Vorlesungsverzeichnis
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Lehrveranstaltungen
African American Identity and Culture (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Sabrina Völz
Termin:
wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 17.10.2011 - 03.02.2012 | C 12.111 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Ever wonder exactly what it means to get beyond a superficial understanding of culture, to get beneath the surface of the iceberg? To understand the importance of history for the development of identity? In this seminar, students will learn about what scholars refer to as deep culture, about the formation of a unique and rich culture which crossed borders beyond the United States. Seminar topics will include important aspects of African-American history, identity, and culture (Black English, slavery, Civil Rights Movement, African-American music, etc.). We will also discuss monumental texts by Nobel Prize winning authors. One such text, considered one of the most important American novels of the 20th century, Beloved, by Toni Morrison will be analyzed in detail. This beautifully written and lyrical novel, which is loosely based on historical events, deals with the aftermath of slavery, a harrowing secret, a ghost of a murdered child, memory, and love. Moreover, after a brief introduction to segregation in the South and important historical events during the 1950s and 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech "I Have a Dream", his mastery of rhetorical features, and his concept of non-violent protest will be handled and contrasted with those of Malcolm X. Finally, the course will look at the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, including the election of Barack Obama and the building of a holiday and national monument in memory of King.
Introducing Canada (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Maria Moss
Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 08:15 - 09:45 | 17.10.2011 - 03.02.2012 | C 3.121 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Canada is a strange country: Despite its size as the world’s second largest country, it does not seem to be a major player in world politics nor to have the socio-cultural influence its smaller neighbor to the south – the United States – exerts. In order to find reasons for this apparent lack of charisma and influence, the seminar will take a closer look at some of the main motifs in Canadian culture, literature, and life. By analyzing, for instance, the disastrous Franklin expedition of the mid-nineteenth century, the endeavors of “Grey Owl,” a Native Canadian born as the Englishman Archie Belanie, and stories about men and women trapped in the wilderness, the seminar will discuss what happens when the mystique of a wild and/or northern environment – in both its negative and positive implications – influences a country’s imagination.
Scotland in Film (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Jörg Addicks
Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 17.10.2011 - 03.02.2012 | C 5.310 Seminarraum
Inhalt: The United Kingdom seems to be a federal system like we know it from Germany. But in some respect it is far less than then USA and nothing alike the federal system you may be familiar with from Germany. The United Kingdom (UK) is a ‘wee’ bit dif-ferent. People with interest in football know that since Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland as well as England have got their own football association and are members of the FIFA and thus have their own national teams – so this is nothing alike the ‘Niedersächsische Fußballverband’. I remember that I found that very peculiar when I was a young boy but then it was quite logical since the name of the state is: United Kingdom. So somebody united the three kingdoms – i.e. states – to one large one. Northern Ireland is also part of the UK and could be seen as the kingdom of Ulster – however there never was such a kingdom as there were no kings on the heavily Celtic influenced island. In this seminar we are going to look at how the United Kingdom came about by looking at the history of Scotland as well as England. If those two kingdoms used to be independent once, they may have different cultural roots and customs; why else should they have been independent kingdoms? And yet what led to the union? The media we are going to use, apart from the reader, are two fictional feature films: ‘Braveheart’ (1995) and ‘Trainspotting’ (1996) after the novel by Irvine Welsh. Film has become a very important media (text) in the foreign language classroom. Even fictional films can be a great source of cultural input concerning the target culture. Still it is important to keep in mind that what we see is the image of an author, director or camera-person, although the pictures we see tell us a part of the target culture. So film maybe even more difficult to provide cultural information compared to a novel or written text because of the visual input. Thus film is a very demanding text for the foreign language classroom and needs thorough preparation in order to be used in class. This is going to be the second focus in this seminar: how to use fictional films as a text in the foreign language classroom.