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Course Criteria
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Develops intermediate proficiency in reading and writing as well as functional communication: vocabulary building, grammar acquisition, discussion of literary texts, newspaper and Internet material.
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Continues improvement of proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing using news magazines, electronic media, and literary texts as a basis for class discussion. Grammar review is included.
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This course offers discussions of exemplary texts from the first half of the twentieth century including essays, speeches, poems, prose, and films. These will be examined in the context of important historical events in modern Germany such as the end of the Kaiserreich, urbanization and the development of mass culture, World War I, the Weimar Republic, and the rise of National Socialism. We will also work intensively on spoken and written German.
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Through literature, film, historical documents, and journalism, this course surveys issues and events in German politics, society, and culture from the fall of the Third Reich to the end of the twentieth century. Topics include: the aftermath of WWII (Stunde Null); the founding of both German Republics; the economic miracle (Wirtschaftswunder, Gastarbeiter); the legacy of National Socialism; attempts to define a new Germany; the student revolts; and reunification. In addition to providing an introduction to post-war Germany, this course aims to facilitate advanced competence in written and oral German.
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An introduction to major authors, periods, and genres of German literature from the eighteenth century to the present. The course provides a background for the further study of German literature while developing subtle interpretive techniques and providing intensive writing practice.
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Through careful readings of a wide range of media theoretical texts from the late 19th to early 21st century, this seminar will trace the development of critical reflection on technologies and media ranging from the printing press to photography, from gramophones to radio technologies, from pre-cinematic optical devices to film and television, and from telephony and typewriters to cyberspace. Topics include the relationship between representation and technology, the historicity of perception, the interplay of aesthetics, technology and politics, and the transformation of notions of imagination, literacy, communication, reality and truth.
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This seminar will study representative German texts (1750 to 2010) that deal with 'self-formation' and 'self-cultivation' ('Bildung'). These concepts not only formulate educational ideals and ideas about schooling and educational institutions but also function as articulations of individuality and its place in society, about specialization and division of labour, vocations and professions, culture and cultural sciences, and about the freedom and political activities of educated citizens. The seminar will focus on this diagnostic quality of concepts of 'self-formation' for understanding problems of the development of German society.
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A survey of artworks and artifacts made for acoustic media--phonograph, radio, tape and digital recording--from the 1900s to the present day. Listening to recordings of radio plays, documentaries, avant-garde sound works and propaganda broadcasts, we will address formal and technical question--language and sound, performance and medium, liveness and recording, orality and textuality--while paying close attention to the political and cultural contexts from which texts emerge.
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An introduction to the interdisciplinary study of film history and theory through a careful consideration of selected key works of expressionist, documentary, proletarian, avant-garde, queer, horror, and paranoid-thriller cinema (both silent and sound) produced during the Weimar Republic. Films and texts will be subjected to close readings, situated in their socio-political, media-historical and cultural context, and examined in light of the reigning debates in film criticism and aesthetics.
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The course will introduce students to recent theories of second language acquisition (SLA) by way of critical reading and discussion; it will show how SLA theories manifest themselves in various teaching approaches by influencing instructional syllabi and classroom methodology; and it will provide an opportunity for course participants to apply the insights gained to a real pedagogical context. Each student in the class will be paired with a community member for weekly tutoring in ESL, so that the experience of teaching will inform (and be informed by) our discussions of SLA theory.
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