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...Tatar managed to pack expressionistic poetry, architecture and the Bauhaus, Weimar opera and cinema, and an analysis of the economy's inflation and stabilization into her "Weimar Culture" course...
Without the Core, Maria M. Tatar, professor of German, believes she would never have developed her Core offering, "Weimar Culture," Literature and Arts C-13, although she has wanted to teach such a course for some time. "The Core provided the impetus to go ahead. It somehow legitimized it, gave my idea institutional backing," she says...
...reading list likewise runs from Thomas Mann's short stories to Remarque's familiar All Quiet on the Western Front. But this won't be a frolic through translated works: The texts are all read in German, although Tatar will conduct class discussions in English...
...course calls for mastery of German and Tatar recommends a minimum of three to four years high school or two years of college German. But she still maintains that the course is "in the spirit of the Core." Though the stiff language requirement cuts down sharply the course enrollment--Tatar expects no more than 20--the class still has a broad enough appeal to qualify as a Core course...
...course won't be purely focused on literary analysis," Tatar says, but will examine historical documents and discuss links between cultural developments in the Weimar Republic. These qualities of the course fulfill the Core requirement that Contexts of Culture courses be "interdisciplinary and cross-cultural...