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Fachbereich 05: Sprache, Literatur, Kultur - Anglistik

Veranstaltungen


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[Vl] Introduction to English Language Teaching
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
(Einführungsveranstaltung,) ECTS 4

Description:
In this class students will be introduced to some basic concepts of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (standards, syllabuses, listening/speaking and reading/writing skills, teaching literature, grammar and vocabulary at different levels, organising your classroom, and assessment) starting out with a close look at the teacher, the learner, learning theory and classroom designs. At the same time students will take their first steps towards becoming ”reflective practitioners” (Schoen). Therefore this lecture is designed to be interactive, i.e. it demands students' oral participation. They will learn how to assess their own progress in language learning with the help of the European Language Portfolio.

Prerequisites:
None. This course is accompanied by the obligatory Tutorium TEFL I A2.

Required Reading:
Andreas Müller-Hartmann / Marita Schocker-von Ditfurth: Introduction to English Language Teaching. Stuttgart: Klett 2004 (UNI-Wissen), ISBN 3-12-939631-4 and a reader available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Graded (alte und neue Studienordnung); Regular attendance, active participation in class, homework assignments and Klausur.

Exam period:
Written exam in the last session of the semester.

Registration: Flex-Now

[Vl] Introduction to English Language Teaching
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
(Einführungsveranstaltung,) ECTS 4

Description:
In this class students will be introduced to some basic concepts of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (standards, syllabuses, listening/speaking and reading/writing skills, teaching literature, grammar and vocabulary at different levels, organising your classroom, and assessment) starting out with a close look at the teacher, the learner, learning theory and classroom designs. At the same time students will take their first steps towards becoming ”reflective practitioners” (Schoen). Therefore this lecture is designed to be interactive, i.e. it demands students' oral participation. They will learn how to assess their own progress in language learning with the help of the European Language Portfolio.

Prerequisites:
None. This course is accompanied by the obligatory Tutorium TEFL I A2.

Required Reading:
Andreas Müller-Hartmann / Marita Schocker-von Ditfurth: Introduction to English Language Teaching. Stuttgart: Klett 2004 (UNI-Wissen), ISBN 3-12-939631-4 and a reader available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Graded (alte und neue Studienordnung); Regular attendance, active participation in class, homework assignments and Klausur.

Exam period:
Written exam: 04.02.2019 .

Registration: Flex-Now

 
[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 23.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (i)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

 
 
 
[P Si] Gender Identities in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440
2 Einzeltermine
Phil. I, B 440
Fr 07.12.2018,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  
Fr 18.01.2019,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  


Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
Gender studies is a relatively new subject that has become more and more popular recently. It has become apparent that notions of gender are closely connected to other disciplines as well, to cultural studies, literary studies, and ultimately also to teaching (in general) as well as foreign language teaching. In this seminar, we will explore gender and feminist theories, will evaluate and discuss the relevance for the foreign language classroom, and will also have a closer look at different teaching material with regard to gender stereotypes, gender norms and gender identities. During the second phase of the seminar, we will explore how these theoretical concepts can be applied to practice.

Please note: We will have two double sessions on December 7 and January 18, each from 2 to 6 pm. In substitution for these double sessions, two other regular sessions will be canceled (December 14 and January 25). Please make sure that you are able to attend.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A course reader will be provided via StudIP.

Credit (graded):
regular attendance (no more than 3 missed sessions; compensation up to half of total sessions possible)
active participation, homework and reading preparation of a presentation/micro teaching unit submission of a written term paper

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Listening & Viewing Competence: Focus on Political Short Films
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
This seminar will try to answer the question of how to foster listening amp; viewing competence ('Hör-/Sehverstehen') through appropriate media. In order to do that, we shall focus on a variety of suitable films for different learner groups while paying special attention to political short films.
To begin with, this seminar will introduce a theoretical framework which will allow us to discuss forms and functions of film(s) and we will use a conceptual approach to the analysis of film(s). Furthermore, we will learn how to choose adequate film material, how to incorporate film(s) in your classroom, how to make use of the cultural potential of film(s) and, ultimately, we will consider the benefits of producing films in class.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL I.

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written term paper.

Exam period:
Termin paper due March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Literary Competences
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
In recent years, several guidelines for EFL classrooms in Germany have been issued, with varying regard of literary texts. In the national Bildungsstandards, for instance, teaching literature in the EFL classroom is only touched upon. Therefore, this seminar is designed to introduce concepts and models which consider understanding literature as a distinct competence. The students will also learn how to use literary texts in the classroom and will apply the theoretical considerations by developing concrete teaching ideas. At the end, they will be able to answer the following questions: What does it mean to "understand literature"? Why should we work with literature in the EFL classroom at all? What are the main challenges? What is the role of literature in educational documents and curricular frameworks? Which competences can be acquired through working with literary texts and how can a good task design facilitate this process?

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
We will have a look at various literary genres that can be used for the benefit of the students.
Secondary texts will be provided via StudIP.

Expectations:
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation.

Credit (graded):
Submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31st, 2019.

Registration:
via Flex-Now

[P Si] Media Competences: Exploring (US-)American Culture
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440
2 Einzeltermine
Offener Kanal
Fr 14.12.2018,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  
Fr 25.01.2019,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  


Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) states that Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) ist the main goal of Foreign Language Teaching. This signifies that communicative skills are closely intertwined with the concept of culture. Although English, when used as a lingua franca, does not prescribe a specific target culture, the United Kingdom and the United States of America have traditionally been in the focus. This seminar will therefore concentrate on the question how US culture can be made accessible in the Foreign Language Classroom. For this, we will look at different popcultural media like films, TV series, songs, novels, etc. and explore their potential to promote ICC. During the second phase of the seminar, we will examine how these theoretical concepts can be applied to practice.
Please note: There will be two additional sessions at the Offener Kanal in Gießen, on December 14 and January 25, each from 2 to 6 pm. These sessions are mandatory, so please make sure that you are able to attend. For these additional sessions, two regular sessions will be canceled (on December 7 and January 18).

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A course reader will be provided via StudIP.

Credit (graded):
regular attendance (no more than 3 missed sessions; compensation up to half of total sessions possible)
active participation, homework and reading preparation of a presentation/micro teaching unit; submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Modern Assessment in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
The aim of this course is to familiarize students with different evaluation techniques in the English language classroom, starting from more traditional, pen-and-paper tests, to the more alternative techniques, such as portfolios, self- and peer-assessment, classroom observation, journals etc. Task-based assessment will also be investigated, examples will be given and all approaches will be analyzed in a critical view, focusing on their potential, advantages and disadvantages. The Seminar will have a highly practical orientation and lively discussions and debates are expected to take place.


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL I.



Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A reader will be provided in Stud.IP.

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March, 31st 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Teaching & Learning Vocabulary in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 104

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
Will be made available on StudIP

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by Feb ???, 2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] The Dynamic Classroom: Focus on Oral Communication
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description: This Seminar will focus on providing students with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge of organising tasks in speaking. Therefore, we will investigate the organisation and development of Tasks, types of Tasks, the Task cycle, real world Tasks and assessment in the modern EFL classroom, with the emphasis on oral skills


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A reader will be provided in Stud.IP.

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March, 31st 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

 
 
 
[P Si] Gender Identities in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440
2 Einzeltermine
Phil. I, B 440
Fr 07.12.2018,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  
Fr 18.01.2019,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  


Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
Gender studies is a relatively new subject that has become more and more popular recently. It has become apparent that notions of gender are closely connected to other disciplines as well, to cultural studies, literary studies, and ultimately also to teaching (in general) as well as foreign language teaching. In this seminar, we will explore gender and feminist theories, will evaluate and discuss the relevance for the foreign language classroom, and will also have a closer look at different teaching material with regard to gender stereotypes, gender norms and gender identities. During the second phase of the seminar, we will explore how these theoretical concepts can be applied to practice.

Please note: We will have two double sessions on December 7 and January 18, each from 2 to 6 pm. In substitution for these double sessions, two other regular sessions will be canceled (December 14 and January 25). Please make sure that you are able to attend.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A course reader will be provided via StudIP.

Credit (graded):
regular attendance (no more than 3 missed sessions; compensation up to half of total sessions possible)
active participation, homework and reading preparation of a presentation/micro teaching unit submission of a written term paper

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Listening & Viewing Competence: Focus on Political Short Films
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
This seminar will try to answer the question of how to foster listening amp; viewing competence ('Hör-/Sehverstehen') through appropriate media. In order to do that, we shall focus on a variety of suitable films for different learner groups while paying special attention to political short films.
To begin with, this seminar will introduce a theoretical framework which will allow us to discuss forms and functions of film(s) and we will use a conceptual approach to the analysis of film(s). Furthermore, we will learn how to choose adequate film material, how to incorporate film(s) in your classroom, how to make use of the cultural potential of film(s) and, ultimately, we will consider the benefits of producing films in class.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL I.

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written term paper.

Exam period:
Termin paper due March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Literary Competences
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
In recent years, several guidelines for EFL classrooms in Germany have been issued, with varying regard of literary texts. In the national Bildungsstandards, for instance, teaching literature in the EFL classroom is only touched upon. Therefore, this seminar is designed to introduce concepts and models which consider understanding literature as a distinct competence. The students will also learn how to use literary texts in the classroom and will apply the theoretical considerations by developing concrete teaching ideas. At the end, they will be able to answer the following questions: What does it mean to "understand literature"? Why should we work with literature in the EFL classroom at all? What are the main challenges? What is the role of literature in educational documents and curricular frameworks? Which competences can be acquired through working with literary texts and how can a good task design facilitate this process?

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
We will have a look at various literary genres that can be used for the benefit of the students.
Secondary texts will be provided via StudIP.

Expectations:
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation.

Credit (graded):
Submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31st, 2019.

Registration:
via Flex-Now

[P Si] Media Competences: Exploring (US-)American Culture
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440
2 Einzeltermine
Offener Kanal
Fr 14.12.2018,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  
Fr 25.01.2019,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  


Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) states that Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) ist the main goal of Foreign Language Teaching. This signifies that communicative skills are closely intertwined with the concept of culture. Although English, when used as a lingua franca, does not prescribe a specific target culture, the United Kingdom and the United States of America have traditionally been in the focus. This seminar will therefore concentrate on the question how US culture can be made accessible in the Foreign Language Classroom. For this, we will look at different popcultural media like films, TV series, songs, novels, etc. and explore their potential to promote ICC. During the second phase of the seminar, we will examine how these theoretical concepts can be applied to practice.
Please note: There will be two additional sessions at the Offener Kanal in Gießen, on December 14 and January 25, each from 2 to 6 pm. These sessions are mandatory, so please make sure that you are able to attend. For these additional sessions, two regular sessions will be canceled (on December 7 and January 18).

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A course reader will be provided via StudIP.

Credit (graded):
regular attendance (no more than 3 missed sessions; compensation up to half of total sessions possible)
active participation, homework and reading preparation of a presentation/micro teaching unit; submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Modern Assessment in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
The aim of this course is to familiarize students with different evaluation techniques in the English language classroom, starting from more traditional, pen-and-paper tests, to the more alternative techniques, such as portfolios, self- and peer-assessment, classroom observation, journals etc. Task-based assessment will also be investigated, examples will be given and all approaches will be analyzed in a critical view, focusing on their potential, advantages and disadvantages. The Seminar will have a highly practical orientation and lively discussions and debates are expected to take place.


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL I.



Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A reader will be provided in Stud.IP.

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March, 31st 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Teaching & Learning Vocabulary in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 104

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
Will be made available on StudIP

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by Feb ???, 2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] The Dynamic Classroom: Focus on Oral Communication
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description: This Seminar will focus on providing students with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge of organising tasks in speaking. Therefore, we will investigate the organisation and development of Tasks, types of Tasks, the Task cycle, real world Tasks and assessment in the modern EFL classroom, with the emphasis on oral skills


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A reader will be provided in Stud.IP.

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March, 31st 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

 
[P Si] Gender Identities in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440
2 Einzeltermine
Phil. I, B 440
Fr 07.12.2018,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  
Fr 18.01.2019,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  


Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
Gender studies is a relatively new subject that has become more and more popular recently. It has become apparent that notions of gender are closely connected to other disciplines as well, to cultural studies, literary studies, and ultimately also to teaching (in general) as well as foreign language teaching. In this seminar, we will explore gender and feminist theories, will evaluate and discuss the relevance for the foreign language classroom, and will also have a closer look at different teaching material with regard to gender stereotypes, gender norms and gender identities. During the second phase of the seminar, we will explore how these theoretical concepts can be applied to practice.

Please note: We will have two double sessions on December 7 and January 18, each from 2 to 6 pm. In substitution for these double sessions, two other regular sessions will be canceled (December 14 and January 25). Please make sure that you are able to attend.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A course reader will be provided via StudIP.

Credit (graded):
regular attendance (no more than 3 missed sessions; compensation up to half of total sessions possible)
active participation, homework and reading preparation of a presentation/micro teaching unit submission of a written term paper

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Listening & Viewing Competence: Focus on Political Short Films
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
This seminar will try to answer the question of how to foster listening amp; viewing competence ('Hör-/Sehverstehen') through appropriate media. In order to do that, we shall focus on a variety of suitable films for different learner groups while paying special attention to political short films.
To begin with, this seminar will introduce a theoretical framework which will allow us to discuss forms and functions of film(s) and we will use a conceptual approach to the analysis of film(s). Furthermore, we will learn how to choose adequate film material, how to incorporate film(s) in your classroom, how to make use of the cultural potential of film(s) and, ultimately, we will consider the benefits of producing films in class.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL I.

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written term paper.

Exam period:
Termin paper due March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Literary Competences
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
In recent years, several guidelines for EFL classrooms in Germany have been issued, with varying regard of literary texts. In the national Bildungsstandards, for instance, teaching literature in the EFL classroom is only touched upon. Therefore, this seminar is designed to introduce concepts and models which consider understanding literature as a distinct competence. The students will also learn how to use literary texts in the classroom and will apply the theoretical considerations by developing concrete teaching ideas. At the end, they will be able to answer the following questions: What does it mean to "understand literature"? Why should we work with literature in the EFL classroom at all? What are the main challenges? What is the role of literature in educational documents and curricular frameworks? Which competences can be acquired through working with literary texts and how can a good task design facilitate this process?

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
We will have a look at various literary genres that can be used for the benefit of the students.
Secondary texts will be provided via StudIP.

Expectations:
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation.

Credit (graded):
Submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31st, 2019.

Registration:
via Flex-Now

[P Si] Media Competences: Exploring (US-)American Culture
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440
2 Einzeltermine
Offener Kanal
Fr 14.12.2018,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  
Fr 25.01.2019,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  


Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) states that Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) ist the main goal of Foreign Language Teaching. This signifies that communicative skills are closely intertwined with the concept of culture. Although English, when used as a lingua franca, does not prescribe a specific target culture, the United Kingdom and the United States of America have traditionally been in the focus. This seminar will therefore concentrate on the question how US culture can be made accessible in the Foreign Language Classroom. For this, we will look at different popcultural media like films, TV series, songs, novels, etc. and explore their potential to promote ICC. During the second phase of the seminar, we will examine how these theoretical concepts can be applied to practice.
Please note: There will be two additional sessions at the Offener Kanal in Gießen, on December 14 and January 25, each from 2 to 6 pm. These sessions are mandatory, so please make sure that you are able to attend. For these additional sessions, two regular sessions will be canceled (on December 7 and January 18).

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A course reader will be provided via StudIP.

Credit (graded):
regular attendance (no more than 3 missed sessions; compensation up to half of total sessions possible)
active participation, homework and reading preparation of a presentation/micro teaching unit; submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Modern Assessment in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
The aim of this course is to familiarize students with different evaluation techniques in the English language classroom, starting from more traditional, pen-and-paper tests, to the more alternative techniques, such as portfolios, self- and peer-assessment, classroom observation, journals etc. Task-based assessment will also be investigated, examples will be given and all approaches will be analyzed in a critical view, focusing on their potential, advantages and disadvantages. The Seminar will have a highly practical orientation and lively discussions and debates are expected to take place.


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL I.



Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A reader will be provided in Stud.IP.

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March, 31st 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Teaching & Learning Vocabulary in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 104

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
Will be made available on StudIP

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by Feb ???, 2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] The Dynamic Classroom: Focus on Oral Communication
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description: This Seminar will focus on providing students with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge of organising tasks in speaking. Therefore, we will investigate the organisation and development of Tasks, types of Tasks, the Task cycle, real world Tasks and assessment in the modern EFL classroom, with the emphasis on oral skills


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A reader will be provided in Stud.IP.

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March, 31st 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

 
 
 
[Si] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 3

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | MFKW Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | L 2,3,5, PV, 3. Sem. | L 1, WPV, 5. Sem.
Kommentar:
This mandatory seminar (Grundkurs) aims at introducing students to the subject matter of English and American literary and cultural studies as well as to recent approaches and central research domains. It will also familiarise students with research methodologies and practical issues related to the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures.

[Si] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 5

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | MFKW Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | L 2,3,5, PV, 3. Sem. | L 1, WPV, 5. Sem.
Kommentar:
This mandatory seminar (Grundkurs) aims at introducing students to the subject matter of English and American literary and cultural studies as well as to recent approaches and central research domains. It will also familiarise students with research methodologies and practical issues related to the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures.

[Si] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 5

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | MFKW Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | L 2,3,5, PV, 3. Sem. | L 1, WPV, 5. Sem.
Kommentar:
This mandatory seminar (Grundkurs) aims at introducing students to the subject matter of English and American literary and cultural studies as well as to recent approaches and central research domains. It will also familiarise students with research methodologies and practical issues related to the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures.

[Si] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 5

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | MFKW Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | L 2,3,5, PV, 3. Sem. | L 1, WPV, 5. Sem.
Kommentar:
This mandatory seminar (Grundkurs) aims at introducing students to the subject matter of English and American literary and cultural studies as well as to recent approaches and central research domains. It will also familiarise students with research methodologies and practical issues related to the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures.

 
 
[Vl] Black and Asian British Writing, 1700-2000
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L2,3,5,PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Black and Asian British Writing, 1700 – 2000 (Tue, 12-2 p.m.)
The work of black and Asian writers is at the heart of British literature today. Yet processes of canonisation are slow, and blanket terms like ‘black' and ‘Asian' or even ‘British' are not unproblematic when in fact many of these writers are also discussed in terms of other national literatures (Caribbean, Indian, African, etc.). This state of affairs only highlights the need to place black and Asian British writing on the critical agenda, and to explore its relationship with other Anglophone literatures around the globe.
While giving an overview of today's writers (Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith et al.), this course of lectures will include their predecessors (Olaudah Equiano, Mary Seacole et al.) in a longer, less often told (pre-)history of black and Asian British writing dating back as far as the eighteenth century. We will trace lines of influence in terms of genres and writing styles, with a focus on literature and occasionally taking into account other media as well. Moreover, we will deal with the historical and cultural challenges that black and Asian British writers have responded to and reworked creatively, including the end of Empire, post-WWII migration, the rise of multi-ethnic Britain and the making of new identities.

[Vl] The Soul in British Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The concept of the soul is in many respects of key importance for an idea of what is human. For about two millennia, the soul had been an indispensable part of a human being, its life force, its essence as self, and its power of cognition. Furthermore, the soul was considered the immortal part of the individual human. Around 1800, however, there occurred a momentous paradigm shift that may be called the discovery of the human as a biological, immanent, and therefore mortal being. In this lecture series, we will consider the cultural heritage of the concept of soul from its classical origins down to the modern age. In the course of this class, we will investigate its influence on philosophy, science, art, and literature from Plato and Aristotle via William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats.

[Vl] The United States: Beginnings - Law/Politics/Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 1

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6.Sem
Kommentar:
This interactive lecture series covers the pre-Anglophone and pre-national beginnings of the United States up until 1900. In each session one paradigmatic literary or legal text will be analyzed in depth as a way to open up central political and cultural issues of the period in question. These texts offer keys to understanding how imperialism, slavery, and Puritanism shaped the colonial and antebellum and postbellum periods. Lines of continuity will be drawn between America's present and its beginnings.

 
 
[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 13 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 14 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, 202

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 11 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: xx February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 12 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: xx February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 12 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: xx February 2019

 
[G Kurs] Phonetics & Phonology
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  15:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This lecture course surveys sounds systems of English, primarily those associated with American and British accents. Most of the course focuses on the segmental level: the characteristic articulation of English sounds (esp. speech organs, sound classes, places and manners of articulation), a general account of their acoustic realizations, phonemes and allophonic distribution, phonological processes and connected speech phenomena. Special attention is paid to those areas of articulation that tend to be problematic for German speakers. Students will also learn to read and broadly transcribe English sounds using International Phonetic Association (IPA) transcription. In the latter part of the course, the focus will switch to suprasegmental phenomena: rhythm, stress and intonation.

Reading:
McMahon, April M.S. 2002. An introduction to English phonology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Downloadable (free) E-book version. Will also be available on StudIP.
Additional texts will be downloadable from StudIP.

Credit
Ungraded (Teilnahme): Final exam 100% (must obtain 50% or better for Teilnahme credit)
Graded: Final exam 100%

Registration: FlexNow.

Exam period (times subject to change):Exam period (times subject to change): Exam in electronic format only; at Carl-Vogt-Haus (Science Campus )

Klausurtermin: xx.2.2019, Uhrzeit:
Nachholtermin: (bei Attest oder Nichtbestehen beim Ersttermin): xx.3. 2019, Uhrzeit:

[G Kurs] Phonetics & Phonology
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 15:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This lecture course surveys sounds systems of English, primarily those associated with American and British accents. Most of the course focuses on the segmental level: the characteristic articulation of English sounds (esp. speech organs, sound classes, places and manners of articulation), a general account of their acoustic realizations, phonemes and allophonic distribution, phonological processes and connected speech phenomena. Special attention is paid to those areas of articulation that tend to be problematic for German speakers. Students will also learn to read and broadly transcribe English sounds using International Phonetic Association (IPA) transcription. In the latter part of the course, the focus will switch to suprasegmental phenomena: rhythm, stress and intonation.

Reading:
McMahon, April M.S. 2002. An introduction to English phonology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Downloadable (free) E-book version. Will also be available on StudIP.
Additional texts will be downloadable from StudIP.

Credit
Ungraded (Teilnahme): Final exam 100% (must obtain 50% or better for Teilnahme credit)
Graded: Final exam 100%

Registration: FlexNow.

Exam period (times subject to change):Exam period (times subject to change): Exam in electronic format only; at Carl-Vogt-Haus (Science Campus )

Klausurtermin: xx.2.2019, Uhrzeit:
Nachholtermin: (bei Attest oder Nichtbestehen beim Ersttermin): xx.3. 2019, Uhrzeit:

[G Kurs] Phonetics & Phonology
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 15:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This lecture course surveys sounds systems of English, primarily those associated with American and British accents. Most of the course focuses on the segmental level: the characteristic articulation of English sounds (esp. speech organs, sound classes, places and manners of articulation), a general account of their acoustic realizations, phonemes and allophonic distribution, phonological processes and connected speech phenomena. Special attention is paid to those areas of articulation that tend to be problematic for German speakers. Students will also learn to read and broadly transcribe English sounds using International Phonetic Association (IPA) transcription. In the latter part of the course, the focus will switch to suprasegmental phenomena: rhythm, stress and intonation.

Reading:
McMahon, April M.S. 2002. An introduction to English phonology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Downloadable (free) E-book version. Will also be available on StudIP.
Additional texts will be downloadable from StudIP.

Credit
Ungraded (Teilnahme): Final exam 100% (must obtain 50% or better for Teilnahme credit)
Graded: Final exam 100%

Registration: FlexNow.

Exam period (times subject to change):Exam period (times subject to change): Exam in electronic format only; at Carl-Vogt-Haus (Science Campus )

Klausurtermin: xx.2.2019, Uhrzeit:
Nachholtermin: (bei Attest oder Nichtbestehen beim Ersttermin): xx.3. 2019, Uhrzeit:

 
[Vl] History of the English Language
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 15:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
The study of the history of the English language offers highly relevant insights into how the language has changed over the course of the centuries and into how the English language is structured and functions all around the world today. After a closer inspection of the Indo-European language family, we will trace the development of English from its origin in Britain to the world language it is today. In the course of this, we will zoom in onto the different periods in the history of the English language, i.e. Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Late Modern English and Present-day English, to follow the structural changes on the levels of phonology, lexis, syntax and semantics that have led to the English language as we use it today.

Registration: Please register with FlexNow.

Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation and a final exam on 12 February 2019.

[Vl] History of the English Language
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  15:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
The study of the history of the English language offers highly relevant insights into how the language has changed over the course of the centuries and into how the English language is structured and functions all around the world today. After a closer inspection of the Indo-European language family, we will trace the development of English from its origin in Britain to the world language it is today. In the course of this, we will zoom in onto the different periods in the history of the English language, i.e. Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Late Modern English and Present-day English, to follow the structural changes on the levels of phonology, lexis, syntax and semantics that have led to the English language as we use it today.

Registration: Please register with FlexNow.

Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation and a final exam on 13 February 2019.

 
[P Si] Syntax
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2 | L1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Exam period: Final exam 13.02.2019 ; deadline for term paper submission: 31.03.2019.

 

Zu belegen sind drei Übungen: zwei im Wintersemester (A1 und A2), eine im Sommersemester (A3).

 
[Ü] Grammar (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 027

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (i)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (j)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (k)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (l)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (m)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (n)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

 
[Ü] General Language Course (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2

[Ü] General Language Course (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2

[Ü] General Language Course (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
GLC (General Language Course)
Module: Introductory Language Course A2
For: modularized 1st-semester L2 and L 3 students, 1st-semester BA majors,
and 3rd-semester BA minors

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Required texts:
1. Class-pack: This is available at CopyCourier, located at Licherstraße 29, next to a big blue dance studio. It should be available no later than Monday, Oct. 15, 2018.

Course grade: 65 % of the final grade will be derived from written tests: a final exam (45/50%) and one earlier test on the common errors (15/20%).

The written final exam will include three sections, respectively testing 1) students' knowledge of vocabulary lists in the class-pack (in a format that also tests reading comprehension); 2) students' knowledge of a list of common errors (included in the class-pack); and 3) reading comprehension (though this is still not certain) using a short text and multiple-choice questions about it. The written exam will have a total of 50 points: 25 for vocabulary, 15 for common errors, and (probably) 0 for reading comprehension (or whatever else is ultimately decided upon).

The remaining 35% of the course grade will be based on oral work. The instructor's subjective assessment at the end of the semester of each student's participation and language proficiency (pronunciation, fluency, and grammatical accuracy) will determine 10-20% of the course grade, and other in-class graded oral exercises during the semester will account for the rest.

[Ü] General Language Course (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
GLC (General Language Course)
Module: Introductory Language Course A2
For: modularized 1st-semester L2 and L 3 students, 1st-semester BA majors,
and 3rd-semester BA minors

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Required texts:
1. Class-pack: This is available at CopyCourier, located at Licherstraße 29, next to a big blue dance studio. It should be available no later than Monday, Oct. 15, 2018.

Course grade: 65 % of the final grade will be derived from written tests: a final exam (45/50%) and one earlier test on the common errors (15/20%).

The written final exam will include three sections, respectively testing 1) students' knowledge of vocabulary lists in the class-pack (in a format that also tests reading comprehension); 2) students' knowledge of a list of common errors (included in the class-pack); and 3) reading comprehension (though this is still not certain) using a short text and multiple-choice questions about it. The written exam will have a total of 50 points: 25 for vocabulary, 15 for common errors, and (probably) 0 for reading comprehension (or whatever else is ultimately decided upon).

The remaining 35% of the course grade will be based on oral work. The instructor's subjective assessment at the end of the semester of each student's participation and language proficiency (pronunciation, fluency, and grammatical accuracy) will determine 10-20% of the course grade, and other in-class graded oral exercises during the semester will account for the rest.

[Ü] General Language Course (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 029

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (i)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (j)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (k)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 027

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This section of the General Language Course focuses on English for academic purposes and is accordingly designed to simulate communication tasks in academic settings, combining language skills and study skills. As an integrated skills course it offers participants an opportunity to hone, in organic conjunction, the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their studies.

[Ü] General Language Course (l)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This section of the General Language Course focuses on English for academic purposes and is accordingly designed to simulate communication tasks in academic settings, combining language skills and study skills. As an integrated skills course it offers participants an opportunity to hone, in organic conjunction, the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their studies.

[Ü] General Language Course (m)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 027

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This section of the General Language Course focuses on English for academic purposes and is accordingly designed to simulate communication tasks in academic settings, combining language skills and study skills. As an integrated skills course it offers participants an opportunity to hone, in organic conjunction, the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their studies.

 
 
 
[Si] An Introduction to Body Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, 202

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Everything we experience, we experience with and through our body. Our body is able to store and remember specific memories and skills that we are not necessarily consciously aware of; our body is usually the first aspect other people will notice when meeting us; our body may determine our successes and our weaknesses. In short, the body is omnipresent.
This course aims at providing an overview of different body concepts relevant in (British) Cultural Studies. We will discuss a variety of theoretical texts and approaches (e.g. by Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Bourdieu …) and will analyse the (changing) understandings of the body in British culture and society, ranging from the Middle Ages to contemporary Britain. We will also investigate how the (individual, social, public, political, national, gendered …) body was predominantly perceived at specific times and how these body concepts may be related to the social circumstances, culture and politics of the respective time by drawing connections to selected literary and cultural texts. Consequently, our analysis may grant us an insight into subcultures and power relations between individual social groups.
Furthermore, this course will provide students with the possibility to plan and conduct their own case study/project related to the seminar topic while we will analyse one case study together in class.
To enjoy this class, you should be interested in reading and analysing theoretical texts and approaches.

Workload (more specific details will follow in the seminar):
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in group work, oral presentations. Furthermore, I expect you to read all the texts discussed in class. Please note that the kind of exam you have to take at the end of the semester will depend on your course of studies as well as on the module you're enrolled in (more details to follow).

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed ”that on or about December, 1910, human character changed”. What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:

- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.
- To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] Anglophone Caribbean Writing
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3/4
Kommentar:
Anglophone Caribbean Writing (Mon, 4-6 p.m.)
The Caribbean has produced a rich body of English-language writing, highly complex and diverse not unlike the Caribbean archipelago itself. Indeed, writers have repeatedly turned to local topography to derive literary idioms and styles. Regardless of a fragmentary island space, the quest for an overarching poetics has been one of the founding moves of Anglophone Caribbean writing. Where models and modes of expression from the English canon no longer represented local realities, or if anything prolonged stereotypical images of a tropical garden Eden, writers started revisiting the land for scarred memories of forced labour and plantation agriculture. The sea, the plantation, the hinterland, the beach and the hurricane have since provided innovative elements as form, genre, and central topoi.
This seminar will deal with a wide range of texts, particularly poetry, which more than mere nature writing seek to unearth difficult histories of race, gender, migration and island life. Simultaneously, they throw into relief the archipelago's often precarious and endangered nature, allowing us to explore the relationship between literature and the environment as highlighted by the expanding field of postcolonial ecocriticism.
Reading:
Sam Selvon, An Island is a World (1955); excerpts from the Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (ed. Allison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, 1996) and additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] Contemporary British Television Series - Topics, Trends, and Theory
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5, PV/WPV Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Since 1990s and especially the turn of the Millennium, there is a considerable change in both the production and the perception of Western television series. For decades, films produced for movie theatres had been the sole resort for artistic ambition. With American TV series such as Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, or The Wire, a paradigm shift set in, and the television series developed rapidly, exploring new generic forms, narrative complexity, and ambitious experiments, which is also reflected upon in academic investigations focussing on complex TV and popular seriality. Although not always taking centre stage in the academic discourse as well as popular perception, British and Irish television series also explore new grounds, very often acting as role models for American forms. In this class we will look at the theory of serial narration and investigate groundbreaking shows from sitcoms to crime drama, including The Office, Black Mirror, Broadchurch, Love/Hate, Luther, and Sherlock.

[Si] Introduction to Feminist Disability Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Following the credo of the disability rights movement ”Nothing About Us Without Us,” this course is based on the assumption that disability is everywhere – once you begin to look for it. However, disability remains overlooked and unseen in the feminist triad gender, race, and class. This course seeks to fill this gap by asking is there a feminist side to being disabled? What does it mean to inject disability into feminist thought? To answer these questions we will discuss key concepts of disability and feminist theory such as the nature and meaning of embodiment, heteronormative and ableist forms of normativity, and the overlap between sexism and ableism. We will explore not only how Disability Studies become feminist, but also how feminism becomes disabling.
A reading list and the syllabus will be made available through StudIP at the beginning of the semester.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will look at literary representations of London and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary psychogeography of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will begin by looking at literary representations of London in the first half of the nineteenth century, roughly 1815 – 1845, and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary „psychogeography” of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] Media Analysis through Media Creation
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
With the assistance of film maker Lisa Friederich, this course shall teach methods of film and television analysis through the process of creating short films. Participants shall work in small groups to produce work that demonstrates media-critical awareness. Our primary text for analysis shall be The Handmaid's Tale (2017 -) Hulu. Alongside creating the films, participants shall be asked to reflect on theories and methods of media analysis in short texts.

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

 
[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, E 004

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Middle English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Psycholinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Spoken English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Standardising English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The main differences in contemporary English spelling boil down to American (e.g. theater, color) versus British variants (e.g. theatre, colour). Other than that, the spelling of English these days is uniform all around the globe. This uniformity, however, is the result of a long-lasting historical process known as linguistic standardisation, which is still in full swing today.

In the course of this class, we will approach the English language diachronically and explore how it developed from Old English with strong Germanic roots to the fully standardised Present-Day English we all know. In the course of this, we will define the notion and describe the process of linguistic standardisation and evaluate to what extent standardisation is visible a) across the different periods in the history of the English language (Old English, Middle English, etc.) and b) on the various structural levels of language organisation (phonology, lexis, grammar, semantics, etc.). In order to empirically study standardisation processes, we will also learn and use the programming language R.

Ungraded Credit: Regular attendance, preparation of homework and active participation.
Graded: The above and either a pass in the final exam (February 14 2019) or in the term paper (due on March 31 2019).

[P Si] Textlinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

 
[Vl] Black and Asian British Writing, 1700-2000
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L2,3,5,PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Black and Asian British Writing, 1700 – 2000 (Tue, 12-2 p.m.)
The work of black and Asian writers is at the heart of British literature today. Yet processes of canonisation are slow, and blanket terms like ‘black' and ‘Asian' or even ‘British' are not unproblematic when in fact many of these writers are also discussed in terms of other national literatures (Caribbean, Indian, African, etc.). This state of affairs only highlights the need to place black and Asian British writing on the critical agenda, and to explore its relationship with other Anglophone literatures around the globe.
While giving an overview of today's writers (Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith et al.), this course of lectures will include their predecessors (Olaudah Equiano, Mary Seacole et al.) in a longer, less often told (pre-)history of black and Asian British writing dating back as far as the eighteenth century. We will trace lines of influence in terms of genres and writing styles, with a focus on literature and occasionally taking into account other media as well. Moreover, we will deal with the historical and cultural challenges that black and Asian British writers have responded to and reworked creatively, including the end of Empire, post-WWII migration, the rise of multi-ethnic Britain and the making of new identities.

[Vl] The Soul in British Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The concept of the soul is in many respects of key importance for an idea of what is human. For about two millennia, the soul had been an indispensable part of a human being, its life force, its essence as self, and its power of cognition. Furthermore, the soul was considered the immortal part of the individual human. Around 1800, however, there occurred a momentous paradigm shift that may be called the discovery of the human as a biological, immanent, and therefore mortal being. In this lecture series, we will consider the cultural heritage of the concept of soul from its classical origins down to the modern age. In the course of this class, we will investigate its influence on philosophy, science, art, and literature from Plato and Aristotle via William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats.

[Vl] The United States: Beginnings - Law/Politics/Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 1

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6.Sem
Kommentar:
This interactive lecture series covers the pre-Anglophone and pre-national beginnings of the United States up until 1900. In each session one paradigmatic literary or legal text will be analyzed in depth as a way to open up central political and cultural issues of the period in question. These texts offer keys to understanding how imperialism, slavery, and Puritanism shaped the colonial and antebellum and postbellum periods. Lines of continuity will be drawn between America's present and its beginnings.

 

Zu belegen sind drei Übungen: eine im Wintersemester (A1) und zwei im Sommersemester ( A2 und A3).

 
[Ü] Speaking & Listening I (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | L 3, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims to develop and enhance students' listening and speaking skills for academic purposes at level B2+/ C1 CEFR. After attending this course, students should be able not only to comprehend an academic presentation in detail, but also to summarise its gist and ask critical questions about any weaknesses in the line of argumentation. Further, they should manage to present a research project and discuss its findings in a presentation using effective visual aids as well as academic language and vocabulary. Students are expected to present their views in a logical and systematic manner, correctly and appropriately using academic phraseology as found, for example, in the Manchester Academic Phrasebank, tense and aspect, particularly verbs of stating, contradicting and comparing, as well as academic collocations. Hence, students will be encouraged to express their ideas and arguments in a grammatically correct manner by using clear syntax and vocabulary appropriate for academic discourse. As the course is designed to teach speaking in a formal setting, students will be encouraged to speak in a convincing and confident manner by adhering to the rules of an academic discussion. Consequently, students' academic presentations are supposed to have unity and coherence as well as appropriate use of idiomatic expressions. In order to improve competency in their listening comprehension, students will learn how to listen to speeches on various topics and take notes by identifying the main idea as well as the development of the main arguments and by paying attention to language and vocabulary. Listening skills will be further refined by encouraging students to take part in active class discussions and presentations individually or in groups. The fundamental aim of the course is to make students hold and understand an academic or job-related presentation in a professional manner required at university level to pass their courses. As the final assessment comprises a written exam, including a listening task and a presentation to test their oral skills, students will obtain feedback throughout the course to overcome their weaknesses so that they are able to prove themselves as successful speakers and listeners.

[Ü] Speaking & Listening I (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | L 3, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims to develop and enhance students' listening and speaking skills for academic purposes at level B2+/ C1 CEFR. After attending this course, students should be able not only to comprehend an academic presentation in detail, but also to summarise its gist and ask critical questions about any weaknesses in the line of argumentation. Further, they should manage to present a research project and discuss its findings in a presentation using effective visual aids as well as academic language and vocabulary. Students are expected to present their views in a logical and systematic manner, correctly and appropriately using academic phraseology as found, for example, in the Manchester Academic Phrasebank, tense and aspect, particularly verbs of stating, contradicting and comparing, as well as academic collocations. Hence, students will be encouraged to express their ideas and arguments in a grammatically correct manner by using clear syntax and vocabulary appropriate for academic discourse. As the course is designed to teach speaking in a formal setting, students will be encouraged to speak in a convincing and confident manner by adhering to the rules of an academic discussion. Consequently, students' academic presentations are supposed to have unity and coherence as well as appropriate use of idiomatic expressions. In order to improve competency in their listening comprehension, students will learn how to listen to speeches on various topics and take notes by identifying the main idea as well as the development of the main arguments and by paying attention to language and vocabulary. Listening skills will be further refined by encouraging students to take part in active class discussions and presentations individually or in groups. The fundamental aim of the course is to make students hold and understand an academic or job-related presentation in a professional manner required at university level to pass their courses. As the final assessment comprises a written exam, including a listening task and a presentation to test their oral skills, students will obtain feedback throughout the course to overcome their weaknesses so that they are able to prove themselves as successful speakers and listeners.

