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48678-01 - Kurs: What’s at Stake? Political Aspects of Critical Writing (3 KP)
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2017 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende | Peter Robert Burleigh (p.burleigh@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | As information becomes more atomized and seemingly evanescent, what response to a world of the fake, the bad and the nasty can critical writing and reading provide. Can we find an antidote to an increasing rhetoric of anti-intellectualism in the governance of people? Where is there space for grounding progressive, thought-provoking, radical ideas and ways of life? This ACE3 course is intended as a reading and discussion course based on the political stakes of critical writing, and hopes to provide some answers to such pertinent questions. The course will be based on a series of texts which will be given structured and in-depth reading with a view to establishing ways to respond in discussion and writing to such input. |
| Lernziele | Students will be exposed to a wide range of critical texts, from which they will glean key ideas, principles and movements from a brief history of critical writing. Students will practice responding to these canonical texts in speech and writing. In particular, their own positioning through writing critical essays will be rehearsed. |
| Literatur | Essays by the following writers will be included: Mary Wollstonecraft, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, John Berger, Audre Lourde, Hélène Cixous, Donna Haraway, Hannah Black |
| Bemerkungen | Students should be prepared to read around 20 pages per week in the materials of the course. |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | None |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL Please enquire by e-mail to p.burleigh@unibas.ch by 4.9.2017 |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | Online-Angebot obligatorisch |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Introduction to Academic Communication in English (Bachelor Studienfach: Englisch) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | t.b.a. |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |