Universität Wien
Course Exam

128110 VO Popular and Media Cultures VO / Cultural Studies - MA M01 (2025W)

Nonhuman Bodies in Popular Culture: Environments, Animals, Machines

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Monday 02.02.2026 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
Students who do not fulfill the requirements to take this exam will be de-registered after the end of the registration period.

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).

Examiners

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Examination topics

The lectures, your notes of the content covered over the course of the semester (including explanations and discussions during the Q&As) plus the preparatory material posted on Moodle will form the basis of your studying for the exam.

All content covered in the lecture series will be relevant for the exam. In particular, students are required to define and discuss the key theoretical concepts discussed in the lectures from nonhuman studies, animal studies, ecocriticism and posthumanism, and to apply them to a given piece of media. The exam will be a closed-book paper and pen exam.

Assessment and permitted materials

Final 90 minute exam based on the course materials.
The exam will have 2 parts:
Part 1: Students are required to answer 8 of 10 questions asking for definitions of/reflections on core concepts and theories from our course with media examples.
Part 2: Write a short essay (intro, analysis, conclusion) on the cultural text given using 5 keywords the way they are used in Nonhuman Studies.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

All content covered in the lecture series will be relevant for the final exam, which will count for the entirety of the participant's grade. The benchmark for passing the exam is at 60%.
Grades in %:
1 (very good): 90-100
2 (good): 80-89
3 (satisfactory): 70-79
4 (pass): 60-69
5 (fail): 0-59

Last modified: Tu 04.11.2025 16:06