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30552-01 - Proseminar: The Seven Deadly Sins and Their Social Significance (3 KP)
| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2012 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende |
Werner Brönnimann (werner.broennimann@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn)
Markus Marti-Cimitro (markus.marti@unibas.ch) |
| Inhalt | While the seven deadly sins have lost their validity as a religious rule system in modernity, they arguably live on, having metamorphosed into diverse, sometimes rather discreet, social norms. As an example take sloth: laziness may no longer be considered a sin, but there are numerous social pressures that urge young and older individuals to forgo laid-back inactivity. It will be one of the course's tasks to examine why this should be so and to investigate the rhetoric and persuasion techniques that attempt to make people live their lives in what purports to be a desirable way. The seminar will therefore study gluttony, pride, envy, anger, sloth, greed, and lust both from a historical perspective (for example by reading texts by Langland and Chaucer) as well as from today's point of view, using materials from recent English and American writing as well as from sociological sources. Since the course is a cultural studies project it will attempt to synthesise further artistic expressions of the theme in art and film. |
| Lernziele | Understanding the aims and methods of an interdisciplinary cultural studies project. Expanding students' knowledge of English and American literary history on the basis of a thematic focus. |
| Literatur | Many thematically arranged short materials will make up the syllabus; authors studied will include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Rochester, Huxley and Updike. The texts will be made available to students in electronic form. |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | Successful attendance of the first semester of a second-year proseminar in Literature and Culture Studies |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | Enrol by email to alex.van-lierde@unibas.ch indicating your 1st and 2nd choice proseminar. The first 18 to enrol are guaranteed a place in the course of their 1st choice; others may be shifted to one of the other courses on offer. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | Online-Angebot obligatorisch |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Refining Skills in Literature and Culture (Bachelor Studienfach: Englisch) Modul Refining Skills in Literature and Culture for SLA teachers (Sek-I-Fach: Englisch) Modul Refining Skills in Literature and Culture for SLA teachers (Ausbildung zur Lehrperson für die Sekundarstufe I) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | One oral presentation; active participation; regular attendance |
| 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 |