Undervisningsbeskrivelse
Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
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2023/24 - 2024/25
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Institution
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Øregård Gymnasium
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Fag og niveau
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Engelsk B
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Lærer(e)
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Jonas Syppli Lakjer
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Hold
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2023 En/z (1z En, 2z En)
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Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
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The Land of the Second Amendment: Gun Policy in...
COURSE TITLE
The Land of the Second Amendment: Gun Policy in the United States (50 pages)
COURSE OBJECTIVE
This course intends to give students an introduction into the roots of the Second Amendment and specifically how gun legislation today has remained an integral part of American culture, self-perception and the American national identity. Students shall discuss both pros and cons of having such legislation. Finally, high school shootings shall also be discussed as an American phenomenon, and how mass shootings continue to leave their mark on American society today.
COURSE MATERIALS
1) Introducing the Second Amendment and Gun Ownership in the US
Gramlich, John. Katherine Schaeffer: “7 facts about guns in the US” (2019) Downloaded at https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/22/facts-about-guns-in-united-states/ [21/01/21]
-. “8 facts about gun control in the US” (-) Downloaded at https://www.dw.com/en/8-facts-about-gun-control-in-the-us/a-40816418 [21/01/21]
2) Gun ownership and American National Culture
Auster, Paul. From _Bloodbath Nation_. Faber, 2023.
3) Pros and Cons and Debating Firearm Legislation
Gobry, Pascal-Emmanuel. “Both sides are wrong on the gun debate. Here’s why” (2014) _The Week_. June 16, 2014. Downloaded at https://theweek.com/articles/446178/both-sides-are-wrong-gun-debate-heres-why [21/01/21]
Pinsker, Scott. “The five minute NRA speech that would change the gun control debate forever” (2013) _Fox News_. March 14, 2013. Downloaded at https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/the-five-minute-nra-speech-that-would-change-the-gun-control-debate-forever [21/01/21]
Obama, Barack. “We must seek agreement on gun reforms” (2011) _Arizona Daily Star_. March 13, 2011. Downloaded at https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/13/op-ed-president-obama-arizona-daily-star-we-must-seek-agreement-gun-refo [21/01/21]
4) School shootings: an American Phenomenon
Brooks Brown Interview (2000). Downloaded at http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:nJ4jJEynvIIJ:www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/chat_brooksbrown000420.html+%22i+guess+i+think+it+was+because%22+mayhem&hl=da [10/10/20]
_Elephant_ (Extracts; Gus Van Zant, 2003)
_Bowling for Columbine_ (Extracts; Michael Moore, 2002)
5) Examples from Fiction
Robin Storey: “The pistol” (2009). Downloaded at https://www.storey-lines.com/stories/short-story-the-pistol/ [21/01/21]
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"In the Hood": Portrayals of the American Ghett...
COURSE TITLE
”In the hood”: Portrayals of the American ‘Ghetto’ in Fiction (52 pages)
COURSE OBJECTIVE
This course sets out to teach students about various fictional responses to life in the American ghettos, both in terms of lyricism (rap and hip hop music, primarily) and the motion picture genre that emerged in the 1990s labeled the “hood film”. After discussing the definition of a so-called “ghetto” and the etymology of the word, we shall discuss how ghetto lifestyles are portrayed in the examples below, and what these texts seem to have in common as a literary “genre” of its own. The focus will focus on New York City and Los Angeles, two epicentres of African American musical cultures, especially.
COURSE MATERIALS
1. Mapping the American ghetto
-. “American Ghettos” (Wikipedia-Entry) Downloaded at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_ghettos [10/12/20]
-. “Historian Says Don’t ‘Sanitize’ How our Government Created Ghettos” (2015) Downloaded at https://www.npr.org/2015/05/14/406699264/historian-says-dont-sanitize-how-our-government-created-the-ghettos [10/12/20]
Riis, Jacob. From _How the Other Half Lives_ (1890) Chapters: “Introduction”, “Genesis of the Tenement”, “The Color Line in New York”, “The Harvest of Tares”, Downloaded from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45502/45502-h/45502-h.htm [20/12/20]
Wright, Richard. From _Native Son_ (1940). Vintage Books, 2000.
Kniaź, Linda: ”My space, my ‘Hood, my Street’: Ghetto spaces in American Hip-Hop Music” (2017) in _New Horizons in English Studies_, 2/2017.
