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48678-01 - Course: What’s at Stake? Political Aspects of Critical Writing 3 CP

Semester fall semester 2017
Course frequency Irregular
Lecturers Peter Robert Burleigh (p.burleigh@unibas.ch, Assessor)
Content 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.
Learning objectives 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.
Bibliography 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
Comments Students should be prepared to read around 20 pages per week in the materials of the course.

 

Admission requirements None
Course application THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL

Please enquire by e-mail to p.burleigh@unibas.ch by 4.9.2017
Language of instruction English
Use of digital media Online, mandatory

 

Interval Weekday Time Room

No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.

Modules Modul Introduction to Academic Communication in English (Bachelor's degree subject: English)
Assessment format continuous assessment
Assessment details t.b.a.
Assessment registration/deregistration Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required
Repeat examination no repeat examination
Scale Pass / Fail
Repeated registration as often as necessary
Responsible faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch
Offered by Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

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