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KARAKTERFORDELING · H 2022
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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.
UiO sin egen emnebeskrivelse — læringsutbytte, innhold og vurderingsform.
This course focuses on both contemporary and historical national politics, including ideological conflicts and political ideas within the institutional framework and practices of the American system, including - the federal structure, the presidency, election procedures, political parties, Congress and the courts..
The course is topical in character, but regardless of the specific topic, broader institutional patterns as well as moments of fracture, dislocation and change will be considered. Explanatory paradigms include the role of ideas and ideologies, the influences of the media sphere, changing or clashing definitions of American identity(ies), the politics of symbolism, as well as the impact of geographical divergence (regionalism), social change and economic stress.
Semester topic, Spring 2026:
"Studying with the $10 Founding Father": Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of American Independence
Course content
Set against the broad framework of the Transatlantic Enlightenment of the 18th and early 19th century, this seminar will introduce students to the ideological origins, philosophical principles, and socio-cultural peculiarities of the defining period in U.S. national culture: the American Revolution and the Early Republic.
Since the founding fathers and their founding (con)texts have been mythologized into a ‘national religion’, which enjoys the highest levels of sanctity in the collective memory of Americans, it will be the students’ task to dispel the dominant myths about this period. Students will do so by contextualizing the historio-cultural discourses of the Revolution and the Early Republic along with the discourses of myth and cultural memory as they have been (re)shaping the cultural memory and popular representations of the American national genesis.
As the 250th anniversary of American independence is framed and policed by reactionary political powers as well as ideologically motivated whitewashing that is aimed at glorifying and simplifying the founding period again, this seminar will instead embrace the American Revolution as inherently complex, diverse, and, crucially, incomplete/unfinished.
To that end, students will access, critically read and contextualize key primary sources as well as secondary sources that have charted the changing historiography of the American Revolution via the cult phenomenon that is Hamilton: An American Musical (2015) and the socio-didactic labors it marshalled.
Learning outcome semester topic spring 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 the American Revolution as a historical process whose effects continue to register in the present.
Students will be knowledgeable in and conversant with intersectional historiography while also having gained first-hand, practical experience at critically reading and contextualizing cultural artifacts/texts.
After completing this course, you:
Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.
Seminars, 2 hours per week for 12 weeks. 24 hours in all.
Obligatory activities and duties:
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 or chronic illness, you could apply for special needs accommodations.
All obligatory activities must be approved for you to sit the exam. Approved obligatory activities 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.
Students are required to successfully complete the obligatory in-class performances in order to qualify for the final written component of the portfolio (e.g. a research report, a reflection paper, a text-based review essay, or similar).
For those who want to retake their exam: Since the form of assessment in this course is a portfolio, you must follow the seminars and write a new paper in order to qualify. Admission depends on capacity.
A portfolio or equivalent that is passed may not be resubmitted in revised form.
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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|---|---|---|---|
| Høst 2022 | 3 | F (0.00) | 100 % |
| Høst 2021 | 11 | C (3.45) | 0 % |
| Høst 2020 | 7 | B (3.57) | 0 % |
| Høst 2019 | 11 | B (3.55) | 0 % |
| Høst 2018 | 11 | B (3.55) | 0 % |
| Høst 2017 | 14 | C (3.21) | 0 % |