[Ü] Speaking & Listening I (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | L 3, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims to develop and enhance students' listening and speaking skills for academic purposes at level B2+/ C1 CEFR. After attending this course, students should be able not only to comprehend an academic presentation in detail, but also to summarise its gist and ask critical questions about any weaknesses in the line of argumentation. Further, they should manage to present a research project and discuss its findings in a presentation using effective visual aids as well as academic language and vocabulary. Students are expected to present their views in a logical and systematic manner, correctly and appropriately using academic phraseology as found, for example, in the Manchester Academic Phrasebank, tense and aspect, particularly verbs of stating, contradicting and comparing, as well as academic collocations. Hence, students will be encouraged to express their ideas and arguments in a grammatically correct manner by using clear syntax and vocabulary appropriate for academic discourse. As the course is designed to teach speaking in a formal setting, students will be encouraged to speak in a convincing and confident manner by adhering to the rules of an academic discussion. Consequently, students' academic presentations are supposed to have unity and coherence as well as appropriate use of idiomatic expressions. In order to improve competency in their listening comprehension, students will learn how to listen to speeches on various topics and take notes by identifying the main idea as well as the development of the main arguments and by paying attention to language and vocabulary. Listening skills will be further refined by encouraging students to take part in active class discussions and presentations individually or in groups. The fundamental aim of the course is to make students hold and understand an academic or job-related presentation in a professional manner required at university level to pass their courses. As the final assessment comprises a written exam, including a listening task and a presentation to test their oral skills, students will obtain feedback throughout the course to overcome their weaknesses so that they are able to prove themselves as successful speakers and listeners.

[Ü] Speaking & Listening I (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 30.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | L 3, PV, Sj 3

[Ü] Speaking & Listening I (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 306

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | L 3, PV, Sj 3

[Ü] Speaking & Listening I (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 308

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | L 3, PV, Sj 3

[Ü] Speaking & Listening I (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | L 3, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course focuses on developing students‘ communicative competence in the domains of listening and speaking in academic settings at level B2+/ C1 CEFRL. Students will develop and practice effective listening strategies for the global, selective and detailed decoding of aural input, specifically in academic settings (e.g. lectures), including appropriate note-taking skills. They will practice speaking fluently and eloquently in appropriate registers, specifically when contributing to academic discussions and delivering presentations. They will extend their subject-specific as well as general academic vocabulary and consolidate their knowledge of grammatical structures characteristic of academic registers.

[Ü] Speaking & Listening I (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | L 3, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course focuses on developing students‘ communicative competence in the domains of listening and speaking in academic settings at level B2+/ C1 CEFRL. Students will develop and practice effective listening strategies for the global, selective and detailed decoding of aural input, specifically in academic settings (e.g. lectures), including appropriate note-taking skills. They will practice speaking fluently and eloquently in appropriate registers, specifically when contributing to academic discussions and delivering presentations. They will extend their subject-specific as well as general academic vocabulary and consolidate their knowledge of grammatical structures characteristic of academic registers.

 
 
 
 
[Ü] Business and Economics I
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, G 333a

Zielgruppe:
MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 2

[Ü] Business and Economics I
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppe:
MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 2

[Ü] Business and Economics I
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppe:
MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 2

 
[Ü] Introduction to Business Communication
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppe:
MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 2

[Ü] Introduction to Business Communication
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
5 Einzeltermine
Phil. I, B 409
Fr 19.10.2018,12.00 - 14.00 Uhr  
Fr 09.11.2018,12.00 - 18.00 Uhr  
Sa 10.11.2018,10.00 - 18.00 Uhr  
Fr 07.12.2018,12.00 - 18.00 Uhr  
Sa 08.12.2018,10.00 - 18.00 Uhr  


Zielgruppe:
MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 2

[Ü] Introduction to Business Communication
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppe:
MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 2

 
 
 
[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed "that on or about December, 1910, human character changed". What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:
- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (to be made available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.

Please note: To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed ”that on or about December, 1910, human character changed”. What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:

- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.
- To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] Anglophone Caribbean Writing
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3/4
Kommentar:
Anglophone Caribbean Writing (Mon, 4-6 p.m.)
The Caribbean has produced a rich body of English-language writing, highly complex and diverse not unlike the Caribbean archipelago itself. Indeed, writers have repeatedly turned to local topography to derive literary idioms and styles. Regardless of a fragmentary island space, the quest for an overarching poetics has been one of the founding moves of Anglophone Caribbean writing. Where models and modes of expression from the English canon no longer represented local realities, or if anything prolonged stereotypical images of a tropical garden Eden, writers started revisiting the land for scarred memories of forced labour and plantation agriculture. The sea, the plantation, the hinterland, the beach and the hurricane have since provided innovative elements as form, genre, and central topoi.
This seminar will deal with a wide range of texts, particularly poetry, which more than mere nature writing seek to unearth difficult histories of race, gender, migration and island life. Simultaneously, they throw into relief the archipelago's often precarious and endangered nature, allowing us to explore the relationship between literature and the environment as highlighted by the expanding field of postcolonial ecocriticism.
Reading:
Sam Selvon, An Island is a World (1955); excerpts from the Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (ed. Allison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, 1996) and additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] Contemporary British Television Series - Topics, Trends, and Theory
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5, PV/WPV Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Since 1990s and especially the turn of the Millennium, there is a considerable change in both the production and the perception of Western television series. For decades, films produced for movie theatres had been the sole resort for artistic ambition. With American TV series such as Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, or The Wire, a paradigm shift set in, and the television series developed rapidly, exploring new generic forms, narrative complexity, and ambitious experiments, which is also reflected upon in academic investigations focussing on complex TV and popular seriality. Although not always taking centre stage in the academic discourse as well as popular perception, British and Irish television series also explore new grounds, very often acting as role models for American forms. In this class we will look at the theory of serial narration and investigate groundbreaking shows from sitcoms to crime drama, including The Office, Black Mirror, Broadchurch, Love/Hate, Luther, and Sherlock.

[Si] Daniel Defoe: Fallen Women and Men at Sea
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731), one of the pioneers of the English novel, is today best remembered for his first foray into the genre, "Robinson Crusoe" (1719). This course will also discuss two of Defoe's lesser-known novels: "Moll Flanders" (1722) and "Roxana" (1724). While Crusoe experiences the hazards of life at sea far away from their native England, Moll and Roxana are driven into the hands of crime and prostitution from sheer necessity and invent multiple personalities in their fight for survival in a patriarchal society.

[Si] Introduction to British Children's Fiction
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Not only adults read for pleasure, many children are avid readers as well. However, literary studies often tend to focus on literature designed to be read by adults. This seminar zooms in on British fiction for young readers ranging from picture books such as Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" (1902) to (all age) page-turners like the Harry Potter series.
We will address questions regarding the conveyance of content in picture books, topics in (gendered) fiction for young readers (such as Enid Blyton's "The Famous Five" or "St. Clare's" series, both 1940s) or the appeal of "crossover novels", i.e. children's fiction with an adult readership.

Students are expected to buy and read several novels which will be announced in the first session. Secondary literature will be provided on Stud.IP.

[Koll] Literature and Memory: Recent Trends
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Literature and Memory: Recent Trends (Tue, 4-6 p.m.)
Literature and memory has been an immensely productive field of research over the past couple of decades. The same period of time has seen significant shifts and proliferating terms of debate. Where memory tended to be identified with relatively stable social frames of family, nation, ethnicity and class, it is now increasingly being explored in its travelling, transcultural and intergenerational or ‘postmemory' dimensions. Similarly, transnational and multidirectional conjunctures are being highlighted where earlier scholarship emphasized the competing or contested nature of memories. Yet more new areas have begun to be mapped by recent work on environmental, planetary and post-humanist as well as on ‘prosthetic' and digital memory. These developments have invariably complicated and enriched central questions of literature's role for memory, both individually and collectively, and vice versa of the role of memory for literary production.
Tracing recent as well as earlier trajectories of literary memory studies, this course will explore a range of critical and creative texts, including three novels and examples from other media. As an MA seminar-cum-colloquium, it will provide ample opportunity for students to pursue and present on their own projects, including from other areas of research.
Reading:
Caryl Phillips, The Nature of Blood (1997)
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997)
Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus (1996/2003)
Additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] The Evolution of the British Novel - from the 18th to the 21st Century
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Ever since its famous "rise" (Ian Watt) in 18th-century Britain, the novel has been rivalled by countless new genres and media, and yet, in the early 21st century, it appears as alive and kicking as ever. As many critics have argued, one reason for its success is the novel's remarkable capacity of adapting to changed historical contexts and new media environments. Virginia Woolf might have had a point, then, when she famously characterized the novel as a "cannibal […] which has devoured so many forms of art".

In the seminar, we're going to trace four historical moments in the evolution of the novel, focusing on representative works from the beginning of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century respectively. The class will be conceptualized as an introduction to the (history of the) novel and also aims to familiarize students with key concepts and strategies for the analysis of narrative texts.

Requirements:
- Students attending the class are kindly asked to purchase two novels (which will be listed on the syllabus). All other literature will be provided in the form of excerpts (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Further information on relevant organizational issues (how to obtain a grade, etc.) will be specified on the syllabus and clarified during our first session on 16 October.

[Si] Thomas Hardy: Essays, Shorter Fiction and Poetry
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will concentrate on the work of Thomas Hardy. We will be reading his shorter fiction and poetry, look at his essays and read his novel Jude the Obscure. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term, students are asked to buy and read Hardy's Jude the Obscure (any edition).

[Si] William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Its Contemporary Rewritings
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
In this seminar, we will first take a closer look at a canonical English play – William Shakespeare's romance The Tempest (1611) – and then, in a second step, analyse how two twentieth- and twenty-first century writers have responded to the play's themes and concerns by rewriting Shakespeare's original story into novels that unveil new perspectives, give voice to marginal characters, and foreground how The Tempest addresses the topics of gender, race, and colonialism. In addition, the seminar will feature one creative-writing workshop and a reading by English novelist Zara Karschay, who has used Shakespeare's Macbeth as an inspiration for her own fiction.

The seminar will have the following structure:
- We will begin by recapitulating a few basic concepts of drama analysis.
- We will discuss the idea behind and the aims of literary rewritings; in this context, we shall reflect on why postcolonial and feminist theories have contributed to the popularity of this particular form of intertextuality.
- We will then move on to a close reading of The Tempest, which shall acquaint you with the main characters, themes and structural principles of the play.
- The first rewriting that we shall then consider is George Lamming's Water with Berries (1971), a novel about 16th-century explorers in the West Indies.
- The second rewriting we will turn to is Margaret Atwood's novel Hag-Seed (2016). (You might know Atwood as the author of The Handmaid's Tale.) Hag-Seed follows the turbulent life and memories of Felix, a theatre maker who is about to direct The Tempest.
- On 16 January 2019, Zara Karschay will visit our class with a creative-writing workshop and a subsequent reading from her novel at the Literarisches Zentrum Gießen (begin 7.30 pm). Please note that attending the reading at the LZG is obligatory for this seminar.

Workload:
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in teamwork (please note that you will have to work in groups on a regular basis), attendance at Zara Karschay's reading on 16 January, 7.30 pm at the LZG. Depending on your programme of studies, you will either have to write a written term paper or a final exam.

Additionally, you must have a copy of the following texts which will be read and discussed in class in the following order:
- Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Ed. Alden and Virginia Vaughan. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. [Arden Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-1408133477]
- Lamming, George. Water with Berries. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2016. [Caribbean Modern Classics; ISBN: 978-1845231675]
- Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed. London: Vintage, 2016. [Hogarth Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-0099594024]

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

 
[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed "that on or about December, 1910, human character changed". What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:
- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (to be made available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.

Please note: To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed ”that on or about December, 1910, human character changed”. What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:

- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.
- To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] Anglophone Caribbean Writing
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3/4
Kommentar:
Anglophone Caribbean Writing (Mon, 4-6 p.m.)
The Caribbean has produced a rich body of English-language writing, highly complex and diverse not unlike the Caribbean archipelago itself. Indeed, writers have repeatedly turned to local topography to derive literary idioms and styles. Regardless of a fragmentary island space, the quest for an overarching poetics has been one of the founding moves of Anglophone Caribbean writing. Where models and modes of expression from the English canon no longer represented local realities, or if anything prolonged stereotypical images of a tropical garden Eden, writers started revisiting the land for scarred memories of forced labour and plantation agriculture. The sea, the plantation, the hinterland, the beach and the hurricane have since provided innovative elements as form, genre, and central topoi.
This seminar will deal with a wide range of texts, particularly poetry, which more than mere nature writing seek to unearth difficult histories of race, gender, migration and island life. Simultaneously, they throw into relief the archipelago's often precarious and endangered nature, allowing us to explore the relationship between literature and the environment as highlighted by the expanding field of postcolonial ecocriticism.
Reading:
Sam Selvon, An Island is a World (1955); excerpts from the Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (ed. Allison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, 1996) and additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] Contemporary British Television Series - Topics, Trends, and Theory
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5, PV/WPV Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Since 1990s and especially the turn of the Millennium, there is a considerable change in both the production and the perception of Western television series. For decades, films produced for movie theatres had been the sole resort for artistic ambition. With American TV series such as Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, or The Wire, a paradigm shift set in, and the television series developed rapidly, exploring new generic forms, narrative complexity, and ambitious experiments, which is also reflected upon in academic investigations focussing on complex TV and popular seriality. Although not always taking centre stage in the academic discourse as well as popular perception, British and Irish television series also explore new grounds, very often acting as role models for American forms. In this class we will look at the theory of serial narration and investigate groundbreaking shows from sitcoms to crime drama, including The Office, Black Mirror, Broadchurch, Love/Hate, Luther, and Sherlock.

[Si] Daniel Defoe: Fallen Women and Men at Sea
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731), one of the pioneers of the English novel, is today best remembered for his first foray into the genre, "Robinson Crusoe" (1719). This course will also discuss two of Defoe's lesser-known novels: "Moll Flanders" (1722) and "Roxana" (1724). While Crusoe experiences the hazards of life at sea far away from their native England, Moll and Roxana are driven into the hands of crime and prostitution from sheer necessity and invent multiple personalities in their fight for survival in a patriarchal society.

[Si] Introduction to British Children's Fiction
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Not only adults read for pleasure, many children are avid readers as well. However, literary studies often tend to focus on literature designed to be read by adults. This seminar zooms in on British fiction for young readers ranging from picture books such as Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" (1902) to (all age) page-turners like the Harry Potter series.
We will address questions regarding the conveyance of content in picture books, topics in (gendered) fiction for young readers (such as Enid Blyton's "The Famous Five" or "St. Clare's" series, both 1940s) or the appeal of "crossover novels", i.e. children's fiction with an adult readership.

Students are expected to buy and read several novels which will be announced in the first session. Secondary literature will be provided on Stud.IP.

[Koll] Literature and Memory: Recent Trends
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Literature and Memory: Recent Trends (Tue, 4-6 p.m.)
Literature and memory has been an immensely productive field of research over the past couple of decades. The same period of time has seen significant shifts and proliferating terms of debate. Where memory tended to be identified with relatively stable social frames of family, nation, ethnicity and class, it is now increasingly being explored in its travelling, transcultural and intergenerational or ‘postmemory' dimensions. Similarly, transnational and multidirectional conjunctures are being highlighted where earlier scholarship emphasized the competing or contested nature of memories. Yet more new areas have begun to be mapped by recent work on environmental, planetary and post-humanist as well as on ‘prosthetic' and digital memory. These developments have invariably complicated and enriched central questions of literature's role for memory, both individually and collectively, and vice versa of the role of memory for literary production.
Tracing recent as well as earlier trajectories of literary memory studies, this course will explore a range of critical and creative texts, including three novels and examples from other media. As an MA seminar-cum-colloquium, it will provide ample opportunity for students to pursue and present on their own projects, including from other areas of research.
Reading:
Caryl Phillips, The Nature of Blood (1997)
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997)
Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus (1996/2003)
Additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] The Evolution of the British Novel - from the 18th to the 21st Century
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Ever since its famous "rise" (Ian Watt) in 18th-century Britain, the novel has been rivalled by countless new genres and media, and yet, in the early 21st century, it appears as alive and kicking as ever. As many critics have argued, one reason for its success is the novel's remarkable capacity of adapting to changed historical contexts and new media environments. Virginia Woolf might have had a point, then, when she famously characterized the novel as a "cannibal […] which has devoured so many forms of art".

In the seminar, we're going to trace four historical moments in the evolution of the novel, focusing on representative works from the beginning of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century respectively. The class will be conceptualized as an introduction to the (history of the) novel and also aims to familiarize students with key concepts and strategies for the analysis of narrative texts.

Requirements:
- Students attending the class are kindly asked to purchase two novels (which will be listed on the syllabus). All other literature will be provided in the form of excerpts (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Further information on relevant organizational issues (how to obtain a grade, etc.) will be specified on the syllabus and clarified during our first session on 16 October.

[Si] Thomas Hardy: Essays, Shorter Fiction and Poetry
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will concentrate on the work of Thomas Hardy. We will be reading his shorter fiction and poetry, look at his essays and read his novel Jude the Obscure. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term, students are asked to buy and read Hardy's Jude the Obscure (any edition).

[Si] William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Its Contemporary Rewritings
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
In this seminar, we will first take a closer look at a canonical English play – William Shakespeare's romance The Tempest (1611) – and then, in a second step, analyse how two twentieth- and twenty-first century writers have responded to the play's themes and concerns by rewriting Shakespeare's original story into novels that unveil new perspectives, give voice to marginal characters, and foreground how The Tempest addresses the topics of gender, race, and colonialism. In addition, the seminar will feature one creative-writing workshop and a reading by English novelist Zara Karschay, who has used Shakespeare's Macbeth as an inspiration for her own fiction.

The seminar will have the following structure:
- We will begin by recapitulating a few basic concepts of drama analysis.
- We will discuss the idea behind and the aims of literary rewritings; in this context, we shall reflect on why postcolonial and feminist theories have contributed to the popularity of this particular form of intertextuality.
- We will then move on to a close reading of The Tempest, which shall acquaint you with the main characters, themes and structural principles of the play.
- The first rewriting that we shall then consider is George Lamming's Water with Berries (1971), a novel about 16th-century explorers in the West Indies.
- The second rewriting we will turn to is Margaret Atwood's novel Hag-Seed (2016). (You might know Atwood as the author of The Handmaid's Tale.) Hag-Seed follows the turbulent life and memories of Felix, a theatre maker who is about to direct The Tempest.
- On 16 January 2019, Zara Karschay will visit our class with a creative-writing workshop and a subsequent reading from her novel at the Literarisches Zentrum Gießen (begin 7.30 pm). Please note that attending the reading at the LZG is obligatory for this seminar.

Workload:
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in teamwork (please note that you will have to work in groups on a regular basis), attendance at Zara Karschay's reading on 16 January, 7.30 pm at the LZG. Depending on your programme of studies, you will either have to write a written term paper or a final exam.

Additionally, you must have a copy of the following texts which will be read and discussed in class in the following order:
- Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Ed. Alden and Virginia Vaughan. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. [Arden Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-1408133477]
- Lamming, George. Water with Berries. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2016. [Caribbean Modern Classics; ISBN: 978-1845231675]
- Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed. London: Vintage, 2016. [Hogarth Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-0099594024]

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

 
[Vl] Black and Asian British Writing, 1700-2000
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L2,3,5,PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Black and Asian British Writing, 1700 – 2000 (Tue, 12-2 p.m.)
The work of black and Asian writers is at the heart of British literature today. Yet processes of canonisation are slow, and blanket terms like ‘black' and ‘Asian' or even ‘British' are not unproblematic when in fact many of these writers are also discussed in terms of other national literatures (Caribbean, Indian, African, etc.). This state of affairs only highlights the need to place black and Asian British writing on the critical agenda, and to explore its relationship with other Anglophone literatures around the globe.
While giving an overview of today's writers (Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith et al.), this course of lectures will include their predecessors (Olaudah Equiano, Mary Seacole et al.) in a longer, less often told (pre-)history of black and Asian British writing dating back as far as the eighteenth century. We will trace lines of influence in terms of genres and writing styles, with a focus on literature and occasionally taking into account other media as well. Moreover, we will deal with the historical and cultural challenges that black and Asian British writers have responded to and reworked creatively, including the end of Empire, post-WWII migration, the rise of multi-ethnic Britain and the making of new identities.

[Vl] The Soul in British Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The concept of the soul is in many respects of key importance for an idea of what is human. For about two millennia, the soul had been an indispensable part of a human being, its life force, its essence as self, and its power of cognition. Furthermore, the soul was considered the immortal part of the individual human. Around 1800, however, there occurred a momentous paradigm shift that may be called the discovery of the human as a biological, immanent, and therefore mortal being. In this lecture series, we will consider the cultural heritage of the concept of soul from its classical origins down to the modern age. In the course of this class, we will investigate its influence on philosophy, science, art, and literature from Plato and Aristotle via William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats.

[Vl] The United States: Beginnings - Law/Politics/Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 1

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6.Sem
Kommentar:
This interactive lecture series covers the pre-Anglophone and pre-national beginnings of the United States up until 1900. In each session one paradigmatic literary or legal text will be analyzed in depth as a way to open up central political and cultural issues of the period in question. These texts offer keys to understanding how imperialism, slavery, and Puritanism shaped the colonial and antebellum and postbellum periods. Lines of continuity will be drawn between America's present and its beginnings.

 
 
[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed ”that on or about December, 1910, human character changed”. What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:

- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.
- To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed "that on or about December, 1910, human character changed". What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:
- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (to be made available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.

Please note: To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] Daniel Defoe: Fallen Women and Men at Sea
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731), one of the pioneers of the English novel, is today best remembered for his first foray into the genre, "Robinson Crusoe" (1719). This course will also discuss two of Defoe's lesser-known novels: "Moll Flanders" (1722) and "Roxana" (1724). While Crusoe experiences the hazards of life at sea far away from their native England, Moll and Roxana are driven into the hands of crime and prostitution from sheer necessity and invent multiple personalities in their fight for survival in a patriarchal society.

[Si] Introduction to British Children's Fiction
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Not only adults read for pleasure, many children are avid readers as well. However, literary studies often tend to focus on literature designed to be read by adults. This seminar zooms in on British fiction for young readers ranging from picture books such as Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" (1902) to (all age) page-turners like the Harry Potter series.
We will address questions regarding the conveyance of content in picture books, topics in (gendered) fiction for young readers (such as Enid Blyton's "The Famous Five" or "St. Clare's" series, both 1940s) or the appeal of "crossover novels", i.e. children's fiction with an adult readership.

Students are expected to buy and read several novels which will be announced in the first session. Secondary literature will be provided on Stud.IP.

[Si] Introduction to Feminist Disability Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Following the credo of the disability rights movement ”Nothing About Us Without Us,” this course is based on the assumption that disability is everywhere – once you begin to look for it. However, disability remains overlooked and unseen in the feminist triad gender, race, and class. This course seeks to fill this gap by asking is there a feminist side to being disabled? What does it mean to inject disability into feminist thought? To answer these questions we will discuss key concepts of disability and feminist theory such as the nature and meaning of embodiment, heteronormative and ableist forms of normativity, and the overlap between sexism and ableism. We will explore not only how Disability Studies become feminist, but also how feminism becomes disabling.
A reading list and the syllabus will be made available through StudIP at the beginning of the semester.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will look at literary representations of London and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary psychogeography of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will begin by looking at literary representations of London in the first half of the nineteenth century, roughly 1815 – 1845, and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary „psychogeography” of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] The Evolution of the British Novel - from the 18th to the 21st Century
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Ever since its famous "rise" (Ian Watt) in 18th-century Britain, the novel has been rivalled by countless new genres and media, and yet, in the early 21st century, it appears as alive and kicking as ever. As many critics have argued, one reason for its success is the novel's remarkable capacity of adapting to changed historical contexts and new media environments. Virginia Woolf might have had a point, then, when she famously characterized the novel as a "cannibal […] which has devoured so many forms of art".

In the seminar, we're going to trace four historical moments in the evolution of the novel, focusing on representative works from the beginning of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century respectively. The class will be conceptualized as an introduction to the (history of the) novel and also aims to familiarize students with key concepts and strategies for the analysis of narrative texts.

Requirements:
- Students attending the class are kindly asked to purchase two novels (which will be listed on the syllabus). All other literature will be provided in the form of excerpts (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Further information on relevant organizational issues (how to obtain a grade, etc.) will be specified on the syllabus and clarified during our first session on 16 October.

[Si] Thomas Hardy: Essays, Shorter Fiction and Poetry
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will concentrate on the work of Thomas Hardy. We will be reading his shorter fiction and poetry, look at his essays and read his novel Jude the Obscure. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term, students are asked to buy and read Hardy's Jude the Obscure (any edition).

[Si] William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Its Contemporary Rewritings
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
In this seminar, we will first take a closer look at a canonical English play – William Shakespeare's romance The Tempest (1611) – and then, in a second step, analyse how two twentieth- and twenty-first century writers have responded to the play's themes and concerns by rewriting Shakespeare's original story into novels that unveil new perspectives, give voice to marginal characters, and foreground how The Tempest addresses the topics of gender, race, and colonialism. In addition, the seminar will feature one creative-writing workshop and a reading by English novelist Zara Karschay, who has used Shakespeare's Macbeth as an inspiration for her own fiction.

The seminar will have the following structure:
- We will begin by recapitulating a few basic concepts of drama analysis.
- We will discuss the idea behind and the aims of literary rewritings; in this context, we shall reflect on why postcolonial and feminist theories have contributed to the popularity of this particular form of intertextuality.
- We will then move on to a close reading of The Tempest, which shall acquaint you with the main characters, themes and structural principles of the play.
- The first rewriting that we shall then consider is George Lamming's Water with Berries (1971), a novel about 16th-century explorers in the West Indies.
- The second rewriting we will turn to is Margaret Atwood's novel Hag-Seed (2016). (You might know Atwood as the author of The Handmaid's Tale.) Hag-Seed follows the turbulent life and memories of Felix, a theatre maker who is about to direct The Tempest.
- On 16 January 2019, Zara Karschay will visit our class with a creative-writing workshop and a subsequent reading from her novel at the Literarisches Zentrum Gießen (begin 7.30 pm). Please note that attending the reading at the LZG is obligatory for this seminar.

Workload:
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in teamwork (please note that you will have to work in groups on a regular basis), attendance at Zara Karschay's reading on 16 January, 7.30 pm at the LZG. Depending on your programme of studies, you will either have to write a written term paper or a final exam.

Additionally, you must have a copy of the following texts which will be read and discussed in class in the following order:
- Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Ed. Alden and Virginia Vaughan. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. [Arden Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-1408133477]
- Lamming, George. Water with Berries. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2016. [Caribbean Modern Classics; ISBN: 978-1845231675]
- Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed. London: Vintage, 2016. [Hogarth Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-0099594024]

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

 
[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed ”that on or about December, 1910, human character changed”. What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:

- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.
- To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed "that on or about December, 1910, human character changed". What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:
- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (to be made available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.

Please note: To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] Daniel Defoe: Fallen Women and Men at Sea
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731), one of the pioneers of the English novel, is today best remembered for his first foray into the genre, "Robinson Crusoe" (1719). This course will also discuss two of Defoe's lesser-known novels: "Moll Flanders" (1722) and "Roxana" (1724). While Crusoe experiences the hazards of life at sea far away from their native England, Moll and Roxana are driven into the hands of crime and prostitution from sheer necessity and invent multiple personalities in their fight for survival in a patriarchal society.

[Si] Introduction to British Children's Fiction
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Not only adults read for pleasure, many children are avid readers as well. However, literary studies often tend to focus on literature designed to be read by adults. This seminar zooms in on British fiction for young readers ranging from picture books such as Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" (1902) to (all age) page-turners like the Harry Potter series.
We will address questions regarding the conveyance of content in picture books, topics in (gendered) fiction for young readers (such as Enid Blyton's "The Famous Five" or "St. Clare's" series, both 1940s) or the appeal of "crossover novels", i.e. children's fiction with an adult readership.

Students are expected to buy and read several novels which will be announced in the first session. Secondary literature will be provided on Stud.IP.

[Si] Introduction to Feminist Disability Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Following the credo of the disability rights movement ”Nothing About Us Without Us,” this course is based on the assumption that disability is everywhere – once you begin to look for it. However, disability remains overlooked and unseen in the feminist triad gender, race, and class. This course seeks to fill this gap by asking is there a feminist side to being disabled? What does it mean to inject disability into feminist thought? To answer these questions we will discuss key concepts of disability and feminist theory such as the nature and meaning of embodiment, heteronormative and ableist forms of normativity, and the overlap between sexism and ableism. We will explore not only how Disability Studies become feminist, but also how feminism becomes disabling.
A reading list and the syllabus will be made available through StudIP at the beginning of the semester.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will look at literary representations of London and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary psychogeography of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will begin by looking at literary representations of London in the first half of the nineteenth century, roughly 1815 – 1845, and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary „psychogeography” of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] The Evolution of the British Novel - from the 18th to the 21st Century
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Ever since its famous "rise" (Ian Watt) in 18th-century Britain, the novel has been rivalled by countless new genres and media, and yet, in the early 21st century, it appears as alive and kicking as ever. As many critics have argued, one reason for its success is the novel's remarkable capacity of adapting to changed historical contexts and new media environments. Virginia Woolf might have had a point, then, when she famously characterized the novel as a "cannibal […] which has devoured so many forms of art".

In the seminar, we're going to trace four historical moments in the evolution of the novel, focusing on representative works from the beginning of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century respectively. The class will be conceptualized as an introduction to the (history of the) novel and also aims to familiarize students with key concepts and strategies for the analysis of narrative texts.

Requirements:
- Students attending the class are kindly asked to purchase two novels (which will be listed on the syllabus). All other literature will be provided in the form of excerpts (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Further information on relevant organizational issues (how to obtain a grade, etc.) will be specified on the syllabus and clarified during our first session on 16 October.

[Si] Thomas Hardy: Essays, Shorter Fiction and Poetry
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will concentrate on the work of Thomas Hardy. We will be reading his shorter fiction and poetry, look at his essays and read his novel Jude the Obscure. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term, students are asked to buy and read Hardy's Jude the Obscure (any edition).

[Si] William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Its Contemporary Rewritings
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
In this seminar, we will first take a closer look at a canonical English play – William Shakespeare's romance The Tempest (1611) – and then, in a second step, analyse how two twentieth- and twenty-first century writers have responded to the play's themes and concerns by rewriting Shakespeare's original story into novels that unveil new perspectives, give voice to marginal characters, and foreground how The Tempest addresses the topics of gender, race, and colonialism. In addition, the seminar will feature one creative-writing workshop and a reading by English novelist Zara Karschay, who has used Shakespeare's Macbeth as an inspiration for her own fiction.

The seminar will have the following structure:
- We will begin by recapitulating a few basic concepts of drama analysis.
- We will discuss the idea behind and the aims of literary rewritings; in this context, we shall reflect on why postcolonial and feminist theories have contributed to the popularity of this particular form of intertextuality.
- We will then move on to a close reading of The Tempest, which shall acquaint you with the main characters, themes and structural principles of the play.
- The first rewriting that we shall then consider is George Lamming's Water with Berries (1971), a novel about 16th-century explorers in the West Indies.
- The second rewriting we will turn to is Margaret Atwood's novel Hag-Seed (2016). (You might know Atwood as the author of The Handmaid's Tale.) Hag-Seed follows the turbulent life and memories of Felix, a theatre maker who is about to direct The Tempest.
- On 16 January 2019, Zara Karschay will visit our class with a creative-writing workshop and a subsequent reading from her novel at the Literarisches Zentrum Gießen (begin 7.30 pm). Please note that attending the reading at the LZG is obligatory for this seminar.

Workload:
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in teamwork (please note that you will have to work in groups on a regular basis), attendance at Zara Karschay's reading on 16 January, 7.30 pm at the LZG. Depending on your programme of studies, you will either have to write a written term paper or a final exam.

Additionally, you must have a copy of the following texts which will be read and discussed in class in the following order:
- Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Ed. Alden and Virginia Vaughan. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. [Arden Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-1408133477]
- Lamming, George. Water with Berries. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2016. [Caribbean Modern Classics; ISBN: 978-1845231675]
- Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed. London: Vintage, 2016. [Hogarth Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-0099594024]

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

 
[Vl] Black and Asian British Writing, 1700-2000
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L2,3,5,PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Black and Asian British Writing, 1700 – 2000 (Tue, 12-2 p.m.)
The work of black and Asian writers is at the heart of British literature today. Yet processes of canonisation are slow, and blanket terms like ‘black' and ‘Asian' or even ‘British' are not unproblematic when in fact many of these writers are also discussed in terms of other national literatures (Caribbean, Indian, African, etc.). This state of affairs only highlights the need to place black and Asian British writing on the critical agenda, and to explore its relationship with other Anglophone literatures around the globe.
While giving an overview of today's writers (Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith et al.), this course of lectures will include their predecessors (Olaudah Equiano, Mary Seacole et al.) in a longer, less often told (pre-)history of black and Asian British writing dating back as far as the eighteenth century. We will trace lines of influence in terms of genres and writing styles, with a focus on literature and occasionally taking into account other media as well. Moreover, we will deal with the historical and cultural challenges that black and Asian British writers have responded to and reworked creatively, including the end of Empire, post-WWII migration, the rise of multi-ethnic Britain and the making of new identities.

[Vl] The Soul in British Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The concept of the soul is in many respects of key importance for an idea of what is human. For about two millennia, the soul had been an indispensable part of a human being, its life force, its essence as self, and its power of cognition. Furthermore, the soul was considered the immortal part of the individual human. Around 1800, however, there occurred a momentous paradigm shift that may be called the discovery of the human as a biological, immanent, and therefore mortal being. In this lecture series, we will consider the cultural heritage of the concept of soul from its classical origins down to the modern age. In the course of this class, we will investigate its influence on philosophy, science, art, and literature from Plato and Aristotle via William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats.

[Vl] The United States: Beginnings - Law/Politics/Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 1

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6.Sem
Kommentar:
This interactive lecture series covers the pre-Anglophone and pre-national beginnings of the United States up until 1900. In each session one paradigmatic literary or legal text will be analyzed in depth as a way to open up central political and cultural issues of the period in question. These texts offer keys to understanding how imperialism, slavery, and Puritanism shaped the colonial and antebellum and postbellum periods. Lines of continuity will be drawn between America's present and its beginnings.

 
 
[Si] An Introduction to Body Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, 202

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Everything we experience, we experience with and through our body. Our body is able to store and remember specific memories and skills that we are not necessarily consciously aware of; our body is usually the first aspect other people will notice when meeting us; our body may determine our successes and our weaknesses. In short, the body is omnipresent.
This course aims at providing an overview of different body concepts relevant in (British) Cultural Studies. We will discuss a variety of theoretical texts and approaches (e.g. by Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Bourdieu …) and will analyse the (changing) understandings of the body in British culture and society, ranging from the Middle Ages to contemporary Britain. We will also investigate how the (individual, social, public, political, national, gendered …) body was predominantly perceived at specific times and how these body concepts may be related to the social circumstances, culture and politics of the respective time by drawing connections to selected literary and cultural texts. Consequently, our analysis may grant us an insight into subcultures and power relations between individual social groups.
Furthermore, this course will provide students with the possibility to plan and conduct their own case study/project related to the seminar topic while we will analyse one case study together in class.
To enjoy this class, you should be interested in reading and analysing theoretical texts and approaches.

Workload (more specific details will follow in the seminar):
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in group work, oral presentations. Furthermore, I expect you to read all the texts discussed in class. Please note that the kind of exam you have to take at the end of the semester will depend on your course of studies as well as on the module you're enrolled in (more details to follow).

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed "that on or about December, 1910, human character changed". What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:
- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (to be made available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.

Please note: To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed ”that on or about December, 1910, human character changed”. What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:

- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.
- To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] Anglophone Caribbean Writing
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3/4
Kommentar:
Anglophone Caribbean Writing (Mon, 4-6 p.m.)
The Caribbean has produced a rich body of English-language writing, highly complex and diverse not unlike the Caribbean archipelago itself. Indeed, writers have repeatedly turned to local topography to derive literary idioms and styles. Regardless of a fragmentary island space, the quest for an overarching poetics has been one of the founding moves of Anglophone Caribbean writing. Where models and modes of expression from the English canon no longer represented local realities, or if anything prolonged stereotypical images of a tropical garden Eden, writers started revisiting the land for scarred memories of forced labour and plantation agriculture. The sea, the plantation, the hinterland, the beach and the hurricane have since provided innovative elements as form, genre, and central topoi.
This seminar will deal with a wide range of texts, particularly poetry, which more than mere nature writing seek to unearth difficult histories of race, gender, migration and island life. Simultaneously, they throw into relief the archipelago's often precarious and endangered nature, allowing us to explore the relationship between literature and the environment as highlighted by the expanding field of postcolonial ecocriticism.
Reading:
Sam Selvon, An Island is a World (1955); excerpts from the Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (ed. Allison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, 1996) and additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] Contemporary British Television Series - Topics, Trends, and Theory
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5, PV/WPV Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Since 1990s and especially the turn of the Millennium, there is a considerable change in both the production and the perception of Western television series. For decades, films produced for movie theatres had been the sole resort for artistic ambition. With American TV series such as Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, or The Wire, a paradigm shift set in, and the television series developed rapidly, exploring new generic forms, narrative complexity, and ambitious experiments, which is also reflected upon in academic investigations focussing on complex TV and popular seriality. Although not always taking centre stage in the academic discourse as well as popular perception, British and Irish television series also explore new grounds, very often acting as role models for American forms. In this class we will look at the theory of serial narration and investigate groundbreaking shows from sitcoms to crime drama, including The Office, Black Mirror, Broadchurch, Love/Hate, Luther, and Sherlock.

[Si] Daniel Defoe: Fallen Women and Men at Sea
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731), one of the pioneers of the English novel, is today best remembered for his first foray into the genre, "Robinson Crusoe" (1719). This course will also discuss two of Defoe's lesser-known novels: "Moll Flanders" (1722) and "Roxana" (1724). While Crusoe experiences the hazards of life at sea far away from their native England, Moll and Roxana are driven into the hands of crime and prostitution from sheer necessity and invent multiple personalities in their fight for survival in a patriarchal society.

[Si] Introduction to Feminist Disability Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Following the credo of the disability rights movement ”Nothing About Us Without Us,” this course is based on the assumption that disability is everywhere – once you begin to look for it. However, disability remains overlooked and unseen in the feminist triad gender, race, and class. This course seeks to fill this gap by asking is there a feminist side to being disabled? What does it mean to inject disability into feminist thought? To answer these questions we will discuss key concepts of disability and feminist theory such as the nature and meaning of embodiment, heteronormative and ableist forms of normativity, and the overlap between sexism and ableism. We will explore not only how Disability Studies become feminist, but also how feminism becomes disabling.
A reading list and the syllabus will be made available through StudIP at the beginning of the semester.

[Si] Introduction to Postcolonial Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will begin by looking at literary representations of London in the first half of the nineteenth century, roughly 1815 – 1845, and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary „psychogeography” of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will look at literary representations of London and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary psychogeography of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] Media Analysis through Media Creation
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
With the assistance of film maker Lisa Friederich, this course shall teach methods of film and television analysis through the process of creating short films. Participants shall work in small groups to produce work that demonstrates media-critical awareness. Our primary text for analysis shall be The Handmaid's Tale (2017 -) Hulu. Alongside creating the films, participants shall be asked to reflect on theories and methods of media analysis in short texts.

[Si] The Evolution of the British Novel - from the 18th to the 21st Century
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Ever since its famous "rise" (Ian Watt) in 18th-century Britain, the novel has been rivalled by countless new genres and media, and yet, in the early 21st century, it appears as alive and kicking as ever. As many critics have argued, one reason for its success is the novel's remarkable capacity of adapting to changed historical contexts and new media environments. Virginia Woolf might have had a point, then, when she famously characterized the novel as a "cannibal […] which has devoured so many forms of art".

In the seminar, we're going to trace four historical moments in the evolution of the novel, focusing on representative works from the beginning of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century respectively. The class will be conceptualized as an introduction to the (history of the) novel and also aims to familiarize students with key concepts and strategies for the analysis of narrative texts.

Requirements:
- Students attending the class are kindly asked to purchase two novels (which will be listed on the syllabus). All other literature will be provided in the form of excerpts (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Further information on relevant organizational issues (how to obtain a grade, etc.) will be specified on the syllabus and clarified during our first session on 16 October.

[Si] Thomas Hardy: Essays, Shorter Fiction and Poetry
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will concentrate on the work of Thomas Hardy. We will be reading his shorter fiction and poetry, look at his essays and read his novel Jude the Obscure. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term, students are asked to buy and read Hardy's Jude the Obscure (any edition).

