Jaap Kooijman

Since 1995, Jaap Kooijman has taught a wide range of courses in American Studies, Film and Television Studies, and Media Studies on both BA and MA level, ranging form lecture series for 400 first year students to small seminars and tutorials in the research MA. Similar to his research, his teaching is defined by its cross-disciplinary character. For example, with colleagues from Film Studies and Art History, Kooijman teaches the lecture series Visual Art & Televsion, in which they not only explore the interrelation between television and the arts, but also examine how changes in technology have challenged the traditional distinction between film and television. With a colleague from Religion Studies, he teaches a seminar entitled God is a DJ! in which they examine how religion - and Christianity in particular - has shaped contemporary western art and pop culture, in spite of often being recognized as secular. As a teacher, Kooijman tries to create an academic environment where students feel like they are part of a research group, challenging them to intellectually engage and interact with the objects of study.

Media and Culture, Universiteit van Amsterdam

BA lecture series

• Introduction Television and Popular Culture (with Maarten Reesink), 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009
• Media Theorie (with Tarja Laine and Jan Simons), 2009-2010
• Visual Art and Television (with Margriet Schavemaker and Wanda Strauven), 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2008-2009
• Everybody Famous: Reality Television and Pop Culture (with Maarten Reesink and Jan Teurlings), 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2007-2008
• Television Analysis and Methods (with Maarten Reesink and Jan Teurlings), 2004-2005, 2005-2006
• Pop: Music, Text, Media, Performance (with Jeroen de Kloet, Sander van Maas, Wim van der Meer, and Melanie Schiller), 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010

BA seminars

• God is a DJ! Religion in Media and Pop Culture (with Caroline vander Stichele and Laura Copier), 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2009-2010
• Representation of Cultural Identity, 2 groups in 2003-2004, 1 group in 2004-2005, 2 groups in 2009-2010
• Media Theorie, 2 groups in 2009-2010

MA seminars and tutorials

• Research MA seminar Core Course 1: Classic Texts in Media Theory, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010
• “America” in Global Media Culture, 2002-2003 (4 groups), 2003-2004, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2009-2010
• Cultural Theory (with Jan Simons), 2004-2005
• Research seminar Queer Television: Television and Identity Politics, 2004-2005
• Research seminar The Politics of Soul and Disco, 2002-2003
• MA tutorial Americanization and Globalization, 2004-2005
• MA tutorial Pop Culture and Music Video, 2004-2005

Department of Cultural Studies & Comparitive Literature, University of Minnesota 

Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Film and Television Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam

American Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam

• MA seminar American Pop Culture as Hyperreality, 2006-2007
• Lecture Introduction Regional Studies: Immigration and Ethnicity, 7 May 2002
• Lecture Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Imperialism: Billy Wilder’s A Foreign Affair, 2001
• Seminar Social Policy & Social Security: The American Welfare State in the Twentieth Century, annually 1995-2001
• Seminar Motown and the Civil Rights Movement, 1999-2000

American Studies, Universiteit Utrecht

• Lecture Politics of Soul: Motown, Popular Culture, and Counterculture, 2002
• Seminar American History and Culture in the Twentieth Century, 1999-2000
• Lecture The New Deal and the American Welfare State, 1999
• Lecture The Federal Writers’ Project of the 1930s, 1998

Studium Generale

• Lecture Reality Television: a History of Television Genres, Studium Generale Universiteit Utrecht, 2 april 2008
• Lecture Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: Soul Music and the Notion of Authenticity, Studium Generale Universiteit Maastricht, 1 April 2005
• Lecture Politics of Soul and Disco, Studium Generale Universiteit van Amsterdam, 16 October 2002

Guest lectures

• Functional Nudity: Sex on Television (with Joke Hermes), FremantleMedia Writers’ Forum, Amsterdam, June 2005
• Three Kings and the King of Pop, Religion Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam, March 2005
• Genre Theory and Television: An Introduction, Media and Culture, Universiteit van Amsterdam, February 2005
• Reflections Of The Way Life Used To Be: Vietnam and Television in lecture series War and Visual Culture, Media and Culture, Universiteit van Amsterdam, November 2003
• “An American Pop-Cultural Icon Only Madonna has Matched Since”: Diana Ross, Star Image, and Gay Iconography, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, September 2003
• The Culture of Dutch Film, Summer School, Universiteit Utrecht, July 2003
• American ideology and American popular culture, Institute for Higher European Studies / Haagse Hogeschool, Den Haag, October 2001 and October 2002
• American Exceptionalism and the “Forgotten” Americans: Native Americans and African Americans, Non-western Sociology, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1999 and 2000
• The American Presidential Elections of 1968: Hubert Humphrey’s “Politics of Joy” versus Richard Nixon’s “Law and Order”, American History, Universiteit Leiden, 2000
• American Politics and Economy, Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Amsterdam, December 1999
• Roosevelt and the New Deal, Zeeuwse Volksuniversiteit / Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg
• John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson: Two Presidents of the 1930s, Zeeuwse Volksuniversiteit / Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg