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124266 KO Critical Media Analysis (2015S)

Getting away from it all and having the time of your life? Critically reading popular guidebooks and travel blogs relating to the 'global south'

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 30 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 13.03. 08:00 - 10:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 20.03. 08:00 - 10:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 27.03. 08:00 - 10:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 17.04. 08:00 - 10:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 24.04. 08:00 - 10:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 08.05. 08:00 - 10:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 15.05. 08:00 - 10:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 22.05. 08:00 - 10:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 29.05. 08:00 - 10:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 05.06. 08:00 - 10:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 12.06. 08:00 - 10:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 19.06. 08:00 - 10:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 26.06. 08:00 - 10:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Guidebooks and travel blogs celebrate touristic freedom and offer us colourful insights into destinations from all around the world. As powerful bodies of knowledge, they shape our ways of understanding foreign cultures and help us make sense of the world as we browse their pages, online and offline alike. To that effect, particular itineraries and ways of seeing people from other cultures are culturally legitimized as appropriate, whereas other practices are often excluded. However, guidebooks and blogs also embrace an ethical vision of humanity that assumes travel as one key to reducing cultural differences and making the world more accessible. This accessibility is not available to everybody though and western tourist practices often continue to be embedded in the signifying economy of a post-colonial capitalist enterprise. This course takes this as a point of departure and investigates how images of alterity are negotiated by these sources and how notions of freedom and responsibility are played out.

Assessment and permitted materials

Participation in class, a group presentation, a group portfolio, and a midterm test.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

This course is aimed at teacher trainees and BA students. It is designed to help participants develop both a theoretical understanding and practical skills to critically analyse media contents that relate to travelling and the global south. At the end of the course, student shall have developed a portfolio with a write up of their analysis (mini paper), a summary of selected readings and a reflection.

Examination topics

Students will be familiarized with concepts that help them deconstruct and denaturalize various forms of destination images represented in Anglophone guidebooks and travel blogs. Students will select viable examples for discussion (e.g. contents from guidebooks and travel blogs) and investigate the socio-cultural implications of these examples with regard to hidden power relations and ideological tendencies that may reside in the texts. Readings, group activities and presentations will be rounded off by discussions, peer-feedback sessions and written assignments.

Reading list

A reader will be made available.

Association in the course directory

Studium: UF 344, BA 612, BEd 046
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.5-426, BA07.3; BEd 08a.2, BEd 08b.1
Lehrinhalt: 12-4260

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