 
[Si] An Introduction to Body Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, 202

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Everything we experience, we experience with and through our body. Our body is able to store and remember specific memories and skills that we are not necessarily consciously aware of; our body is usually the first aspect other people will notice when meeting us; our body may determine our successes and our weaknesses. In short, the body is omnipresent.
This course aims at providing an overview of different body concepts relevant in (British) Cultural Studies. We will discuss a variety of theoretical texts and approaches (e.g. by Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Bourdieu …) and will analyse the (changing) understandings of the body in British culture and society, ranging from the Middle Ages to contemporary Britain. We will also investigate how the (individual, social, public, political, national, gendered …) body was predominantly perceived at specific times and how these body concepts may be related to the social circumstances, culture and politics of the respective time by drawing connections to selected literary and cultural texts. Consequently, our analysis may grant us an insight into subcultures and power relations between individual social groups.
Furthermore, this course will provide students with the possibility to plan and conduct their own case study/project related to the seminar topic while we will analyse one case study together in class.
To enjoy this class, you should be interested in reading and analysing theoretical texts and approaches.

Workload (more specific details will follow in the seminar):
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in group work, oral presentations. Furthermore, I expect you to read all the texts discussed in class. Please note that the kind of exam you have to take at the end of the semester will depend on your course of studies as well as on the module you're enrolled in (more details to follow).

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed "that on or about December, 1910, human character changed". What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:
- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (to be made available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.

Please note: To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed ”that on or about December, 1910, human character changed”. What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:

- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.
- To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] Anglophone Caribbean Writing
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3/4
Kommentar:
Anglophone Caribbean Writing (Mon, 4-6 p.m.)
The Caribbean has produced a rich body of English-language writing, highly complex and diverse not unlike the Caribbean archipelago itself. Indeed, writers have repeatedly turned to local topography to derive literary idioms and styles. Regardless of a fragmentary island space, the quest for an overarching poetics has been one of the founding moves of Anglophone Caribbean writing. Where models and modes of expression from the English canon no longer represented local realities, or if anything prolonged stereotypical images of a tropical garden Eden, writers started revisiting the land for scarred memories of forced labour and plantation agriculture. The sea, the plantation, the hinterland, the beach and the hurricane have since provided innovative elements as form, genre, and central topoi.
This seminar will deal with a wide range of texts, particularly poetry, which more than mere nature writing seek to unearth difficult histories of race, gender, migration and island life. Simultaneously, they throw into relief the archipelago's often precarious and endangered nature, allowing us to explore the relationship between literature and the environment as highlighted by the expanding field of postcolonial ecocriticism.
Reading:
Sam Selvon, An Island is a World (1955); excerpts from the Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (ed. Allison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, 1996) and additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] Contemporary British Television Series - Topics, Trends, and Theory
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5, PV/WPV Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Since 1990s and especially the turn of the Millennium, there is a considerable change in both the production and the perception of Western television series. For decades, films produced for movie theatres had been the sole resort for artistic ambition. With American TV series such as Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, or The Wire, a paradigm shift set in, and the television series developed rapidly, exploring new generic forms, narrative complexity, and ambitious experiments, which is also reflected upon in academic investigations focussing on complex TV and popular seriality. Although not always taking centre stage in the academic discourse as well as popular perception, British and Irish television series also explore new grounds, very often acting as role models for American forms. In this class we will look at the theory of serial narration and investigate groundbreaking shows from sitcoms to crime drama, including The Office, Black Mirror, Broadchurch, Love/Hate, Luther, and Sherlock.

[Si] Daniel Defoe: Fallen Women and Men at Sea
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731), one of the pioneers of the English novel, is today best remembered for his first foray into the genre, "Robinson Crusoe" (1719). This course will also discuss two of Defoe's lesser-known novels: "Moll Flanders" (1722) and "Roxana" (1724). While Crusoe experiences the hazards of life at sea far away from their native England, Moll and Roxana are driven into the hands of crime and prostitution from sheer necessity and invent multiple personalities in their fight for survival in a patriarchal society.

[Si] Introduction to Feminist Disability Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Following the credo of the disability rights movement ”Nothing About Us Without Us,” this course is based on the assumption that disability is everywhere – once you begin to look for it. However, disability remains overlooked and unseen in the feminist triad gender, race, and class. This course seeks to fill this gap by asking is there a feminist side to being disabled? What does it mean to inject disability into feminist thought? To answer these questions we will discuss key concepts of disability and feminist theory such as the nature and meaning of embodiment, heteronormative and ableist forms of normativity, and the overlap between sexism and ableism. We will explore not only how Disability Studies become feminist, but also how feminism becomes disabling.
A reading list and the syllabus will be made available through StudIP at the beginning of the semester.

[Si] Introduction to Postcolonial Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will begin by looking at literary representations of London in the first half of the nineteenth century, roughly 1815 – 1845, and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary „psychogeography” of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will look at literary representations of London and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary psychogeography of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] Media Analysis through Media Creation
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
With the assistance of film maker Lisa Friederich, this course shall teach methods of film and television analysis through the process of creating short films. Participants shall work in small groups to produce work that demonstrates media-critical awareness. Our primary text for analysis shall be The Handmaid's Tale (2017 -) Hulu. Alongside creating the films, participants shall be asked to reflect on theories and methods of media analysis in short texts.

[Si] The Evolution of the British Novel - from the 18th to the 21st Century
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Ever since its famous "rise" (Ian Watt) in 18th-century Britain, the novel has been rivalled by countless new genres and media, and yet, in the early 21st century, it appears as alive and kicking as ever. As many critics have argued, one reason for its success is the novel's remarkable capacity of adapting to changed historical contexts and new media environments. Virginia Woolf might have had a point, then, when she famously characterized the novel as a "cannibal […] which has devoured so many forms of art".

In the seminar, we're going to trace four historical moments in the evolution of the novel, focusing on representative works from the beginning of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century respectively. The class will be conceptualized as an introduction to the (history of the) novel and also aims to familiarize students with key concepts and strategies for the analysis of narrative texts.

Requirements:
- Students attending the class are kindly asked to purchase two novels (which will be listed on the syllabus). All other literature will be provided in the form of excerpts (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Further information on relevant organizational issues (how to obtain a grade, etc.) will be specified on the syllabus and clarified during our first session on 16 October.

[Si] Thomas Hardy: Essays, Shorter Fiction and Poetry
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will concentrate on the work of Thomas Hardy. We will be reading his shorter fiction and poetry, look at his essays and read his novel Jude the Obscure. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term, students are asked to buy and read Hardy's Jude the Obscure (any edition).

 
[Vl] Black and Asian British Writing, 1700-2000
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L2,3,5,PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Black and Asian British Writing, 1700 – 2000 (Tue, 12-2 p.m.)
The work of black and Asian writers is at the heart of British literature today. Yet processes of canonisation are slow, and blanket terms like ‘black' and ‘Asian' or even ‘British' are not unproblematic when in fact many of these writers are also discussed in terms of other national literatures (Caribbean, Indian, African, etc.). This state of affairs only highlights the need to place black and Asian British writing on the critical agenda, and to explore its relationship with other Anglophone literatures around the globe.
While giving an overview of today's writers (Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith et al.), this course of lectures will include their predecessors (Olaudah Equiano, Mary Seacole et al.) in a longer, less often told (pre-)history of black and Asian British writing dating back as far as the eighteenth century. We will trace lines of influence in terms of genres and writing styles, with a focus on literature and occasionally taking into account other media as well. Moreover, we will deal with the historical and cultural challenges that black and Asian British writers have responded to and reworked creatively, including the end of Empire, post-WWII migration, the rise of multi-ethnic Britain and the making of new identities.

[Vl] The Soul in British Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The concept of the soul is in many respects of key importance for an idea of what is human. For about two millennia, the soul had been an indispensable part of a human being, its life force, its essence as self, and its power of cognition. Furthermore, the soul was considered the immortal part of the individual human. Around 1800, however, there occurred a momentous paradigm shift that may be called the discovery of the human as a biological, immanent, and therefore mortal being. In this lecture series, we will consider the cultural heritage of the concept of soul from its classical origins down to the modern age. In the course of this class, we will investigate its influence on philosophy, science, art, and literature from Plato and Aristotle via William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats.

[Vl] The United States: Beginnings - Law/Politics/Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 1

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6.Sem
Kommentar:
This interactive lecture series covers the pre-Anglophone and pre-national beginnings of the United States up until 1900. In each session one paradigmatic literary or legal text will be analyzed in depth as a way to open up central political and cultural issues of the period in question. These texts offer keys to understanding how imperialism, slavery, and Puritanism shaped the colonial and antebellum and postbellum periods. Lines of continuity will be drawn between America's present and its beginnings.

 
 
[Vl] Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

 
[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, E 004

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Middle English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Psycholinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Spoken English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Standardising English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The main differences in contemporary English spelling boil down to American (e.g. theater, color) versus British variants (e.g. theatre, colour). Other than that, the spelling of English these days is uniform all around the globe. This uniformity, however, is the result of a long-lasting historical process known as linguistic standardisation, which is still in full swing today.

In the course of this class, we will approach the English language diachronically and explore how it developed from Old English with strong Germanic roots to the fully standardised Present-Day English we all know. In the course of this, we will define the notion and describe the process of linguistic standardisation and evaluate to what extent standardisation is visible a) across the different periods in the history of the English language (Old English, Middle English, etc.) and b) on the various structural levels of language organisation (phonology, lexis, grammar, semantics, etc.). In order to empirically study standardisation processes, we will also learn and use the programming language R.

Ungraded Credit: Regular attendance, preparation of homework and active participation.
Graded: The above and either a pass in the final exam (February 14 2019) or in the term paper (due on March 31 2019).

[P Si] Textlinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

 
[H Si] Diachronic Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Language changes continuously and it varies in communities of speakers and due to social factors such as age, gender, ethnicity etc. In this course we will take a closer look at those changes by focussing on the field of diachronic sociolinguistics.
We will start by reviewing basic principles of synchronic sociolinguistics and in a second step, will combine these principles and methods with those of historical linguistics and attempt to reconstruct processes of language change in their social context.

Credit
Ungraded: Regular attendance, active participation; including presentation.
Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, presentation, plus a final exam (11.02.2019) or term paper (deadline: 31.03.2019)

[H Si] Second-Language Acquisition
Dozent/-in:
Puga, K.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, E 105

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: 14.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

[H Si] Varieties of English: America
Dozent/-in:
Puga, K.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: 13.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

[H Si] Varieties of English: New Englishes
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: xx.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

 
 
[Vl] Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

 
[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, E 004

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Middle English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Psycholinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Spoken English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Standardising English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The main differences in contemporary English spelling boil down to American (e.g. theater, color) versus British variants (e.g. theatre, colour). Other than that, the spelling of English these days is uniform all around the globe. This uniformity, however, is the result of a long-lasting historical process known as linguistic standardisation, which is still in full swing today.

In the course of this class, we will approach the English language diachronically and explore how it developed from Old English with strong Germanic roots to the fully standardised Present-Day English we all know. In the course of this, we will define the notion and describe the process of linguistic standardisation and evaluate to what extent standardisation is visible a) across the different periods in the history of the English language (Old English, Middle English, etc.) and b) on the various structural levels of language organisation (phonology, lexis, grammar, semantics, etc.). In order to empirically study standardisation processes, we will also learn and use the programming language R.

Ungraded Credit: Regular attendance, preparation of homework and active participation.
Graded: The above and either a pass in the final exam (February 14 2019) or in the term paper (due on March 31 2019).

[P Si] Textlinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

 
[H Si] Diachronic Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Language changes continuously and it varies in communities of speakers and due to social factors such as age, gender, ethnicity etc. In this course we will take a closer look at those changes by focussing on the field of diachronic sociolinguistics.
We will start by reviewing basic principles of synchronic sociolinguistics and in a second step, will combine these principles and methods with those of historical linguistics and attempt to reconstruct processes of language change in their social context.

Credit
Ungraded: Regular attendance, active participation; including presentation.
Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, presentation, plus a final exam (11.02.2019) or term paper (deadline: 31.03.2019)

[H Si] Second-Language Acquisition
Dozent/-in:
Puga, K.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, E 105

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: 14.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

[H Si] Varieties of English: America
Dozent/-in:
Puga, K.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: 13.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

[H Si] Varieties of English: New Englishes
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: xx.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

 
 
[Vl] Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

 
[Si] Anglophone Caribbean Writing
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3/4
Kommentar:
Anglophone Caribbean Writing (Mon, 4-6 p.m.)
The Caribbean has produced a rich body of English-language writing, highly complex and diverse not unlike the Caribbean archipelago itself. Indeed, writers have repeatedly turned to local topography to derive literary idioms and styles. Regardless of a fragmentary island space, the quest for an overarching poetics has been one of the founding moves of Anglophone Caribbean writing. Where models and modes of expression from the English canon no longer represented local realities, or if anything prolonged stereotypical images of a tropical garden Eden, writers started revisiting the land for scarred memories of forced labour and plantation agriculture. The sea, the plantation, the hinterland, the beach and the hurricane have since provided innovative elements as form, genre, and central topoi.
This seminar will deal with a wide range of texts, particularly poetry, which more than mere nature writing seek to unearth difficult histories of race, gender, migration and island life. Simultaneously, they throw into relief the archipelago's often precarious and endangered nature, allowing us to explore the relationship between literature and the environment as highlighted by the expanding field of postcolonial ecocriticism.
Reading:
Sam Selvon, An Island is a World (1955); excerpts from the Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (ed. Allison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, 1996) and additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, E 004

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Psycholinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Spoken English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Standardising English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The main differences in contemporary English spelling boil down to American (e.g. theater, color) versus British variants (e.g. theatre, colour). Other than that, the spelling of English these days is uniform all around the globe. This uniformity, however, is the result of a long-lasting historical process known as linguistic standardisation, which is still in full swing today.

In the course of this class, we will approach the English language diachronically and explore how it developed from Old English with strong Germanic roots to the fully standardised Present-Day English we all know. In the course of this, we will define the notion and describe the process of linguistic standardisation and evaluate to what extent standardisation is visible a) across the different periods in the history of the English language (Old English, Middle English, etc.) and b) on the various structural levels of language organisation (phonology, lexis, grammar, semantics, etc.). In order to empirically study standardisation processes, we will also learn and use the programming language R.

Ungraded Credit: Regular attendance, preparation of homework and active participation.
Graded: The above and either a pass in the final exam (February 14 2019) or in the term paper (due on March 31 2019).

[P Si] Textlinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

 
[Si] Anglophone Caribbean Writing
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3/4
Kommentar:
Anglophone Caribbean Writing (Mon, 4-6 p.m.)
The Caribbean has produced a rich body of English-language writing, highly complex and diverse not unlike the Caribbean archipelago itself. Indeed, writers have repeatedly turned to local topography to derive literary idioms and styles. Regardless of a fragmentary island space, the quest for an overarching poetics has been one of the founding moves of Anglophone Caribbean writing. Where models and modes of expression from the English canon no longer represented local realities, or if anything prolonged stereotypical images of a tropical garden Eden, writers started revisiting the land for scarred memories of forced labour and plantation agriculture. The sea, the plantation, the hinterland, the beach and the hurricane have since provided innovative elements as form, genre, and central topoi.
This seminar will deal with a wide range of texts, particularly poetry, which more than mere nature writing seek to unearth difficult histories of race, gender, migration and island life. Simultaneously, they throw into relief the archipelago's often precarious and endangered nature, allowing us to explore the relationship between literature and the environment as highlighted by the expanding field of postcolonial ecocriticism.
Reading:
Sam Selvon, An Island is a World (1955); excerpts from the Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (ed. Allison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, 1996) and additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[H Si] Diachronic Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Language changes continuously and it varies in communities of speakers and due to social factors such as age, gender, ethnicity etc. In this course we will take a closer look at those changes by focussing on the field of diachronic sociolinguistics.
We will start by reviewing basic principles of synchronic sociolinguistics and in a second step, will combine these principles and methods with those of historical linguistics and attempt to reconstruct processes of language change in their social context.

Credit
Ungraded: Regular attendance, active participation; including presentation.
Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, presentation, plus a final exam (11.02.2019) or term paper (deadline: 31.03.2019)

[Si] Introduction to Postcolonial Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[H Si] Second-Language Acquisition
Dozent/-in:
Puga, K.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, E 105

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: 14.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

[H Si] Varieties of English: America
Dozent/-in:
Puga, K.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: 13.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

[H Si] Varieties of English: New Englishes
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: xx.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

[Si] William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Its Contemporary Rewritings
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
In this seminar, we will first take a closer look at a canonical English play – William Shakespeare's romance The Tempest (1611) – and then, in a second step, analyse how two twentieth- and twenty-first century writers have responded to the play's themes and concerns by rewriting Shakespeare's original story into novels that unveil new perspectives, give voice to marginal characters, and foreground how The Tempest addresses the topics of gender, race, and colonialism. In addition, the seminar will feature one creative-writing workshop and a reading by English novelist Zara Karschay, who has used Shakespeare's Macbeth as an inspiration for her own fiction.

The seminar will have the following structure:
- We will begin by recapitulating a few basic concepts of drama analysis.
- We will discuss the idea behind and the aims of literary rewritings; in this context, we shall reflect on why postcolonial and feminist theories have contributed to the popularity of this particular form of intertextuality.
- We will then move on to a close reading of The Tempest, which shall acquaint you with the main characters, themes and structural principles of the play.
- The first rewriting that we shall then consider is George Lamming's Water with Berries (1971), a novel about 16th-century explorers in the West Indies.
- The second rewriting we will turn to is Margaret Atwood's novel Hag-Seed (2016). (You might know Atwood as the author of The Handmaid's Tale.) Hag-Seed follows the turbulent life and memories of Felix, a theatre maker who is about to direct The Tempest.
- On 16 January 2019, Zara Karschay will visit our class with a creative-writing workshop and a subsequent reading from her novel at the Literarisches Zentrum Gießen (begin 7.30 pm). Please note that attending the reading at the LZG is obligatory for this seminar.

Workload:
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in teamwork (please note that you will have to work in groups on a regular basis), attendance at Zara Karschay's reading on 16 January, 7.30 pm at the LZG. Depending on your programme of studies, you will either have to write a written term paper or a final exam.

Additionally, you must have a copy of the following texts which will be read and discussed in class in the following order:
- Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Ed. Alden and Virginia Vaughan. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. [Arden Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-1408133477]
- Lamming, George. Water with Berries. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2016. [Caribbean Modern Classics; ISBN: 978-1845231675]
- Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed. London: Vintage, 2016. [Hogarth Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-0099594024]

 
 
[Pra] Praktikumsvorbereitung und Durchführung (NFF Ba)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L3, PV, Sj 3 | L2, PV, Sj 3

 
[Pra] Praktikumsvorbereitung und Durchführung (NFF Ba)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L3, PV, Sj 3 | L2, PV, Sj 3

 
 
 
 
 
 
[Vl] Introduction to English Language Teaching
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
(Einführungsveranstaltung,) ECTS 4

Description:
In this class students will be introduced to some basic concepts of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (standards, syllabuses, listening/speaking and reading/writing skills, teaching literature, grammar and vocabulary at different levels, organising your classroom, and assessment) starting out with a close look at the teacher, the learner, learning theory and classroom designs. At the same time students will take their first steps towards becoming ”reflective practitioners” (Schoen). Therefore this lecture is designed to be interactive, i.e. it demands students' oral participation. They will learn how to assess their own progress in language learning with the help of the European Language Portfolio.

Prerequisites:
None. This course is accompanied by the obligatory Tutorium TEFL I A2.

Required Reading:
Andreas Müller-Hartmann / Marita Schocker-von Ditfurth: Introduction to English Language Teaching. Stuttgart: Klett 2004 (UNI-Wissen), ISBN 3-12-939631-4 and a reader available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Graded (alte und neue Studienordnung); Regular attendance, active participation in class, homework assignments and Klausur.

Exam period:
Written exam: 04.02.2019 .

Registration: Flex-Now

[Vl] Introduction to English Language Teaching
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
(Einführungsveranstaltung,) ECTS 4

Description:
In this class students will be introduced to some basic concepts of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (standards, syllabuses, listening/speaking and reading/writing skills, teaching literature, grammar and vocabulary at different levels, organising your classroom, and assessment) starting out with a close look at the teacher, the learner, learning theory and classroom designs. At the same time students will take their first steps towards becoming ”reflective practitioners” (Schoen). Therefore this lecture is designed to be interactive, i.e. it demands students' oral participation. They will learn how to assess their own progress in language learning with the help of the European Language Portfolio.

Prerequisites:
None. This course is accompanied by the obligatory Tutorium TEFL I A2.

Required Reading:
Andreas Müller-Hartmann / Marita Schocker-von Ditfurth: Introduction to English Language Teaching. Stuttgart: Klett 2004 (UNI-Wissen), ISBN 3-12-939631-4 and a reader available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Graded (alte und neue Studienordnung); Regular attendance, active participation in class, homework assignments and Klausur.

Exam period:
Written exam in the last session of the semester.

Registration: Flex-Now

 
[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 23.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (i)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

 
 
 
[P Si] Gender Identities in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440
2 Einzeltermine
Phil. I, B 440
Fr 07.12.2018,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  
Fr 18.01.2019,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  


Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
Gender studies is a relatively new subject that has become more and more popular recently. It has become apparent that notions of gender are closely connected to other disciplines as well, to cultural studies, literary studies, and ultimately also to teaching (in general) as well as foreign language teaching. In this seminar, we will explore gender and feminist theories, will evaluate and discuss the relevance for the foreign language classroom, and will also have a closer look at different teaching material with regard to gender stereotypes, gender norms and gender identities. During the second phase of the seminar, we will explore how these theoretical concepts can be applied to practice.

Please note: We will have two double sessions on December 7 and January 18, each from 2 to 6 pm. In substitution for these double sessions, two other regular sessions will be canceled (December 14 and January 25). Please make sure that you are able to attend.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A course reader will be provided via StudIP.

Credit (graded):
regular attendance (no more than 3 missed sessions; compensation up to half of total sessions possible)
active participation, homework and reading preparation of a presentation/micro teaching unit submission of a written term paper

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Listening & Viewing Competence: Focus on Political Short Films
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
This seminar will try to answer the question of how to foster listening amp; viewing competence ('Hör-/Sehverstehen') through appropriate media. In order to do that, we shall focus on a variety of suitable films for different learner groups while paying special attention to political short films.
To begin with, this seminar will introduce a theoretical framework which will allow us to discuss forms and functions of film(s) and we will use a conceptual approach to the analysis of film(s). Furthermore, we will learn how to choose adequate film material, how to incorporate film(s) in your classroom, how to make use of the cultural potential of film(s) and, ultimately, we will consider the benefits of producing films in class.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL I.

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written term paper.

Exam period:
Termin paper due March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Literary Competences
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
In recent years, several guidelines for EFL classrooms in Germany have been issued, with varying regard of literary texts. In the national Bildungsstandards, for instance, teaching literature in the EFL classroom is only touched upon. Therefore, this seminar is designed to introduce concepts and models which consider understanding literature as a distinct competence. The students will also learn how to use literary texts in the classroom and will apply the theoretical considerations by developing concrete teaching ideas. At the end, they will be able to answer the following questions: What does it mean to "understand literature"? Why should we work with literature in the EFL classroom at all? What are the main challenges? What is the role of literature in educational documents and curricular frameworks? Which competences can be acquired through working with literary texts and how can a good task design facilitate this process?

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
We will have a look at various literary genres that can be used for the benefit of the students.
Secondary texts will be provided via StudIP.

Expectations:
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation.

Credit (graded):
Submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31st, 2019.

Registration:
via Flex-Now

[P Si] Media Competences: Exploring (US-)American Culture
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440
2 Einzeltermine
Offener Kanal
Fr 14.12.2018,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  
Fr 25.01.2019,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  


Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) states that Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) ist the main goal of Foreign Language Teaching. This signifies that communicative skills are closely intertwined with the concept of culture. Although English, when used as a lingua franca, does not prescribe a specific target culture, the United Kingdom and the United States of America have traditionally been in the focus. This seminar will therefore concentrate on the question how US culture can be made accessible in the Foreign Language Classroom. For this, we will look at different popcultural media like films, TV series, songs, novels, etc. and explore their potential to promote ICC. During the second phase of the seminar, we will examine how these theoretical concepts can be applied to practice.
Please note: There will be two additional sessions at the Offener Kanal in Gießen, on December 14 and January 25, each from 2 to 6 pm. These sessions are mandatory, so please make sure that you are able to attend. For these additional sessions, two regular sessions will be canceled (on December 7 and January 18).

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A course reader will be provided via StudIP.

Credit (graded):
regular attendance (no more than 3 missed sessions; compensation up to half of total sessions possible)
active participation, homework and reading preparation of a presentation/micro teaching unit; submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Modern Assessment in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
The aim of this course is to familiarize students with different evaluation techniques in the English language classroom, starting from more traditional, pen-and-paper tests, to the more alternative techniques, such as portfolios, self- and peer-assessment, classroom observation, journals etc. Task-based assessment will also be investigated, examples will be given and all approaches will be analyzed in a critical view, focusing on their potential, advantages and disadvantages. The Seminar will have a highly practical orientation and lively discussions and debates are expected to take place.


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL I.



Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A reader will be provided in Stud.IP.

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March, 31st 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Teaching & Learning Vocabulary in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 104

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
Will be made available on StudIP

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by Feb ???, 2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] The Dynamic Classroom: Focus on Oral Communication
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description: This Seminar will focus on providing students with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge of organising tasks in speaking. Therefore, we will investigate the organisation and development of Tasks, types of Tasks, the Task cycle, real world Tasks and assessment in the modern EFL classroom, with the emphasis on oral skills


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A reader will be provided in Stud.IP.

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March, 31st 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

 
 
 
 
[Si] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 3

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | MFKW Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | L 2,3,5, PV, 3. Sem. | L 1, WPV, 5. Sem.
Kommentar:
This mandatory seminar (Grundkurs) aims at introducing students to the subject matter of English and American literary and cultural studies as well as to recent approaches and central research domains. It will also familiarise students with research methodologies and practical issues related to the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures.

[Si] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 5

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | MFKW Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | L 2,3,5, PV, 3. Sem. | L 1, WPV, 5. Sem.
Kommentar:
This mandatory seminar (Grundkurs) aims at introducing students to the subject matter of English and American literary and cultural studies as well as to recent approaches and central research domains. It will also familiarise students with research methodologies and practical issues related to the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures.

[Si] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 5

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | MFKW Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | L 2,3,5, PV, 3. Sem. | L 1, WPV, 5. Sem.
Kommentar:
This mandatory seminar (Grundkurs) aims at introducing students to the subject matter of English and American literary and cultural studies as well as to recent approaches and central research domains. It will also familiarise students with research methodologies and practical issues related to the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures.

[Si] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 5

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | MFKW Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | L 2,3,5, PV, 3. Sem. | L 1, WPV, 5. Sem.
Kommentar:
This mandatory seminar (Grundkurs) aims at introducing students to the subject matter of English and American literary and cultural studies as well as to recent approaches and central research domains. It will also familiarise students with research methodologies and practical issues related to the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures.

 
 
[Vl] Black and Asian British Writing, 1700-2000
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L2,3,5,PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Black and Asian British Writing, 1700 – 2000 (Tue, 12-2 p.m.)
The work of black and Asian writers is at the heart of British literature today. Yet processes of canonisation are slow, and blanket terms like ‘black' and ‘Asian' or even ‘British' are not unproblematic when in fact many of these writers are also discussed in terms of other national literatures (Caribbean, Indian, African, etc.). This state of affairs only highlights the need to place black and Asian British writing on the critical agenda, and to explore its relationship with other Anglophone literatures around the globe.
While giving an overview of today's writers (Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith et al.), this course of lectures will include their predecessors (Olaudah Equiano, Mary Seacole et al.) in a longer, less often told (pre-)history of black and Asian British writing dating back as far as the eighteenth century. We will trace lines of influence in terms of genres and writing styles, with a focus on literature and occasionally taking into account other media as well. Moreover, we will deal with the historical and cultural challenges that black and Asian British writers have responded to and reworked creatively, including the end of Empire, post-WWII migration, the rise of multi-ethnic Britain and the making of new identities.

[Vl] The Soul in British Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The concept of the soul is in many respects of key importance for an idea of what is human. For about two millennia, the soul had been an indispensable part of a human being, its life force, its essence as self, and its power of cognition. Furthermore, the soul was considered the immortal part of the individual human. Around 1800, however, there occurred a momentous paradigm shift that may be called the discovery of the human as a biological, immanent, and therefore mortal being. In this lecture series, we will consider the cultural heritage of the concept of soul from its classical origins down to the modern age. In the course of this class, we will investigate its influence on philosophy, science, art, and literature from Plato and Aristotle via William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats.

[Vl] The United States: Beginnings - Law/Politics/Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 1

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6.Sem
Kommentar:
This interactive lecture series covers the pre-Anglophone and pre-national beginnings of the United States up until 1900. In each session one paradigmatic literary or legal text will be analyzed in depth as a way to open up central political and cultural issues of the period in question. These texts offer keys to understanding how imperialism, slavery, and Puritanism shaped the colonial and antebellum and postbellum periods. Lines of continuity will be drawn between America's present and its beginnings.

 
 
[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 12 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: xx February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 13 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 14 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, 202

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 11 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: xx February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 12 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: xx February 2019

 
[Ü] Grammar (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 027

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (i)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (j)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (k)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (l)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (m)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (n)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

 
[P Si] Syntax
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2 | L1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Exam period: Final exam 13.02.2019 ; deadline for term paper submission: 31.03.2019.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
[Vl] Introduction to English Language Teaching
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
(Einführungsveranstaltung,) ECTS 4

Description:
In this class students will be introduced to some basic concepts of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (standards, syllabuses, listening/speaking and reading/writing skills, teaching literature, grammar and vocabulary at different levels, organising your classroom, and assessment) starting out with a close look at the teacher, the learner, learning theory and classroom designs. At the same time students will take their first steps towards becoming ”reflective practitioners” (Schoen). Therefore this lecture is designed to be interactive, i.e. it demands students' oral participation. They will learn how to assess their own progress in language learning with the help of the European Language Portfolio.

Prerequisites:
None. This course is accompanied by the obligatory Tutorium TEFL I A2.

Required Reading:
Andreas Müller-Hartmann / Marita Schocker-von Ditfurth: Introduction to English Language Teaching. Stuttgart: Klett 2004 (UNI-Wissen), ISBN 3-12-939631-4 and a reader available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Graded (alte und neue Studienordnung); Regular attendance, active participation in class, homework assignments and Klausur.

Exam period:
Written exam: 04.02.2019 .

Registration: Flex-Now

[Vl] Introduction to English Language Teaching
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
(Einführungsveranstaltung,) ECTS 4

Description:
In this class students will be introduced to some basic concepts of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (standards, syllabuses, listening/speaking and reading/writing skills, teaching literature, grammar and vocabulary at different levels, organising your classroom, and assessment) starting out with a close look at the teacher, the learner, learning theory and classroom designs. At the same time students will take their first steps towards becoming ”reflective practitioners” (Schoen). Therefore this lecture is designed to be interactive, i.e. it demands students' oral participation. They will learn how to assess their own progress in language learning with the help of the European Language Portfolio.

Prerequisites:
None. This course is accompanied by the obligatory Tutorium TEFL I A2.

Required Reading:
Andreas Müller-Hartmann / Marita Schocker-von Ditfurth: Introduction to English Language Teaching. Stuttgart: Klett 2004 (UNI-Wissen), ISBN 3-12-939631-4 and a reader available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Graded (alte und neue Studienordnung); Regular attendance, active participation in class, homework assignments and Klausur.

Exam period:
Written exam in the last session of the semester.

Registration: Flex-Now

 
[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 23.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (i)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

 
 
 
[P Si] Gender Identities in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440
2 Einzeltermine
Phil. I, B 440
Fr 07.12.2018,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  
Fr 18.01.2019,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  


Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
Gender studies is a relatively new subject that has become more and more popular recently. It has become apparent that notions of gender are closely connected to other disciplines as well, to cultural studies, literary studies, and ultimately also to teaching (in general) as well as foreign language teaching. In this seminar, we will explore gender and feminist theories, will evaluate and discuss the relevance for the foreign language classroom, and will also have a closer look at different teaching material with regard to gender stereotypes, gender norms and gender identities. During the second phase of the seminar, we will explore how these theoretical concepts can be applied to practice.

Please note: We will have two double sessions on December 7 and January 18, each from 2 to 6 pm. In substitution for these double sessions, two other regular sessions will be canceled (December 14 and January 25). Please make sure that you are able to attend.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A course reader will be provided via StudIP.

Credit (graded):
regular attendance (no more than 3 missed sessions; compensation up to half of total sessions possible)
active participation, homework and reading preparation of a presentation/micro teaching unit submission of a written term paper

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Listening & Viewing Competence: Focus on Political Short Films
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
This seminar will try to answer the question of how to foster listening amp; viewing competence ('Hör-/Sehverstehen') through appropriate media. In order to do that, we shall focus on a variety of suitable films for different learner groups while paying special attention to political short films.
To begin with, this seminar will introduce a theoretical framework which will allow us to discuss forms and functions of film(s) and we will use a conceptual approach to the analysis of film(s). Furthermore, we will learn how to choose adequate film material, how to incorporate film(s) in your classroom, how to make use of the cultural potential of film(s) and, ultimately, we will consider the benefits of producing films in class.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL I.

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written term paper.

Exam period:
Termin paper due March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Literary Competences
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
In recent years, several guidelines for EFL classrooms in Germany have been issued, with varying regard of literary texts. In the national Bildungsstandards, for instance, teaching literature in the EFL classroom is only touched upon. Therefore, this seminar is designed to introduce concepts and models which consider understanding literature as a distinct competence. The students will also learn how to use literary texts in the classroom and will apply the theoretical considerations by developing concrete teaching ideas. At the end, they will be able to answer the following questions: What does it mean to "understand literature"? Why should we work with literature in the EFL classroom at all? What are the main challenges? What is the role of literature in educational documents and curricular frameworks? Which competences can be acquired through working with literary texts and how can a good task design facilitate this process?

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
We will have a look at various literary genres that can be used for the benefit of the students.
Secondary texts will be provided via StudIP.

Expectations:
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation.

Credit (graded):
Submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31st, 2019.

Registration:
via Flex-Now

[P Si] Media Competences: Exploring (US-)American Culture
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440
2 Einzeltermine
Offener Kanal
Fr 14.12.2018,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  
Fr 25.01.2019,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  


Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) states that Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) ist the main goal of Foreign Language Teaching. This signifies that communicative skills are closely intertwined with the concept of culture. Although English, when used as a lingua franca, does not prescribe a specific target culture, the United Kingdom and the United States of America have traditionally been in the focus. This seminar will therefore concentrate on the question how US culture can be made accessible in the Foreign Language Classroom. For this, we will look at different popcultural media like films, TV series, songs, novels, etc. and explore their potential to promote ICC. During the second phase of the seminar, we will examine how these theoretical concepts can be applied to practice.
Please note: There will be two additional sessions at the Offener Kanal in Gießen, on December 14 and January 25, each from 2 to 6 pm. These sessions are mandatory, so please make sure that you are able to attend. For these additional sessions, two regular sessions will be canceled (on December 7 and January 18).

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A course reader will be provided via StudIP.

Credit (graded):
regular attendance (no more than 3 missed sessions; compensation up to half of total sessions possible)
active participation, homework and reading preparation of a presentation/micro teaching unit; submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Modern Assessment in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
The aim of this course is to familiarize students with different evaluation techniques in the English language classroom, starting from more traditional, pen-and-paper tests, to the more alternative techniques, such as portfolios, self- and peer-assessment, classroom observation, journals etc. Task-based assessment will also be investigated, examples will be given and all approaches will be analyzed in a critical view, focusing on their potential, advantages and disadvantages. The Seminar will have a highly practical orientation and lively discussions and debates are expected to take place.


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL I.



Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A reader will be provided in Stud.IP.

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March, 31st 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Teaching & Learning Vocabulary in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 104

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
Will be made available on StudIP

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by Feb ???, 2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] The Dynamic Classroom: Focus on Oral Communication
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description: This Seminar will focus on providing students with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge of organising tasks in speaking. Therefore, we will investigate the organisation and development of Tasks, types of Tasks, the Task cycle, real world Tasks and assessment in the modern EFL classroom, with the emphasis on oral skills


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A reader will be provided in Stud.IP.

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March, 31st 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

 
 
 
[H Si] Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
In the current age of globalization, migration and internet communication, intercultural communicative competence is a key requirement in many professions and has become a priority aim in school and university education. This course focuses on fundamental aspects of intercultural communication and approaches to developing intercultural/transcultural competence and understanding, placing special emphasis on culture and language integrated education in institutional settings such as high schools, universities, etc. The course is divided into three parts:

1. The first part aims at familiarizing students with central aspects, concepts and theories of culture as well as the history of intercultural education in FL/SL classrooms.

2. The second part focuses on major approaches to teaching culture/developing intercultural communicative competence today as well as on fundamental aspects of experiential learning and task-based instruction.

3. The third and last part offers participants the opportunity to either a) create, present and discuss teaching materials and culture-sensitive communicative tasks aimed at familiarizing learners of English as a foreign/second language with aspects of Canadian culture (more specifically, perhaps, with culturally relevant/important aspects of life in Atlantic Canada), or b) to create, present and discuss alternatives to the HRM visitors' webpages from an intercultural / transcultural perspective, depending on students' professional interests and career aspirations.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modules TEFL I and II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
13.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Global & Historical Learning: Teaching & Researching Childhoods
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Heterogeneous Classrooms
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
This seminar will explore the didactics of a heterogeneous classroom taking into account methodological and pedagogical consequences when teaching English. The seminar will offer pedagogical and inclusive theories as well as methods and approaches that allow teachers to explore inner differentiation. For this seminar a cooperation with Ost-Schule is planned. Students are expected to visit school lessons on various days and develop teaching methods and lesson plans for a highly heterogeneous 6th grade. Students are also expected to purchase the reader and read the texts.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 06.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Methods in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
According to Balasubramanian Kumaravadivelu (2006 : xiv), ” … the concept of method has been a severely contested frame of reference for thinking and writing about classroom learning and teaching. Understandably, tensions and contradictions have arisen out of efforts aimed at its reconceptualization. Recently, the discourse on the limitations of the concept of method has become so prominent, and the desire to find alternatives to it so pronounced that they have resulted in what has been called the postmethod condition.” Based on this assertion, the course takes a fresh look at teaching English as a Foreign Language and its slow transition from method to postmethod, from transmission of knowledge and skills to self-formation and transformation.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
12.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Multiliteracies Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Project-Oriented Learning in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
Project-oriented learning refers to communicative classroom settings which are enquiry-, discovery-, and task-oriented. It is also associated with authentic ‘real-life' encounters with native speakers from all over the English speaking world (oral or written, face-to-face or virtual, etc.). In this seminar, specific attention is given to the central theoretical and practical aspects of learning English by and through experience, in comparison with more traditional ‘teacher-centered' and ‘form-focused' approaches. Student learning and work in this course will itself be informed by project-based principles, such as the development of differentiated task learning, learning with course-external relevance, task- and project-based assessment, etc. All participants will be required to develop a foreign language learning project of their choice in teams and present it toward the end of this course.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
11.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Teaching Content & Language Integrated Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
This seminar will first of all direct its attention to the different forms of bilingual education that co-exist at German schools. We will then concentrate on content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and explore its potential for the learning of the English and the integrated subjects in school. Empirical research and two reports from teachers in practice will confront students with realistic views on bilingual reality in our schools. Students will be asked to plan CLIL-projects for their subjects (biology, chemistry, history, politics etc.) .

