Spring 2020  |  GER 3655 Section 001: Cultures of Control and Surveillance in Germany and the US (65495)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
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
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 108
Enrollment Status:
Open (33 of 60 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Discourses and practices of social control and surveillance in comparative/historical perspective. Explores the central conceptual condition for modern ethics: the relationship between individual and society. Paintings, manuals, scholarly and philosophical essays, and literary texts including writings by Franz Kafka.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mrothe+GER3655+Spring2020
Class Description:
"Social Control" is a concept meant to bring into view those forces that shape our intentions, preferences and interactions often imperceptibly and often along the lines of race, class and gender. Drawing on paintings, films, autobiographical, philosophical and literary texts, we will inquire into prominent scenarios of social control past and present. Our perspective will be a comparative one, with a focus mainly on the US and Germany. Topics such as the phenomenon of mass incarceration in the US, German immigration policy and its history, changing regimes of wage work or the rule of Fascism in the 1930s will be considered. We will invite local activists, stage debates and have oversea guests in our class.
Who Should Take This Class?:
This class fulfills the LE requirements for Historical Perspectives/Civic Life and Ethics. It is for undergraduate students from across the university (all colleges), no prerequisite other than interest in the topic. The class will be taught in English
Learning Objectives:
understand the relation between individual and society; examine how discourses and practices of social control change over time and across cultures; comprehend various forms of critique and resistance and their ethical stakes
Grading:
participation in discussion (30%), 4x1 page key-word paper (20%), 3 x 2 pages theme-paper (20%), group-presentation/research (30%)
Exam Format:
no final exam
Class Format:
lecture (60%), group work (30%), general discussion (10%)
Workload:
approx. 20 pages reading for each sessions or equivalent preparation time
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65495/1203
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 October 2017

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