This interactive seminar introduces students to the study of culture in the English-Speaking world. Drawing on a variety of sources, such as autobiography, graphic novels, photography, visual art, and audiovisual media, we will explore key concepts, cultural movements, and historical developments across periods and regions, and use them for culturally conscious close readings. In dialogue with scholarly articles, theoretical texts, and textbook overviews, we will train central academic reading, writing, and presentation skills which will prepare you for more advanced research in cultural studies.
This class is taught in four parallel groups in four different time slots by Dr. Paula von Gleich (groups A and B) and Dr. Anna Auguscik (groups C and D). Please register on Stud.IP and provide your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th choice.
There are also 2 weekly tutorials offered to further train students' skills in academic reading, presenting, and writing in cultural studies and to support students with their study and reading assignments necessary to successfully complete this introductory class (registration on Stud.IP). Tutorials start in week 2.

This interactive seminar introduces students to the study of culture in the English-Speaking world. Drawing on a variety of sources, such as autobiography, graphic novels, photography, visual art, and audiovisual media, we will explore key concepts, cultural movements, and historical developments across periods and regions, and use them for culturally conscious close readings. In dialogue with scholarly articles, theoretical texts, and textbook overviews, we will train central academic reading, writing, and presentation skills which will prepare you for more advanced research in cultural studies.
This class is taught in four parallel groups in four different time slots by Dr. Paula von Gleich (groups A and B) and Dr. Anna Auguscik (groups C and D). Please register on Stud.IP and provide your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th choice.
There are also 2 weekly tutorials offered to further train students' skills in academic reading, presenting, and writing in cultural studies and to support students with their study and reading assignments necessary to successfully complete this introductory class (registration on Stud.IP). Tutorials start in week 2.

This seminar explores the cultural and imaginative currents that shaped America in the long nineteenth century. Focusing on select cultural objects, such as nature writing, the slave narrative, and landscape paintings, we examine how land and bodies of water functioned as symbolic and material sites where questions of power, freedom, resistance, and national or cultural belonging were negotiated. Through a combination of textual analysis and cultural history, we will investigate how the American environment was represented, claimed, and contested in a century marked by expansion, conflict, and environmental and industrial transformation.

This class is open to BA E-SC students studying 3rd semester modules. It is also open to a limited number of international exchange students and students doing ‘Freiwillige Zusatzleistungen,’ ‘Ersatzleistungen,’ and General Studies, including the sustainability certificate BRENA.

Prior enrolment via Stud.IP is mandatory and admission is limited to a maximum of thirty-five students. Further information will be made available on Stud.IP. Please check Stud.IP regularly for updates.
Requirements
• active participation in weekly in-person meetings,
• in-depth study of the primary and secondary material in preparation for each session,
• graded or ungraded assignment in accordance with the respective module requirements.

This seminar explores the cultural and imaginative currents that shaped America in the long nineteenth century. Focusing on select cultural objects, such as nature writing, the slave narrative, and landscape paintings, we examine how land and bodies of water functioned as symbolic and material sites where questions of power, freedom, resistance, and national or cultural belonging were negotiated. Through a combination of textual analysis and cultural history, we will investigate how the American environment was represented, claimed, and contested in a century marked by expansion, conflict, and environmental and industrial transformation.

This class is open to BA E-SC students studying 3rd semester modules. It is also open to a limited number of international exchange students and students doing ‘Freiwillige Zusatzleistungen,’ ‘Ersatzleistungen,’ and General Studies, including the sustainability certificate BRENA.

Prior enrolment via Stud.IP is mandatory and admission is limited to a maximum of thirty-five students. Further information will be made available on Stud.IP. Please check Stud.IP regularly for updates.
Requirements
• active participation in weekly in-person meetings,
• in-depth study of the primary and secondary material in preparation for each session,
• graded or ungraded assignment in accordance with the respective module requirements.

This interactive seminar introduces students to the study of culture in the English-Speaking world. Drawing on a variety of sources, such as autobiography, graphic novels, photography, visual art, and audiovisual media, we will explore key concepts, cultural movements, and historical developments across periods and regions, and use them for culturally conscious close readings. In dialogue with scholarly articles, theoretical texts, and textbook overviews, we will train central academic reading, writing, and presentation skills which will prepare you for more advanced research in cultural studies.
This class is taught in four parallel groups in four different time slots by Dr. Paula von Gleich (groups A and B) and Dr. Anna Auguscik (groups C and D). Please register on Stud.IP and provide your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th choice.
There are also 2 weekly tutorials offered to further train students' skills in academic reading, presenting, and writing in cultural studies and to support students with their study and reading assignments necessary to successfully complete this introductory class (registration on Stud.IP). Tutorials start in week 2.

This interactive seminar introduces students to the study of culture in the English-Speaking world. Drawing on a variety of sources, such as autobiography, graphic novels, photography, visual art, and audiovisual media, we will explore key concepts, cultural movements, and historical developments across periods and regions, and use them for culturally conscious close readings. In dialogue with scholarly articles, theoretical texts, and textbook overviews, we will train central academic reading, writing, and presentation skills which will prepare you for more advanced research in cultural studies.
This class is taught in four parallel groups in four different time slots by Dr. Paula von Gleich (groups A and B) and Dr. Anna Auguscik (groups C and D). Please register on Stud.IP and provide your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th choice.
There are also 2 weekly tutorials offered to further train students' skills in academic reading, presenting, and writing in cultural studies and to support students with their study and reading assignments necessary to successfully complete this introductory class (registration on Stud.IP). Tutorials start in week 2.

This seminar explores the cultural and imaginative currents that shaped America in the long nineteenth century. Focusing on select cultural objects, such as nature writing, the slave narrative, and landscape paintings, we examine how land and bodies of water functioned as symbolic and material sites where questions of power, freedom, resistance, and national or cultural belonging were negotiated. Through a combination of textual analysis and cultural history, we will investigate how the American environment was represented, claimed, and contested in a century marked by expansion, conflict, and environmental and industrial transformation.

This class is open to BA E-SC students studying 3rd semester modules. It is also open to a limited number of international exchange students and students doing ‘Freiwillige Zusatzleistungen,’ ‘Ersatzleistungen,’ and General Studies, including the sustainability certificate BRENA.

Prior enrolment via Stud.IP is mandatory and admission is limited to a maximum of thirty-five students. Further information will be made available on Stud.IP. Please check Stud.IP regularly for updates.
Requirements
• active participation in weekly in-person meetings,
• in-depth study of the primary and secondary material in preparation for each session,
• graded or ungraded assignment in accordance with the respective module requirements.