The Future of Germanistik in the USA: Changing Our Prospects / Edition 1

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ISBN-13:	9780826512819
Publisher:	Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date:	01/28/1996
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.45(d)

	Preface	ix
Part I	Professional Profile and Visibility
1	Double Optics: The Americanization of Germanistik - The Germanization of Americans	1
2	Reform or Retreat - Whither American Germanics? The Language of Reform	14
3	The American-German Divide	19
4	Response to Hohendahl	29
5	Graduate Education in German: Past Experience and Future Perspectives	35
6	How Visible Are We Now?	46
7	Present Trends and Future Directions of American Germanics	53
Part II	Curriculum Matters
8	The Undergraduate Curriculum: What's Right / Wrong With It?	57
9	Reshaping the Undergraduate Experience	65
10	The Graduate Curriculum: Notes on What's Right / Wrong With It	91
11	The Graduate Curriculum: What's Right / Wrong With It?	99
12	The Americanization of German Studies: The Graduate Curriculum	105
Part III	(Re)Shaping the Discipline
13	Disciplining Boundaries	111
14	Cross-Gendered Cross-Cultural Studies and The German Program	122
15	"Everyman His Own Cultural Historian": German Studies and the Limits of Competence	131
IV	Concluding Remarks
16	A Protocol	140
17	An Outsider's View	147
18	A Student's View	151
19	An Organizer's View	157
20	An Action Agenda for German Studies for the 21st Century	162
	List of Participants	165
	Vanderbilt Symposium Program	167
	Bibliography	174

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