Seminar: Life Writing in the 21st-Century Anglophone World - Vertiefungsmodul - Details

Seminar: Life Writing in the 21st-Century Anglophone World - Vertiefungsmodul - Details

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Course name Seminar: Life Writing in the 21st-Century Anglophone World - Vertiefungsmodul
Subtitle Vertiefungsmodul: Kulturwissenschaft I + III + IV
Course number ANG.05294.03; ANG.06137.02; ANG.06145.02
Semester WiSe 2025/26
Current number of participants 23
maximum number of participants 20
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date Wednesday, 21.01.2026 10:15 - 11:45, Room: Seminarraum 308 Japanologie (Dachritzstr. 12)
Pre-requisites Erfolgreich absolviertes Basismodul: Einführung in das Studium der angloamerikanischen Kulturwisenschaft (FSQ integrativ)
Performance record Studienleistung: Creative Writing Task and Research Sample
Prüfungsleistung: Klausur (90 min)
Lehrsprache(n) Englisch
Studiengänge (für) LA Gym Englisch (2012+2015)
MA Angloam. Lit., Spr u Kult. 120 LP (2015)
MA IKEAS 120 LP (2015)
MA Intern. Area Stud. (2011+2015)
SWS 2
ECTS points 5

Module assignments

Comment/Description

This course concentrates on the study of Anglophone life narratives from the past 25 years. You will learn about different forms of life writing (prose narratives, graphic forms, audio-visual, and online formats). The main purpose of this class is to train students to study such narratives systematically in order to assess what they potentially teach us about Anglophone cultures. We will put together a tool kit for analyzing such texts and then test the kit with a variety of texts across media and genres. In the final part of the seminar, students will work with a text of their own choice and show their ability to apply the tool kit. There are also creative writing elements and a range of secondary sources to read. At the end of the day, this course will introduce you to a great array of voices from the Americas, the UK and the Commonwealth of Nations such as Windrush migrants, postwar children, royal family members, football and music stars, bloggers and Youtubers from the twenty-first century.

Required Reading:
See seminar schedule.

Link for in class work on slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RaYsD0emDl1P8EycIr-7LHEfV25BbvounPmPMxkTKKU/edit?usp=sharing

Diese Lehrveranstaltung ist im Studienbegleitprogramm von gender*bildet (Zertifikat Gender Studies) anrechenbar.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: Life Writing in the 21st-Century Anglophone World - Vertiefungsmodul".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.
  • The enrolment is possible from 29.09.2025, 08:00 to 31.10.2025, 23:59.