Seminar: Time to Panic? America in Crisis - Aufbaumodul - Details

Seminar: Time to Panic? America in Crisis - Aufbaumodul - Details

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Course name Seminar: Time to Panic? America in Crisis - Aufbaumodul
Course number ANG.05272.03
Semester SoSe 2023
Current number of participants 25
maximum number of participants 25
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Thursday, 13.04.2023 10:15 - 11:45, Room: Medienraum [Mel]
Learning organisation Seminar: Thursday, 10.15-11.45.
Performance record Studienleistung: 1. Active Learning & Self-Evaluation (Individual), 2. Poster Presentation (Group Work); Prüfungsleistung: term paper (6000w), deadline tbc
Lehrsprache(n) Deutsch
Studiengänge (für) BA Anglistik und Amerikanistik 60 und 90 LP;
BA IKEAS;
LAG, LAS, LAF
SWS 2
ECTS points 5

Rooms and times

Medienraum [Mel]
Thursday: 10:15 - 11:45, weekly (10x)
Wednesday, 28.06.2023 18:30 - 20:30
('Glaskasten' (AK 35))
Friday, 07.07.2023 18:00 - 19:00

Module assignments

Comment/Description

In this course, we examine US-American rhetoric of and responses to crisis in the 21st century, engaging with a variety of sources. Beginning with the 9/11 terror attacks, we will discuss the discourse of the so-called 'war on terror' in political speeches, country music, and protest songs. In the second section of the course, we interrogate the history of racism in the US, looking specifically at the Black Lives Matter movement, and responses to structural racism such as in Beyonce's song "Formation" and Michael Rothberg's concept of the 'implicated subject'. In the final section of the seminar, we study responses to the climate change emergency, engaging with Donna Haraway's demands to 'make kin, not babies' and the nostalgia for the American pastoral in postapocalyptic films.

Aims & Learning Outcomes
• Examination of crisis as a socio-political phenomenon and its reflection in the cultural sphere
• Examination of political rhetoric of as well as (pop)cultural and theoretical responses to crises
• To discuss and understand examples of contemporary US-American culture in their historical context
• To critically and independently engage with sources and secondary material
• To independently analyse, present & discuss aspects of the sources and theories studied

Syllabus
The required primary and secondary reading will be made available.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Aufbaumodul KuWi I".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • This setting is active from 15.03.2023 00:00 to 21.04.2023 00:00.
    Enrolment is allowed for up to 1 courses of the admission set.
  • The enrolment is possible from 15.03.2023, 11:30.
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.
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