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GERMAN 240

HEALTH AND HOTELS IN CENTRAL EUROPE

3 credits.

Introduction to spaces of leisure, medical recuperation, and Christian and Jewish cross-cultural exchange. Literature and films focus on sites of rest and healing between the World Wars as well as post-Holocaust reflections on these sites.

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Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate close reading skills in writing assignments through interpretation and analysis of texts in a variety of genres, including critical theory, prose, poetry, and film. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Discern and integrate divergent and contradictory perspectives, identify and question assumptions, and assess evidence and methods. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify major and lesser-known writers of central Europe between the World Wars. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Acquire a critical vocabulary to speak and write effectively about the experience of health, illness, leisure, recuperation, and Jewish identity. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Engage in sustained discussion with peers in a respectful and empathetic manner on topics concerning diverse worldviews and value systems, including an understanding of interactions between Jews and Christians within the context of minority-majority relationships in central Europe and across the globe. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate close reading skills in writing assignments through interpretation and analysis of texts in a variety of genres, including critical theory, prose, poetry, and film. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Discern and integrate divergent and contradictory perspectives, identify and question assumptions, and assess evidence and methods. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify major and lesser-known writers of central Europe between the World Wars. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Acquire a critical vocabulary to speak and write effectively about the experience of health, illness, leisure, recuperation, and Jewish identity. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Engage in sustained discussion with peers in a respectful and empathetic manner on topics concerning diverse worldviews and value systems, including an understanding of interactions between Jews and Christians within the context of minority-majority relationships in central Europe and across the globe. Audience: Undergraduate

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