Institute for Global Studies
214 Social Sciences
269 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-624-9007
Fax: 612-626-2242
E-mail: igs@umn.edu

German FLIP

Courses

  • You may enroll for Global Studies 3920-002/German 3510-002 as a stand-alone elective course without being in the FLIP.
  • To complete FLIP, you are required to take Global Studies 3920-002/German 3510-002 and mix and match at least 9 credits or more from German elective courses listed below.
  • You will also register for Global Studies 3906: FLIP completed, S/N, 1 credit, which you will pass when all FLIP courses are completed with C- or better grades.

Global Studies/German Immersion Course

Required for FLIP, 3 credits

GloS 3920: Section 2; Ger 3510: Section 2

Topics in European Studies: "Was uns bewegt? Ideas, issues and controversies in contemporary German culture "
Instructor: Friederike Weiss, weiss048@umn.edu

The course examines issues that different generations in Germany are currently concerned with.
These include changes in the educational system due to the “Pisa Studie” as well as the efforts to
reform higher education, relationships between East and West Germans, unemployment and
changes in the welfare system, efforts to come to terms with the history of the National
Socialism, immigration and multiculturalism and Germany’s aging population.
Students will work with a range of texts, from newspaper articles, stories, surveys to films as
well as interviews and television clips. Students will respond to the texts, films and audio
materials in informal conversations, discussions, presentations and written response papers. They
will compile their work, do further research on a topic and reflect on it in a final project (a
research paper or a multimedia project: film, artwork, website).

All readings, discussions, presentations, and papers will be in German

GloS 3906

FLIP completed, S/N, 1 credit

German Courses for FLIP: Spring 2007

  • 3014 German Media
  • 3021 Business German
  • 3104 Reading and Analysis of German Literature
  • 3421 Eighteenth-Century German Literature
  • 3510 FLIP Course
  • 3511 German Civilization and Culture—1700 to the present
  • 3593 Directed Studies: German-Speaking Countries
  • 3601 German Medieval Literature
  • 3631 Jewish Writers and Rebels in German, Austrian, and American Culture
  • 3704 German Dialects
  • 3993 Directed Studies