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Promised Land America [Import]- Dozent/in
- Dr. Nicole K. Konopka
- Angaben
- Proseminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS
Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium, Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Fr 12:00 - 14:00, U5/01.17; Bemerkung zu Zeit und Ort: This course includes a day trip to see the exhibition "American Dreams. A New Life in the USA" in Stuttgart in late May/early June 2024
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for literary studies or cultural studies:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 6 ECTS)
- BA Berufliche Bildung (Seminar 6 ECTS)
- Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar Lit: 6 ECTS / Seminar Cult: 5 ECTS)
- BA Wipäd II (Seminar 6 ECTS)
>> Open for ‘Ergänzungsmodul’ literary studies and cultural studies!
Please note: This course includes a day trip to see the exhibition "American Dreams. A New Life in the USA" in Stuttgart in late May/early June 2024!
2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
3. FlexNow-Registration:
Please register for this class on FlexNow via the following section (Lehrstuhl): Professur für Amerikanistik. In case of problems contact flexnow.amerikanistik(at)uni-bamberg.de.
- Course (de)enrollment: March 11 – April 22, 2024
- ECTS/Exams (de)registration: June 10–25, 2024
Registration is open from 10 a.m. until 11:59 p.m.!
Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.
Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik-amerikanistik/studium/flexnow-info/
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.
- Inhalt
- The United States of America are often described as a nation of immigrants and minorities, the ‘golden door’ to the West, a land in which people from all over the world have sought – and apparently found – new homes and new lives. However, the myth of the Promised Land is as much exclusive as it is inclusive.
In general, the course centers around American ideals and realities. We will be looking at how immigrants and minorities have participated in the creation of the myth and have influenced debates about inclusion of newcomers into the Promised Land.
This course has two key goals, which are related to "history from below" and "mythmaking." First, this course seeks to help students to examine their own notions of American history. Immigrants and members of a minority are neither helpless victims, nor the agents of pure individualism. One objective of this class is to help students understand the many layers of the stories of minorities and migration, and how they are entwined with American history in particular. The second goal is to show the gradual emancipation of a popular myth and how the idea of the Promised Land becomes ideal or real against different ethnic backgrounds.
To achieve these goals, we will do a lot of reading, speaking, and thinking. Our main reading material will consist of the novels listed below, and students are expected to purchase and read the novels by Upton Sinclair and Mary Antin before the end of April.
All course material (except for the novels) will be provided well ahead of class via the Virtual Campus. It is important for participants to do the assigned reading, attend class regularly and contribute to class discussions. You are welcome to bring in materials from outside of class (newspaper articles, handouts etc) and you can also plan class room activities – e.g. mock debates. Your input will be welcome!
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Required reading (in print or E-book):
- Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906) - preferably the The Bedford Series in History and Culture edition
- Mary Antin, The Promised Land (1912) - no particular edition favored; student's choice
- Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama, The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco (1931) - preferably from Stone Bridge Press [ISBN 1880656337]
- Pietro di Donato, Christ in Concrete (1939) - preferably from Signet Classics [ISBN 0451525752]
- Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land (1965) - preferably from Touchstone [ISBN 0684864185]
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- Promised Land America
- Credits: 6
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 25
- Institution: Zentrum für Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung Bamberg (ZLB)
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