AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE: FROM MODERN TIMES TO THE PRESENT
| Title | ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΗ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΣ ΙΙ: ΑΠΟ ΤΟΝ ΜΟΝΤΕΡΝΙΣΜΟ ΜΕΧΡΙ ΣΗΜΕΡΑ / AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE: FROM MODERN TIMES TO THE PRESENT |
| Code | Λογ7-271 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | English Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate, 2nd / Postgraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600008029 |
Programme of Study: 2024-2025
Registered students: 0
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Compulsory Course | Winter/Spring | - | 6 |
| Academic Year | 2018 – 2019 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors | |
| Class ID | 600133099
|
Course Type 2016-2020
- Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600133099
- At the Website of the School: http://www.enl.auth.gr/course.asp?Id=347
- eLearning (Moodle): https://elearning.auth.gr/course/view.php?id=6378
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
There are not prerequesites for this course.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will practice reading closely literary texts, films, speeches, newspaper clippings
- Will gain knowledge of certain key historical, social and political events that influenced American literary and cultural production
- Will re-evaluate and re-assess certain important notions on the basis of the themes examined in class (race, gender etc.) and other socio-political developments.
General Competences
- Adapt to new situations
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an international context
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
This interdisciplinary course will set to explore some central themes and concepts that define American literature and culture from 1914 till the present day by shedding light on certain historical and political facts. Topics to be studied include: Land/Immigration, Native Americans, Gender, Urbanism, Technology, Race/African Americans, Politics, Ecology, 9/11 etc. Texts: literary and cultural texts (speeches, songs, poems, essays, lyrics); films and photographs.
Keywords
literature, culture, politics, history, environment (urban and natural), race, gender, technology
Educational Material Types
- Slide presentations
- Multimedia
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
Description
Online material made available via the American Studies Resource Portal (co-ordinator and co-director) as well as documentaries/interviews via youtube.
As regards communication with the students, this is always carried out via email or the online posting of various announcements.
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 117 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Reading Assigment | 10 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Project | 10 | ||||
| Written assigments | 10 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Exams | 3 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Total | 150 |
Student Assessment
Description
Presentations, reports, project, final exams.
Student Assessment methods
- Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Formative)
- Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Summative)
- Written Assignment (Formative)
- Performance / Staging (Formative)
- Report (Formative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Anzaldua, Gloria. Bordelands: the new mestizo = La frontera (1987).
Barker, Chris. Television, Globalization and Cultural Identities (1999).
Bennett, Andy. Cultures of Popular Music (2001).
Bloom, Harold. Black American Women Poets and Dramatists (1996).
Bradbury, Malcolm, and Howard Temperley. Introduction to American Studies (1998).
Breidlid, Anders, et. Al. American Culture: An Anthology of Civilization Texts (2004).
Castillo-Speed, Lillian. Latina: Women’s Voices from the Borderlands (1995).
Clark, Michael. Dos Passo’s Early Fiction 1912-1938 (1987).
Dos Passos, John. Manhattan Transfer (1925 and 1953).
Garofalo, Reebee. Rockin’ Out: Popular Music in the USA (2008).
Holmes, Su. Understanding Reality Television (2004).
Jarab, Josef, et al. America in the Course of Human Events (2006).
Ruland, Richard and Malcolm Bradbury. From Puritanism to Postmodernism (1991).
Hodges, Adam, and Chad Nilep. Discourse, War and Terrorism (2007).
Klinkowitz, Jerome. The Vonnegut Effect (2004).
Lange, Dorothea. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion in the Thirties (1969).
Leak, Jeffrey. Racial Myths and Masculinity in African American Literature (2005).
Lee, Martyn J. The Consumer Society Reader (2000).
Lentricchia, Frank. New Essays on the White Noise (1991).
Markey, Janice. A New Tradition? The Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Adrienne Rich (1988).
Nabokov, Peter. Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present 1492-2000 (1999).
O’ Brien, Sharon. Willa Cather: the Emerging Voice (1987).
Olster, Stacey Michele. The Cambridge Companion to John Updike (2006).
Porter, Joy. The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005).
Scully, Vincent. American Architecture and Urbanism (1988).
Temperley, Howard, and Christopher Bigsby. A New Introduction to American Studies (2006).
Updike, John. Terrorist (2006).
Last Update
07-02-2020
