GERM 101-01 10440 |
Elementary German I |
Days: M W F
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Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm
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Room: HUM 216
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Instructor: Ross Shields
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Emphasizing the active use of the language, this course focuses on vocabulary and structural acquisition as a way to develop elementary proficiency in speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension. Students both develop facility with German in highly structured contexts through work with authentic texts and become familiar with a variety of contemporary German-speaking cultures. Students will work with an open educational resource for this course: an interactive, online, and free textbook designed to meet the learning needs of Macalester students. For beginning students with no previous German language instruction. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour.
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GERM 101-L1 10441 |
Elementary German I Lab |
Days: R
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Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm
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Room: HUM 102
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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Emphasizing the active use of the language, this course focuses on vocabulary and structural acquisition as a way to develop elementary proficiency in speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension. Students both develop facility with German in highly structured contexts through work with authentic texts and become familiar with a variety of contemporary German-speaking cultures. Students will work with an open educational resource for this course: an interactive, online, and free textbook designed to meet the learning needs of Macalester students. For beginning students with no previous German language instruction. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour.
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GERM 101-L2 10442 |
Elementary German I Lab |
Days: W
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Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: HUM 214
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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Emphasizing the active use of the language, this course focuses on vocabulary and structural acquisition as a way to develop elementary proficiency in speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension. Students both develop facility with German in highly structured contexts through work with authentic texts and become familiar with a variety of contemporary German-speaking cultures. Students will work with an open educational resource for this course: an interactive, online, and free textbook designed to meet the learning needs of Macalester students. For beginning students with no previous German language instruction. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour.
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GERM 110-01 10443 |
Accelerated Elementary German |
Days: M W F
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: HUM 409
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Instructor: Ross Shields
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*5 credits*
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A five-credit accelerated course which covers the content and proficiency development normally covered in GERM 101 and GERM 102. The course, with a separate curriculum for easy independent work, is for students with prior experience with German who need a concentrated review or for students with previous other foreign language background who wish to work at an accelerated pace. Three hours per week plus two conversation laboratory hours. During Spring semester there will be an optional reading and translation lab.
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GERM 110-L1 10444 |
Accel Elementary German Lab |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: HUM 102
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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A five-credit accelerated course which covers the content and proficiency development normally covered in GERM 101 and GERM 102. The course, with a separate curriculum for easy independent work, is for students with prior experience with German who need a concentrated review or for students with previous other foreign language background who wish to work at an accelerated pace. Three hours per week plus two conversation laboratory hours. During Spring semester there will be an optional reading and translation lab.
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GERM 110-L2 10445 |
Accel Elementary German Lab |
Days: T
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Time: 08:00 am-09:00 am
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Room: HUM 111
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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A five-credit accelerated course which covers the content and proficiency development normally covered in GERM 101 and GERM 102. The course, with a separate curriculum for easy independent work, is for students with prior experience with German who need a concentrated review or for students with previous other foreign language background who wish to work at an accelerated pace. Three hours per week plus two conversation laboratory hours. During Spring semester there will be an optional reading and translation lab.
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GERM 110-L2 10445 |
Accel Elementary German Lab |
Days: W
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Time: 08:05 pm-09:05 pm
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Room: HUM 111
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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A five-credit accelerated course which covers the content and proficiency development normally covered in GERM 101 and GERM 102. The course, with a separate curriculum for easy independent work, is for students with prior experience with German who need a concentrated review or for students with previous other foreign language background who wish to work at an accelerated pace. Three hours per week plus two conversation laboratory hours. During Spring semester there will be an optional reading and translation lab.
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GERM 194-F1 10446 |
Our Cyborgs, Ourselves |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: HUM 215
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Instructor: David Martyn
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*First-Year course only*
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A cyborg is any technologically enhanced human being. Defined this way, cyborgs are present wherever people grow attached to their technology: from brain-computer interfaces, to artificial limbs, to you and your smartphone. Arguably, humans have always been cyborgs, all the way back to homo sapiens—the animal whose distinguishing characteristic was their use of tools. In this course, we will explore the cyborg across a wide range of cultural and theoretical sources, from literature (E.T.A Hoffmann’s “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” on which the ballet is based; Goethe’s Faust; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein) to film (Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, the main inspiration for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner) to material history (puppets, marionettes, and 19th-century toy manufacturing in Nuremberg). We’ll read philosophical anthropology on the idea of the human as deficient being, compelled to reinvent itself with tools and technology in order to survive. Discussion topics will include: what does the cyborg in culture and theory tell us about the limits of the human? Where does culture begin and biology end? Why are cyborgs either hyper-gendered, androgynous, or both at the same time, and what does this tell us about gender? Weekly reading responses; several short essays spread over the semester; a final, building on the shorter essays. The course counts for the argumentative writing and internationalism general education requirements. Taught in English; no prerequisites.
