Completion of German 102 or equivalent. The course will take a triangulated approach to femininity and visual culture. We will study girls and women as producers, as images, and as spectators of particular kinds of femininity. The films to be studied will help to make sense of ways visual cutlure not only reflects but constitutes female identities in their multicultural environments. A combination of lecture and discussion.
Regular attendance is required.
Short readings in German from many areas, literary and non-literary, with emphasis on vocabulary acquisition, writing practice, listening comprehension. Practical problems of German grammar, syntax, style. Discussion and group work. Explore heroic Germanic myths in the EDDA and learn about early speculations on human destiny as recorded in this and other nordic epics. Study the re-emergence of medieval motifs in new contexts and historical settings as well as in a number of films.