Seminar: Approaches to Popular Culture (Lehramt) - AM KuWi II - Details

Seminar: Approaches to Popular Culture (Lehramt) - AM KuWi II - Details

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Course name Seminar: Approaches to Popular Culture (Lehramt) - AM KuWi II
Course number ANG.05273.02
Semester SS 2021
Current number of participants 24
maximum number of participants 30
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Thursday, 15.04.2021 08:00 - 09:30
Participants Note: this seminar is intended for Lehramt only, BA students should pick the BA version of this course.

Rooms and times

No room preference
Thursday: 08:00 - 09:30, weekly

Module assignments

Comment/Description

In this seminar, we will explore theories and perspectives on popular culture. Being constantly surrounded by artefacts and by social processes and practises that can be accounted for as part of popular culture, we find ourselves in a position where we seemingly take certain cultural phenomena and norms for granted. This seminar invites reflection on important aspects and processes of popular culture, such as the development of mass culture, culture industry and the commodification of culture, the transport and hegemony of ideology via culture, and postmodern tendencies that transform not only culture but society on the whole.


Examples to complement and illustrate theoretical approaches will be drawn from Anglophone cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries and will leave ample room to accommodate students' cultural interests.

This course will take place in a virtual environment, with a mixture of mostly synchronous sessions and an occasional period of asynchronous self-study.

Required literature:

Dominic Strinati, An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture, Routledge, 2nd ed. 2004; ISBN 9780415235006

A digital version will be made available together with other reading and primary material.

Prüfung: oral exam

Note: this seminar is intended for Lehramt only, BA students should pick the BA version of this course.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: Approaches to Popular Culture (Lehramt) - AM KuWi II".
Note: this seminar is intended for Lehramt only, BA students should pick the BA version of this course.
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • The enrolment is possible from 19.03.2021, 16:00 to 12.04.2021, 23:00.
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.

Registration mode

After enrolment, participants will manually be selected.

Potential participants are given additional information before enroling to the course.