Proseminar: Amerykańskie teksty kultury XX i XXI wieku 4219-ZP051
This proseminar offers an introduction to key cultural texts of 20th- and 21st-century America—literature, film, television, and visual culture—through the lens of critical theory. Alongside close readings of selected cultural materials, we will engage with foundational theoretical approaches (including psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, and post-structuralism) that shape contemporary cultural analysis. The aim is to equip students with tools to critically examine how texts reflect and negotiate issues of power, identity, and social change. Emphasis will be placed on developing interpretive skills, formulating research questions, and building a vocabulary for independent academic inquiry. The proseminar prepares students for BA-level research in American Studies, with reading load evenly divided between primary texts and theoretical materials.
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Type of course
Term 2025Z: proseminars | General: proseminars obligatory courses |
Mode
Learning outcomes
Knowledge: a graduate knows and understands in-depth
K_W01 - the significance of cultural studies, religion studies, history, literary studies, sociology, political science and administration, their position in the scholarship system, the specificity of these fields, and their relations to other fields of study within humanities and social sciences; the paradigm of interdisciplinary research and the need to integrate perspectives and research
methods in the field of American Studies
K_W03 - the terminology, methods, tools and techniques of data gathering, select research traditions and schools, and the directions in which they are developing, crucial for studying cultural phenomena in the Americas
Skills: a graduate is able to
K_U01 - use their knowledge to formulate and creatively solve complex and unusual research tasks and problems, formulate and test related hypotheses by selecting and applying appropriate sources and information, assessing, critically analyzing, synthesizing them, and creatively interpreting in the context of interdisciplinary American Studies
K_U02 - apply appropriate research methods and tools, adjust existing tools and methods as well as develop new ones for the purposes of interdisciplinary American Studies
Social Skills: A graduate is prepared to
K_K02 - use the interdisciplinary knowledge they gained in the field of American Studies in order to formulate their own opinions
K_K03 - accept the significance of knowledge in solving cognitive and practical problems and to seek out expert opinions when they are unable to solve them on their own
Assessment criteria
Regular preparation for class (reading assigned texts) (30)
Active participation in class (20)
Final written assignment (40)
Attendance (10)
Bibliography
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Additional information
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