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 05.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Teaching Novels
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] The Genre Approach to Language Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Young Adult Literature in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
Using British and American Young Adult literature in the language classroom will introduce pupils to important glimpses of the foreign cultures as well as to reading experiences that are motivating and valuable for their language learning process. This seminar will provide a theoretical understanding of the forms and functions of narrative literature and a conceptual approach to its analysis. Building on this foundation, students will learn how to use short stories, novellas and novels in the foreign language classroom, how to make use of their cultural potential and how to design activities that stimulate discussion and practise language skills.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 04.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

 
 
 
 
 
[Si] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 3

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | MFKW Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | L 2,3,5, PV, 3. Sem. | L 1, WPV, 5. Sem.
Kommentar:
This mandatory seminar (Grundkurs) aims at introducing students to the subject matter of English and American literary and cultural studies as well as to recent approaches and central research domains. It will also familiarise students with research methodologies and practical issues related to the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures.

[Si] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 5

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | MFKW Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | L 2,3,5, PV, 3. Sem. | L 1, WPV, 5. Sem.
Kommentar:
This mandatory seminar (Grundkurs) aims at introducing students to the subject matter of English and American literary and cultural studies as well as to recent approaches and central research domains. It will also familiarise students with research methodologies and practical issues related to the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures.

[Si] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 5

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | MFKW Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | L 2,3,5, PV, 3. Sem. | L 1, WPV, 5. Sem.
Kommentar:
This mandatory seminar (Grundkurs) aims at introducing students to the subject matter of English and American literary and cultural studies as well as to recent approaches and central research domains. It will also familiarise students with research methodologies and practical issues related to the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures.

[Si] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 5

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | MFKW Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | L 2,3,5, PV, 3. Sem. | L 1, WPV, 5. Sem.
Kommentar:
This mandatory seminar (Grundkurs) aims at introducing students to the subject matter of English and American literary and cultural studies as well as to recent approaches and central research domains. It will also familiarise students with research methodologies and practical issues related to the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures.

 
 
[Vl] Black and Asian British Writing, 1700-2000
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L2,3,5,PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Black and Asian British Writing, 1700 – 2000 (Tue, 12-2 p.m.)
The work of black and Asian writers is at the heart of British literature today. Yet processes of canonisation are slow, and blanket terms like ‘black' and ‘Asian' or even ‘British' are not unproblematic when in fact many of these writers are also discussed in terms of other national literatures (Caribbean, Indian, African, etc.). This state of affairs only highlights the need to place black and Asian British writing on the critical agenda, and to explore its relationship with other Anglophone literatures around the globe.
While giving an overview of today's writers (Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith et al.), this course of lectures will include their predecessors (Olaudah Equiano, Mary Seacole et al.) in a longer, less often told (pre-)history of black and Asian British writing dating back as far as the eighteenth century. We will trace lines of influence in terms of genres and writing styles, with a focus on literature and occasionally taking into account other media as well. Moreover, we will deal with the historical and cultural challenges that black and Asian British writers have responded to and reworked creatively, including the end of Empire, post-WWII migration, the rise of multi-ethnic Britain and the making of new identities.

[Vl] The Soul in British Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The concept of the soul is in many respects of key importance for an idea of what is human. For about two millennia, the soul had been an indispensable part of a human being, its life force, its essence as self, and its power of cognition. Furthermore, the soul was considered the immortal part of the individual human. Around 1800, however, there occurred a momentous paradigm shift that may be called the discovery of the human as a biological, immanent, and therefore mortal being. In this lecture series, we will consider the cultural heritage of the concept of soul from its classical origins down to the modern age. In the course of this class, we will investigate its influence on philosophy, science, art, and literature from Plato and Aristotle via William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats.

[Vl] The United States: Beginnings - Law/Politics/Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 1

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6.Sem
Kommentar:
This interactive lecture series covers the pre-Anglophone and pre-national beginnings of the United States up until 1900. In each session one paradigmatic literary or legal text will be analyzed in depth as a way to open up central political and cultural issues of the period in question. These texts offer keys to understanding how imperialism, slavery, and Puritanism shaped the colonial and antebellum and postbellum periods. Lines of continuity will be drawn between America's present and its beginnings.

 
 
[Si] An Introduction to Body Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, 202

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Everything we experience, we experience with and through our body. Our body is able to store and remember specific memories and skills that we are not necessarily consciously aware of; our body is usually the first aspect other people will notice when meeting us; our body may determine our successes and our weaknesses. In short, the body is omnipresent.
This course aims at providing an overview of different body concepts relevant in (British) Cultural Studies. We will discuss a variety of theoretical texts and approaches (e.g. by Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Bourdieu …) and will analyse the (changing) understandings of the body in British culture and society, ranging from the Middle Ages to contemporary Britain. We will also investigate how the (individual, social, public, political, national, gendered …) body was predominantly perceived at specific times and how these body concepts may be related to the social circumstances, culture and politics of the respective time by drawing connections to selected literary and cultural texts. Consequently, our analysis may grant us an insight into subcultures and power relations between individual social groups.
Furthermore, this course will provide students with the possibility to plan and conduct their own case study/project related to the seminar topic while we will analyse one case study together in class.
To enjoy this class, you should be interested in reading and analysing theoretical texts and approaches.

Workload (more specific details will follow in the seminar):
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in group work, oral presentations. Furthermore, I expect you to read all the texts discussed in class. Please note that the kind of exam you have to take at the end of the semester will depend on your course of studies as well as on the module you're enrolled in (more details to follow).

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed ”that on or about December, 1910, human character changed”. What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:

- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.
- To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] Anglophone Caribbean Writing
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3/4
Kommentar:
Anglophone Caribbean Writing (Mon, 4-6 p.m.)
The Caribbean has produced a rich body of English-language writing, highly complex and diverse not unlike the Caribbean archipelago itself. Indeed, writers have repeatedly turned to local topography to derive literary idioms and styles. Regardless of a fragmentary island space, the quest for an overarching poetics has been one of the founding moves of Anglophone Caribbean writing. Where models and modes of expression from the English canon no longer represented local realities, or if anything prolonged stereotypical images of a tropical garden Eden, writers started revisiting the land for scarred memories of forced labour and plantation agriculture. The sea, the plantation, the hinterland, the beach and the hurricane have since provided innovative elements as form, genre, and central topoi.
This seminar will deal with a wide range of texts, particularly poetry, which more than mere nature writing seek to unearth difficult histories of race, gender, migration and island life. Simultaneously, they throw into relief the archipelago's often precarious and endangered nature, allowing us to explore the relationship between literature and the environment as highlighted by the expanding field of postcolonial ecocriticism.
Reading:
Sam Selvon, An Island is a World (1955); excerpts from the Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (ed. Allison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, 1996) and additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] Contemporary British Television Series - Topics, Trends, and Theory
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5, PV/WPV Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Since 1990s and especially the turn of the Millennium, there is a considerable change in both the production and the perception of Western television series. For decades, films produced for movie theatres had been the sole resort for artistic ambition. With American TV series such as Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, or The Wire, a paradigm shift set in, and the television series developed rapidly, exploring new generic forms, narrative complexity, and ambitious experiments, which is also reflected upon in academic investigations focussing on complex TV and popular seriality. Although not always taking centre stage in the academic discourse as well as popular perception, British and Irish television series also explore new grounds, very often acting as role models for American forms. In this class we will look at the theory of serial narration and investigate groundbreaking shows from sitcoms to crime drama, including The Office, Black Mirror, Broadchurch, Love/Hate, Luther, and Sherlock.

[Si] Introduction to Feminist Disability Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Following the credo of the disability rights movement ”Nothing About Us Without Us,” this course is based on the assumption that disability is everywhere – once you begin to look for it. However, disability remains overlooked and unseen in the feminist triad gender, race, and class. This course seeks to fill this gap by asking is there a feminist side to being disabled? What does it mean to inject disability into feminist thought? To answer these questions we will discuss key concepts of disability and feminist theory such as the nature and meaning of embodiment, heteronormative and ableist forms of normativity, and the overlap between sexism and ableism. We will explore not only how Disability Studies become feminist, but also how feminism becomes disabling.
A reading list and the syllabus will be made available through StudIP at the beginning of the semester.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will begin by looking at literary representations of London in the first half of the nineteenth century, roughly 1815 – 1845, and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary „psychogeography” of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will look at literary representations of London and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary psychogeography of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] Media Analysis through Media Creation
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
With the assistance of film maker Lisa Friederich, this course shall teach methods of film and television analysis through the process of creating short films. Participants shall work in small groups to produce work that demonstrates media-critical awareness. Our primary text for analysis shall be The Handmaid's Tale (2017 -) Hulu. Alongside creating the films, participants shall be asked to reflect on theories and methods of media analysis in short texts.

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

 
[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, E 004

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Middle English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Psycholinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Spoken English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Standardising English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The main differences in contemporary English spelling boil down to American (e.g. theater, color) versus British variants (e.g. theatre, colour). Other than that, the spelling of English these days is uniform all around the globe. This uniformity, however, is the result of a long-lasting historical process known as linguistic standardisation, which is still in full swing today.

In the course of this class, we will approach the English language diachronically and explore how it developed from Old English with strong Germanic roots to the fully standardised Present-Day English we all know. In the course of this, we will define the notion and describe the process of linguistic standardisation and evaluate to what extent standardisation is visible a) across the different periods in the history of the English language (Old English, Middle English, etc.) and b) on the various structural levels of language organisation (phonology, lexis, grammar, semantics, etc.). In order to empirically study standardisation processes, we will also learn and use the programming language R.

Ungraded Credit: Regular attendance, preparation of homework and active participation.
Graded: The above and either a pass in the final exam (February 14 2019) or in the term paper (due on March 31 2019).

[P Si] Textlinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

 
 
[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 12 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: xx February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 13 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 14 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, 202

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 11 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: xx February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 12 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: xx February 2019

 
[G Kurs] Phonetics & Phonology
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 15:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This lecture course surveys sounds systems of English, primarily those associated with American and British accents. Most of the course focuses on the segmental level: the characteristic articulation of English sounds (esp. speech organs, sound classes, places and manners of articulation), a general account of their acoustic realizations, phonemes and allophonic distribution, phonological processes and connected speech phenomena. Special attention is paid to those areas of articulation that tend to be problematic for German speakers. Students will also learn to read and broadly transcribe English sounds using International Phonetic Association (IPA) transcription. In the latter part of the course, the focus will switch to suprasegmental phenomena: rhythm, stress and intonation.

Reading:
McMahon, April M.S. 2002. An introduction to English phonology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Downloadable (free) E-book version. Will also be available on StudIP.
Additional texts will be downloadable from StudIP.

Credit
Ungraded (Teilnahme): Final exam 100% (must obtain 50% or better for Teilnahme credit)
Graded: Final exam 100%

Registration: FlexNow.

Exam period (times subject to change):Exam period (times subject to change): Exam in electronic format only; at Carl-Vogt-Haus (Science Campus )

Klausurtermin: xx.2.2019, Uhrzeit:
Nachholtermin: (bei Attest oder Nichtbestehen beim Ersttermin): xx.3. 2019, Uhrzeit:

[G Kurs] Phonetics & Phonology
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  15:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This lecture course surveys sounds systems of English, primarily those associated with American and British accents. Most of the course focuses on the segmental level: the characteristic articulation of English sounds (esp. speech organs, sound classes, places and manners of articulation), a general account of their acoustic realizations, phonemes and allophonic distribution, phonological processes and connected speech phenomena. Special attention is paid to those areas of articulation that tend to be problematic for German speakers. Students will also learn to read and broadly transcribe English sounds using International Phonetic Association (IPA) transcription. In the latter part of the course, the focus will switch to suprasegmental phenomena: rhythm, stress and intonation.

Reading:
McMahon, April M.S. 2002. An introduction to English phonology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Downloadable (free) E-book version. Will also be available on StudIP.
Additional texts will be downloadable from StudIP.

Credit
Ungraded (Teilnahme): Final exam 100% (must obtain 50% or better for Teilnahme credit)
Graded: Final exam 100%

Registration: FlexNow.

Exam period (times subject to change):Exam period (times subject to change): Exam in electronic format only; at Carl-Vogt-Haus (Science Campus )

Klausurtermin: xx.2.2019, Uhrzeit:
Nachholtermin: (bei Attest oder Nichtbestehen beim Ersttermin): xx.3. 2019, Uhrzeit:

[G Kurs] Phonetics & Phonology
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 15:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This lecture course surveys sounds systems of English, primarily those associated with American and British accents. Most of the course focuses on the segmental level: the characteristic articulation of English sounds (esp. speech organs, sound classes, places and manners of articulation), a general account of their acoustic realizations, phonemes and allophonic distribution, phonological processes and connected speech phenomena. Special attention is paid to those areas of articulation that tend to be problematic for German speakers. Students will also learn to read and broadly transcribe English sounds using International Phonetic Association (IPA) transcription. In the latter part of the course, the focus will switch to suprasegmental phenomena: rhythm, stress and intonation.

Reading:
McMahon, April M.S. 2002. An introduction to English phonology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Downloadable (free) E-book version. Will also be available on StudIP.
Additional texts will be downloadable from StudIP.

Credit
Ungraded (Teilnahme): Final exam 100% (must obtain 50% or better for Teilnahme credit)
Graded: Final exam 100%

Registration: FlexNow.

Exam period (times subject to change):Exam period (times subject to change): Exam in electronic format only; at Carl-Vogt-Haus (Science Campus )

Klausurtermin: xx.2.2019, Uhrzeit:
Nachholtermin: (bei Attest oder Nichtbestehen beim Ersttermin): xx.3. 2019, Uhrzeit:

 
[Vl] History of the English Language
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  15:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
The study of the history of the English language offers highly relevant insights into how the language has changed over the course of the centuries and into how the English language is structured and functions all around the world today. After a closer inspection of the Indo-European language family, we will trace the development of English from its origin in Britain to the world language it is today. In the course of this, we will zoom in onto the different periods in the history of the English language, i.e. Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Late Modern English and Present-day English, to follow the structural changes on the levels of phonology, lexis, syntax and semantics that have led to the English language as we use it today.

Registration: Please register with FlexNow.

Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation and a final exam on 13 February 2019.

[Vl] History of the English Language
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 15:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
The study of the history of the English language offers highly relevant insights into how the language has changed over the course of the centuries and into how the English language is structured and functions all around the world today. After a closer inspection of the Indo-European language family, we will trace the development of English from its origin in Britain to the world language it is today. In the course of this, we will zoom in onto the different periods in the history of the English language, i.e. Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Late Modern English and Present-day English, to follow the structural changes on the levels of phonology, lexis, syntax and semantics that have led to the English language as we use it today.

Registration: Please register with FlexNow.

Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation and a final exam on 12 February 2019.

 
[P Si] Syntax
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2 | L1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Exam period: Final exam 13.02.2019 ; deadline for term paper submission: 31.03.2019.

 
 
[Ü] Grammar (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 027

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (i)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (j)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (k)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (l)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (m)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (n)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 027

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (i)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (j)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (k)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (l)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (m)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (n)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

 
[Ü] General Language Course (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2

[Ü] General Language Course (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2

[Ü] General Language Course (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
GLC (General Language Course)
Module: Introductory Language Course A2
For: modularized 1st-semester L2 and L 3 students, 1st-semester BA majors,
and 3rd-semester BA minors

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Required texts:
1. Class-pack: This is available at CopyCourier, located at Licherstraße 29, next to a big blue dance studio. It should be available no later than Monday, Oct. 15, 2018.

Course grade: 65 % of the final grade will be derived from written tests: a final exam (45/50%) and one earlier test on the common errors (15/20%).

The written final exam will include three sections, respectively testing 1) students' knowledge of vocabulary lists in the class-pack (in a format that also tests reading comprehension); 2) students' knowledge of a list of common errors (included in the class-pack); and 3) reading comprehension (though this is still not certain) using a short text and multiple-choice questions about it. The written exam will have a total of 50 points: 25 for vocabulary, 15 for common errors, and (probably) 0 for reading comprehension (or whatever else is ultimately decided upon).

The remaining 35% of the course grade will be based on oral work. The instructor's subjective assessment at the end of the semester of each student's participation and language proficiency (pronunciation, fluency, and grammatical accuracy) will determine 10-20% of the course grade, and other in-class graded oral exercises during the semester will account for the rest.

[Ü] General Language Course (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
GLC (General Language Course)
Module: Introductory Language Course A2
For: modularized 1st-semester L2 and L 3 students, 1st-semester BA majors,
and 3rd-semester BA minors

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Required texts:
1. Class-pack: This is available at CopyCourier, located at Licherstraße 29, next to a big blue dance studio. It should be available no later than Monday, Oct. 15, 2018.

Course grade: 65 % of the final grade will be derived from written tests: a final exam (45/50%) and one earlier test on the common errors (15/20%).

The written final exam will include three sections, respectively testing 1) students' knowledge of vocabulary lists in the class-pack (in a format that also tests reading comprehension); 2) students' knowledge of a list of common errors (included in the class-pack); and 3) reading comprehension (though this is still not certain) using a short text and multiple-choice questions about it. The written exam will have a total of 50 points: 25 for vocabulary, 15 for common errors, and (probably) 0 for reading comprehension (or whatever else is ultimately decided upon).

The remaining 35% of the course grade will be based on oral work. The instructor's subjective assessment at the end of the semester of each student's participation and language proficiency (pronunciation, fluency, and grammatical accuracy) will determine 10-20% of the course grade, and other in-class graded oral exercises during the semester will account for the rest.

[Ü] General Language Course (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 029

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (i)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (j)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (k)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 027

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This section of the General Language Course focuses on English for academic purposes and is accordingly designed to simulate communication tasks in academic settings, combining language skills and study skills. As an integrated skills course it offers participants an opportunity to hone, in organic conjunction, the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their studies.

[Ü] General Language Course (l)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This section of the General Language Course focuses on English for academic purposes and is accordingly designed to simulate communication tasks in academic settings, combining language skills and study skills. As an integrated skills course it offers participants an opportunity to hone, in organic conjunction, the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their studies.

[Ü] General Language Course (m)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 027

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This section of the General Language Course focuses on English for academic purposes and is accordingly designed to simulate communication tasks in academic settings, combining language skills and study skills. As an integrated skills course it offers participants an opportunity to hone, in organic conjunction, the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their studies.

[Ü] General Language Course (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2

[Ü] General Language Course (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2

[Ü] General Language Course (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
GLC (General Language Course)
Module: Introductory Language Course A2
For: modularized 1st-semester L2 and L 3 students, 1st-semester BA majors,
and 3rd-semester BA minors

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Required texts:
1. Class-pack: This is available at CopyCourier, located at Licherstraße 29, next to a big blue dance studio. It should be available no later than Monday, Oct. 15, 2018.

Course grade: 65 % of the final grade will be derived from written tests: a final exam (45/50%) and one earlier test on the common errors (15/20%).

The written final exam will include three sections, respectively testing 1) students' knowledge of vocabulary lists in the class-pack (in a format that also tests reading comprehension); 2) students' knowledge of a list of common errors (included in the class-pack); and 3) reading comprehension (though this is still not certain) using a short text and multiple-choice questions about it. The written exam will have a total of 50 points: 25 for vocabulary, 15 for common errors, and (probably) 0 for reading comprehension (or whatever else is ultimately decided upon).

The remaining 35% of the course grade will be based on oral work. The instructor's subjective assessment at the end of the semester of each student's participation and language proficiency (pronunciation, fluency, and grammatical accuracy) will determine 10-20% of the course grade, and other in-class graded oral exercises during the semester will account for the rest.

[Ü] General Language Course (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
GLC (General Language Course)
Module: Introductory Language Course A2
For: modularized 1st-semester L2 and L 3 students, 1st-semester BA majors,
and 3rd-semester BA minors

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Required texts:
1. Class-pack: This is available at CopyCourier, located at Licherstraße 29, next to a big blue dance studio. It should be available no later than Monday, Oct. 15, 2018.

Course grade: 65 % of the final grade will be derived from written tests: a final exam (45/50%) and one earlier test on the common errors (15/20%).

The written final exam will include three sections, respectively testing 1) students' knowledge of vocabulary lists in the class-pack (in a format that also tests reading comprehension); 2) students' knowledge of a list of common errors (included in the class-pack); and 3) reading comprehension (though this is still not certain) using a short text and multiple-choice questions about it. The written exam will have a total of 50 points: 25 for vocabulary, 15 for common errors, and (probably) 0 for reading comprehension (or whatever else is ultimately decided upon).

The remaining 35% of the course grade will be based on oral work. The instructor's subjective assessment at the end of the semester of each student's participation and language proficiency (pronunciation, fluency, and grammatical accuracy) will determine 10-20% of the course grade, and other in-class graded oral exercises during the semester will account for the rest.

[Ü] General Language Course (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 029

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (i)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (j)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (k)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 027

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This section of the General Language Course focuses on English for academic purposes and is accordingly designed to simulate communication tasks in academic settings, combining language skills and study skills. As an integrated skills course it offers participants an opportunity to hone, in organic conjunction, the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their studies.

[Ü] General Language Course (l)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This section of the General Language Course focuses on English for academic purposes and is accordingly designed to simulate communication tasks in academic settings, combining language skills and study skills. As an integrated skills course it offers participants an opportunity to hone, in organic conjunction, the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their studies.

[Ü] General Language Course (m)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 027

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This section of the General Language Course focuses on English for academic purposes and is accordingly designed to simulate communication tasks in academic settings, combining language skills and study skills. As an integrated skills course it offers participants an opportunity to hone, in organic conjunction, the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their studies.

 
 
 
[Pra] Praktikumsvorbereitung (L5 Praxissemester)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, 204

Zielgruppen:
L5, PV, Sj 3 | L1, PV, Sj 3

[Pra] Praktikumsvorbereitung und Durchführung (L2)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L3, PV, Sj 3 | L2, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
The aim of this seminar is to prepare students for their school internship. It is highly practice-oriented and covers a wide array of topics such as lesson planning, teaching different skills, classroom management and lesson observation, among others. Students will be called upon to create lessons and also do micro-teaching and deal with aspects that they consider important for their development.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
[Vl] Introduction to English Language Teaching
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
(Einführungsveranstaltung,) ECTS 4

Description:
In this class students will be introduced to some basic concepts of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (standards, syllabuses, listening/speaking and reading/writing skills, teaching literature, grammar and vocabulary at different levels, organising your classroom, and assessment) starting out with a close look at the teacher, the learner, learning theory and classroom designs. At the same time students will take their first steps towards becoming ”reflective practitioners” (Schoen). Therefore this lecture is designed to be interactive, i.e. it demands students' oral participation. They will learn how to assess their own progress in language learning with the help of the European Language Portfolio.

Prerequisites:
None. This course is accompanied by the obligatory Tutorium TEFL I A2.

Required Reading:
Andreas Müller-Hartmann / Marita Schocker-von Ditfurth: Introduction to English Language Teaching. Stuttgart: Klett 2004 (UNI-Wissen), ISBN 3-12-939631-4 and a reader available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Graded (alte und neue Studienordnung); Regular attendance, active participation in class, homework assignments and Klausur.

Exam period:
Written exam: 04.02.2019 .

Registration: Flex-Now

[Vl] Introduction to English Language Teaching
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
(Einführungsveranstaltung,) ECTS 4

Description:
In this class students will be introduced to some basic concepts of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (standards, syllabuses, listening/speaking and reading/writing skills, teaching literature, grammar and vocabulary at different levels, organising your classroom, and assessment) starting out with a close look at the teacher, the learner, learning theory and classroom designs. At the same time students will take their first steps towards becoming ”reflective practitioners” (Schoen). Therefore this lecture is designed to be interactive, i.e. it demands students' oral participation. They will learn how to assess their own progress in language learning with the help of the European Language Portfolio.

Prerequisites:
None. This course is accompanied by the obligatory Tutorium TEFL I A2.

Required Reading:
Andreas Müller-Hartmann / Marita Schocker-von Ditfurth: Introduction to English Language Teaching. Stuttgart: Klett 2004 (UNI-Wissen), ISBN 3-12-939631-4 and a reader available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Graded (alte und neue Studienordnung); Regular attendance, active participation in class, homework assignments and Klausur.

Exam period:
Written exam in the last session of the semester.

Registration: Flex-Now

 
[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 23.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

[Ü] Tutorium to Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (i)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B440

Zielgruppen:
L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1

 
 

Zu belegen sind drei Übungen: zwei im Wintersemester (A1 und A2), eine im Sommersemester (A3).

 
[Ü] Grammar (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 027

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (i)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (j)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (k)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (l)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (m)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (n)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course mainly focuses on covering important areas of English grammar and linguistic features such as aspect. Participants will review the rules for the use of tense and aspect, and will be encouraged to develop a situational awareness of the wide range of communicative possibilities inherent in the English verb system. The course materials and procedures include: review of tenses; analysis of modals; discussion of the conditional form; usage of passive voice; rules of reported speech, study of the functions of the -ing form (gerund, present participle) and infinitive; articles; relative clauses with a special focus on comma rules; adjectives and adverbs. Each area is introduced by means of homework assignments comprising illustrations for use and practical exercises. The particular grammatical problem is then examined thoroughly in class before further application of the relevant forms is attempted. Please keep in mind that each week you are required to review a number of chapters from RM before class, focusing on filling in any gaps in your own basic grammar knowledge. Weekly quizzes will provide feedback whether you have done so successfully. Class sessions will begin with an oral presentation in the form of a dialogue and the preparatory work (homework check, pre-quiz questions, the quiz and post-quiz discussion of the quiz), but most of the class session will involve extensive work to help you attain the higher level of mastery expected on the final exam. Since grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence, the course sets out to cover the fundamental aspects of grammar to achieve accuracy in communication. As grammar rules help learners develop a habit of thinking logically and clearly, studying grammar will make students both accurate and fluent when using language.

[Ü] Grammar (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 027

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (i)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (j)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Focusing on the grammar of the English verb phrase (tense and aspect, modality, non-finite constructions), this course is designed to help students solidify and extend their grasp of core areas of English grammar and make the transition from upper intermediate level to lower advanced level (B2 to C1). Making this transition not only involves getting a firm grip on the essentials (structures already covered at school but all too often either forgotten or never properly mastered in the first place), it also involves adding some of those finer points that need to be mastered on the steep and thorny way to advanced language competence.

[Ü] Grammar (k)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (l)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (m)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

[Ü] Grammar (n)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | L 1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Grammar
Module: Introductory Language Course A1
For: modularized 1st-semester L2, L 3, and L5 students, 1st-semester BA majors, 3rd-semester BA minors, and 5th-semester L1 students with an emphasis in linguistics

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Course description (general): The grammar class reviews essential English grammar by 1) having the students study material to be covered before coming to class; 2) discussing salient grammar points (and notable exceptions) with students; 3) allowing students to work alone, in pairs, or in groups on exercises that bridge theory with practice, i.e., exercises structured to yield maximum creative input AND correct use; 4) providing students with exercises preparing them for the final exam; and 5) offering students creative ways to meaningfully practice material autonomously (on their own). The grammar covered will primarily, but not exclusively, include basic parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.), verbal constructions (tense, aspect, voice, mood, finite and non-finite forms), and relative clauses.

Although the course revolves around English grammar, the overall goal of every language course is to help students improve their actual use of the language. Therefore, syntax, punctuation, and vocabulary will also be dealt with as situations suggest or require.

Course texts:
1) class-pack for Grammar WS 2018/19 (Kurtzweil), which will be available at Copy-Courier (Licherstr. 29, next to a big blue dance studio) by Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Among other things, this class-pack will contain a course information sheet and a course syllabus (including weekly homework assignments). These should be read carefully.

2) English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, 4th edition. There are older versions of this edition (with or without a CD-ROM available on Amazon. There is also a new version of that same 4th edition with an E-book instead of CD-ROM, which newer version is available at Thalia in downtown Gießen. It doesn't matter which version students choose. Be aware that the Klett edition of the Murphy book is cheaper than the Cambridge edition.

Although this is not the flashiest grammar book, the vast majority of my students to date have found it very useful overall. In the first session, we will discuss ways in which it can be most effectively used. Please make sure your copy comes with the answers in the back of the book.
Assessment: Written work will account for 80% of the course grade. This will likely be in the form of 2 quizzes at 15% each and a final exam worth 50 %.

Oral work: Students' preparation and participation, as well as the instructor's subjective assessment of their use of English (fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.) account for 20% of the final grade. The student's own perception of his or her English will also be taken into account.

Concluding remarks: The university is a place to gain knowledge, a place to consider beliefs and cultivate hope. This instructor believes one of the primary goals of a university is to encourage and motivate human beings to think for themselves in their search for the truth. He also believes this should take place in an environment that is both instructive and enjoyable. What he hopes is that students will agree that regular attendance, good preparation, and a reasonable amount of enthusiasm–and not just on the instructor's part!–contribute to a satisfying classroom experience.

Welcome aboard.

 
[Ü] General Language Course (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2

[Ü] General Language Course (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2

[Ü] General Language Course (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
GLC (General Language Course)
Module: Introductory Language Course A2
For: modularized 1st-semester L2 and L 3 students, 1st-semester BA majors,
and 3rd-semester BA minors

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Required texts:
1. Class-pack: This is available at CopyCourier, located at Licherstraße 29, next to a big blue dance studio. It should be available no later than Monday, Oct. 15, 2018.

Course grade: 65 % of the final grade will be derived from written tests: a final exam (45/50%) and one earlier test on the common errors (15/20%).

The written final exam will include three sections, respectively testing 1) students' knowledge of vocabulary lists in the class-pack (in a format that also tests reading comprehension); 2) students' knowledge of a list of common errors (included in the class-pack); and 3) reading comprehension (though this is still not certain) using a short text and multiple-choice questions about it. The written exam will have a total of 50 points: 25 for vocabulary, 15 for common errors, and (probably) 0 for reading comprehension (or whatever else is ultimately decided upon).

The remaining 35% of the course grade will be based on oral work. The instructor's subjective assessment at the end of the semester of each student's participation and language proficiency (pronunciation, fluency, and grammatical accuracy) will determine 10-20% of the course grade, and other in-class graded oral exercises during the semester will account for the rest.

[Ü] General Language Course (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
GLC (General Language Course)
Module: Introductory Language Course A2
For: modularized 1st-semester L2 and L 3 students, 1st-semester BA majors,
and 3rd-semester BA minors

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Required texts:
1. Class-pack: This is available at CopyCourier, located at Licherstraße 29, next to a big blue dance studio. It should be available no later than Monday, Oct. 15, 2018.

Course grade: 65 % of the final grade will be derived from written tests: a final exam (45/50%) and one earlier test on the common errors (15/20%).

The written final exam will include three sections, respectively testing 1) students' knowledge of vocabulary lists in the class-pack (in a format that also tests reading comprehension); 2) students' knowledge of a list of common errors (included in the class-pack); and 3) reading comprehension (though this is still not certain) using a short text and multiple-choice questions about it. The written exam will have a total of 50 points: 25 for vocabulary, 15 for common errors, and (probably) 0 for reading comprehension (or whatever else is ultimately decided upon).

The remaining 35% of the course grade will be based on oral work. The instructor's subjective assessment at the end of the semester of each student's participation and language proficiency (pronunciation, fluency, and grammatical accuracy) will determine 10-20% of the course grade, and other in-class graded oral exercises during the semester will account for the rest.

[Ü] General Language Course (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 029

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (i)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (j)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (k)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 027

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This section of the General Language Course focuses on English for academic purposes and is accordingly designed to simulate communication tasks in academic settings, combining language skills and study skills. As an integrated skills course it offers participants an opportunity to hone, in organic conjunction, the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their studies.

[Ü] General Language Course (l)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This section of the General Language Course focuses on English for academic purposes and is accordingly designed to simulate communication tasks in academic settings, combining language skills and study skills. As an integrated skills course it offers participants an opportunity to hone, in organic conjunction, the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their studies.

[Ü] General Language Course (m)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 027

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This section of the General Language Course focuses on English for academic purposes and is accordingly designed to simulate communication tasks in academic settings, combining language skills and study skills. As an integrated skills course it offers participants an opportunity to hone, in organic conjunction, the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their studies.

[Ü] General Language Course (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2

[Ü] General Language Course (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2

[Ü] General Language Course (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
GLC (General Language Course)
Module: Introductory Language Course A2
For: modularized 1st-semester L2 and L 3 students, 1st-semester BA majors,
and 3rd-semester BA minors

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Required texts:
1. Class-pack: This is available at CopyCourier, located at Licherstraße 29, next to a big blue dance studio. It should be available no later than Monday, Oct. 15, 2018.

Course grade: 65 % of the final grade will be derived from written tests: a final exam (45/50%) and one earlier test on the common errors (15/20%).

The written final exam will include three sections, respectively testing 1) students' knowledge of vocabulary lists in the class-pack (in a format that also tests reading comprehension); 2) students' knowledge of a list of common errors (included in the class-pack); and 3) reading comprehension (though this is still not certain) using a short text and multiple-choice questions about it. The written exam will have a total of 50 points: 25 for vocabulary, 15 for common errors, and (probably) 0 for reading comprehension (or whatever else is ultimately decided upon).

The remaining 35% of the course grade will be based on oral work. The instructor's subjective assessment at the end of the semester of each student's participation and language proficiency (pronunciation, fluency, and grammatical accuracy) will determine 10-20% of the course grade, and other in-class graded oral exercises during the semester will account for the rest.

[Ü] General Language Course (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
GLC (General Language Course)
Module: Introductory Language Course A2
For: modularized 1st-semester L2 and L 3 students, 1st-semester BA majors,
and 3rd-semester BA minors

Instructor: Tim Kurtzweil, M.A.

Required texts:
1. Class-pack: This is available at CopyCourier, located at Licherstraße 29, next to a big blue dance studio. It should be available no later than Monday, Oct. 15, 2018.

Course grade: 65 % of the final grade will be derived from written tests: a final exam (45/50%) and one earlier test on the common errors (15/20%).

The written final exam will include three sections, respectively testing 1) students' knowledge of vocabulary lists in the class-pack (in a format that also tests reading comprehension); 2) students' knowledge of a list of common errors (included in the class-pack); and 3) reading comprehension (though this is still not certain) using a short text and multiple-choice questions about it. The written exam will have a total of 50 points: 25 for vocabulary, 15 for common errors, and (probably) 0 for reading comprehension (or whatever else is ultimately decided upon).

The remaining 35% of the course grade will be based on oral work. The instructor's subjective assessment at the end of the semester of each student's participation and language proficiency (pronunciation, fluency, and grammatical accuracy) will determine 10-20% of the course grade, and other in-class graded oral exercises during the semester will account for the rest.

[Ü] General Language Course (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 029

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (i)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (j)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This course focuses on the development of the students' general language skills. The aim is to work on language development and awareness with the focus on the four skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening), both in an integrated way but also separately. With the ultimate goal of advanced communication, students will have to deal with different levels of texts and other media, through which various aspects of the language will be highlighted.

[Ü] General Language Course (k)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 027

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This section of the General Language Course focuses on English for academic purposes and is accordingly designed to simulate communication tasks in academic settings, combining language skills and study skills. As an integrated skills course it offers participants an opportunity to hone, in organic conjunction, the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their studies.

[Ü] General Language Course (l)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This section of the General Language Course focuses on English for academic purposes and is accordingly designed to simulate communication tasks in academic settings, combining language skills and study skills. As an integrated skills course it offers participants an opportunity to hone, in organic conjunction, the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their studies.

[Ü] General Language Course (m)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 027

Zielgruppen:
L 2,3,5, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
This section of the General Language Course focuses on English for academic purposes and is accordingly designed to simulate communication tasks in academic settings, combining language skills and study skills. As an integrated skills course it offers participants an opportunity to hone, in organic conjunction, the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their studies.

 
 
 
 
[Si] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 3

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | MFKW Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | L 2,3,5, PV, 3. Sem. | L 1, WPV, 5. Sem.
Kommentar:
This mandatory seminar (Grundkurs) aims at introducing students to the subject matter of English and American literary and cultural studies as well as to recent approaches and central research domains. It will also familiarise students with research methodologies and practical issues related to the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures.

[Si] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 5

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | MFKW Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | L 2,3,5, PV, 3. Sem. | L 1, WPV, 5. Sem.
Kommentar:
This mandatory seminar (Grundkurs) aims at introducing students to the subject matter of English and American literary and cultural studies as well as to recent approaches and central research domains. It will also familiarise students with research methodologies and practical issues related to the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures.

[Si] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 5

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | MFKW Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | L 2,3,5, PV, 3. Sem. | L 1, WPV, 5. Sem.
Kommentar:
This mandatory seminar (Grundkurs) aims at introducing students to the subject matter of English and American literary and cultural studies as well as to recent approaches and central research domains. It will also familiarise students with research methodologies and practical issues related to the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures.

[Si] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 5

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | MFKW Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, 1. Sem. | L 2,3,5, PV, 3. Sem. | L 1, WPV, 5. Sem.
Kommentar:
This mandatory seminar (Grundkurs) aims at introducing students to the subject matter of English and American literary and cultural studies as well as to recent approaches and central research domains. It will also familiarise students with research methodologies and practical issues related to the study of Anglophone literatures and cultures.

 
 
[Vl] Black and Asian British Writing, 1700-2000
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L2,3,5,PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Black and Asian British Writing, 1700 – 2000 (Tue, 12-2 p.m.)
The work of black and Asian writers is at the heart of British literature today. Yet processes of canonisation are slow, and blanket terms like ‘black' and ‘Asian' or even ‘British' are not unproblematic when in fact many of these writers are also discussed in terms of other national literatures (Caribbean, Indian, African, etc.). This state of affairs only highlights the need to place black and Asian British writing on the critical agenda, and to explore its relationship with other Anglophone literatures around the globe.
While giving an overview of today's writers (Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith et al.), this course of lectures will include their predecessors (Olaudah Equiano, Mary Seacole et al.) in a longer, less often told (pre-)history of black and Asian British writing dating back as far as the eighteenth century. We will trace lines of influence in terms of genres and writing styles, with a focus on literature and occasionally taking into account other media as well. Moreover, we will deal with the historical and cultural challenges that black and Asian British writers have responded to and reworked creatively, including the end of Empire, post-WWII migration, the rise of multi-ethnic Britain and the making of new identities.

[Vl] The Soul in British Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The concept of the soul is in many respects of key importance for an idea of what is human. For about two millennia, the soul had been an indispensable part of a human being, its life force, its essence as self, and its power of cognition. Furthermore, the soul was considered the immortal part of the individual human. Around 1800, however, there occurred a momentous paradigm shift that may be called the discovery of the human as a biological, immanent, and therefore mortal being. In this lecture series, we will consider the cultural heritage of the concept of soul from its classical origins down to the modern age. In the course of this class, we will investigate its influence on philosophy, science, art, and literature from Plato and Aristotle via William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats.

[Vl] The United States: Beginnings - Law/Politics/Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 1

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6.Sem
Kommentar:
This interactive lecture series covers the pre-Anglophone and pre-national beginnings of the United States up until 1900. In each session one paradigmatic literary or legal text will be analyzed in depth as a way to open up central political and cultural issues of the period in question. These texts offer keys to understanding how imperialism, slavery, and Puritanism shaped the colonial and antebellum and postbellum periods. Lines of continuity will be drawn between America's present and its beginnings.

 
 
[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 12 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: xx February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 13 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 14 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, 202

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 11 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: xx February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: 12 February 2019

[G Kurs] Introduction to English Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | L1, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Reading: Bernd Kortmann, English Linguistics: Essentials (Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005); the use of the German version is not recommended for this course.
Registration: FlexNow
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, a mini presentation and a final exam.
Examination: xx February 2019

 
[G Kurs] Phonetics & Phonology
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 15:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This lecture course surveys sounds systems of English, primarily those associated with American and British accents. Most of the course focuses on the segmental level: the characteristic articulation of English sounds (esp. speech organs, sound classes, places and manners of articulation), a general account of their acoustic realizations, phonemes and allophonic distribution, phonological processes and connected speech phenomena. Special attention is paid to those areas of articulation that tend to be problematic for German speakers. Students will also learn to read and broadly transcribe English sounds using International Phonetic Association (IPA) transcription. In the latter part of the course, the focus will switch to suprasegmental phenomena: rhythm, stress and intonation.

Reading:
McMahon, April M.S. 2002. An introduction to English phonology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Downloadable (free) E-book version. Will also be available on StudIP.
Additional texts will be downloadable from StudIP.

Credit
Ungraded (Teilnahme): Final exam 100% (must obtain 50% or better for Teilnahme credit)
Graded: Final exam 100%

Registration: FlexNow.

