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Grunddaten
Veranstaltungsart Seminar Veranstaltungsnummer 5250088
Semester WiSe 2021/22 SWS 2
Rhythmus keine Übernahme Moodle-Link https://moodle.hu-berlin.de/course/view.php?id=106606
Veranstaltungsstatus Freigegeben für Vorlesungsverzeichnis  Freigegeben  Sprache englisch
Belegungsfrist - Eine Belegung ist online erforderlich
Veranstaltungsformat Präsenz

Termine

Gruppe 1
Tag Zeit Rhythmus Dauer Raum Gebäude Raum-
plan
Lehrperson Status Bemerkung fällt aus am Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
Mi. 16:00 bis 18:00 wöch 20.10.2021 bis 16.02.2022  1.501 (Seminarraum)
Stockwerk: 5. OG


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Gruppe 1:
Zur Zeit keine Belegung möglich


Zugeordnete Person
Zugeordnete Person Zuständigkeit
Klepper, Martin , Prof. Dr. phil.
Studiengänge
Abschluss Studiengang LP Semester
Master of Arts  Amerikanistik Hauptfach ( Vertiefung: kein LA; POVersion: 2014 )   -  
Zuordnung zu Einrichtungen
Einrichtung
Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Inhalt
Kommentar

This class is an advanced survey course (a sort of repetition) on major problems of American Cultural History with a focus on American Art. It is a companion course to Reading American Literature and Culture which focuses on literature, and Theories of American Studies which focuses on theory. The objective is a repetition of the field combined with an exploration of US visual culture. For these purposes we will explore visual objects (works of art, photography, architecture) from different periods and discuss the “cultural work” they do, i.e. the specific representation of America they present. The "periods," which we will explore ("periods" always to be taken with a grain of salt!) are: Re-Discovery: 1492 (Old and New Inhabitants); City upon a Hill (The Puritan Experiment); Reason and Revolutions (The Age of Reasons and American Revolutions between Philadelphia and Seneca Falls); In and beneath the American Renaissance (a canon for 1850 and its multicultural and multi-gendered basis); Post-bellum Realisms and Naturalisms; Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; Postmodernism and the old/new Diversity. The main part of the meetings will concentrate on questions of visual history. Master students who need a more general introduction to American literary and cultural history are more than welcome to participate in the lecture for the BA students (please ask me for the Moodle course key).

 

Hybrid/Online Format: I will prepare very short video introductions for each unit and formulate questions for you to think about. We will then meet either in person (see room below) or in a Zoom meeting (depending on what is allowed) – 60 minutes (see time below in both cases) and hopefully have ravishing discussions (whether real or virtual)! You need to be in Berlin, unless the semester has been designated an online semester by the university chairs.

 

Reading:

  • The texts for the class will be up-loaded onto the Moodle platform. The key to Moodle will be announced through Agnes.
  • The art works to be explored in class will also be accessible through Moodle.

 

Course Requirements:

As a preparation for the module exam students have to hand in a 4 page essay on one work of art of your own choice by Christmas. As a Modul examination (in February) students will write a take-home exam with questions from this class and the class "Theories of American Studies". For this exam you are expected to prepare one work of art in depth. You can only do the Module Exam once you have taken both of these classes (This class and the Theories-class).

 

Please register in Agnes – it is the only way I can send you the access data to the Moodle class. If you cannot register for some reason, please send me an email (martin.klepper@hu-berlin.de).

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester WiSe 2021/22. Aktuelles Semester: WiSe 2024/25.
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