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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Harbingers of Freedom, Democracy and Civil Rights?<br>
 
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Revision as of 13:49, 4 June 2008

Winter (Vorlesung)


Session Date Topic/Title Reading Presentation
1 Oct. 23, 2007 Course Outline. Session 1
2 Oct. 30, 2007 From Anglo Saxon Raids to Global Anglophone Culture
Literature Session 2
3 Nov. 6, 2007 Harbingers of Freedom, Democracy and Civil Rights?
Literature Session 3
4 Nov. 13, 2007 Religion

— christianisation, the reformation and modern secular political systems

Literature Session 4
5 Nov. 20, 2007 An Econmoic History of the English speaking World

— From the rise of the British Empire to present day global economics

Literature Session 5
6 Nov. 27, 2007 Technology and Knowledge

— why did the anglophone world become a global pace maker?

Literature Session 6
7 Dec. 4, 2007 Media and the Public (1)

Literature Session 7
8 Dec. 11, 2007 Media and the Public (II)

Literature Session 8
9 Dec. 18, 2007 Crossing Borders

— colonization decolonization; postcolonial theory/literature; new English literature(s)

Literature Session 9
10 Jan. 8, 2008 The Construct(edness) of Traditions (I)

— A look at exemplary cultural phenomena

Literature Session 10
11 Jan. 15, 2008 The Construct(edness) of Traditions (II)

— Looking back on this lecture

Literature Session 11
12 Jan. 22, 2008 Written Test Literature Session 12
13 Jan. 29, 2008 Cultural Icon(s)/Iconology Literature Session 13
14 Feb. 5, 2008 Feedback on Test and Look Ahead

— Outlook

Literature Session 14

Summer (Übung)

History and Culture

Bsp.:

  • Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees (1714/23) and the development of modern societies
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • Why Trauma Culture in the 1990s?

(Popular) Cultural Phenomena

Bsp.

  • Madonna
  • The Simpsons
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Cyberculture

Present Debates

Bsp.

  • 9/11
  • Globalization

Portfolio Requirements

The Portfolio for the entire module (parts 1 and 2) includes 6 items:

  • Portfolio requirements for BM1, Teil 1 -- 3 KP:
  • Portfolio requirements for BM1, Teil 2 -- 3 KP:
  • 3 textanalytische Aufgaben (benotet, 40% der Modulnote) (Week 4, 7, and 10 of term)

Click here for further information about the structure of this course and the portfolio requirements.

Tutorials

The tutorials have their own page at 2008-09 BM2 Tutorials