught by Lena Karlstrom
- SWED 210-001 Intermediate Swedish II, taught by Lena Karlstrom
