HR390-6-FY-CO:
Metropolis: Urban Germany 1900-1945
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2023/24
Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies (School of)
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 6
Inactive
Thursday 05 October 2023
Friday 28 June 2024
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04 October 2018
Requisites for this module
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This module explores - through written and visual sources - the experience of urban life in Germany during the first half of the twentieth century. From the late-nineteenth century onwards Germany's cities, above all Berlin, became synonymous with social and political change, cultural and sexual experiments. Cities were also places for technological innovation and they became in arenas in which Germany's turbulent politics were taking places. For some German cities and urban modernity meant liberating opportunities, exciting lifestyles and glittering nightlife, for others the big city represented chaos, alienation, and crime.
The responses and efforts of those in authority - reflected in public debates, regulatory administration, laws etc.-- to the challenges posed by this 'urban modernity', as well as the changes themselves, are the focus of discussion in this module. We explore the meaning of big cities in Germany during the early twentieth century. Topics covered will range from problems of poor housing conditions and slums over the growth of urban traffic, architecture and changing gender relations to the portrayal of city life in arts, literature and films. Many of the developments discussed in the module characterized urban life and debates on big cities in Europe and the USA. Other aspects remained confined to a specific German context.
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General Reading List:
Eric Weitz, Weimar Germany. Promise and Tragedy (Princeton 2007) overview book.
Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin (first published 1939) great and fun primary account on living in Berlin in 1920s-1930s.
Anthony McElligott, The German Urban Experience 1900-1945 (London 2001) one of the key books for the module.
If you are into 1920s films, have a look at The Blue Angel (starring Marlene Dietrich).
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Exam |
Main exam: Remote, Open Book, 180 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
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| Exam |
Reassessment Main exam: Remote, Open Book, 180 minutes during September (Reassessment Period)
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Prof Nadine Rossol, email: nrossol@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Nadine Rossol
Belinda Waterman, Department of History, 01206 872313
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No external examiner information available for this module.
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Of 44 hours, 43 (97.7%) hours available to students:
1 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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