LFU:online

Students deal with new themes in selected key areas. They understand and evaluate them as well as argument with regards to scientific dynamics and trends of the respective key areas. They understand the strengths and weaknesses of the different methodological approaches. They gain competences in independent formulating of questions and argumentations.

The seminar explores the public commemoration of the different anniversaries in 2018, around the hundredth anniversary of the Austrian Republic. It focusses on the complex entanglement of history/historiography and literature. The seminar provides an overview of recent scholarship on history and literature and analyzes literary texts that explore key event in Austrian contemporary history.

Lecture, reading, discussion.

Regular attendance, active participation in discussions, required readings, oral presentation, written paper.

Will be provided at the beginning of the course.

none

Online-enrollment starting on Sept. 1st, 2018!