GER 250 - Topics in German Culture

This interdisciplinary, interactive class explores life, social issues, and critical thought through literature, film, music, press, social and other media in the contemporary German-speaking world. It aims to deepen students’ cultural awareness as global citizens. Topics may include: propaganda, ideology, language, and power in German intellectual history; thinkers and dreamers in German literature and cinema, humanities at the crossroads of science and technology; environmentalism and recycling culture in German and global communities; regional culinary curiosities; Germany as a multicultural society and the construction of identity; crossing borders / crossing cultures in pre- and post-Wall Germanies; the Uncanny and the Kafkaesque; diaspora, exile, and homecoming. Taught in English.

Credits 1

Notes
Course taught in English

Area
Humanities

Division
Arts and Humanities