MABM101 Съвременни аспекти на американистиката
Анотация:
АНОТАЦИЯ:
* Lectures – 20 hours
* Workshops – 8 hours (these workshops are so designed as to provoke active student participation; they are based on individual work on tasks given previously, paper presentation on such a topic and/or debating during the seminars);
* End-term course review – 2 hours.
Grade is based on students’ participation in class throughout the semester and final exam.
ЦЕЛИ:
* to give the students considerable knowledge and understanding of the contemporary aspects in the academic field of American Studies;
* to stimulate students' critical and creative thinking in one of the most flourishing academic fields nowadays.
Преподавател(и):
проф. Албена Бакрачева д.н.
Описание на курса:
Компетенции:
Успешно завършилите курса студенти:
1) знаят:
* basic equipment in American Studies.
* have a clear-cut idea as to how the field of American Studies is considered by the academy nowadays.
* have deepened their motivation towards research and general devotion to the field of American Studies.
2) могат:
* flexible critical thinking in the field of American Studies.
Предварителни изисквания:
Студентите да имат знания и/или умения:
• English language proficiency.
• Background in American literature and culture.
• Literary theory equipment.
Форми на провеждане:
Редовен
Учебни форми:
Лекция
Език, на който се води курса:
Английски
Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:
- North American Studies - present academic approaches
- North American Studies - academic approaches since the 1940s
- North American Studies in the US academy
- North American Studies in the European academy
- North American Studies and the comparatice approach
- Major focuses/metaphors in North American Studies
- Postmodern subjectives in North American Studies
Литература по темите:
Студентите ще получат списък на основните автори и произведения.
Fisher, Philip, ed. THE NEW AMERICAN STUDIES. Essays from Representations. University of California Press. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford, 1991.
Recent publications in US and European American Studies journals
Средства за оценяване:
Участие в семинари
Есета