551.336 (21S) Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture Studies: Focus Gender: Surfacing - Gender, Sexuality and Desire in Canadian Culture

Sommersemester 2021

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Erster Termin der LV
08.03.2021 08:00 - 10:00 online Off Campus
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Lehrende/r
LV-Titel englisch Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture Studies: Focus Gender: Surfacing - Gender, Sexuality and Desire in Canadian Culture
LV-Art Seminar (prüfungsimmanente LV )
LV-Modell Onlinelehrveranstaltung
Semesterstunde/n 2.0
ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 8.0
Anmeldungen 7 (20 max.)
Organisationseinheit
Unterrichtssprache Englisch
mögliche Sprache/n der Leistungserbringung Englisch
LV-Beginn 08.03.2021
eLearning zum Moodle-Kurs
Anmerkungen

We will meet online at 8.15am.

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LV-Beschreibung

Intendierte Lernergebnisse

Students will form a comprehensive theoretical and practical understanding of the specificity of Canadian culture in relation to concepts, notions, and norms of gender, sexuality, and desire and will be able to trace major developments and movements over time. They will be familiar with key artists and texts in various media and know how to contextualise them in their specific time and subset of Canadian society and culture.

Lehrmethodik inkl. Einsatz von eLearning-Tools

Short theoretical inputs and plenary discussions of important theoretical texts and perspectives.

Plenary discussions of selected texts in various media.

Student presentations of selected texts and artists, as well as plenary discussions thereof.

Contextualised shared interpretation of selected example passages.

Inhalt/e

Canada is oftentimes eclipsed by or even tacitly assumed to be culturally, socially, and politically the same as the United States south of its borders by global audiences, and while the domination of and colonisation by its overpowering neighbour is certainly an ever increasing fact of Canadian life, there are still specifically Canadian perspectives that would irritate US-American cultural sensibilities. One aspect that is frequently remarked upon on both sides of the border is the Canadian approach to the body, sexuality, and desire, inherently connected to questions of gender performances and identities. In this seminar, we will explore possible origins of this divergence, theoretical perspectives on how they function, as well as selected textual examples from media ranging from literature, to film, and videogames.

Literatur

All relevant literature will be made available on Moodle.

Students are expected to own at least a copy of the text they are presenting.

Prüfungsinformationen

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Prüfungsmethode/n

The final grade is an aggregate:

20% - Active participation.

30% - Concise student presentation during the semester.

50% - SE-paper (4000 words) after the end of the semester.

Failing one pillar of assessment results in an overall fail grade for the seminar.

Prüfungsinhalt/e

All texts covered in class. Socio-cultural context, theoretical framework, and development of Canadian culture in relation to questions of the body, gender, sexuality, and desire. Key artists and texts from various media.

Students can freely choose the topic of their final paper within the framework of the class topic.


Beurteilungskriterien/-maßstäbe

Quality and quantity of information, precision and depth of analysis, structure and quality of argument, quality and quantity of secondary sources used.

Beurteilungsschema

Note Benotungsschema

Position im Curriculum

  • Masterstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik (SKZ: 812, Version: 18W.1)
    • Fach: Literature and Culture Studies (Wahlfach)
      • 3.2 Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture Studies: Focus Gender ( 0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
        • 551.336 Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture Studies: Focus Gender: Surfacing - Gender, Sexuality and Desire in Canadian Culture (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 1. Semester empfohlen
  • Masterstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik (SKZ: 812, Version: 11W.1)
    • Fach: Film, Literature and Culture Studies (Wahlfach)
      • Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies ( 0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
        • 551.336 Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture Studies: Focus Gender: Surfacing - Gender, Sexuality and Desire in Canadian Culture (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)

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