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57153-01 - Course: Know Your Place: class in Britain 3 CP

Semester spring semester 2020
Course frequency Irregular
Lecturers Peter Robert Burleigh (p.burleigh@unibas.ch, Assessor)
Content This course addresses the tendencies for British culture and identity to circulate around class. We will consider mainly renderings of class and its analysis from mid twentieth-century up to the present day. This will mean we examine from early cultural theorists such as Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams, expanding on Stuart Hall and Dick Hebdige, through to Annette Kuhn, Angle McRobbie and Irit Rogoff: considering key figures in the British cultural studies canon. We will also address case studies of class, class positioning, and practices and artefacts that specifically address class or are its products. Including material from personal diaries, photography, film, TV, fashion, music and sport as well as economic and political positions.

Please register by e-mail to alex.van-lierde@unibas.ch by 10.2.2020. At the same time please enroll via MOnA.
Learning objectives Students will learn about the key figures in 20th- and 21st-century British cultural studies, and will acquire tools for analysis through readings, case studies and application in group and plenary work.
Bibliography A reader of theory texts, practical readings, and voices from the working class will be made available at the beginning of the term.

 

Admission requirements none
Course application Please register by e-mail to alex.van-lierde@unibas.ch by 10.2.2020. At the same time please enroll via MOnA.
Language of instruction English
Use of digital media No specific media used

 

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 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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