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Our Teaching Philosophy

  • Interaction: Most of our courses are seminar-like courses emphasizing group work and dialogue. Students are asked to actively contribute to the seminar from the beginning of their studies.

  • Intercultural Classroom: Students from Dortmund, Europe and the United States engage in an intercultural dialogue about contemporary issues in American culture and literature. Our faculty also consists of instructors from a variety of different cultural backgrounds, such as the US or Germany. Fulbright professors from the United States complete our team (current Fulbright professor: Brian Reed, University of Washington, Seattle)

  • Intensivseminar: We offer a special research seminar with members of the faculty for highly skilled students. Previous seminars aimed at the translation of June Jordan's poetry and the understanding of media and the body.

 

Courses

 

Für detaillierte Informationen zu den Veranstaltungen schauen Sie bitte in unser Wiki.

 

1. STUDIENPHASE - 1st STUDY PHASE

  • Introduction to American Literary and Cultural History
  • Jazz in Literature
  • The Identity and Representation of Teenagers in America and Germany
  • Toni Morrison
  • Realisms: Representing Reality in German and American Literature and Film
  • Narratives from the Ottoman-American Empire: A Postcolonial Reading of Turkish American Writers
  • “It‟s All About the Benjamins”: Economies of Hip-Hop
  • Did Angie Learn from Obama? Comparative Analysis of the American and German Elections
  • Road to Heaven or Highway to Hell: The Car in American Culture
  • Representations of Dortmund – A Project Seminar
  • Intensivseminar

 

2. STUDIENPHASE - 2nd STUDY PHASE

  • 1900 – A Time of Change
  • The White Board in Media and Cultural Studies
  • African American Women Writers
  • Visual Cultures: Sitcoms
  • American Studies: Theories and Practice
  • Romantic Literature in 20th and 21st Centuries Popular Culture
  • Bad News: American News Business and Its Impact on Society
  • The Press and American Presidential Politics
  • Walt Whitman and the Democratic Imaginary
  • Contemporary American Poetry in the 19th Century Tradition
  • Everyday Duty: Childhood in 19th Century America
  • Americans abroad? Henry James and Edith Wharton
  • Oberseminar Amerikanistik
  • Yiddish and the American Experience
  • Truth or Fiction? Autobiographical Fiction and Fictional Autobiography