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Writing WA
Internationalism
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GERM 203-01 10447 |
Intermediate German I |
Days: M W F
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: HUM 214
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Instructor: Rachael Huener
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This course is designed to help students increase their proficiency in the German language while emphasizing authentic cultural contexts. Through exposure to a variety of texts and text types, students develop oral and written proficiency in description and narration and develop tools and discourse strategies for culturally authentic interaction with native speakers. Cultural topics are expanded and deepened. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour. Prerequisite(s): GERM 102 or GERM 110 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor.
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GERM 203-L1 10448 |
Intermediate German I Lab |
Days: T
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Time: 09:00 am-10:00 am
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Room: HUM 102
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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This course is designed to help students increase their proficiency in the German language while emphasizing authentic cultural contexts. Through exposure to a variety of texts and text types, students develop oral and written proficiency in description and narration and develop tools and discourse strategies for culturally authentic interaction with native speakers. Cultural topics are expanded and deepened. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour. Prerequisite(s): GERM 102 or GERM 110 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor.
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GERM 203-L2 10449 |
Intermediate German I Lab |
Days: M
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Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: HUM 213
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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This course is designed to help students increase their proficiency in the German language while emphasizing authentic cultural contexts. Through exposure to a variety of texts and text types, students develop oral and written proficiency in description and narration and develop tools and discourse strategies for culturally authentic interaction with native speakers. Cultural topics are expanded and deepened. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour. Prerequisite(s): GERM 102 or GERM 110 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor.
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GERM 204-01 10450 |
Intermediate German II |
Days: M W F
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Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am
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Room: HUM 214
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Instructor: Rachael Huener
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The course aims to help students attain a comfort level with extended discourse in German within culturally appropriate contexts. Students develop the ability to comprehend authentic spoken German on a variety of topics at length. They develop effective strategies for comprehending a variety of texts and text types. They gain increased facility with extended discourse, such as narrating and describing. Writing in German is also developed so that students can write extensively about familiar topics. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour. Prerequisite(s): GERM 203 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor.
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GERM 204-L1 10451 |
Intermediate German II Lab |
Days: R
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Time: 09:00 am-10:00 am
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Room: HUM 102
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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The course aims to help students attain a comfort level with extended discourse in German within culturally appropriate contexts. Students develop the ability to comprehend authentic spoken German on a variety of topics at length. They develop effective strategies for comprehending a variety of texts and text types. They gain increased facility with extended discourse, such as narrating and describing. Writing in German is also developed so that students can write extensively about familiar topics. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour. Prerequisite(s): GERM 203 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor.
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GERM 204-L2 10452 |
Intermediate German II Lab |
Days: W
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Time: 07:00 pm-08:00 pm
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Room: HUM 111
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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The course aims to help students attain a comfort level with extended discourse in German within culturally appropriate contexts. Students develop the ability to comprehend authentic spoken German on a variety of topics at length. They develop effective strategies for comprehending a variety of texts and text types. They gain increased facility with extended discourse, such as narrating and describing. Writing in German is also developed so that students can write extensively about familiar topics. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour. Prerequisite(s): GERM 203 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor.
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GERM 278-01 10458 |
Marx, Religion, and Biopolitical Race |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: HUM 401
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Instructor: Kiarina Kordela
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*Cross-listed with MCST 278-01, POLI 278-01 and RELI 278-01*
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All readings and class taught in English; no pre-knowledge required. In this course we shall examine the relation of religion to both capital and the modern forms of political power (what Michel Foucault termed biopolitics or biopower), as well as the biopolitical formations of race and racism as means for sustaining power-while discovering the enduring pertinence of Marx's work in theorizing the above issues. Biopower emerges gradually in secular capitalist modernity as a form of power that legitimizes itself not through its right to "take life" (as in traditional forms of sovereignty) but through its obligation to protect and enhance life. Yet, albeit "secular," biopower is a form of "pastoral power" (Foucault). We shall explore: the interconnectedness of modern biopower and religion; Marx's critique of the dominant (Enlightenment) critique of religion and his thesis that the secular state presupposes religion; the colonial and racial constructions of religion; racial capitalism; the biopolitical constructions of race in its relation to social class and other forms of domination; and anti-racist criticisms of both Foucault and Marx.
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GERM 294-01 10453 |
Critical Ecologies: Theory in the Anthropocene |
Days: M W
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Time: 07:00 pm-08:30 pm
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Room: HUM 216
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Instructor: Ross Shields
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*Cross-listed with ENVI 294-02*
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With the advent of anthropogenic climate change and widespread species extinction, ecology must become critical no less than theory must become ecological. Among other things, this implies a thorough reevaluation of the concepts of nature and the environment, which—as their fraught history suggests—are anything but natural. In this seminar, we will examine the complex development of ecological thinking, focusing on its intersection with the critical theoretical tradition and relevance for the contemporary situation. We will ask: How do present-day concerns challenge us to reevaluate traditional distinctions between history and nature, organism and environment, human and non-human? In what way do our received notions reflect and/or support relations of capital and dominion? What resources can critical theory offer for developing alternative paradigms of interconnection among living and non-living agents? Readings may include texts by Ursula Heise, Theodor W. Adorno, Jane Bennett, Amanda Jo Goldstein, Édouard Glissant, Christoph Menke, Georges Canguilhem, Jon Bellamy Foster, Alexander von Humboldt, Gregory Bateson, Donna Haraway, Arne Naess, Bruno Latour, and Andreas Malm. In addition to ecological and critical theory, we may engage with contemporary film and literature.
