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:
Boebe, D. (PI)
;
Kloetzer, S. (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: Win, Spr
| Units: 8
| UG Reqs: Language
Instructors:
Kloetzer, S. (PI)
;
Wohlfeil, J. (PI)
OSPBER 3B: German Language and Culture
Grammar, composition, and conversation. Increases fluency in German as rapidly as possible to help students take advantage of the many opportunities in Berlin. Corequisite:
GERLANG 100B.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: Language
Instructors:
Tat-Unger, 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:
Tat-Unger, C. (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:
Jander, M. (PI)
;
Pabsch, M. (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:
Howe, R. (PI)
;
Wong, S. (PI)
OSPBER 47: Ethics in Medicine and Everyday Life
Ethical conflicts in relation to life situations. Moral questions in the conduct of science. Collaboration of physicians and academics with Nazi medical experiments; Milgram's experiments on obedience; Stanford's prison experiments; misleading marketing strategies used by the tobacco industry; ethics of placebo controlled clinical trials; decisions related to stem cell research and reproductive technologies. Visits to Nürnberg and Sachsenhausen.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-EthicReas
Instructors:
Casper, R. (PI)
OSPBER 48: Topics in Medicine and Ethics
Independent study with weekly meetings. Topics: comparative analysis of legislation of human fertilization and embryology in the U.S. and UK; history and structure of the health care systems in Germany, Canada, and the U.S.; lives of admirable precepts but dubious practice such as Seneca, the Stoics, and Rousseau; promise and pitfalls of genetically modified plant and animal food. Do ethnic, national, and professional stereotypes serve a function? Primarily in English, but some topics might require German.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Casper, R. (PI)
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