551.350 (18S) Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies: American Women Writers

Sommersemester 2018

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13.03.2018 16:00 - 19:30 N.0.42 On Campus
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LV-Titel englisch Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies: American Women Writers
LV-Art Seminar (prüfungsimmanente LV )
Semesterstunde/n 2.0
ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 8.0
Anmeldungen 15 (20 max.)
Organisationseinheit
Unterrichtssprache Englisch
LV-Beginn 13.03.2018
eLearning zum Moodle-Kurs
Anmerkungen

This is a block seminar. Attendance of the first double session on March 13 is MANDATORY!

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LV-Beschreibung

Intendierte Lernergebnisse

Students will learn how to read literature produced by U.S. women writers from an historical perspective and get a better sense of various ethnic groups from their respective literatures. They will better comprehend how gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race influence the female writer’s artistic vision, and why themes like identity formation, power and resistance are of such central importance to literature produced by American women writers. They will develop a better and more critical understanding of the American canon and gain some insights in American discourses surrounding issues of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity.

Lehrmethodik inkl. Einsatz von eLearning-Tools

Short lecture inputs; close reading and critical discussion of assigned texts. 


Inhalt/e

This block seminar will examine how American women writers wield their pens as instruments of (self-) discovery and rebellion. In order to get a better understanding of how such literary acts of discovery and rebellion have changed over the centuries as a result of historical, economic, and socio-cultural developments, we will consider a range of texts from the early nineteenth century to the present produced by women writers from diverse ethnic backgrounds. We will start out with poetry by Phillis Wheatley, Anne Bradstreet, and Emily Dickinson and then consider Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892). In the remaining sessions, we will read novels by Kate Chopin, Octavia Butler, Linda Hogan, Sandra Cisneros and Amy Tan. We will explore how these diverse women writers provide us with different views on the American experience, and how notions of race, gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality, patriarchy, marriage, and motherhood shape and complicate their respective narratives.

Literatur

Kate Chopin. The Awakening. Any edition.

Octavia Butler. Kindred. Any edition.

Linda Hogan. Solar Storms. Any edition.

Sandra Cisneros. The House on Mango Street. Any edition.

Amy Tan. The Joy Luck Club. Any edition.

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: Film, Literature and Culture Studies (Wahlfach)
      • Advanced Topics in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” ( 0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
        • 551.350 Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies: American Women Writers (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
  • 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)
        • 551.350 Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies: American Women Writers (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
  • Besonderer Studienbereich Wahlfach-Studium Feministische Wissenschaft - Gender Studies (SKZ: 600b, Version: 04W)
    • Fach: Kommunikation - Repräsentation (Pflichtfach)
      • Kommunikation - Repräsentation ( 2.0h SE / 4.0 ECTS)
        • 551.350 Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies: American Women Writers (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
  • Erweiterungscurriculum Gender Studies (Version: 16W.1)
    • Fach: Vertiefende LVs der Gender Studies (Pflichtfach)
      • Seminar oder Proseminar Gender ( 0.0h PS,SE / 8.0 ECTS)
        • 551.350 Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies: American Women Writers (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
  • Masterstudium Game Studies and Engineering (SKZ: 992, Version: 17W.2)
    • Fach: Gebundenes Wahlfach (Wahlfach)
      • Modul: Game Studies
        • 4.2 Advanced Topics in Film, Literature and Culture Studies ( 0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
          • 551.350 Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies: American Women Writers (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
            Absolvierung im 1., 2., 3. Semester empfohlen
  • Masterstudium Game Studies and Engineering (SKZ: 992, Version: 17W.2)
    • Fach: Gebundenes Wahlfach (Wahlfach)
      • Modul: Game Studies
        • 4.2 Seminar in Film, Literature and Culture Studies focussing on issues in Gender Studies ( 0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
          • 551.350 Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies: American Women Writers (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
            Absolvierung im 1., 2., 3. Semester empfohlen
  • Doktoratsstudium Doktoratsstudium der Philosophie (SKZ: 500, Version: 12W.4)
    • Fach: Studienleistungen gem. § 3 Abs. 2a des Curriculums (Pflichtfach)
      • Studienleistungen gem. § 3 Abs. 2a des Curriculums ( 16.0h XX / 32.0 ECTS)
        • 551.350 Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies: American Women Writers (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
  • Doktoratsstudium Doktoratsstudium der Philosophie (SKZ: 792, Version: 12W.4)
    • Fach: Studienleistungen gem. § 3 Abs. 2a des Curriculums (Pflichtfach)
      • Studienleistungen gem. § 3 Abs. 2a des Curriculums ( 16.0h XX / 32.0 ECTS)
        • 551.350 Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies: American Women Writers (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
  • Doktoratsstudium Doktoratsstudium der Philosophie (SKZ: 792, Version: 09W.2)
    • Fach: Lehrveranstaltungen auf postgradualem Niveau (Pflichtfach)
      • Lehrveranstaltungen auf postgradualem Niveau ( 6.0h SE / 0.0 ECTS)
        • 551.350 Seminar in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” focusing on issues in Gender Studies: American Women Writers (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)

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