Cross Listing Course Form (4/9/14)
I: Criteria
To qualify for consideration for cross listing, all courses must:
- be requested by both departments or programs;
- count as credit toward an existing major, minor, or certificate program;
- not be experimental or have a reserved variable content course number (x90-X99)
- carry the same title (both parent and sibling courses) and, if possible, carry the same course
number;
- be implemented within comparable course levels, e.g., (U), (UG), or (G);
- be offered under an existing rubric.
Under no circumstances will a course have more than three crosslistings.
II: Summary of courses requested for crosslisting
Requesting Dept / Program (must be
Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures / German
department of parent course)
Section
Parent Course Prefix and Number
GRMN 317L * (old : MCLG 332L / GRMN 332L)
Sibling Course(s) Prefix (Pre CCN) and
Number
Course Title
crosslisted with LIT 317L, WGSS 317L
(formerly crosslisted under MCLG 332L with
GRMN/LIT/WGS/LS;– LIT had a different number)
Introduction to Multicultural Literature in Germany
II. Endorsement/Approvals
Complete the form and obtain signatures before submitting to Faculty Senate Office
Please type / print name Signature
Date
Requestor:
Hiltrud Arens
Phone/ email :
243-5634
hiltrud.arens@mso.umt.edu
Parent Program
MCLL Dept.: Liz
Chair/Director:
Ametsbichler/Jannine
Montauban
Sibling Program Chair(s) LIT: Beverly Chin
/ Director(s)
WGS: Elizabeth
Hubble/Anya Jabour
Dean(s):
Chris Comer
Approve *
 Yes  No
 Yes  No
 Yes  No
 Yes  No
 Yes  No
*Signatory Comments (required for disapproval):
IV. Rationale
Do these courses need to be cross listed to fill an external requirement?
If YES, define external requirement and attach
documentation.
If NO, complete narrative: In 500 words or less explain why only cross-listing this course serves the
need for delivering academic content. You must identify how both the parent and sibling units
contribute to the cross-listed course’s content and how cross listing contributes to the respective
units’ missions of serving students. The narrative must also identify additional reasons for cross
listing such as a specialized need for advertising to prospective students, sharing resources across
departments (equipment, space, instructors, etc.), or mutual contribution to course content.
*Note: This course is listed as MCLG 332L for gen ed in the catalog, yet in the MUS CCN matrix system it
appears as GRMN 332L after completion of the common course numbering. It was crosslisted with WGSS
332L, LS 332L and LIT 333L (and also LIT 391) in the past. There were many problems after the changes
in 2010 with the LIT number due to the common course numbering for this class right after it was approved.
And LIT seemed to have used the number for their class in the meantime and the other number 333 also did
not work.
Therefore I am re-applying not only for the renewal of its crosslisting, this time with two sibling
dept/programs: LIT and WGSS, but also for a new common course number that fits GRMN, LIT, and
WGSS as well and can remain its number in the future. GRMN wishes to continue this course as an
important cultural studies elective course on the 300 level for the students towards their major and minor
degree requirements. LIT approves this interdisciplinary class since students can use it towards fulfilling
their diversity requirement within English. WGSS approves it as well as part of their mission. For these
three programs it is important to to get the crosslisting re-approved and into the catalog. We suggest the new
number to be GRMN 317L, (LIT 317L, WGSS 317L) which fits the GRMN rubric and number sequence,
and also fits into the LIT sequence of Topics in Postcolonial Literature (LIT 316). There is no such course
in the GRMN, LIT and WGSS rubric within the MUS system. I will also apply the number change through
the e-curr system.
