Dec 04, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

GERM 314: Multiculturalism in Germany (World War II to present)


(1 Unit)
Proficiency Expected level of proficiency: GERM 301  or permission of instructor.
Explores how German society has become multiculturally constructed since World War I—from the Holocaust aftermath to current sociocultural debates about the role and treatment of women of color, the large Turkish immigrant population, and Islam and Islamic nationalism in Germany—through the study of various discourses (fiction, essay, speeches, poetry, film, TV news) representing these issues. Studies how perceptions of ethnic difference have evolved in Germany and have become intertwined with social and political debates of the day. Conducted in German. Myers.