2008-09 BM2 Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies, Part 1

Syllabus Vorlesung (Winter 08/09)

Session	Date	Topic/Title	Reading	Presentation
1	Oct. 15, 2008	Course Outline		Session 1 C.M./O.S.
2	Dec. 10, 2008	The History and Politics of the Academy Awards	Literature	Session 2 C.M.
3	Oct. 22, 2008	From Anglo Saxon Raids to Global Anglophone Culture	Literature	Session 3 O.S.
4	Oct. 29, 2008	Harbingers of Freedom, Democracy and Civil Rights?	Literature	Session 4 O.S./C.M.
5	Nov. 05, 2007	Religion	Literature	Session 5 O.S.
6	Nov. 13, 2008	An Economic History of the English speaking World	Literature	Session 6 O.S.
7	Nov. 19, 2008	Technology and Knowledge	Literature	Session 7 C.M.
8	Nov. 26, 2008	Media and the Public	Literature	Session 8 C.M.
9	Dec. 03, 2008	Media Audiences	Literature	Session 9 C.M.
10	Dec. 17, 2009	Cultural Indicators: Crime	Literature	Session 10 O.S.
11	Jan. 07, 2009	The Construct(edness) of Traditions	Literature	Session 11 O.S.
12	Jan. 14, 2009	Written Test	Literature	Session 12
13	Jan. 21, 2009	Cultural Icon(s)/Iconology	Literature	Session 13 C.M.
14	Jan. 28, 2009	Feedback on Test and Look Ahead	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

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• Madonna
• The Simpsons
• Music
• Dance
• Cyberculture

Present Debates

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• 9/11
• Globalization

Syllabus Übung (2009)

Session	Date	Topic/Title	Reading	Presentation
1	Apr. 08, 2009	Course Outline		Session 1
2	Apr. 15, 2009	History and Culture	Literature	Session 2
3	Apr. 22, 2009	History and Culture	Literature	Session 3
4	Apr. 29, 2009	History and Culture	Literature	Session 4
5	May 06, 2009	History and Culture	Literature	Session 5
6	May 13, 2009	(Popular) Cultural Phenomena	Literature	Session 6
7	May 20, 2009	(Popular) Cultural Phenomena	Literature	Session 7
8	May 27, 2009	(Popular) Cultural Phenomena	Literature	Session 8
9	Jun. 03, 2009	(Popular) Cultural Phenomena	Literature	Session 9
10	Jun. 108, 2009	Present Debate	Literature	Session 10
11	Jun. 17, 2009	Present Debate	Literature	Session 11
12	Jun. 24, 2009	Present Debate	Literature	Session 12
13	Jul. 01, 2009	Present Debate	Literature	Session 13
14	Jul. 08, 2009	Round-up	Literature	Session 14

Portfolio Requirements

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

• Portfolio requirements for BM2, Teil 1 -- 3 KP:

• 1 Übungsblatt mit Exzerpt eines primär- und eines Sekundärtexts (unbenotet) -- date due: January 15, 2008
• 1 Written Test (benotet, 40% der Modulnote) -- January 22, 2008.

• Portfolio requirements for BM2, 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

Reading List (A -suggested- Selection), to be cont'd

• Alexander, Jeffrey C. and Steven Seidman, eds. Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates. Cambridge et al.: Cambridge UP, 1990.
• Bové, Paul. Mastering Discourse: The Politics of Intellectual Culture. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1992.
• Boyer, Paul S., Clifford E. Clark, Jr. et al., eds. The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People. Concise 4th ed. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.
• Brantlinger, Patrick. Crusoe’s Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America. New York: Routledge, 1990.
• Clifford, James. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard UP, 1988.
• Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973.
• Hartley, John and Roberta E. Pearson. American Cultural Studies: A Reader. Oxford et al.: Oxford UP, 2000.
• Holtkamp, Wolfgang. Rediscovering America: New Approaches to American Culture. Stuttgart et al.: Metzler, 2001.
• Jenks, Christ. Culture. Key Ideas. Series Ed. Peter Hamilton. London & New York: Routledge, 1993.
• Marchart, Oliver. Cultural Studies. Konstanz: UVK Verl.-Ges., 2008.
• Nünning, Ansgar and Roy Sommer, eds. Kulturwissenschaftliche Literaturwissenschaft: Disziplinäre Ansätze –Theoretische Positionen – Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2004.
• O’Sullivan, Tim. Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies. London et al.: Routledge, 1995.
• Rohr, Susanne, ed. Making America: The Cultural Work of Literature. Heidelberg: Winter, 2000.
• Saldívar, José David. Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies. Berkeley et al.: U of California P, 1997.
• Williams, Patrick, ed. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader. New York, NY et al.: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.