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GERM 308-01 10455 |
German Cultural History I: Uniting and Dividing Germany |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: HUM 401
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Instructor: Kiarina Kordela
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This course prepares students with intermediate German language skills for upper-level courses in German Studies through advanced language instruction combined with a critical investigation of important political, social, and aesthetic topics in German cultural history. These topics may include the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon (1813-1815), the 1848 European revolution, the impact of industrialization, the foundation of the German Reich (1870/1871), the economics and philosophical critique offered by socialism, the feminist movement, imperialism and WWI (1914-1918), the aesthetic revolution of modernism in the arts, and the beginning of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). In the late part of the course, we shall also introduce ourselves to aspects of living on the East side of the wall dividing Berlin (1961-1989). In addition to historical sources, we shall read literary texts and view art and films relating to these topics. Taught in German. Three hours per week plus one hour of intensive language practice. Prerequisite(s): GERM 204 or permission of instructor.
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Writing WA
Internationalism
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GERM 308-L1 10456 |
German Cultural History I Lab |
Days: W
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Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am
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Room: HUM 404
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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This course prepares students with intermediate German language skills for upper-level courses in German Studies through advanced language instruction combined with a critical investigation of important political, social, and aesthetic topics in German cultural history. These topics may include the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon (1813-1815), the 1848 European revolution, the impact of industrialization, the foundation of the German Reich (1870/1871), the economics and philosophical critique offered by socialism, the feminist movement, imperialism and WWI (1914-1918), the aesthetic revolution of modernism in the arts, and the beginning of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). In the late part of the course, we shall also introduce ourselves to aspects of living on the East side of the wall dividing Berlin (1961-1989). In addition to historical sources, we shall read literary texts and view art and films relating to these topics. Taught in German. Three hours per week plus one hour of intensive language practice. Prerequisite(s): GERM 204 or permission of instructor.
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GERM 308-L2 10457 |
German Cultural History I Lab |
Days: W
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Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am
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Room: HUM 213
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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This course prepares students with intermediate German language skills for upper-level courses in German Studies through advanced language instruction combined with a critical investigation of important political, social, and aesthetic topics in German cultural history. These topics may include the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon (1813-1815), the 1848 European revolution, the impact of industrialization, the foundation of the German Reich (1870/1871), the economics and philosophical critique offered by socialism, the feminist movement, imperialism and WWI (1914-1918), the aesthetic revolution of modernism in the arts, and the beginning of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). In the late part of the course, we shall also introduce ourselves to aspects of living on the East side of the wall dividing Berlin (1961-1989). In addition to historical sources, we shall read literary texts and view art and films relating to these topics. Taught in German. Three hours per week plus one hour of intensive language practice. Prerequisite(s): GERM 204 or permission of instructor.
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GERM 364-01 10462 |
Migration, Then and Now |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: HUM 215
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Instructor: David Martyn
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Like few other countries, Germany exemplifies how the migrant is the political figure of our time (Thomas Nail), exploding our image of “national” culture and putting flight and movement, rather than citizens and the state, in the focus of cultural scholarship. In this course, we will explore the political reality and the cultural imaginary of diverse forms of migration to and from Germany since the 19th century. Topics include: African “Vertragsarbeiter” in the GDR; refugees and asylum in Germany today; Hannah Arendt’s critique of human rights; literature by migrant authors (Yoko Tawada, Zé do Rock, Tomer Gardi); German migration to the US in the 19th century; films by and about migrants (Fatih Akin, Christian Petzold); the “Willkommenskultur” in 2015 and its aftermath. Taught in German. Prerequisite(s): GERM 308 or GERM 309, or study abroad, or permission of instructor.
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GERM 394-01 10898 |
World Language Methodology |
Days: M W F
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Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm
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Room: HUM 314
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Instructor: Claude Cassagne
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*First day attendance required; cross-listed with EDUC 394-01, FREN 394-01 and RUSS 394-01; 20 students total for the class w/a max of 5 students allowed for each cross-listed department.*
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This course presents an overview of world language pedagogical methods and provides a forum for discussion on current trends and thinking in second language acquisition. Students who are curious about teaching a world language are given opportunities to observe educators at various levels in the Twin Cities as well as teach mini-lessons at Macalester College. Course taught in English and open to world language students having attained an intermediate level in the target language.
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