Module Identifier GE30610  
Module Title DAS SELBSTVERSTAENDNIS DER DEUTSCHEN  
Academic Year 2007/2008  
Co-ordinator Dr Winifred V Davies  
Semester Intended for use in future years  
Next year offered N/A  
Next semester offered N/A  
Pre-Requisite (Normally) Eligibility for entry to Level 3 German.  
Course delivery Lecture   15 lectures / seminars / tutorials  
Assessment
Assessment TypeAssessment Length/DetailsProportion
Semester Assessment Oral Examination:  80%
Semester Assessment Continuous Assessment: Two oral presentations on a group basis20%

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
A. Grosser Deutschlandbilanz. Geschichte Deutschlands seit 1945 dtv 1007
C. Maier (1997) Dissolution: the crisis of Communism and the end of East Germany Princeton: Princeton University Press
Deutscher Bundestag (Hrsg.) (1981) Fragen an die deutsche Geschichte
E. Kolinsky (1995) Women in 20th-century Germany. A Reader. MUP
G. Craig The Germans Penguin Books
G. Gaus Wo Deutschland liegt. Eine Ortsbestimmung dtv 10561
J. Ardagh Germany and the Germans Penguin Books
K. Wagenbach Vaterland, Muttersprache (Deutsche Schriftsteller und ihr Staat von 1945 bis heute). Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Quartheft 100
M. Fulbrook (1995) Anatomy of a dictatorship: inside the GDR 1949-1989 Oxford: Oxford University Press
O. Klein (1994) Plotzlich war alles ganz anders: deutsche Lebenswege im Umbruch Koln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6