Advanced German: Expanding Perspectives (Foreign Cultural Literacy)

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Advanced German Expanding Perspectives(Foreign
Cultural Literacy)

• Topics / Contexts / Cultural Products
• Issues of social significance in contemporary
  Germany (problems connected with reunification,
  multiculturalism, gender issues, globalisation,
  role of Germany in the EU, remembering the
  holocaust, identity and nation, science and
  technology) are the explicit topical focus of
  these courses.
• Where possible, these issues should be placed in
  their historical contexts, and the second
  semester could explore a single topic
  diachronically, through the distant and more
  recent past.
• Cultural representations from popular and high
  culture (art, architecture, music, poetry, film,
  TV, news-media, literature). Focus on
  distinguishing features of different media and
  genre (e.g. soap opera vs. Familienserie).
• Texts
• Articles from slightly more challenging
  newspapers / magazines / journals short stories
  TV shows (various genre) books songs Internet
  Jugendliteratur, etc.
• At least one full-length novel or play in each
  semester (e.g. Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer
  Suesskind, Der Vorleser Schlink, Homo Faber
  Frisch).
• At least 3 full length films each semester.