Spring 2023

GERMAN R5B 001 - LEC 001

Reading and Composition

"The Politics of Style: Representing Reality in German Literature, Poetry, and Film"

Andrew Blough

Jan 17, 2023 - May 05, 2023

Mo, We, Fr

11:00 am - 11:59 am

Barker 110

Class #:33508

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through German

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 0

Enrolled: 19

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 19

Waitlist Max: 0

No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 9 hours of outside work hours per week.

This course offers a survey of modern German literary, cultural, and intellectual currents, as well as an introduction to argumentation and analysis. Students will examine numerous issues and questions central to defining the complexity of modern German culture. R5A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R5B satisfies the second half.

Class Description

In this course you will get to know a range of artists and thinkers who approach their work in widely varying ways. We will consider style both as an aesthetic strategy of the artist as well as a product of historical circumstance shaping an artist’s conceptual world. Engaging with these texts, poems, and films will introduce you to strategies of reading and the craft of writing in college. The materials you will read, discuss, and write about in this course present distinct stylistic ways of representing reality and investigate the significance of those distinctions. The range of topics for discussion include the formal elements of artworks – genre, to be sure, but also rhythm and rhyme, narration and description, sound and editing – the historical circumstances surrounding specific artistic developments, and how stories and images reflect reality as well as shape it. All readings will be in English, and no prior knowledge of the materials is required. This course offers a survey of modern German literary, cultural, and intellectual currents, as well as an introduction to argumentation and analysis. Students will examine numerous issues and questions central to defining the complexity of modern German culture. R5B satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R5A satisfies the first half.

Rules & Requirements

Requisites

Previously passed an R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Previously passed an articulated R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Score a 4 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature and Composition. Score a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Language and Composition. Score of 5, 6, or 7 on the International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examination in English.