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Institut für Anglistik Institut für Anglistik

Mag. Annabell Marinell Mag. Annabell Marinell, +43 512 507 42488

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Concepts, Contexts, Theories of Cultural Studies: British and Anglophone Cultures: Gruppe B

VU 2

5

wöch.

semestral

Englisch

To offer an overview of key concepts of Cultural Studies, focussing particularly on British and Anglophone contexts. - To explore accessible routes through cultural analyses, using varied approaches and methods. - To engage students in applying principles acquired to contemporary examples of Anglophone cultures. - To encourage intermedial and interdisciplinary approaches.

- Areas covered include: What is ‘culture’? Identity and Difference, Representations, Basic Semiotics, History and Memory, Heritage, Cultural Geographics, Cultural Value (High and Popular Culture), etc.

- Intensive interdisciplinary course which is largely interactive, with a weekly task to prepare in advance for critical discussion in each following session. There will also be several writing assignments (to be collected in a dossier).

- Assessment by dossier, active participation, 90-min end-of-term test.

- Basic coursebook (a prerequisite for the course, available in Studia): Studying Culture – A Practical Introduction (2nd ed.), J. Giles & T. Middleton (Blackwell, 2008); Britain, J. O’Driscoll (OUP, 2009) - Background reading: British Civilization, J. Oakland (Routledge, 2002); British Culture, D. Christopher (Routledge, 2006).

Anmeldevoraussetzung/en: keine Entspricht im Lehramtsstudium (344): VU1: Foundation Culture I + VU 1: Foundation Culture II Entspricht im Diplomstudium (343): VU1: Foundation Culture I + VU1: Foundation Culture II
Beginn: 6. Oktober 2010