For the full 4 units of credit, students write a more comprehensive research paper of ca. All aesthetic examples are from the German-speaking environment to teach the cultural specificity of these concepts.
Texts are for the most part accessible in English.
Students explain the development of gender roles within the eighteenth and nineteenth-century developments to found a German state. Students develop, based on the texts we explore in class, their own evaluation of women's roles as teachers, artists, filmmakers, and historians within the context of the Nazi period and its remembrance. Students elucidate, based on two of the texts examined in this third part of the course, the insufficiency of a notion of gender roles based on a simple binary opposition between masculinity and femininity. Students present a literary or filmic work and conduct a discussion of it in the second and third sections of the course. Works Cited Bathrick, David.