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Instructors: Dr. Frank Obenland
Event type:
Proseminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.115
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: AS 115
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
This course is designed as a practical introduction to the field of American studies. Its primary goal is to familiarize students with those concepts and ideas that scholars have used to describe, analyze, and interpret American literature, culture, and history. In discussing literary texts, material objects, media, cultural, and performances from all periods of American history, students will be introduced to the different methodologies employed by Americanists. By the end of the semester, students will have learned a critical vocabulary that will enable them to create critical, interpretative texts of their own that include observation, description, analysis, and explanation.
Recommended reading list:
Hebel, Udo J. Einführung in die Amerikanistik - American Studies. Metzler, 2008.
Middeke, Martin, ed. English and American Studies: Theory and Practice. Metzler, 2012.
Parker, Robert Dale. How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies. Oxford UP, 2015.
Digital teaching:
Please note that this course will be taught exclusively through the online platform ILIAS.
In this asynchronous course, we will work with brief introductions to the topics, study guides and assignments on primary texts, occasional online discussion forums, and links to videos and other online material.
Participants will be receive an email with further information on how to access course materials on ILIAS as soon as possible
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