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
Instructors:
Kloetzer, S. (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:
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
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: Language
Instructors:
Strube, F. (PI)
OSPBER 11: The Vanishing City: Lost Architecture and the Art of Commemoration in Berlin
Berlin as archaeology of modernity and its lost utopias. The projection of new models simultaneous with destruction such as new Prussian, new fascist, new socialist, and new democratic Berlins. Field trips to sites including destroyed Prussian castles, Nazi buildings, and socialist architecture. Methods of visualizing what disappeared, deciphering what is left, and understanding what is new.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Ebeling, K. (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, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: Language
Instructors:
Strachota, K. (PI)
;
Strube, F. (PI)
OSPBER 26: Germany in Europe
Broad survey of German history, in a pan-European context, from its mythical origins in the forests of Germania to the reunification of 1989. Focus on politics and religion, including violence and war, and the place of the German polity within Europe.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Buc, P. (PI)
OSPBER 27: Selected Topics in German History
Students choose one of the following for an independent study topic: medieval anti-Semitism and Nazi anti-Semitism, compared; the Teutonic Knights; Luther on politics and religion; the rise of Prussia; Germans and Romans in late antiquity. Weekly meetings to review progress and set goals.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Buc, P. (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)
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