Admission requirements
Not applicable.
Description
The last few decades have witnessed a proliferation of debates on issues of identity, difference and alterity, in the context of globalization and (post-/neo-)colonialism. This course offers a comparative study of many of these key concepts – such as hybridity, cannibalism, mestizaje, transculturación, cosmopolitanism, transvestism, adaptation – that have been developed to address the world’s intercultural dynamics. The course traces the history of such concepts in their specific cultural contexts, but also considers their intercultural trajectories. In this way, it offers a transnational account of the growth of the field of intercultural and postcolonial studies, with its particular discourses and concepts, both inside and outside the context of the development of Cultural Studies in the so-called West (with some more emphasis on Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean). Through a series of close readings and analyses, students will assess the productivity of different (translated) theories themselves and be encouraged to explore the particular relevance of the various key concepts for their own research practice.
Course objectives
students obtain a thorough insight in the social and scholarly histories of important key-concepts that theorize the world’s intercultural dynamics;
students become acquainted with several contemporary art and literary works that intervene in the debates on interculturality and globalization;
students learn how to provide an independent, transparent analysis and a productive interpretation of an artwork within the broad artistic and theoretical framework offered by the course.
Timetable
The timetable is available on the Arts and Culture and the Resma Literary Studies website.
Mode of instruction
- Seminar
Course Load
Total course load 10 EC x 28 hours= 280 hours
Classes 13 × 3: 39 hours
Preparation classes: 13 × 4 hours: 52 hours
Essays ( 3 x): 25 hours per essay: 75 hours
Preparation presentation: 20 hours
End paper: 94 hours
Assessment method
Participation (pass/fail). There is no resit opportunity for this assignment.
Group presentation (35%). There is no resit opportunity for this assignment.
Paper (65%) 3500 words. Students who fail their paper must take a resit and hand in an improved version.
In order to pass this course, students need a minimum average grade of at least 5,5, with a minimum grade of 5,5 for their final paper.
Research Master students are additionally asked to act as respondents to one of the group presentations.
Weighing
Group presentation: 35%
Paper: 65%
In order to pass this course, students need a minimum average grade of at least 5.5 with a minimum grade of 5.5 for their final paper.
Resit
Students who fail their paper must take a resit and hand in an improved version.
Blackboard
Blackboard will be used for:
To inform students
Post assignments, texts and visual material
Reading list
- Reader
Registration
Enrolment through uSis is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available in English and Dutch.
Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs
Not applicable.
Contact information
Dr. A.L.B. Van Weyenberg
Dr. N. Timmer
Remarks
None