2. Ghetto poetry and the Birth of “Gangster Rap”
Boogie Down Productions: “9mm goes bang” (1987)
Ice-T: “O.G. Original Gangster” (1991)
N.W.A.: “Straight outta Compton” (1988) & “Fuck tha police” (1988)
Ice Cube: “Black Korea” (1991) & “Ghetto bird” (1993)
Nas: “N.Y. State of Mind” (1994)
Dr. Dre: “Lil’ Ghetto Boy” (1992)
All lyrics available on http://www.genius.com [10/12/20]
3. Introducing the “Hood Film”-genre
_Boyz n the Hood_ (John Singleton, 1991)
_South Central_ (Stephen Milburn Anderson, 1992)
_Juice_ (Excerpts; Ernest R. Dickerson, 1992)
_Menace II Society_ (Excerpt; Albert Hughes, Allan Hughes, 1993)
_He Got Game_ (Excerpts; Spike Lee, 1998)
_Straight Outta Compton_ (Excerpts; F. Gary Gray, 2015)
4. The 1992 LA Watts Riots
Bunting, Eve. “Smoky Night” (1994) Downloaded at http://www.mrsclynedaviscoolclass.com/uploads/8/4/2/4/8424848/smoky_night.pdf [20/12/20]
Beverly Shapin: “Smoky Night: Misguided Effort to Help Kids Understand Rodney King Events” (1999) Downloaded at https://socialjusticebooks.org/smoky-night-misguided-effort-to-help-kids-understand-rodney-king-events/ [20/12/10]
Dr. Dre: “The Day the Niggaz took Over” (1992)
Kendrick Lamar: “County Building Blues” (2012)
Lyrics available on http://www.genius.com [20/12/20]
5. Modern Multicultural Los Angeles
Kendrick Lamar: “m.A.A.d city” (2012) (Lyrics available as above)
_A Better Life_ (Chris Weitz, 2011)
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Inside Four Walls: Prison Sociology and Prison...
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Inside Four Walls: Prison Sociology and Prison Fiction (130 pages)
COURSE OBJECTIVE
The objective of the following course it to discuss prison sociology with the students and especially how the prison experience has been presented to us in fiction. Students will be introduced a number of examples of writing by both inmate and non-inmate authors and particular emphasis shall be put on “the prison film” as a genre within motion picture history, e.g. its traits, its common formula, stereotypical character depictions etc. Also, we shall read Stephen King's novel _Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption_ and watch the film version of it as an example of said genre.
COURSE MATERIALS
1) Introducing the American Prison System
-. “Incarceration in the US” (-). Wikipedia entry. Downloaded at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States [29/03/23]
_The 13th_ (Extracts; Ava DuVernay, 2016)
2) The Prison Experience in Fiction
Hassine, Victor. “The Beast” in Hassine, Victor et.al._The Crying Wall_. Infinity Publishing, 2005.
3) The Prison Film: an Ever-Popular Movie Genre
Campbell Bruce, J.. From _Escape from Alcatraz_. McGraw-Hill, 1963.
Tuggle, Richard. From the Script to _Escape from Alcatraz_ (1979. Publisher Unknown) + extracts from the movie version (Don Siegel, 1979)
_The Shawshank Redemption_ (Frank Darabont, 1994)
King, Stephen. _Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption_. 1982. Hodder, 2021.
_Prison Break_ (S01, E01 “Pilot” +02 “Allen”; Brett Rafner. Michael W. Watkins, 2005)
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True Detectives: Studying _True Crime_ as a Gen...
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True Detectives: Studying _True Crime_ as a Genre on its Own (80 pages)
COURSE OBJECTIVE
Ever-rising in popularity, _true crime_ has become one of the great genres within non-fiction in the 21st century. Questioning the label “trash culture”, this course intends to provide students with a study of the genre, to trace its origins and especially to introduce students to the works of Truman Capote and to the apparent resurgence of the genre in the early 21st century.
1) True Crime and “Trash Culture”
Roberts, Soraya. “True Crime and the Trash Balance”. _Longreads_. January 2019.
Miles, Jack. “Imagining Mayhem”. _The North American Review_, Dec. 1991, Vol. 276, No.4.
Bradford, Lauren. “My Family Was Traumatised First by a Murder, Then by the TV Serialisation”. _The Guardian_. May 2, 2016.
2) Pioneer Studies
Capote, Truman. From _In Cold Blood_ . 1966. Penguin Books, 2017.
+ _Capote_ (Excerpts; Bennett Miller, 2005)
Bugliosi, Vincent. From _Helter Skelter_. 1974. Bantam Books, 1995.
3) Studying and Portraying Serial Killers
Douglas, John. From _Mindhunter_. 1995. Heinemann, 1996.
+ _Mindhunter_ (S01E01 “Episode 1”; David Fincher, 2017)
Graysmith, Robert. From _Zodiac_. 1986. Berkley Books, 2007.
+ _Zodiac_ (Excerpts; David Fincher, 2007)
Rule, Ann. From _The Stranger Beside Me. The Definitive Story of the Ted Bundy Case_. 1980. Sphere, 1989.
