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Instructors: Dr. Frank Obenland
Event type:
hybrid: Proseminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.115
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: AS 115
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
Before students can register for this class, they have to receive a passing grade in the department's language test English.
See our website for further information:
https://www.english-and-linguistics.uni-mainz.de/sprachpraktischer-eingangstest-id-439/.
Contents:
This course is designed as a practical introduction to the field of American studies. Its primary goal is to familiarize beginning 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:
This class will be a hybrid class. This means that our first class meeting will be conducted via MS Teams (see JGU-LMS/Moodle for further information!). Subsequent class meetings will be either in person on campus or also digital – depending on the situation during the winter term.
Weeks with class meetings will alternate with self-study assignments. Students will also be given group assignments to collaborate on. Study materials and assignments will be made available through the university's JGU-LMS.For live digital interactions we will use MS Teams. Please make sure that you have access to both platforms via your university login (Email, Jogustine, etc.).
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