645606 Culture and History: Sleep

summer semester 2016 | Last update: 10.06.2016 | Place course on memo list

Department:

Department of History and European Ethnology

Instructor:

Dr. Timo Heimerdinger, MA

Course number:

645606

Title:

Culture and History: Sleep

Type/hours:

SE 2

ECTS credits:

Period:

weekly

Mode of repetition:

annually

Language of instruction:

German

Learning Outcome:

Understanding sleep as culturally framed phenomena. Knowing approaches in cultural studies.

Contents:

Sleep is unconscious, but its embedding (literally!) in everyday life and its semiotic charge (relax, cousin of death, land of dreams, lazyness ...) is highly cultural. In this course we will explore these dimensions heuristically and methodically.

Methods:

close reading, presentations, group work

Assessment:

seminar paper

Literature:

Jeggle, Utz: Schlaf und Ordnung. Unfertige Beobachtung eines nächtlichen Kontinents. In: Netzwerk Volkskunde. Ideen und Wege. Festgabe für Klaus Beitl zum siebzigsten Ge-burtstag. Hrsg. von Franz Grieshofer und Margot Schindler. Wien 1999, S. 495-510.

OLAT:

https://lms.uibk.ac.at/url/RepositoryEntry/3957030934

Start:

09.03.2016

allocated to study field

Faculty of Humanities 1 (Philosophy and History)

Master's Programme European Ethnology according to the curriculum 2009 (120 ECTS-Credits, 4 semesters)

Compulsory Modules (82.5 ECTS-Credits)

Compulsory Module 7: Culture and Historicity (10 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)

Dates

Group 0	Export course dates of this group as iCalendar (.ics) Help
Date	Time	Location
Wed 2016-03-09	15.30 - 17.00	40801 SR 40801 SR	Barrier-free
Wed 2016-03-16	15.30 - 17.00	40801 SR 40801 SR	Barrier-free
Wed 2016-04-06	15.30 - 17.00	40801 SR 40801 SR	Barrier-free
Wed 2016-04-13	15.30 - 17.00	40801 SR 40801 SR	Barrier-free
Wed 2016-04-20	15.30 - 17.00	40801 SR 40801 SR	Barrier-free
Wed 2016-04-27	15.30 - 17.00	40801 SR 40801 SR	Barrier-free
Wed 2016-05-04	15.30 - 17.00	40801 SR 40801 SR	Barrier-free
Wed 2016-05-11	15.30 - 17.00	40801 SR 40801 SR	Barrier-free
Wed 2016-05-18	15.30 - 17.00	40801 SR 40801 SR	Barrier-free
Wed 2016-05-25	15.30 - 17.00	40801 SR 40801 SR	Barrier-free
Wed 2016-06-01	15.30 - 17.00	40801 SR 40801 SR	Barrier-free
Wed 2016-06-08	15.30 - 17.00	40801 SR 40801 SR	Barrier-free
Wed 2016-06-15	15.30 - 17.00	40801 SR 40801 SR	Barrier-free
Wed 2016-06-22	15.30 - 17.00	40801 SR 40801 SR	Barrier-free
Fri 2016-06-24	09.00 - 15.00	52U109 SR 52U109 SR	Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired
Wed 2016-06-29	15.30 - 17.00	40801 SR 40801 SR	Barrier-free