Exam period (times subject to change):Exam period (times subject to change): Exam in electronic format only; at Carl-Vogt-Haus (Science Campus )

Klausurtermin: xx.2.2019, Uhrzeit:
Nachholtermin: (bei Attest oder Nichtbestehen beim Ersttermin): xx.3. 2019, Uhrzeit:

[G Kurs] Phonetics & Phonology
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  15:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This lecture course surveys sounds systems of English, primarily those associated with American and British accents. Most of the course focuses on the segmental level: the characteristic articulation of English sounds (esp. speech organs, sound classes, places and manners of articulation), a general account of their acoustic realizations, phonemes and allophonic distribution, phonological processes and connected speech phenomena. Special attention is paid to those areas of articulation that tend to be problematic for German speakers. Students will also learn to read and broadly transcribe English sounds using International Phonetic Association (IPA) transcription. In the latter part of the course, the focus will switch to suprasegmental phenomena: rhythm, stress and intonation.

Reading:
McMahon, April M.S. 2002. An introduction to English phonology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Downloadable (free) E-book version. Will also be available on StudIP.
Additional texts will be downloadable from StudIP.

Credit
Ungraded (Teilnahme): Final exam 100% (must obtain 50% or better for Teilnahme credit)
Graded: Final exam 100%

Registration: FlexNow.

Exam period (times subject to change):Exam period (times subject to change): Exam in electronic format only; at Carl-Vogt-Haus (Science Campus )

Klausurtermin: xx.2.2019, Uhrzeit:
Nachholtermin: (bei Attest oder Nichtbestehen beim Ersttermin): xx.3. 2019, Uhrzeit:

[G Kurs] Phonetics & Phonology
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 15:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, PV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, PV, Sj 1 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This lecture course surveys sounds systems of English, primarily those associated with American and British accents. Most of the course focuses on the segmental level: the characteristic articulation of English sounds (esp. speech organs, sound classes, places and manners of articulation), a general account of their acoustic realizations, phonemes and allophonic distribution, phonological processes and connected speech phenomena. Special attention is paid to those areas of articulation that tend to be problematic for German speakers. Students will also learn to read and broadly transcribe English sounds using International Phonetic Association (IPA) transcription. In the latter part of the course, the focus will switch to suprasegmental phenomena: rhythm, stress and intonation.

Reading:
McMahon, April M.S. 2002. An introduction to English phonology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Downloadable (free) E-book version. Will also be available on StudIP.
Additional texts will be downloadable from StudIP.

Credit
Ungraded (Teilnahme): Final exam 100% (must obtain 50% or better for Teilnahme credit)
Graded: Final exam 100%

Registration: FlexNow.

Exam period (times subject to change):Exam period (times subject to change): Exam in electronic format only; at Carl-Vogt-Haus (Science Campus )

Klausurtermin: xx.2.2019, Uhrzeit:
Nachholtermin: (bei Attest oder Nichtbestehen beim Ersttermin): xx.3. 2019, Uhrzeit:

 
[Vl] History of the English Language
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  15:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
The study of the history of the English language offers highly relevant insights into how the language has changed over the course of the centuries and into how the English language is structured and functions all around the world today. After a closer inspection of the Indo-European language family, we will trace the development of English from its origin in Britain to the world language it is today. In the course of this, we will zoom in onto the different periods in the history of the English language, i.e. Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Late Modern English and Present-day English, to follow the structural changes on the levels of phonology, lexis, syntax and semantics that have led to the English language as we use it today.

Registration: Please register with FlexNow.

Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation and a final exam on 13 February 2019.

[Vl] History of the English Language
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 15:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
The study of the history of the English language offers highly relevant insights into how the language has changed over the course of the centuries and into how the English language is structured and functions all around the world today. After a closer inspection of the Indo-European language family, we will trace the development of English from its origin in Britain to the world language it is today. In the course of this, we will zoom in onto the different periods in the history of the English language, i.e. Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Late Modern English and Present-day English, to follow the structural changes on the levels of phonology, lexis, syntax and semantics that have led to the English language as we use it today.

Registration: Please register with FlexNow.

Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation and a final exam on 12 February 2019.

 
[P Si] Syntax
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 1 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2 | L1, WPV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
Exam period: Final exam 13.02.2019 ; deadline for term paper submission: 31.03.2019.

 
 
[P Si] Gender Identities in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440
2 Einzeltermine
Phil. I, B 440
Fr 07.12.2018,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  
Fr 18.01.2019,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  


Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
Gender studies is a relatively new subject that has become more and more popular recently. It has become apparent that notions of gender are closely connected to other disciplines as well, to cultural studies, literary studies, and ultimately also to teaching (in general) as well as foreign language teaching. In this seminar, we will explore gender and feminist theories, will evaluate and discuss the relevance for the foreign language classroom, and will also have a closer look at different teaching material with regard to gender stereotypes, gender norms and gender identities. During the second phase of the seminar, we will explore how these theoretical concepts can be applied to practice.

Please note: We will have two double sessions on December 7 and January 18, each from 2 to 6 pm. In substitution for these double sessions, two other regular sessions will be canceled (December 14 and January 25). Please make sure that you are able to attend.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A course reader will be provided via StudIP.

Credit (graded):
regular attendance (no more than 3 missed sessions; compensation up to half of total sessions possible)
active participation, homework and reading preparation of a presentation/micro teaching unit submission of a written term paper

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Listening & Viewing Competence: Focus on Political Short Films
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
This seminar will try to answer the question of how to foster listening amp; viewing competence ('Hör-/Sehverstehen') through appropriate media. In order to do that, we shall focus on a variety of suitable films for different learner groups while paying special attention to political short films.
To begin with, this seminar will introduce a theoretical framework which will allow us to discuss forms and functions of film(s) and we will use a conceptual approach to the analysis of film(s). Furthermore, we will learn how to choose adequate film material, how to incorporate film(s) in your classroom, how to make use of the cultural potential of film(s) and, ultimately, we will consider the benefits of producing films in class.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL I.

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written term paper.

Exam period:
Termin paper due March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Literary Competences
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
In recent years, several guidelines for EFL classrooms in Germany have been issued, with varying regard of literary texts. In the national Bildungsstandards, for instance, teaching literature in the EFL classroom is only touched upon. Therefore, this seminar is designed to introduce concepts and models which consider understanding literature as a distinct competence. The students will also learn how to use literary texts in the classroom and will apply the theoretical considerations by developing concrete teaching ideas. At the end, they will be able to answer the following questions: What does it mean to "understand literature"? Why should we work with literature in the EFL classroom at all? What are the main challenges? What is the role of literature in educational documents and curricular frameworks? Which competences can be acquired through working with literary texts and how can a good task design facilitate this process?

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
We will have a look at various literary genres that can be used for the benefit of the students.
Secondary texts will be provided via StudIP.

Expectations:
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation.

Credit (graded):
Submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31st, 2019.

Registration:
via Flex-Now

[P Si] Media Competences: Exploring (US-)American Culture
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 19.10.2018
wöchentlich Fr  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440
2 Einzeltermine
Offener Kanal
Fr 14.12.2018,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  
Fr 25.01.2019,14.00 - 18.00 Uhr  


Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) states that Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) ist the main goal of Foreign Language Teaching. This signifies that communicative skills are closely intertwined with the concept of culture. Although English, when used as a lingua franca, does not prescribe a specific target culture, the United Kingdom and the United States of America have traditionally been in the focus. This seminar will therefore concentrate on the question how US culture can be made accessible in the Foreign Language Classroom. For this, we will look at different popcultural media like films, TV series, songs, novels, etc. and explore their potential to promote ICC. During the second phase of the seminar, we will examine how these theoretical concepts can be applied to practice.
Please note: There will be two additional sessions at the Offener Kanal in Gießen, on December 14 and January 25, each from 2 to 6 pm. These sessions are mandatory, so please make sure that you are able to attend. For these additional sessions, two regular sessions will be canceled (on December 7 and January 18).

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A course reader will be provided via StudIP.

Credit (graded):
regular attendance (no more than 3 missed sessions; compensation up to half of total sessions possible)
active participation, homework and reading preparation of a presentation/micro teaching unit; submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March 31, 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Modern Assessment in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
The aim of this course is to familiarize students with different evaluation techniques in the English language classroom, starting from more traditional, pen-and-paper tests, to the more alternative techniques, such as portfolios, self- and peer-assessment, classroom observation, journals etc. Task-based assessment will also be investigated, examples will be given and all approaches will be analyzed in a critical view, focusing on their potential, advantages and disadvantages. The Seminar will have a highly practical orientation and lively discussions and debates are expected to take place.


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL I.



Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A reader will be provided in Stud.IP.

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March, 31st 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] Teaching & Learning Vocabulary in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 104

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
Will be made available on StudIP

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by Feb ???, 2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[P Si] The Dynamic Classroom: Focus on Oral Communication
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 3 (nur TEFL IIa) | L1,2,3,5, WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
Description: This Seminar will focus on providing students with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge of organising tasks in speaking. Therefore, we will investigate the organisation and development of Tasks, types of Tasks, the Task cycle, real world Tasks and assessment in the modern EFL classroom, with the emphasis on oral skills


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of TEFL I.

Reading:
A reader will be provided in Stud.IP.

Credit (graded):
Regular attendance, active participation, preparation of a presentation and submission of a written term paper.

Exam period:
The term paper has to be handed in by March, 31st 2019.

Registration: Flex-Now

 
 
 
[H Si] Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
In the current age of globalization, migration and internet communication, intercultural communicative competence is a key requirement in many professions and has become a priority aim in school and university education. This course focuses on fundamental aspects of intercultural communication and approaches to developing intercultural/transcultural competence and understanding, placing special emphasis on culture and language integrated education in institutional settings such as high schools, universities, etc. The course is divided into three parts:

1. The first part aims at familiarizing students with central aspects, concepts and theories of culture as well as the history of intercultural education in FL/SL classrooms.

2. The second part focuses on major approaches to teaching culture/developing intercultural communicative competence today as well as on fundamental aspects of experiential learning and task-based instruction.

3. The third and last part offers participants the opportunity to either a) create, present and discuss teaching materials and culture-sensitive communicative tasks aimed at familiarizing learners of English as a foreign/second language with aspects of Canadian culture (more specifically, perhaps, with culturally relevant/important aspects of life in Atlantic Canada), or b) to create, present and discuss alternatives to the HRM visitors' webpages from an intercultural / transcultural perspective, depending on students' professional interests and career aspirations.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modules TEFL I and II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
13.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Global & Historical Learning: Teaching & Researching Childhoods
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Heterogeneous Classrooms
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
This seminar will explore the didactics of a heterogeneous classroom taking into account methodological and pedagogical consequences when teaching English. The seminar will offer pedagogical and inclusive theories as well as methods and approaches that allow teachers to explore inner differentiation. For this seminar a cooperation with Ost-Schule is planned. Students are expected to visit school lessons on various days and develop teaching methods and lesson plans for a highly heterogeneous 6th grade. Students are also expected to purchase the reader and read the texts.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 06.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Methods in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
According to Balasubramanian Kumaravadivelu (2006 : xiv), ” … the concept of method has been a severely contested frame of reference for thinking and writing about classroom learning and teaching. Understandably, tensions and contradictions have arisen out of efforts aimed at its reconceptualization. Recently, the discourse on the limitations of the concept of method has become so prominent, and the desire to find alternatives to it so pronounced that they have resulted in what has been called the postmethod condition.” Based on this assertion, the course takes a fresh look at teaching English as a Foreign Language and its slow transition from method to postmethod, from transmission of knowledge and skills to self-formation and transformation.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
12.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Multiliteracies Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Project-Oriented Learning in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
Project-oriented learning refers to communicative classroom settings which are enquiry-, discovery-, and task-oriented. It is also associated with authentic ‘real-life' encounters with native speakers from all over the English speaking world (oral or written, face-to-face or virtual, etc.). In this seminar, specific attention is given to the central theoretical and practical aspects of learning English by and through experience, in comparison with more traditional ‘teacher-centered' and ‘form-focused' approaches. Student learning and work in this course will itself be informed by project-based principles, such as the development of differentiated task learning, learning with course-external relevance, task- and project-based assessment, etc. All participants will be required to develop a foreign language learning project of their choice in teams and present it toward the end of this course.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
11.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Teaching Content & Language Integrated Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
This seminar will first of all direct its attention to the different forms of bilingual education that co-exist at German schools. We will then concentrate on content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and explore its potential for the learning of the English and the integrated subjects in school. Empirical research and two reports from teachers in practice will confront students with realistic views on bilingual reality in our schools. Students will be asked to plan CLIL-projects for their subjects (biology, chemistry, history, politics etc.) .

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 05.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Teaching Novels
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] The Genre Approach to Language Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Young Adult Literature in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
Using British and American Young Adult literature in the language classroom will introduce pupils to important glimpses of the foreign cultures as well as to reading experiences that are motivating and valuable for their language learning process. This seminar will provide a theoretical understanding of the forms and functions of narrative literature and a conceptual approach to its analysis. Building on this foundation, students will learn how to use short stories, novellas and novels in the foreign language classroom, how to make use of their cultural potential and how to design activities that stimulate discussion and practise language skills.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 04.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

 
 
 
 
[Si] An Introduction to Body Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, 202

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Everything we experience, we experience with and through our body. Our body is able to store and remember specific memories and skills that we are not necessarily consciously aware of; our body is usually the first aspect other people will notice when meeting us; our body may determine our successes and our weaknesses. In short, the body is omnipresent.
This course aims at providing an overview of different body concepts relevant in (British) Cultural Studies. We will discuss a variety of theoretical texts and approaches (e.g. by Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Bourdieu …) and will analyse the (changing) understandings of the body in British culture and society, ranging from the Middle Ages to contemporary Britain. We will also investigate how the (individual, social, public, political, national, gendered …) body was predominantly perceived at specific times and how these body concepts may be related to the social circumstances, culture and politics of the respective time by drawing connections to selected literary and cultural texts. Consequently, our analysis may grant us an insight into subcultures and power relations between individual social groups.
Furthermore, this course will provide students with the possibility to plan and conduct their own case study/project related to the seminar topic while we will analyse one case study together in class.
To enjoy this class, you should be interested in reading and analysing theoretical texts and approaches.

Workload (more specific details will follow in the seminar):
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in group work, oral presentations. Furthermore, I expect you to read all the texts discussed in class. Please note that the kind of exam you have to take at the end of the semester will depend on your course of studies as well as on the module you're enrolled in (more details to follow).

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed ”that on or about December, 1910, human character changed”. What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:

- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.
- To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] Anglophone Caribbean Writing
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3/4
Kommentar:
Anglophone Caribbean Writing (Mon, 4-6 p.m.)
The Caribbean has produced a rich body of English-language writing, highly complex and diverse not unlike the Caribbean archipelago itself. Indeed, writers have repeatedly turned to local topography to derive literary idioms and styles. Regardless of a fragmentary island space, the quest for an overarching poetics has been one of the founding moves of Anglophone Caribbean writing. Where models and modes of expression from the English canon no longer represented local realities, or if anything prolonged stereotypical images of a tropical garden Eden, writers started revisiting the land for scarred memories of forced labour and plantation agriculture. The sea, the plantation, the hinterland, the beach and the hurricane have since provided innovative elements as form, genre, and central topoi.
This seminar will deal with a wide range of texts, particularly poetry, which more than mere nature writing seek to unearth difficult histories of race, gender, migration and island life. Simultaneously, they throw into relief the archipelago's often precarious and endangered nature, allowing us to explore the relationship between literature and the environment as highlighted by the expanding field of postcolonial ecocriticism.
Reading:
Sam Selvon, An Island is a World (1955); excerpts from the Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (ed. Allison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, 1996) and additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] Contemporary British Television Series - Topics, Trends, and Theory
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5, PV/WPV Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Since 1990s and especially the turn of the Millennium, there is a considerable change in both the production and the perception of Western television series. For decades, films produced for movie theatres had been the sole resort for artistic ambition. With American TV series such as Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, or The Wire, a paradigm shift set in, and the television series developed rapidly, exploring new generic forms, narrative complexity, and ambitious experiments, which is also reflected upon in academic investigations focussing on complex TV and popular seriality. Although not always taking centre stage in the academic discourse as well as popular perception, British and Irish television series also explore new grounds, very often acting as role models for American forms. In this class we will look at the theory of serial narration and investigate groundbreaking shows from sitcoms to crime drama, including The Office, Black Mirror, Broadchurch, Love/Hate, Luther, and Sherlock.

[Si] Introduction to Feminist Disability Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Following the credo of the disability rights movement ”Nothing About Us Without Us,” this course is based on the assumption that disability is everywhere – once you begin to look for it. However, disability remains overlooked and unseen in the feminist triad gender, race, and class. This course seeks to fill this gap by asking is there a feminist side to being disabled? What does it mean to inject disability into feminist thought? To answer these questions we will discuss key concepts of disability and feminist theory such as the nature and meaning of embodiment, heteronormative and ableist forms of normativity, and the overlap between sexism and ableism. We will explore not only how Disability Studies become feminist, but also how feminism becomes disabling.
A reading list and the syllabus will be made available through StudIP at the beginning of the semester.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will begin by looking at literary representations of London in the first half of the nineteenth century, roughly 1815 – 1845, and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary „psychogeography” of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will look at literary representations of London and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary psychogeography of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] Media Analysis through Media Creation
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
With the assistance of film maker Lisa Friederich, this course shall teach methods of film and television analysis through the process of creating short films. Participants shall work in small groups to produce work that demonstrates media-critical awareness. Our primary text for analysis shall be The Handmaid's Tale (2017 -) Hulu. Alongside creating the films, participants shall be asked to reflect on theories and methods of media analysis in short texts.

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

 
[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, E 004

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Middle English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Psycholinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Spoken English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Standardising English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The main differences in contemporary English spelling boil down to American (e.g. theater, color) versus British variants (e.g. theatre, colour). Other than that, the spelling of English these days is uniform all around the globe. This uniformity, however, is the result of a long-lasting historical process known as linguistic standardisation, which is still in full swing today.

In the course of this class, we will approach the English language diachronically and explore how it developed from Old English with strong Germanic roots to the fully standardised Present-Day English we all know. In the course of this, we will define the notion and describe the process of linguistic standardisation and evaluate to what extent standardisation is visible a) across the different periods in the history of the English language (Old English, Middle English, etc.) and b) on the various structural levels of language organisation (phonology, lexis, grammar, semantics, etc.). In order to empirically study standardisation processes, we will also learn and use the programming language R.

Ungraded Credit: Regular attendance, preparation of homework and active participation.
Graded: The above and either a pass in the final exam (February 14 2019) or in the term paper (due on March 31 2019).

[P Si] Textlinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

 
 
[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed "that on or about December, 1910, human character changed". What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:
- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (to be made available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.

Please note: To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed ”that on or about December, 1910, human character changed”. What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:

- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.
- To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] Anglophone Caribbean Writing
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3/4
Kommentar:
Anglophone Caribbean Writing (Mon, 4-6 p.m.)
The Caribbean has produced a rich body of English-language writing, highly complex and diverse not unlike the Caribbean archipelago itself. Indeed, writers have repeatedly turned to local topography to derive literary idioms and styles. Regardless of a fragmentary island space, the quest for an overarching poetics has been one of the founding moves of Anglophone Caribbean writing. Where models and modes of expression from the English canon no longer represented local realities, or if anything prolonged stereotypical images of a tropical garden Eden, writers started revisiting the land for scarred memories of forced labour and plantation agriculture. The sea, the plantation, the hinterland, the beach and the hurricane have since provided innovative elements as form, genre, and central topoi.
This seminar will deal with a wide range of texts, particularly poetry, which more than mere nature writing seek to unearth difficult histories of race, gender, migration and island life. Simultaneously, they throw into relief the archipelago's often precarious and endangered nature, allowing us to explore the relationship between literature and the environment as highlighted by the expanding field of postcolonial ecocriticism.
Reading:
Sam Selvon, An Island is a World (1955); excerpts from the Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (ed. Allison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, 1996) and additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] Contemporary British Television Series - Topics, Trends, and Theory
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5, PV/WPV Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Since 1990s and especially the turn of the Millennium, there is a considerable change in both the production and the perception of Western television series. For decades, films produced for movie theatres had been the sole resort for artistic ambition. With American TV series such as Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, or The Wire, a paradigm shift set in, and the television series developed rapidly, exploring new generic forms, narrative complexity, and ambitious experiments, which is also reflected upon in academic investigations focussing on complex TV and popular seriality. Although not always taking centre stage in the academic discourse as well as popular perception, British and Irish television series also explore new grounds, very often acting as role models for American forms. In this class we will look at the theory of serial narration and investigate groundbreaking shows from sitcoms to crime drama, including The Office, Black Mirror, Broadchurch, Love/Hate, Luther, and Sherlock.

[Si] Daniel Defoe: Fallen Women and Men at Sea
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731), one of the pioneers of the English novel, is today best remembered for his first foray into the genre, "Robinson Crusoe" (1719). This course will also discuss two of Defoe's lesser-known novels: "Moll Flanders" (1722) and "Roxana" (1724). While Crusoe experiences the hazards of life at sea far away from their native England, Moll and Roxana are driven into the hands of crime and prostitution from sheer necessity and invent multiple personalities in their fight for survival in a patriarchal society.

[Si] Introduction to British Children's Fiction
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Not only adults read for pleasure, many children are avid readers as well. However, literary studies often tend to focus on literature designed to be read by adults. This seminar zooms in on British fiction for young readers ranging from picture books such as Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" (1902) to (all age) page-turners like the Harry Potter series.
We will address questions regarding the conveyance of content in picture books, topics in (gendered) fiction for young readers (such as Enid Blyton's "The Famous Five" or "St. Clare's" series, both 1940s) or the appeal of "crossover novels", i.e. children's fiction with an adult readership.

Students are expected to buy and read several novels which will be announced in the first session. Secondary literature will be provided on Stud.IP.

[Koll] Literature and Memory: Recent Trends
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Literature and Memory: Recent Trends (Tue, 4-6 p.m.)
Literature and memory has been an immensely productive field of research over the past couple of decades. The same period of time has seen significant shifts and proliferating terms of debate. Where memory tended to be identified with relatively stable social frames of family, nation, ethnicity and class, it is now increasingly being explored in its travelling, transcultural and intergenerational or ‘postmemory' dimensions. Similarly, transnational and multidirectional conjunctures are being highlighted where earlier scholarship emphasized the competing or contested nature of memories. Yet more new areas have begun to be mapped by recent work on environmental, planetary and post-humanist as well as on ‘prosthetic' and digital memory. These developments have invariably complicated and enriched central questions of literature's role for memory, both individually and collectively, and vice versa of the role of memory for literary production.
Tracing recent as well as earlier trajectories of literary memory studies, this course will explore a range of critical and creative texts, including three novels and examples from other media. As an MA seminar-cum-colloquium, it will provide ample opportunity for students to pursue and present on their own projects, including from other areas of research.
Reading:
Caryl Phillips, The Nature of Blood (1997)
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997)
Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus (1996/2003)
Additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] Shakespeare's Happy Comedies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will deal with Shakespeare's ‘mature' or ‘happy' comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. The discussion will include contemporary modern views and theories on comedy and take into account the context of the Elizabethan theatre. Particular attention will be paid to the role of women and family conceptions. Film versions will be considered as well.
Plenary discussions will be combined with work in study groups.

Texts: William Shakespeare, As You Like It
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
All: Penguin Shakespeare Edition

[Si] Shakespeare's Late Plays: Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
In this class, we will read and discuss four of Shakespeare's last plays: one of them a tragedy and the other three generally described as Romances; two of them very well known and among the most famous in the Shakespearean canon – The Winter's Tale and The Tempest – and two of them less widely read – Coriolanus and Cymbeline. The seminar serves to introduce key concepts of Shakespeare criticism and Early Modern drama and theatre: we will read and interpret these plays; contextualize, historicize, and place them in the context of the Jacobean age; discuss their theatricality; and finally introduce questions of textual criticism. Please purchase either the Arden or the Oxford editions of these plays.

[Si] The Evolution of the British Novel - from the 18th to the 21st Century
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Ever since its famous "rise" (Ian Watt) in 18th-century Britain, the novel has been rivalled by countless new genres and media, and yet, in the early 21st century, it appears as alive and kicking as ever. As many critics have argued, one reason for its success is the novel's remarkable capacity of adapting to changed historical contexts and new media environments. Virginia Woolf might have had a point, then, when she famously characterized the novel as a "cannibal […] which has devoured so many forms of art".

In the seminar, we're going to trace four historical moments in the evolution of the novel, focusing on representative works from the beginning of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century respectively. The class will be conceptualized as an introduction to the (history of the) novel and also aims to familiarize students with key concepts and strategies for the analysis of narrative texts.

Requirements:
- Students attending the class are kindly asked to purchase two novels (which will be listed on the syllabus). All other literature will be provided in the form of excerpts (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Further information on relevant organizational issues (how to obtain a grade, etc.) will be specified on the syllabus and clarified during our first session on 16 October.

[Si] Thomas Hardy: Essays, Shorter Fiction and Poetry
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will concentrate on the work of Thomas Hardy. We will be reading his shorter fiction and poetry, look at his essays and read his novel Jude the Obscure. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term, students are asked to buy and read Hardy's Jude the Obscure (any edition).

[Si] William Blake
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This is a seminar for advanced students in British Romanticism. We will be concentrating on the work of William Blake and read both his shorter poetry and designs and at least one of his longer poetic works. Students are asked to buy M.L.Johnson (ed.) Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions) before the beginning of term.

[Si] William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Its Contemporary Rewritings
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
In this seminar, we will first take a closer look at a canonical English play – William Shakespeare's romance The Tempest (1611) – and then, in a second step, analyse how two twentieth- and twenty-first century writers have responded to the play's themes and concerns by rewriting Shakespeare's original story into novels that unveil new perspectives, give voice to marginal characters, and foreground how The Tempest addresses the topics of gender, race, and colonialism. In addition, the seminar will feature one creative-writing workshop and a reading by English novelist Zara Karschay, who has used Shakespeare's Macbeth as an inspiration for her own fiction.

The seminar will have the following structure:
- We will begin by recapitulating a few basic concepts of drama analysis.
- We will discuss the idea behind and the aims of literary rewritings; in this context, we shall reflect on why postcolonial and feminist theories have contributed to the popularity of this particular form of intertextuality.
- We will then move on to a close reading of The Tempest, which shall acquaint you with the main characters, themes and structural principles of the play.
- The first rewriting that we shall then consider is George Lamming's Water with Berries (1971), a novel about 16th-century explorers in the West Indies.
- The second rewriting we will turn to is Margaret Atwood's novel Hag-Seed (2016). (You might know Atwood as the author of The Handmaid's Tale.) Hag-Seed follows the turbulent life and memories of Felix, a theatre maker who is about to direct The Tempest.
- On 16 January 2019, Zara Karschay will visit our class with a creative-writing workshop and a subsequent reading from her novel at the Literarisches Zentrum Gießen (begin 7.30 pm). Please note that attending the reading at the LZG is obligatory for this seminar.

Workload:
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in teamwork (please note that you will have to work in groups on a regular basis), attendance at Zara Karschay's reading on 16 January, 7.30 pm at the LZG. Depending on your programme of studies, you will either have to write a written term paper or a final exam.

Additionally, you must have a copy of the following texts which will be read and discussed in class in the following order:
- Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Ed. Alden and Virginia Vaughan. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. [Arden Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-1408133477]
- Lamming, George. Water with Berries. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2016. [Caribbean Modern Classics; ISBN: 978-1845231675]
- Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed. London: Vintage, 2016. [Hogarth Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-0099594024]

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

 
[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed "that on or about December, 1910, human character changed". What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:
- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (to be made available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.

Please note: To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed ”that on or about December, 1910, human character changed”. What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:

- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.
- To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] Anglophone Caribbean Writing
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3/4
Kommentar:
Anglophone Caribbean Writing (Mon, 4-6 p.m.)
The Caribbean has produced a rich body of English-language writing, highly complex and diverse not unlike the Caribbean archipelago itself. Indeed, writers have repeatedly turned to local topography to derive literary idioms and styles. Regardless of a fragmentary island space, the quest for an overarching poetics has been one of the founding moves of Anglophone Caribbean writing. Where models and modes of expression from the English canon no longer represented local realities, or if anything prolonged stereotypical images of a tropical garden Eden, writers started revisiting the land for scarred memories of forced labour and plantation agriculture. The sea, the plantation, the hinterland, the beach and the hurricane have since provided innovative elements as form, genre, and central topoi.
This seminar will deal with a wide range of texts, particularly poetry, which more than mere nature writing seek to unearth difficult histories of race, gender, migration and island life. Simultaneously, they throw into relief the archipelago's often precarious and endangered nature, allowing us to explore the relationship between literature and the environment as highlighted by the expanding field of postcolonial ecocriticism.
Reading:
Sam Selvon, An Island is a World (1955); excerpts from the Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (ed. Allison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, 1996) and additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] Contemporary British Television Series - Topics, Trends, and Theory
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5, PV/WPV Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Since 1990s and especially the turn of the Millennium, there is a considerable change in both the production and the perception of Western television series. For decades, films produced for movie theatres had been the sole resort for artistic ambition. With American TV series such as Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, or The Wire, a paradigm shift set in, and the television series developed rapidly, exploring new generic forms, narrative complexity, and ambitious experiments, which is also reflected upon in academic investigations focussing on complex TV and popular seriality. Although not always taking centre stage in the academic discourse as well as popular perception, British and Irish television series also explore new grounds, very often acting as role models for American forms. In this class we will look at the theory of serial narration and investigate groundbreaking shows from sitcoms to crime drama, including The Office, Black Mirror, Broadchurch, Love/Hate, Luther, and Sherlock.

[Si] Daniel Defoe: Fallen Women and Men at Sea
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731), one of the pioneers of the English novel, is today best remembered for his first foray into the genre, "Robinson Crusoe" (1719). This course will also discuss two of Defoe's lesser-known novels: "Moll Flanders" (1722) and "Roxana" (1724). While Crusoe experiences the hazards of life at sea far away from their native England, Moll and Roxana are driven into the hands of crime and prostitution from sheer necessity and invent multiple personalities in their fight for survival in a patriarchal society.

[Si] Introduction to British Children's Fiction
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Not only adults read for pleasure, many children are avid readers as well. However, literary studies often tend to focus on literature designed to be read by adults. This seminar zooms in on British fiction for young readers ranging from picture books such as Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" (1902) to (all age) page-turners like the Harry Potter series.
We will address questions regarding the conveyance of content in picture books, topics in (gendered) fiction for young readers (such as Enid Blyton's "The Famous Five" or "St. Clare's" series, both 1940s) or the appeal of "crossover novels", i.e. children's fiction with an adult readership.

Students are expected to buy and read several novels which will be announced in the first session. Secondary literature will be provided on Stud.IP.

[Koll] Literature and Memory: Recent Trends
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Literature and Memory: Recent Trends (Tue, 4-6 p.m.)
Literature and memory has been an immensely productive field of research over the past couple of decades. The same period of time has seen significant shifts and proliferating terms of debate. Where memory tended to be identified with relatively stable social frames of family, nation, ethnicity and class, it is now increasingly being explored in its travelling, transcultural and intergenerational or ‘postmemory' dimensions. Similarly, transnational and multidirectional conjunctures are being highlighted where earlier scholarship emphasized the competing or contested nature of memories. Yet more new areas have begun to be mapped by recent work on environmental, planetary and post-humanist as well as on ‘prosthetic' and digital memory. These developments have invariably complicated and enriched central questions of literature's role for memory, both individually and collectively, and vice versa of the role of memory for literary production.
Tracing recent as well as earlier trajectories of literary memory studies, this course will explore a range of critical and creative texts, including three novels and examples from other media. As an MA seminar-cum-colloquium, it will provide ample opportunity for students to pursue and present on their own projects, including from other areas of research.
Reading:
Caryl Phillips, The Nature of Blood (1997)
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997)
Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus (1996/2003)
Additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] Shakespeare's Happy Comedies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will deal with Shakespeare's ‘mature' or ‘happy' comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. The discussion will include contemporary modern views and theories on comedy and take into account the context of the Elizabethan theatre. Particular attention will be paid to the role of women and family conceptions. Film versions will be considered as well.
Plenary discussions will be combined with work in study groups.

Texts: William Shakespeare, As You Like It
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
All: Penguin Shakespeare Edition

[Si] Shakespeare's Late Plays: Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
In this class, we will read and discuss four of Shakespeare's last plays: one of them a tragedy and the other three generally described as Romances; two of them very well known and among the most famous in the Shakespearean canon – The Winter's Tale and The Tempest – and two of them less widely read – Coriolanus and Cymbeline. The seminar serves to introduce key concepts of Shakespeare criticism and Early Modern drama and theatre: we will read and interpret these plays; contextualize, historicize, and place them in the context of the Jacobean age; discuss their theatricality; and finally introduce questions of textual criticism. Please purchase either the Arden or the Oxford editions of these plays.

[Si] The Evolution of the British Novel - from the 18th to the 21st Century
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Ever since its famous "rise" (Ian Watt) in 18th-century Britain, the novel has been rivalled by countless new genres and media, and yet, in the early 21st century, it appears as alive and kicking as ever. As many critics have argued, one reason for its success is the novel's remarkable capacity of adapting to changed historical contexts and new media environments. Virginia Woolf might have had a point, then, when she famously characterized the novel as a "cannibal […] which has devoured so many forms of art".

In the seminar, we're going to trace four historical moments in the evolution of the novel, focusing on representative works from the beginning of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century respectively. The class will be conceptualized as an introduction to the (history of the) novel and also aims to familiarize students with key concepts and strategies for the analysis of narrative texts.

Requirements:
- Students attending the class are kindly asked to purchase two novels (which will be listed on the syllabus). All other literature will be provided in the form of excerpts (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Further information on relevant organizational issues (how to obtain a grade, etc.) will be specified on the syllabus and clarified during our first session on 16 October.

[Si] Thomas Hardy: Essays, Shorter Fiction and Poetry
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will concentrate on the work of Thomas Hardy. We will be reading his shorter fiction and poetry, look at his essays and read his novel Jude the Obscure. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term, students are asked to buy and read Hardy's Jude the Obscure (any edition).

[Si] William Blake
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This is a seminar for advanced students in British Romanticism. We will be concentrating on the work of William Blake and read both his shorter poetry and designs and at least one of his longer poetic works. Students are asked to buy M.L.Johnson (ed.) Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions) before the beginning of term.

[Si] William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Its Contemporary Rewritings
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
In this seminar, we will first take a closer look at a canonical English play – William Shakespeare's romance The Tempest (1611) – and then, in a second step, analyse how two twentieth- and twenty-first century writers have responded to the play's themes and concerns by rewriting Shakespeare's original story into novels that unveil new perspectives, give voice to marginal characters, and foreground how The Tempest addresses the topics of gender, race, and colonialism. In addition, the seminar will feature one creative-writing workshop and a reading by English novelist Zara Karschay, who has used Shakespeare's Macbeth as an inspiration for her own fiction.

The seminar will have the following structure:
- We will begin by recapitulating a few basic concepts of drama analysis.
- We will discuss the idea behind and the aims of literary rewritings; in this context, we shall reflect on why postcolonial and feminist theories have contributed to the popularity of this particular form of intertextuality.
- We will then move on to a close reading of The Tempest, which shall acquaint you with the main characters, themes and structural principles of the play.
- The first rewriting that we shall then consider is George Lamming's Water with Berries (1971), a novel about 16th-century explorers in the West Indies.
- The second rewriting we will turn to is Margaret Atwood's novel Hag-Seed (2016). (You might know Atwood as the author of The Handmaid's Tale.) Hag-Seed follows the turbulent life and memories of Felix, a theatre maker who is about to direct The Tempest.
- On 16 January 2019, Zara Karschay will visit our class with a creative-writing workshop and a subsequent reading from her novel at the Literarisches Zentrum Gießen (begin 7.30 pm). Please note that attending the reading at the LZG is obligatory for this seminar.

Workload:
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in teamwork (please note that you will have to work in groups on a regular basis), attendance at Zara Karschay's reading on 16 January, 7.30 pm at the LZG. Depending on your programme of studies, you will either have to write a written term paper or a final exam.

Additionally, you must have a copy of the following texts which will be read and discussed in class in the following order:
- Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Ed. Alden and Virginia Vaughan. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. [Arden Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-1408133477]
- Lamming, George. Water with Berries. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2016. [Caribbean Modern Classics; ISBN: 978-1845231675]
- Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed. London: Vintage, 2016. [Hogarth Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-0099594024]

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

 
[Vl] Black and Asian British Writing, 1700-2000
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L2,3,5,PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Black and Asian British Writing, 1700 – 2000 (Tue, 12-2 p.m.)
The work of black and Asian writers is at the heart of British literature today. Yet processes of canonisation are slow, and blanket terms like ‘black' and ‘Asian' or even ‘British' are not unproblematic when in fact many of these writers are also discussed in terms of other national literatures (Caribbean, Indian, African, etc.). This state of affairs only highlights the need to place black and Asian British writing on the critical agenda, and to explore its relationship with other Anglophone literatures around the globe.
While giving an overview of today's writers (Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith et al.), this course of lectures will include their predecessors (Olaudah Equiano, Mary Seacole et al.) in a longer, less often told (pre-)history of black and Asian British writing dating back as far as the eighteenth century. We will trace lines of influence in terms of genres and writing styles, with a focus on literature and occasionally taking into account other media as well. Moreover, we will deal with the historical and cultural challenges that black and Asian British writers have responded to and reworked creatively, including the end of Empire, post-WWII migration, the rise of multi-ethnic Britain and the making of new identities.

[Vl] The Soul in British Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The concept of the soul is in many respects of key importance for an idea of what is human. For about two millennia, the soul had been an indispensable part of a human being, its life force, its essence as self, and its power of cognition. Furthermore, the soul was considered the immortal part of the individual human. Around 1800, however, there occurred a momentous paradigm shift that may be called the discovery of the human as a biological, immanent, and therefore mortal being. In this lecture series, we will consider the cultural heritage of the concept of soul from its classical origins down to the modern age. In the course of this class, we will investigate its influence on philosophy, science, art, and literature from Plato and Aristotle via William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats.

[Vl] The United States: Beginnings - Law/Politics/Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 1

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6.Sem
Kommentar:
This interactive lecture series covers the pre-Anglophone and pre-national beginnings of the United States up until 1900. In each session one paradigmatic literary or legal text will be analyzed in depth as a way to open up central political and cultural issues of the period in question. These texts offer keys to understanding how imperialism, slavery, and Puritanism shaped the colonial and antebellum and postbellum periods. Lines of continuity will be drawn between America's present and its beginnings.

 
 
[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed ”that on or about December, 1910, human character changed”. What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:

- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.
- To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed "that on or about December, 1910, human character changed". What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:
- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (to be made available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.

Please note: To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] Daniel Defoe: Fallen Women and Men at Sea
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731), one of the pioneers of the English novel, is today best remembered for his first foray into the genre, "Robinson Crusoe" (1719). This course will also discuss two of Defoe's lesser-known novels: "Moll Flanders" (1722) and "Roxana" (1724). While Crusoe experiences the hazards of life at sea far away from their native England, Moll and Roxana are driven into the hands of crime and prostitution from sheer necessity and invent multiple personalities in their fight for survival in a patriarchal society.

