German Studies 325BG - Sr Capstone Sem: Being German
Fall
2015
01
4.00
Gabriele Davis
W 01:15PM-04:05PM
Mount Holyoke College
93622
Ciruti 113
gdavis@mtholyoke.edu
Fouqué's Undine, a 'migrant' author's bestseller of Romanticism -- the iconic era of German Nationalism -- inspired Austrian Bachmann in her 1961 subversive tale Undine geht, which challenges and transcends gender and other social-cultural boundaries. Weimar Cinema 'realized' the cultural-critical and economic dimensions of Romantic texts by filming the margins: Dracula, shadows, fairytales. Even Nazi-supporter Riefenstahl drew on the dark side of the tradition. All postwar Germanys have struggled to find common languages for a globalized economy and a de-facto immigrant society. Presently culture wars are raging again about gender-inclusive language and the Judeo-Christian tradition versus Islam.
This course is limited to seniors.
This seminar may constitute the first 4 credits of the 8 credits of independent work required for completion of an honors thesis. During spring semester, students would continue the project started in 325, in a 395 independent study with the instructor of