GER 576

Fall 2014 All Classes

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Open Seminar in German Studies

Credit: 4 hours.

Seminar in literary phenomena (such as movements, genres and forms, relations, themes and types, interdisciplinary studies, women's studies) that go beyond the confines of a particular century.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: GER 510.

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GER 576 class schedule data for fall 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	30470	Lecture-Discussion	AWS	2:00PM -4:50PM	M	1026 Lincoln Hall	Stenport, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Section Info: >_Imagining the Arctic_ > >'The Arctic' has historically been imagined by Southerners as remote and >desolate, as a white or blank space upon which to project dreams and >fears, while the circumpolar region has provided a bountiful home for >indigenous populations for millennia. Focus on the Arctic is increasing in >the wake of climate change, accelerated resource extraction, and augmented >geopolitical tension. Through the burgeoning field of Critical Arctic >Studies, humanistic inquiry is contributing new ways to understanding the >region's past, present, and future, by providing a rich set of >interpretive approaches that counter dominant epistemological models of >the Arctic influenced by policy generation and the natural sciences. >This interdisciplinary course investigates representations of the Arctic >in literature, art, cinema, media, and scientific and geographical writing >over the past century and a half, spanning material from North America >(documentaries, experimental cinema, and Hollywood features by Robert >Flaherty, James Balog, Stan Brakhage, and Howard Hawks),Britain >(figurations of the lost Franklin expedition; films by Stan Brakhage), >continental Europe, and the Nordic Region. Interpretive >approaches include ecocriticism; post-colonialism; indigenous studies; >visual, film and media theory; and Cold War studies. Open to graduate >students from any humanities or social sciences discipline, the course >emphasizes cross-disciplinary interaction and engagement. In addition to a >final research project, the course will include the creation of digitally >networked content and approaches to building a portfolio of Arctic-related >teaching material of relevance to students' primary disciplines. > >The course will be taught by Professor Anna Westerstahl Stenport >(aws@illinois.edu), a scholar of Arctic and Scandinavian cinema, >literature, and media. Her books include _Films on Ice: Cinemas of the >Arctic_ (forthcoming Edinburgh UP, 2014), _The Arctic Imagined and >Ecotheory_ (McGill-Queen's UP, expected); and _Locating August >Strindberg's Prose: Modernism, Transnationalism, Setting_ (Toronto UP, >2010). Professor Stenport has pursed >Arctic archival research in several locations in Europe and North America, >and field research in the high Arctic at Svalbard, Norway. She is one of >the originators of the innovative interdisciplinary SAO-LAS Stockholm >Summer Arctic Program, which is set to take place in northernmost Sweden >in >summer 2014. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.