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Course Info for GRMN - 254 - 01, Fall 2026
Class number: 3207 Title: Franz Kafka Department: Language and Culture Studies
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 25 Current enrollment: 11 Available seats: 14
Start date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 End date: Wednesday, December 23, 2026 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM, LIB - B02 Instructor(s): Assaiante, Julia
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements
Course Description:
In this course we will read short stories, novels, and letters of Kafka with an eye to the artistic and literary trends of his time (expressionism, surrealism, art nouveau), the uniqueness of Kafka’s writing, and his influence upon later writers. Readings include The Judgment, Metamorphosis, and The Trial; we will examine themes such as unappeasable authority, inescapable guilt, and the individual marooned in an incomprehensible and perhaps merciless world. (Listed as both LACS 233-54 and GRMN 233-10.)