Academic Skills in Literary and Cultural Studies/Akademische Grundkompetenzen - Einzelansicht

This course is not available for ERASMUS students !!!

Please, note that this winter semester course will only be open for teacher training students (LEHRAMT). 2-Fach-BA students take the course in the summer term only.

This course is designed to serve as an introduction to the key fields, questions, concepts and methods that students will encounter in the literary and cultural studies part of their degree in English and American Studies. It is conceived as a foundation course which will familiarise students with four distinct but related fields: Postcolonial Studies, British Cultural Studies, American Literature and Culture, and British Literature (Part I) and the kinds of approaches and questions that they will encounter over the course of their studies (Part II). The third part of this course aims to develop and improve students’ key skills in critical reflection, critical thinking, and critical writing—skills that they will need in later seminars. This course is for teaching students (Lehramt) only. It is unmarked (i.e. pass/fail) and worth 3 credit points (LP). It is highly recommended that students take this course in the first semester of their degree.

Please join the Moodle course here: https://moodle2.uni-potsdam.de/course/view.php?id=14141

Students who attend lectures regularly, complete in-class work and complete the assessment will be able to:

• Understand the key research questions and disciplinary preoccupations of the four main sub-fields of literary and cultural studies within the Department of English and American Studies.
• Understand and critically apply major concepts and theories across a range of texts.
• Understand the role of critical thinking and critical writing in study and research in English and American Studies.
• Use critical thinking skills to critically read and compare texts and concepts and develop appropriate research questions.
• Use critical writing skills to effectively communicate their critical thinking, reading and research.