General information
Course name | Seminar: Civil Rights and Social Movements in 20th Century America |
Subtitle | Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft I; Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft 2: Kultur und Gesellschaft der Gegenwart; Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft Großbritannien/USA 2 (1. Teil) |
Semester | WS 2016/17 |
Current number of participants | 1 |
expected number of participants | 30 |
Home institute | Amerikanistik / Literaturwissenschaft |
Courses type | Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen |
First date | Tuesday, 11.10.2016 10:15 - 11:45, Room: (AKS 35 - SR 3) |
Pre-requisites | Students who have successfully passed their Basismodul Einführung in das Studium der angloameri¬kanischen Kulturwissenschaft (ANG.02620.02) are welcome to this class that deals with civil rights and social movements in 20th century America, particularly the evolvement and development of civil rights for Native Americans, African Americans, and women in America (feminist movement). |
Learning organisation |
All students will need the following textbook: Scott-Baumann, Michael, and Mark Stacey. Civil Rights and Social Movements in the Americas. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013. [ISBN 978-1-107-69751-5] [ca. 18 €] In order for students to pick up some skills necessary in academia, we will spend some time on how to do presentations, how to do research, and how to write papers. The university library (OPAC, MLA-IB and other databases) will be a topic as will be the Internet as a research tool (JStor, Google Scholar etc.). In addition, there will be an introduction to CITAVI and how to use that bibliographical tool. Our model for all written work will be the MLA and its style sheet in its latest edition. Please purchase the following textbook for this class: Michael Scott-Baumann and Mark Stacey, Civil Rights and Social Movements in the Americas (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013). Please, get hold of this book [ISBN 978-1-107-69751-5] [ca. 18 €]. |
Performance record | Students who want credit for this class will have to give a short presentation in class, and write a Hausarbeit / an essay at the end of the semester. More detailed requirements will be presented at the beginning of the semester. |
Studiengänge (für) |
Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft I (ANG.05272.03) Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft 2: Kultur und Gesellschaft der Gegenwart (ANG.03588.02) Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft Großbritannien/USA 2 (1. Teil) (ANG.04770.02) |
SWS | 2 |
ECTS points | 5 |