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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Using the university and city of Bremen as laboratory, students will explore the experience of culture shock, the difference between American and German everyday life, structural differences in American and German public institutions, historical ties between the two countries, historic concepts and symbols, differing relationships to national culture, the effect of Germany's past on contemporary consciousness. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Dickinson in Bremen Program.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the works of Goethe and Schiller and their contemporaries, and the era in which they lived and worked. Prerequisite: 232 and 240. Simultaneous enrollment in 240 is permitted.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the generation of writers after Goethe and Schiller (the 1790s to the 1830s), e.g., E.T.A. Hoffmann, Brentano, and the brothers Grimm, whose stories, poems, and fairy tales have had a powerful effect on Poe and Hesse. Prerequisite: 232 and 240. Simultaneous enrollment in 240 is permitted.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the works of Stifter, Grillparzer, Heine, Grabbe, Storm, and Fontane, writers active from the turmoil of the mid-1800s to the rise of Prussia and the decay and collapse of the Austrian empire. Prerequisite: 232 and 241. Simultaneous enrollment in 241 is permitted.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the works of writers in World War I and the Weimar Republic, including Wedekind, Werfel, Trakl, Kaiser, Toller, and Lasker-Schüler. Prerequisite: 232 and 241. Simultaneous enrollment in 241 is permitted.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the works of Bachmann, B?ll, Frisch, Grass, Heym, Wolf, and others as writers dealing with contemporary issues of the German speaking countries. Prerequisite: 232 and 241. Simultaneous enrollment in 241 is permitted.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of topics related to German literature or culture. Topics may include major German writers, periods of German culture, and intellectual and social movements. Prerequisite: Study in Bremen or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course will investigate German popular culture in its historical and cultural context. Students will study selected texts from popular fiction, such as detective novels and cartoons, listen to popular music, and watch popular tv series, while developing a methodology to analyze critically the "other" German culture. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on German films in their broader cultural and historical context. Students will study selected films and develop a method for viewing and analyzing them. Topics may be the "New German Cinema" from Schl?ndorff and Kluge to Herzog, Fassbinder and Wenders, the films of feminist film makers, such as Sander, von Trotta, Ottinger, and Sanders-Brahms, or Literature and Film. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced investigation of a particular writer, work, problem, or theme in German literature and/or culture, with emphasis on independent research and seminar reports. Prerequisite: German major or permission of the instructor.
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