MA Seminar: American Cultural Studies Now 4219-ZS124-AM
Recent developments in cultural studies have impacted our perspective on American culture. We now think about cultural production in terms of race,
ethnicity, gender/sexuality, and postcoloniality. This course is designed for students engaged in developing models of cultural production and in
readdressing assumptions of identity.
The seminar encourages a wide variety of MA thesis topics: from those interested in straightforward literary criticism and analysis, to those interested
in unconventional approaches to non-literary texts, as well as those also invested in addressing visual representations. Topics on transnationalism,
migration, memory, and Jewishness will be treated with specific interest, as well as those concerned with gender/sexuality and with comparative Polish/Eastern
European and American approaches.
Type of course
obligatory courses
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
The key expected learning outcome of the course:
- Planning, researching and writing an MA thesis
Assumed competences students acquire as a result of taking and passing the course:
- the ability to use critical terms from Cultural Studies to analyze cultural texts
-the ability to find and evaluate primary and secondary sources
- ability to organize complex research results in a coherent way
- the ability to construct an effective argument
- appreciation of diversity and multiculturality
Assessment criteria
Final grade (ZAL) based on submitting a chapter of the MA thesis by the end of the term (ca. 15 pages, with footnotes and bibliography)
Bibliography
Selection from:
Belcher, Wendy Laura. Writing your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success. University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Fluck, Winfried, Donald E. Pease, and John Carlos Rowe, ed. Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies. UPNE, 2011.
Grossberg, Lawrence, Cary Nelson, Paula Treichler, ed. Cultural Studies. Routledge, 1992.
Lye, Colleen , Christopher Nealon, ed. After Marx. Cambridge, 2022.
Pease, Donald E., Robyn Wiegman. The Futures of American Studies. Duke, 2002.
Richter, David H., ed. Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends. Bedford’s/St.Martin’s, 2007.
Additional information
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