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University College / Summer School Courses - Fall 2008

We offer evening German language courses within University College, as well as through the Summer School. Our faculty members teach both University College courses and Master of Liberal Arts seminars. For more information about our University College and Summer School courses, please contact Stephan Schindler.

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• U14 GER 117 BEGINNING GERMAN I Basic reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Introduction to cultural aspects of the German-speaking countries. Credit 3 units. (This course does not replace the German 101D-102D sequence in the College of Arts and Sciences). TuTh 6:30-8:00 Staff
• U14 GER 118 BEGINNING GERMAN II Emphasis on speaking more freely. Grammar review. Further development of reading and writing skills. Tape recordings and/or language lab sessions, film showings and video presentations to increase aural comprehension. Prerequisite, U14 GER 116 or permission of instructor. Credit 3 units. TuTh 6:30-8:00 Staff
• U14 GER 313 CONVERSATIONAL GERMAN (for description and class times see L21 GER 313)
• U85 IA 440 THE BALL IS ROUND: THE CULTURE OF GLOBAL SOCCER First played in China 2000 years ago, the game of soccer has become the ultimate team sport worldwide (with the exception of the US). Like no other sport, soccer has generated a notoriously fanatic fan culture; it has created a billion dollar entertainment industry organized in a multinational corporate association (FIFA) with more than 200 member states; and it has replaced ideologies, religion, warfare, or conquest as a source for national as well as local identity and pride. In this course we study the basic rules, techniques, and strategies of soccer. We analyze its development from primitive but powerful "kick and run" (England, Germany) to the artistic ball-handling of the whiz kid (South- and Central America, Africa) and the art of controlling space (Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain). Further topics include soccer and its socio-economic foundations, the good fan and the hooligan, racism and the multiethnic team, women's soccer and the gendering of the athlete, the local club and the national team, soccer and globalization. We read texts by Franklin Foer, Nick Hornby, Eduardo Galeano, and others. Films include classic soccer games, The Miracle of Bern, Bend It Like Beckham, and Shaolin Soccer. Undergraduates must have permission of instructor to register. Credit 3 units. Th 6:00 - 8:30 Schindler
• U98 MLA 572 GENRE CINEMA: THE ART OF VARIATION This seminar explores the role of genre as a powerful means of mainstream cinema to tell compelling stories and structure the viewer's identification. Even though genres such as the melodrama, the western, the romantic comedy, the musical, the science fiction film, the horror film, or the thriller are often seen as quite predictable staples of dominant filmmaking, they also inspire and allow for considerable formal experimentation and thematic departure. This seminar examines the logic of some of the most important genres of Hollywood filmmaking while at the same time emphasizing the creative possibilities of working with certain genre expectations. We discuss such classic representatives of certain genres as Imitation of Life, Stagecoach, His Girl Friday, The Day the Earth Stood Still, 42nd Street, and North By Northwest, and then juxtapose these paradigmatic examples with more contemporary films reworking or pushing the limits of the classical genre system such as Far from Heaven, Lone Star, Blade Runner, Dancer in the Dark, and Breathless. Same as U89 American Culture Studies 572. Class time includes a film screening. Credit 3 units. M 6:00-9:30 Koepnick

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