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Event type:
Advanced seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
HS.Internat.Gesch.
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 15
Registration group: SoSe24 HS Längs
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
Plastic and synthetic materials tend to have negative connotations these days. Everyone may have an image of the "Great Pacific garbage patch" in their head: the gigantic island of rubbish in the Pacific Ocean, which consists of over 80 per cent plastic. Visitors to the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt consider plastic to be the central challenge in the fight against biodiversity loss and species extinction - even if other challenges are even more serious. At the same time, our entire everyday life is characterised by plastic; the history of plastics in the 20th century is a success story. And if you look beyond plastics to the chemistry of polymers, you also notice biological molecules that have the same structures and make life possible in the first place. What is probably hardly known among students of history in Mainz is that Mainz is one of the global centres of modern, pioneering polymer research.
We want to explore the ambivalent success story of polymers in the 20th century in this project-based advanced seminar. In this project, we will develop podcasts that we can feed into the third season of "Clio auf die Ohren". The work on the podcasts will replace the traditional research papers. The examination will be an advanced self-reflection on the project work.
The project is offered by two historians, one of whom (Mills Kelly), as a US historian, is more at home in English than in German. The course language is therefore English. The podcasts, on the other hand, are produced in German.
This course is embedded in the JGU project "Mainz Models for Digitally Enhanced Teaching and Learning (ModeLL-M)" (https://modell-m.uni-mainz.de). Funded by the Foundation for Innovation in University Teaching, hybrid teaching and learning concepts are being trialled here. The History Department is involved in one of three areas of the pilot phase under the title "Digitally enhanced project teaching".
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