240532 SE ‘Death on the Nile’ - The Colonial Gaze in Fiction and Film (P4) (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Participation at first session is obligatory!

The lecturer can invite students to a grade-relevant discussion about partial achievements. Partial achievements that are obtained by fraud or plagiarized result in the non-evaluation of the course (entry 'X' in certificate). The plagiarism software 'Turnitin' will be used for courses with continuous assessment.

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An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Anmeldung von Mi 01.02.2023 00:01 bis Mo 20.02.2023 23:59
Abmeldung bis Mo 13.03.2023 23:59

Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen

Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

If possible, the course is to be conducted in presence. Due to the respective applicable distance regulations and other measures, adjustments may be made.

    
    Dienstag
    07.03.
    11:30 - 13:00
    Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
    
    Dienstag
    14.03.
    11:30 - 14:45
    Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
    
    Dienstag
    18.04.
    11:30 - 14:45
    Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
    
    Dienstag
    02.05.
    11:30 - 14:45
    Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
    
    Dienstag
    16.05.
    11:30 - 14:45
    Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
    
    Dienstag
    06.06.
    11:30 - 14:45
    Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
    
    Dienstag
    20.06.
    11:30 - 14:45
    Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Traveling and reporting back to the center of imperial power had a massive impact on diverse art genres and a growing popular pleasure in tales of adventure, mystery and suspense, danger and terror. The seminar explores colonial imagination in selected works starting with the storytelling of Agatha Christie and its visual adaptions.
This is an inter-active course. Apart from introductory input and impulse lecturing the seminar is based on intense communication, open discussion, active contribution and group work of all participants, and makes use of multi-media materials and seminal texts.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Continuous assessment, 20 minutes presentation and a final seminar paper.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Marking is based on active participation including collective and peer-group discussion (20%), 20 minutes presentation (35%), and final paper (aprox. 25.000 characters; 45%).
Closing date for final paper delivery: 31.07.2023

Prüfungsstoff

The assessment load is constituted by notions, concepts and approaches that were presented, examined and debated in the course as well as the discussed case studies; all work done by the participants, whether collectively or independently.

Literatur

Agatha Christie:
Death on the Nile
The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest
The Gate of Baghdad
They Came to Baghdad
The Rajah’s Emerald
A Caribbean Mystery
Murder in Mesopotamia

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 06.03.2023 07:50