32111 Graduate Course

SoSe 13: Key Concepts of (American) Cultural Studies

Laura Bieger

Comments

This course sets out to provide our M.A. students with a set of basic tools to study (American) culture. We will discuss different notions of culture (e.g. Critical Theory, Birmingham School), look at key concepts such as modernity, power/hegemony, identity, gender, race/ethnicity, trauma and methodological paradigms such as the linguistic, the visual and the spatial turn. The objective of this class is a) to familiarize you with different critical approaches by reading a thorough selection of classical theoretical texts (among them Adorno/Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Judith Bulter, Jacques Lacan, Geroge Herbert Mead, Laura Mulvey, Roland Barthes) and b) to foster an understanding of the basic analytical concepts of our discipline as a backdrop for your further studies. We highly recommend that all M.A. students majoring in Culture take this course. To get credit for this course you need to: (1) prepare the reading assignments and attend on a regular basis; (2) participate in two expert groups, discuss the reading assignment together and prepare questions for our class discussion; and (3) and write two response papers (5 pages) about texts other than those you have prepared with an expert group. A course pack will be available on blackboard and at the Copyshop at Königin-Luise-Str. in the first week of the semester. Please sign up on blackboard a.s.p. as we will be using the platform frequently to communicate and distribute documents. close

13 Class schedule

Regular appointments

Thu, 2013-04-11 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Thu, 2013-04-18 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Thu, 2013-04-25 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Thu, 2013-05-02 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Thu, 2013-05-16 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Thu, 2013-05-23 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Thu, 2013-05-30 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Thu, 2013-06-06 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Thu, 2013-06-13 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Thu, 2013-06-20 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Thu, 2013-06-27 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Thu, 2013-07-04 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Thu, 2013-07-11 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

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