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Die deutsche Familie
im neunzehnten Jahrhundert
Winter 2002
Tu, Th 6-7:20
Manoogian 446
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Required Texts,
Course Description,
Participation
Requirements for Undergraduate Students: Homework, Writing, Exams, Course Grade
Requirements for Graduate Students: Homework, Research Paper, Exams, Course Grade
Required
Texts:
Available in Marwil's Book Store
at Cass and Warren:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Wahlverwandschaften,
1809
Fanny Lewald, Jenny, 1842
Eugenie Marlitt, Das Geheimnis der alten Mamsell, 1867
Gabriele Reuter, Aus guter Familie, 1895
Frank Wedekind, Frühlings Erwachen, 1891
Arnold Schnitzler, Traumnovelle, 1925
Available on reserve in UGL and in
the Foreign Language Technology Center
Woyzek
, Regie: Werner Herzog (Film), 1978
Effi Briest, Regie: Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Film), 1972-74
Eyes Wide Shut, Regie: Stanley Kubrick (Film), 1999
Course
Description:
This course examines gender roles as
they relate to the construction of the family in German-language
texts of the nineteenth century. While our primary focus will
be on prose works, we will also read both nineteenth-century
documentary material and scholarly articles that deal with issues
of gender and the family during this period. We will also view
the film versions of three texts (one of which we are reading)
in order to explore how the nineteenth-century family has been
portrayed and reinterpreted in this medium. The course will be
organized chronologically to allow us to examine changes in gender
roles within the family as the nineteenth century progresses.
Topics include: constructions of femininity and masculinity,
the family as the arbiter of sexuality, gender roles in the family
and how these roles are affected by class and race, possibilities
for and limits on agency of men and women, gendered conceptions
of public and private spheres, the family as an economic unit,
the socialization of children, and the women's movement and the
family.
Participation:
Attendance and active participation
in class discussions are required. I expect you to come to class
having read the assignment closely and having thought about both
the study questions I give you and those generated by the class.
If you must miss a class, please notify me ahead of time. Absences
are excused only in the case of illness, personal or family emergency,
and activities or religious holidays recognized by Wayne State
University. You will receive a daily participation grade based
on a scale of 5 (= prepared and on time) to 0 (=absent).
If you must miss a session, I expect
you to inform me of this before class on that day. Absences
are excused when due to illness, personal or family emergency,
or activities or religious holidays recognized by Wayne State
University.
Excessive tardiness and unexcused
absences will affect your grade significantly: The first four unexcused absences will result
in your final grade being lowered by one-third point (e.g., A-
--> B+); each additional unexcused absence will cause the
final grade to be lowered by the same amount.
Departmental policy requires all
cell phones and pagers to be turned off for the duration of the
class period.
Assignments:
Undergraduate Students
Homework
Assignments:
The following three types of assignments
are intended to help you read the texts as closely as possible,
which will help us in our class discussions and you in your writing.
*Oral Reports--You
will give one oral report (Referat) (two if you have
enrolled for four hours of credit) during the course of the
semester in which you summarize a scholarly article and relate
its contents to our primary readings. You may work with another
person on this. The topics are listed on the Referate
page of the syllabus.
In addition, you will give one
oral report about the biography of one of the authors we will
read in the second half of the semester (Marlitt, Reuter, Wedekind
or Schnitzler). This will be based on your first paper (see below).
You will work in groups on these reports.
*Film Worksheets and Discussion Questions--You will receive worksheets for each of the
films we view and will be expected to post discussion questions
about the films to the class listserve.
*Reading Journal--For one
class meeting per week you should write a one-page response,
in German, to what you have read. What you focus on in the response
is up to you, but it might help to summarize what you have read
and then to respond to one or more of the study questions I give
you or to your own questions about at you have read. You should
turn in your response at the beginning of the hour in which we
discuss the pages about which you have written. I will not accept
responses to reading assignments from previous class sessions.
Writing Assignments:
These assignments are intended to deepen
your understanding of the texts we read and to improve your writing
skills.
You will write three 5-7 page papers,
in German. (If you have enrolled for four hours of credit,
your final paper should be 9-12 pages). They will be due
on Feb 1., Mar. 8 or 21 (before or after Spring Break), and Apr.
19, respectively. You will present the findings of your third
paper in a five- to ten-minute oral report during the final exam
period.
