Exercises: The American Presidents, Part 2: From Harry S. Truman to Joseph R. Biden - Details

Exercises: The American Presidents, Part 2: From Harry S. Truman to Joseph R. Biden - Details

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Course name Exercises: The American Presidents, Part 2: From Harry S. Truman to Joseph R. Biden
Subtitle Prüfungsform: Portfolio; Prüfungsumfang: Präsentation, Kurzhausaufgaben und Klausur
Semester SS 2023
Current number of participants 13
maximum number of participants 20
Home institute Geschichte des europäisch-transatlantischen Kulturraums
participating institutes Neuere und Neueste Geschichte, Neueste Geschichte
Courses type Exercises in category Teaching
First date Wednesday, 26.04.2023 10:00 - 11:30, Room: (D, 2004)
Performance record Portfolio (in English or German)
Abgabetermin: 1. September 2023
Veranstaltung findet in Präsenz statt / hat Präsenz-Bestandteile Yes
Hauptunterrichtssprache englisch
Weitere Unterrichtssprache(n) deutsch
Literaturhinweise Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy. The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Christof Mauch, Ed., Die amerikanischen Präsidenten. München: Beck, 2021.
Milkis, Sidney M. and Michael Nelson, The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2018. Los Angeles: Sage, 2020.
Jeff Smith, The Presidents We Imagine: Two Centuries of White House Fictions on the Page, on the Stage, Onscreen, and Online. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.
Gore Vidal, The American Presidency. Monroe, Maine: Odonian Press, 1998.

Rooms and times

(D, 2004)
Wednesday: 10:00 - 11:30, weekly (13x)

Module assignments

Comment/Description

Prüfungsform: Portfolio; The President of the United States of America is often called “the most powerful man in the world”, which might be one of the reasons why no other elected politician fascinates people around the world as much and why no other head of state is given more media attention than the man residing in the White House. Based on a variety of sources, this course will focus on the lives, accomplishments, failures, and legacies of the US Presidents in their historical contexts from the founding of the United States to World War II.
Note: The seminar will be held in English, reading assignments are in both, German and English

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Übungen NNG/GETK/NG/UG SS 2023 Erstsemester".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats in the affected courses have been assigned at 19.04.2023 on 00:30. Additional seats may be available via a wait list.
  • The following conditions must be met for enrolment:
    Semester of study is 1
  • The enrolment is possible from 17.04.2023, 09:00 to 19.04.2023, 00:10.