GSD 3512W is also offered in Spring 2025
GSD 3512W is also offered in Spring 2024
GSD 3512W is also offered in Spring 2023
GSD 3512W is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2022 | GSD 3512W Section 001: Imagined Communities: German and European, Culture and Controversies, 1700 to Present (52982)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
Open (13 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Survey of representative cultural-historical events in Europe (German-speaking countries, Scandinavian, the Netherlands) from 1700 to present.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?paren001+GSD3512W+Spring2022
- Class Description:
- GSD 3512W provides an overview of the cultural, historical and social developments in the German-speaking countries, Scandinavian, and the Netherlands from 1700 to the present. Lectures provide the historical background for the readings. Discussions will focus on a particular aspect or problem of early modern or modern German, Dutch or Scandinavian culture, with texts drawn from a particular nation each week. Topics to be discussed include: the Enlightenment in philosophy and literature; the absolutist court; the formation of national identity; Romanticism and revolution; the rise of the bourgeoisie and its effect on literary culture; the unification of Germany; the emergence of the working class; colonial imperialism; aestheticism and decadence; World War I as an agent of social and political change; women and modernity; the rise of Fascism; collaboration and resistance during World War II; Cold War politics; crime and deviance in the Nordic countries; 21st-century immigration and social change in central and northern Europe.
- Grading:
50% reports/papers; 30% examinations; 20% class participation
- Exam Format:
- Two 75-minute written examinations: identifications and short essays
- Class Format:
- Lecture and discussion
- Workload:
- 60-85 pp. reading per week. All readings in English. Knowledge of German, a Scandinavian language, or Dutch is NOT required to take the class. German and Scandinavian majors and Dutch minors are required to complete an additional translation exercise to receive credit for the course in their major/minor program.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52982/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 November 2015
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2022 German,Scandinavian, and Dutch Classes