Difference between revisions of "Course Ideas"

The following links lead to individual Seminar Ideas and offer a place to communicate about seminars one would like to see created. Use the individual discussion pages for commentary and the main pages for topics such a seminar might focus on

Wishes (Student and Staff)

• Children's and Youth Literature
• Anglistik Seminare im Professionalisierungsbereich
  • English language and mass media
  • English as a global language
• Academic Study Skills Workshop
• Education on TV

Anna Auguscik

• Pornography
• The Booker Prize 2008 and the Culture of Literary Prizes
• "A morbid fear of salad": (post)modern medieval life in Nicola Barker's Darkmans (2007)
• Postcolonial vs. postmodern appeal and the success of a novel: Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) and A.S. Byatt, Possession (1990)

Maike Engelhardt

• Language Testing for Language Teachers
• English as a Lingua Franca
• Language and Age
• Phonetics and Phonology: American English
• Techniques and Strategies of Foreign Language Learning
• Teaching Methods: Past, Present and Future
• (Ergänzende) Unterrichtsmaterialien im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe I & II
• Lehrwerksanalyse Red/Green/Orange Line
• Didactic ranges of didactic texts. How to comprehend reading comprehension
• Linguistic aspects of political speeches of the 20th and 21st century

Anton Kirchhofer

• The Booker Prize 2008 and the Culture of Literary Prizes
• The Cultural History of Shakespeare
• Literature in the Secondary School System
• Creation, Nature, Environment - Changing Conceptions in Literature and Culture
• Plots of Emancipation and Conversion - Writing Religious Experience.
• Fictions about Contemporaries - Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1826) and Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point (1928)
• Obscure and Public Poetry in the 19c - Swinburne, Whitman, Hopkins, Dickinson
• Fictional Parsons - from Fielding to Golding
• Editing Shakespeare - the History of Shakespeare's 'Texts'
• From Theodicy to Political Economy - Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century 'Systems Theories'
• Theories of Literary Communication
• Public School Stories - Tom Hughes, Samuel Butler, Evelyn Waugh
• Girls' at School
• Children's Perspectives
• "National Allegories" - Allegory in Postcolonial Writing
• Modernism and Journalism

Olaf Simons

Winter 2008-2009

• Deep Space Nine American Culture
• 18th-century Sentimental Novels and Plays English Literature
• The Linguistic Turn in Philosophy, Linguistics and Literature Literature and Lingusitics
• Pornography Literature, Culture, with Anna Auguscik
• The Bayeux Tapestry, Cultural Studies
• Canterbury Tales, Literature

Summer 2009

• English Translations of the Bible Cultural Studies
• Time Travel Literature (and Film)
• Fathers and Sons in American Movies American Culture
• Cinematic Violence Cultural Studies
• Chapbooks Literature
• Theories of the Novel Literature

The distant future

• Ossian
• The Best of all Possible Worlds
• The Invention of Psychology
• The English Rogue and the German Simplicissimus
• Histories of English Literature
• Online Communication, Blogs and Wikipedia
• Poetic Justice
• Seminars on individual years