German Immigrant Culture in America
Syllabus 1994, rev. 1998
Dr. Peter C. Merrill, Retired Professor, Department of Languages and
Linguistics, Florida,
Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431
Edited and updated by reichman@ucs.indiana.edu
Eberhard Reichmann, Max Kade German-American Center, Indianapolis, 1998.
The original version of 1994 can be found on the DAAD Syllabi Data
Base.
© Copyright Peter C. Merrill, 1994, 1998
TABLE of CONTENTS
Course
Information
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1. Course Objectives
2. Grades
3. Required Texts
4. Course Outline
5. Selective Bibliography of
German-American Studies:
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a) Bibliographies
b) General Surveys
c) History
d) Selected Regional Studies
e) Religious Groups
f) The German Language in America
g) The German-American Press
h) Immigrant Letters
i) Biography
j) German Names
k) German-American Genealogy
l) German-American Life, Clubs and Organizations
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LESSON OUTLINES:
- German-American Studies: The Evolution of a
Discipline
- German Settlement in Colonial America
- Two German Settlements in America: Salem, North
Carolina and Hermann, Missouri
- The German Language in America
- German-Americans in Times of Stress: World War
I and World War II
- German Refugee Intellectuals in America
(1933-1945)
- Religious Denominations and Religious
Communities in German-American
Life: Catholics, Lutherans, Reformed
Churches, Anabaptist Sects, Moravians, German Baptists, Church of the
Brethren (Dunkers), Schwenkfelder Church, Jews, Ethical Culture Society,
Freethinkers/Freidenker
- The Amish
- The Hutterites
- The Forty-Eighters
- Researching Your German Roots
- Leading German-Language Writers in
19th-Century America
- German-American Naive Artists
- German-American Clubs and Associations
- German Immigrant Contributions to American
Music
- German and Austrian Filmmakers in
Hollywood
- German-American Architects
- German-American Cabinetmakers
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