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27425-01 - Proseminar: Red, White, Black and Blue: The Colors of US-American Modernism (3 CP)
| Semester | spring semester 2011 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Therese Steffen (therese.steffen@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | This proseminar seeks to highlight the African American contribution to Modernist writing during the Harlem Reinaissance. We will start out with W.E.B. Du Bois, THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK, discuss Spike Lee's film BAMBOOZLED (on black face minstrelsy), and concentrate on Alain Locke, THE NEW NEGRO, Jean Toomer, CANE, Claude McKay, HOME TO HARLEM, Nella LARSEN, PASSING, John Stahl's, Douglas Sirk's film, IMITATION of LIFE, Henry Louis Gates' Jr, THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACK MAN. |
| Comments | A READER will be available at "dings" in due time. |
| Admission requirements | Successful attendance of the first semester of a second-year proseminar in Literature and Culture Studies. |
| Course application | 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 three courses (24052, 27429, 27435) on offer in the interest of evening out student numbers. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | Online, optional |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul Refining Skills in Literature and Culture (Bachelor's degree subject: 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) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Final assessment |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Englisches Seminar |