Oct 05, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
HIST 3683 - Germany between East and West since 1945
This course situates Germany in European history, and focuses on the political, social, and cultural history of Germany since 1945. After a brief overview of the Nazi regime, World War II, and the Holocaust, the course explores the Allied occupation of Germany, denazification, the Cold War division into West and East Germany, each state’s political, social, and diplomatic development, their international relations and different ways of handling the Nazi legacy. The course concludes with the revolutions of 1989, German reunification, and political and social developments from 1990 to the present.
Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Diversity and Practice
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to explain and compare their culture’s differences from those of postwar Germany.
- Students will be able to compare the cultural contexts of West Germany and East Germany and how these differences shaped people’s behavior.
- Students will be able to describe the complex reasons behind the development of different societies and political systems in the German states after World War II.
- Students will be able to interpret and explain why people in postwar Germany thought and acted as they did.
- Students will be able to explain their understanding of relevant historical events in writing and discussion, which will require them to think also about non-verbal communication.
- Students will be able to ask complex questions of German cultures after 1945 and to articulate answers to these questions that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
- Students will be able to evaluate sources in postwar German history with both openness and responsibility.
- Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication with the individuals and communities from Germany, and to negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences.
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