PdF:AJ4_ERKA Ethnic Culture of the USA - Course Information
AJ4_ERKA Ethnic and Regional Culture of America
Faculty of EducationSpring 2004
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Michael George, M.A. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Pavel Doležel, CSc.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová - Timetable
- Wed 17:10–18:45 učebna 58
- Prerequisites
- AJ4_DUSA AJ4_SDUS
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, M-ZS4)
- Course objectives
- This seminar/discussion course will look at America not as one land, but as a collection of very different cultures. Regional differences such as North/South, East/West as well as the ethnic differences of African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Asian-Americans and Native Americans will be studied. The point will be to try to understand what it means for a land to be so culturally diverse and still one nation. This is a "round table" seminar where each student is expected to have read the assigned texts and share his/her opinions during the discussion. The class will include individual student research presentations.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction. 2. The U.S.A. as a land of contrasts 3. The "other" United States - the South 4. The South through the eyes of the North 5. African Americans 6. Sectionalism, East and West 7. The individual and the West 8. Race and culture in the West - Native Americans 9. Race and culture in the West - Chicanos 10. Ethnicity and language - Spanish and Ebonics 11. Asian-Americans 12. Multi-culturalism and cultural linguistics 13-15. Student research presentations
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Typ výuky: seminář
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2004, recent)
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