Mar 29, 2024  
2016-2017 
    
2016-2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIS 338 - Berlin (=GER 438)


Instructor Denham

The Berlin Republic of the Federal Republic of Germany is the seat of economic, political, and cultural power in Europe and the EU today. Key to understanding the role of Germany and Berlin in the world now is a historical understanding of how Berlin got to be what it is now. The course will also introduce students to the uses and methods of cultural geography, maps, various kinds of sources (diplomatic, cultural, geographic), and to competing historiographies and their politics in the context of Berlin, Germany, and Europe. The on-site component (pending funding) will allow students access to the “laboratory” for the course: archives, museums, people, memorial sites, architecture, the densely layered artifact that is Berlin now.  Satisfies the Historical Thought distribution requirement.