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Instructors: Univ. Prof. Dr. Winfried Herget
Event type:
online: 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:
This is the Cultural Studies IV course - NOT the lecture (same title)! DO NOT REGISTER FOR THE CS IV AND THE LECTURE!
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 discussion leaders.
Contents:
Ever since the U.S. was founded, those who did not seem to share the assumptions of a consensual republic/democracy have frequently been considered Un-American”. Examples from history include the “Alien and Sedition Acts” of the 1790s, xenophobic nativism of the of the mid-19th century. The “Red Scare” after WWI, the hearings of the Dies Committee in the 1930s, and McCarthyism in the 1950s. What were the reasons and strategies employed to declare some people “un-American”? Who had the power to do so, and what ideas of the meaning of “American” thus came to the fore? “Un-American” must be distinguished from “Anti-American,” as the lecture course hopes to show.
Additional information:
Culture Studies IV will study relevant texts discussed in the lecture course. There will be weekly assignments. Active participation may require response papers.
PLEASE NOTE: This CS IV class presupposes attendance of the lecture course. Credit can only be earned for either the lecture course or CS IV.
Digital teaching:
If necessary, the class will be on-line.
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