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==Session 1: Organisation and Introduction==
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==Session: Organisation and Introduction==
 
*Methods and principles in Cultural Studies,  
 
*Methods and principles in Cultural Studies,  
 
*explaining the outline of this course
 
*explaining the outline of this course
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*close readings
 
*close readings
  
==Session 2: Text Analysis==
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==Session: Text Analysis==
 
*discussing the mandatory readings  
 
*discussing the mandatory readings  
  
==Session 3: Historical Contextualization==
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==Session: Historical Contextualization==
 
*clarifying the frameworks
 
*clarifying the frameworks
 
*group work (material distributed in class)
 
*group work (material distributed in class)
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:*Group 4: inter-library loan
 
:*Group 4: inter-library loan
  
==Session 4: Research Methods==
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==Session: Research Methods==
 
'''Handout'''
 
'''Handout'''
 
* [[Literary and Cultural Studies:Research guide]]
 
* [[Literary and Cultural Studies:Research guide]]
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*read the following article: Carretta, Vincent. “Defining a Gentlman: The Status of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa.” Language Sciences 22 (2000): 385-399.
 
*read the following article: Carretta, Vincent. “Defining a Gentlman: The Status of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa.” Language Sciences 22 (2000): 385-399.
  
==Session 5: How to Read Secondary Literature==
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==Session: How to Read Secondary Literature==
 
'''Handouts'''
 
'''Handouts'''
 
* [[Understanding Research]]
 
* [[Understanding Research]]
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:* Give a brief summary of its content and main argument
 
:* Give a brief summary of its content and main argument
  
==Session 6: New Perspectives on Equiano==
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==Session: New Perspectives on Equiano==
 
'''Exercises & Discussions'''
 
'''Exercises & Discussions'''
 
* Embedding Equiano in the concepts and approaches of Postcolonial Studies, Diaspora (e.g. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic)
 
* Embedding Equiano in the concepts and approaches of Postcolonial Studies, Diaspora (e.g. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic)
  
==Session 7: ''9/11'' Naudet Brothers, Media Screening, May 19, 2009==
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==Session: ''9/11'' Naudet Brothers, Media Screening, May 19, 2009==
 
ATTENTION: mandatory for everybody
 
ATTENTION: mandatory for everybody
 
Room will be announced!
 
Room will be announced!
  
==Session 8: Documentary Film==
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==Session: Documentary Film==
 
'''Handout'''
 
'''Handout'''
 
* [[Film Analysis]]
 
* [[Film Analysis]]
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* Background reading
 
* Background reading
  
==Session 9: Representations of 9/11 ==
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==Session: Representations of 9/11 ==
 
'''Handout'''
 
'''Handout'''
 
* Link
 
* Link
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* Probing research methods – what can I find out about critical discussions on these events?
 
* Probing research methods – what can I find out about critical discussions on these events?
  
==Session 10: Discourse==
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==Session: Discourse==
 
'''Handout'''
 
'''Handout'''
 
* Link  
 
* Link  
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* 5 examples (e.g. photographic images)
 
* 5 examples (e.g. photographic images)
  
==Session 11: Constructing/-edness of a Discourse==
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==Session: Constructing/-edness of a Discourse==
 
'''Handout'''
 
'''Handout'''
 
* [[Discourse Analysis]]
 
* [[Discourse Analysis]]
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* to be announced
 
* to be announced
  
==Session 12: From Public to Academic Debates==
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==Session: From Public to Academic Debates==
 
'''Handout'''
 
'''Handout'''
 
* Link
 
* Link
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* to be announced
 
* to be announced
  
==Session 13: Round-up==
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==Session: Round-up==
 
'''Handout'''
 
'''Handout'''
 
* [[Literary and Cultural Studies:Writing academic texts]]
 
* [[Literary and Cultural Studies:Writing academic texts]]
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'''<font color=red>Assignment 2: DEADLINE: August 01, 2009</font>'''
 
'''<font color=red>Assignment 2: DEADLINE: August 01, 2009</font>'''
 
==Bibliography (reading suggestions)==
 
*Assmann, Aleida. Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaft: Grundbegriffe, Themen, Fragestellungen. Grundlagen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik 27. Ed. Rüdiger Ahrens, Wolf-Dietrich Bald & Edgar W. Schneider. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2006.
 
