MO4973 Twentieth-Century Germany: A Sense of Place

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Full Year

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

60

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Available only to students on the second year of the Honours Programme.

Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Prof R B F L Bavaj

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Module Staff

Prof R Bavaj

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Module description

This module explores the history of twentieth-century Germany from the perspective of place and space. It engages a range of primary sources, including film, photographs, maps, travel guidebooks, and the built environment. Organised around core themes, it takes students on a journey from German notions of belonging and place attachment (‘Heimat’/home[land]); to the border zone of the Berlin Wall; geopolitics and ‘living space’; Nazi empire-building and ‘Germanization’; spatial imaginaries (‘the East’, ‘Central Europe’, and ‘the West’); political uses of public space (e.g. protest marches and party rallies); geographies of the Holocaust; nature, landscape, and the autobahn; physical remnants of the Nazi past and sites of memory, both in Berlin and beyond.

Assessment pattern

1 x take-home Examination = 30%, Coursework = 70%

Re-assessment

New Coursework: 1 x source exercise (2,500 words) and 1 x 5,000-word essay = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 3-hour seminar, plus 1 office hour.

Scheduled learning hours

66

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

534

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • see key aspects of twentieth-century German history in a new light
  • analyse primary sources of various kinds (incl. maps, film clips, and photographs)
  • view history from a spatial perspective
  • follow a staged approach to extended essay writing, and blog about it