551.390 (15W) Cutting Edge Research in English and American Studies: "Roman Countenances" and "Abominations". Racial Classification as Anthropological Correctness

Wintersemester 2015/16

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01.10.2015 14:00 - 16:00 N.0.42 On Campus
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Lehrende/r
LV-Titel englisch Cutting Edge Research in English and American Studies: "Roman Countenances" and "Abominations". Racial Classification as Anthropological Correctness
LV-Art Kurs (prüfungsimmanente LV )
Semesterstunde/n 2.0
ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 4.0
Anmeldungen 15 (25 max.)
Organisationseinheit
Unterrichtssprache Deutsch
LV-Beginn 15.10.2015

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LV-Beschreibung

Intendierte Lernergebnisse

Understanding of the historical apriori that grounds knowledge and its discourses and thus represents the condition of its possibility within a particular period.

Lehrmethodik inkl. Einsatz von eLearning-Tools

This course follows the guided course model. It seeks to build on and deepen existing skills and abilities. Instructor and students will work together exploring specific questions and issues. This requires the active involvement of all participants in order to make possible individual and collective learn-ing as well as to accomplish the objectives of the course.

Aufnahmebedingungen

must be in M.A. program

Inhalt/e

various texts describing respectively Native Americans and African Americans; original texts from "natural history"

Themen

  • chain of being
  • race
  • nation
  • tribe
  • Linnaeus
  • Buffon
  • racial classification
  • rhetoric of natural history

Schlagworte

racial classifications; native Americans; African Americans; nation, tribe, race

Lehrziel

To explore how the rhetoric of natural history shapes the way Bartram, Jefferson, Washington Irving et al. described native people and African Americans.

Erwartete Vorkenntnisse

* regular attendance and active participation throughout; * outside assignments to prepare for class; * oral presentations on some topic suitable for group discussion; * written presentation papers;

Sonstige Studienbehelfe

COURSE PACKET will be provided

Literatur

Pamela Regis, Describing Early America (1992); Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea (1960); Thomas F. Gossett, Race: The History of an Idea in America (1997); Barbara Jeanne Fields, “Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America.” New Left Review 181 (May-June 1990): 95-118; Myra Jehlen, “The Dispute of the New World,” Cambridge History of American Literature, vol.1; all in library.

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.

Beurteilungsschema

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Position im Curriculum

  • Masterstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik (SKZ: 812, Version: 11W.1)
    • Fach: Research Design in English & American Studies (Pflichtfach)
      • Cutting Edge Research in English and American Studies [focussing, amongst others, on issues in Gender Studies] ( 0.0h KU / 4.0 ECTS)
        • 551.390 Cutting Edge Research in English and American Studies: "Roman Countenances" and "Abominations". Racial Classification as Anthropological Correctness (2.0h KS / 4.0 ECTS)

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