| Jody Skinner | Anglo-American
Studies I (M4.1) Lecture (some
details subject to change) |
| the reading selections are from my book Anglo-American Cultural Studies (ACS) | |
| 29 | Oct | introductions, what would you like? criteria for evaluating (my) content, area versus cultural studies? (ACS: p. 1-4, 228) |
| 5 | Nov | The Where: American and British geography (ACS: p. 6-30 + material available online: Z2 to Z5) |
| 12 | Nov | The When: British history (ACS: p. 46-66 + material available online Z10 to Z12) |
| 19 | Nov | The When: American history (ACS: p. 31-46, 109-110, 117, 258-259 + material available online Z6 to Z10) |
| 26 | Nov | The ABCs of American and British life (material available online Z13-Z28) |
| 3 | Dec | Uniform-ity and Plural-ity: education (ACS: p. 67-86) |
| 10 | Dec | Queendom and Republicracy: political life (ACS: p. 87-107) |
| 17 | Dec | Who, Where From, and Where To: British minorities and immigration (ACS: p. 129-155) plus a mid-term summary |
| 14 |
Jan | US immigration: waves and two islands (ACS: p. 129-155) |
| 21 |
Jan | US minorities: ethnic and religious (ACS: p. 129-155) |
| 28 | Jan | From Greek wedding cakes to a Royal wedding: religion in the US and UK (ACS: p. 156-183) |
| 4 |
Jan | From National Parks to
Natural Disasters: environmental concerns (ACS: p. 184-200) with the
mountains,
lakes, and rivers in Britain promised at the beginning of the course in
"The Where" |
| 11 |
Feb | Review using examples from previous lectures for Paper, Waves, and Bytes (material available online Z29-Z44) and Bread and Circuses (ACS: p. 201-225) |
| 18 | Feb | A final review and final vote on appropriate questions for the oral exams |
| You'll benefit most from the
lecture if you read the corresponding chapter in Anglo-American
Cultural Studies in advance and then come to the lecture with at
least three
questions taken from the content of the chapter that you'd like to be
asked in an oral exam. After each lecture you'll have the opportunity
of using a questionnaire in OLAT to
anonymously evaluate the lecture,
review the content, and also to submit your favorite questions. You can
also share these
questions in the Question Time section of our OLAT course forum
and / or broach
them with all of us during the lecture. You can
also use our OLAT forum to communicate with me and
with your fellow students and to actively influence the lecture from
the first to the last day! Modulprüfung für Modul 4: a 15-minute oral exam. We'll be discussing fair content questions in each lecture throughout the course, but only the students who are present in the lecture can decide which questions they'd prefer. You can find a list of the approved questions as well as other material and handouts on the OLAT companion to this lecture. You can find further details online about the Module 4 exam. OLAT provides us with the special questionnaire to be filled out after each lecture, the forum, and folders with material from the lecture. You can use the Blackboard M4 Oral Exams course (the code you need to register is 839031e8) to choose the date and time of your M4 oral. You can use the calendar in the Blackboard Anglo-American Studies course to make appointments to see me outside of my regular office time and at the same time see what students in the M5.1 Anglo-American Studies II and the M7.1 Anglo-American Cultural Studies courses are up to. You'll thus have the chance to compare two learning management systems, OLAT and Blackboard, during our lecture course. |
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16.I.2011