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GER 115 - Topic: Sports and Athletic Culture in Germany (In English) (1)

This course will examine the history of sports and athletic culture in Germany from roughly the nineteenth century until Germany’s 2014 World Cup victory. With a focus on the foundation and growth of local (and eventually national) soccer clubs, the gymnastics and nudist movements, the birth of automobile racing and car culture, wildly-popular “6-day” endurance racing and walking events at the turn of the century, the Olympics in Germany (notably 1936 and 1972, not to mention the controversy surrounding East Germany’s Olympic participation), and Germany’s 2006 hosting of the World Cup, our interest is in understanding not just the nature and history of athletics in Germany, but also important themes in German and transnational cultural, social, and political history, including questions of nationalism and patriotism, race and ethnicity, counter-culturalism, fascism, communism, and gender/sexuality. TAUGHT IN ENGLISH. Can be repeated when Topic is different. Can count towards GSS major and minor and can count towards History major and minor.
(Humanities)