Fall 2020  |  GSD 3511W Section 001: Vikings, Knights, and Reformers: German and European Culture and Controversies to 1700 (14275)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (26 of 45 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Survey of representative cultural-historical events in Europe (German-speaking countries, Scandinavian, the Netherlands) from early Germanic times to 1700.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?paren001+GSD3511W+Fall2020 This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
Class Description:
This course, with lectures in English, offers an overview of the cultural, political, and social developments of the German-speaking countries from the earliest days of contact between the Germanic tribes and the Romans (first century CE) until 1700. Emphasis will be placed on the way in which present-day Germany views its medieval and early modern past, and the role of the Middle Ages, the Reformation, and the Thirty Years War in the creation of a national German identity. Topics to be discussed include myths about the origins of the Germans, the Germanic reshaping of the ancient Roman world, the role of the German Empire in the development of medieval Christianity, social position of women in medieval and early modern times, medieval and early modern court culture, Renaissance humanism, Reformation and Counter-Reformation debates; early modern revolutions and war; the development of medieval and early modern German literary culture; Baroque culture in the German Empire. Lectures provide the cultural- and intellectual-historical background for the discussion of many types of cultural artifacts, e.g., literary, historical, religious, and philosophical texts; paintings, engravings, woodcuts; medieval and early modern music. Authors to be discussed include Tacitus, Einhard, Hildegard von Bingen, Celtes, Erasmus, Luther, Grimmelshausen et al. German-language discussion section for German majors and minors is available.
Grading:
45% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: Three in-class exams (15% each); 40% essays; 15% attendance and discussion participation
Exam Format:
Identifications; essays
Class Format:
70% Lecture
30% Discussion
Workload:
50-75 Pages Reading Per Week Other Workload: This Writing Intensive course will require 3 formal papers (3pp.; 5pp; and 10 pp. each); opportunity will be given for submission of at least one draft for each paper.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14275/1209
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
13 April 2012

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