11291 - Theories / Methods Modulübersicht

Module Number: 11291
Module Title:Theories / Methods
  Wissenschaftstheorien / Forschungsmethoden
Department: Faculty 5 - Business, Law and Social Sciences
Responsible Staff Member:
  • Prof. Dr. Amelina, Anna
Language of Teaching / Examination:English
Duration:2 semesters
Frequency of Offer: Every semester
Credits: 6
Learning Outcome:PhD students will learn and reflect critically on interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies applied in the research on culture and heritage. The students will be equipped to develop their doctoral theses according to the current state of theory and research in critical cultural and heritage studies.
Contents:The seminar discusses the most important cultural / social scientific theories and methodologies for a crticial and research based study of heritage.
In particular, the seminar focuses on such cultural and social scientific theories and methods that scrutinize the powerful social, political and technological practices through which the field of heritage is constructed both within and across national borders.
These theories address heritage not as a given entity, but rather as things that are socially produced and continually negotiated by a variety of discourses and actors. From this perspective, heritage can be considered as a field in which the centrality of culture and its relation to identity are constantly struggled over. Boundaries such as ‘the past’ and ‘the present’ or ‘us’ and ‘them’ are connected to different self-conceptions and ways of belonging as well as to processes of othering and exclusion.
Recommended Prerequisites:None
Mandatory Prerequisites:None
Forms of Teaching and Proportion:
  • Seminar / 2 Hours per Week per Semester
  • Self organised studies / 120 Hours
Teaching Materials and Literature:Will be announced at the beginning of the seminar.
Module Examination:Continuous Assessment (MCA)
Assessment Mode for Module Examination:
  • Essay, 15-20p. (50%)
  • Presentation, 15 min. (50%)
Evaluation of Module Examination:Performance Verification – graded
Limited Number of Participants:None
Part of the Study Programme:
  • Structural Doctoral Programme / Heritage Studies / PO 2011
  • Structural Doctoral Programme / Heritage Studies / PO 2017
Remarks:
Module Components:In summer semester:
  • Seminar Theories and Methods (2SWS) OR
  • Seminar Ethical Research, Practice, and Social Practice (2SWS)
In winter semester:
  • Seminar Theories and Methods (2SWS)
Components to be offered in the Current Semester: