GERM 317 - (D,CL) German Travel Writing

3 cr.

(Prerequisites: Four completed semesters of college-level German or instructor permission)

A survey of travel writing in German, ranging from Romantic ideas about travel and Bildung, to colonial explorations, 19th century emigration to the Americas, 20th century German and Jewish German exile, mass-tourism in Weimar and the Third Reich, and post-World War II immigration.