Lehrende/r: Dr. Melanie Hanslik
Veranstaltungsart: Übung
Anzeige im Stundenplan: CS III - American
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: CS III AS
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007. Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
Inhalt: Exchange Matters: Living American Studies Does academic exchange matter? This question is at the heart of this course, which will focus on Transnational American Studies after 9/11 and particularly on scholarly internationalism and cultural diplomacy. We will discuss how study abroad sojourns influence students on academic as well as personal levels and how academic mobility has become an integral part of higher education. Entering into a transatlantic dialogue, students may perceive the study abroad experience as “a catalyst for reexamination and refinement of identity” (Savicki 348) in national and cultural, as well as in psychological terms. Research shows that experiences should be evaluated by written assignments for reasons of self-reflection and identification, i.e., for the process of coming to terms with the past and the present. Consequently, in order to “bridge the worlds of scholarship and personal writings” (Popkin 800), this course aims at locating the student’s own complex cultural identification and describing how transcultural experience has shaped that identification. We hope to discover interesting results on perceptions, cultural values, and the value of transnational education. Various forms of mediation in the genre of life writing such as social networks and blogs provide new platforms of self-representations for living and writing cross-cultural encounters and will therefore also be utilized in this course. This class is designed as a joint effort. Students are expected to read various texts for every session, to share their thoughts and experiences, and to write about their cultural exchanges.
Empfohlene Literatur: Hannerz, Ulf. Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places. London: Routledge, 1996. Popkin, Jeremy D. “Coordinated Lives: Between Autobiography and Scholarship.” Biography 24.4 (2001): 781-805. Savicki, Victor and Eric Cooley. “American Identity in Study Abroad Students: Contrasts, Changes, Correlates.” Journal of College Student Development 52.3 (2011): 339-49.
