| Course Info | Class Number: 1046
German society has undergone drastic changes as a result of immigration. Traditional notions of Germanness have been and are still being challenged and subverted. This course uses films and visual media to examine the experiences of various minority groups living in Germany. Students will learn about the history of immigration of different ethnic groups, including Turkish Germans, Afro-Germans, Asian Germans, Arab Germans, German Jews, and ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe. We will explore discourses on migration, racism, xenophobia, integration, and citizenship. We will seek to understand not only the historical and contemporary contexts for these films but also their relevance for reshaping German society. Students will be introduced to modern German cinema from the silent era to the present. They will acquire terminology and methods for reading films as fictional and aesthetic representations of history and politics, and analyze identity construction in the worlds of the real and the reel. This course is taught in English
Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI), Power, Inequity, and Justice (PIJ);
Enrollment Cap: 25. 15 Spaces Reserved for 360 students. This course
is part of 360 Coasts and available to non-360 students. This course
is Europe from the Margins: Established narratives of Europe tend to
be Western European and focused on high politics. This cluster changes
the focus from structures to stories, using an interdisciplinary
approach (incorporating political science, history, and German
studies) to critically examine Europes past and present from the
margins. What does Europe look like from the perspectives of those
whose voices are usually missing from mainstream narratives the
disempowered, queers, migrant laborers, artists, refugees, and people
from Europes eastern and southern peripheries? By inserting and
foregrounding perspectives of the historically marginalized along with
an examination of their theoretical, cultural, and political
contributions to European society, this 360 aims to provide critical
analytical tools to not only foster greater understanding of the
broader context of modern Europe but to rethink what Europe itself is.
The field trip to Berlin will provide an opportunity to examine
historical legacies as well as current cultural politics and
grassroots initiatives of the marginalized. This 360 cluster includes
enrolling in HIST B226 and POLS B205. |
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