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PD Dr. Reinhard Isensee

Reinhard.Isensee@staff.hu-berlin.de

Courses in Past Semesters

WS 2008/09

52 50019	Einführung in die englische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
VL, 2 SWS	Do	14-16	wöch.	UL 6, 2097	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (PDF)

52 50037

Transatlantic Symposium: The End of East and West?
Challenges for Integration in Europe and America in the 21st Century - The Impact of Islam on Western Culture: Shifts in the Definition of European and American Identity

SE, 2 SWS

10-12

wöch.

BE 1, 140

R. Isensee

•   Course Description
•   Course Syllabus (PDF)
•   Online Forum
•   Symposium Web Site

SS 2008

52 615	From Rebel to Coolhunter? Representations of Adolescence in American Literature and Culture in the 20th Century
SE(4)	Do	14-16	wöch.	DOR 24, 1.501	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (PDF)

52 617	Diversity in American Education in the 21st Century
SE(4)	Do	10-12	wöch.	UL 6, 2004a	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (PDF)

SS 2008

52 537	American Media Today
SE(4)	Do	10-12	wöch.	DOR 24, 1.601	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (PDF)

52 609	Transatlantic Symposium: Media and Identity in Europe and the United States
SE(4)	Di	10-12	wöch.	BE 1, 140/142	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (Revised) (PDF) • Symposium Web Site • Forum

SS 2007

52 620	Bachelorarbeit (Studienpunkte 20 mit BA Arbeit)
CO (2)	Do	10-12	wöch.	UL 6, 2004a	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (PDF)

52 641	Shifts in Cultural Identity Formation in the 1st and 2nd Media Age
HS (4)	Di	10-12	wöch.	BE 1, 140/142	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

WS 2006/07

52 589	Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft
VL	Mo	14-16	wöch.	UL 6, 3038	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

52 604	American Media Today
HS	Do	14-16	wöch.	UL 6, 2097	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

52 659

Europe's Dream of America/America's Dream of Europe

10-12

wöch.

Inval. 110, 347

R. Isensee

• Course Description
• Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

00 000	United in Diversity? Minority Rights in the United States and the European Union 5th Transatlantic Students Symposium. Berlin/Split/Mostar/Cottbus., March 3-11, 2007
HS	Mo	18-20	wöch.	DOR 24, 501	R. Isensee, P. Kneis
• Symposium Web Site • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

SS 2006

52 580	American Cultural History (SG)
VL	Do	14-16	wöch.	UL 6, 2002	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

52 692	Representations of Adolescence in Late 20th Century American and Canadian Young Adult Fiction and Culture
HS	Do	10-12	wöch.	UL 6, 2014A	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

52 696	Narratives of the Civil War (By Those Who Fought It)
HS	Di	10-12	wöch.	Inval. 110, 343	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

52 697	Native American Cultural Identity and Globalization
HS	Di	12-14	wöch.	Inval. 110, 347	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF) • see also: Conference: Native Cultures in the 21st Century

WS 2005/06

52 565	Visual Media
PS	Di	12-14	wöch.	UL 6, 2014A	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

52 567	American Media Today
HS	Do	14-16	wöch.	UL 6, 2004a	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

52 617	The Postwar American Nonfiction Novel
HS	Di	10-12	wöch.	Inval. 110, 349	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

52 619	"In God We Trust": The Impact of Religion on American Culture and Politics at Home and Abroad
HS	Do	12-14	wöch.	Inval. 110, 347	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

SS 2005

52 663	American Cultural History
PS/SE	Do	14-16	wöch.	UL 6 1070	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

00 000	Einführung in die Ideen- und Sozialgeschichte USA: Controversial Issues in American History
SE/VL (8)	Mo	14-16	wöch.	UL 6, 3075	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (PDF) • Bibliography (PDF) • Tutorium

52 669	Fictions of Adolescence in American Literature
HS	Di	10-12	wöch.	INV 110, 343	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

52 672	The Politics and Culture of American Education in the 21st Century
HS	Di	12-14	wöch.	INV 110, 343	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF) • Supplementary Student-Run Web Site

WS 2004/05

52 642	Literary and Cultural Representations of American Society: Visual Media (BA Amerikanistik: 3. Modul)
PS (8)	Di	10-12	wöch.	INV 110, 349	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

52 644

How Canadian is It? Concepts of Nationhood and National Identity in the USA and Canada (Magister und Lehramt)

PS (8)

14-16

wöch.

