Fall Quarter
Dept | Course No and Title | Instructor |
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GERMAN (F20) | 150 TERRORISM AND TOTALITARIANISM | PAN, D |
While terrorism and totalitarianism are often treated as separate phenomena, the perpetrators are often the same people, though in different situations in relation to an existing government. This course will treat the problems of terrorism and totalitarianism as two aspects of the single phenomenon of political violence. Through a consideration of texts written by terrorists, totalitarians, and political theorists of these phenomena, this course will attempt to come to an understanding of the motivations for political violence and the conditions under which it comes to dominate political life. While the course will focus on the German tradition, key examples to be considered will include the French Revolution, Nazi Germany, the Red Army Faction, and Islamofascism. | ||
GERMAN (F20) | 1A FUNDAMENTALS | LEVINE, G. |
Emphasizes the development of meaningful communicative skills in German for the purposes of interaction with German speakers and beginning study of German. With a learner-centered approach, the courses help students develop speaking, listening, reading, writing, and cultural skills and knowledge. | ||
GERMAN (F20) | 1A FUNDAMENTALS | LEVINE, G. |
Emphasizes the development of meaningful communicative skills in German for the purposes of interaction with German speakers and beginning study of German. With a learner-centered approach, the courses help students develop speaking, listening, reading, writing, and cultural skills and knowledge. | ||
GERMAN (F20) | 2A INTERMEDIATE | LEVINE, G. |
Emphasizes communicative skills for the purposes of interaction with German speakers and intermediate study of German. With a learner-centered approach, helps students develop reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammatical, and cultural skills and knowledge. First-year grammar is reviewed and expanded. | ||
GERMAN (F20) | 2A INTERMEDIATE | LEVINE, G. |
Emphasizes communicative skills for the purposes of interaction with German speakers and intermediate study of German. With a learner-centered approach, helps students develop reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammatical, and cultural skills and knowledge. First-year grammar is reviewed and expanded. | ||
GERMAN (F20) | 102 HOLOCAUST DARSTELLUNGEN | EVERS, K. |
Since the end of World War II, historians, social scientists, and psychologists have researched origins and causes of the Holocaust. But their explanations have never been fully satisfactory. Can autobiographical reflections, fictional narratives, art, film and other mass media illuminate dimensions of the Shoah that have remained unanswered by historical, sociological, and psychological approaches? By examining survivors' testimonies, political, historical, and philosophical reflections, film and TV shows, fictional texts, and graphic novels from across Europe and the United States, this course asks what role art and literature have played in shaping our image of Auschwitz. How and why did the representations of the Holocaust change during the last seven decades in different national cultures? What aesthetic, political, and cultural limits and taboos have these representations transgressed or shied away from since the Second World War? What does it mean to be human after Auschwitz? How Americanized has the Holocaust become today? Does the Shoah still shape our contemporary understanding of modernity? | ||
GERMAN (F20) | 1A FUNDAMENTALS | CLARK, C. |
Emphasizes the development of meaningful communicative skills in German for the purposes of interaction with German speakers and beginning study of German. With a learner-centered approach, the courses help students develop speaking, listening, reading, writing, and cultural skills and knowledge. |