This course offers an introduction into and a foundational survey of literature in translation by various male
and female minority writers residing in Germany. The goal of this course is to introduce the students to
Germany’s social and political changes as reflected in the current literature due to postwar immigration and
in terms of the diverse cultural complexities emerging in German society. The students in this class will
obtain a new and nuanced perspective on Germany, its recent history, and its growing multicultural identity
in the context of a changing Europe. They will gain insights into the significant and distinct experience
Germany is undergoing, while the analysis of the multifaceted cultural life in Germany will resonate with
corresponding transcultural European, as well as global challenges that also affect the U.S.. It is an
important interdisciplinary class, that branches across to LIT and WGSS, because it offers different
transnational and multiethnic perspectives to issues of globalization and global societies through the literary
and cultural lens that are introduced to students in GRMN, LIT, and WGSS respectively. It also already
fulfills the Gen Ed requirement for the Literature/Artistic and American/European Perspectives.
Overarching questions of and viewpoints about identity, nation, citizenship, ethnicity, religion, gender,
language, and local and global communities will be discussed throughout the class, illuminated differently
by each writer whose work will be read and contextualized via secondary literature reading, discussion and
lecture. Current students profit from this type of a transdisciplinary class, in which the topics discussed
have become relevant to gain a more nuanced understanding of our fast changing societies.
New entry into the catalog:

U 317L Introduction to Multicultural Literature in Germany 3 cr. Offered intermittently.
Introduction to multicultural literature created during recent decades in Germany. Study topics
include immigration, citizenship, multilingualism, identity; significant literary and cultural movements
and selected writers in contemporary Germany. Credit not allowed for LIT 317L and WGSS 317L.
V. Syllabus

Previous Syllabus (spring 2011)
Introduction to Multicultural Literature in Contemporary Germany – MCLG 332L
Spring Semester 2011, Cross-listed with GRMN 332L, LIT 333L, WGS 332L and LS 332L
Language of instruction: English
Instructor: Dr. Hiltrud Arens; Email: hiltrud.arens@mso.umt.edu
Office Hours in LA 436:
Mon Tues Fri 11:00-12:00pm, Wed 2:00-3:00 pm or by appointment
Telephone: 243-5634 (office)
Goal of the course: This course offers an introduction to and a survey of multicultural literature
created during recent decades in Germany. The Federal Republic of Germany has been emerging as
a multicultural society, even though a legal, political and social awareness has not fully developed
yet. De facto, the Federal Republic has become a country of immigration. The socio-political
reality of about 8 million immigrants and other minorities such as Jews, Roma and Sinti, and AfroGermans cannot be neglected any longer. This course offers critical insights into the contradictions
between the official line of thought which has undergone a positive turn in 2000 and contemporary
reality through examining the literature produced by minority writers. You will receive an
overview of the political context of post-war immigration to Germany. As an introduction, we will
read critical academic essays on the (im)migrant and minority experience, and then analyze
primary works by authors from various ethnic, religious, linguistic, and national backgrounds.
Gender dimensions will be examined in these essays as well as in the primary works. The main
focus of the course will be on selected works of fiction by male and female writers in English
translation. The students in the class will obtain a new and nuanced perspective on Germany, its
recent history and its growing multicultural identity. The analysis of the diverse cultural life in
Germany will also resonate with corresponding transcultural challenges in the U.S.
Texts: E-reserve = (E-R) (for secondary articles as well as other primary sources):
http://eres.lib.umt.edu ; the password for your course page is: MCLG 332.
Reserve shelf (see attached bibliography on e-reserve and reserve shelf)
Texts we will read in the course:
Antje Harnisch, ed.: Fringe Voices. Texts by and about minorities in the Federal Republic of
Germany.
May Ayim: Blues in Black and White: A collection of Essays, Poetry, and Conversation.
[Grenzenlos und unverschämt/ nachtgesang/ blues in schwarz weiss]
*Katharina Oguntoye, May Opitz, eds.: Showing our colors: Afro-German Women speak out.
[Farbe bekennen]
Barbara Honigmann: A Love made out of Nothing/Zohara’s Journey: 2 Novels. [Eine Liebe aus
Nichts]
Rafik Schami: Damascus Nights. [Erzähler der Nacht] Reserve Shelf – Mansfield Library
Zafer Senocak: Atlas of a Tropical Germany. (Translated and ed. by Leslie A. Adelson) [Atlas des
tropischen Deutschlands]
Yoko Tawada: Where Europe begins [Wo Europa beginnt; Talisman, etc.]