* Bachmann-Medick, Doris. Cultural Turns. Neuorientierungen in den Kulturwissenschaften. Rowohlts Enzyklopädie. Ed. Burghard König. Reinbeck: Rowohlt, 2006.
 
* Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973.
 
*Jenks, Christ. Culture. Key Ideas. Series Ed. Peter Hamilton. London & New York: Routledge, 1993.
 
*Marchart, Oliver. Cultural Studies. Konstanz: UVK Verl.-Ges., 2009.
 
*Nünning, Ansgar, ed. Grundbegriffe der Kulturtheorie und Kulturwissenschaften. Stuttgart & Weimar: Metzler, 2005.
 
*O’Sullivan, Tim. Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies. London et al.: Routledge, 1995.
 
*Pickering, Michael, ed. Research Methods for Cultural Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2008.
 
*Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books, 2003.
 

Revision as of 17:41, 3 April 2009

See for part 1: 2008-09 BM2 Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies, Part 1


Tutors/Turorials

Session: Organisation and Introduction

  • Methods and principles in Cultural Studies,
  • explaining the outline of this course
  • Text: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustav Vassa, the African, Written By Himself. 1789
  • close reading of frontmatter & beginning of first chapter; structure of the book
  • “Nationallizenzen” and ECCO

Homework

  • Vol. I, Ch. V-VI,
  • Vol. II, Chaps. IX-X
  • close readings

Session: Text Analysis

  • discussing the mandatory readings

Session: Historical Contextualization

  • clarifying the frameworks
  • group work (material distributed in class)

Homework

  • Research – where can I find material?
  • Group 1: open access (e.g. the Internet),
  • Group 2: limited access (e.g. online databases),
  • Group 3: on campus library,
  • Group 4: inter-library loan

Session: Research Methods

Handout

Exercises & Discussions

  • Evaluating the quality of research methods and materials
  • Research Exercise: GVK Plus

Homework

  • read the following article: Carretta, Vincent. “Defining a Gentlman: The Status of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa.” Language Sciences 22 (2000): 385-399.

Session: How to Read Secondary Literature

Handouts

Exercises & Discussions

  • Vincent Carretta's article
  1. structure
  2. argumentation
  3. how does the text deal with primary text?
  4. how doe the article deal with a discussion that has evolved around the Equiano narrative?
  5. how do I position myself with respect to the article

Assignment 1: DEADLINE: MAY 19, 2009

  • Compile a Bibliography of secondary research on Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustav Vassa, the African, Written By Himself. 1789
  1. Give a structured analysis of this bibliography:
  • Are there noticeable temporal gaps - remarkable intervals of no research?
  • Is it possible to connect topics of research to individual decades?
  1. Select and digest one article of this list
  • Try to place the article in the overview you gave in question one
  • Give a brief summary of its content and main argument

Session: New Perspectives on Equiano

Exercises & Discussions

  • Embedding Equiano in the concepts and approaches of Postcolonial Studies, Diaspora (e.g. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic)

Session: 9/11 Naudet Brothers, Media Screening, May 19, 2009

ATTENTION: mandatory for everybody Room will be announced!

Session: Documentary Film

Handout

Exercises & Discussions

  • Close analysis
  • Medium “documentary film” – compared to “feature film”; finding a definition; narrative structure? art? fiction?

Homework

  • Background reading

Session: Representations of 9/11

Handout

  • Link

Exercises & Discussions

  • Literature, film, artworks, photography…how does ‘culture’ deal with 9/11

Homework

  • Probing research methods – what can I find out about critical discussions on these events?

Session: Discourse

Handout

  • Link

Exercises & Discussions

  • Roland Barthes and the Mythologies
  • Reading and discussing 3 short articles
  • 5 examples (e.g. photographic images)

Session: Constructing/-edness of a Discourse

Handout

Exercises & Discussions

  • How is a discourse of terror(ism) formed? The terrorist themselves; media; reception
  • Comparative analysis of British newspapers
  • Goal of the discourse formation ?


Homework

  • to be announced

Session: From Public to Academic Debates

Handout

  • Link

Exercises & Discussions

  • The terror attacks in the framework of multiculturalism
  • Developing theses/statements
  • Structure of an (argumentative) essay

Homework

  • to be announced

Session: Round-up

Handout

Exercises & Discussions

  • Preparations for Assignment 2
  • Evaluation, feedback

Assignment 2: DEADLINE: August 01, 2009