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Lehrveranstaltungen

Canada: Exploring the Great White North (Vorlesung/Seminar)

Dozent/in: Maria Moss

Inhalt: One of the main motifs in Canadian culture, literature, and life is “the North”. By taking a close look at 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 North”, the seminar will discuss and analyze what happens when the mystique of a northern environment – in both its negative and positive implications – influences a country’s imagination.

The Death Penalty in the United States (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Sabrina Völz

Inhalt: In this seminar we will discuss the history of the death penalty in the United States and take a brief look at the American judicial system, death row, and lynching. We will concentrate on the methods of execution, arguments for and against this court-sanctioned form of revenge as well as diverse theories relating to capital punishment. Finally we will discuss the depiction of the death penalty in non-fiction writing (Prejean's Dead Man Walking and Grisham's The Innocent Man).