[Si] Death Sentences: Capital Punishment in World Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1

[Si] Eighteenth Century Satire
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Eighteenth-Century Satire (Mon, 6-8 p.m.)
The eighteenth century has been called a golden age of satire. Anything from morality, religion, politics, modern science or London's gin craze was subjected to scathing attacks. Meanwhile satirists, who met in special circles such as the famous Scriblerus Club, were themselves the product of a new literary, publishing and coffeehouse culture. At a time of dramatic social change, satire turned into an important medium of critique and future as well as past reflection.
In this seminar, we will deal with a number of classic and some less well-known examples of eighteenth-century satire, including by women writers in what for a long time passed as a male-dominated literary practice. As a mode of writing and artistic representation, satire travelled through many genres and media, taken up by central figures such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Charlotte Lennox and William Hogarth. Entertaining as well as context-specific, eighteenth-century satires provide a gateway to exploring the age's literature and culture. At the same time as being an important topic of eighteenth-century studies, satire constitutes an important legacy for today. In our own, postmodern times, in which reality seems to have trumped some of satire's wildest dreams, the potentials and limits of conceiving society otherwise continue to matter greatly.
Reading:
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752)
John Gay, The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Alexander Pope, Epistle to Arbuthnot (1735)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] Introduction to British Children's Fiction
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Not only adults read for pleasure, many children are avid readers as well. However, literary studies often tend to focus on literature designed to be read by adults. This seminar zooms in on British fiction for young readers ranging from picture books such as Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" (1902) to (all age) page-turners like the Harry Potter series.
We will address questions regarding the conveyance of content in picture books, topics in (gendered) fiction for young readers (such as Enid Blyton's "The Famous Five" or "St. Clare's" series, both 1940s) or the appeal of "crossover novels", i.e. children's fiction with an adult readership.

Students are expected to buy and read several novels which will be announced in the first session. Secondary literature will be provided on Stud.IP.

[Si] Introduction to Feminist Disability Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Following the credo of the disability rights movement ”Nothing About Us Without Us,” this course is based on the assumption that disability is everywhere – once you begin to look for it. However, disability remains overlooked and unseen in the feminist triad gender, race, and class. This course seeks to fill this gap by asking is there a feminist side to being disabled? What does it mean to inject disability into feminist thought? To answer these questions we will discuss key concepts of disability and feminist theory such as the nature and meaning of embodiment, heteronormative and ableist forms of normativity, and the overlap between sexism and ableism. We will explore not only how Disability Studies become feminist, but also how feminism becomes disabling.
A reading list and the syllabus will be made available through StudIP at the beginning of the semester.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will look at literary representations of London and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary psychogeography of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will begin by looking at literary representations of London in the first half of the nineteenth century, roughly 1815 – 1845, and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary „psychogeography” of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] Shakespeare's Happy Comedies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will deal with Shakespeare's ‘mature' or ‘happy' comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. The discussion will include contemporary modern views and theories on comedy and take into account the context of the Elizabethan theatre. Particular attention will be paid to the role of women and family conceptions. Film versions will be considered as well.
Plenary discussions will be combined with work in study groups.

Texts: William Shakespeare, As You Like It
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
All: Penguin Shakespeare Edition

[Si] Shakespeare's Late Plays: Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
In this class, we will read and discuss four of Shakespeare's last plays: one of them a tragedy and the other three generally described as Romances; two of them very well known and among the most famous in the Shakespearean canon – The Winter's Tale and The Tempest – and two of them less widely read – Coriolanus and Cymbeline. The seminar serves to introduce key concepts of Shakespeare criticism and Early Modern drama and theatre: we will read and interpret these plays; contextualize, historicize, and place them in the context of the Jacobean age; discuss their theatricality; and finally introduce questions of textual criticism. Please purchase either the Arden or the Oxford editions of these plays.

[Si] The Evolution of the British Novel - from the 18th to the 21st Century
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Ever since its famous "rise" (Ian Watt) in 18th-century Britain, the novel has been rivalled by countless new genres and media, and yet, in the early 21st century, it appears as alive and kicking as ever. As many critics have argued, one reason for its success is the novel's remarkable capacity of adapting to changed historical contexts and new media environments. Virginia Woolf might have had a point, then, when she famously characterized the novel as a "cannibal […] which has devoured so many forms of art".

In the seminar, we're going to trace four historical moments in the evolution of the novel, focusing on representative works from the beginning of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century respectively. The class will be conceptualized as an introduction to the (history of the) novel and also aims to familiarize students with key concepts and strategies for the analysis of narrative texts.

Requirements:
- Students attending the class are kindly asked to purchase two novels (which will be listed on the syllabus). All other literature will be provided in the form of excerpts (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Further information on relevant organizational issues (how to obtain a grade, etc.) will be specified on the syllabus and clarified during our first session on 16 October.

[Si] Thomas Hardy: Essays, Shorter Fiction and Poetry
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will concentrate on the work of Thomas Hardy. We will be reading his shorter fiction and poetry, look at his essays and read his novel Jude the Obscure. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term, students are asked to buy and read Hardy's Jude the Obscure (any edition).

[Si] William Blake
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This is a seminar for advanced students in British Romanticism. We will be concentrating on the work of William Blake and read both his shorter poetry and designs and at least one of his longer poetic works. Students are asked to buy M.L.Johnson (ed.) Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions) before the beginning of term.

[Si] William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Its Contemporary Rewritings
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
In this seminar, we will first take a closer look at a canonical English play – William Shakespeare's romance The Tempest (1611) – and then, in a second step, analyse how two twentieth- and twenty-first century writers have responded to the play's themes and concerns by rewriting Shakespeare's original story into novels that unveil new perspectives, give voice to marginal characters, and foreground how The Tempest addresses the topics of gender, race, and colonialism. In addition, the seminar will feature one creative-writing workshop and a reading by English novelist Zara Karschay, who has used Shakespeare's Macbeth as an inspiration for her own fiction.

The seminar will have the following structure:
- We will begin by recapitulating a few basic concepts of drama analysis.
- We will discuss the idea behind and the aims of literary rewritings; in this context, we shall reflect on why postcolonial and feminist theories have contributed to the popularity of this particular form of intertextuality.
- We will then move on to a close reading of The Tempest, which shall acquaint you with the main characters, themes and structural principles of the play.
- The first rewriting that we shall then consider is George Lamming's Water with Berries (1971), a novel about 16th-century explorers in the West Indies.
- The second rewriting we will turn to is Margaret Atwood's novel Hag-Seed (2016). (You might know Atwood as the author of The Handmaid's Tale.) Hag-Seed follows the turbulent life and memories of Felix, a theatre maker who is about to direct The Tempest.
- On 16 January 2019, Zara Karschay will visit our class with a creative-writing workshop and a subsequent reading from her novel at the Literarisches Zentrum Gießen (begin 7.30 pm). Please note that attending the reading at the LZG is obligatory for this seminar.

Workload:
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in teamwork (please note that you will have to work in groups on a regular basis), attendance at Zara Karschay's reading on 16 January, 7.30 pm at the LZG. Depending on your programme of studies, you will either have to write a written term paper or a final exam.

Additionally, you must have a copy of the following texts which will be read and discussed in class in the following order:
- Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Ed. Alden and Virginia Vaughan. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. [Arden Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-1408133477]
- Lamming, George. Water with Berries. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2016. [Caribbean Modern Classics; ISBN: 978-1845231675]
- Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed. London: Vintage, 2016. [Hogarth Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-0099594024]

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

 
[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed ”that on or about December, 1910, human character changed”. What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:

- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.
- To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed "that on or about December, 1910, human character changed". What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:
- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (to be made available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.

Please note: To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] Daniel Defoe: Fallen Women and Men at Sea
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731), one of the pioneers of the English novel, is today best remembered for his first foray into the genre, "Robinson Crusoe" (1719). This course will also discuss two of Defoe's lesser-known novels: "Moll Flanders" (1722) and "Roxana" (1724). While Crusoe experiences the hazards of life at sea far away from their native England, Moll and Roxana are driven into the hands of crime and prostitution from sheer necessity and invent multiple personalities in their fight for survival in a patriarchal society.

[Si] Death Sentences: Capital Punishment in World Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1

[Si] Eighteenth Century Satire
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Eighteenth-Century Satire (Mon, 6-8 p.m.)
The eighteenth century has been called a golden age of satire. Anything from morality, religion, politics, modern science or London's gin craze was subjected to scathing attacks. Meanwhile satirists, who met in special circles such as the famous Scriblerus Club, were themselves the product of a new literary, publishing and coffeehouse culture. At a time of dramatic social change, satire turned into an important medium of critique and future as well as past reflection.
In this seminar, we will deal with a number of classic and some less well-known examples of eighteenth-century satire, including by women writers in what for a long time passed as a male-dominated literary practice. As a mode of writing and artistic representation, satire travelled through many genres and media, taken up by central figures such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Charlotte Lennox and William Hogarth. Entertaining as well as context-specific, eighteenth-century satires provide a gateway to exploring the age's literature and culture. At the same time as being an important topic of eighteenth-century studies, satire constitutes an important legacy for today. In our own, postmodern times, in which reality seems to have trumped some of satire's wildest dreams, the potentials and limits of conceiving society otherwise continue to matter greatly.
Reading:
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752)
John Gay, The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Alexander Pope, Epistle to Arbuthnot (1735)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] Introduction to British Children's Fiction
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Not only adults read for pleasure, many children are avid readers as well. However, literary studies often tend to focus on literature designed to be read by adults. This seminar zooms in on British fiction for young readers ranging from picture books such as Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" (1902) to (all age) page-turners like the Harry Potter series.
We will address questions regarding the conveyance of content in picture books, topics in (gendered) fiction for young readers (such as Enid Blyton's "The Famous Five" or "St. Clare's" series, both 1940s) or the appeal of "crossover novels", i.e. children's fiction with an adult readership.

Students are expected to buy and read several novels which will be announced in the first session. Secondary literature will be provided on Stud.IP.

[Si] Introduction to Feminist Disability Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Following the credo of the disability rights movement ”Nothing About Us Without Us,” this course is based on the assumption that disability is everywhere – once you begin to look for it. However, disability remains overlooked and unseen in the feminist triad gender, race, and class. This course seeks to fill this gap by asking is there a feminist side to being disabled? What does it mean to inject disability into feminist thought? To answer these questions we will discuss key concepts of disability and feminist theory such as the nature and meaning of embodiment, heteronormative and ableist forms of normativity, and the overlap between sexism and ableism. We will explore not only how Disability Studies become feminist, but also how feminism becomes disabling.
A reading list and the syllabus will be made available through StudIP at the beginning of the semester.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will look at literary representations of London and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary psychogeography of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will begin by looking at literary representations of London in the first half of the nineteenth century, roughly 1815 – 1845, and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary „psychogeography” of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] Shakespeare's Happy Comedies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will deal with Shakespeare's ‘mature' or ‘happy' comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. The discussion will include contemporary modern views and theories on comedy and take into account the context of the Elizabethan theatre. Particular attention will be paid to the role of women and family conceptions. Film versions will be considered as well.
Plenary discussions will be combined with work in study groups.

Texts: William Shakespeare, As You Like It
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
All: Penguin Shakespeare Edition

[Si] Shakespeare's Late Plays: Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
In this class, we will read and discuss four of Shakespeare's last plays: one of them a tragedy and the other three generally described as Romances; two of them very well known and among the most famous in the Shakespearean canon – The Winter's Tale and The Tempest – and two of them less widely read – Coriolanus and Cymbeline. The seminar serves to introduce key concepts of Shakespeare criticism and Early Modern drama and theatre: we will read and interpret these plays; contextualize, historicize, and place them in the context of the Jacobean age; discuss their theatricality; and finally introduce questions of textual criticism. Please purchase either the Arden or the Oxford editions of these plays.

[Si] The Evolution of the British Novel - from the 18th to the 21st Century
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Ever since its famous "rise" (Ian Watt) in 18th-century Britain, the novel has been rivalled by countless new genres and media, and yet, in the early 21st century, it appears as alive and kicking as ever. As many critics have argued, one reason for its success is the novel's remarkable capacity of adapting to changed historical contexts and new media environments. Virginia Woolf might have had a point, then, when she famously characterized the novel as a "cannibal […] which has devoured so many forms of art".

In the seminar, we're going to trace four historical moments in the evolution of the novel, focusing on representative works from the beginning of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century respectively. The class will be conceptualized as an introduction to the (history of the) novel and also aims to familiarize students with key concepts and strategies for the analysis of narrative texts.

Requirements:
- Students attending the class are kindly asked to purchase two novels (which will be listed on the syllabus). All other literature will be provided in the form of excerpts (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Further information on relevant organizational issues (how to obtain a grade, etc.) will be specified on the syllabus and clarified during our first session on 16 October.

[Si] Thomas Hardy: Essays, Shorter Fiction and Poetry
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will concentrate on the work of Thomas Hardy. We will be reading his shorter fiction and poetry, look at his essays and read his novel Jude the Obscure. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term, students are asked to buy and read Hardy's Jude the Obscure (any edition).

[Si] William Blake
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This is a seminar for advanced students in British Romanticism. We will be concentrating on the work of William Blake and read both his shorter poetry and designs and at least one of his longer poetic works. Students are asked to buy M.L.Johnson (ed.) Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions) before the beginning of term.

[Si] William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Its Contemporary Rewritings
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
In this seminar, we will first take a closer look at a canonical English play – William Shakespeare's romance The Tempest (1611) – and then, in a second step, analyse how two twentieth- and twenty-first century writers have responded to the play's themes and concerns by rewriting Shakespeare's original story into novels that unveil new perspectives, give voice to marginal characters, and foreground how The Tempest addresses the topics of gender, race, and colonialism. In addition, the seminar will feature one creative-writing workshop and a reading by English novelist Zara Karschay, who has used Shakespeare's Macbeth as an inspiration for her own fiction.

The seminar will have the following structure:
- We will begin by recapitulating a few basic concepts of drama analysis.
- We will discuss the idea behind and the aims of literary rewritings; in this context, we shall reflect on why postcolonial and feminist theories have contributed to the popularity of this particular form of intertextuality.
- We will then move on to a close reading of The Tempest, which shall acquaint you with the main characters, themes and structural principles of the play.
- The first rewriting that we shall then consider is George Lamming's Water with Berries (1971), a novel about 16th-century explorers in the West Indies.
- The second rewriting we will turn to is Margaret Atwood's novel Hag-Seed (2016). (You might know Atwood as the author of The Handmaid's Tale.) Hag-Seed follows the turbulent life and memories of Felix, a theatre maker who is about to direct The Tempest.
- On 16 January 2019, Zara Karschay will visit our class with a creative-writing workshop and a subsequent reading from her novel at the Literarisches Zentrum Gießen (begin 7.30 pm). Please note that attending the reading at the LZG is obligatory for this seminar.

Workload:
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in teamwork (please note that you will have to work in groups on a regular basis), attendance at Zara Karschay's reading on 16 January, 7.30 pm at the LZG. Depending on your programme of studies, you will either have to write a written term paper or a final exam.

Additionally, you must have a copy of the following texts which will be read and discussed in class in the following order:
- Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Ed. Alden and Virginia Vaughan. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. [Arden Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-1408133477]
- Lamming, George. Water with Berries. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2016. [Caribbean Modern Classics; ISBN: 978-1845231675]
- Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed. London: Vintage, 2016. [Hogarth Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-0099594024]

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[Si] Women in Poetry by Women
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 033

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

 
[Vl] Black and Asian British Writing, 1700-2000
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L2,3,5,PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Black and Asian British Writing, 1700 – 2000 (Tue, 12-2 p.m.)
The work of black and Asian writers is at the heart of British literature today. Yet processes of canonisation are slow, and blanket terms like ‘black' and ‘Asian' or even ‘British' are not unproblematic when in fact many of these writers are also discussed in terms of other national literatures (Caribbean, Indian, African, etc.). This state of affairs only highlights the need to place black and Asian British writing on the critical agenda, and to explore its relationship with other Anglophone literatures around the globe.
While giving an overview of today's writers (Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith et al.), this course of lectures will include their predecessors (Olaudah Equiano, Mary Seacole et al.) in a longer, less often told (pre-)history of black and Asian British writing dating back as far as the eighteenth century. We will trace lines of influence in terms of genres and writing styles, with a focus on literature and occasionally taking into account other media as well. Moreover, we will deal with the historical and cultural challenges that black and Asian British writers have responded to and reworked creatively, including the end of Empire, post-WWII migration, the rise of multi-ethnic Britain and the making of new identities.

[Vl] The Soul in British Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The concept of the soul is in many respects of key importance for an idea of what is human. For about two millennia, the soul had been an indispensable part of a human being, its life force, its essence as self, and its power of cognition. Furthermore, the soul was considered the immortal part of the individual human. Around 1800, however, there occurred a momentous paradigm shift that may be called the discovery of the human as a biological, immanent, and therefore mortal being. In this lecture series, we will consider the cultural heritage of the concept of soul from its classical origins down to the modern age. In the course of this class, we will investigate its influence on philosophy, science, art, and literature from Plato and Aristotle via William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats.

[Vl] The United States: Beginnings - Law/Politics/Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 1

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6.Sem
Kommentar:
This interactive lecture series covers the pre-Anglophone and pre-national beginnings of the United States up until 1900. In each session one paradigmatic literary or legal text will be analyzed in depth as a way to open up central political and cultural issues of the period in question. These texts offer keys to understanding how imperialism, slavery, and Puritanism shaped the colonial and antebellum and postbellum periods. Lines of continuity will be drawn between America's present and its beginnings.

 
 
[Si] An Introduction to Body Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, 202

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Everything we experience, we experience with and through our body. Our body is able to store and remember specific memories and skills that we are not necessarily consciously aware of; our body is usually the first aspect other people will notice when meeting us; our body may determine our successes and our weaknesses. In short, the body is omnipresent.
This course aims at providing an overview of different body concepts relevant in (British) Cultural Studies. We will discuss a variety of theoretical texts and approaches (e.g. by Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Bourdieu …) and will analyse the (changing) understandings of the body in British culture and society, ranging from the Middle Ages to contemporary Britain. We will also investigate how the (individual, social, public, political, national, gendered …) body was predominantly perceived at specific times and how these body concepts may be related to the social circumstances, culture and politics of the respective time by drawing connections to selected literary and cultural texts. Consequently, our analysis may grant us an insight into subcultures and power relations between individual social groups.
Furthermore, this course will provide students with the possibility to plan and conduct their own case study/project related to the seminar topic while we will analyse one case study together in class.
To enjoy this class, you should be interested in reading and analysing theoretical texts and approaches.

Workload (more specific details will follow in the seminar):
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in group work, oral presentations. Furthermore, I expect you to read all the texts discussed in class. Please note that the kind of exam you have to take at the end of the semester will depend on your course of studies as well as on the module you're enrolled in (more details to follow).

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed ”that on or about December, 1910, human character changed”. What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:

- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.
- To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed "that on or about December, 1910, human character changed". What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:
- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (to be made available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.

Please note: To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] Anglophone Caribbean Writing
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3/4
Kommentar:
Anglophone Caribbean Writing (Mon, 4-6 p.m.)
The Caribbean has produced a rich body of English-language writing, highly complex and diverse not unlike the Caribbean archipelago itself. Indeed, writers have repeatedly turned to local topography to derive literary idioms and styles. Regardless of a fragmentary island space, the quest for an overarching poetics has been one of the founding moves of Anglophone Caribbean writing. Where models and modes of expression from the English canon no longer represented local realities, or if anything prolonged stereotypical images of a tropical garden Eden, writers started revisiting the land for scarred memories of forced labour and plantation agriculture. The sea, the plantation, the hinterland, the beach and the hurricane have since provided innovative elements as form, genre, and central topoi.
This seminar will deal with a wide range of texts, particularly poetry, which more than mere nature writing seek to unearth difficult histories of race, gender, migration and island life. Simultaneously, they throw into relief the archipelago's often precarious and endangered nature, allowing us to explore the relationship between literature and the environment as highlighted by the expanding field of postcolonial ecocriticism.
Reading:
Sam Selvon, An Island is a World (1955); excerpts from the Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (ed. Allison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, 1996) and additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] Contemporary British Television Series - Topics, Trends, and Theory
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5, PV/WPV Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Since 1990s and especially the turn of the Millennium, there is a considerable change in both the production and the perception of Western television series. For decades, films produced for movie theatres had been the sole resort for artistic ambition. With American TV series such as Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, or The Wire, a paradigm shift set in, and the television series developed rapidly, exploring new generic forms, narrative complexity, and ambitious experiments, which is also reflected upon in academic investigations focussing on complex TV and popular seriality. Although not always taking centre stage in the academic discourse as well as popular perception, British and Irish television series also explore new grounds, very often acting as role models for American forms. In this class we will look at the theory of serial narration and investigate groundbreaking shows from sitcoms to crime drama, including The Office, Black Mirror, Broadchurch, Love/Hate, Luther, and Sherlock.

[Si] Daniel Defoe: Fallen Women and Men at Sea
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731), one of the pioneers of the English novel, is today best remembered for his first foray into the genre, "Robinson Crusoe" (1719). This course will also discuss two of Defoe's lesser-known novels: "Moll Flanders" (1722) and "Roxana" (1724). While Crusoe experiences the hazards of life at sea far away from their native England, Moll and Roxana are driven into the hands of crime and prostitution from sheer necessity and invent multiple personalities in their fight for survival in a patriarchal society.

[Si] Eighteenth Century Satire
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Eighteenth-Century Satire (Mon, 6-8 p.m.)
The eighteenth century has been called a golden age of satire. Anything from morality, religion, politics, modern science or London's gin craze was subjected to scathing attacks. Meanwhile satirists, who met in special circles such as the famous Scriblerus Club, were themselves the product of a new literary, publishing and coffeehouse culture. At a time of dramatic social change, satire turned into an important medium of critique and future as well as past reflection.
In this seminar, we will deal with a number of classic and some less well-known examples of eighteenth-century satire, including by women writers in what for a long time passed as a male-dominated literary practice. As a mode of writing and artistic representation, satire travelled through many genres and media, taken up by central figures such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Charlotte Lennox and William Hogarth. Entertaining as well as context-specific, eighteenth-century satires provide a gateway to exploring the age's literature and culture. At the same time as being an important topic of eighteenth-century studies, satire constitutes an important legacy for today. In our own, postmodern times, in which reality seems to have trumped some of satire's wildest dreams, the potentials and limits of conceiving society otherwise continue to matter greatly.
Reading:
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752)
John Gay, The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Alexander Pope, Epistle to Arbuthnot (1735)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] From #MeToo to Pornification - Negotiations of Sexual Cultures
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Hungary wants to ban gender studies, and the Alternative for Germany has called for an end to ”Genderwahn” in language and teaching. These phenomena along with controversies surrounding the #MeToo movement, the so-called sexualization of childhood and the pornification of culture, demonstrate that we are at a historical juncture in which highly conflicting notions about appropriate sexual behavior and discourse compete with one another. These conflicts demonstrate that attitudes about sexuality and gender are historically contingent and extremely politicized. This seminar takes on the cultural-politics of negotiating with sexual cultures now.

[Si] Introduction to Feminist Disability Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Following the credo of the disability rights movement ”Nothing About Us Without Us,” this course is based on the assumption that disability is everywhere – once you begin to look for it. However, disability remains overlooked and unseen in the feminist triad gender, race, and class. This course seeks to fill this gap by asking is there a feminist side to being disabled? What does it mean to inject disability into feminist thought? To answer these questions we will discuss key concepts of disability and feminist theory such as the nature and meaning of embodiment, heteronormative and ableist forms of normativity, and the overlap between sexism and ableism. We will explore not only how Disability Studies become feminist, but also how feminism becomes disabling.
A reading list and the syllabus will be made available through StudIP at the beginning of the semester.

[Si] Introduction to Postcolonial Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will begin by looking at literary representations of London in the first half of the nineteenth century, roughly 1815 – 1845, and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary „psychogeography” of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will look at literary representations of London and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary psychogeography of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] Media Analysis through Media Creation
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
With the assistance of film maker Lisa Friederich, this course shall teach methods of film and television analysis through the process of creating short films. Participants shall work in small groups to produce work that demonstrates media-critical awareness. Our primary text for analysis shall be The Handmaid's Tale (2017 -) Hulu. Alongside creating the films, participants shall be asked to reflect on theories and methods of media analysis in short texts.

[Si] Shakespeare's Happy Comedies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will deal with Shakespeare's ‘mature' or ‘happy' comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. The discussion will include contemporary modern views and theories on comedy and take into account the context of the Elizabethan theatre. Particular attention will be paid to the role of women and family conceptions. Film versions will be considered as well.
Plenary discussions will be combined with work in study groups.

Texts: William Shakespeare, As You Like It
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
All: Penguin Shakespeare Edition

[Si] The Concept of Culture Revisited
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Raymond Williams famously claimed that culture ”is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.” Within the field of Cultural Studies, this complicated concept has been explored and investigated from a number of different angles. Today, culture is mainly understood as a set of semiotic social and political practices, which are concerned with questions of power, ethnicity, class, and gender. Questions of the concept of culture are central to the development of the main theoretical movements including Structuralism and Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Theories of the Body, Discourse Theory, or Media Studies.
We will read and discuss theoretical texts from the beginning in the 19th century to the present day. The aim of this class is to provide an overview of the field of Cultural Studies within the field of English Studies, and to discuss the current state of the art regarding the development of the theory of culture.

[Si] The Evolution of the British Novel - from the 18th to the 21st Century
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Ever since its famous "rise" (Ian Watt) in 18th-century Britain, the novel has been rivalled by countless new genres and media, and yet, in the early 21st century, it appears as alive and kicking as ever. As many critics have argued, one reason for its success is the novel's remarkable capacity of adapting to changed historical contexts and new media environments. Virginia Woolf might have had a point, then, when she famously characterized the novel as a "cannibal […] which has devoured so many forms of art".

In the seminar, we're going to trace four historical moments in the evolution of the novel, focusing on representative works from the beginning of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century respectively. The class will be conceptualized as an introduction to the (history of the) novel and also aims to familiarize students with key concepts and strategies for the analysis of narrative texts.

Requirements:
- Students attending the class are kindly asked to purchase two novels (which will be listed on the syllabus). All other literature will be provided in the form of excerpts (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Further information on relevant organizational issues (how to obtain a grade, etc.) will be specified on the syllabus and clarified during our first session on 16 October.

[Si] Thomas Hardy: Essays, Shorter Fiction and Poetry
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will concentrate on the work of Thomas Hardy. We will be reading his shorter fiction and poetry, look at his essays and read his novel Jude the Obscure. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term, students are asked to buy and read Hardy's Jude the Obscure (any edition).

[Si] William Blake
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This is a seminar for advanced students in British Romanticism. We will be concentrating on the work of William Blake and read both his shorter poetry and designs and at least one of his longer poetic works. Students are asked to buy M.L.Johnson (ed.) Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions) before the beginning of term.

 
[Si] An Introduction to Body Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, 202

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Everything we experience, we experience with and through our body. Our body is able to store and remember specific memories and skills that we are not necessarily consciously aware of; our body is usually the first aspect other people will notice when meeting us; our body may determine our successes and our weaknesses. In short, the body is omnipresent.
This course aims at providing an overview of different body concepts relevant in (British) Cultural Studies. We will discuss a variety of theoretical texts and approaches (e.g. by Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Bourdieu …) and will analyse the (changing) understandings of the body in British culture and society, ranging from the Middle Ages to contemporary Britain. We will also investigate how the (individual, social, public, political, national, gendered …) body was predominantly perceived at specific times and how these body concepts may be related to the social circumstances, culture and politics of the respective time by drawing connections to selected literary and cultural texts. Consequently, our analysis may grant us an insight into subcultures and power relations between individual social groups.
Furthermore, this course will provide students with the possibility to plan and conduct their own case study/project related to the seminar topic while we will analyse one case study together in class.
To enjoy this class, you should be interested in reading and analysing theoretical texts and approaches.

Workload (more specific details will follow in the seminar):
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in group work, oral presentations. Furthermore, I expect you to read all the texts discussed in class. Please note that the kind of exam you have to take at the end of the semester will depend on your course of studies as well as on the module you're enrolled in (more details to follow).

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed ”that on or about December, 1910, human character changed”. What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:

- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.
- To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] An Introduction to Modernism
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
In a 1924 essay, Virginia Woolf proclaimed "that on or about December, 1910, human character changed". What was the nature of the change she recognised? Which events of the beginning of the 20th century effected this profound change? How did the literature of the time reflect such transformations in culture, history, and the human condition? Taking its cue from Woolf's oft quoted claim, this seminar will aim to explore and demystify one of the most influential epochs in literary history – Modernism.

We will closely examine British (and American) literature produced between ca. 1890 and 1930, spanning genres like short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, and focusing on the most representative styles and techniques developed by Modernist writers. The writings examined will be situated in the historical and cultural contexts that impacted their composition: the Great War, scientific and technological breakthroughs, political turmoil, as well as a major turn in sexual and gender politics. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the basic tools to analyse and critically engage with texts from the first half of the 20th century (and beyond).

Requirements:
- Students will be asked to purchase two novels that will be listed in the primary readings. All other literature will be provided in the form of a reader (to be made available for download on Stud.IP).
- Students will be expected to submit an abstract of 300 words in length on a research project they will undertake for the course. The abstract submission deadline will be 25 January 2019.
- Students who need a grade for the class will be expected to write a term paper, which will have to be submitted by 1 April 2019.

Please note: To complement the seminar, the Department will offer a series of tutorials on developing students' writing skills. While the tutorials are not obligatory, all students are warmly encouraged to attend them.

[Si] Anglophone Caribbean Writing
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3/4
Kommentar:
Anglophone Caribbean Writing (Mon, 4-6 p.m.)
The Caribbean has produced a rich body of English-language writing, highly complex and diverse not unlike the Caribbean archipelago itself. Indeed, writers have repeatedly turned to local topography to derive literary idioms and styles. Regardless of a fragmentary island space, the quest for an overarching poetics has been one of the founding moves of Anglophone Caribbean writing. Where models and modes of expression from the English canon no longer represented local realities, or if anything prolonged stereotypical images of a tropical garden Eden, writers started revisiting the land for scarred memories of forced labour and plantation agriculture. The sea, the plantation, the hinterland, the beach and the hurricane have since provided innovative elements as form, genre, and central topoi.
This seminar will deal with a wide range of texts, particularly poetry, which more than mere nature writing seek to unearth difficult histories of race, gender, migration and island life. Simultaneously, they throw into relief the archipelago's often precarious and endangered nature, allowing us to explore the relationship between literature and the environment as highlighted by the expanding field of postcolonial ecocriticism.
Reading:
Sam Selvon, An Island is a World (1955); excerpts from the Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (ed. Allison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, 1996) and additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] Contemporary British Television Series - Topics, Trends, and Theory
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5, PV/WPV Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
Since 1990s and especially the turn of the Millennium, there is a considerable change in both the production and the perception of Western television series. For decades, films produced for movie theatres had been the sole resort for artistic ambition. With American TV series such as Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, or The Wire, a paradigm shift set in, and the television series developed rapidly, exploring new generic forms, narrative complexity, and ambitious experiments, which is also reflected upon in academic investigations focussing on complex TV and popular seriality. Although not always taking centre stage in the academic discourse as well as popular perception, British and Irish television series also explore new grounds, very often acting as role models for American forms. In this class we will look at the theory of serial narration and investigate groundbreaking shows from sitcoms to crime drama, including The Office, Black Mirror, Broadchurch, Love/Hate, Luther, and Sherlock.

[Si] Daniel Defoe: Fallen Women and Men at Sea
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731), one of the pioneers of the English novel, is today best remembered for his first foray into the genre, "Robinson Crusoe" (1719). This course will also discuss two of Defoe's lesser-known novels: "Moll Flanders" (1722) and "Roxana" (1724). While Crusoe experiences the hazards of life at sea far away from their native England, Moll and Roxana are driven into the hands of crime and prostitution from sheer necessity and invent multiple personalities in their fight for survival in a patriarchal society.

[Si] Eighteenth Century Satire
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Eighteenth-Century Satire (Mon, 6-8 p.m.)
The eighteenth century has been called a golden age of satire. Anything from morality, religion, politics, modern science or London's gin craze was subjected to scathing attacks. Meanwhile satirists, who met in special circles such as the famous Scriblerus Club, were themselves the product of a new literary, publishing and coffeehouse culture. At a time of dramatic social change, satire turned into an important medium of critique and future as well as past reflection.
In this seminar, we will deal with a number of classic and some less well-known examples of eighteenth-century satire, including by women writers in what for a long time passed as a male-dominated literary practice. As a mode of writing and artistic representation, satire travelled through many genres and media, taken up by central figures such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Charlotte Lennox and William Hogarth. Entertaining as well as context-specific, eighteenth-century satires provide a gateway to exploring the age's literature and culture. At the same time as being an important topic of eighteenth-century studies, satire constitutes an important legacy for today. In our own, postmodern times, in which reality seems to have trumped some of satire's wildest dreams, the potentials and limits of conceiving society otherwise continue to matter greatly.
Reading:
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752)
John Gay, The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Alexander Pope, Epistle to Arbuthnot (1735)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] From #MeToo to Pornification - Negotiations of Sexual Cultures
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Hungary wants to ban gender studies, and the Alternative for Germany has called for an end to ”Genderwahn” in language and teaching. These phenomena along with controversies surrounding the #MeToo movement, the so-called sexualization of childhood and the pornification of culture, demonstrate that we are at a historical juncture in which highly conflicting notions about appropriate sexual behavior and discourse compete with one another. These conflicts demonstrate that attitudes about sexuality and gender are historically contingent and extremely politicized. This seminar takes on the cultural-politics of negotiating with sexual cultures now.

[Si] Introduction to Feminist Disability Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Following the credo of the disability rights movement ”Nothing About Us Without Us,” this course is based on the assumption that disability is everywhere – once you begin to look for it. However, disability remains overlooked and unseen in the feminist triad gender, race, and class. This course seeks to fill this gap by asking is there a feminist side to being disabled? What does it mean to inject disability into feminist thought? To answer these questions we will discuss key concepts of disability and feminist theory such as the nature and meaning of embodiment, heteronormative and ableist forms of normativity, and the overlap between sexism and ableism. We will explore not only how Disability Studies become feminist, but also how feminism becomes disabling.
A reading list and the syllabus will be made available through StudIP at the beginning of the semester.

[Si] Introduction to Postcolonial Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will begin by looking at literary representations of London in the first half of the nineteenth century, roughly 1815 – 1845, and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary „psychogeography” of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] London in Literature / The Literatures of London
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The textual London of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century clearly paved the way and laid the foundations for representations of the metropolis in literary modernism. This course will look at literary representations of London and consider how these texts define London as an imaginative, physical and psychological narrative space. We will then expand this examination into an analysis of modernist visions of the metropolis. Throughout the seminar, we will be placing a special focus on a geocritical approach and the gradual emergence of a literary psychogeography of the city as well as on the characteristic experimentation with the relationship between word and image which appears to accompany the (early) modernist urban consciousness in literary representation. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term.

[Si] Media Analysis through Media Creation
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
With the assistance of film maker Lisa Friederich, this course shall teach methods of film and television analysis through the process of creating short films. Participants shall work in small groups to produce work that demonstrates media-critical awareness. Our primary text for analysis shall be The Handmaid's Tale (2017 -) Hulu. Alongside creating the films, participants shall be asked to reflect on theories and methods of media analysis in short texts.

[Si] Shakespeare's Happy Comedies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will deal with Shakespeare's ‘mature' or ‘happy' comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. The discussion will include contemporary modern views and theories on comedy and take into account the context of the Elizabethan theatre. Particular attention will be paid to the role of women and family conceptions. Film versions will be considered as well.
Plenary discussions will be combined with work in study groups.

Texts: William Shakespeare, As You Like It
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
All: Penguin Shakespeare Edition

[Si] The Concept of Culture Revisited
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Raymond Williams famously claimed that culture ”is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.” Within the field of Cultural Studies, this complicated concept has been explored and investigated from a number of different angles. Today, culture is mainly understood as a set of semiotic social and political practices, which are concerned with questions of power, ethnicity, class, and gender. Questions of the concept of culture are central to the development of the main theoretical movements including Structuralism and Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Theories of the Body, Discourse Theory, or Media Studies.
We will read and discuss theoretical texts from the beginning in the 19th century to the present day. The aim of this class is to provide an overview of the field of Cultural Studies within the field of English Studies, and to discuss the current state of the art regarding the development of the theory of culture.

[Si] The Evolution of the British Novel - from the 18th to the 21st Century
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Ever since its famous "rise" (Ian Watt) in 18th-century Britain, the novel has been rivalled by countless new genres and media, and yet, in the early 21st century, it appears as alive and kicking as ever. As many critics have argued, one reason for its success is the novel's remarkable capacity of adapting to changed historical contexts and new media environments. Virginia Woolf might have had a point, then, when she famously characterized the novel as a "cannibal […] which has devoured so many forms of art".

In the seminar, we're going to trace four historical moments in the evolution of the novel, focusing on representative works from the beginning of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century respectively. The class will be conceptualized as an introduction to the (history of the) novel and also aims to familiarize students with key concepts and strategies for the analysis of narrative texts.

Requirements:
- Students attending the class are kindly asked to purchase two novels (which will be listed on the syllabus). All other literature will be provided in the form of excerpts (available for download on Stud.IP).
- Further information on relevant organizational issues (how to obtain a grade, etc.) will be specified on the syllabus and clarified during our first session on 16 October.

[Si] Thomas Hardy: Essays, Shorter Fiction and Poetry
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will concentrate on the work of Thomas Hardy. We will be reading his shorter fiction and poetry, look at his essays and read his novel Jude the Obscure. A reader with all texts will be available through StudIP from the beginning of term, students are asked to buy and read Hardy's Jude the Obscure (any edition).

[Si] William Blake
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This is a seminar for advanced students in British Romanticism. We will be concentrating on the work of William Blake and read both his shorter poetry and designs and at least one of his longer poetic works. Students are asked to buy M.L.Johnson (ed.) Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions) before the beginning of term.

 
[Vl] Black and Asian British Writing, 1700-2000
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L2,3,5,PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Black and Asian British Writing, 1700 – 2000 (Tue, 12-2 p.m.)
The work of black and Asian writers is at the heart of British literature today. Yet processes of canonisation are slow, and blanket terms like ‘black' and ‘Asian' or even ‘British' are not unproblematic when in fact many of these writers are also discussed in terms of other national literatures (Caribbean, Indian, African, etc.). This state of affairs only highlights the need to place black and Asian British writing on the critical agenda, and to explore its relationship with other Anglophone literatures around the globe.
While giving an overview of today's writers (Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith et al.), this course of lectures will include their predecessors (Olaudah Equiano, Mary Seacole et al.) in a longer, less often told (pre-)history of black and Asian British writing dating back as far as the eighteenth century. We will trace lines of influence in terms of genres and writing styles, with a focus on literature and occasionally taking into account other media as well. Moreover, we will deal with the historical and cultural challenges that black and Asian British writers have responded to and reworked creatively, including the end of Empire, post-WWII migration, the rise of multi-ethnic Britain and the making of new identities.

[Vl] The Soul in British Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The concept of the soul is in many respects of key importance for an idea of what is human. For about two millennia, the soul had been an indispensable part of a human being, its life force, its essence as self, and its power of cognition. Furthermore, the soul was considered the immortal part of the individual human. Around 1800, however, there occurred a momentous paradigm shift that may be called the discovery of the human as a biological, immanent, and therefore mortal being. In this lecture series, we will consider the cultural heritage of the concept of soul from its classical origins down to the modern age. In the course of this class, we will investigate its influence on philosophy, science, art, and literature from Plato and Aristotle via William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats.

[Vl] The United States: Beginnings - Law/Politics/Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 1

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6.Sem
Kommentar:
This interactive lecture series covers the pre-Anglophone and pre-national beginnings of the United States up until 1900. In each session one paradigmatic literary or legal text will be analyzed in depth as a way to open up central political and cultural issues of the period in question. These texts offer keys to understanding how imperialism, slavery, and Puritanism shaped the colonial and antebellum and postbellum periods. Lines of continuity will be drawn between America's present and its beginnings.

 
 
[Vl] Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

 
[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, E 004

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Middle English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Psycholinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Spoken English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Standardising English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The main differences in contemporary English spelling boil down to American (e.g. theater, color) versus British variants (e.g. theatre, colour). Other than that, the spelling of English these days is uniform all around the globe. This uniformity, however, is the result of a long-lasting historical process known as linguistic standardisation, which is still in full swing today.

In the course of this class, we will approach the English language diachronically and explore how it developed from Old English with strong Germanic roots to the fully standardised Present-Day English we all know. In the course of this, we will define the notion and describe the process of linguistic standardisation and evaluate to what extent standardisation is visible a) across the different periods in the history of the English language (Old English, Middle English, etc.) and b) on the various structural levels of language organisation (phonology, lexis, grammar, semantics, etc.). In order to empirically study standardisation processes, we will also learn and use the programming language R.

