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240532 SE ‘Death on the Nile’ - The Colonial Gaze in Fiction and Film (P4) (2023S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Continuous assessment of course work

Participation at first session is obligatory!

The lecturer can invite students to a grade-relevant discussion about partial achievements. Partial achievements that are obtained by fraud or plagiarized result in the non-evaluation of the course (entry 'X' in certificate). The plagiarism software 'Turnitin' will be used for courses with continuous assessment.
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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

If possible, the course is to be conducted in presence. Due to the respective applicable distance regulations and other measures, adjustments may be made.

  • Tuesday 07.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 14.03. 11:30 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 18.04. 11:30 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 02.05. 11:30 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 16.05. 11:30 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 06.06. 11:30 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 20.06. 11:30 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Traveling and reporting back to the center of imperial power had a massive impact on diverse art genres and a growing popular pleasure in tales of adventure, mystery and suspense, danger and terror. The seminar explores colonial imagination in selected works starting with the storytelling of Agatha Christie and its visual adaptions.
This is an inter-active course. Apart from introductory input and impulse lecturing the seminar is based on intense communication, open discussion, active contribution and group work of all participants, and makes use of multi-media materials and seminal texts.

Assessment and permitted materials

Continuous assessment, 20 minutes presentation and a final seminar paper.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Marking is based on active participation including collective and peer-group discussion (20%), 20 minutes presentation (35%), and final paper (aprox. 25.000 characters; 45%).
Closing date for final paper delivery: 31.07.2023

Examination topics

The assessment load is constituted by notions, concepts and approaches that were presented, examined and debated in the course as well as the discussed case studies; all work done by the participants, whether collectively or independently.

Reading list

Agatha Christie:
Death on the Nile
The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest
The Gate of Baghdad
They Came to Baghdad
The Rajah’s Emerald
A Caribbean Mystery
Murder in Mesopotamia

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