Course Exam

124071 VO Culture, Society and the Media (2016S)

Transnational Trauma and Cultures: Experience, Representation and Resilience

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

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Thursday 30.06.2016 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Registration is open from Th 09.06.2016 00:00 to Tu 28.06.2016 23:59
Deregistration possible until Tu 28.06.2016 23:59

Examiners

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Examination topics

Participants are expected to read all set texts plus the additional secondary/theoretifcal material provided on the noodle platform; they are also expected to engage in autonomous research, to offer a critical and reflective analysis of texts and concepts.

Assessment and permitted materials

Final written test (100%).

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

This lecture will familiarise students with the history of trauma both as concept and as cultural object; students will learn how to approach different mediations (comics, movies, novels, poems) and representations of traumatic events; students will be asked to read key theoretical texts by Michel Foucault, François Lyotard, Stuart Hall, Cathy Caruth, Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, Achille Mbembe, Judith Butler and Michael Kimmel.

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