FF:CORE136 American Cultural Influence in - Course Information
CORE136 American Cultural Influence in the Global Era
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Tomáš Kačer, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Denisa Krásná, BA (Hons), Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Tomáš Kačer, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Tue 12:00–13:40 G24, except Mon 21. 4. to Sun 27. 4.
- Prerequisites
- TYP_STUDIA(BM) && FORMA(P) && !(PROGRAM(B-AJ_) || OBOR(FBAJpV) || PROGRAM(B-AJA_))
B2 level English. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 100 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 37/100, only registered: 0/100, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/100 - Course objectives
- The main aim is to cover aspects of American culture, which are now present globally in various forms. The course will approach individual topics from the perspective of Cultural Studies, a discipline that critically examines various aspects of culture from an interdisciplinary perspective including social, artistic, political, philosophical, legal, economic, etc. phenomena, as they have developed in recent decades.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will be able to: critically examine various aspects of American culture; identify American influences in global cultural phenomena; apply the methodology of Cultural Studies to discuss cultural artifacts; critically reflect upon the U.S. influence on various aspects of our everyday lives; distinguish between various types of culture in general and cultural products in particular.
- Syllabus
- 0. Introduction: What is America? What is culture? (All teachers)
- 1. American Studies today. Culture as an American export commodity. Americanization of culture. (Kačer)
- 2. American politics as a global culture war (Kačer)
- 3. American genres in popular culture: theater (Kačer)
- 4. American musicals and “All That Jazz” (Kačer)
- 5. Hollywood international and the national responses (Pospíšil)
- 6. It’s only rock’n’roll, baby! American popular music and the world (Pospíšil)
- 7. Consuming US culture as a Political Act: The Reception of American Culture between 1948 - 1989 (Pospíšil)
- 8. Playing Indians in Europe, Wild West Show in Moravia (Vanderziel)
- 9. Racist cultural forms: the blackface, Minstrel shows (Vanderziel)
- 10. Sport as a cultural product and the rise of American sports (Vanderziel)
- 11. Politics of Consumption – the food industry and consumerism (Krásná)
- 12. MeToo and the influence of American gender politics (Krásná)
- Teaching methods
- Lecture, discussions (general and in groups), reflective writing, analysis of cultural material (text, A/V, produce, etc.).
- Assessment methods
- Short in-class tests (12 tests with 10 questions each; 60 points total required to pass; possible final make-up test when the student has few total points); a 5-minute presentation on a chosen topic (created and recorded at home, uploaded to a shared folder for evaluation).
- Language of instruction
- English
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