{"id":86,"date":"2016-04-22T21:19:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/american-studies.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:01:34","slug":"courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/american-studies.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/?page_id=86","title":{"rendered":"Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Cultural Theory: Texts, Concepts, Applications (WS 25\/26, B.A.\/M.A., TU Dortmund)<\/li>\n<li>Bodies in Anglophone Cultures: Histories, Theories, and Media Representations (WS 25\/26, B.A.\/M.A., TU Dortmund)<\/li>\n<li>Rooms, Rights and Revolutions: Genealogies and Theories of Feminism from Early Voices to Today (WS 25\/26, B.A.\/M.A., TU Dortmund)<\/li>\n<li>Anglophone Children&#8217;s Culture (WS 25\/26, B.A.\/M.A., TU Dortmund)<\/li>\n<li>A Garden Anthology (Summer 2025, M.A.\/graduate)<\/li>\n<li>American Studies and French Theory (WS 24\/25, M.A.\/graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Examenskolloquium (WS 24\/25, M.A.\/graduate)<\/li>\n<li>From True Woman to New Woman: Negotiations of Womanhood at the Turn to the 20th Century (Summer 2024, M.A.\/graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Bodies and (New) Media: Research and Teaching Seminar (Summer 2024, M.A.\/graduate, incl. workshop for high school students)<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to Cultural Studies (Summer 2024, B.A.\/undergraduate)<\/li>\n<li>Children\u2019s Culture (Winter 23\/24, M.A.\/graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Examenskolloquium (Winter 23\/24, M.A.\/graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Gardens in North-American History, Literature and Visual Culture: Ecocritical, Post-Colonial and Intersectional Perspectives on Spaces, Practices and Narratives of Gardening from the 18th to the 21st Century (Summer 2023, M.A.\/graduate, including a Workshop at Grugapark Essen in Cooperation with the KaffeeGartenRuhr and Exile.Ev)<\/li>\n<li>Bodies: Histories, Theories, Practices (Summer 2023, M.A.\/graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to Cultural Studies (Summer 2023, B.A.\/undergraduate)<\/li>\n<li>American Houses &#8211; American Homes (WS 22\/23, M.A.\/graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Gender and Media (WS 22\/23, M.A.\/graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Deconstructing Disney: Cultural Theory and Animated Film (WS 22\/23, B.A. \/ undergraduate)<\/li>\n<li>American Literature and Culture After World War II (WS 21\/22, B.A.\/M.A. \/ undergraduate and graduate, lecture)<\/li>\n<li>African-American Literature and Culture: A Survey (WS 21\/22, M.A. \/ graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism: 19th-Century American Short Stories in Literary and Cultural Perspectives (WS 21\/22, M.A. \/ graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Hipsters and Gentrifiers: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Culture (WS 21\/22, international lecture series), organized together with Dr. M. 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W\u00e4chter, M.A. graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Of Makeovers, Quantified Selves, and Body Positivity: Beauty and Well-Being in a Neoliberal Age (WS 19\/20, M.A. \/ graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Discourses of Conduct and Advice: From Etiquette Manuals to Self-Help 2.0 (SoSe 2019, M.A. \/ graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to Cultural Studies (SoSe 2019)<\/li>\n<li>American Orientalism(s) (WS 18\/19, M.A.\/graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Hair Matters: The Meanings and Politics of Hair in American Culture (WS 2017\/18, M.A. \/ graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Beneath the American Renaissance: 19th-Century American Sensational Culture (SoSe 2017 \/ M.A.,\u00a0 graduate)<\/li>\n<li>American Feminisms (SoeSe 2017, B.A. \/ undergraduate)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Your Body is a Battleground&#8221;: Women&#8217;s Bodies in American Culture (WS 2016\/17, M.A. \/ graduate)<\/li>\n<li>America&#8217;s First Ladies in Political and Popular Culture (WS 2016\/17, M.A. \/ graduate)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Literature: Kate Chopin&#8221; (Guest Session at the University Duisburg-Essen in the M.A. seminar &#8220;Into the American Century: From the Gilded Age to the End of World War&#8221;, Dr. Dietmar Meinel, SoSe 2016)<\/li>\n<li>Hipsters in American Culture (SoSe 2016, B.A. \/ undergraduate)<\/li>\n<li>Urban Temptations: City Life in Nineteenth Century American Literature (SoSe 2016, M.A. \/ graduate)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aks.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/projekte\/american-beauty.html.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Beauty: Body Ideals in American Culture<\/a> (Sch\u00fclerlabor RUB, since WS 2015\/16)<\/li>\n<li>American Childhoods (WS 2015\/16, B.A. \/ undergraduate)<\/li>\n<li>The History of Sexuality in American Literature and Culture (SoSe 2015, M.A. \/ graduate, American Studies\/Gender Studies)<\/li>\n<li>Corsets, Diets, and Cosmetic Surgery: Beauty in American Culture from the 19th to the 21st Century (WS 14\/15, B.A. \/ undergraduate, also for MA students of Gender Studies)<\/li>\n<li>Paris in the American Imagination (SoSe 2014, MA \/ graduate)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Beauty and Race in American Culture: Toni Morrison&#8217;s &#8216;The Bluest Eye'&#8221; (SoSe 2014, Guest Lecture in U.S. Ethnic Literature (Prof. Dr. K. 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