English - Elective Subject, topic 1: America: an Exploration in Contemporary Culture, Literature, Politics, and Society

Course content

The United States is as fascinating as bedeviling. America: an Exploration in Contemporary Culture, Literature, Politics, and Society aims to augment your understanding of the United States through interdisciplinary work, and has the present as its point of departure.


Joe Goddard’s component, dealing with American culture, politics and society, analyses the interplay between governing structures, policy formation, and social outcomes with the second Trump administration soon facing voters in the midterms. It considers polarization and the enduring significance of the second Trump Administration.


Inge Birgitte Siegumfeldt’s component trains its focus on American culture and literature featuring key movements, texts and films that have shaped the landscape of American aesthetical and intellectual culture from the last decades of the twentieth century until today. The undoing of conventional paradigms will be at the core of this part of the course.


The two components run separately but complement each other. The components are examined together.

Education

Engelsk

Class seminars/discussions

  1. Latest politics and society texts as well as literary texts by such writers as Nicole Krauss, Carmen Maria Machado, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Paul Auster

Oral
Individual
Collective
Continuous feedback during the course of the semester
ECTS
15 ECTS
Type of assessment
Other
Aid
Only certain aids allowed (see description below)

HENB01481E: Alle.

HENB01482E: Alle, dog ikke internet, digitale noter eller andre former for tekst, der kan kopieres og indsættes digitalt i eksamensbesvarelsen.

HENB01483E: Alle.

Criteria for exam assessment

Single subject courses (day)

  • Category
  • Hours
  • Class Instruction
  • 84
  • Preparation
  • 325,5
  • English
  • 409,5

Kursusinformation

Language
English
Course number
HENB01481U
ECTS
15 ECTS
Programme level
Bachelor
Duration

1 semester

Placement
Spring
Schedulegroup
See link to schedule
Studyboard
Study board of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting department
  • Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting faculty
  • Faculty of Humanities
Course Coordinators
  • Joseph Goddard   (7-6c746969667769456d7a7233707a336970)
  • Inge Birgitte Siegumfeldt   (6-776d696b7971446c7971326f7932686f)
Saved on the 01-04-2025

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