Courses
Prof. Yildiz teaches courses on German language, literature, and culture, touching on a wide variety of topics.
At UCLA:
Postwar Germany and Europe
Grandparents: Negotiating History, Memory, and Identity
Language and Identity
German Cultural Studies: Art and Politics
German Through Translation (Intro to Translation Theory, History, and Practice)
Division and Unification: Germany 30 Years after the Wall
Memory and Migration (graduate)
Monolingualism/ Multilingualism (graduate)
At the University of Illinois:
(Prof. Yildiz was regularly named on the 'list of outstanding teachers' at the University of Illinois.)
Conversation and Writing I
Conversation and Writing II
Introduction to German Literature I
Introduction to German Literature II
Germany and Europe: Struggles for Identity (Gen Ed course, in English)
Current Issues in German Media
20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
A Unified Country? Perspectives on German Unification
Language and Identity
German Cultural History (from the Middle Ages to the Present)
Minority Literature: Reimaging Germany
Home, Homelessness, and Estrangement in German Literature from the 1920s to the Present
Literature and Migration (graduate course)
Writing After Monolingualism (graduate course)
Minority Poetics: German-Jewish-Turkish and Beyond (graduate course)
Migration and Memory (graduate course)
At Harvard University:
History and Memory in the Literature of Migration (advanced undergraduate/ graduate course)
Postmonolingual Constellations (graduate course)
At UCLA:
Postwar Germany and Europe
Grandparents: Negotiating History, Memory, and Identity
Language and Identity
German Cultural Studies: Art and Politics
German Through Translation (Intro to Translation Theory, History, and Practice)
Division and Unification: Germany 30 Years after the Wall
Memory and Migration (graduate)
Monolingualism/ Multilingualism (graduate)
At the University of Illinois:
(Prof. Yildiz was regularly named on the 'list of outstanding teachers' at the University of Illinois.)
Conversation and Writing I
Conversation and Writing II
Introduction to German Literature I
Introduction to German Literature II
Germany and Europe: Struggles for Identity (Gen Ed course, in English)
Current Issues in German Media
20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
A Unified Country? Perspectives on German Unification
Language and Identity
German Cultural History (from the Middle Ages to the Present)
Minority Literature: Reimaging Germany
Home, Homelessness, and Estrangement in German Literature from the 1920s to the Present
Literature and Migration (graduate course)
Writing After Monolingualism (graduate course)
Minority Poetics: German-Jewish-Turkish and Beyond (graduate course)
Migration and Memory (graduate course)
At Harvard University:
History and Memory in the Literature of Migration (advanced undergraduate/ graduate course)
Postmonolingual Constellations (graduate course)