GERM 101-01 10322 |
Elementary German I |
Days: M W F
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Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm
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Room: HUM 213
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Instructor: Brigetta Abel
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Avail./Max.: 6 / 20
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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 10323 |
Elementary German I Lab |
Days: 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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Avail./Max.: 8 / 12
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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 10324 |
Elementary German I Lab |
Days: R
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Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm
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Room: OLRI 250
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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Avail./Max.: 2 / 12
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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-L3 11056 |
Elementary German I Lab |
Days: R
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Time: 08:00 am-09:00 am
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Room: HUM 113
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Instructor: STAFF
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Avail./Max.: 10 / 10
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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 10325 |
Accelerated Elementary German |
Days: M W F
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Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am
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Room: MUSIC 228
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Instructor: Michael Powers
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Avail./Max.: 6 / 20
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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 10326 |
Accel Elementary German Lab |
Days: M W
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Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: HUM 215
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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Avail./Max.: 0 / 12
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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 10327 |
Accel Elementary German Lab |
Days: TBA
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Time: TBA
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Room:
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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Avail./Max.: 10 / 12
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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 174-F1 10328 |
Vampires - from Monsters to Superheroes |
Days: M W F
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Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am
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Room: HUM 216
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Instructor: Brigetta Abel
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Avail./Max.: 0 / 17
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*First-Year Course only; first day attendance required*
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Vampires are cyclical. Just a few years ago you ran into them anytime you walked into a bookstore or turned on the TV-just like in Victorian times when Bram Stoker's famous work emerged from a vampire craze. Vampires have always been popular fodder and will continue to be so, even if and as the image of the vampire shifts dramatically over time. The popularity of vampires has waxed and waned for over a hundred years, partially because vampirism can be used as a metaphor for almost anything-from the plague to sexuality to addiction. We will juxtapose classic tales of vampires as monsters with the more recent generation of vampires. What happened to change our imagination of vampires from monsters into hip, outsider superheroes? And what can the examination of vampires tell us about the context in which they were created?
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
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Humanities
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GERM 194-F1 10329 |
Marx and Art |
Days: M W F
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: HUM 302
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Instructor: Michael Powers
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Avail./Max.: 0 / 16
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*First-Year Course only; first day attendance required*
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Karl Marx revolutionized how we think about power and capitalism. But what is the role of art for Marx and later Marxists? What is art’s revolutionary potential? Should art be political, and if so, how? In this discussion-based course, we will examine how artists and intellectuals have grappled with these issues in light of Marx’s insights into the relation between power, ideology, and consciousness. Guided by introductory readings in Marxist philosophy and art theory, we will explore literary and visual artworks, from socialist fairy tales, avant-garde poetry and theater, to street murals, performance art, and film. Sample discussion topics include: labor, alienation, and modern technology; perception and the politics of the senses; global capitalism and colonialism; and revolutionary and utopian thought.
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Writing WA
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Humanities
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GERM 203-01 10330 |
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: Amanda Wolfson
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Avail./Max.: 6 / 20
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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 10331 |
Intermediate German I Lab |
Days: T
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Time: 09:00 am-10:00 am
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Room: HUM 228
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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Avail./Max.: 3 / 12
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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 10332 |
Intermediate German I Lab |
Days: T
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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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Avail./Max.: 7 / 12
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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 10333 |
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: Amanda Wolfson
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Avail./Max.: 2 / 20
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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 10334 |
Intermediate German II Lab |
Days: R
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Time: 09:00 am-10:00 am
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Room: HUM 228
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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Avail./Max.: 2 / 12
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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 10335 |
Intermediate German II Lab |
Days: W
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Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm
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Room: HUM 113
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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Avail./Max.: 4 / 12
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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 275-01 10341 |
Theoretical Approaches to European and American Cinema |
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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Avail./Max.: 10 / 25
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*Cross-listed with MCST 275-01; taught in English*
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All readings and class taught in English; no pre-knowledge required. In this course we shall approach films as a medium that, through all of its means (from dialogue to more formal aspects, such as camera angle or editing), raises and attempts to negotiate philosophical, ideological, and political issues and conflicts. We shall be exposed to different methodologies of film analysis while examining: (a) a few representative films of three influential European film movements (German expressionism, Italian Neo-Realism, French nouvelle-vague), as a means of tracing the itinerary of European cinema from an action-oriented to a reflection-oriented practice; (b) the British and later American work of Alfred Hitchcock, as a mode of cinematography that employs the "gaze" as a principle of structural organization; and (c), American films of the 1970's - 1990's, as attempts to represent the world of late capitalism.
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Internationalism
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Humanities
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GERM 294-01 10336 |
Freedom and its Discontents |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: HUM 213
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Instructor: David Martyn
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Avail./Max.: 2 / 25
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*Cross-listed with PHIL 294-01; taught in English*
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“Free choice is the only miracle the moderns recognize” (Karol Berger). Freedom currently occupies an ambiguous place in our collective state of mind: while the Right takes to the streets in the name of freedom, MLK’s ringing refrain, “free at last,” continues to resonate in the Left’s calls for social justice. Both camps typically rely on the same underlying concept of what freedom is: something an individual exercises with their free will. In this course, we will work to gain a measure of distance on this common view of freedom by counterposing it with premodern as well as modern strains of thought that go against the grain of classical liberalism. Readings from Aristotle, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Arendt, Buck-Morss, Mbembe, Badiou, Ahmad Yousif, and others. Weekly reading responses; three mid-length papers with revisions. No prerequisites, but be prepared to work your way through some densely argued texts.
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Writing WA
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GERM 308-01 10338 |
German Cultural History I: Uniting and Dividing Germany |
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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Avail./Max.: 7 / 20
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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 10339 |
German Cultural History I Lab |
Days: T
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Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am
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Room: HUM 228
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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Avail./Max.: 6 / 12
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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 10340 |
German Cultural History I Lab |
Days: M
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Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm
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Room: HUM 113
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Instructor: Amanda Wolfson
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Avail./Max.: 5 / 12
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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 363-01 10343 |
Cyborgs, Puppets, and Borderline Humans |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: HUM 217
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Instructor: David Martyn
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Avail./Max.: 13 / 20
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"We are all cyborgs," Donna Haraway tells us: fabricated hybrids of machine and organism, and increasingly so in the digital age. In this course, we will explore the porous boundary between the human and the parahuman in literature, film, and popular culture. Robots and androids, puppets and marionettes, living statues and Doppelgänger, prosthetic devices from artificial limbs to canes and eyeglasses are just some of the phenomena that inhabit and traverse the border between wo/man and machine, the natural and the artificial. How does culture figure the border between the human and its others? How does this border shift through history? How are parahumans gendered? How natural and how artificial is gender? Texts by Goethe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Heinrich von Kleist, Irmgard Keun, and Yoko Tawada; films and television series from Ernst Lubitsch to Tatort; documents on artificial intelligence, transhumanist politics, and the history of toys. Taught in German. Prerequisite(s): GERM 308 or GERM 309; or completion of Macalester's or another approved study abroad program; or permission of the instructor.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism
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Humanities
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