ClassInfo - Fall 2019 Jewish Studies Classes

Fall 2019 | JWST 3601 Section 001: Fleeing Hitler: German and Austrian Filmmakers Between Europe and Hollywood (33944)

Instructor(s): Rick Mc Cormick
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Meets With:: GER 1601 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019

Wed 04:40PM - 08:40PM

UMTC, East Bank

Folwell Hall 104
Enrollment Status:: Open (3 of 5 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: German/American films by famous directors who left Europe in Nazi period. Analysis of films by Fritz Lang, Max Ophuls, Robert Siodmak, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Douglas Sirk, and others. Films as art works and as cultural products of particular social, political, and historical moments.
Class Description:: Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Workload:: Students will be assigned readings in a course reader packet that will be available at Alpha Prints (1407 4^thSt. SE in Dinkytown). Students will be required to write informal responses of at least half a page to each film we watch as part of a "forum" on Moodle. Students will also write 1) one formal essay (our midterm assignment), a minimum of 4 typed, double-spaced pages due on the Monday of the seventh week; and 2), a take-home final essay exam, a minimum of 6 typed, double-spaced pages, will be due on the Monday of finals week.
Students taking the course as Jewish Studies 3601 will write an extra, short paper, also due during finals week.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33944/1199
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 6 September 2016

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