SEMESTER 1 2003-2004

General Matters

• Course objectives and assessment methods
• Workshop allocation 2003-2004
• Schedule of topics & prescribed reading, Sem.1
• Workshop Assignments, Sem.1
• Essay titles and assessment criteria
• Essay Guidelines
• Practice Exam January 2004

Semester 2 2003-2004

General Matters

• Information for Semester 2
• Workshop lists
• Presentation Topics
• Presentation assessment criteria
• Presentation Feedback Form (Sample)

Information about the Exam in May

The one hour exam will test the knowledge acquired through the lectures and presentations you have heard this year and the essay skills you have developed.  You will be required to write one essay on a topic different from your presentation topic. Important information about the exam will be given in the first lecture session after Easter.

• Last year's exam (June 2003)

NB: This exam reflects the lectures and topics covered in a previous year, use the topics list as a revision guide!
 

• German Government Websites
• Deutsches Historisches Museum
• 100 Deutsche Jahre (major TV series, programmes are available in the Language Centre Self Access Area)
• Lebendiges Virtuelles Museum Online
• LeMo Archiv (Videos, Audio, Documents)
• Deutsche Chronik. 2000 Jahre Deutsche Geschichte
• stern Politik Chronik
• Deutschland Magazin
• Facts about Germany
• German History Society

• Topic 1:

• Allied Occupation and the Origins of Division

• 1945-1949: From Defeat to Division

• 1949: Two German States

• Quiz: Germany 1945-1949

• Resources for Topic 1

• Topic 2:

• The Federal Republic under Adenauer and Erhard

  • 1949-1955

  • 1955-1966

• Topic 3:

• The era of Brandt, Schmidt and Kohl

  • Resources for Topics 2&3

• Topic 4: The GDR

  • Lecture Week 9

  • Life in the GDR

  • Walter Ulbricht

  • Lenin essay

  • Timeline of key events in the GDR

  • Soviet-GDR trade links

  • The Uprising of 17 June 1953

  • da schlug's 13 - der 13. august 1961

  • Resource Page on The Fall of the Wall

  • auferstanden-aus-ruinen

• Wk 1: Germany post-unification
  • Challenges to Inner Unity
  • Resource Page
• Wk 2: Challenges to the new Germany: foreign affairs
  • Resource Page
• Wk 3: The German economy
  • Facts about Germany
  • Die wirtschaftliche Lage im April 2004
• Wk 4: Economic downturn and countermeasures
  • Cutting red tape
• Wk 5: Demographic changes in Germany I
  • Facts about Germany
• Wk 6: Demographic changes in Germany II
  • Deutschland 2020 - Die demographische Zukunft der Nation
• Wk 7: The ecological restructuring of Germany I
  • Resource Page
  • ppt presentation
• Wk 8: The ecological restructuring of Germany II
  • Resource Page
• Wk 9: Berlin: the Hauptstadt
  • Resource page