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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2018 |
Registration ID | GERMB245001 |
Course Title | Approaches to Germ Lit/Culture-Crime,Justice & the Courtroom |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | German |
Instructor | Shen,Qinna |
Times and Days | MW 02:40pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | CH102 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1707 This is a topics course. Taught in German. Course content varies. Previous topics include, Women’s Narratives on Modern Migrancy, Exile, and Diasporas; Nation and Identity in Post-War Austria. Current topic: Crime, Justice and the Courtroom. This is a film-based course about political trials at critical junctures of German history.; Current topic description: This is a film-based course, taught in German, about political trials at critical junctures of German history. Students will study German history, politics and society through legal cases represented in Fritz Lang’s M (1931), Erich Engel’s The Blum Affair (1948), Kurt Maetzig’s The Rabbit Is Me (1965), Volker Schlöndorff’s adaption of Kleist’s novel Michael Kohlhaas (1969), Uli Edel’s The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt (2012), Giulio Ricciarelli’s Labyrinth of Lies (2014), and Ferdinand von Schirach’s Terror (2015). Through studying these narratives, the students will gain a richer understanding of crucial events and periods in German history, e.g., the terrorist campaign of the Red Army Faction in the 1970s, and will develop a comprehensive understanding of the dialectical relationship between crime and justice in a specifically German context. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI);, ; Haverford: Humanities (HU) . |
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