Emine Sevgi Özdamar The Bridge of the Golden Horn [Die Brücke am Goldenen Horn]
Class Format: The class consists of short introductions and lectures about materials and contexts, and
whole class and smaller group discussions of primary and secondary sources. Students are also asked to
present certain themes/writers.
Grading: Attendance: in class and regular class participation is the essence of this course.
Therefore, in addition to any subsidiary detrimental effect of absences, absences in excess of 3
during the semester will lower your course grade one full grade: A- to B-, B to C…
Attendance:
82 Points (41x2)
Oral class participation:
120 Points
3 small essays (2.5 pages typed)
300 Points (3x100)
2 Tests
200 Points (2x100)
Final essay (with presentation)
400 Points
(10 pages minimum and 5 references)
1102 Points
Schedule of MCLG 332L
1.WEEK
Monday, 1/24
Wednesday, 1/26
Friday, 1/27
2. WEEK
Monday, 1/30
Wednesday, 2/ 2
Friday, 2/4
3. WEEK
Monday, 2/7
Introduction and Context
Introduction and Context: What’s unique about immigration to Europe? (on ER); Germany in Transit (Intro on E-R, book on reserve shelf)
Fringe Voices (p.3-22); Gender, Nation, Immigration to New Europe (article on
E-R)
FILM: Dorris Dörrie: Enlightenment Guaranteed (Erleuchtung garantiert)
FILM: Dorris Dörrie: Enlightenment Guaranteed
FILM: Dorris Dörrie: Enlightenment Guaranteed / Discussion
Wednesday, 2/9
Friday, 2/11
Ein Wort, ein Ort or How Words create Places / Tawada (E-R)
Yoko Tawada: Canned Foreign / The Talisman (in: Where Europe begins)
Yoko Tawada: Where Europe Begins
Yoko Tawada: Where Europe Begins
4. WEEK
Monday, 2/14
Wednesday, 2/16
Friday, 2/18
German Jews / Fringe Voices (p.25-30) and short texts of Part II
Reclaiming Space (article on E-R); Honigmann: A Love made out of Nothing
Honigmann: A Love made out of Nothing
5. WEEK
Monday, 2/21
Wednesday, 2/23
Friday, 2/25
6. WEEK
Monday, 2/28
Wednesday, 3/2
Friday, 3/4
7. WEEK
Monday, 3/7
Wednesday, 3/9
Friday, 3/11
8. WEEK
Monday, 3/14
Wednesday, 3/16
Friday, 3/18
9. WEEK
Monday, 3/21
Holiday
Honigmann: A Love made out of Nothing
1. essay due
Maxim Biller: 2 short stories (E-R); Wladimir Kaminer: Excerpt from: Russen
Disco and Mein Deutsches Dschungelbuch (on E-R)
UM Undergrad. Research Conference submission deadline
Afro Germans / Showing Our Color (chapter on E-R)
Fringe Voices: Part III
May Ayim: Blues in Back and White / [Neither Foreigners nor Aliens (article
E-R)]
May Ayim: Blues in Back and White
May Ayim: Blues in Back and White Blues / Music scene
1. Test
Fringe Voices, Migrant (Guest)Workers / Turks in Germany: part V and
VI intro; revisit Transit in German
Intro Essay by Adelson in Atlas of a Tropical Germany
Zafer Senocak: Atlas of a Tropical Germany
Zafer Senocak: Atlas of a Tropical Germany
Wednesday, 3/23
Friday, 3/25
Fringe Voices: Part VI: Özdamar excerpts; Living and Writing in Germany Özdamar in Conversation (on E-R)
Emine Sevgi Özdamar: The Bridge of the Golden Horn
Emine Sevgi Özdamar: The Bridge of the Golden Horn
10. WEEK
Monday, 3/ 28
Emine Sevgi Özdamar: Bridge of the Golden Horn
Wednesday, 3/30
Friday, 4/1
Emine Sevgi Özdamar: Bridge of the Golden Horn
Emine Sevgi Özdamar: Bridge of the Golden Horn
