1. To leave the semester with a greater historical awareness of marginalized people living in Germany, those with hyphenated identities in Germany, and white Germans.
2. To continue learning how to ask your own historical questions. Constantly ask the questions "why?" and "how?" If your question feels unanswerable, pursue it further; it just might mean that that you are onto something interesting. Good questions lead to good dialogue and produce good research.
3. To improve upon various skills that you will most assuredly keep with you throughout your life, including but not limited to analyzing texts carefully, crafting and evaluating arguments, and articulating your position on the subject matter at hand.
4. To use and properly synthesize a variety of sources - from films and theater to personal reflections and academic articles - and connect them to larger themes and questions in class.