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The Cold War in Europe--Berlin, Prague Instructors (Director and Co-Director): J.M Summer Study Abroad: The Cold War in Europe--Berlin, Prague Instructors (Director and Co-Director): J.M. van der Laan, Katherine McCarthy Syllabus and Program Schedule Date Day Place classes/activities Due dates June 3 Sat Chicago June 4 Sun Arrive PM: check into apartments; Orientation with AIFS staff; Berlin mandatory student meeting; welcome dinner (AIFS) Week 1--Cold War begins: From Potsdam to Berlin Airlift and Communization of E Europe, 1945-53 June 5 Mon Berlin No classroom AM: bus tour of Berlin (AIFS) PM: walking tour 1--Prenzlauer Berg June 6 Tues Berlin Classroom: 9-12 AM: JV--Kunze, The Wonderful Years KM--1945: Berlin at war's end and Potsdam treaty PM: walking tour 2--Berlin Mitte, Jewish Quarter June 7 Wed Pots- No classroom: All day Excursion to Potsdam dam Potsdam, Sanssouci, Cecilienhof tour, Glienicke Bridge ("bridge of spies") (AIFS) June 8 Thurs Berlin Classroom: 9-12 afternoon free KM--Origins of Cold War, Berlin Blockade and the division of Germany JV--Kunze, The Wonderful Years June 9 Fri Berlin Classroom: 9-12 afternoon free JV--Kunze, The Wonderful Years KM--"Communizing" Eastern Europe from 1948 Czechoslovak coup to 1953 Berlin Uprising June 10 Sat free suggestions for optional excursions: Steamboat ride on Havel lakes (Sieben-Seen Rundfahrt); or day-trip to Hamburg, Dresden, or Leipzig June 11 Sun free Week 2--From the Secret Speech to the Thaw and its limits: 1956-1968 June 12 Mon Berlin Classroom: 9-12 Journal/daybook AM: JV--The Lives of Others (film) June 3-11 KM--Khrushchev’s Secret Speech, the Thaw and Everyday life: Workers, Dissidents, and Party Hacks PM: DDR museum--tour guided by faculty June 13 Tues Berlin Classroom: 9-12 AM: JV--The Lives of Others, discussion KM--Building the Berlin Wall PM: walking tour 3--Berlin Wall Memorial, Checkpoint Charlie, Brandenburg Gate, Unter den Linden June 14 Wed Berlin No classroom: AM: AIFS--tour of escape tunnels under the Wall; PM: walking tour 4-- Tiergarten (Soviet War Memorial), Friedrichstraße, Palace of Tears June 15 Thur Berlin Classroom: 9-12 AM: KM-- Prague Spring, WPO invasion, and the Brezhnev Doctrine JV--Kundera, The Joke PM: Guest speakers on Berlin and life in the GDR June 16 Fri Berlin No classroom: afternoon free AM: Stasi museum (faculty-guided tour) PM: Optional: Spree boat tour and "Beach bar" June 17 Sat free suggestion for optional day-trip: Sachsenhausen June 18 Sun free suggestion for optional excursion: Charlottenburg Week 3--Communism in Decline and Collapse: Brezhnev Doctrine to Common European Home and German Unification, 1969-1990 June 19 Mon free June 20 Tues Berlin Classroom: 9-12 AM: JV--Kundera, The Joke KM--Communism loses legitimacy in 1970s. Goulash communism, political repression, and anti-politics PM: Blochplatz and Packstraße nuclear shelters (AIFS) June 21 Wed Berlin Classroom: 9-12 AM: JV-- Goodbye Lenin (film) KM-- Gorbachev's reforms, communism collapses: GDR, Czechoslovakia PM: Hohenschönhausen Prison and Memorial (AIFS) June 22 Thur Berlin Classroom: 9-12 AM: JV--Goodbye Lenin, discussion KM-- Berlin Wall opens 11/9/89; German unification; Soviet Union falls PM: Reichstag tour (AIFS); Eastside Gallery (Wall) June 23 Fri free Journal/daybook June 12-22 June 24 Sat free suggestion for optional excursion: Waldsiedlung June 25 Sun free suggestion for optional excursion: Trümmerberg Teufelsberg in Grunewald Week 4--Beyond Berlin: Rise and Fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia June 26 Mon Berlin/ check out of Berlin apts., travel to Prague, check-in to afternoon free Prague hostel/hotel PM: group dinner June 27 Tues Prague AM: Optional Bus Tour of Prague PM: (AIFS) guided walking tour--Prague Castle, Jewish quarter, New Old Synagogue, and entrances June 28 Wed Prague AM: communism in Czechoslovakia (discuss Kovaly, Charter 77, Vaclav Havel, Civic Forum) PM: (AIFS) guided walking tour of “Communist” Prague (1945-1989); including sites for 1948 coup, Slansky trial Prague Spring, WPO invasion Museum of Communism, Havel Library --evening--Magic Lantern show (AIFS) June 29 Thur Prague AM: walking tour of dissident sites and Velvet Revolution afternoon free sites, 1989-1990 PM: farewell group dinner (AIFS) June 30 Fri Prague/ Depart from Prague and arrive in Chicago Chicago Journal/daybook June 23-30 and final reflection-- due; no exceptions or extensions Course description: Students will be reading novels by renowned writers as well as memoirs by eye witnesses about the Cold War in Europe. As well, they will view films depicting everyday life under communism. They will visit many of the important sites related to the Cold War and reflect on the past while experiencing the present. In Berlin and Prague, students will explore city neighborhoods, visit museums, historic sites, and memorials of the places they will be studying. Discussion and reflective daily journal entries will enable students to process their new perspective on German and Czech experiences and cultures, provide a more global perspective than can be found at ISU, and foster lifelong curiosity and openness about other cultures. This course is designed to take full advantage of local resources in Berlin and Prague in order to enhance student understanding of the Cold War in Europe. In Berlin, students will be able to study and then see firsthand the major sites of the Cold War from the Potsdam settlement in 1945, to the Berlin Blockade and Airlift, to the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany. Prague will allow students to visit sites associated with the liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1945, the popular communist coup in 1948, Dubcek and the Prague Spring and Soviet invasion, 1968 and Vaclav Havel and the collapse of communism in 1989 as well as the subsequent division of Czechoslovakia. These courses supplement ISU campus curricula and offer a more hands-on approach to learning about the Cold War than what is possible in courses at ISU. Attendance and participation: All students are required to participate in all classes, activities, and events. All students must attend all classes, activities, and events in order to participate. Participation is graded according to the quality of the contribution to course discussions. In other words, each student’s grade corresponds to the level of intellectual engagement with the readings, films, tours, events, and activities. Assignments: Read and/or view all books and films. Attend and take part in all tours, events, and activities. Write a journal or day book for every meeting day of the program. This journal should consist of thoughtful reflections on the texts or films and events or activities of each day. As such, each daily journal entry should be at least 2-3 pages in length. Journals are due at times specified on the program schedule. Assignment values: 25%--Journal/Day Book 1 25%--Journal/Day Book 2 25%--Journal/Day Book 3 25%--Attendance and participation Grading scale: A--90-100% B--80-89% C--70-79% D--60-69% F--below 60% Texts and materials: A personal journal Kundera, The Joke (1969, definitive version, 1993 Harper-Perennial) Kunze, The Wonderful Years Leo, Red Love The following films will be provided for viewing by the professors: The Lives of Others (2006) Goodbye Lenin (2003) .
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