For the last 150 years, the city of Berlin has been a center of artistic experimentation, social revolution, and geopolitical crisis. Using an interdisciplinary selection of texts by designers, planners, artists, filmmakers, theorists, and writers, this course introduces students to the complex culture of the German capital from 1871 – the year of modern Germany’s founding - to the present. Key areas of inquiry will include the realist and naturalist literature of the late nineteenth century, political shifts during World War I, the innovative film of the Weimar Republic, fascist urban planning, the social upheavals of the 1960s, and the cultural contradictions of today’s Berlin. Taught in German. This course will include a review of key advanced grammar concepts.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 20

Prerequisites: GER 202 or permission of instructor.

Distribution Requirements: LL - Language and Literature

Typical Periods Offered: Every three years

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Spring

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