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

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 C201XP.

P/NP or letter grading.