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010099 FS Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere? Social ethical perspectives (2022S)

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 1 - Katholische Theologie
Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 07.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Monday 14.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Monday 21.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Monday 28.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Monday 04.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Monday 25.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Monday 02.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Monday 09.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Monday 16.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Monday 23.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Monday 30.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Monday 13.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Monday 20.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Monday 27.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Content:
Jürgen Habermas' book on the "structural change of the public sphere" (1962/1990) focused on the emergence of a bourgeois public sphere from the 17th century to the tendencies of a renewed power-related change of the public sphere in the 20th century. Today, this critical perspective on the conditions of social order through public communication is being made strong again in the context of digitalisation and digital media: a new structural change has begun that is changing the relationship between the public sphere and democracy.
In the seminar, we will deal with texts on this new structural change as gathered in the thematic issue of "Leviathan" (issue special volume 37, 2021).
Objectives:
The reading and discussion of the texts in the seminar should enable the participants to gain an intensive knowledge of the academic debate on the structural change of the public sphere. The intensive reading should also lead to students acquiring in-depth knowledge of scientific work and writing.
Course methods:
Joint reading and discussion of texts after intensive preparation (individual contribution). All texts are read by everyone beforehand, an impulse or presentation by students opens the sessions.
Please take the workload of the seminar into account in your planning: In addition to attending the seminar, you should expect 4.5 hours of active reading per week.

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Assessment and permitted materials

a. Presentation or seminar impulse (10%)
b. Attendance and participation in the seminar, through which you document your intensive knowledge of the text by asking questions to the text and discussing the questions in the group (40%).
c. Seminar paper (50%). By registering for this course, you agree that the automated plagiarism checking software Turnitin will check all written partial performances submitted by you in moodle.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The individual partial performances (participation, seminar paper, presentation/seminar impulse) must each be completed positively, i.e. each with 50% of the total possible number of points.
The seminar paper comprises approx. 30,000 characters. Minimum requirements for attendance (absences): 180 minutes may be missed with excuse, absences in excess of this may be compensated by substitute work up to a further 180 minutes.
Assessment standard (especially for the seminar paper, detailed information will follow in the seminar):
Grading scale (100 points max.): 100-92= 1, 91-81= 2, 80-67= 3, 66-50=4, under 50= 5
Very good: All performances show a demanding, intensive and independent examination of the course topics.
Good: All performances are well thought out and well elaborated.
Satisfactory: The topics of the course were dealt with in a sufficiently critical manner.
Satisfactory: The minimum requirements for a positive assessment were met.
Insufficient: The minimum requirements for a positive assessment were not met.

Examination topics

The subject matter of the examination is the work done in the seminar as well as the contents of the seminar paper.

Reading list

Seeliger, Martin; Sevignani, Sebastian (Hg.) (2021): Ein neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit? Baden-Baden: Nomos (Leviathan. Sonderband, 37). DOI: 10.5771/9783748912187.

Association in the course directory

LV für Doktorat-/PhD-Studium, für 011 (15W) FTH 26, 199 518 MA UF RK 02 oder RK 05

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