Module 23-WS-GE Global Entanglements

Faculty

Person responsible for module

Regular cycle (beginning)

Every winter semester

Credit points and duration

15 Credit points

For information on the duration of the modul, refer to the courses of study in which the module is used.

Competencies

Non-official translation of the module descriptions. Only the German version is legally binding.

Students will be introduced to essential concepts of globalization, entanglements, transculturality, and postcolonial theory. They will be enabled to develop theoretical perspectives independently and to practice the use of transdisciplinary approaches; they will learn to apply and critically reflect on different methods, models and theories belonging to the fields of literary and cultural studies as well as to history. Students will also obtain skills in independently investigating historical and cultural sources, literary texts and critical research and in realizing theoretical analyses of cultural phenomena in their respective historical contexts. They will learn to present results of their research in an appropriate oral and written form and to illustrate these results using paradigmatic examples.

Content of teaching

The module enables students to focus on world entanglements and cultural globalization processes. The courses will concentrate on social, political, esthetic, and cultural interactions, processes and phenomena within global contact zones. They will center on globalization, entanglements and delimitations in diverging (pre-colonial, colonial and de-colonial) cultures and power constellations; possible topics to be dealt with include the emergence of global environments, (non-)European nations and empires, religious expansion, migration, trade, or war and violence (in different media). Globality and globalization will be viewed in relation to the varying premises and implications underlying their discursive interpretations and cultural articulations. The program focuses on different world areas such as Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, North America, or Asia. The module comprises a seminar and a lecture/exercise. The seminar will treat research-based problems and their respective technical skills, which include in particular the use of sources, texts and critical research. The lecture/exercise will enable students to obtain deeper research-oriented knowledge on the topics dealt with in the seminar context which come to be embedded in broader literary, cultural and historical contexts.

Recommended previous knowledge

Necessary requirements

Explanation regarding the elements of the module

Module structure: 3 SL, 1 bPr 1

Courses

Research discourse
Type colloquium
Regular cycle WiSe
Workload5 90 h (30 + 60)
LP 3 [SL]
Research seminar
Type seminar
Regular cycle WiSe
Workload5 120 h (30 + 90)
Overview
Type seminar o. exercise o. lecture
Regular cycle WiSe
Workload5 90 h (30 + 60)
LP 3 [SL]

Study requirements

Allocated examiner Workload LP2
Teaching staff of the course Research discourse (colloquium)

As determined by the teaching staff: colloquium journal, in which the topics of the colloquium meetings are documented. For five meetings there should be own questions and comments on the presentation noted in keywords. Also possible is a log of a colloquium meeting.

see above see above
Teaching staff of the course Research seminar (seminar)

Oral presentation or small written paper in preparation for the examination as determined by the teaching staff

see above see above
Teaching staff of the course Overview (seminar o. exercise o. lecture)

Oral presentation or small written paper as determined by the teaching staff

see above see above

Examinations

term paper
Allocated examiner Teaching staff of the course Research seminar (seminar)
Weighting 1
Workload 150h
LP2 5

Seminar paper on a topic of the research seminar, length 40-50,000 characters.

The module is used in these degree programmes:

Degree programme Recom­mended start 3 Duration Manda­tory option 4
World Studies: Orders, Politics, Cultures / Master of Arts [FsB vom 04.06.2020 mit Änderungen vom 21.05.2021 und 14.04.2023] 3. one semester Obli­gation

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LP is the short form for credit points.
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The figures in this column are the specialist semesters in which it is recommended to start the module. Depending on the individual study schedule, entirely different courses of study are possible and advisable.
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Explanations on mandatory option: "Obligation" means: This module is mandatory for the course of the studies; "Optional obligation" means: This module belongs to a number of modules available for selection under certain circumstances. This is more precisely regulated by the "Subject-related regulations" (see navigation).
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Workload (contact time + self-study)
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Summer semester
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Winter semester
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Number of examinations with grades
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