{"id":1283,"date":"2021-05-25T15:26:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/devuwcps\/course\/german-575-teaching-of-german-literature-and-civilization\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:26:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:26:06","slug":"german-575-teaching-of-german-literature-and-civilization","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/course\/german-575-teaching-of-german-literature-and-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"German 575 &#8211; Teaching of German Literature and Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grad students register as graduate mentors in German 575 and receive credit for participating in the planning, running, and evaluating of the course.\u00a0 In the end, they design a syllabus for a lecture\/team-learning course of their own.\u00a0<br \/>\nSympathy for the Devil: The Rhetoric of Compassion<br \/>\nGerman 390 (cross-listed with Philosophy, Comp Lit, CHID, and Classics)<br \/>\nIs compassion the foundation of human morality or a dangerously unreliable emotion? This course examines the strategies and motivations in different media of fostering empathy for commonly held enemies or discriminated groups. We examine the ways that casting minorities as objects of pity can strategically forward\u2014but structurally undermine\u2014the project of creating a more open and tolerant society. The syllabus runs from Ancient Greece to depictions of Nazis and terrorists in modern film, and considers philosophical assessments of sympathy alongside examples of its aesthetic manufacture. Half of our readings are in moral philosophy (e.g., Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Kant, Nietzsche, Arendt), and in each case we use the literary text or film (e.g., Aeschylus, Sophocles, Thucydides, Shakespeare, Lessing, Eliot, Brecht) as a kind of experimental field to evaluate the philosophers\u2019 concepts and claims about the moral efficacy of compassion. Students will also work creatively to engender sympathy in four genres (rhetoric, drama, narrative, film).<br \/>\nThis course engages in team-based learning. Students will complete four projects that include both creative and analytical components. Groups work to engender sympathy for a \u201cbad guy\u201d in four genres: a speech, a scene, a story, and a visual project. During the final, groups will present their project to the class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[47],"class_list":["post-1283","course","type-course","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-courses"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 22:22:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/course"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}