+ _Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes_(S01E01 “Handsome Devil”; Joe Berlinger, 2019)
4) The Rebirth of the Genre in the 21st Century
Koenig, Sarah. _Serial_ S01E01 (“The Alibi”; 2014)
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"It Dread Inna Inglan": The Caribbean Migrant Ex..
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”It Dread Inna Inglan”: the Caribbean Migrant Experience in the UK (52 pages)
COURSE OBJECTIVE
The objective of this course is to introduce students to the circumstances that caused Caribbean postwar migration to the UK. Commencing with the so-called Windrush Generation, we shall explore the different reactions to this migrant experience, including second-generation perspectives on assimilation and integration into British society and, finally, discuss the situation in, especially, 21st century London which continues to be the primary place of residence for the Caribbean diaspora.
COURSE MATERIALS
1) The British Empire in the Caribbean and the Slave Trade
Hochschild, Adam. From _Bury the Chains_. Pan Books, 2005.
2) The Windrush Generation
Selvon, Samuel. From _The Lonely Londoners_. 1956. Longman, 2004.
Sealey, Karl. “My Fathers Before Me” (1958) in Boldsen, Erik, ed. _West Indian Themes_. Musagetes, 1985.
Levy, Andrea. From _Small Island_. Review, 2004.
3) “Enoch Powell was right”?
Powell, Enoch. From “Rivers of Blood Speech” (1968)
Downloaded at https://www.enochpowell.net/speeches.html [09/05/23]
5) “Dub Poetry”
Johnson, Linton Kwesi. “Inglan is a bitch”, “Fite dem back” & “All wi doin is defendin”
from _Dread, Beat and Blood_ (1975). Bogle L’Ouverture, 1975.
6) Caribbean Gangsters in 21st Century London
Headley, Victor. From _Yardie_. Pan Books, 1992.
_Yardie_ (Excerpt; Idris Elba, 2018)
_Top Boy_ S03 E01 (“Bruk Up”; Reinaldo Marcus Green, 2019) +E02 (“Building Bridges”; Reinaldo Marcus Green, 2019)
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Recognising Satire is no Joke: Studying Satire...
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Recognizing Satire is No Joke: Studying Satire as a Genre within Non-Fiction (35 pages)
COURSE OBJECTIVE
In this course, students are to learn how to conduct an academic analysis of humour and comedy and identify different stylistic elements within comedy. Especially, students are to analyze and characterize political satire as genre within non-fiction.
COURSE MATERIALS
1) What Makes Us Laugh and Why?
Clausen, Bo Høpfner. Jesper Kaalund: from _Serious Business_. 2011. Gyldendal, 2014.
2) Early Examples of Political Satire
Swift, Jonathan. “A Modest Proposal” (1729) in Bo Høpfner Clausen. Jesper Kaalund: from _Serious Business_. 2011. Gyldendal, 2014.
Swift, Jonathan. From _Gulliver’s Travels_. 1726. Longman, 2001.
3) What Makes Political Satire Powerful?
Bhaskar, Sanjeev. “What Has Life of Brian ever Done for Us?”. _The Daily Telegraph_, November 29, 2009.
-. “Life of Brian Would be too Risky Now, says Terry Jones” (2011) _The Guardian_, October 10, 2011.
_Life of Brian_ (Excerpts; Terry Jones, 2011)
-. “Columbine Jocks Safely Resume Bullying” _TheOnion.com_ September 8, 1999.
-. “‘No Way to Prevent This’ Says Only Nation Where this Regularly Happens”. The Onion.com_ May 27, 2014.
Cohen, Colin. “No Death Penalty, No Easter Bunny” (2003) in Bo Høpfner Clausen. Jesper Kaalund: from _Serious Business_. 2011. Gyldendal, 2014.
4) Satirising American Materialism and Consumerism
Easton Ellis, Brett: from _American Psycho_. 1991. Picador, 2022.
4) Dystopian Satire
Orwell, George. From _1984_. 1949. Penguin Books, 1954.
5) Slapstick and Double Entendre
_The Naked Gun_ (Excerpts; David Zucker, 1988)
_Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan_ (Excerpts; Larry Charles, 2006)
Cahill, Kelly. “U.S. (not Kazahkstan) should be embarrassed by Borat” (2006) Downloaded at https://thetartan.org/2006/11/20/forum/borat [28/02/15]
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"They Are Not Our Friends?" US-Mexican Relatio...
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"They are not our friends"? US-Mexican Relations since the Mexican-American War (54 pages)
COURSE OBJECTIVE
This course sets out to explore US-Mexican relations and how these relations have developed since the Mexican-American War. Also, it intends to provide students an understanding of the living conditions of _chicanos_, compared to the first generation Mexican-American immigrants, plus their different views on life within the USA. Finally, the course intends to provide students with background knowledge as to the role of Mexico in American politics, including presidential elections.
