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It is not unusual for students who study and travel abroad to develop interests that are later explored in depth in their Independent Study (I.S.) projects (found at Digital Resource Commons). During the senior year, each German major, with the guidance of a faculty member, undertakes a two-semester I.S. research project that culminates in a thesis, normally written in German.

Recent Topics

2012

  • Kyle Schutz (German)
    Der Kern der Deutschen: Eine Analyse der Atompolitik in der BRD
  • Rebekah Stebbins (German)
    “Und sie lebten glücklich und zufrieden bis an ihr Lebensende”…vielleicht? Eine Analyse der Grausamkeit und Unheimlichkeit in den Grimm-Märchen.
  • Muriel LaMois (German and History)
    “What Makes Her ‘New?’ Reexamining Weimar’s ‘New Woman’ in Das Künstseidene Mädchen, Der Skorpion, Pandora’s Box, and Girls in Uniform.”
  • Naomi Milstein (German and International Relations)
    Lost in Translation: The Image of the American and of the United States in Postwar Divided Germany, 1945-1967

2011

  • Adel El-Adawy (German and Communication Studies)
    Obama’s Airlift to Berlin: An Analysis of Barack Obama’s 2008 Speech, "A World that Stands as One," and the German Media Response
  • Kevin Nicholson (German and Mathematics)
    Bertolt Brecht and David Hilbert: A Connection through Formalism
  • Ingrid Thvedt (German)
    Der menschliche Wille: Hoffmans Erzahlungen und die zeitgenossische Philosophie
  • Jessica Whale (Chinese and German)
    A Critical Analysis of Chinese and German Environmental Discourse

2010

  • Mary Latalladi (German)
    Akzeptabel Umsturz: Frauen im ostdeutschen Film
  • Scott R. Latham (German)
    Deutscher Nationalismus zur Zeit Napoleons: Frankreichverfeindeter und Frankreichbegeisterter
  • Erin Palombi (German)
    “Durch den Ritz des Vorhanges" - Ein Blick auf die Vorrangigkeit des Anschauens im Wien der Jahrhundertwende nach Arthur Schnitzler und Max Ophuls

2009

  • Stephen Brown (German Studies)
    Industrial Decline and Working-Class Literature: Steel Producer Decisions and Workers’ Responses in the United States and Germany
  • Hanna E. Cordray (German)
    Ich tue, was ich will! eine Untersuchung der Geschlechterrollen and Sexualitat der turkischen Deutschen und wie sie in Filmen dargestellt warden
  • Elysia Tonti (German and History)
    Victims, Perpetrators or Both? Examining Vergangenheitsbewaltigung Through Germany’s Representation of the Holocaust in History Textbooks from the 1950’s, 1970’s and Today

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