The first paper will be a biographical
report; the second will be a close reading of a text, and the
third will be an analysis in which you incorporate the arguments
of at least two secondary sources. Ideally, you will focus on
one author for all three of your reports and no more than two
or three of you will concentrate on any one author.
Because good writing is a product of
recursivity, I suggest that in the second and third paper you
use and develop an idea that you have worked on in your journal
entries.
If you are not happy with the grade
you receive on a paper, you may rewrite it and I will then average
the two grades together. Revisions are due two weeks after I
return the papers to you.
Exams:
There will be a written midterm examination
(identification, short-answer, and essay format) on February
21.
The final exam will be a 10-minute presentation
to the class based on your last paper.
Course
Grade
Your grade will be determined as follows:
15%--Participation (includes regular attendance):
15%--Homework
(weekly reading journal, film worksheets, and oral reports)
45%--Papers
(three 5-7 page papers, #1=10%, #2=15%, #3=20%)
20%--Midterm
5%--Final Presentation
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Graduate Students
Homework
Assignments:
The following three types of assignments
are intended to help you read the texts as closely as possible,
which will help us in our class discussions and you in your writing.
*Oral Reports--You
will give two oral reports (Referate) during the course
of the semester (three if you are taking this course for 4
hours of credit and/or have enrolled in 7670.) In these reports,
you will summarize scholarly articles and relate their content
to our primary readings. The topics are listed on the Referate
page of the syllabus.
*Film Worksheets and Discussion Questions--You will receive worksheets for each of the
films we view and will be expected to post discussion questions
about the films to the class listserve.
*Thought Papers--These assignments are intended to help you develop
your skills as literary scholars.
You will write three three-to-four page
critiques ("thought papers") in German. The critiques
are due at the beginning of class on the day we discuss the pages
you analyze. I urge you to turn in the first one by the end of
January at the latest, and second one by Spring Break. These
critiques may (1) take a passage from the work in question, analyze
it briefly and explain how it relates to larger issues raised
by the work or (2) formulate and ponder a problem raised by the
work. If you choose the second option it is extremely important
that you are precise in your use of language. My hope is that
these writing exercises will be an aid to you in choosing your
final paper topics as well as preparing you to raise and discuss
issues in class. The prupose of these short papers is also to
help train you in formulating thoughts clearly and succinctly
as you might , for example, for grant proposals, conference paper
proposals, a publisher's precis.
If you use secondary materials, you
must acknowledge them. The critiques should be typed, three to
four pages long, and no longer than five pagers. Papers are due
on the day we begin the discussion of the work you are treating.
I will comment on the critiques extensively.
If you have questions about any of my comments, please do not
hesitate to talk to me about them. I will not assign letter grades
to the papers, but should a paper fail to make a coherent argument
or be very poorly written, I will ask you to rewrite it. Late
papers are inappropriate.
Research paper:
You will write a research paper in English
or German. While I will not put a limit on the length of the
papers I consider 12-15 pages (including endnotes) of focused
prose preferable to longer papers that ramble. If you
are taking this course for four hours of credit, or are enrolled
in 7670, your paper should be 16-18 pages including endnotes.
I expect you to supply me in writing with a brief statement of
your paper topic by March 7. Bibliographies are due by March
22; rough drafts are due by April 11 final papers are due on
April 23.
You will present the findings of your
paper in a 10-minute presentation during the final-exam period.
Exams:
There will be a written midterm examination
(identification, short-answer and essay format) on February 21.
Course
Grade
Your grade will be determined as follows:
15%--Participation (includes regular attendance):
15%--Homework
(thought papers, film worksheets, and three oral reports)
20%--Midterm
50%--Research Paper (12-15 pages)
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Please inform me as soon as possible
of any special learning requirements you have. And please make
it a point to see me if you are having difficulties.
The German and Slavic Department also
has an open-door policy: Students are encouraged to seek out
any other instructor in the department for course-related help
or advice should their instructor not be available. Office hours
of all instructors are posted near the main office (443 Manoogian).
In giving you this syllabus, I agree
to fulfill my faculty obligations to you as students. In taking
this course and thereby accepting this syllabus, you are also
agreeing 1) to fulfill your student obligations to the instructional
process, and 2) to adhere to the highest standards of academic
honesty and integrity. These obligations are outlined in the
University
Bulletin.
Please make sure to familiarize yourself
with the dates, including drop/add information, on the WSU Registration
Calendar, .
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