GERMAN 39A
Freshmen/Sophomore Seminar
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
Topics
- Reading and viewing attentively; thinking critically about the performance of social roles; reflecting on limits and possibilities of political intervention; unpacking multimedia configurations, esp. interplay between literature and audiovisual media; conducting research, situating texts in context; looking at the past through the lens of the present and the future through the lens of the past; writing analytically, building an argument based on evidence, interpretation, and reflection; articulating your own take on the topic and defining a project; discussing and presenting your ideas as a team.
- Students will learn to think critically about rank and power, authenticity and artifice, staging and acting.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027