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Instructors: Univ. Prof. Dr. Winfried Herget
Event type:
Practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.211
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: AS 211
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
Es handelt sich hier um den Cultural Studies IV-Kurs!
CS IV can only be taken in conjunction with the lecture course but students can only earn credit for either the lecture course or Culture Studies.
Contents:
The lecture course will deal with the role of ethnicity in American culture. It will discuss the various controversies over the hyphenated American versus the "straight" American, multiculturalism and identity politics. We will trace historical developments of the idea of ethnic identity and American nationhood, the tension between exclusion and inclusion, the claim that America has moved "beyond" ethnicity to "we are all ethnics now".
On the basis of the lecture course we will analyze and discuss specific texts. There will be weekly assignments, and students are expected to serve as discussants.
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