Advanced seminar: Writing Rivers - Details

Advanced seminar: Writing Rivers - Details

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General information

Course name Advanced seminar: Writing Rivers
Subtitle Bachelor / Lehramt Hauptseminar
Course number 025 100 1004
Semester WS 2024/25
Current number of participants 26
maximum number of participants 25
Home institute Amerikanistik
Courses type Advanced seminar in category Teaching
First date Tuesday, 15.10.2024 15:45 - 17:15, Room: (D, 2107)
Veranstaltung findet in Präsenz statt / hat Präsenz-Bestandteile Yes
Hauptunterrichtssprache englisch

Rooms and times

(D, 2107)
Tuesday: 15:45 - 17:15, weekly (15x)
(session by the river)
Saturday, 18.01.2025 10:00 - 12:00

Module assignments

Comment/Description

How to ‘capture’ a river in writing, how to ‘write a river’? Freshwater – such as rivers – presents a more recent focus in the so-called ‘Blue Humanities’, a field developing from the Environmental Humanities, but focused specifically on water. This class will first provide an overview of the Blue Humanities which invite us to shift our perspective to understand salt waters and freshwaters alike as “integral parts of all planetary water ecologies with their co-constitutive and dynamic relationalities,” as Serpil Oppermann puts it (Blue Humanities. Storied Waterscapes in the Anthropocene, CUP 2023, p. 10) before we will look at how writers from the US, Canada, and the UK ‘write rivers’ as a central example of freshwater. What kind of significance do they attribute to them? How do they connect them to questions of individual and collective identity, place, nature, and environmental justice? And what kinds of aesthetic forms they find for them?

The course will focus on poetry, essays, and plays. Students are expected to buy a copy of Alice Oswald’s Dart (2001). All other texts will be provided on Digicampus.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "ALW/ELW/NELK: Vertiefungsmodul BA: HS".
Studierende der Anglistik/Amerikanistik und des Faches Englisch können sich bereits während der vorgezogenen Anmeldephase zur Sicherstellung des Studienfortschritts für die Aufbau- und Vertiefungsmodule anmelden. Hierzu wird ein gewisses Kontingent der Kursplätze im Zeitraum vom 12.08.2024 bis 28.08.2024 für die Anmeldung geöffnet. Die Verteilung der Plätze erfolgt am 30.08.2024. Bitte beachten Sie, dass in dieser Anmeldephase Studierende in höheren Fachsemestern bei der Verteilung der Plätze priorisiert werden.
Die allgemeine Anmeldephase beginnt am 02.09.2024 und endet am 07.10.2024.
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • This setting is active from 02.09.2024 08:00 to 07.10.2024 12:00.
    Enrolment is allowed for up to 1 courses of the admission set.
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats in the affected courses have been assigned at 09.10.2024 on 12:00. Additional seats may be available via a waiting list.
  • The enrolment is possible from 02.09.2024, 08:00 to 07.10.2024, 12:00.
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