Section outline

  • Welcome to our course!
    We meet on Mondays from 4-6pm in GABF 04/413.
    My office hours are on Mondays from 2-3pm in GB6/148, or alternatively by appointment.
     
     
    You may take the course either as a 'Seminar' or as an 'Übung', with different options available for earning the credit points.
    For more detailed information, see the documents below!
    • Ankündigungen Forum
    • Written Test Folder

      Here you will find information on the final test and examples as well as a sample solution from a previous course.

    • Oral Discussions - Examples File

      Here you will find the requirements for the oral discussions and examples of theses to be submitted before the exam.

    • Academic Style Sheet (Term Papers) File

      Please follow these guidelines for your term papers!

    • GAPS Conference: Neoliberal Global Capitalism – Challenges for Postcolonial Studies (29-31 May at the University of Bielefeld) URL

      This is an alternative way to obtain credit points. At this conference, two papers will be presented that deal with the topic of India from a cultural studies perspective. Your task would be to attend the conference on the respective day (30 May) and write a response paper. You would need to register by 19 May. If you are interested, I will inform you in more detail about how such a response paper should look like. Of course, you could also just attend the conference out of interest or curiosity. There will be an interesting roundtable discussion for teachers on Saturday (31 May): ‘Teaching Postcolonial Studies in the English Classroom’; as well as a presentation by Roger Dale Jones on Friday (30 May): "Freedom for the Pike? Poverty and Capitalism in German EFL Schoolbooks"

      The relevant papers are

      Akshay Kumar: "Reimagining Postcolonialism: Ambedkar, Caste, and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Context"

      Harald Pittel: "Structure of Feeling as a Mode of Resistance? Countering the Capitalist Crisis of Indian Cinema"

    • Die Dritte Welt im Zweiten Weltkrieg - Exhibition in Cologne (8 March to 1 June) URL

      This is another alternative way to earn credit points. You would need to visit this exhibition and write a review with a particular focus on the section that deals with India and Asia more broadly. Additionally, I will include a couple of questions that should be integrated into your review.

    • Map Collection Folder
    • An Introduction to Cultural Studies File

      Here you can find a comprehensibly written Introduction to Cultural Studies with all the basic terms and concepts you should know:

      Butter, Michael. From Panem to the Pandemic: An Introduction to Cultural Studies. Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2023.