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KARAKTERFORDELING · H 2025
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Kilde: Felles studentsystem (FS) via Universitetet i Oslo, slik den var publisert for høsten 2026. Universitetet i Oslo er ikke ansvarlig for innholdet på denne siden.
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This seminar offers a productive and student-centered entry point to studying, understanding, and appreciating the American cultural mosaic through the (hi)stories that Americans have been telling themselves in an ongoing process of defining who they are—and, who they are not—vis-à-vis other cultural communities. It is through these narrative (hi)stories that we often make first contact not only with American identities, values, and mores, but also historical events and/or eras, ideological fault lines, and social (in)equalities.
This seminar aims at advancing students’ understanding of specific American eras, historical contexts, locales, themes, issues, and fault lines through popular cultural "texts", ranging from literary texts and music to film, television, and video games.
Semester topic, Autumn 2026:
"Let me sell you a dream": Remediating American Westward Expansion in the 21st Century
A large portion of the geographic space commonly referred to as the Trans-Mississippi West has played a significant role in the self-affirming identity, ideology, and mythos of the United States. Consequently, it is rather difficult to understand US-American culture, identity, and history without critically appraising the settler colonial legacy of westward expansion as well as the power it has held over US-American imaginaries.
While firmly anchored in Western places, this course will introduce students to a different kind of history of westward expansion, which continues to engender grossly distorted/limited associations with people all over the globe. "Wild West" imagery as well as Manifest Destiny discourse hold considerable sway even though they represent but a relatively small albeit ideologically and racially privileged segment of the North American West’s history.
Rooted in New Western history and Postwestern popular media, students will access, read, interpret, and contextualize the nation’s "legacy of conquest" (P. Limerick) by way of setting into dialogue 19th century historical contexts with early 21st century remediations thereof.
Learning Outcomes Autumn 2026:
Upon having a) regularly attended and actively co-created the seminar, b) contributed 1-2 obligatory in-class "performances", and c) successfully compiled the examination portfolio, students will have developed a synoptic and critical understanding of American westward expansion as a historical process whose effects continue to register in the present.
Students will be required to actively participate in the classroom as well as on Canvas. In the process, they will co-create the contents and conduct of the class within predefined parameters and along thematic throughlines over the course of the semester. There is little room for staying passive/silent in this seminar.
Upon completing this course, you:
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Seminars, 2 hours per week for 10 weeks. 20 hours in all.
In addition there will be up to 2 separate sessions for obligatory in-class performances and peer feedback and a non-obligatory preparatory meeting.
The obligatory activity must be approved for you to sit the exam. Fulfilled course requirements are only valid for the current semester.
The in-class "performances" are, in part, tied to written deliverables (e.g. bibliographic work, an annotated bibliography, a text-/artifact-based reflection paper, a video essay, a podcast episode, a written research guide, a companion handout/one sheet, etc.) which, taken together, constitute the examination portfolio.
The specific tasks/work packages that constitute the individual components of the examination portfolio will be specified in the course syllabus. The syllabus and course pragmatics will be clearly communicated and explained in the preparatory meeting.
The allowed absence limit will cover all absences, including illness. You will not be granted valid absences with documentation, even when the absence is due to something beyond your control.
In certain circumstances, i.e. serious/chronic illness, you could apply for special needs accomodations.
Fulfilled course requirements are only valid the semester you attend the course.
The exam form is a multi-part portfolio of approx. 12-14 pages (+/- 10%; note: a standard page consists of 2,300 characters). Any extant references and bibliography do not count toward the overall page count of the portfolio.
The specific topics/scope of the deliverables that make up the examination portfolio are to be developed by students themselves in consultation with the course lecturer. The course lecturer may also provide a range of pre-defined topic areas within which students will then develop and complete specific tasks.
A term paper, portfolio or equivalent that has been submitted for grading may not be resubmitted in revised form.
If you withdraw from the exam after the deadline, this will be counted as an examination attempt.
Kilde: Felles studentsystem (FS) via Universitetet i Oslo, slik den var publisert for høsten 2026. Universitetet i Oslo er ikke ansvarlig for innholdet på denne siden.
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