B.A. (German Studies) Introduction to European Cultural History Einfhrung in Die Europische Kulturgeschichte Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

This is the Fourth Year BA German Studies Honours syllabus under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2026-27. The fourth year is new in 2026-27, and the University runs it as two separate awards: Honours, and Honours with Research.

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Syllabus for Introduction to European Cultural History Einführung in die europäische Kulturgeschichte

Major · Semester 7 · Fourth Year BA German Studies Honours · 4 credits · 100 marks

Module 1: Social, political and art history from Renaissance to March Revolution

Unit 1 Humanism, Renaissance (Da Vinci, Michelangelo), Martin Luther (Indulgences and Theses), Reformation & Counter-reformation, Inquisition, Thirty Years War, Westphalian Treaty, Baroque & Rococo (Johann Sebastian Bach, Friedrich Georg Händel), Literature (Martin Opitz, Andreas Gryphius, Angelus Silesius, Grimmelshausen), Inventions, Mercantilism, Absolutism (Louis XIV), Enlightenment (Immanuel Kant), Literature (J. C. Gottsched, G.E Lessing, C. Wieland) Enlightened Absolutism (Friedrich the Great), Seven Years War, Literature (J.G. Herder, F.G. Klopstock, J. W. v. Goethe, F. von Schiller) French Revolution (Louis XVI), Reign of Terror (Robespierre), Weimar Classicism, (W. A. Mozart, L. v. Beethoven), Romanticism (G.H. Schubert, Grimm brothers, L. Tieck, Novalis, C. Brentano, J. v. Eichendorff), Napoleon, German Confederation & Prussian Reforms, Continental Block, Waterloo
Unit 2 Congress of Vienna, Inventions (Darwin), Biedermeier (F. Grillparzer, H. Heine, G. Büchner, E.T.A. Hoffmann, A. v. Droste-Hülshoff), Restauration, the Holy Alliance, Deutsche Burschenschaft, Carlsbad Decrees, Demagogue Persecution, Hambacher Fest, Göttinger Seven, Nationalism, Industrialisation, Weaver’s Revolt,March Revolution, Frankfurter National Assembly, Greater Germany or minor Germany, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels (Communist Manifesto), Socialism, Realism (T. Storm, C.F. Meyer, T. Fontane, A. Schopenhauer)

Module 2: Social, political and art history from Otto von Bismarck’s Era to Present

Unit 1 Otto von Bismarck (Internal & Foreign Policies), Three wars for German Unity, North German Confederation, Naturalism (G. Hauptmann, A. Holz, J. Schlaf), Imperialism (Wilhelm II), Inventions, Symbolism, Impressionism, Modernism (A. Klimt, Strauss, Marinetti), Literature (A. Schnitzler, H. Hofmannsthal, Thomas Mann, R. Musil, R.M. Rilke), World War I (Cause, Course & Consequences), Weimar Republic, Expressionism and Dadaism (Kandinsky, Kokoschka), Literature (G. Trakl, G. Benn, Else Lasker-Schüler, F. Kafka, A. Döblin) The Golden 1920s
Unit 2 National socialism, Great Depression, Third Reich, Adolf Hitler (Internal & Foreign Policies), Fascism & Holocaust, World War II (Cause, Course & Consequences), Philosophy (Freud, Heidegger, Sartre), Literature (R. Musil, E. Canetti, H. Hesse, E. Kästner, Ö. v. Horvath, B. Brecht, A. Seghers, S. Zweig), Division of Germany, GDR & DRD, Cold War, Philosophy (Wittgenstein, Jaspers) Literature (Nelly Sachs, W. Borchert, M. Frisch, G. Grass, A. Dürrenmatt, H. Böll, P. Celan) NATO & Warsaw Pact, Student’s revolution & 1960s, Berlin Wall, Fall of Berlin wall, Reunification of Germany, European Union, Literature

Reference Books

Delouche, Frederic (Hg): Das europäische Geschichtsbuch. Von den Anfängen bis ins
21 Jahrhundert. Cotta 2012.
Friedell, Egon: Kulturgeschichte der Neuzeit. Band I, II, III. München 2011.
Howarth, Eva: Du Mont’s Schnellkurs. Kunstgeschichte. Köln 2002.
Jäger, Wolfgang (Hg): Kursbuch Geschichte, Sachsen-Anhalt. Berlin 2017.
Johannsen, Rolf (Hg.): 50 Klassiker. Gemälde. Hildesheim 2007.
Mann, Golo: Deutsche Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt am Main 2009.
Nerdinger, Winfried: Perspektiven der Kunst. Von der Karolingerzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Oldenburg 2006.
Mueller, Helmut (Hg): Deutsche Geschichte in Schlaglichtern. Mannheim, 2. Aufl., München/Wien 2007.
Nusser, Peter: Deutsche Literatur: Eine Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, vom Barock bis zur Gegenwart. Darmstadt 2012.
Rauh, Robert (Hg): Grundwissen Geschichte. Sekundarstufe. Berlin, 2015.
Sternburg, von Wilhelm: Die Geschichte der Deutschen. Frankfurt/New York 2005.
Vietta, Silvio: Europäische Kulturgeschichte. Eine Einführung. München 2007.

Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.A. (German Studies) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2026-27. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.

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