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Seminar: 10-76-4-D2/WD2-11 Key Topics in Literature: Ocean Literacy in Anglophone Literature and Film - Details

Seminar: 10-76-4-D2/WD2-11 Key Topics in Literature: Ocean Literacy in Anglophone Literature and Film - Details

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Course name Seminar: 10-76-4-D2/WD2-11 Key Topics in Literature: Ocean Literacy in Anglophone Literature and Film
Subtitle
Course number 10-76-4-D2/WD2-11
Semester SoSe 2025
Current number of participants 21
expected number of participants 30
Home institute Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
Next date Thursday, 19.06.2025 10:15 - 11:45, Room: GW1-HS H1010
Type/Form
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja

Rooms and times

GW1-HS H1010
Thursday: 10:15 - 11:45, weekly (10x)
No room preference
Thursday: 10:15 - 11:45, weekly(2x)

Module assignments

Comment/Description

This class will be conducted within the research area Blue Humanities. Blue Humanities studies oceans, rivers, and coastal areas in terms of (colonial) histories, migration and travel, sustainability and ecological issues, circulation of people and ideas, marine and Indigenous knowledges, literature and cultures, new geographies, extractivism, energy and economic issues, among others.

After discussing ocean literacy in general and the sustainable development goals of the UN on water, we will read theoretical texts on ocean literacy. We will also watch documentaries and invite experts on ocean knowledge to class. We will read and discuss short texts from the collection The Imperiled Ocean: Human Stories from a Changing Sea by Laura Trethewey and the The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. The idea is that in class we develop materials on ocean literacy together.
Hemingway’s text will be ready for purchase at the university bookstore at the beginning of the semester (10,50€; pls purchase the Pengion edition, should you want to acquire it yourself). Other primary and secondary texts will be uploaded on StudIP.
Pls note that regular attendance, class preparation and active class discussion are mandatory. You must register on StudIP for this class.

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