German 379 - Germany Today
Spring
2024
01
4.00
Jonathan Skolnik
TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM
UMass Amherst
20067
Herter Hall room 204
jskolnik@german.umass.edu
This course examines historical, political, social and cultural developments, movements, and transformations in Germany since reunification. Students explore the fall of the Berlin Wall, Holocaust memory and memorialization, the GDR past, reunification, multiculturalism, environmentalism, and how Germans engage with these topics in literature, film, exhibits, memorials, and the media. In addition to the primary sources, course materials will include secondary sources on German history, politics, society, and culture. Conducted in English. (Gen.Ed. I, DG)