Code: | LLC062 | Acronym: | ICLA2 |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | German Studies |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Department of Germanic Studies |
Course/CS Responsible: | Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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LLC | 30 | LLC - Monodisciplinary Study Plan | 1 | - | 6 | 52 | 162 |
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LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Portuguese Studies) | 2 | - | 6 | 52 | 162 | ||
LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Two Foreign Languages) | 2 | - | 6 | 52 | 162 |
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.
At the end of the semester, students should master the main historical and political facts of the19th and of the 20th 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.
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 Novelle " 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.
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.
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Exame | 35,00 |
Teste | 35,00 |
Trabalho escrito | 30,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
Designation | Time (hours) |
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Elaboração de projeto | 36,00 |
Estudo autónomo | 72,00 |
Frequência das aulas | 54,00 |
Total: | 162,00 |
Compulsary attendance of a minimum of 75% of all lessons, except in those cases where special legal provisions apply.
The model of assessment chosen for this course relies on three different components: a) one written test + written examination; b) a paper or on a well-defined topic, which should be chosen under the guidance and with the agreement of the course lecturer; Weithting: a) 70%; b) 30%
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.
Students who are entitled to any type of special assessment should contact the professor AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEMESTER
not applicable
Students may repeat the test. Students may submit a revised version of the essay.