OSPBER 1Z:
Accelerated German: First and Second Quarters
A jump start to the German language, enabling students with no prior German to study at the Berlin Center. Covers GERLANG 1 and 2 in one quarter.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 8
OSPBER 2Z:
Accelerated German, Second and Third Quarters
Qualifies students for participation in an internship following the study quarter. Emphasis is on communicative patterns in everyday life and in the German work environment, including preparation for interviews.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 8
| UG Reqs: Language
OSPBER 15:
Shifting Alliances? The European Union and the U.S.
The development of European integration, a model for global security and peace, and a possible replacement for the U.S. position as unilateral superpower. Competing arguments about the state of transatlantic relations.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
OSPBER 17:
Split Images: A Century of Cinema
20th-century German culture through film. The silent era, Weimar, and the instrumentalization of film in the Third Reich. The postwar era: ideological and aesthetic codes of DEFA, new German cinema, and post-Wende filmmaking including Run Lola Run and Goodbye Lenin. Aesthetic aspects of the films including image composition, camera and editing techniques, and relation between sound and image.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II
OSPBER 18:
Independent Research on Work and Family
Topics such as: male/female differences in education, labor force participation, type of job, and earnings; trends in marriage, divorce, and fertility; division of housework in families; public and private provision of child care and elder care; the legal environment for women's employment; company and government policies toward work and family. Concentrate on Germany alone or in comparison with one or two of its neighbors or with the U.S. Corequisite: OSPBER 19.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
OSPBER 19:
Work and Family
Theoretical, empirical, and personal questions faced by highly educated women and men at the workplace and in combining work and family. Topics include: the determinants of happiness; why work and family conflict and what can be done to lessen the conflict; gender differences in education, occupation, labor force participation and earnings; family power dynamics and the gendered division of labor at home; gender differences in leadership and mentorship. Comparisons between U.S. and Germany.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
OSPBER 21B:
Intermediate German
Grammar review, vocabulary building, writing, and discussion of German culture, literature, and film. Corequisite: OSPBER 100B.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: Language
OSPBER 30:
Berlin vor Ort: A Field Trip Module
The cultures of Berlin as preserved in museums, monuments, and architecture. Berlin's cityscape as a narrative of its history from baroque palaces to vestiges of E. German communism, from 19th-century industrialism to grim edifices of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
OSPBER 31:
Exploring the Berlin Theater by Viewing and Evaluating Performance Work
Attend one to two performances each week; perhaps meet some of the theater artists involved; conduct extensive debates about the plays viewed, the achievements of the director, the designer, the music employed (if applicable), and the performers.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
OSPBER 32:
The Stage in Dialogue with History: German Theater from the End of WWII to the End of the Cold War
Practice and ideological positions of East and West German Theater from the end of World War II to the implosion of the Soviet empire. Work of major playwrights and practitioners who shaped the German theater between 1945 and 2000. The way plays and their staging responded to, and tried to influence, history during the second half of the 20th century. Staging and design practices and the drastic changes they experienced during the half century that also introduced television and artificial intelligence to quotidian life.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
OSPBER 40B:
Introductory Electronics
Electrical quantities and their measurement, including operation of the oscilloscope. Function of electronic components including resistor, capacitor, and inductor. Analog circuits including the operational amplifier and tuned circuits. Digital logic circuits and their functions. Lab assignments. Prerequisite: PHYSICS 43.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci, WAY-AQR, WAY-SMA
OSPBER 42:
Echtzeitmusik: Improvised/Unconventionally Notated Art Music in Berlin
Introduction to Berlin's international, experimental music scene through a combination of events and readings. Attend and respond in writing to five experimental music events, chosen from a running class list of attendance opportunities; thematic weekly lectures and discussions; readings from relevant experimental sound art practitioner-scholars such as Brian Eno, Derek Bailey, Cornelius Cardew, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Miles Davis, and Kurt Schwitters.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
OSPBER 45:
Computers, Ethics, and Social Responsibility
Ethical and social issues related to the development and use of computer technology. Ethical theory, and social, political, and legal considerations. Scenarios in problem areas: privacy, reliability and risks of complex systems, and responsibility of professionals for applications and consequences of their work. Prerequisite: 106A or equivalent.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-EthicReas
OSPBER 58:
Writing Poetry and/or Personal Essays in Response to Experience Abroad
With readings as background, students keep notebook of written responses to encounters with the culture, art, and history of Berlin and then develop selected pieces into poems or literary essays. Feedback in small groups and individual tutorials. Readings include topics such as ekphrasis (poetry and prose that respond to works of visual art), nature writing, medications on the narratives and artifacts of social history, and interior and dramatic monologues, as well as essays on writing.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
OSPBER 60:
Cityscape as History: Architecture and Urban Design in Berlin
Diversity of Berlin's architecture and urban design resulting from its historical background. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his artistic ancestors. Role of the cultural exchange between Germany and the U.S. Changing nature of the city from the 19th century to the present.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