INV 110, 349

R. Isensee

• Course Description
• Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

52 645	Representations of Gender in 20th Century Native American Literature
HS (8)	Do	14-16	wöch.	INV 110, 306	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

52 648

The World According to Disney: Constructions of Cultural Difference in American (Family-Oriented) Films

HS (8)

14-16

wöch.

INV 110, 347

R. Isensee

• Course Description
• Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

00 000	The European Dream The Continuing Process of European Unification 3rd Transatlantic Students Symposium. March 5-13, 2005
• Symposium Web Site • On-Line Course

SS 2004

52 615	American Cultural History (nur für B.A. 2. Sem.)
PS (8)	Do	14-16	wöch.	DOR 24, 411	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (PDF) • Bibliography (PDF)

52 616	Einführung in die Sozial- und Ideengeschichte USA: Controversial Issues in American History (studium generale) (Magister Amerik., Angl./Amerik.; LA)
VL (2), SG	Di	10-12	wöch.	UL6, 1072	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (PDF) • Bibliography (PDF) • Tutorium

52 623	Missing Mothers - Caring Fathers - Absent Parents? Shifting Family Models in Recent Young Adult Fiction in the USA
HS (8)	Di	14-16	wöch.	DOR 24, 411	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

52 626	Reading as Navigating: Hyperfiction and the Nature of Narration in Digital Media
HS (8)	Do	10-12	wöch.	DOR 24, 411	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus & Bibliography (PDF)

WS 2003/04

52 645	Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaft USA I: Konzepte der amerikanischen Kultur (B.A., 1. Sem. u.a.)
PS (8)	Do	14-16	wöch.	UL6, 2097	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (Revised) (PDF) • Tutorium

52 646	"What went ye out into the wilderness to see?": Religion and American Self Perception Past and Present
PS (8)	Di	10-12	wöch.	DOR 24, 107	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (Revised) (PDF)

52 650	Promoting the Self: Constructions of the Self and the Other in Early Texts in Colonial America
HS (8)	Do	12-14	wöch.	DOR 24, 309	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (Revised) (PDF)

52 651	Fiction as Re-Construction of History: The Civil War in American Literature
HS (8)	Di	14-16	wöch.	DOR 24, 205	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (Revised) (PDF)

SS 2003

52 654	Einführung in die Sozial- und Ideengeschichte USA: Controversial Issues in American History
VL (2), SG	Di	10-12	wöch.	UL6, 1072	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (PDF) • Bibliography and Webliography (PDF) • Tutorium

52 661	Constructions of Gender in American and Canadian Young Adult Literature
HS (8)	Do	10-12	wöch.	DOR 24, 411	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (PDF)

WS 2002/03

52 629	Einführung in die Kulturwiss. USA I: Konzepte amerikanischer Kultur (studium generale)
PS (8)	Do	14-16	wöch.	UL6, 2097	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (PDF)

52 638	What difference does difference make? Gender and/in Education
HS (8)	Di	12-14	wöch.	DOR 24, 507	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (PDF)

SS 2002

52 651	"No Teacup Tragedies": Naturalism in American Literature
PS (8)	Mi	10-12	wöch.	UL 6, 3088	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (PDF)

52 653	Einführung in die Sozial- und Ideengeschichte USA: Controversial Issues in American History
VL (2), SG	Di	10-12	wöch.	UL6, 1072	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus (PDF) • Bibliography and Webliography (PDF) • Tutorium

WS 2001/2002

52 596	Einführung in die Kulturwiss. USA I: Konzepte amerikanischer Kultur (studium generale)
PS (8)	Do	14-16	wöch.	UL6, 2097	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus

52 601	American Young Adult Literature and/in the Digital Culture
HS (8)	Di	12-14	wöch.	DOR 24, 513	R. Isensee
• Course Description • Course Syllabus

PS WS 1999/2000

Jugendbuch und Jugendbuchkritik in den USA

HS WS 1999/2000

SS 1999

Einführung in die Sozial- und Ideengeschichte der USA

VL SS 1999

Educating America: Knowledge Production and Distribution in the U.S.

HS SS 1999

WS 1998/1999

Einführung in die Sozial- und Ideengeschichte der USA

VL WS 1998/1999

Media and Identity

HS WS 1998/1999

WS 1997/1998

Representations of the Self and Other in the Adolescent Novel

PS WS 1997/1998

Interpreting History: Political Conflicts and Cultural Contexts of the Civil War

PS WS 1997/1998

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