2019-2020 2020-2021 2021-2022 2022-2023 2023-2024
Browse
by subject...
    Schedule
view...
 

1 - 10 of 16 results for: OSPBER

OSPBER 1Z: Accelerated German: First and Second Quarters

This course is designed as a jump-start to the German language for students with no or little prior knowledge of German who are participating in the Bing Overseas Studies program in Berlin. The course covers the equivalent of GERLANG 1 and 2 in one quarter.
Terms: Aut, Win | Units: 8

OSPBER 2Z: Accelerated German, Second and Third Quarters

Intensive German language course for participants of the Bing Overseas Studies program in Berlin. The course covers the equivalent of GERLANG 2 and 3 in one quarter. 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. Prerequisite: GERLANG 1, GERLANG 1A or Placement Test.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 8 | UG Reqs: Language

OSPBER 3B: German Language and Culture

First year German, third quarter for participants of the Bing Overseas Studies program in Berlin. Completion and refinement of first-year grammar, vocabulary building, reading literature and news, writing skills, esp. journal. Extensive use of current materials, such as local Berlin and national news, and emphasis on building speaking skills for everyday situations and discussions. Qualifies students for participation in an internship following the study quarter. Prerequisite: GERLANG 2 less than seven months prior to arriving in Berlin or Placement Test.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: Language

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: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Kramer, K. (PI)

OSPBER 21B: Intermediate German

Second year German, first quarter for participants of the Bing Overseas Studies program in Berlin. Refinement of German grammar; vocabulary building, writing practice via journal and essays; German culture, including current news and issues, literature and films. Special emphasis on comprehension and speaking skills for discussions, everyday situations, and in-class presentations. Prerequisite: GERLANG 3 or equivalent or Placement Test.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: Language

OSPBER 24: History, Memory, and Trauma: Confronting The Past in Historically Divided Societies

It is an obvious point but one that bears repeating: our era is the most murderous in human history. Scholars today debate the meaning of "genocide" ? a term first coined in 1944 ? but even by the strictest definition the last century has witnessed at least half a dozen. It has also seen "ethnic cleansing" (another recent coinage), the systematic use of rape as a political weapon, a burgeoning international slave trade, a steady erosion of the distinction between combatants and non-combatants, and any number of other grievous crimes. We live in an age of atrocity. Yet our era has also seen the development of new modalities for identifying, combatting, and redressing the effects of such crimes. So accustomed have we become to war crimes tribunals, truth and reconciliation commissions, national and institutional apologies, reparations program, and the creation of atrocity museums and memorials that it is easy to forget how novel such things are. To be sure, this emerging international re more »
It is an obvious point but one that bears repeating: our era is the most murderous in human history. Scholars today debate the meaning of "genocide" ? a term first coined in 1944 ? but even by the strictest definition the last century has witnessed at least half a dozen. It has also seen "ethnic cleansing" (another recent coinage), the systematic use of rape as a political weapon, a burgeoning international slave trade, a steady erosion of the distinction between combatants and non-combatants, and any number of other grievous crimes. We live in an age of atrocity. Yet our era has also seen the development of new modalities for identifying, combatting, and redressing the effects of such crimes. So accustomed have we become to war crimes tribunals, truth and reconciliation commissions, national and institutional apologies, reparations program, and the creation of atrocity museums and memorials that it is easy to forget how novel such things are. To be sure, this emerging international reparative regime has rarely, if ever, fulfilled the ambitions of its architects, but it has ensured a measure of justice for at least some perpetrators of great crimes and a modicum of redress for at least some of their victims. Equally important, it has created an array of precedents and institutional forms for societies seeking to come to terms with gross historical injustice and its legacies. This seminar will survey the emerging field of "retrospective justice" through a series of topical readings and case studies. Topics include: the invention of "genocide"; war crimes tribunals; truth commissions; the politics of official apologies; monetary reparations programs; and the art, architecture, and politics of public memorials. Specific cases range from the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the ongoing efforts of American universities to come to terms with their historical sins, but in keeping with our location we will spend the lion's share of our time looking at the German case. focusing not simply on the Holocaust but also on the Nuremberg Tribunal that followed, the "forgotten" extermination of Herero and Nama people in German South-West Africa in the years between 1904-07, and the strange career of Hitler's architect, Albert Speer.
Terms: Aut, Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors: Campbell, J. (PI)

OSPBER 30: Berlin vor Ort: A Field Trip Module

This weekly field trip course, a favorite at Stanford in Berlin since the earliest beginnings of the Program, is mandatory for all students. It provides the optimal basis for further coursework by providing firsthand, on-site exploration of the weave of cultures and histories that we know as the city of Berlin. The course is taught in alternating quarters with a history (autumn quarters) or a cityscape (winter and spring) focus.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1

OSPBER 31: Ways of Hearing: Exploring Berlin Through its Music

Introduction to the diverse Berlin music scene and its interwoven roots, exploring the intimate connections between music and German identity. Why music of all kinds is of such profound importance in Germany and how the German musical tradition has influenced the entire world and has, in turn, integrated impulses from many different cultures. Enrollment limited.
Terms: Aut, Win | Units: 1
Instructors: Muir, L. (PI)

OSPBER 40M: An Intro to Making: What is EE

Is a hands-on class where students learn to make stuff. Through the process of building, you are introduced to the basic areas of EE. Students build a "useless box" and learn about circuits, feedback, and programming hardware, a light display for your desk and bike and learn about coding, transforms, and LEDs, a solar charger and an EKG machine and learn about power, noise, feedback, more circuits, and safety. And you get to keep the toys you build. Prerequisite: CS 106A.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: WAY-SMA

OSPBER 66: Theory from the Bleachers: Reading German Sports and Culture

German culture past and present through the lens of sports. Intellectual, societal, and historical-political contexts. Comparisons to Britain, France, and the U.S. The concepts of Körperkultur, Leistung, Show, Verein, and Haltung. Fair play, the relation of team and individual, production and deconstruction of sports heroes and heroines, and sports nationalism. Sources include sports narrations and images, attendance at sports events, and English and German texts. Will be taught in German if there are enough students with sufficient knowledge of German.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-A-II
Filter Results:
term offered
updating results...
teaching presence
updating results...
number of units
updating results...
time offered
updating results...
days
updating results...
UG Requirements (GERs)
updating results...
component
updating results...
career
updating results...
© Stanford University | Terms of Use | Copyright Complaints