OSPBER 62:
Shades of Green: Environmental Policy in Germany and the U.S. in Historical Perspective
How political institutions, political culture, and economic structure influence domestic and foreign environmental policies across countries in areas such as climate change, urbanization, and management of finite resources. Impact on cooperative solutions between countries with focus on Germany and the U.S.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
OSPBER 70:
The Long Way to the West: German History from the 18th Century to the Present
Battles still current within Germany¿s collective memory. Sources include the narrative resources of museums, and experts on the German history in Berlin and Potsdam. Field trips.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
OSPBER 75:
History Through Monuments: Art in Historical Space
National identity and political conflicts as reflected in historical sites and the political monuments erected during democracy and dictatorships in Germany; Weimar Republic, Third Reich, Federal Republic, GDR. Field trips to sites linked to readings and class discussions.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
OSPBER 100B:
Berlin Heute
Required for students enrolled in GERLANG 3B; open to students in other German language classes. Active use of German, including vocabulary from a variety of fields and disciplines, and discussion of current issues.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 4 units total)
OSPBER 101A:
Contemporary Theater
Texts of plays supplemented by theoretical texts or reviews. Weekly theater visits, a tour of backstage facilities, and discussions with actors, directors, or other theater professionals. In German. Prerequisite: completion of GERLANG 3 or equivalent.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
OSPBER 101B:
Advanced German
For intermediate and advanced students. Focus is on Berlin through film, literature, music, live performance, news media, and field trips. Essay writing, vocabulary building, and in-class presentations. Reading literature and news stories, essay writing, vocabulary building, and in-class presentations.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
OSPBER 115X:
The German Economy: Past and Present
The history of the German economy in the Wilhelmine Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the postwar real socialism of the GDR, and the free market economy of the FRG. The processes of economic transition since unification and current challenges faced by united Germany.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
OSPBER 126X:
A People's Union? Money, Markets, and Identity in the EU
The institutional architecture of the EU and its current agenda. Weaknesses, strengths, and relations with partners and neighbors. Discussions with European students. Field trips; guest speakers.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
OSPBER 161X:
The German Economy in the Age of Globalization
Germany's role in the world economy: trade, international financial markets, position within the European Union; economic relations with Eastern Europe, Russia, the Third World, and the U.S. International aspects of German economic and environmental policies. The globalization of the world's economy and Germany's competitiveness as a location for production, services, and R&D, focusing on the German car industry.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
OSPBER 174:
Sports, Culture, and Gender in Comparative Perspective
Theory and history of mass spectator sports and their role in modern societies. Comparisons with U.S., Britain, and France; the peculiarities of sports in German culture. Body and competition cultures, with emphasis on the entry of women into sports, the modification of body ideals, and the formation and negotiation of gender identities in and through sports. The relationship between sports and politics, including the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP
OSPBER 198D:
Humboldt Universitat: Humanities 2
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 198F:
Humboldt Universitat: Social Sciences 2
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 198H:
Freie Universitat: Humanities 3
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 5 units total)
OSPBER 198K:
Weissensee Art University 1
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
10 times
(up to 40 units total)
OSPBER 198L:
Weissensee Art University 2
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
10 times
(up to 40 units total)
OSPBER 198M:
Weissensee Art University 3
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
10 times
(up to 40 units total)
OSPBER 198X:
Potsdam Universitat: Humanities 2
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 4 units total)
OSPBER 198Z:
Potsdam Universitat: Social Sciences 2
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199D:
Humboldt Universitat: Humanities
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 18 units total)
OSPBER 199F:
Humboldt Universitat: Social Sciences
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199G:
Freie Universitat: Social Sciences 1
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199H:
Freie Universitat: Humanities 1
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199J:
Freie Universitat: Natural Sciences 1
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199K:
Freie Universitat: Social Sciences 2
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199L:
Freie Universitat: Humanities 2
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199M:
Freie Universitat: Natural Sciences 2
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199P:
Technische Universitat: Social Sciences 1
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199Q:
Technische Universitat: Humanities 1
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199R:
Technische Universitat: Natural Sciences 1
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199S:
Technische Universitat: Engineering 1
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199T:
Technische Universitat: Social Sciences 2
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199V:
Technische Universitat: Humanities 2
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199W:
Technische Universitat: Natural Sciences 2
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199X:
Potsdamer Universitat: Humanities 1
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199Y:
Technische Universitat: Engineering 2
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 199Z:
Potsdamer Universitat: Social Sciences 1
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
OSPBER 50B:
Introductory Science of Materials
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
