Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN POST-1945 GERMANY ***** This course examines German politics and societies under Allied administration, in West and East Germany between 1949 and 1989, and in the enlarged Federal Republic since 1990. The main theme of the course is democracy: how Germans debated it, attempted to institute it, and challenged it in the years after Nazism. Additional themes include post-1945 German's responses to the legacy of Nazism; the political economy of each regime; the challenges of the "new social movements" (Green, peace, human rights) in East and West; and national identity in a context of European unification and global migration.