Ungraded Credit: Regular attendance, preparation of homework and active participation.
Graded: The above and either a pass in the final exam (February 14 2019) or in the term paper (due on March 31 2019).

[P Si] Textlinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

 
[H Si] Diachronic Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Language changes continuously and it varies in communities of speakers and due to social factors such as age, gender, ethnicity etc. In this course we will take a closer look at those changes by focussing on the field of diachronic sociolinguistics.
We will start by reviewing basic principles of synchronic sociolinguistics and in a second step, will combine these principles and methods with those of historical linguistics and attempt to reconstruct processes of language change in their social context.

Credit
Ungraded: Regular attendance, active participation; including presentation.
Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, presentation, plus a final exam (11.02.2019) or term paper (deadline: 31.03.2019)

[H Si] Second-Language Acquisition
Dozent/-in:
Puga, K.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, E 105

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: 14.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

[H Si] Varieties of English: America
Dozent/-in:
Puga, K.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: 13.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

[H Si] Varieties of English: New Englishes
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: xx.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

 
 
[Vl] Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

 
[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, E 004

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Middle English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Psycholinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Spoken English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Standardising English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The main differences in contemporary English spelling boil down to American (e.g. theater, color) versus British variants (e.g. theatre, colour). Other than that, the spelling of English these days is uniform all around the globe. This uniformity, however, is the result of a long-lasting historical process known as linguistic standardisation, which is still in full swing today.

In the course of this class, we will approach the English language diachronically and explore how it developed from Old English with strong Germanic roots to the fully standardised Present-Day English we all know. In the course of this, we will define the notion and describe the process of linguistic standardisation and evaluate to what extent standardisation is visible a) across the different periods in the history of the English language (Old English, Middle English, etc.) and b) on the various structural levels of language organisation (phonology, lexis, grammar, semantics, etc.). In order to empirically study standardisation processes, we will also learn and use the programming language R.

Ungraded Credit: Regular attendance, preparation of homework and active participation.
Graded: The above and either a pass in the final exam (February 14 2019) or in the term paper (due on March 31 2019).

[P Si] Textlinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

 
[H Si] Diachronic Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Language changes continuously and it varies in communities of speakers and due to social factors such as age, gender, ethnicity etc. In this course we will take a closer look at those changes by focussing on the field of diachronic sociolinguistics.
We will start by reviewing basic principles of synchronic sociolinguistics and in a second step, will combine these principles and methods with those of historical linguistics and attempt to reconstruct processes of language change in their social context.

Credit
Ungraded: Regular attendance, active participation; including presentation.
Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, presentation, plus a final exam (11.02.2019) or term paper (deadline: 31.03.2019)

[H Si] Second-Language Acquisition
Dozent/-in:
Puga, K.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, E 105

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: 14.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

[H Si] Varieties of English: America
Dozent/-in:
Puga, K.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: 13.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

[H Si] Varieties of English: New Englishes
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: xx.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

 
 
[Vl] Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

 
[Si] Anglophone Caribbean Writing
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3/4
Kommentar:
Anglophone Caribbean Writing (Mon, 4-6 p.m.)
The Caribbean has produced a rich body of English-language writing, highly complex and diverse not unlike the Caribbean archipelago itself. Indeed, writers have repeatedly turned to local topography to derive literary idioms and styles. Regardless of a fragmentary island space, the quest for an overarching poetics has been one of the founding moves of Anglophone Caribbean writing. Where models and modes of expression from the English canon no longer represented local realities, or if anything prolonged stereotypical images of a tropical garden Eden, writers started revisiting the land for scarred memories of forced labour and plantation agriculture. The sea, the plantation, the hinterland, the beach and the hurricane have since provided innovative elements as form, genre, and central topoi.
This seminar will deal with a wide range of texts, particularly poetry, which more than mere nature writing seek to unearth difficult histories of race, gender, migration and island life. Simultaneously, they throw into relief the archipelago's often precarious and endangered nature, allowing us to explore the relationship between literature and the environment as highlighted by the expanding field of postcolonial ecocriticism.
Reading:
Sam Selvon, An Island is a World (1955); excerpts from the Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (ed. Allison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, 1996) and additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, E 004

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Contrastive Linguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[Si] Death Sentences: Capital Punishment in World Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1

[P Si] Psycholinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Spoken English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Standardising English
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The main differences in contemporary English spelling boil down to American (e.g. theater, color) versus British variants (e.g. theatre, colour). Other than that, the spelling of English these days is uniform all around the globe. This uniformity, however, is the result of a long-lasting historical process known as linguistic standardisation, which is still in full swing today.

In the course of this class, we will approach the English language diachronically and explore how it developed from Old English with strong Germanic roots to the fully standardised Present-Day English we all know. In the course of this, we will define the notion and describe the process of linguistic standardisation and evaluate to what extent standardisation is visible a) across the different periods in the history of the English language (Old English, Middle English, etc.) and b) on the various structural levels of language organisation (phonology, lexis, grammar, semantics, etc.). In order to empirically study standardisation processes, we will also learn and use the programming language R.

Ungraded Credit: Regular attendance, preparation of homework and active participation.
Graded: The above and either a pass in the final exam (February 14 2019) or in the term paper (due on March 31 2019).

[P Si] Textlinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:30 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

[P Si] Varieties of English around the World
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2 | L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4

 
[Si] Anglophone Caribbean Writing
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L2,3,5 PV/WPV, Sj 3/4
Kommentar:
Anglophone Caribbean Writing (Mon, 4-6 p.m.)
The Caribbean has produced a rich body of English-language writing, highly complex and diverse not unlike the Caribbean archipelago itself. Indeed, writers have repeatedly turned to local topography to derive literary idioms and styles. Regardless of a fragmentary island space, the quest for an overarching poetics has been one of the founding moves of Anglophone Caribbean writing. Where models and modes of expression from the English canon no longer represented local realities, or if anything prolonged stereotypical images of a tropical garden Eden, writers started revisiting the land for scarred memories of forced labour and plantation agriculture. The sea, the plantation, the hinterland, the beach and the hurricane have since provided innovative elements as form, genre, and central topoi.
This seminar will deal with a wide range of texts, particularly poetry, which more than mere nature writing seek to unearth difficult histories of race, gender, migration and island life. Simultaneously, they throw into relief the archipelago's often precarious and endangered nature, allowing us to explore the relationship between literature and the environment as highlighted by the expanding field of postcolonial ecocriticism.
Reading:
Sam Selvon, An Island is a World (1955); excerpts from the Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (ed. Allison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, 1996) and additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] Death Sentences: Capital Punishment in World Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1

[H Si] Diachronic Sociolinguistics
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Language changes continuously and it varies in communities of speakers and due to social factors such as age, gender, ethnicity etc. In this course we will take a closer look at those changes by focussing on the field of diachronic sociolinguistics.
We will start by reviewing basic principles of synchronic sociolinguistics and in a second step, will combine these principles and methods with those of historical linguistics and attempt to reconstruct processes of language change in their social context.

Credit
Ungraded: Regular attendance, active participation; including presentation.
Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, presentation, plus a final exam (11.02.2019) or term paper (deadline: 31.03.2019)

[Si] Introduction to Postcolonial Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 009

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4

[H Si] Second-Language Acquisition
Dozent/-in:
Puga, K.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, E 105

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: 14.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

[H Si] Varieties of English: America
Dozent/-in:
Puga, K.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: 13.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

[H Si] Varieties of English: New Englishes
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | NFF Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK ELLC Ba, WPV, Sj 2/3 | L3, WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Credit: Graded: Regular attendance, active participation, and a final exam or term paper (depending on your degree).
Examination: xx.02.2019
Term paper submission according to the department-wide deadline: 31.03.2019

[Si] William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Its Contemporary Rewritings
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 2/3 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6. Sem.
Kommentar:
In this seminar, we will first take a closer look at a canonical English play – William Shakespeare's romance The Tempest (1611) – and then, in a second step, analyse how two twentieth- and twenty-first century writers have responded to the play's themes and concerns by rewriting Shakespeare's original story into novels that unveil new perspectives, give voice to marginal characters, and foreground how The Tempest addresses the topics of gender, race, and colonialism. In addition, the seminar will feature one creative-writing workshop and a reading by English novelist Zara Karschay, who has used Shakespeare's Macbeth as an inspiration for her own fiction.

The seminar will have the following structure:
- We will begin by recapitulating a few basic concepts of drama analysis.
- We will discuss the idea behind and the aims of literary rewritings; in this context, we shall reflect on why postcolonial and feminist theories have contributed to the popularity of this particular form of intertextuality.
- We will then move on to a close reading of The Tempest, which shall acquaint you with the main characters, themes and structural principles of the play.
- The first rewriting that we shall then consider is George Lamming's Water with Berries (1971), a novel about 16th-century explorers in the West Indies.
- The second rewriting we will turn to is Margaret Atwood's novel Hag-Seed (2016). (You might know Atwood as the author of The Handmaid's Tale.) Hag-Seed follows the turbulent life and memories of Felix, a theatre maker who is about to direct The Tempest.
- On 16 January 2019, Zara Karschay will visit our class with a creative-writing workshop and a subsequent reading from her novel at the Literarisches Zentrum Gießen (begin 7.30 pm). Please note that attending the reading at the LZG is obligatory for this seminar.

Workload:
Contributions to discussions in class, participation in teamwork (please note that you will have to work in groups on a regular basis), attendance at Zara Karschay's reading on 16 January, 7.30 pm at the LZG. Depending on your programme of studies, you will either have to write a written term paper or a final exam.

Additionally, you must have a copy of the following texts which will be read and discussed in class in the following order:
- Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Ed. Alden and Virginia Vaughan. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. [Arden Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-1408133477]
- Lamming, George. Water with Berries. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2016. [Caribbean Modern Classics; ISBN: 978-1845231675]
- Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed. London: Vintage, 2016. [Hogarth Shakespeare; ISBN: 978-0099594024]

 
 
[Ü] Speaking & Listening I (a)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | L 3, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims to develop and enhance students' listening and speaking skills for academic purposes at level B2+/ C1 CEFR. After attending this course, students should be able not only to comprehend an academic presentation in detail, but also to summarise its gist and ask critical questions about any weaknesses in the line of argumentation. Further, they should manage to present a research project and discuss its findings in a presentation using effective visual aids as well as academic language and vocabulary. Students are expected to present their views in a logical and systematic manner, correctly and appropriately using academic phraseology as found, for example, in the Manchester Academic Phrasebank, tense and aspect, particularly verbs of stating, contradicting and comparing, as well as academic collocations. Hence, students will be encouraged to express their ideas and arguments in a grammatically correct manner by using clear syntax and vocabulary appropriate for academic discourse. As the course is designed to teach speaking in a formal setting, students will be encouraged to speak in a convincing and confident manner by adhering to the rules of an academic discussion. Consequently, students' academic presentations are supposed to have unity and coherence as well as appropriate use of idiomatic expressions. In order to improve competency in their listening comprehension, students will learn how to listen to speeches on various topics and take notes by identifying the main idea as well as the development of the main arguments and by paying attention to language and vocabulary. Listening skills will be further refined by encouraging students to take part in active class discussions and presentations individually or in groups. The fundamental aim of the course is to make students hold and understand an academic or job-related presentation in a professional manner required at university level to pass their courses. As the final assessment comprises a written exam, including a listening task and a presentation to test their oral skills, students will obtain feedback throughout the course to overcome their weaknesses so that they are able to prove themselves as successful speakers and listeners.

[Ü] Speaking & Listening I (b)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | L 3, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims to develop and enhance students' listening and speaking skills for academic purposes at level B2+/ C1 CEFR. After attending this course, students should be able not only to comprehend an academic presentation in detail, but also to summarise its gist and ask critical questions about any weaknesses in the line of argumentation. Further, they should manage to present a research project and discuss its findings in a presentation using effective visual aids as well as academic language and vocabulary. Students are expected to present their views in a logical and systematic manner, correctly and appropriately using academic phraseology as found, for example, in the Manchester Academic Phrasebank, tense and aspect, particularly verbs of stating, contradicting and comparing, as well as academic collocations. Hence, students will be encouraged to express their ideas and arguments in a grammatically correct manner by using clear syntax and vocabulary appropriate for academic discourse. As the course is designed to teach speaking in a formal setting, students will be encouraged to speak in a convincing and confident manner by adhering to the rules of an academic discussion. Consequently, students' academic presentations are supposed to have unity and coherence as well as appropriate use of idiomatic expressions. In order to improve competency in their listening comprehension, students will learn how to listen to speeches on various topics and take notes by identifying the main idea as well as the development of the main arguments and by paying attention to language and vocabulary. Listening skills will be further refined by encouraging students to take part in active class discussions and presentations individually or in groups. The fundamental aim of the course is to make students hold and understand an academic or job-related presentation in a professional manner required at university level to pass their courses. As the final assessment comprises a written exam, including a listening task and a presentation to test their oral skills, students will obtain feedback throughout the course to overcome their weaknesses so that they are able to prove themselves as successful speakers and listeners.

[Ü] Speaking & Listening I (c)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | L 3, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course aims to develop and enhance students' listening and speaking skills for academic purposes at level B2+/ C1 CEFR. After attending this course, students should be able not only to comprehend an academic presentation in detail, but also to summarise its gist and ask critical questions about any weaknesses in the line of argumentation. Further, they should manage to present a research project and discuss its findings in a presentation using effective visual aids as well as academic language and vocabulary. Students are expected to present their views in a logical and systematic manner, correctly and appropriately using academic phraseology as found, for example, in the Manchester Academic Phrasebank, tense and aspect, particularly verbs of stating, contradicting and comparing, as well as academic collocations. Hence, students will be encouraged to express their ideas and arguments in a grammatically correct manner by using clear syntax and vocabulary appropriate for academic discourse. As the course is designed to teach speaking in a formal setting, students will be encouraged to speak in a convincing and confident manner by adhering to the rules of an academic discussion. Consequently, students' academic presentations are supposed to have unity and coherence as well as appropriate use of idiomatic expressions. In order to improve competency in their listening comprehension, students will learn how to listen to speeches on various topics and take notes by identifying the main idea as well as the development of the main arguments and by paying attention to language and vocabulary. Listening skills will be further refined by encouraging students to take part in active class discussions and presentations individually or in groups. The fundamental aim of the course is to make students hold and understand an academic or job-related presentation in a professional manner required at university level to pass their courses. As the final assessment comprises a written exam, including a listening task and a presentation to test their oral skills, students will obtain feedback throughout the course to overcome their weaknesses so that they are able to prove themselves as successful speakers and listeners.

[Ü] Speaking & Listening I (d)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 30.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 409

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | L 3, PV, Sj 3

[Ü] Speaking & Listening I (e)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 306

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | L 3, PV, Sj 3

[Ü] Speaking & Listening I (f)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Rathenaustr. 8, 308

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | L 3, PV, Sj 3

[Ü] Speaking & Listening I (g)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | L 3, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course focuses on developing students‘ communicative competence in the domains of listening and speaking in academic settings at level B2+/ C1 CEFRL. Students will develop and practice effective listening strategies for the global, selective and detailed decoding of aural input, specifically in academic settings (e.g. lectures), including appropriate note-taking skills. They will practice speaking fluently and eloquently in appropriate registers, specifically when contributing to academic discussions and delivering presentations. They will extend their subject-specific as well as general academic vocabulary and consolidate their knowledge of grammatical structures characteristic of academic registers.

[Ü] Speaking & Listening I (h)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV, Sj 2 | SLK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | GuK ELLC Ba, PV, Sj 2 | L 3, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
This course focuses on developing students‘ communicative competence in the domains of listening and speaking in academic settings at level B2+/ C1 CEFRL. Students will develop and practice effective listening strategies for the global, selective and detailed decoding of aural input, specifically in academic settings (e.g. lectures), including appropriate note-taking skills. They will practice speaking fluently and eloquently in appropriate registers, specifically when contributing to academic discussions and delivering presentations. They will extend their subject-specific as well as general academic vocabulary and consolidate their knowledge of grammatical structures characteristic of academic registers.

 
 
 
[Pra] Praktikumsvorbereitung und Durchführung (L2)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L3, PV, Sj 3 | L2, PV, Sj 3
Kommentar:
The aim of this seminar is to prepare students for their school internship. It is highly practice-oriented and covers a wide array of topics such as lesson planning, teaching different skills, classroom management and lesson observation, among others. Students will be called upon to create lessons and also do micro-teaching and deal with aspects that they consider important for their development.

[Pra] Praktikumsvorbereitung und Durchführung (L3)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, C 030

Zielgruppe:
L3, PV, Sj 3

[Pra] Praktikumsvorbereitung und Durchführung (L3)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
5 Einzeltermine
Phil. I, B440
Sa 03.11.2018,09.15 - 14.30 Uhr  
Sa 15.12.2018,09.15 - 14.30 Uhr  
Sa 26.01.2019,09.15 - 14.30 Uhr  
Sa 16.02.2019,09.15 - 14.30 Uhr  
Sa 02.03.2019,09.15 - 14.30 Uhr  


Zielgruppe:
L3, PV, Sj 3

[Pra] Praktikumsvorbereitung und Durchführung (L3)
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
k.A.

Zielgruppe:
L3, PV, Sj 3

 
 
 
 
 
[Si] Integrated Marketing Communication
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This course provides an overview of the major components of integrated marketing, using current examples and focusing on the English language skills needed to complete marketing tasks.
Reading: The required texts will be made available at the start of the semester.
Credit: class participation, presentation, final exam.
Date of final exam: 11.02.2019

[Si] Language and the Media
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Karl-Glöckner-Str. 5A, 108

Zielgruppen:
STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This seminar will cover a wide range of topics, with a primary focus on analyzing the language of the news in diverse media. In the course of the semester we will address questions such as:

Is there such thing as unbiased media?
How does language mediate reality and whose reality is mediated?
What determines newsworthiness?
By which linguistic means do the media represent power, authority, gender, social identification, etc.?

Please note that we will have a go at several experiments together. Please make sure that you have access to a computer in a quiet room where you can also talk and complete the experiments. You will also need headphones and a microphone. Stay tuned #actionresearch !


Reading: Most articles/texts will be available on StudIP.
Credit: Active participation, completion of all experiments, short presentation, portfolio
Portfolio: Due March 31, 2019

 
[Si] Integrated Marketing Communication
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This course provides an overview of the major components of integrated marketing, using current examples and focusing on the English language skills needed to complete marketing tasks.
Reading: The required texts will be made available at the start of the semester.
Credit: class participation, presentation, final exam.
Date of final exam: 11.02.2019

[Si] Language and the Media
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Karl-Glöckner-Str. 5A, 108

Zielgruppen:
STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This seminar will cover a wide range of topics, with a primary focus on analyzing the language of the news in diverse media. In the course of the semester we will address questions such as:

Is there such thing as unbiased media?
How does language mediate reality and whose reality is mediated?
What determines newsworthiness?
By which linguistic means do the media represent power, authority, gender, social identification, etc.?

Please note that we will have a go at several experiments together. Please make sure that you have access to a computer in a quiet room where you can also talk and complete the experiments. You will also need headphones and a microphone. Stay tuned #actionresearch !


Reading: Most articles/texts will be available on StudIP.
Credit: Active participation, completion of all experiments, short presentation, portfolio
Portfolio: Due March 31, 2019

 

Zu belegen sind zwei Seminare (A1 und A2).

 
[Si] Integrated Marketing Communication
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This course provides an overview of the major components of integrated marketing, using current examples and focusing on the English language skills needed to complete marketing tasks.
Reading: The required texts will be made available at the start of the semester.
Credit: class participation, presentation, final exam.
Date of final exam: 11.02.2019

[Si] Language and the Media
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Karl-Glöckner-Str. 5A, 108

Zielgruppen:
STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This seminar will cover a wide range of topics, with a primary focus on analyzing the language of the news in diverse media. In the course of the semester we will address questions such as:

Is there such thing as unbiased media?
How does language mediate reality and whose reality is mediated?
What determines newsworthiness?
By which linguistic means do the media represent power, authority, gender, social identification, etc.?

Please note that we will have a go at several experiments together. Please make sure that you have access to a computer in a quiet room where you can also talk and complete the experiments. You will also need headphones and a microphone. Stay tuned #actionresearch !


Reading: Most articles/texts will be available on StudIP.
Credit: Active participation, completion of all experiments, short presentation, portfolio
Portfolio: Due March 31, 2019

 
[H Si] Corpus Linguistics: Analysing Pragmatics in Postcolonial Englishes
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Postcolonial Englishes as used in first-language territories such as the United States, Australia and South Africa, but also in second-language countries like Singapore, India or Nigeria have been described from various linguistic angles – be they phonological, lexical or syntactic. Still, the ways in which people do things with language, i.e. the pragmatics of postcolonial Englishes, have so far not been in the centre of academic attention.

In the course of this class, we will investigate the English language as it is used in Sri Lanka from a strictly empirical perspective. Relying on the Sri Lankan component of the International Corpus of English, we will explore the pragmatics of Sri Lankan English by describing routines of complimenting, swearing, insulting, requesting, etc. in this South Asian variety of English.

Ungraded Credit: Regular attendance and in-class presentation.
Graded: The above and a term paper (due on March 31 2019).

[H Si] Corpus Linguistics: Corpora and Methods
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1

[H Si] Data Collection and Analysis
Dozent/-in:
Wolk, C.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1

[H Si] Investigating Grammatical Variation
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, F 006

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Reading: to be announced at the beginning of the course.

Credit: ungraded: regular attendance, active participation in discussions and in-class presentation; graded: regular attendance, active participation in discussions, in-class presentation and a final exam or term paper.

Exam period: final exam (xx.xx.xxxx) or term paper (to be handed in by xx.xx.xxxx)

 
 
[Si] Critical Media Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This course teaches methods and theories of critical media analysis. An awareness of how all media is embedded in political economy, how media platforms transports dominant and alternative messages about culture and politics, and how media users' and creators' attitudes towards media affect what they take in is central to negotiating the world now. With an emphasis on post-network television series, we shall practice interacting with and analyzing media with critical attention. In the second part of the course, students are invited to present work on their MA of Wiss. Hausarbeiten topics.

[Si] Death Sentences: Capital Punishment in World Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1

[Si] Eighteenth Century Satire
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Eighteenth-Century Satire (Mon, 6-8 p.m.)
The eighteenth century has been called a golden age of satire. Anything from morality, religion, politics, modern science or London's gin craze was subjected to scathing attacks. Meanwhile satirists, who met in special circles such as the famous Scriblerus Club, were themselves the product of a new literary, publishing and coffeehouse culture. At a time of dramatic social change, satire turned into an important medium of critique and future as well as past reflection.
In this seminar, we will deal with a number of classic and some less well-known examples of eighteenth-century satire, including by women writers in what for a long time passed as a male-dominated literary practice. As a mode of writing and artistic representation, satire travelled through many genres and media, taken up by central figures such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Charlotte Lennox and William Hogarth. Entertaining as well as context-specific, eighteenth-century satires provide a gateway to exploring the age's literature and culture. At the same time as being an important topic of eighteenth-century studies, satire constitutes an important legacy for today. In our own, postmodern times, in which reality seems to have trumped some of satire's wildest dreams, the potentials and limits of conceiving society otherwise continue to matter greatly.
Reading:
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752)
John Gay, The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Alexander Pope, Epistle to Arbuthnot (1735)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] From #MeToo to Pornification - Negotiations of Sexual Cultures
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Hungary wants to ban gender studies, and the Alternative for Germany has called for an end to ”Genderwahn” in language and teaching. These phenomena along with controversies surrounding the #MeToo movement, the so-called sexualization of childhood and the pornification of culture, demonstrate that we are at a historical juncture in which highly conflicting notions about appropriate sexual behavior and discourse compete with one another. These conflicts demonstrate that attitudes about sexuality and gender are historically contingent and extremely politicized. This seminar takes on the cultural-politics of negotiating with sexual cultures now.

[Koll] Literature and Memory: Recent Trends
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Literature and Memory: Recent Trends (Tue, 4-6 p.m.)
Literature and memory has been an immensely productive field of research over the past couple of decades. The same period of time has seen significant shifts and proliferating terms of debate. Where memory tended to be identified with relatively stable social frames of family, nation, ethnicity and class, it is now increasingly being explored in its travelling, transcultural and intergenerational or ‘postmemory' dimensions. Similarly, transnational and multidirectional conjunctures are being highlighted where earlier scholarship emphasized the competing or contested nature of memories. Yet more new areas have begun to be mapped by recent work on environmental, planetary and post-humanist as well as on ‘prosthetic' and digital memory. These developments have invariably complicated and enriched central questions of literature's role for memory, both individually and collectively, and vice versa of the role of memory for literary production.
Tracing recent as well as earlier trajectories of literary memory studies, this course will explore a range of critical and creative texts, including three novels and examples from other media. As an MA seminar-cum-colloquium, it will provide ample opportunity for students to pursue and present on their own projects, including from other areas of research.
Reading:
Caryl Phillips, The Nature of Blood (1997)
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997)
Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus (1996/2003)
Additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Koll] New approaches and developments in literary and cultural theory
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 13:00 Uhr,   GCSC R001

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2

[Si] Shakespeare's Happy Comedies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will deal with Shakespeare's ‘mature' or ‘happy' comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. The discussion will include contemporary modern views and theories on comedy and take into account the context of the Elizabethan theatre. Particular attention will be paid to the role of women and family conceptions. Film versions will be considered as well.
Plenary discussions will be combined with work in study groups.

Texts: William Shakespeare, As You Like It
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
All: Penguin Shakespeare Edition

[Si] Shakespeare's Late Plays: Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
In this class, we will read and discuss four of Shakespeare's last plays: one of them a tragedy and the other three generally described as Romances; two of them very well known and among the most famous in the Shakespearean canon – The Winter's Tale and The Tempest – and two of them less widely read – Coriolanus and Cymbeline. The seminar serves to introduce key concepts of Shakespeare criticism and Early Modern drama and theatre: we will read and interpret these plays; contextualize, historicize, and place them in the context of the Jacobean age; discuss their theatricality; and finally introduce questions of textual criticism. Please purchase either the Arden or the Oxford editions of these plays.

[Si] The Concept of Culture Revisited
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Raymond Williams famously claimed that culture ”is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.” Within the field of Cultural Studies, this complicated concept has been explored and investigated from a number of different angles. Today, culture is mainly understood as a set of semiotic social and political practices, which are concerned with questions of power, ethnicity, class, and gender. Questions of the concept of culture are central to the development of the main theoretical movements including Structuralism and Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Theories of the Body, Discourse Theory, or Media Studies.
We will read and discuss theoretical texts from the beginning in the 19th century to the present day. The aim of this class is to provide an overview of the field of Cultural Studies within the field of English Studies, and to discuss the current state of the art regarding the development of the theory of culture.

[Si] William Blake
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This is a seminar for advanced students in British Romanticism. We will be concentrating on the work of William Blake and read both his shorter poetry and designs and at least one of his longer poetic works. Students are asked to buy M.L.Johnson (ed.) Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions) before the beginning of term.

 
[Si] Critical Media Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This course teaches methods and theories of critical media analysis. An awareness of how all media is embedded in political economy, how media platforms transports dominant and alternative messages about culture and politics, and how media users' and creators' attitudes towards media affect what they take in is central to negotiating the world now. With an emphasis on post-network television series, we shall practice interacting with and analyzing media with critical attention. In the second part of the course, students are invited to present work on their MA of Wiss. Hausarbeiten topics.

[Si] Death Sentences: Capital Punishment in World Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1

[Si] Eighteenth Century Satire
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Eighteenth-Century Satire (Mon, 6-8 p.m.)
The eighteenth century has been called a golden age of satire. Anything from morality, religion, politics, modern science or London's gin craze was subjected to scathing attacks. Meanwhile satirists, who met in special circles such as the famous Scriblerus Club, were themselves the product of a new literary, publishing and coffeehouse culture. At a time of dramatic social change, satire turned into an important medium of critique and future as well as past reflection.
In this seminar, we will deal with a number of classic and some less well-known examples of eighteenth-century satire, including by women writers in what for a long time passed as a male-dominated literary practice. As a mode of writing and artistic representation, satire travelled through many genres and media, taken up by central figures such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Charlotte Lennox and William Hogarth. Entertaining as well as context-specific, eighteenth-century satires provide a gateway to exploring the age's literature and culture. At the same time as being an important topic of eighteenth-century studies, satire constitutes an important legacy for today. In our own, postmodern times, in which reality seems to have trumped some of satire's wildest dreams, the potentials and limits of conceiving society otherwise continue to matter greatly.
Reading:
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752)
John Gay, The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Alexander Pope, Epistle to Arbuthnot (1735)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] From #MeToo to Pornification - Negotiations of Sexual Cultures
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Hungary wants to ban gender studies, and the Alternative for Germany has called for an end to ”Genderwahn” in language and teaching. These phenomena along with controversies surrounding the #MeToo movement, the so-called sexualization of childhood and the pornification of culture, demonstrate that we are at a historical juncture in which highly conflicting notions about appropriate sexual behavior and discourse compete with one another. These conflicts demonstrate that attitudes about sexuality and gender are historically contingent and extremely politicized. This seminar takes on the cultural-politics of negotiating with sexual cultures now.

[Koll] Literature and Memory: Recent Trends
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Literature and Memory: Recent Trends (Tue, 4-6 p.m.)
Literature and memory has been an immensely productive field of research over the past couple of decades. The same period of time has seen significant shifts and proliferating terms of debate. Where memory tended to be identified with relatively stable social frames of family, nation, ethnicity and class, it is now increasingly being explored in its travelling, transcultural and intergenerational or ‘postmemory' dimensions. Similarly, transnational and multidirectional conjunctures are being highlighted where earlier scholarship emphasized the competing or contested nature of memories. Yet more new areas have begun to be mapped by recent work on environmental, planetary and post-humanist as well as on ‘prosthetic' and digital memory. These developments have invariably complicated and enriched central questions of literature's role for memory, both individually and collectively, and vice versa of the role of memory for literary production.
Tracing recent as well as earlier trajectories of literary memory studies, this course will explore a range of critical and creative texts, including three novels and examples from other media. As an MA seminar-cum-colloquium, it will provide ample opportunity for students to pursue and present on their own projects, including from other areas of research.
Reading:
Caryl Phillips, The Nature of Blood (1997)
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997)
Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus (1996/2003)
Additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Koll] New approaches and developments in literary and cultural theory
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 13:00 Uhr,   GCSC R001

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2

[Si] Shakespeare's Happy Comedies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will deal with Shakespeare's ‘mature' or ‘happy' comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. The discussion will include contemporary modern views and theories on comedy and take into account the context of the Elizabethan theatre. Particular attention will be paid to the role of women and family conceptions. Film versions will be considered as well.
Plenary discussions will be combined with work in study groups.

Texts: William Shakespeare, As You Like It
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
All: Penguin Shakespeare Edition

[Si] Shakespeare's Late Plays: Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
In this class, we will read and discuss four of Shakespeare's last plays: one of them a tragedy and the other three generally described as Romances; two of them very well known and among the most famous in the Shakespearean canon – The Winter's Tale and The Tempest – and two of them less widely read – Coriolanus and Cymbeline. The seminar serves to introduce key concepts of Shakespeare criticism and Early Modern drama and theatre: we will read and interpret these plays; contextualize, historicize, and place them in the context of the Jacobean age; discuss their theatricality; and finally introduce questions of textual criticism. Please purchase either the Arden or the Oxford editions of these plays.

[Si] The Concept of Culture Revisited
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Raymond Williams famously claimed that culture ”is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.” Within the field of Cultural Studies, this complicated concept has been explored and investigated from a number of different angles. Today, culture is mainly understood as a set of semiotic social and political practices, which are concerned with questions of power, ethnicity, class, and gender. Questions of the concept of culture are central to the development of the main theoretical movements including Structuralism and Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Theories of the Body, Discourse Theory, or Media Studies.
We will read and discuss theoretical texts from the beginning in the 19th century to the present day. The aim of this class is to provide an overview of the field of Cultural Studies within the field of English Studies, and to discuss the current state of the art regarding the development of the theory of culture.

[Si] William Blake
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This is a seminar for advanced students in British Romanticism. We will be concentrating on the work of William Blake and read both his shorter poetry and designs and at least one of his longer poetic works. Students are asked to buy M.L.Johnson (ed.) Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions) before the beginning of term.

 
 
[Vl] Black and Asian British Writing, 1700-2000
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 2

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L2,3,5,PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Black and Asian British Writing, 1700 – 2000 (Tue, 12-2 p.m.)
The work of black and Asian writers is at the heart of British literature today. Yet processes of canonisation are slow, and blanket terms like ‘black' and ‘Asian' or even ‘British' are not unproblematic when in fact many of these writers are also discussed in terms of other national literatures (Caribbean, Indian, African, etc.). This state of affairs only highlights the need to place black and Asian British writing on the critical agenda, and to explore its relationship with other Anglophone literatures around the globe.
While giving an overview of today's writers (Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith et al.), this course of lectures will include their predecessors (Olaudah Equiano, Mary Seacole et al.) in a longer, less often told (pre-)history of black and Asian British writing dating back as far as the eighteenth century. We will trace lines of influence in terms of genres and writing styles, with a focus on literature and occasionally taking into account other media as well. Moreover, we will deal with the historical and cultural challenges that black and Asian British writers have responded to and reworked creatively, including the end of Empire, post-WWII migration, the rise of multi-ethnic Britain and the making of new identities.

[Vl] The Soul in British Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 4

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
The concept of the soul is in many respects of key importance for an idea of what is human. For about two millennia, the soul had been an indispensable part of a human being, its life force, its essence as self, and its power of cognition. Furthermore, the soul was considered the immortal part of the individual human. Around 1800, however, there occurred a momentous paradigm shift that may be called the discovery of the human as a biological, immanent, and therefore mortal being. In this lecture series, we will consider the cultural heritage of the concept of soul from its classical origins down to the modern age. In the course of this class, we will investigate its influence on philosophy, science, art, and literature from Plato and Aristotle via William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats.

[Vl] The United States: Beginnings - Law/Politics/Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, A 1

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | NFF Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | SLK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | GuK Ba, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2/3 | L 2,3,5, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | L 1, PV/WPV, Sj 3 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ba, WPV, 1.-6.Sem
Kommentar:
This interactive lecture series covers the pre-Anglophone and pre-national beginnings of the United States up until 1900. In each session one paradigmatic literary or legal text will be analyzed in depth as a way to open up central political and cultural issues of the period in question. These texts offer keys to understanding how imperialism, slavery, and Puritanism shaped the colonial and antebellum and postbellum periods. Lines of continuity will be drawn between America's present and its beginnings.

 
[Si] Critical Media Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This course teaches methods and theories of critical media analysis. An awareness of how all media is embedded in political economy, how media platforms transports dominant and alternative messages about culture and politics, and how media users' and creators' attitudes towards media affect what they take in is central to negotiating the world now. With an emphasis on post-network television series, we shall practice interacting with and analyzing media with critical attention. In the second part of the course, students are invited to present work on their MA of Wiss. Hausarbeiten topics.

[Si] Death Sentences: Capital Punishment in World Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1

[Si] Eighteenth Century Satire
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Eighteenth-Century Satire (Mon, 6-8 p.m.)
The eighteenth century has been called a golden age of satire. Anything from morality, religion, politics, modern science or London's gin craze was subjected to scathing attacks. Meanwhile satirists, who met in special circles such as the famous Scriblerus Club, were themselves the product of a new literary, publishing and coffeehouse culture. At a time of dramatic social change, satire turned into an important medium of critique and future as well as past reflection.
In this seminar, we will deal with a number of classic and some less well-known examples of eighteenth-century satire, including by women writers in what for a long time passed as a male-dominated literary practice. As a mode of writing and artistic representation, satire travelled through many genres and media, taken up by central figures such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Charlotte Lennox and William Hogarth. Entertaining as well as context-specific, eighteenth-century satires provide a gateway to exploring the age's literature and culture. At the same time as being an important topic of eighteenth-century studies, satire constitutes an important legacy for today. In our own, postmodern times, in which reality seems to have trumped some of satire's wildest dreams, the potentials and limits of conceiving society otherwise continue to matter greatly.
Reading:
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752)
John Gay, The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Alexander Pope, Epistle to Arbuthnot (1735)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] From #MeToo to Pornification - Negotiations of Sexual Cultures
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Hungary wants to ban gender studies, and the Alternative for Germany has called for an end to ”Genderwahn” in language and teaching. These phenomena along with controversies surrounding the #MeToo movement, the so-called sexualization of childhood and the pornification of culture, demonstrate that we are at a historical juncture in which highly conflicting notions about appropriate sexual behavior and discourse compete with one another. These conflicts demonstrate that attitudes about sexuality and gender are historically contingent and extremely politicized. This seminar takes on the cultural-politics of negotiating with sexual cultures now.

[Si] Shakespeare's Happy Comedies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will deal with Shakespeare's ‘mature' or ‘happy' comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. The discussion will include contemporary modern views and theories on comedy and take into account the context of the Elizabethan theatre. Particular attention will be paid to the role of women and family conceptions. Film versions will be considered as well.
Plenary discussions will be combined with work in study groups.

Texts: William Shakespeare, As You Like It
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
All: Penguin Shakespeare Edition

[Si] Shakespeare's Late Plays: Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
In this class, we will read and discuss four of Shakespeare's last plays: one of them a tragedy and the other three generally described as Romances; two of them very well known and among the most famous in the Shakespearean canon – The Winter's Tale and The Tempest – and two of them less widely read – Coriolanus and Cymbeline. The seminar serves to introduce key concepts of Shakespeare criticism and Early Modern drama and theatre: we will read and interpret these plays; contextualize, historicize, and place them in the context of the Jacobean age; discuss their theatricality; and finally introduce questions of textual criticism. Please purchase either the Arden or the Oxford editions of these plays.

[Si] William Blake
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This is a seminar for advanced students in British Romanticism. We will be concentrating on the work of William Blake and read both his shorter poetry and designs and at least one of his longer poetic works. Students are asked to buy M.L.Johnson (ed.) Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions) before the beginning of term.

 
 
[H Si] Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
In the current age of globalization, migration and internet communication, intercultural communicative competence is a key requirement in many professions and has become a priority aim in school and university education. This course focuses on fundamental aspects of intercultural communication and approaches to developing intercultural/transcultural competence and understanding, placing special emphasis on culture and language integrated education in institutional settings such as high schools, universities, etc. The course is divided into three parts:

1. The first part aims at familiarizing students with central aspects, concepts and theories of culture as well as the history of intercultural education in FL/SL classrooms.

2. The second part focuses on major approaches to teaching culture/developing intercultural communicative competence today as well as on fundamental aspects of experiential learning and task-based instruction.

3. The third and last part offers participants the opportunity to either a) create, present and discuss teaching materials and culture-sensitive communicative tasks aimed at familiarizing learners of English as a foreign/second language with aspects of Canadian culture (more specifically, perhaps, with culturally relevant/important aspects of life in Atlantic Canada), or b) to create, present and discuss alternatives to the HRM visitors' webpages from an intercultural / transcultural perspective, depending on students' professional interests and career aspirations.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modules TEFL I and II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
13.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Global & Historical Learning: Teaching & Researching Childhoods
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Heterogeneous Classrooms
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
This seminar will explore the didactics of a heterogeneous classroom taking into account methodological and pedagogical consequences when teaching English. The seminar will offer pedagogical and inclusive theories as well as methods and approaches that allow teachers to explore inner differentiation. For this seminar a cooperation with Ost-Schule is planned. Students are expected to visit school lessons on various days and develop teaching methods and lesson plans for a highly heterogeneous 6th grade. Students are also expected to purchase the reader and read the texts.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 06.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Methods in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
According to Balasubramanian Kumaravadivelu (2006 : xiv), ” … the concept of method has been a severely contested frame of reference for thinking and writing about classroom learning and teaching. Understandably, tensions and contradictions have arisen out of efforts aimed at its reconceptualization. Recently, the discourse on the limitations of the concept of method has become so prominent, and the desire to find alternatives to it so pronounced that they have resulted in what has been called the postmethod condition.” Based on this assertion, the course takes a fresh look at teaching English as a Foreign Language and its slow transition from method to postmethod, from transmission of knowledge and skills to self-formation and transformation.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
12.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Multiliteracies Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Project-Oriented Learning in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
Project-oriented learning refers to communicative classroom settings which are enquiry-, discovery-, and task-oriented. It is also associated with authentic ‘real-life' encounters with native speakers from all over the English speaking world (oral or written, face-to-face or virtual, etc.). In this seminar, specific attention is given to the central theoretical and practical aspects of learning English by and through experience, in comparison with more traditional ‘teacher-centered' and ‘form-focused' approaches. Student learning and work in this course will itself be informed by project-based principles, such as the development of differentiated task learning, learning with course-external relevance, task- and project-based assessment, etc. All participants will be required to develop a foreign language learning project of their choice in teams and present it toward the end of this course.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
11.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Teaching Content & Language Integrated Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
This seminar will first of all direct its attention to the different forms of bilingual education that co-exist at German schools. We will then concentrate on content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and explore its potential for the learning of the English and the integrated subjects in school. Empirical research and two reports from teachers in practice will confront students with realistic views on bilingual reality in our schools. Students will be asked to plan CLIL-projects for their subjects (biology, chemistry, history, politics etc.) .

