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The aim of this course "Mountain to Mountain" is to compare two areas, the Appalachians in the USA and the Alps in Austria, by reading and watching texts and films.

This course is a collaboration with the Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, with the students of a class by Jeanne Dubino, Professor of English and Global Studies at the Department of Cultural, Gender, and Global Studies. We will be reading and discussing different texts in seven sessions, that is three texts from different genres dealing with the Appalachians and the Alps:

Ron Rash, The World Made Straight (2006)
Barbara Kopple, Harlan County, Usa (Film, 2009)
Ashley York, Hillbilly (Documentary, 2016)

Elfriede Jelinek, Lust (1989)
Andreas Prochaska, Das Finstere Tal (Film, 2014)
Baillee Grohmann, William, and Harrison E. Compton, Tyrol (Travel Literature,1908)

The rest of the sessions will be dedicated to a thorough investigation of Mountain Literature.

Discussion groups, team work, presentations

Presentations, final report
 

Ron Rash, The World Made Straight (2006)
Barbara Kopple, Harlan County, Usa (Film, 2009)
Anthony Harkins, Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon (2005)

Peter Handke, On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House (1997)
Andreas Prochaska, Das Finstere Tal (Film, 2014)
Peter Gieler, Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture - Austria (2018)

plus short pieces on Tyrolean history and culture

BA Teacher Training Programme: positive completion of compulsory module 16

BA 2016: positive completion of compulsory module 14

BA 2009: positive completion of compulsory module 19