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6.2.15 Introduction to Cultural Studies
(BA, Modul 3)
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1.
Gruppe
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Gohrbandt
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Di 8 - 10 Uhr
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005 / RK
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2.
Grupppe
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Uebel
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Mo
8 - 10 Uhr
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005
/ RK
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Course
Description:
This course will provide an introduction
to some of the most important issues addressed in this youngest branch
of English Studies: nation, identity, class, gender, race, power,
attitudes and values, etc. These issues and the cultural practices in
which they are represented will be explored via two films, Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala (USA 1991) and
Robert Altman's Gosford Park
(GB/USA 2001), as well as through a selection of historical,
documentary, narrative and analytic texts, which will be made available
as a reader. Required background reading is a history of the USA and/or
GB, as recommended on the English Department homepage.
Participants
BA-Studiengang;
Grundstudium alte Lehrämter
Prerequisites:
None
Certificates:
Bescheinigung
for regular
attendance/participation and passed final test.
ECTS
evaluation (alte Lehrämter):
4 credits
2 credits for (active) participation only
2 more credits for a passed test
First
session:
First week of semester
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6.2.17
The Visual Representation of Africa,
Gohrbandt
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c h
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2 SWS
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Di 14 - 16
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240/CIII Campus
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Course
Description:
There
is "a particular way of looking (or rather not
looking)
at Africa
and Africans" says Nigerian novelist,
poet and critic Chinua Achebe, "that endures, alas, into our own
day". This seminar investigates the shaping of our ideas about and
attitudes to Africa
through the different
kinds of visual media through which the continent has been and is still
represented: drawings, caricatures, photographs and films. We will be
studying
a variety of such images of Africa
(and the
accompanying texts) from historical and systematic (semiotics,
rhetoric,
hermeneutics) perspectives. A reader will make the texts and some
images
available. All participants must have a copy of the David
Goldblatt
volume in the Phaidon 55 series. Leslie Lawson, David
Goldblatt: Phaidon 55, London: Phaidon, 2001. ISBN 07148 40513
Participants:
middle and upper semesters
alte Lehrämter
Prerequisites:
Students who would like to
obtain a Hauptseminarschein
(LN) must have passed an Introduction to Cultural Studies course or be
in possession of a Proseminarschein in Cultural Studies.
Certificates:
To receive a LN in this
class, you must write one
summary response during the semester and be prepared to discuss it in
class. You must also write a term paper. To receive a TN, you must
write one summary-response.
ECTS
evaluation:
6
credits:
2 credits for (active) participation only
4 more credits for a term paper
First session:
First week of semester
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6.2.18
Indians on Film, Uebel
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Pros
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a b g
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2 SWS
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Mo 10 - 12
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005 / RK
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Course
Description:
In this course we
will be looking at the
representation of Indians in recent American films, asking a variety of
questions such as: What exactly is an "Indian"? What is the
relationship of this purely constructed figure to the actual indigenous
people
of North America? What roles do Indians
play on film (e.g. the "noble savage," the "last of
the...", the "Indian Princess" etc) and how have these roles
changed over time? How can we explain the American fascination with the
Indian;
what national fears, desires and obsessions are routinely projected
onto this
figure?
Participants:
middle semesters alte
Lehrämter
Prerequisites:
Students who would
like to obtain a Proseminarschein must have passed an
introductory course in Cultural Studies.
Certificates:
Proseminarschein
(Leistungsnachweis LN)
Teilnahmenachweis (TN)
ECTS
evaluation:
4 credits:
2 credits for (active) participation only;
2 more credits for a passed Klausur
First session:
First week
of semester
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