What should it be like? You will complete a final 5-page project in English in which you analyze a German cultural product (a film, a series of songs, a persona, a tv show, a short story) and examine how it presents, represents, constructs, and/or interrogates questions of identity (individual, national, ethnic, and other) in a German cultural context.

 

Why are you doing it?

The Final Assignment is tied to the following objectives listed on the syllabus for GRMN 10153.

3.     Students will read and interpret spoken and written German on a variety of topics (See Kontakte, Einfhrung A-Kapitel 3), including social architectures and the relationship among personal, social, and cultural identities.

4.     Students will analyze what it means to be German to a variety of people from a variety of migration backgrounds.

8.     Students will research a topic of their choosing (a film, songs, a blog) that centers around the other Germany (non-traditional) and write a reflective essay at the end of the course on what German could mean in contemporary discourses on identity.

 

How?

What do you want to be able to show me that you can do with the product of your assignment?

1.     That you can analyze diversity within (or) across cultures.

      You might show me this by discussing how the cultural product you choose presents culture as constantly in flux, German culture as changing, for example, or how it questions notions of cultural purity as some unchanging set of behaviors and characteristics.

2.     That you understand the interconnectedness of society, culture, and individual identity.

      You might show me this by reflecting on how the product you choose shows that members of a dominant culture enjoy privileges not granted minorities or disenfranchised groups in that culture, whether those groups be defined in terms of class, race, gender, religious practice, or some mixture of all of these.

      Or you might show me this by discussing how the product you choose suggests that there is no one answer to what it means to be German/Austrian/German-speaking. German speakers, like English speakers, are a culturally diverse group of people, and when we focus on a dominant notion of German-speaking culture, we are not being culturally aware, and we rely on problematic stereotypes and notions of cultural purity. Stereotypes may be a starting point for understanding others who are different from us, but they cannot and should not be an endpoint.

 

 

 

Here are some possible cultural products for you to look at/investigate, but you may also have your own ideas. Your job this week, before we meet, is to begin to think about and formulate what your final project will be about. You do have to pick an actual German cultural product. It cant just be a project in which you look up google sites about Germany and summarize the situation in Germany with regard to alterity/difference/the so-called other.

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