552.282 (24S) Topics in Anglophone Literary Studies: American Transcendentalism

Sommersemester 2024

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Erster Termin der LV
05.03.2024 16:00 - 18:00 N.0.27 On Campus
Nächster Termin:
30.04.2024 16:00 - 18:00 N.0.27 On Campus

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Lehrende/r
LV Nummer Südostverbund ENL04002UL
LV-Titel englisch Topics in Anglophone Literary Studies: American Transcendentalism
LV-Art Proseminar (prüfungsimmanente LV )
LV-Modell Präsenzlehrveranstaltung
Semesterstunde/n 2.0
ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 3.0
Anmeldungen 6 (25 max.)
Organisationseinheit
Unterrichtssprache Englisch
LV-Beginn 05.03.2024
eLearning zum Moodle-Kurs

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LV-Beschreibung

Intendierte Lernergebnisse

Students will gain a basic familiarity with ideas and the impact of American Transcendentalism. They will be able to think critically about major representatives of the movement and their ideas. Students will improve their research, analytical, and writing skills, and advance their competence in interpreting texts within their specific socio-cultural and historical contexts from a perspective that problematizes race, class, and gender.

Lehrmethodik

This course is designed to emphasize in-class student participation. Teaching methods include short input lectures, short oral presentations on selected topics by students, in-class discussion of assigned primary and theoretical texts through close readings, and group discussion.

Inhalt/e

This course explores origins, key aspects, and the legacy of the literary and philosophical movement of Transcendentalism and its profound influence on American cultural history. We will focus on selected texts by the three leading figures of American transcendentalism – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau – but also contextualize their writings more broadly with texts by Amos Bronson Alcott, Theodore Parker, and Frederick Douglass, and the poetry of Walt Whitman. We will analyse the (Romantic) literary forms and techniques of our writers, with an eye to simultaneously exploring their ideas for political reform, e.g. regarding religion, education, abolitionism, and women’s rights. Another important focus will lie on nature and the environmental ideas promoted by Transcendentalist writers, and on the way in which their work, their brand of individualism, and vision of society, influenced subsequent movements, such as the Beat Poets or American pragmatism.

Literatur

Required texts (please purchase!)

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Civil Disobedience and Other Writings. Edited by William Rossi (Norton Critical Editions)

Prüfungsinformationen

Im Fall von online durchgeführten Prüfungen sind die Standards zu beachten, die die technischen Geräte der Studierenden erfüllen müssen, um an diesen Prüfungen teilnehmen zu können.

Prüfungsmethode/n

  • one oral presentation
  • one research paper of 2,500-3,000 words

Prüfungsinhalt/e

  • oral presentation (15 minutes) on selected topics. A list of presentation topics and guidelines will be provided.
  • research paper on a text treated in the seminar. Students must use at least five secondary sources. Papers must conform to the guidelines outlined in the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed. They must be submitted as a word or PDF document via email. Final deadline for submission is October 31, 2024.

Beurteilungskriterien/-maßstäbe

Components of final grade:

  • 20 % participation in class (pillar 1)
  • 20 % oral presentation (pillar 2)
  • 60 % research paper (pillar 3)

Students will need to achieve passing grades in all pillars of assessment in order to receive a passing grade for the class.


Beurteilungsschema

Note Benotungsschema

Position im Curriculum

  • Bachelor-Lehramtsstudium Bachelor Unterrichtsfach Englisch (SKZ: 407, Version: 17W.2)
    • Fach: Anglophone Literary Studies II: Historical Surveys, Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (Pflichtfach)
      • ENL.004 Topics in Anglophone Literary Studies ( 2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
        • 552.282 Topics in Anglophone Literary Studies: American Transcendentalism (2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 7., 8. Semester empfohlen
  • Bachelor-Lehramtsstudium Bachelor Unterrichtsfach Englisch (SKZ: 407, Version: 15W.2)
    • Fach: Anglophone Literary Studies II: Historical Surveys, Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (Pflichtfach)
      • ENL.004 Topics in Anglophone Literary Studies, Lehrveranstaltung ( 2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
        • 552.282 Topics in Anglophone Literary Studies: American Transcendentalism (2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 3., 4. Semester empfohlen
  • Bachelor-Lehramtsstudium Bachelor Unterrichtsfach Englisch (SKZ: 407, Version: 19W.2)
    • Fach: Anglophone Literary Studies II: Historical Surveys, Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (Pflichtfach)
      • ENL.004 Topics in Anglophone Literary Studies ( 2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
        • 552.282 Topics in Anglophone Literary Studies: American Transcendentalism (2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 7., 8. Semester empfohlen
  • Erweiterungsstudium (UG §54a) Encounters in English (ES) (SKZ: 020, Version: 23W.1)
    • Fach: Stage Two (Pflichtfach)
      • 2.5 Topics in Literature (optional: mit Studienprojekt) ( 0.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
        • 552.282 Topics in Anglophone Literary Studies: American Transcendentalism (2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 2. Semester empfohlen
  • Bachelorstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik (SKZ: 612, Version: 15W.3)
    • Fach: Fachliches Grund- und Aufbaustudium Literature (Pflichtfach)
      • Modul: Aufbaustudium Literature
        • 5.5 Topics in Anglophone Literary Studies ( 0.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
          • 552.282 Topics in Anglophone Literary Studies: American Transcendentalism (2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
            Absolvierung im 4. Semester empfohlen

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