It is impossible to do justice to all the important works and authors of this period. Introduce you to traditional and online scholarly resources. Improve your interpretive skills. Participants will regularly provide reports, look up background information, and lead discussions. You will be graded on participation, reports, midterm, final, and written work.
Participation includes regular attendance and informed contributions to the discussion.
Very brief reports will be made in almost every class period. Both will consist of short answer questions, though the final may include an essay question. You may write your midterm and exam in English or German. Your interpretations should be a minimum of five pages long, written in German. For the purpose of this class an interpretation will be understood as your best effort to explain what the author is doing in the text.