Module Identifier |
GE30610 |
Module Title |
DAS SELBSTVERSTAENDNIS DER DEUTSCHEN |
Academic Year |
2005/2006 |
Co-ordinator |
Dr Winifred V Davies |
Semester |
Intended for use in future years |
Next year offered |
N/A |
Next semester offered |
N/A |
Other staff |
Mr Paul A Cooke |
Pre-Requisite |
(Normally) Eligibility for entry to Level 3 German. |
Course delivery |
Lecture | 15 lectures / seminars / tutorials |
Assessment |
Assessment Type | Assessment Length/Details | Proportion |
Semester Assessment | Continuous Assessment: Two oral presentations on a group basis | 20% |
Semester Assessment | Oral Examination: | 80% |
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Learning outcomes
On completion of this module students should have extended their knowledge of modern German by having focused on German reactions to certain major events of the period under discussion, and by having participated actively in structured language work. This should have improved their skills in the register of academic discourse. The outcome: enhanced knowledge, oral fluency at a high level, developed presentation skills.
Brief description
This oral course, conducted through the medium of German, examines the way in which Germans see themselves and their own experience, in the context of political and social development from 1945 to the present day. The two sections of the module will concentrate on: (i) "Die Mauer im Kopf" nach der Vereinigung; (ii) Frauen in Deutschland.
Students are advised to read as many of the Recommended Background texts as is feasible, during the intercalary year.
Reading Lists
Books
** Recommended Background
Deutscher Bundestag (Hrsg.) (1981) Fragen an die deutsche Geschichte
M. Fulbrook (1995) Anatomy of a dictatorship: inside the GDR 1949-1989
Oxford: Oxford University Press
A. Grosser Deutschlandbilanz. Geschichte Deutschlands seit 1945
dtv 1007
G. Gaus Wo Deutschland liegt. Eine Ortsbestimmung
dtv 10561
O. Klein (1994) Plotzlich war alles ganz anders: deutsche Lebenswege im Umbruch
Koln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch
E. Kolinsky (1995) Women in 20th-century Germany. A Reader.
MUP
C. Maier (1997) Dissolution: the crisis of Communism and the end of East Germany
Princeton: Princeton University Press
K. Wagenbach Vaterland, Muttersprache (Deutsche Schriftsteller und ihr Staat von 1945 bis heute).
Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Quartheft 100
J. Ardagh Germany and the Germans
Penguin Books
G. Craig The Germans
Penguin Books
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6