After completing this course, students will demonstrate:

1.a critical understanding of important aspects of German history and European culture and improved linguistic skills to deal their represantation in different media (textual, visual);

2. the linguistic ability to identify, analyse, and evaluate cultural artefacts within their social, political and historical context including the history of media and knowledge;

3. a better understandig of the processes of the generating and translation of meaning in the use of German for describing and analysing textual materials;

4. the ability to identify ethical, social and literary issues relating topics treated in the course