11. WEEK
Monday, 4/4-4/8
Spring break
12. WEEK
Monday, 4/11
Wednesday, 4/13
Friday, 4/15
2. essay due
Arab-Germans / Intro / Essay by Khalil in Lorenz, ed. Transforming the Center
(Reserve and E-R)
Rafik Schami: Damascus Nights
Rafik Schami Damascus Nights
UM Undergrad. Research Conference
13. WEEK
Monday, 4/18
Wednesday, 4/20
Friday, 4/ 22
Rafik Schami Damascus Nights
Rafik Schami Damascus Nights
Film: Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Fear eats the Soul (Ali: Angst essen Seele auf)
14. WEEK
Monday, 4/ 25
Wednesday, 4/27
Friday, 4/29
Film Fear eats the Soul
Film Fear eats the Soul and Discussion
2.Test
15. WEEK
Monday, 5/2
Wednesday, 5/4
Friday, 5/6
Ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe / Fringe Voices Part IV;
3. essay due
Herta Müller: Nobel lecture (2009) (on E-R)
Discussion and Conclusion
Individual presentations of final paper and handing it in during finals week:
Thursday, May 12, 2011, 3:20-5:20 pm in LA 140
Reserve Shelf for
Introduction to Multicultural Literature in Germany: MCLG 332L
(MCLL Dept.)
Secondary Literature:
Leslie Adelson: The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature
830.935299 A 231T
Leslie Adelson: Making Bodies Making History
830.99287A231 m
Leslie Adelson and Zafer Senocak: Atlas of a Tropical Germany
943.0879S4782a E a
Simon During: Cultural Studies Reader
306.C9684 1999
Terry Eagleton: Literary Theory
801. 95 E 11 L
Sander Gilman: Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture from 10961996
943.004924 Y 17
Antje Harnisch, ed.: Fringe Voices
830.8F914
Dagmar Lorenz and Renate Posthofen, eds.: Transforming the Center, Eroding the Margins
830.9T7724
Dagmar Lorenz, ed.: Insiders and Outsiders: Jewish and Gentile Culture in Germany and Austria
305.892 4043 I 5919
May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye, Dagmar Schultz, eds.: Showing our Colors: Afro-German Women
speak out
305.48896043 F 2197 E a
Patricia Mazon and Reinhild Steingröver, eds.:
Not so Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History 1890-2000
305.89604309N899
Deniz Göktürk (ed.) Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration 1955-2005
304.843009G3737
Primary Literature:
Ika Hügel: Invisible Woman. Growing up Black in Germany
305.48896043 H 8912 i
May Ayim: blues in schwarz weiss
831.914 A 977 b
May Ayim: nachtgesang
831.914 A 977 n
Barbara Honigmann: Soharas Reise
833.914 H773 s
Yadé Kara: Selam Berlin
833.92 K 1811 s
Emine Sevgi Özdamar: Mutterzunge
833.9140994 m
Emine Sevgi Özdamar: Hof im Spiegel
833.914 0994 h
Senocak, Zafer: Gefährliche Verwandtschaft
833.914 S 47892 g
Rafik Schami: Damascus Nights
833.914 S 299 e. Eb
Rafik Schami: Erzähler der Nacht
892.3 S 2991 e
Rafik Schami: Damals dort, heute hier. Über Fremdsein.
833.914 S 299 Z
Herta Müller: Land of the Green Plums
833.914M958h.Eh
Films:
Jan Schütte: Drachenfutter (Dragon Chow): VT: 05265
Fatih Akin: Im Juli : DVD 00803
VI. Justification for third crosslisting:
In 500 words or less describe the extenuating circumstances making a third course necessary.
VII Copies and Electronic Submission. After approval, submit signed original, and electronic file
to the Faculty Senate Office, UH 221, camie.foos@mso.umt.edu.