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| Semester | fall semester 2019 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Peter Robert Burleigh (p.burleigh@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | This course is intended as a reading and discussion cycle based on the political stakes of 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 the governance of people? 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. |
| Bibliography | Essays by the following writers will be included and made available: Mary Wollstonecraft, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, John Berger, Audre Lorde, 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 | Please register by e-mail to alex.van-lierde@unibas.ch by 6.9.2019. At the same time please enroll via MOnA. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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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 |