123223 SE Literary Seminar / BA-Arbeit / MA American/North American Lit./Studies (2020W)
Human Enhancement and Artificial Intelligence in North American Fiction
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- Registration is open from Tu 08.09.2020 12:00 to Tu 15.09.2020 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Sa 31.10.2020 23:59
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Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Participants are expected to attend an international conference early in the semester as auditors. It will be organized as a hybrid event and will also be streamed. It will be accessible to students registered for the seminar. This program will also make up for sessions which will be canceled in November and / or December.
Due to the recent regulations as a result of the pandemic, the next sessions of the seminar will be conducted online. You will receive further information on access to the sessions on 18 and 25 November.
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Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Student presentation and written seminar paper, 50 %
Oral contributions in class and two written reports on sessions, one based on two lectures at the international conference 25%
Final essay test 25%
Examination topics
Reading list
A reserve shelf containing pertinent texts and studies will be accessible on the upper floor of the departmental library.
Association in the course directory
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.4-322, BA10.2, MA5, MA7; MA 4.1, 4.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-0375
These potentially alarming possibilities depicted by modern authors will be considered in this seminar, which continues a debate begun in the preceding semester.
Among the literary texts written by American authors or Anglophone writers during their residence in North America will be Walker Percy’s dystopian novel The Thanatos Syndrome (1987), Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? (1968), and Aldous Huxley’s late novel Island (1962). The long tradition of this contemporary concern with human enhancement will be indicated by an early story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”), while the fictional use of early robots will be illustrated by one of Isaac Asimov’s short stories (“Satisfaction Guaranteed”).