Students will engage readings from the primary texts and view films relevant to the topic area, while instructor provides lecture and other material explaining background of and reflecting significance on the reading materials/topic areas. Students will engage in discussion during class time relative to issues that they need to clarify and understand within the reading. A feature of this process will be keying on terms and critical strategies relative to the concerns of the texts and films. Shorter essay, longer research project, quizzes, midterm and final exam.

Students will engage readings from the primary texts and view films relevant to the topic area, while instructor provides lesson and other material explaining background of and reflecting significance on the reading materials/topic areas. Students will engage in discussion during class time relative to issues that they need to clarify and understand within the reading. A feature of this process will be keying on terms and critical strategies relative to the concerns of the texts and films. Shorter essay, longer research project, quizzes, midterm and final exam.

German I is an introductory course for those with no background in German. It is taught in German and Mandarin, with increasing use of German for classroom communication. Students are tested on listening comprehension, grammar, reading, and writing.

German I is an introduction course for those with no background in German. It is taught in German and Mandarin, with increasing use of German for classroom communication. Students are tested on listening comprehension, grammar, reading, and writing.

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■ 課程目標 (Course Objectives) (By the end of the course, students should have achieved the following objectives):

3. Gain comprehension of how these films and novels express their cultural uniqueness through using the English language in ways that indicate their authors’ and directors’ cultural and historical expressions. This will emphasize an appreciation for their respective fictional figures’ regional backgrounds, the social statuses of their characters, North/South cultural and border issues, war and apocalyptic themes, and various individual’s struggles to maintain their way of life in at times shifting and hostile social environments. Students will give evidence of having mastered such knowledge in essays, presentations, class work and discussions.

4. Acquire knowledge of and demonstrate comprehension of critical and theoretical terms relative to both film and literary studies, such as intertextuality, semiotics, heteroglossia and polyphony, suture, historical drama, dialect, dialectic, hegemony, deconstruction, historicism, cinematography, mood, frame, setting, scene, fade, characterization, performance, etc. Students will give evidence of having mastered such knowledge on in essays, presentations, class work and discussions.

5. Students will give evidence of having mastered the theoretical and critical concepts that they choose to apply in their research projects, by demonstrating the appropriate application of such concepts and practices in their critical analysis and interpretation of immigrant, migrant and refugee literatures throughout the course. They will demonstrate this evidence in research papers, response papers, in presentations, and in daily classroom discussions and in-class work.

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■ Course Objectives (By the end of the course, students should have achieved the following objectives):

3. Gain comprehension of how these films and novels express their cultural uniqueness through using the English language in ways that indicate their authors’ and directors’ cultural and historical expressions. This will emphasize an appreciation for their respective fictional figures’ regional backgrounds, the social statuses of their characters, North/South cultural and border issues, war and apocalyptic themes, and various individual’s struggles to maintain their way of life in at times shifting and hostile social environments. Students will give evidence of having mastered such knowledge in essays, presentations, class work and discussions.

4. Acquire knowledge of and demonstrate comprehension of critical and theoretical terms relative to both film and literature studies, such as intertextuality, semiotics, heteroroglossia and polyphony, success, historical drama, dialect, dialect, hegemony, deconstruction, historicism, cinematography, mood, frame, setting, scene, fade, characterization, performance, etc. Students will give evidence of having mastered such Knowledge on in essays, presentations, class work and discussions.

5. Students will give evidence of having mastered the theoretical and critical concepts that they choose to apply in their research projects, by demonstrating the appropriate application of such concepts and practices in their critical analysis and interpretation of immigrant, migrant and rejectee literatures throughout the course. They will demonstrate this evidence in research papers, response papers, in presentations, and in daily classroom discussions and in-class work.