GERM 217

Becoming more Aware of Student habits of Seeing and Thinking

As students are confronted with the startling and strange and intriguing ways that Germans and Scandinavians represent the world, they will become more aware of their own habits of seeing and thinking. In several of their written assignments and class discussions, students will demonstrate their ability to thoughtfully reflect upon these different visual practices and to engage these different ideas into meaningful dialogue.

Increasing Cultural Literacy

Because the course is structured around a variety of historical, theoretical, and cultural questions, students will develop and demonstrate an increased cultural literacy as they grapple with questions of ideology, identity, class, race, gender and memory in the context of the German and Scandinavian cultures and film history. 

Developing Intellectually Sound Interpretations

Students will be able to develop their own well-informed, critically provocative, and intellectually sound interpretations of different cinematic texts and be able to defend and expand these interpretations in classroom discussions and in writing assignments.  A list of these specific skills can be found in the grading rubric for each of these assignments. 

Reading, Critiquing and Writing Formal Sequence Analyses

Students will be able to read, critique and write formal sequence analyses of key scenes from German and Scandinavian films.