GLOBAL GERMAN STUDIES
Introduction to the multiple fields and methodologies for the study of language, culture, and texts of global German studies. Examines how German, Dutch, Turkish, and Yiddish, languages, peoples, ideas, and cultures have circulated across the world. Covers questions of migration, globalization, memory, and language.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize the language areas of German, Dutch, Yiddish, and Turkish, and describe their relation to each other. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and distinguish the multiple fields (broadly conceived) in German studies. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Utilizing different methodologies, analyze artifacts, practices, and perspectives of the German-speaking world and their cultural and historical contexts; Analyze and compare culturally situated beliefs and norms of the German-speaking world. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Develop critical self and social awareness by engaging with language and culture of the German-speaking world within and beyond the classroom. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize the language areas of German, Dutch, Yiddish, and Turkish, and describe their relation to each other. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and distinguish the multiple fields (broadly conceived) in German studies. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Utilizing different methodologies, analyze artifacts, practices, and perspectives of the German-speaking world and their cultural and historical contexts; Analyze and compare culturally situated beliefs and norms of the German-speaking world. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Develop critical self and social awareness by engaging with language and culture of the German-speaking world within and beyond the classroom. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027