Introduction to German Culture and Literature II

Code:

LLC062

Acronym:

ICLA2

Instance: 2015/2016 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Germanic Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LLC	19	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	1	-	6	52	162
			2
			3
LRI	1	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	2	-	6	52	162
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This course aims to provide the students with basic knowledge in the fields literature, culture and history of the German speaking countries. The course will focus on the 19th and the 20th Century.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the semester, students should master the main  historical and political  facts of the twentieth century.

They should have acquired knowledges about the different literary periods and about some major cultural movements of the same era.

They should be able to produce a consistent and correct written text on the topics studied. They should increase their oral expository capacity, getting able to communicate and defend points of view on matters of theoretical and abstract nature.

Working method

Presencial

Program

0. German speaking countries

1. The German Romanticism in its different phases.
    German nationalism and the wars of liberation.
    Romantic philosophy ( selected excerpts from texts by      Novalis and Fichte).
Romantic music and romantic painting.
Romantic literature (some examples of lyric and the novella “Don Juan” by E.T.A. Hoffmann) .

 2. Polarity in the period of the Restoration.     
     Biedermeier . 
     Vormärz - Das Junge Deutschland (some examples of the revolutionary liric by Heinrich Heine)

 3. The unification of Germany under Bismarck .     
The Wilhelmine era - militarism and imperialism.    
The Austro-Hungarian Empire .   
The painting and the new visual expressions .    
Cultural heterogeneity  and artistic movements at the turn of the century (The novella " Leutnant Gustl" by Arthur Schnitzler  " )    
Expressionism : painting and literature ( some examples of expressionist lyric )

4. First World War.
    Literature as reaction to the war (lyric by Young Brecht and the novella "Judenzählung vor Verdun" by Arnold Zweig.

5. Weimar Republic and the Austrian Republic.
The global economic crisis and its consequences. The Roaring Twenties" and the cultural vanguards.
Short prose by Kafka

6 . Nazism and the Third Reich. The nazi ideology, racist ideologies, anti-Semitism. Culture as a means of political propaganda. The territorial expansion, the "Anschluss" and the 2nd World War. The Holocaust. The literature during the war.

 

Mandatory literature

Alfred Opitz (Coord.); Sociedade e Cultura Alemãs, , Universidade Aberta, 1998. . ISBN: 972-674-239-O
Philippe Ariès e Georges Duby; História da Vida Privada, Afrontamento, 1989-91
António Sousa Ribeiro;; Literatura Alemã II, Universidade Aberta, 1999
Eva-Maria Kabisch; Literaturgeschichte Kurzgefasst, Ernst Klett Verlag, 1985. . ISBN: ISBN: 3-12-350400-X
Vilas-Boas, Gonçalo; Literatura Alemã III, Universidade Aberta , 1998

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course will be run on the basis of lectures, seminars and tutorials. The methodology chosen is eclectic, consisting in theoretical classes devoted mainly to the construction of contextualization, seminars in which the students should have a very active and intervening participation and tutorials. Seminars and tutorials will focus on different types of texts representative of several genres and literary periods with different esthetics/ideological orientation and also of significant value as documents of social history and the history of ideas. 
Students will be expected to adopt a productive and commited attitude.

Software

Power Point

keywords

Humanities > Literature > European literature > Germanic literature > German literature

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Teste	70,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	30,00
Estudo autónomo	76,00
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Compulsary attendance of a minimum of 75% of all lessons, except in those cases where special legal provisions apply.

Calculation formula of final grade

The model of assessment chosen for this course relies on three different components: a) two written tests; b) a paper or  on a well-defined topic, which should be chosen under the guidance and with the agreement of the course lecturer; c) active participation in classes and other activities related to the course. Weithting: a) 70%; b) 20%; c) 10%.
Students whose tests or essay come to be graded below 8 (i.e., 0-7) will have to sit the test again and/or submit a new essay or a revised version of the same.

Examinations or Special Assignments

not applicable

Internship work/project

not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

not applicable

Classification improvement

Students may repeat one of the tests.  Students may submit a revised version of the essay.