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GERM 217

(Germ-Scand) German and Scandinavian Cinema

German and Russian College of Humanities

Course Description

Background for understanding and appreciating the best of motion picture art in Germany and Scandinavia.

When Taught

Fall

Grade Rule

Grade Rule 8: A, B, C, D, E, I (Standard grade rule)

Min

3

Fixed

3

Fixed

3

Fixed

3

Recommended

A first-year writing course

Note

Language of instruction is English; no knowledge of German or Scandinavian languages is required.

Title

Becoming more Aware of Student habits of Seeing and Thinking

Learning Outcome

As students are confronted with the startling and strange and intriguing ways that Germans and Scandinavians represent the world, they will become more aware of their own habits of seeing and thinking. In several of their written assignments and class discussions, students will demonstrate their ability to thoughtfully reflect upon these different visual practices and to engage these different ideas into meaningful dialogue.

Title

Increasing Cultural Literacy

Learning Outcome

Because the course is structured around a variety of historical, theoretical, and cultural questions, students will develop and demonstrate an increased cultural literacy as they grapple with questions of ideology, identity, class, race, gender and memory in the context of the German and Scandinavian cultures and film history. 

Title

Developing Intellectually Sound Interpretations

Learning Outcome

Students will be able to develop their own well-informed, critically provocative, and intellectually sound interpretations of different cinematic texts and be able to defend and expand these interpretations in classroom discussions and in writing assignments.  A list of these specific skills can be found in the grading rubric for each of these assignments. 

Title

Reading, Critiquing and Writing Formal Sequence Analyses

Learning Outcome

Students will be able to read, critique and write formal sequence analyses of key scenes from German and Scandinavian films.