Our Teaching Philosophy
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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.
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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)
Courses
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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