This lecture will give an overview over American history from a cultural studies point of view. Guiding concerns will be main currents of thought and ideology, the changing gender roles, the successive media revolutions, the changing landscape, science and technology. The lecture will keep to the time-honored period markers in order to give students some orientation. Headings will be 1492: the conquest of America; The City upon a Hill: the Puritan experiment; The Age of Reason/Age of Revolutions; Sentimentalism and the Reform Age; American Renaissance; Slavery and Emancipation; Realism and Science; The Gilded Age and Naturalism; Modernism; Harlem Renaissance; Counterculture and Postmodernism; Postcolonialism/Transnationalism and Cyberculture. You do not need to sign up or register for this lecture! Reading and Preparation:· Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation. A Concise History of the American People. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.· An additional reader with non-obligatory reading will be available the copyshop "Sprintout", Georgenstraße, S-Bahn Bogen 190.· The powerpoint presentations used in the lecture will be available for viewing and downloading on the e-learning platform Moodle before each lecture. As a password please use the first word of the course title. The presentations will include all information you need for the test. You will also find the syllabus and a bibliography in Moodle.Course Requirements:Multiple Choice Test (Klausur) as part of the Modul-examination Bitte über Moodle informieren. |
