printer friendly pageOSPBER 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
Instructors:
Splettstoesser, J. (PI)
;
Wohlfeil, J. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Wohlfeil, J. (PI)
OSPBER 12: The Politics of Memory
Politics of memorializing WW II focusing on Berlin. How the memory of WW II and its representation became constitutive to the self-consciousness of democratic culture in Germany. What constitutes the nature of collective memory; who has the authority to represent the war; the function of the memorial in public consciousness; and limits of representation of terror or genocide. Theoretical literature on politics of memory. Field trips to memorials.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Fonrobert, C. (PI)
OSPBER 13: Jewish and Muslim Berlin: The City and its Religious Minorities
History of Jewish life in Berlin leading up to WW II, focusing on moments of literary and cultural creativity: the Jewish Enlightenment in Berlin; forms of protest against bourgeois German-Jewish culture; and literary, artistic, and political productivity of the interwar period. Cultural relationship between Germans and Jews. These historical dynamics as background to current discussion about the place of Islam and Muslim culture in contemporary Germany and Berlin. Site visits in Berlin.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Fonrobert, C. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Bruckner, U. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Kramer, K. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Friesel, D. (PI)
;
Kloetzer, S. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Ebeling, K. (PI)
;
Pabsch, M. (PI)
OSPBER 38: Research Module
For continuing students. Research under the guidance of a local specialist in libraries, archives, research institutes, and/or in the field. Prerequisite:
GERGEN 177A. (Kramer)
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 3-4
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Kramer, K. (PI)
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: WAY-AQR, GER:DB-EngrAppSci, WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Lee, T. (PI)
;
Wong, S. (PI)
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