GER3655

GER 3655 - Cultures of Control and Surveillance in Germany and the US (3 Cr.) Civic Life and Ethics, Historical Perspectives

German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch (10967) TCLA - College of Liberal Arts

GER 3655 - Cultures of Control and Surveillance in Germany and the US (3 Cr.) Civic Life and Ethics, Historical Perspectives

Course description

Discourses and practices of social control and surveillance in comparative/historical perspective. Explores the central conceptual condition for modern ethics: the relationship between individual and society. Paintings, manuals, scholarly and philosophical essays, and literary texts including writings by Franz Kafka.

Minimum credits

3

Maximum credits

3

Is this course repeatable?

No

Grading basis

OPT - Student Option

Discussion

This course fulfills the following Liberal Education requirement(s)

Historical Perspectives, Civic Life and Ethics

Typically offered term(s)

Fall Odd Year