| Course title | German Philology - Literary Seminar |
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| Course code | KGN/LS13 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Seminar |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
| Course availability | The course is available to visiting students |
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| Course content |
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In the seminar, the central narrative and content elements of science fiction will be worked out on the basis of intensive text analyses. Two functions/achievements of the genre will be given special attention: First, how current discourses from politics and science (at the time) are conveyed to a wider audience in this genre of popular culture, thus creating a space for conceivable possibilities to shape the future. Secondly, it will be shown that intertextuality (i.e. the textual activation of what the recipient has already read or seen before) is a constitutive feature of science fiction or future novels. The intensive course will be preceded by two lectures (zoom videos) in which the history of the genre of science fiction/future novel will be presented in overview form and the different terminologies and concepts surrounding the genre will be described (utopia/dystopia, time travel, scientific fantasy, cyberpunk, hardcore/softcore, etc.).
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
| Work with Text (with Book, Textbook) |
| Learning outcomes |
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Both in text production and in literary research, there is a clear preponderance of English-language texts in the field of science fiction. In this intensive course, an insight into the spectrum of German-language science fiction, which has some specific characteristics, will be given on the basis of two novels and some short texts. In particular, the genre developed under the name "future novel" shortly after the genre-constitutive novels by H.G. Wells and Jules Verne at the end of the 19th century and reached a quantitative peak in the 1920s and 1930s. In the seminar, texts from this phase of the genre will be presented on the one hand, and on the other, sci-fi texts from recent years, for which a mixture of elements of sci-fi or crime novel, media satire are typical.
The seminar reacts to the canon expansion of German Studies in recent years and conveys a literary approach to popular cultural phenomena; this strengthens the competence to independently apply acquired scientific, theoretical and subject-specific knowledge to phenomena of contemporary culture; in addition, knowledge of intertextuality and intermediality is conveyed. |
| Prerequisites |
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unspecified
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Student performance, Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary), Didactic Test, Seminar Work
Requirements for completion of the seminars will be specified by the individual tutors at the beginning of the course. The number of the credits awarded depends on the amount of work done during the seminar. It generally applies: 1 credit - reasonable participation, 2 credits - participation including contributions to discussion, 3 credits - successful oral presentation, 4 credits - successful oral presentation + written seminar paper. Credit requirements are subject to modification by the tutors. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019_24) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2017) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2017) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2017) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2022) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |