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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Fall 2025 |
| Registration ID | GERMB259001 |
| Course Title | Nature in German Lit and Film |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | German |
| Instructor | Strair,Margaret |
| Times and Days | MW 02:40pm-04:00pm
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| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2491 Germany is recognized as world leader in innovative sustainability practices and has long been a site of social and political organization around the environment. This course will explore encounters with and in the natural world in German literature, film, and the visual arts as reflections of or agents of social, political, and technological change. While these encounters are rooted in the philosophical divide between self and world, they embody questions of gender, urbanism, preservation, alienation, marginalization, and homeland in ways that galvanize political and social movements locally and nationally, real and imagined. The course is centered on different loci of encounters with the environment, including forests of fairy tales, coastlines and rivers, mountains, mines, agricultural and industrialized urban spaces. It will also consider the human-made environment, waste, and energy sources as places of encounter and transformation.; Current topic description: Germany is recognized as a world leader in innovative sustainability practices and has long been a site of social and political organization around the environment. This course will explore encounters with and in the natural world in German literature, film, and the visual arts as reflections of or agents of social, political, and technological change. While these encounters are rooted in the philosophical divide between self and world, they embody questions of gender, urbanism, preservation, alienation, marginalization, and homeland in ways that galvanize political and social movements locally and nationally, real and imagined. The course is centered on different loci of encounters with the environment, including forests of fairy tales, coastlines and rivers, mountains, mines, agricultural and industrialized urban spaces. It will also consider the human-made environment, waste, and energy sources as places of encounter and transformation. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI), Writing Attentive; Enrollment Cap: 25: 15 Reserved for students in 360 program. 360 cluster: "Climate Change: Integrating literary, scientific and political perspectives." This course is open to non-360 students. If you are interested in the 360 program, you must fill out the application which is due on April 2, 2025 at NOON by clicking on https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside/academic-information/special-academic-programs/360-program/apply/fall-2025-application-climate-change. This 360 cluster includes enrolling in MATH B195 and POLS B256. |
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