COURSE MATERIALS
1) Early Encounters and the Mexican-American War:
Acuña, Rudolfo. From _Occupied America: A History of Chicanos_ (Harper and Row, 1981)
Henderson, Timothy J. From _A ¬¬Glorious Defeat_ (Hill & Wang, 2007)
2) Mexican Migration to the USA
Huntington, Samuel. "The Hispanic Challenge" (2004). Downloaded at http://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/28/the-hispanic-challenge/ [08/08/16]
Pentón, Mario J. “’This is Hialeah!’ Taco Bell employee refuses to help client who doesn’t speak Spanish” (2018) _The Miami Herald_. September 14, 2018.
3) The Borderlands
_Extreme World: México¬_ S05E02 (Excerpts; Ross Kemp, 2016)
Transcription from CBS Evening News Feb 9, 2009 on “Virtual Vigilantes” (2009) Downloaded at https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2009/02/09/cbs-evening-news-mocks-border-security-makes-facts [24/05/21]
4) Border Identities and Mexican Identity within the USA
Sandra Cisnero. “No speak English” (1983) in Siersbæk, Rikke, ed. _Youth Cultures in the USA_. Systime, 2007.
Gina Valdés: “Where you from” (1986)
Sandra Cisneros: from Caramelo (2002)
Both in Kledal, Aase et al, eds. _Somos latinos in the US_. Systime, 2007.
Corona, Ana María. “Coming to America, to Clean” (1993) Downloaded at http://www.engelsk.sidenom.dk/amdreamcomingtoamerica.pdf [23/04/16]
5) Political US-Mexican Relations
Trump, Donald. “Campaign launching speech” (2015)
6) Mexican Immigration and the Chicano generations on the Big Screen
_My family, mi familia_ (Film: Gregory Nava, 1995)
_A Better Life_ (Film: Chris Weitz, 2011)_
7) The Mexican Drug Traffic
_Sicario_ (Excerpts: Denis Villeneuve, 2015)
_Cartel Land_¬ (Excerpts; Matthew Heinemann, 2015)
Cummins, Jeanine. From _American Dirt_. Macmillan, 2020.
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Sex, Love and Relationships
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Sex, Love and Relationships (49 pages)
COURSE OBJECTIVE
This course sets out to investigate concepts such as love and seeks to discuss interpersonal relationships with the students, including sexual consent. Also, we shall discuss erotic literature as a genre, the erotic thriller as a genre of its own within motion pictures and finally theories such as Marcus' "pornotopia" and Mulvey's "male gaze".
COURSE MATERIALS
1) What is Love? 🎶 Baby Don’t Hurt Me! 🎶
-. “Triangular Theory of Love” (-) Wikipedia entry downloaded at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_theory_of_love [05/05/24]
2) 16th Century Sonnet Writers
Wyatt, Sir Robert the Elder: “Whoso list to hunt” (1537) Downloaded at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45593/whoso-list-to-hunt-i-know-where-is-an-hind [26/09/21]
3) Satire, Puritans and prototype-Pornographers:
Wilmot, John. “The Imperfect Enjoyment” (1680). Downloaded at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50452/the-imperfect-enjoyment [10/01/22]
Behn, Aphra. “The Disappointment” (1680). Downloaded at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43639/the-disappointment [10/01/22]
4) The “Sensitive, Daring Woman” in the Stories of Kate Chopin
Chopin, Kate. “The Storm” (1898) in Gilbert, Sandra, ed.__Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories_. Library of America, 2002.
5) Lust, Love and Consent
Anonymous: “Volume 1” of The Romance of Lust (1873) Downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30254/30254-h/30254-h.htm [10/01/22]
Hemingway, Ernest. “Up in Michigan” (1921) in Hemingway, Ernest. _The Short Stories_. Sribner Classics, 1997.
Roupenian, Kristen. “Cat Person” (2017) in Lakjer, Jonas Syppli. Timo Reilin. Tom Sig Jessen, eds. _Connect!_ (Upcoming Publication: Columbus, 2024)
6) Sadomasochism/BDSM
Frank, Lone. “Beskidte tanker”. _Weekendavisen_, March 18, 2022.
Reage, Pauline. From _The Story of O_ (1954) Downloaded at https://archive.org/stream/TheHistoryOfO/the+history+of+O_djvu.txt [10/01/22]
7) The Erotic Thriller as a Genre of its Own
“Erotic thriller” (Wikipedia entry) Downloaded at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_thriller
[10/01/22]
Rodgers, Mette. “Spredte ben”. _Weekendavisen_. April 29, 2022.
_Basic Instinct_ (Excerpts; Paul Verhoeven, 1992)
_Wild Things_ (John McNaughton, 1998)
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