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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
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 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
Instructors: Strober, M. (PI)

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
Instructors: Strober, M. (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: 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

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
Instructors: Weber, C. (PI)

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
Instructors: Weber, C. (PI)
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