Optional Honors Class: “Politics and/in Serial Television”

This class is organized around the conference “Von House of Cards bis Game of Thrones: Über Politik in Fernsehserien,” to be hosted by the TUD network “weiter sehen” from 27 to 29 Oct. 2016 at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum. Interested and motivated students get the opportunity for an in-depth engagement with the interdisciplinary scholarship presented at the conference: After attending the conference, they will do a critical position paper on one of the conference’s lectures, which they will present and discuss at our Institute’s North American Studies Colloquium.

Students who are interested in this honors class need to come to the Colloquium’s first meeting on Monday, 10 Oct., 6 DS (room: BSS/E49), where further details will be discussed. They need to commit to attending the conference and to doing a presentation in the Colloquium. Students who successfully complete this coursework can earn 3 CP as ungraded optional credits (i.e., they do not count toward compulsory modules but can be acknowledged as extra coursework).