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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2018 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Jürg Schneider (juerg.schneider@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | The field course offers students the opportunity to work in and with the material of photo studios in Douala or Yaoundé, Cameroon. Students from all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences are explicitly invited to take part in the course. Collaboration with universities and students in Cameroon is planned. Research work carried out in Cameroon can serve as a basis for a later Ba or MA thesis. The language of instruction is German and English, but students should be able to communicate in French. The main focus of research will be on the ethnography of the city, more precisely on the role photo studios played, and still play, in the various quarters as nodal points of social interaction and stores of collective and individual memories. The research includes interviews with photographers and former clients of the studios, conversations with authorities and residents of the neighbourhood as well as working in archives. The photo studios covered many different needs for photographic documentation and representation from the personal to the public: They took photographs of individuals or groups in the studio, documented marriages, funerals and other socially important events, accepted orders from enterprises and the authorities, documented public holiday parades and made reproductions and rearrangements of old photographs. Thus, the photographs of the studios, many of whom have operated in the same quarter for many years, are not only snapshots, but together form a unity and a comprehensive picture of a society and life in a neighbourhood over a longer period of time. |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | The seminar consists of two modules: 1. In order to prepare students for their research and research stay in Cameroon in the Spring Semester 2018 a preparatory seminar course will be held on four Saturdays between March and May 2018. 2. Students will spend the two last weeks of July 2018 in Cameroon and carry out the research they have prepared in spring. They will compose a paper of between 5 and 10 ten pages in which they analyse and synthesize the results from their research. For the participation in the preparatory seminar and the field trip, including the research paper, 5 ECTS will be awarded. Funding will be raised for the trip. Yet, students are required to cover part of the expenses (CHF ca. 700 p.p. for accommodation, daily expenses, visa and vaccination). |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | We ask you to register by the 10th of March at the latest with some brief information about your motivation, study program, previous education and language skills. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Applied African Studies (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Fields: Media and Imagination (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul History (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Interdisciplinary and Applied African Studies (Master Studiengang: African Studies) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Zentrum für Afrikastudien |