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Hauptseminar
SoSe 13: Key Concepts of (American) Cultural Studies
Laura Bieger
Kommentar
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. Schließen
13 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Do, 11.04.2013 12:00 - 14:00
Do, 18.04.2013 12:00 - 14:00
Do, 25.04.2013 12:00 - 14:00
Do, 02.05.2013 12:00 - 14:00
Do, 16.05.2013 12:00 - 14:00
Do, 23.05.2013 12:00 - 14:00
Do, 30.05.2013 12:00 - 14:00
Do, 06.06.2013 12:00 - 14:00
Do, 13.06.2013 12:00 - 14:00
Do, 20.06.2013 12:00 - 14:00
Do, 27.06.2013 12:00 - 14:00
Do, 04.07.2013 12:00 - 14:00
Do, 11.07.2013 12:00 - 14:00