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1.00 Credits
Expected level of proficiency: German 301 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Explores the radical transformations in German society and culture from the late Wilhelminian era to reunification at the end of the twentieth century through the combination of historical texts, literature, film and "eyewitness" documentation. Situates German cultural history in the larger context of world history. Offered every third year . Myers.
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Expected level of proficiency: German 301 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Explores why humanity's relationship to nature and the environment has long played a pivotal role in the collective psyche of the German people and how literary works of earlier eras can be understood as precursors to an emerging ecological consciousness in modern German society. Conducted in German. Grimm.
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Expected level of proficiency: German 301 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Investigates the cultural history and production of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German-speaking world. Includes literary, philosophical, musical and artistic examples from the following epochs: the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Sensibility, the Storm and Stress movement, the Romantic movement and the Biedermeier era up until the Revolution of 1848. Conducted in German. Grimm.
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Expected level of proficiency: German 301 or permission of instructor. Explores how German society has become multiculturally constructed since World War II--from the Holocaust aftermath to current sociocultural debates about the role and treatment of women of color, the large Turkish immigrant population, and Islam and Islamic nationalism in Germany--through the study of various discourses (fiction, essay, speeches, poetry, film, TV news) representing these issues. Studies how perceptions of ethnic difference have evolved in Germany and have become intertwined with social and political debates of the day. Conducted in German. Myers.
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Expected level of proficiency: German 301 or 302 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Includes a selection of German works from different genres (plays, short fiction, poetry, theoretical texts) and films from the era 1890-1945. Focuses on each work as a cultural representation of the historical context in which it was written or produced, exploring how each was engaged with the social, political and cultural transformations of the era (e.g., social Darwinism, crisis of narration and language, bourgeois morals, the individual and society, the role of the artist, the Third Reich). Myers.
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Expected level of proficiency: German 301 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Introduces some of the most influential and interesting women writers and poets from Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Focuses on the social, historical and cultural contexts underlying the works by these women and includes literary and aesthetic analysis. Grimm.
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Expected level of proficiency: German 301 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Explores the complicated relationship between Germans and Jews beginning briefly with its roots in the Middle Ages, moving to Luther's anti-Semitism during the Reformation, and to Enlightenment principles of human progress and equality. Continues with the perception of Jews during the fin-de-siècle period, gradually working toward the Holocaust and Germa n Vergangenheitsbew?ltigun g after World War II and to the present day . Myers.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. An examination of a special topic which is not included in the regular curriculum. Offered to meet the evolving needs and interests of students. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Offered on a credit/no credit basis. Staff.
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0.50 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Experience in language teaching in the classroom or with individual students under the close supervision of a regular instructor. Offered on a credit/no credit basis. Staff.
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