551.336 (22S) Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture Studies: Hitting the Floor? - Filmic Representations of Queer and Alternative Masculinities in Sports

Sommersemester 2022

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07.03.2022 10:00 - 12:00 N.0.27 On Campus
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Lehrende/r
LV-Titel englisch Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture Studies: Hitting the Floor? - Filmic Representations of Queer and Alternative Masculinities in Sports
LV-Art Seminar (prüfungsimmanente LV )
LV-Modell Präsenzlehrveranstaltung
Semesterstunde/n 2.0
ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 8.0
Anmeldungen 8 (20 max.)
Organisationseinheit
Unterrichtssprache Englisch
mögliche Sprache/n der Leistungserbringung Englisch
LV-Beginn 07.03.2022
eLearning zum Moodle-Kurs
Seniorstudium Liberale Ja

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LV-Beschreibung

Intendierte Lernergebnisse

Students will form a comprehensive theoretical and practical understanding of diverging performances of masculinity in filmic sports media in relation to established 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 texts and know how to contextualise them in their specific time and theoretical framework.

Lehrmethodik

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

Plenary discussions of selected texts in various filmic media.

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

Contextualised shared interpretation of selected example passages.

Inhalt/e

Organised sports, both professional but also on an amateur level, create highly heteronormative social spaces, especially where performances of masculinity are concerned. In this course, we will investigate filmic representations of divergent masculinities situated in the sphere of sports, exploring questions of the body, sexuality, attraction and desire, inherently connected to a wide spectrum of gender performances and sexual identities. We will explore possible causes and origins of the increased normative pressures in sports, theoretical perspectives on how they function and could be changed, as well as selected textual examples from filmic media of a wide range.

Literatur

All relevant literature will be made available on Moodle.

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

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

The final grade is an aggregate of:

20% - Active participation in class during discussions and analyses, as well as thorough preparation for class work.

30% - Student presentation during the semester on one of the relevant texts.

50% - SE-paper after the end of the semester (pdf, 4000 words) to be handed in by the end of the following semester.

Failing one of the three pillars of assessment fails the entire course!

Prüfungsinhalt/e

Texts covered in class (both theoretical as well as primary texts). Concepts of masculinity and queerness introduced, socio-cultural context and history of example texts. 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: Hitting the Floor? - Filmic Representations of Queer and Alternative Masculinities in Sports (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 1. Semester empfohlen
  • Masterstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik (SKZ: 812, Version: 11W.1)
    • Fach: Applied Linguistics (Wahlfach)
      • Seminar in „Applied Linguistics” focusing on issues in Gender Studies ( 0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
        • 551.336 Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture Studies: Hitting the Floor? - Filmic Representations of Queer and Alternative Masculinities in Sports (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)

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