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124182 VK BEd 08b.3: VK Cultural Studies and Language Education (2024S)

Climate Change in the Classroom

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 06.03. 15:00 - 20:00 Digital
  • Thursday 07.03. 15:00 - 20:00 Digital
  • Wednesday 20.03. 15:00 - 20:00 Digital
  • Thursday 21.03. 15:00 - 20:00 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course examines cultural representations of climate change. Focusing on, among other issues, the Anthropocene, cheap energy, health, and environmental crisis, this course explores how climate change is discussed and made visible in and through cultural texts. Via selected cinematic examples, the course investigates the relationship between toxicity, health, and environmental inequality. Zeroing in on filmic examples of climate change, the course analyzes the aesthetics of the (in)visible crisis. One of the chief goals of this course is to provide examples and outline clear ways of teaching climate change, environmentalism, and environmental justice through cultural texts at school.

Assessment and permitted materials

Active participation in class discussions; an oral presentation (a teaching approach); 2 written assignments; a BEd thesis (with an abstract)/an essay.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

• Active participation in class discussions: 10%
• Presentation (teaching approach): 40%
• BEd thesis (with an abstract)/Essay: 50%

To pass the course, students need to attain at least 60% and complete all assignments.

Examination topics

There will be no written exam at the end of this course.

Reading list

• Safe (1995), dir. Todd Haynes
• The Happening (2008), dir. M. Night Shyamalan

Students are encouraged to watch the films before the course begins.
All other texts will be made available via Moodle.

Association in the course directory

Studium: BEd 046/407
Code/Modul: BEd 08b.3
Lehrinhalt: 12-4686

Last modified: Mo 05.02.2024 14:25