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
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 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: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: Language
Instructors:
Kloetzer, S. (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: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Fonrobert, C. (PI)
OSPBER 13: Jewish and Muslim Berlin
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: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Fonrobert, C. (PI)
OSPBER 14: Clausewitz and Sunzi
Comparison of the basic ideas about warfare and the art of command in the western world with those in China through Clausewitz's On War and Sunzi's Art of War. Questions include: how the two texts relate to the respective philosophical traditions from which they emerge; how the nature of both texts is influenced by their position within the long-term, historical development of writings about warfare in the West and the East; why the two texts take a very different approach to violence as an intellectual problem.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Lewis, M. (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: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-SocSci, 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: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Kramer, K. (PI)
OSPBER 20: German Film and the Berlin Film Festival
German cinema from the silent era to das neue Kino. Weekly screenings with readings on the history of cinema, specific directors, and the larger social and political backdrop. Topics include: Ruttman's modernist look at Berlin; socialist/leftist perspectives of (early) Lang and Brecht; pro-Nazi documentaries of Riefenstahl; das neue Kino principals Shlöndorff, Herzog and Fassbinder. During the Berlin Film Festival, we will see over 20 films, focusing on documentaries dealing with global issues (environment, human rights, economic inequality, and liberation movements).
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Rehm, R. (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:
Biege, M. (PI)
;
Boebe, D. (PI)
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