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 05.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Teaching Novels
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] The Genre Approach to Language Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Young Adult Literature in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
Using British and American Young Adult literature in the language classroom will introduce pupils to important glimpses of the foreign cultures as well as to reading experiences that are motivating and valuable for their language learning process. This seminar will provide a theoretical understanding of the forms and functions of narrative literature and a conceptual approach to its analysis. Building on this foundation, students will learn how to use short stories, novellas and novels in the foreign language classroom, how to make use of their cultural potential and how to design activities that stimulate discussion and practise language skills.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 04.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

 
[H Si] Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
In the current age of globalization, migration and internet communication, intercultural communicative competence is a key requirement in many professions and has become a priority aim in school and university education. This course focuses on fundamental aspects of intercultural communication and approaches to developing intercultural/transcultural competence and understanding, placing special emphasis on culture and language integrated education in institutional settings such as high schools, universities, etc. The course is divided into three parts:

1. The first part aims at familiarizing students with central aspects, concepts and theories of culture as well as the history of intercultural education in FL/SL classrooms.

2. The second part focuses on major approaches to teaching culture/developing intercultural communicative competence today as well as on fundamental aspects of experiential learning and task-based instruction.

3. The third and last part offers participants the opportunity to either a) create, present and discuss teaching materials and culture-sensitive communicative tasks aimed at familiarizing learners of English as a foreign/second language with aspects of Canadian culture (more specifically, perhaps, with culturally relevant/important aspects of life in Atlantic Canada), or b) to create, present and discuss alternatives to the HRM visitors' webpages from an intercultural / transcultural perspective, depending on students' professional interests and career aspirations.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modules TEFL I and II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
13.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Global & Historical Learning: Teaching & Researching Childhoods
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Heterogeneous Classrooms
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
This seminar will explore the didactics of a heterogeneous classroom taking into account methodological and pedagogical consequences when teaching English. The seminar will offer pedagogical and inclusive theories as well as methods and approaches that allow teachers to explore inner differentiation. For this seminar a cooperation with Ost-Schule is planned. Students are expected to visit school lessons on various days and develop teaching methods and lesson plans for a highly heterogeneous 6th grade. Students are also expected to purchase the reader and read the texts.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 06.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Methods in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
According to Balasubramanian Kumaravadivelu (2006 : xiv), ” … the concept of method has been a severely contested frame of reference for thinking and writing about classroom learning and teaching. Understandably, tensions and contradictions have arisen out of efforts aimed at its reconceptualization. Recently, the discourse on the limitations of the concept of method has become so prominent, and the desire to find alternatives to it so pronounced that they have resulted in what has been called the postmethod condition.” Based on this assertion, the course takes a fresh look at teaching English as a Foreign Language and its slow transition from method to postmethod, from transmission of knowledge and skills to self-formation and transformation.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
12.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Multiliteracies Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Project-Oriented Learning in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
Project-oriented learning refers to communicative classroom settings which are enquiry-, discovery-, and task-oriented. It is also associated with authentic ‘real-life' encounters with native speakers from all over the English speaking world (oral or written, face-to-face or virtual, etc.). In this seminar, specific attention is given to the central theoretical and practical aspects of learning English by and through experience, in comparison with more traditional ‘teacher-centered' and ‘form-focused' approaches. Student learning and work in this course will itself be informed by project-based principles, such as the development of differentiated task learning, learning with course-external relevance, task- and project-based assessment, etc. All participants will be required to develop a foreign language learning project of their choice in teams and present it toward the end of this course.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
11.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Teaching Content & Language Integrated Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
This seminar will first of all direct its attention to the different forms of bilingual education that co-exist at German schools. We will then concentrate on content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and explore its potential for the learning of the English and the integrated subjects in school. Empirical research and two reports from teachers in practice will confront students with realistic views on bilingual reality in our schools. Students will be asked to plan CLIL-projects for their subjects (biology, chemistry, history, politics etc.) .

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 05.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Teaching Novels
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] The Genre Approach to Language Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Young Adult Literature in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
Using British and American Young Adult literature in the language classroom will introduce pupils to important glimpses of the foreign cultures as well as to reading experiences that are motivating and valuable for their language learning process. This seminar will provide a theoretical understanding of the forms and functions of narrative literature and a conceptual approach to its analysis. Building on this foundation, students will learn how to use short stories, novellas and novels in the foreign language classroom, how to make use of their cultural potential and how to design activities that stimulate discussion and practise language skills.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 04.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

 
 
[Si] Critical Media Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This course teaches methods and theories of critical media analysis. An awareness of how all media is embedded in political economy, how media platforms transports dominant and alternative messages about culture and politics, and how media users' and creators' attitudes towards media affect what they take in is central to negotiating the world now. With an emphasis on post-network television series, we shall practice interacting with and analyzing media with critical attention. In the second part of the course, students are invited to present work on their MA of Wiss. Hausarbeiten topics.

[Si] Death Sentences: Capital Punishment in World Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1

[Si] Discourse, Power, Knowledge: Reading Michel Foucault
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
In this seminar, we will engage in close readings of select excerpts from the oeuvre of French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984). Foucault's contributions have had a lasting influence on several academic disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, political science, history of thought, and – of particular interest to us – literary and cultural studies. Foucault developed and theorised concepts and terms that the humanities use up to this day, such as ‘discourse', ‘episteme', ‘disciplinary regime', ‘bio-power', or ‘panopticon'. Moreover, he addressed topics that are central for cultural studies: sexuality, knowledge, medicine, and – most momentous of all – power. In this seminar, rather than getting to know Foucault's philosophy from secondary sources, we will go back to the primary material, i.e. read, jointly analyse, discuss, and critically assess Foucault's contributions. As such, the seminar has the additional, more general aim of practising the art of reading theoretical texts. The seminar will also provide an opportunity for you to reflect on whether and how Foucault's theories can help you in the context of a current project of yours (e.g. thesis or term paper).

To enjoy this class, you need to bring along a willingness and the stamina to read theoretical texts (which can be difficult) and to share your ideas with other students. The course will be assessed based on a presentation, general participation and, depending on your module, additional written assignments.

In addition, you must have a copy of the following text: Rabinow, Paul, ed. The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault's Thought. London: Penguin, 1991. [ISBN: 978-0140124866]

[Koll] New approaches and developments in literary and cultural theory
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 13:00 Uhr,   GCSC R001

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2

[Si] William Blake
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This is a seminar for advanced students in British Romanticism. We will be concentrating on the work of William Blake and read both his shorter poetry and designs and at least one of his longer poetic works. Students are asked to buy M.L.Johnson (ed.) Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions) before the beginning of term.

 
[Si] Critical Media Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This course teaches methods and theories of critical media analysis. An awareness of how all media is embedded in political economy, how media platforms transports dominant and alternative messages about culture and politics, and how media users' and creators' attitudes towards media affect what they take in is central to negotiating the world now. With an emphasis on post-network television series, we shall practice interacting with and analyzing media with critical attention. In the second part of the course, students are invited to present work on their MA of Wiss. Hausarbeiten topics.

[Si] Discourse, Power, Knowledge: Reading Michel Foucault
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
In this seminar, we will engage in close readings of select excerpts from the oeuvre of French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984). Foucault's contributions have had a lasting influence on several academic disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, political science, history of thought, and – of particular interest to us – literary and cultural studies. Foucault developed and theorised concepts and terms that the humanities use up to this day, such as ‘discourse', ‘episteme', ‘disciplinary regime', ‘bio-power', or ‘panopticon'. Moreover, he addressed topics that are central for cultural studies: sexuality, knowledge, medicine, and – most momentous of all – power. In this seminar, rather than getting to know Foucault's philosophy from secondary sources, we will go back to the primary material, i.e. read, jointly analyse, discuss, and critically assess Foucault's contributions. As such, the seminar has the additional, more general aim of practising the art of reading theoretical texts. The seminar will also provide an opportunity for you to reflect on whether and how Foucault's theories can help you in the context of a current project of yours (e.g. thesis or term paper).

To enjoy this class, you need to bring along a willingness and the stamina to read theoretical texts (which can be difficult) and to share your ideas with other students. The course will be assessed based on a presentation, general participation and, depending on your module, additional written assignments.

In addition, you must have a copy of the following text: Rabinow, Paul, ed. The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault's Thought. London: Penguin, 1991. [ISBN: 978-0140124866]

[Si] Kernkompetenzen Studium für Austauschstudierende
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
k.A.

Kommentar:
Eine Reihe von Informations- und Schwerpunktveranstaltungen rund um das Auslandssemester in der Anglistik. Details zum Programm zu Semesterbeginn im Study Abroad Office.

Keine Anmeldung über FlexNow notwendig

[Koll] Literature and Memory: Recent Trends
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Literature and Memory: Recent Trends (Tue, 4-6 p.m.)
Literature and memory has been an immensely productive field of research over the past couple of decades. The same period of time has seen significant shifts and proliferating terms of debate. Where memory tended to be identified with relatively stable social frames of family, nation, ethnicity and class, it is now increasingly being explored in its travelling, transcultural and intergenerational or ‘postmemory' dimensions. Similarly, transnational and multidirectional conjunctures are being highlighted where earlier scholarship emphasized the competing or contested nature of memories. Yet more new areas have begun to be mapped by recent work on environmental, planetary and post-humanist as well as on ‘prosthetic' and digital memory. These developments have invariably complicated and enriched central questions of literature's role for memory, both individually and collectively, and vice versa of the role of memory for literary production.
Tracing recent as well as earlier trajectories of literary memory studies, this course will explore a range of critical and creative texts, including three novels and examples from other media. As an MA seminar-cum-colloquium, it will provide ample opportunity for students to pursue and present on their own projects, including from other areas of research.
Reading:
Caryl Phillips, The Nature of Blood (1997)
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997)
Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus (1996/2003)
Additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Koll] New approaches and developments in literary and cultural theory
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 13:00 Uhr,   GCSC R001

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2

[Si] The Concept of Culture Revisited
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Raymond Williams famously claimed that culture ”is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.” Within the field of Cultural Studies, this complicated concept has been explored and investigated from a number of different angles. Today, culture is mainly understood as a set of semiotic social and political practices, which are concerned with questions of power, ethnicity, class, and gender. Questions of the concept of culture are central to the development of the main theoretical movements including Structuralism and Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Theories of the Body, Discourse Theory, or Media Studies.
We will read and discuss theoretical texts from the beginning in the 19th century to the present day. The aim of this class is to provide an overview of the field of Cultural Studies within the field of English Studies, and to discuss the current state of the art regarding the development of the theory of culture.

 
 
[H Si] Corpus Linguistics: Analysing Pragmatics in Postcolonial Englishes
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Postcolonial Englishes as used in first-language territories such as the United States, Australia and South Africa, but also in second-language countries like Singapore, India or Nigeria have been described from various linguistic angles – be they phonological, lexical or syntactic. Still, the ways in which people do things with language, i.e. the pragmatics of postcolonial Englishes, have so far not been in the centre of academic attention.

In the course of this class, we will investigate the English language as it is used in Sri Lanka from a strictly empirical perspective. Relying on the Sri Lankan component of the International Corpus of English, we will explore the pragmatics of Sri Lankan English by describing routines of complimenting, swearing, insulting, requesting, etc. in this South Asian variety of English.

Ungraded Credit: Regular attendance and in-class presentation.
Graded: The above and a term paper (due on March 31 2019).

[H Si] Corpus Linguistics: Corpora and Methods
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1

[H Si] Data Collection and Analysis
Dozent/-in:
Wolk, C.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1

[H Si] Investigating Grammatical Variation
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, F 006

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Reading: to be announced at the beginning of the course.

Credit: ungraded: regular attendance, active participation in discussions and in-class presentation; graded: regular attendance, active participation in discussions, in-class presentation and a final exam or term paper.

Exam period: final exam (xx.xx.xxxx) or term paper (to be handed in by xx.xx.xxxx)

 
[H Si] Corpus Linguistics: Analysing Pragmatics in Postcolonial Englishes
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Postcolonial Englishes as used in first-language territories such as the United States, Australia and South Africa, but also in second-language countries like Singapore, India or Nigeria have been described from various linguistic angles – be they phonological, lexical or syntactic. Still, the ways in which people do things with language, i.e. the pragmatics of postcolonial Englishes, have so far not been in the centre of academic attention.

In the course of this class, we will investigate the English language as it is used in Sri Lanka from a strictly empirical perspective. Relying on the Sri Lankan component of the International Corpus of English, we will explore the pragmatics of Sri Lankan English by describing routines of complimenting, swearing, insulting, requesting, etc. in this South Asian variety of English.

Ungraded Credit: Regular attendance and in-class presentation.
Graded: The above and a term paper (due on March 31 2019).

[H Si] Corpus Linguistics: Corpora and Methods
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1

[H Si] Data Collection and Analysis
Dozent/-in:
Wolk, C.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1

[H Si] Investigating Grammatical Variation
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, F 006

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Reading: to be announced at the beginning of the course.

Credit: ungraded: regular attendance, active participation in discussions and in-class presentation; graded: regular attendance, active participation in discussions, in-class presentation and a final exam or term paper.

Exam period: final exam (xx.xx.xxxx) or term paper (to be handed in by xx.xx.xxxx)

 
 
[H Si] Corpus Linguistics: Analysing Pragmatics in Postcolonial Englishes
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Postcolonial Englishes as used in first-language territories such as the United States, Australia and South Africa, but also in second-language countries like Singapore, India or Nigeria have been described from various linguistic angles – be they phonological, lexical or syntactic. Still, the ways in which people do things with language, i.e. the pragmatics of postcolonial Englishes, have so far not been in the centre of academic attention.

In the course of this class, we will investigate the English language as it is used in Sri Lanka from a strictly empirical perspective. Relying on the Sri Lankan component of the International Corpus of English, we will explore the pragmatics of Sri Lankan English by describing routines of complimenting, swearing, insulting, requesting, etc. in this South Asian variety of English.

Ungraded Credit: Regular attendance and in-class presentation.
Graded: The above and a term paper (due on March 31 2019).

[H Si] Corpus Linguistics: Corpora and Methods
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1

[H Si] Data Collection and Analysis
Dozent/-in:
Wolk, C.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1

[H Si] Investigating Grammatical Variation
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, F 006

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Reading: to be announced at the beginning of the course.

Credit: ungraded: regular attendance, active participation in discussions and in-class presentation; graded: regular attendance, active participation in discussions, in-class presentation and a final exam or term paper.

Exam period: final exam (xx.xx.xxxx) or term paper (to be handed in by xx.xx.xxxx)

 
[H Si] Corpus Linguistics: Analysing Pragmatics in Postcolonial Englishes
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Postcolonial Englishes as used in first-language territories such as the United States, Australia and South Africa, but also in second-language countries like Singapore, India or Nigeria have been described from various linguistic angles – be they phonological, lexical or syntactic. Still, the ways in which people do things with language, i.e. the pragmatics of postcolonial Englishes, have so far not been in the centre of academic attention.

In the course of this class, we will investigate the English language as it is used in Sri Lanka from a strictly empirical perspective. Relying on the Sri Lankan component of the International Corpus of English, we will explore the pragmatics of Sri Lankan English by describing routines of complimenting, swearing, insulting, requesting, etc. in this South Asian variety of English.

Ungraded Credit: Regular attendance and in-class presentation.
Graded: The above and a term paper (due on March 31 2019).

[H Si] Corpus Linguistics: Corpora and Methods
Dozent/-in:
Huber, M.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1

[H Si] Data Collection and Analysis
Dozent/-in:
Wolk, C.   
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 005

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1

[H Si] Investigating Grammatical Variation
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, F 006

Zielgruppen:
SLK ELS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ECS Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 1 | MLL Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | SLK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | STFD Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | MFKW Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | GuK ELI Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 2 | ALCMS Ma, WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Reading: to be announced at the beginning of the course.

Credit: ungraded: regular attendance, active participation in discussions and in-class presentation; graded: regular attendance, active participation in discussions, in-class presentation and a final exam or term paper.

Exam period: final exam (xx.xx.xxxx) or term paper (to be handed in by xx.xx.xxxx)

 
 
[H Si] Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
In the current age of globalization, migration and internet communication, intercultural communicative competence is a key requirement in many professions and has become a priority aim in school and university education. This course focuses on fundamental aspects of intercultural communication and approaches to developing intercultural/transcultural competence and understanding, placing special emphasis on culture and language integrated education in institutional settings such as high schools, universities, etc. The course is divided into three parts:

1. The first part aims at familiarizing students with central aspects, concepts and theories of culture as well as the history of intercultural education in FL/SL classrooms.

2. The second part focuses on major approaches to teaching culture/developing intercultural communicative competence today as well as on fundamental aspects of experiential learning and task-based instruction.

3. The third and last part offers participants the opportunity to either a) create, present and discuss teaching materials and culture-sensitive communicative tasks aimed at familiarizing learners of English as a foreign/second language with aspects of Canadian culture (more specifically, perhaps, with culturally relevant/important aspects of life in Atlantic Canada), or b) to create, present and discuss alternatives to the HRM visitors' webpages from an intercultural / transcultural perspective, depending on students' professional interests and career aspirations.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modules TEFL I and II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
13.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Heterogeneous Classrooms
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
This seminar will explore the didactics of a heterogeneous classroom taking into account methodological and pedagogical consequences when teaching English. The seminar will offer pedagogical and inclusive theories as well as methods and approaches that allow teachers to explore inner differentiation. For this seminar a cooperation with Ost-Schule is planned. Students are expected to visit school lessons on various days and develop teaching methods and lesson plans for a highly heterogeneous 6th grade. Students are also expected to purchase the reader and read the texts.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 06.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Methods in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
According to Balasubramanian Kumaravadivelu (2006 : xiv), ” … the concept of method has been a severely contested frame of reference for thinking and writing about classroom learning and teaching. Understandably, tensions and contradictions have arisen out of efforts aimed at its reconceptualization. Recently, the discourse on the limitations of the concept of method has become so prominent, and the desire to find alternatives to it so pronounced that they have resulted in what has been called the postmethod condition.” Based on this assertion, the course takes a fresh look at teaching English as a Foreign Language and its slow transition from method to postmethod, from transmission of knowledge and skills to self-formation and transformation.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
12.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Multiliteracies Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Project-Oriented Learning in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
Project-oriented learning refers to communicative classroom settings which are enquiry-, discovery-, and task-oriented. It is also associated with authentic ‘real-life' encounters with native speakers from all over the English speaking world (oral or written, face-to-face or virtual, etc.). In this seminar, specific attention is given to the central theoretical and practical aspects of learning English by and through experience, in comparison with more traditional ‘teacher-centered' and ‘form-focused' approaches. Student learning and work in this course will itself be informed by project-based principles, such as the development of differentiated task learning, learning with course-external relevance, task- and project-based assessment, etc. All participants will be required to develop a foreign language learning project of their choice in teams and present it toward the end of this course.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
11.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Teaching Content & Language Integrated Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
This seminar will first of all direct its attention to the different forms of bilingual education that co-exist at German schools. We will then concentrate on content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and explore its potential for the learning of the English and the integrated subjects in school. Empirical research and two reports from teachers in practice will confront students with realistic views on bilingual reality in our schools. Students will be asked to plan CLIL-projects for their subjects (biology, chemistry, history, politics etc.) .

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 05.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Teaching Novels
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] The Genre Approach to Language Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Young Adult Literature in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
Using British and American Young Adult literature in the language classroom will introduce pupils to important glimpses of the foreign cultures as well as to reading experiences that are motivating and valuable for their language learning process. This seminar will provide a theoretical understanding of the forms and functions of narrative literature and a conceptual approach to its analysis. Building on this foundation, students will learn how to use short stories, novellas and novels in the foreign language classroom, how to make use of their cultural potential and how to design activities that stimulate discussion and practise language skills.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 04.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

 
 
 
[H Si] Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
In the current age of globalization, migration and internet communication, intercultural communicative competence is a key requirement in many professions and has become a priority aim in school and university education. This course focuses on fundamental aspects of intercultural communication and approaches to developing intercultural/transcultural competence and understanding, placing special emphasis on culture and language integrated education in institutional settings such as high schools, universities, etc. The course is divided into three parts:

1. The first part aims at familiarizing students with central aspects, concepts and theories of culture as well as the history of intercultural education in FL/SL classrooms.

2. The second part focuses on major approaches to teaching culture/developing intercultural communicative competence today as well as on fundamental aspects of experiential learning and task-based instruction.

3. The third and last part offers participants the opportunity to either a) create, present and discuss teaching materials and culture-sensitive communicative tasks aimed at familiarizing learners of English as a foreign/second language with aspects of Canadian culture (more specifically, perhaps, with culturally relevant/important aspects of life in Atlantic Canada), or b) to create, present and discuss alternatives to the HRM visitors' webpages from an intercultural / transcultural perspective, depending on students' professional interests and career aspirations.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modules TEFL I and II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
13.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Global & Historical Learning: Teaching & Researching Childhoods
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Heterogeneous Classrooms
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
This seminar will explore the didactics of a heterogeneous classroom taking into account methodological and pedagogical consequences when teaching English. The seminar will offer pedagogical and inclusive theories as well as methods and approaches that allow teachers to explore inner differentiation. For this seminar a cooperation with Ost-Schule is planned. Students are expected to visit school lessons on various days and develop teaching methods and lesson plans for a highly heterogeneous 6th grade. Students are also expected to purchase the reader and read the texts.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 06.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Methods in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
According to Balasubramanian Kumaravadivelu (2006 : xiv), ” … the concept of method has been a severely contested frame of reference for thinking and writing about classroom learning and teaching. Understandably, tensions and contradictions have arisen out of efforts aimed at its reconceptualization. Recently, the discourse on the limitations of the concept of method has become so prominent, and the desire to find alternatives to it so pronounced that they have resulted in what has been called the postmethod condition.” Based on this assertion, the course takes a fresh look at teaching English as a Foreign Language and its slow transition from method to postmethod, from transmission of knowledge and skills to self-formation and transformation.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
12.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Multiliteracies Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Project-Oriented Learning in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Course Description:
Project-oriented learning refers to communicative classroom settings which are enquiry-, discovery-, and task-oriented. It is also associated with authentic ‘real-life' encounters with native speakers from all over the English speaking world (oral or written, face-to-face or virtual, etc.). In this seminar, specific attention is given to the central theoretical and practical aspects of learning English by and through experience, in comparison with more traditional ‘teacher-centered' and ‘form-focused' approaches. Student learning and work in this course will itself be informed by project-based principles, such as the development of differentiated task learning, learning with course-external relevance, task- and project-based assessment, etc. All participants will be required to develop a foreign language learning project of their choice in teams and present it toward the end of this course.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class, team presentation

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; team presentation, written exam

Exam period:
11.2.2019 (examination day)

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Teaching Content & Language Integrated Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
This seminar will first of all direct its attention to the different forms of bilingual education that co-exist at German schools. We will then concentrate on content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and explore its potential for the learning of the English and the integrated subjects in school. Empirical research and two reports from teachers in practice will confront students with realistic views on bilingual reality in our schools. Students will be asked to plan CLIL-projects for their subjects (biology, chemistry, history, politics etc.) .

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 05.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Teaching Novels
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] The Genre Approach to Language Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Young Adult Literature in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
Using British and American Young Adult literature in the language classroom will introduce pupils to important glimpses of the foreign cultures as well as to reading experiences that are motivating and valuable for their language learning process. This seminar will provide a theoretical understanding of the forms and functions of narrative literature and a conceptual approach to its analysis. Building on this foundation, students will learn how to use short stories, novellas and novels in the foreign language classroom, how to make use of their cultural potential and how to design activities that stimulate discussion and practise language skills.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 04.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

 
 
 
[H Si] Global & Historical Learning: Teaching & Researching Childhoods
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Heterogeneous Classrooms
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
This seminar will explore the didactics of a heterogeneous classroom taking into account methodological and pedagogical consequences when teaching English. The seminar will offer pedagogical and inclusive theories as well as methods and approaches that allow teachers to explore inner differentiation. For this seminar a cooperation with Ost-Schule is planned. Students are expected to visit school lessons on various days and develop teaching methods and lesson plans for a highly heterogeneous 6th grade. Students are also expected to purchase the reader and read the texts.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 06.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Multiliteracies Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Teaching Content & Language Integrated Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
This seminar will first of all direct its attention to the different forms of bilingual education that co-exist at German schools. We will then concentrate on content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and explore its potential for the learning of the English and the integrated subjects in school. Empirical research and two reports from teachers in practice will confront students with realistic views on bilingual reality in our schools. Students will be asked to plan CLIL-projects for their subjects (biology, chemistry, history, politics etc.) .

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 05.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Teaching Novels
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] The Genre Approach to Language Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Young Adult Literature in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
Using British and American Young Adult literature in the language classroom will introduce pupils to important glimpses of the foreign cultures as well as to reading experiences that are motivating and valuable for their language learning process. This seminar will provide a theoretical understanding of the forms and functions of narrative literature and a conceptual approach to its analysis. Building on this foundation, students will learn how to use short stories, novellas and novels in the foreign language classroom, how to make use of their cultural potential and how to design activities that stimulate discussion and practise language skills.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 04.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

 
[H Si] Global & Historical Learning: Teaching & Researching Childhoods
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Heterogeneous Classrooms
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
This seminar will explore the didactics of a heterogeneous classroom taking into account methodological and pedagogical consequences when teaching English. The seminar will offer pedagogical and inclusive theories as well as methods and approaches that allow teachers to explore inner differentiation. For this seminar a cooperation with Ost-Schule is planned. Students are expected to visit school lessons on various days and develop teaching methods and lesson plans for a highly heterogeneous 6th grade. Students are also expected to purchase the reader and read the texts.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 06.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Multiliteracies Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Teaching Content & Language Integrated Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
This seminar will first of all direct its attention to the different forms of bilingual education that co-exist at German schools. We will then concentrate on content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and explore its potential for the learning of the English and the integrated subjects in school. Empirical research and two reports from teachers in practice will confront students with realistic views on bilingual reality in our schools. Students will be asked to plan CLIL-projects for their subjects (biology, chemistry, history, politics etc.) .

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 05.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Teaching Novels
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] The Genre Approach to Language Learning
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  08:00 - 10:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:


Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): Regular attendance, active participation in class.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): Active participation in class; a written exam in TEFL III, A2 or TEFL III, A3.

Exam period:
???

Registration: Flex-Now

[H Si] Young Adult Literature in the English Foreign Language Classroom
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
L2,3,5, WPV, Sj 3 | NFF Ma, WPV, Sj 1/2
Kommentar:
ECTS: 5

Description:
Using British and American Young Adult literature in the language classroom will introduce pupils to important glimpses of the foreign cultures as well as to reading experiences that are motivating and valuable for their language learning process. This seminar will provide a theoretical understanding of the forms and functions of narrative literature and a conceptual approach to its analysis. Building on this foundation, students will learn how to use short stories, novellas and novels in the foreign language classroom, how to make use of their cultural potential and how to design activities that stimulate discussion and practise language skills.

Prerequisites:
Successful completion of Modul TEFL II (please bring your FlexNow Sheet to first class).

Required Reading:
A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Credit:
Ungraded (non-modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class and a short presentation.

Graded (non-modularised and modularised): regular attendance, active participation in class; a written exam.

Exam period:
Written Exam: 04.02.2019

Registration: Flex-Now

 
 
[Si] Critical Media Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This course teaches methods and theories of critical media analysis. An awareness of how all media is embedded in political economy, how media platforms transports dominant and alternative messages about culture and politics, and how media users' and creators' attitudes towards media affect what they take in is central to negotiating the world now. With an emphasis on post-network television series, we shall practice interacting with and analyzing media with critical attention. In the second part of the course, students are invited to present work on their MA of Wiss. Hausarbeiten topics.

[Si] Death Sentences: Capital Punishment in World Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1

[Si] Discourse, Power, Knowledge: Reading Michel Foucault
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
In this seminar, we will engage in close readings of select excerpts from the oeuvre of French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984). Foucault's contributions have had a lasting influence on several academic disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, political science, history of thought, and – of particular interest to us – literary and cultural studies. Foucault developed and theorised concepts and terms that the humanities use up to this day, such as ‘discourse', ‘episteme', ‘disciplinary regime', ‘bio-power', or ‘panopticon'. Moreover, he addressed topics that are central for cultural studies: sexuality, knowledge, medicine, and – most momentous of all – power. In this seminar, rather than getting to know Foucault's philosophy from secondary sources, we will go back to the primary material, i.e. read, jointly analyse, discuss, and critically assess Foucault's contributions. As such, the seminar has the additional, more general aim of practising the art of reading theoretical texts. The seminar will also provide an opportunity for you to reflect on whether and how Foucault's theories can help you in the context of a current project of yours (e.g. thesis or term paper).

To enjoy this class, you need to bring along a willingness and the stamina to read theoretical texts (which can be difficult) and to share your ideas with other students. The course will be assessed based on a presentation, general participation and, depending on your module, additional written assignments.

In addition, you must have a copy of the following text: Rabinow, Paul, ed. The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault's Thought. London: Penguin, 1991. [ISBN: 978-0140124866]

[Si] Eighteenth Century Satire
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Eighteenth-Century Satire (Mon, 6-8 p.m.)
The eighteenth century has been called a golden age of satire. Anything from morality, religion, politics, modern science or London's gin craze was subjected to scathing attacks. Meanwhile satirists, who met in special circles such as the famous Scriblerus Club, were themselves the product of a new literary, publishing and coffeehouse culture. At a time of dramatic social change, satire turned into an important medium of critique and future as well as past reflection.
In this seminar, we will deal with a number of classic and some less well-known examples of eighteenth-century satire, including by women writers in what for a long time passed as a male-dominated literary practice. As a mode of writing and artistic representation, satire travelled through many genres and media, taken up by central figures such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Charlotte Lennox and William Hogarth. Entertaining as well as context-specific, eighteenth-century satires provide a gateway to exploring the age's literature and culture. At the same time as being an important topic of eighteenth-century studies, satire constitutes an important legacy for today. In our own, postmodern times, in which reality seems to have trumped some of satire's wildest dreams, the potentials and limits of conceiving society otherwise continue to matter greatly.
Reading:
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752)
John Gay, The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Alexander Pope, Epistle to Arbuthnot (1735)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] From #MeToo to Pornification - Negotiations of Sexual Cultures
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Hungary wants to ban gender studies, and the Alternative for Germany has called for an end to ”Genderwahn” in language and teaching. These phenomena along with controversies surrounding the #MeToo movement, the so-called sexualization of childhood and the pornification of culture, demonstrate that we are at a historical juncture in which highly conflicting notions about appropriate sexual behavior and discourse compete with one another. These conflicts demonstrate that attitudes about sexuality and gender are historically contingent and extremely politicized. This seminar takes on the cultural-politics of negotiating with sexual cultures now.

[Si] Shakespeare's Happy Comedies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will deal with Shakespeare's ‘mature' or ‘happy' comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. The discussion will include contemporary modern views and theories on comedy and take into account the context of the Elizabethan theatre. Particular attention will be paid to the role of women and family conceptions. Film versions will be considered as well.
Plenary discussions will be combined with work in study groups.

Texts: William Shakespeare, As You Like It
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
All: Penguin Shakespeare Edition

[Si] Shakespeare's Late Plays: Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
In this class, we will read and discuss four of Shakespeare's last plays: one of them a tragedy and the other three generally described as Romances; two of them very well known and among the most famous in the Shakespearean canon – The Winter's Tale and The Tempest – and two of them less widely read – Coriolanus and Cymbeline. The seminar serves to introduce key concepts of Shakespeare criticism and Early Modern drama and theatre: we will read and interpret these plays; contextualize, historicize, and place them in the context of the Jacobean age; discuss their theatricality; and finally introduce questions of textual criticism. Please purchase either the Arden or the Oxford editions of these plays.

[Si] The Concept of Culture Revisited
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Raymond Williams famously claimed that culture ”is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.” Within the field of Cultural Studies, this complicated concept has been explored and investigated from a number of different angles. Today, culture is mainly understood as a set of semiotic social and political practices, which are concerned with questions of power, ethnicity, class, and gender. Questions of the concept of culture are central to the development of the main theoretical movements including Structuralism and Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Theories of the Body, Discourse Theory, or Media Studies.
We will read and discuss theoretical texts from the beginning in the 19th century to the present day. The aim of this class is to provide an overview of the field of Cultural Studies within the field of English Studies, and to discuss the current state of the art regarding the development of the theory of culture.

[Si] William Blake
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This is a seminar for advanced students in British Romanticism. We will be concentrating on the work of William Blake and read both his shorter poetry and designs and at least one of his longer poetic works. Students are asked to buy M.L.Johnson (ed.) Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions) before the beginning of term.

 
[Si] Critical Media Studies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  12:00 - 14:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
This course teaches methods and theories of critical media analysis. An awareness of how all media is embedded in political economy, how media platforms transports dominant and alternative messages about culture and politics, and how media users' and creators' attitudes towards media affect what they take in is central to negotiating the world now. With an emphasis on post-network television series, we shall practice interacting with and analyzing media with critical attention. In the second part of the course, students are invited to present work on their MA of Wiss. Hausarbeiten topics.

[Si] Death Sentences: Capital Punishment in World Literature
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L 3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1

[Si] Discourse, Power, Knowledge: Reading Michel Foucault
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 410

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 2
Kommentar:
In this seminar, we will engage in close readings of select excerpts from the oeuvre of French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984). Foucault's contributions have had a lasting influence on several academic disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, political science, history of thought, and – of particular interest to us – literary and cultural studies. Foucault developed and theorised concepts and terms that the humanities use up to this day, such as ‘discourse', ‘episteme', ‘disciplinary regime', ‘bio-power', or ‘panopticon'. Moreover, he addressed topics that are central for cultural studies: sexuality, knowledge, medicine, and – most momentous of all – power. In this seminar, rather than getting to know Foucault's philosophy from secondary sources, we will go back to the primary material, i.e. read, jointly analyse, discuss, and critically assess Foucault's contributions. As such, the seminar has the additional, more general aim of practising the art of reading theoretical texts. The seminar will also provide an opportunity for you to reflect on whether and how Foucault's theories can help you in the context of a current project of yours (e.g. thesis or term paper).

To enjoy this class, you need to bring along a willingness and the stamina to read theoretical texts (which can be difficult) and to share your ideas with other students. The course will be assessed based on a presentation, general participation and, depending on your module, additional written assignments.

In addition, you must have a copy of the following text: Rabinow, Paul, ed. The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault's Thought. London: Penguin, 1991. [ISBN: 978-0140124866]

[Si] Eighteenth Century Satire
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 15.10.2018
wöchentlich Mo  18:00 - 20:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 428

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Eighteenth-Century Satire (Mon, 6-8 p.m.)
The eighteenth century has been called a golden age of satire. Anything from morality, religion, politics, modern science or London's gin craze was subjected to scathing attacks. Meanwhile satirists, who met in special circles such as the famous Scriblerus Club, were themselves the product of a new literary, publishing and coffeehouse culture. At a time of dramatic social change, satire turned into an important medium of critique and future as well as past reflection.
In this seminar, we will deal with a number of classic and some less well-known examples of eighteenth-century satire, including by women writers in what for a long time passed as a male-dominated literary practice. As a mode of writing and artistic representation, satire travelled through many genres and media, taken up by central figures such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Charlotte Lennox and William Hogarth. Entertaining as well as context-specific, eighteenth-century satires provide a gateway to exploring the age's literature and culture. At the same time as being an important topic of eighteenth-century studies, satire constitutes an important legacy for today. In our own, postmodern times, in which reality seems to have trumped some of satire's wildest dreams, the potentials and limits of conceiving society otherwise continue to matter greatly.
Reading:
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752)
John Gay, The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Alexander Pope, Epistle to Arbuthnot (1735)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)
Additional texts will be made available on Stud.IP.

[Si] From #MeToo to Pornification - Negotiations of Sexual Cultures
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | Komp Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
Hungary wants to ban gender studies, and the Alternative for Germany has called for an end to ”Genderwahn” in language and teaching. These phenomena along with controversies surrounding the #MeToo movement, the so-called sexualization of childhood and the pornification of culture, demonstrate that we are at a historical juncture in which highly conflicting notions about appropriate sexual behavior and discourse compete with one another. These conflicts demonstrate that attitudes about sexuality and gender are historically contingent and extremely politicized. This seminar takes on the cultural-politics of negotiating with sexual cultures now.

[Si] Shakespeare's Happy Comedies
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 17.10.2018
wöchentlich Mi  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 031

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This seminar will deal with Shakespeare's ‘mature' or ‘happy' comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. The discussion will include contemporary modern views and theories on comedy and take into account the context of the Elizabethan theatre. Particular attention will be paid to the role of women and family conceptions. Film versions will be considered as well.
Plenary discussions will be combined with work in study groups.

Texts: William Shakespeare, As You Like It
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
All: Penguin Shakespeare Edition

[Si] Shakespeare's Late Plays: Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  16:00 - 18:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 409

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GUK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4 | ATW Ma, WPV, 1.-4. Sem. | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1
Kommentar:
In this class, we will read and discuss four of Shakespeare's last plays: one of them a tragedy and the other three generally described as Romances; two of them very well known and among the most famous in the Shakespearean canon – The Winter's Tale and The Tempest – and two of them less widely read – Coriolanus and Cymbeline. The seminar serves to introduce key concepts of Shakespeare criticism and Early Modern drama and theatre: we will read and interpret these plays; contextualize, historicize, and place them in the context of the Jacobean age; discuss their theatricality; and finally introduce questions of textual criticism. Please purchase either the Arden or the Oxford editions of these plays.

[Si] The Concept of Culture Revisited
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 18.10.2018
wöchentlich Do  14:00 - 16:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 440

Zielgruppen:
MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj 4
Kommentar:
Raymond Williams famously claimed that culture ”is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.” Within the field of Cultural Studies, this complicated concept has been explored and investigated from a number of different angles. Today, culture is mainly understood as a set of semiotic social and political practices, which are concerned with questions of power, ethnicity, class, and gender. Questions of the concept of culture are central to the development of the main theoretical movements including Structuralism and Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Theories of the Body, Discourse Theory, or Media Studies.
We will read and discuss theoretical texts from the beginning in the 19th century to the present day. The aim of this class is to provide an overview of the field of Cultural Studies within the field of English Studies, and to discuss the current state of the art regarding the development of the theory of culture.

[Si] William Blake
Dozent/-in:
Zeit und Ort:
regelmäßiger Termin ab 16.10.2018
wöchentlich Di  10:00 - 12:00 Uhr,   Phil. I, B 024

Zielgruppen:
NFF Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | MFKW Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | MLL Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1 | SLK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | GuK Ma, PV/WPV, Sj 1/2 | L3, PV/WPV, Sj. 4
Kommentar:
This is a seminar for advanced students in British Romanticism. We will be concentrating on the work of William Blake and read both his shorter poetry and designs and at least one of his longer poetic works. Students are asked to buy M.L.Johnson (ed.) Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions) before the beginning of term.

 
 
 
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