About the course

This course is offered as part of a programme:

Culture and Change - Critical Studies in the Humanities, Master's Programme (Two-Year) Culture and Change - Critical Studies in the Humanities, Master's Programme (Two-Year)

Course content

Syllabus autumn 2023

Earlier syllabuses

Entry requirements and selection

Entry requirements

Bachelor's degree (180 credits) or equivalent in social sciences, humanities or arts.

General eligibility + the equivalent of Swedish higher secondary school English course B.

Course literature

  • Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Any edition.
  • Blaser, Mario. ”Ontological Conflicts and the Stories of Peoples in Spite of Europe: Toward a Conversation on Political Ontology.” Current Anthropology, Vol. 54, No. 5 (October 2013), pp. 547-568.
  • Braidotti, Rosi. ”Introduction: Posthuman, All-Too-Human” + ”The Posthuman Condition” + ”The Posthuman Subject” + ”Posthuman Knowledge Production.” In Posthuman Knowledge. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019.
  • Butler, Judith. ”Introduction: Precarious Life, Grievable Life.” + ”Survivability, Vulnerability, Affect.”In Frames of War. Verso, 2009.
  • Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Any edition.
  • Mol, Annemarie. ”Ontological politics. A wordand some questions.” Sociological Review , May 1999. Supplement, Vol. 47 Issue 1, p74-89.
  • Savransky, Martin. ”Worlds in the making: social sciences and the ontopolitics of knowledge.” Postcolonial Studies, Sep 2012, Vol. 15 Issue 3, p351-368.
  • Szeman, Imre, and Timothy Kaposy (eds). Cultural Theory: An Anthology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Print.
  • Winkel Holm,Isak. ”Zombies and Citizens. The Ontopolitics of Disaster in Francis Lawrence’s I Am Legend” In Capeloa Gil, Isabel, Wulf, Christoph. Hazardous Future: Disaster, Representation and the Assessment of Risk. Berlin/Munich/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2015.

Supplementary articles, literature and other mediawill be provided.

Course evaluation

The University provides all students who are participating in, or have completed, a course to express their experiences and views on the course through a course evaluation which is organized at the end of the course. The university will collate the course evaluations and provide information about their results and any actions prompted by them. The results shall be made available to the students. (HF 1:14).

Contact

For more information about the education:

K3student@mau.se

This education is provided by

Faculty of Culture and Society

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School of Arts and Communication

At the School of Arts and Communication (K3), we work with interdisciplinary education and research in media, culture and...