HYBRID COURSE:
This course is planned as a hybrid course. What this means concretely, we don't know yet. The state of Bavaria is currently planning to have courses meet mostly in person on campus - we will see what the concrete plans are for Augsburg University in the coming weeks. In any case, if you are unable to be on campus you will not be excluded from the course.
Leistungsnachweis
In order to receive credit points for the course you will need to write a term paper.
You will be expected to do write and present two 5 minute impulse response papers during the semester and hand in an outline for your term paper as prerequisites for writing the term paper in this course.
Online/Digitale Veranstaltung
Veranstaltung wird als Hybrid/gemischt abgehalten.
Hauptunterrichtssprache
englisch
Literaturhinweise
Please purchase: Maria Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don
You can also read/download it here for free: https://archive.org/details/squatteranddona00burtgoog/page/n12/mode/2up
Sonstiges
Further details about primary sources will be announced latest in the first session.
In 1872, Yellowstone National Park became the first national park in the US. Three more parks were created before the beginning of the twentieth century. Protecting the “treasures of the nation,” and preserving some of the countries “wilderness” found much encouragement at the time when Westward expansion was coming to an end, as white settlers had made their way across the continent and removed Indigenous peoples to reservations. In 1872, the US, had been an independent nation for under 100 years, and the Civil War and legal slavery had ended not even a decade previously. The nation was also still very much trying to define itself in terms of culture, art and literature, and the negotiations of concerning the attitudes towards nature, wilderness and land-use frequently lay at the heart of these definitions.
We will discuss a variety of texts in this course with the aim of tracing how nature, or more accurately discourses of nature, contributed to and in turn were influenced by understandings of nation in 19th century America. This also means that we will discuss the ways in which other identity categories, such race, gender, and class become important factors in those negotiations of nature and nation as well.
Further works will be announced latest at the beginning of the course. Most readings will be made available to you via Digicampus.
Anmelderegeln
Diese Veranstaltung gehört zum Anmeldeset "ALW/ELW/NELK: Vertiefungsmodul BA: HS".
Folgende Regeln gelten für die Anmeldung:
Die Anmeldung ist möglich von 06.09.2021, 08:00 bis 11.10.2021, 18:00.
Diese Regel gilt von 06.09.2021 08:00 bis 11.10.2021 18:00. Die Anmeldung zu maximal 1 Veranstaltungen des Anmeldesets ist erlaubt.
Es wird eine festgelegte Anzahl von Plätzen in den Veranstaltungen verteilt.
Die Plätze in den betreffenden Veranstaltungen wurden am 13.10.2021 um 18:00 verteilt. Weitere Plätze werden evtl. über Wartelisten zur Verfügung gestellt.
