Colgate University

First-Year Course Offerings — Fall 2022

CORE C184   The Danube
Credits1
RestrictionsNo 2024 2023 Instr perm req during Drop/Add
Pre-Requisites
Co-RequisitesCORE-C184L
Core Area Communities
Area of Inquiry
Liberal Arts Practices

The Danube is Europe's second largest river: from its beginnings in the German Black Forest to the Romanian and Ukrainian shores where it meets the Black Sea, the Danube flows through and/or borders ten countries, while its watershed covers four more. The river serves as a unifying artery of economic, cultural, and international exchanges in the diverse region of central and southeastern Europe. The course structures its multidisciplinary inquiry around the river to examine the region's long-standing history as a neglected, maligned, and contested multilingual, multicultural, and multinational space. Culturally mapping the region by focusing on the river's peoples, their intertwined histories, and their cultural imaginaries, students trace the turbulent history of the region from antiquity, with an emphasis on the 19th century up to the present, to explore the Danube as a quintessential site of cross-cultural engagement in the New Europe.