552.040 (15W) American Culture: History and Society

Wintersemester 2015/16

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First course session
07.10.2015 15:30 - 17:00 HS 7 On Campus
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Overview

Lecturer
LV Nummer Südostverbund ENM01001UL
Course title german American Culture: History and Society
Type Lecture
Hours per Week 2.0
ECTS credits 3.0
Registrations 133
Organisational unit
Language of instruction English
Course begins on 07.10.2015

Time and place

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Course Information

Teaching methodology including the use of eLearning tools

lecture

Course content

definitions, basic skills, knowledge, and experience in the study of culture; approaches; key concepts (representation; identity and difference; production; consumption; regulation; agency; power; etc.); trends and tendencies; America' money, past and present

Topics

  • culture and the social whole
  • normative and descriptive concepts of culture
  • theories of culture
  • cultural practices as sense-making practices
  • interpretive framework: the circuit of culture
  • money as rhetoric
  • money as proxy of the nation
  • etc.

Teaching objective

to experience the study of American culture via a case study

Prior knowledge expected

none

Other materials

COURSE PACKET; and to be announced

Literature

Rob Pope, The English Studies Book: An Introduction to Language, Literature and Culture (London-New York: Routledge, 20022); Stuart Hall, “Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms,” 1980, in Jessica Munns and Gita Rajan, eds., A Cultural Studies Reader: History, Theory, Practice (London-New York: Longman, 1995), 194-205; Paul du Gay et al., Doing Cultural Studies(London: Sage, 1997; repr. 2000); Heinz Tschachler, The Greenback (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010) - all in library!

Examination information

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.

Examination topic(s)

all class reading; material from COURSE PACKET; from "Literature" (to be announced)

Assessment criteria / Standards of assessment for examinations

final written exam - 1st take: January 27, 2016, 3:30-5, HS7; 2nd take: March 2, 2016 (3:30-5, HS 10) 3rd take: June 29, 2016 (3:30-5, HS 10)

Grading scheme

Grade / Grade grading scheme

Position in the curriculum

  • Bachelor's degree programme Applied Cultural Studies (SKZ: 642, Version: 09W.3)
    • Subject: Gebundene Wahlfächer (Compulsory elective)
      • Module: Wahlfachmodul Cultural Studies
        • Wahlfachmodul Cultural Studies ( 6.0h XX / 12.0 ECTS)
          • 552.040 American Culture: History and Society (2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
  • Bachelor-Lehramtsstudium Bachelor Unterrichtsfach Englisch (SKZ: 407, Version: 15W.2)
    • Subject: Anglophone Cultural History and Theory (Compulsory subject)
      • ENM.001 British Culture – History and Society ODER American Culture – History and Society ( 2.0h VO / 3.0 ECTS)
        • 552.040 American Culture: History and Society (2.0h VO / 3.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 3., 4. Semester empfohlen
  • Teacher training programme English (Secondary School Teacher Accreditation) (SKZ: 344, Version: 04W.7)
    • Stage one
      • Subject: Introduction to English and American Studies (Compulsory subject)
        • Introduction to Theory and Methodology in Culture Studies I ( 2.0h PS / 4.0 ECTS)
          • 552.040 American Culture: History and Society (2.0h VO / 3.0 ECTS)
  • Teacher training programme English (Secondary School Teacher Accreditation) (SKZ: 344, Version: 04W.7)
    • Stage one
      • Subject: Culture Studies (Compulsory subject)
        • Survey of Anglophone Cultures I ( 2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
          • 552.040 American Culture: History and Society (2.0h VO / 3.0 ECTS)
  • Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies (SKZ: 612, Version: 15W.3) part of STEOP (Introductory & Orientation Period)
    • Subject: Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase (Compulsory subject)
      • 1.4 British or American Culture: History and Society ( 0.0h VO / 3.0 ECTS)
        • 552.040 American Culture: History and Society (2.0h VO / 3.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 1. Semester empfohlen
  • Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies (SKZ: 612, Version: 10W.3) part of STEOP (Introductory & Orientation Period)
    • Subject: Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase (ab 11W) (Compulsory subject)
      • Cultures in Context ( 2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
        • 552.040 American Culture: History and Society (2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
  • Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies (SKZ: 612, Version: 10W.3)
    • Subject: Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase (Compulsory subject)
      • Cultures in Context ( 2.0h KU / 4.0 ECTS)
        • 552.040 American Culture: History and Society (2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 1. Semester empfohlen

Equivalent courses for counting the examination attempts

Sommersemester 2024
  • 552.040 VO STEOP/BA & UF: American Culture: History and Society (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
Sommersemester 2023
  • 552.040 VO STEOP/BA & UF: American Culture: History and Society (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
Sommersemester 2022
  • 552.040 VO American Culture: History and Society (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
Sommersemester 2021
  • 552.040 VO American Culture: History and Society (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
Sommersemester 2020
  • 552.040 VO American Culture: History and Society (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
Sommersemester 2019
  • 552.040 VO American Culture: History and Society (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
Sommersemester 2018
  • 552.040 VO American Culture: History and Society (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
Wintersemester 2016/17
  • 552.040 VO American Culture: History and Society (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
Sommersemester 2016
  • 552.040 VO American Culture: History and Society (2.0h / 5.0ECTS)