Course Catalogue Summer Semester 2010 - Universität Erfurt

The University of Erfurt – Course Catalogue Summer Semester 2010 Apr 26, 2010 15:04:19
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Verena Laschinger
Capital and Creativity
BA-English studies / Literature
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10—14
10—14
10—14
10—14
10—14
10—14
06.06.2010
13.06.2010
20.06.2010
27.06.2010
04.07.2010
11.07.2010
HS WP Q
LG 4
LG 4
LG 4
LG 4
LG 4
LG 4
50/358
This praxis seminar is concerned with the question of how to make knowledge-work productive? Students
will critically discuss recent theoretical concepts on the cathexis of capital and creativity. Following Peter
Drucker's claim that knowledge is "the true capital of any economy", literature students of the Universität
Erfurt are asked to cooperate in project groups in order to put the highly specified knowledge of their
field to productive use for the members of their teams, their peers in class as well as for students, who
are not participating in this seminar. The teams are invited to engage in projects beneficial for research,
scholarship, pedagogy, classroom performance and/or other related matters. It is a course objective to
familiarize students with the connective, communicative and challenging processes of teamwork. To
increase their e-literacy for academic needs, students are taught to employ internet technology and
social software such as blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, Flicker, and engage in online communities
such as h-net. The teams are asked to cooperate flexibly, as well as to communicate transparently and
ad hoc as required by the ongoing process of their projects. By engaging in joint performance, students
will learn the fundamental tasks of self and group management.
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Verena Laschinger
The City and Literature
BA-English studies / Literature
lim. acc. 25
Mi 16—20 LG 1 323
S WP Q
This course offers an opportunity to engage in a study of literary images of cities in American literature.
The Industrial Revolution spurred authors in the United States to write about inhumane living conditions
in the cities. Transcendentalists wrote about how the effects of urban living crush the spirit. As society
became increasingly urbanized, city portraits became more diverse in modernist and postmodernist
literature. Following Richard Lehan in 'The City in Literature' (1998), students will be introduced to the
specific ways in which American cities were imagined against the backdrop of both European capitals and
the American wilderness, and will thus become acquainted with texts and concepts which have
significantly shaped American literature and culture. We will also draw on a number of interdisciplinary
and theoretical investigations of urbanity from 'The Blackwell City Reader' (2002).
1 07 2 069
Verena Laschinger
The City and Literature
BA-English studies / Literature
lim. acc. 30
Mi 16—20 LG 1 323
HS WP Q
This course offers an opportunity to engage in a study of literary images of cities in American literature.
The Industrial Revolution spurred authors in the United States to write about inhumane living conditions
in the cities. Transcendentalists wrote about how the effects of urban living crush the spirit. As society
became increasingly urbanized, city portraits became more diverse in modernist and postmodernist
literature. Following Richard Lehan in 'The City in Literature' (1998), students will be introduced to the
specific ways in which American cities were imagined against the backdrop of both European capitals and
the American wilderness, and will thus become acquainted with texts and concepts which have
significantly shaped American literature and culture. We will also draw on a number of interdisciplinary
and theoretical investigations of urbanity from 'The Blackwell City Reader' (2002).
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) – BA-English studies / Literature
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D08
D08
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D08
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