Between Los Angeles and Europe: New Approaches to Transatlantic European Studies

ELTS C101XP - Between Los Angeles and Europe: New Approaches to Transatlantic European Studies

<p>Lecture, three hours; community-engaged projects, three hours. Examination of rich migration history between Los Angeles and Europe with view to German-speaking world. Overview of transatlantic cultural, literary, and historical studies back to colonial era. Targeted investigation of complex transatlantic relations between Angelenos and German immigrants during 20th century, including World War II. Students apply newly acquired cultural, historical, and political knowledge to current transatlantic conversations. Offers innovative, scholarly, and praxis-oriented approaches to transatlantic European studies through integration of lesson into community-engaged projects. Illumination of limits of monolingual or state-centric configurations of disciplinary knowledge in addition to exemplifying interdisciplinary, multilingual, and transnational studies of Europe, in general, and Germany, in particular. Concurrently scheduled with course C101XP. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

European Languages and Transcultural Studies

Combining rigorous, inclusive pedagogy with opportunities for co-curricular activities—including research, internships, and community engagement—the College provides students with diverse learning experiences that helps them thrive, become critical thinkers, and transform society.

College of Letters and Science

The department offers advanced training in cultural and linguistic traditions of Europe, and emphasizes transcultural relations; while framing these in a global historical context that transcends Europe as a geographic space.

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Between Los Angeles and Europe: New Approaches to Transatlantic European Studies

ELTS C201XP

4 units