College Bulletin 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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GMST 008. Texts in Context: Topics in German Culture and Society from the Reformation until Today
GMST 008 is a 4th semester course integrating the continued work on advancing the students’ linguistic skills with the acquisition of cultural, historical, and literary content about German-speaking countries. This course is the gateway to all upper level courses in the German studies curriculum. Topics alternate every year.
Topic for Spring 2016: Blues in schwarz weiss: Minoritäten-Perspektiven in der deutschsprachigen Kultur
Advancing your stylistic, lexical and grammatical competency in German while refining your knowledge of German cultural history will be the overall goal of this course. We will trace the figure of the other, the marginalized outsider due to race, class, sexual orientation, religious and ethnic affiliations in German literature and culture from the 17th to the 21st century. How does the figure of the other function to shape German literature, culture and the nation state? Engaging this question, we will work on a cross-section of prose, drama, poetry, film, (auto)biography, newspaper and magazine articles, e.g. excerpts from the Frankfurter Zeitung, as well as Die Dame, Heinrich von Kleist’s Die Hochzeit von Santo Domingo, Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck, Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Eine Frau zu sehen, May Ayim’s Blues in schwarz weiss, Heiner Carow’s Coming Out (1989) and Robert A. Stemmle’s Toxi (1952).
Prerequisite: GMST 003 or equivalent Placement Score
Humanities.
1 credit.
Spring 2016. Bettray.
Spring 2017. Bettray.
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies
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