Course Schedule
We will follow this schedule as closely as possible; but we may have to make some adjustment, which I will announce clearly.
- Tuesday, 1/15/2013
- Class meeting
- 01 Introduction to Course [in class]
- Wednesday, 1/16/2013
- Independent Study
- 02 A 18th through 19th Century German Background (A)
- Online participation due by 5:00 Wednesday
- Thursday, 1/17/2013
- Class meeting
- Discussion of 02A 18th through 19th Century German Background
- Friday, 1/18/2013-Wednesday, 1/23/2013
- Independent study
- 02 B 18th through 19th Century German Background and 03 A Wilhelmine Era-Heinrich Mann, The Subject
- Online participation due by 5:00
- Thursday, 1/24/2013
- Class meeting
- Discuss 02 B 18th through 19th Century German Background and 03 A Wilhelmine Era-Heinrich Mann, The Subject
- Friday, 1/25/2013 to Wednesday 2/6/2013
- Independent Study
- 03 B Heinrich Mann, The Subject and 04 A Intro to First World War Germany
- Forum comments due by 5:00 Wednesday
- Thursday, 2/7/2013
- Class meeting
- Discuss 03 B Heinrich Mann, The Subject and 04 A Intro to First World War Germany
- Friday, 2/8/2013 to Wednesday 2/13/2013
- Independent Study
- 04B and 04C First World War Germany and Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
- Forum comments due by 5:00 Wednesday
- Thursday, 2/14/2013
- Class meeting
- Discuss 04B and 04C First World War Germany and Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
- Friday, 2/15/2013 to Wednesday 2/20/2013
- Independent Study
- 05A Intro to Weimar Culture and 05B Doeblin, Berliner Alexanderplatz (A & B)
- Online participation due by 5:00 Wednesday
- Thursday, 2/21/2013
- Class meeting
- Discuss 05A and 05B Weimar Germany and Doeblin, Berliner Alexanderplatz (A & B)
- Friday, 2/22/2013 to Wednesday 2/27/2013
- Independent Study
- 05B and 05C Doeblin, Berliner Alexanderplatz
- Online participation due by 5:00 Wednesday
- Thursday, 2/28/2013
- Class meeting
- Discuss 05B and 05C Doeblin, Berliner Alexanderplatz
- Friday, 3/1/2013 to Wednesday 3/13/2013
- Independent Study
- 06A Nazi Germany Intro and 06 B Hitler, Mein Kampf
- Online participation due by 5:00 Wednesday, 3/13
- Thursday, 3/14/2013
- Class meeting
- Discuss 06A Nazi Germany Intro and 06 B Hitler, Mein Kampf
- Sunday, 3/17/2013
- Mid-Term Take-Home due 5:00 pm
- Friday, 3/15/2013 to Wednesday 3/20/2013
- Independent Study
- 06 C Hitler, Mein Kampf and 06 D Triumph of the Will
- Online participation due by 5:00 Wednesday
- Thursday, 3/21/2013
- Class meeting
- Discuss 06 C Hitler, Mein Kampf and 06 D Triumph of the Will
- Friday, 3/22/2013 to Wednesday 3/27/2013
- Independent Study
- 07 A and 07 B Intro to The Holocaust
- Online participation due by 5:00 Wednesday
- Thursday, 3/28/2013
- Class meeting
- Discuss 07 A and 07 B Intro to The Holocaust
- Friday, 3/29/2013 to Wednesday 4/3/2013
- Independent Study
- 07 B Intro to The Holocaust and 07 C Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
- Online participation due by 5:00 Wednesday
- Thursday, 4/4/2013
- Class meeting
- Discuss 07 B Intro to The Holocaust and 07 C Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
- Friday, 4/5/2013 to Wednesday 4/10/2013
- Independent Study
- Introduction to Post-1945 West Germany and Fassbinder, Marriage of Maria Braun
- Online participation due by 5:00 Wednesday
- Thursday, 4/11/2013
- Class meeting
- Discuss Introduction to Post-1945 West Germany and Fassbinder, Marriage of Maria Braun
- Friday, 4/12/2013 to Wednesday 4/17/2013
- Independent Study
- Introduction to Post-1945 East Germany and Donnersmarck, The Lives of Others
- Online participation due by 5:00 Wednesday
- Thursday, 4/18/2013
- Class meeting
- Discuss Introduction to Post-1945 East Germany and Donnersmarck, The Lives of Others
- Friday, 4/19/2013 to Wednesday 4/24/2013
- Independent Study
- Reunification
- Online participation due by 5:00 Wednesday
- Thursday, 4/25/2013
- Class meeting
- Discuss Reunification
- Friday, May 3:
- Take-Home Final due 5:00pm
