GERST 2040

Perspectives on German Culture

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2014-2015 Catalog.

This course aims to sharpen your awareness of personal and cultural subjectivity by examining documents in a variety of media that treat the social, cultural, and historical significance of 1968, the watershed moment of the West German student movement. We will concentrate on improving oral and written expression of idiomatic German by focusing on more sophisticated aspects of enriched vocabulary in a variety of contexts and genres. Our primary objects of study will be a feature-length film about student life shot on location at a Gymnasium in 1968, the album by a garage band that became the soundtrack of the movement, a multimedia collage at the Johnson Museum of Art created by a veteran of the movement, and an historical novel about the movement's birth by another veteran 68er. Our final research project will consist of interviews with native speakers about the legacy of the myth of 1968 today.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: GERST 2000 or placement by exam (placement score and CASE).

Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Distribution Category (CA-AS)

When Offered Fall, spring.

Comments GERST 2040 is the prerequisite for Study Abroad in a German-speaking country.

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