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60738-01 - Course: Transgressive texts 3 CP

Semester spring semester 2022
Course frequency Irregular
Lecturers Peter Burleigh (p.burleigh@unibas.ch, Assessor)
Content This course is intended as a reading and discussion cycle based on the political stakes of transgressive and critical writing, and hopes to provide some answers to questions such as: can we find an antidote to an increasing rhetoric of anti-intellectualism in society today? Where is there space for grounding progressive, thought-provoking, radical ideas and ways of life? What kinds of ways to engage will come next? The course will be structured around 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. The texts we visit will give a historical background, as well as a space for contemporary thought, and point to potential future worlds.
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 with a cycle of:
Short response -- Framed response -- Analytical response -- Longer writing
Bibliography Essays by the following writers will be included and made available:
Mary Wollstonecraft, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Audre Lorde, Hélène Cixous, Maria Lugones, Donna Haraway, Linda Stupart, Andreas Malm, Kathleen Stewart, Lauren Berlant.
Comments Students should be prepared to read around 20 pages per week in the materials of the course, and to do some form of writing in response to the input - sometimes shorter (150 words), sometimes longer (500+ words), on a weekly basis.

Please direct communication about the course to the instructor p.burleigh@unibas.ch. Students may register for only one ACE 3 class!

 

Course application Places are limited to 24 students. Please register via email to p.burleigh@unibas.ch by 1.2.2022.
Language of instruction English
Use of digital media No specific media used

 

Interval Weekday Time Room
wöchentlich Tuesday 16.15-18.00 Nadelberg 6, Raum 25

Dates

Date Time Room
Tuesday 22.02.2022 16.15-18.00 Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal
Tuesday 01.03.2022 16.15-18.00 Nadelberg 6, Raum 25
Tuesday 08.03.2022 16.15-18.00 Fasnachtsferien
Tuesday 15.03.2022 16.15-18.00 Nadelberg 6, Raum 25
Tuesday 22.03.2022 16.15-18.00 Nadelberg 6, Raum 25
Tuesday 29.03.2022 16.15-18.00 Nadelberg 6, Raum 25
Tuesday 05.04.2022 16.15-18.00 Nadelberg 6, Raum 25
Tuesday 12.04.2022 16.15-18.00 Nadelberg 6, Raum 25
Tuesday 19.04.2022 16.15-18.00 Nadelberg 6, Raum 25
Tuesday 26.04.2022 16.15-18.00 Nadelberg 6, Raum 25
Tuesday 03.05.2022 16.15-18.00 Nadelberg 6, Raum 25
Tuesday 10.05.2022 16.15-18.00 Nadelberg 6, Raum 25
Tuesday 17.05.2022 16.15-18.00 Nadelberg 6, Raum 25
Tuesday 24.05.2022 16.15-18.00 Nadelberg 6, Raum 25
Tuesday 31.05.2022 16.15-18.00 Nadelberg 6, Raum 25
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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