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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
• Lovecraft, Poe and the Unspeakable Horror, Weird Tales and Disturbing Worlds
• The image of humanity in utopian writings - From Ancient Greece via Augustin and More to Wells

Anna Auguscik

Winter: 1 Veranstaltung: Lit
Summer: 1 Veranstaltung: Lit

Winter Term 08-09

• MM1 (auch HS klausurvorbereitend) The Booker Prize 2008 and the Culture of Literary Prizes (mit Anton Kirchhofer)

Summer Term 09

• BM 1

Options

• Pornography (mit Olaf Simons)
• "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)

Kevin Carpenter

Winter: 3 BM-TMV + 3 Veranstaltungen: SP
Summer: 3 BM-TMV + 3 Veranstaltungen: SP

Winter Term 08-09

• BM 5: Introduction to Integrated Language Skills
• BM 5: Grammar
• BM 5: Grammar
• AM 1 Written
• AM 1 Spoken
• MM Academic Discourse Lit

Summer Term 09

• BM 5: Presentation Skills
• BM 5: Grammar
• BM 5: Grammar
• AM 1 Written
• AM 1 Spoken
• MM Academic Discourse Lit

Options

Delia Duncan

Winter: 3 BM-TMV + 3 Veranstaltungen: SP
Summer: 3 BM-TMV + 3 Veranstaltungen: SP

Winter Term 08-09

• BM 5: Introduction to Integrated Language Skills
• BM 5: Pronunciation
• BM 5: Presentation Skills
• AM 1 Written
• AM 1 Spoken
• MM Academic Discourse Cult

Summer Term 09

• BM 5: Pronunciation
• BM 5: Pronunciation
• BM 5: Presentation Skills
• AM 1 Written
• AM 1 Spoken
• MM Academic Discourse Lit

Options

Maike Engelhardt

Winter: 1 Basismodul + 3 Veranstaltungen: Ling, Did
Summer: 2 Basismodule + 2 Veranstaltungen Ling, Did

Winter Term 08-09

• AM 3a, 4a, 4b, AM 9: Linguistic aspects of political speeches in the 20th and 21st century.
• AM 7a, vielleicht 6b, AM 9: Learning strategies
• AM 5, 7a (vielleicht), AM 8: Didactic ranges of didactic texts. How much comprehension is in reading comprehension? Oder How to comprehend comprehension
• AM 3b, 4b, 6a, AM 9: Phonetics and Phonology of US English
• AM 5, 7a, AM 8: Ergänzende Unterrichtsmaterialien im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufen I und II
• Academic study skills workshop: KP frei, jedes Wintersemester für Studierende nach den BM

Summer Term 09

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• 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

Wolfgang Gehring

Winter: 1 BM-TMV + 3 Veranstaltungen: Did
Summer: 1 BM-TMV + 3 Veranstaltungen: Did

Winter Term 08-09

• BM 4: Mi 14-16
• AM 8: Skills, Knowledge, Abilities Di 14-16
• AM 8: The Modern ELT - classroom Do 10-12
• MM: Innovations in ELT (fächerübergreifend) Di 16-18

Summer Term 09

• BM 4: Mi 14-16
• AM 8: Teaching for Communicative Competence, Di 14-16
• AM 8: The Modern ELT - classroom, Do 10-12
• MM: Approaches in ELT (fächerübergreifend), Di 16-18
• Directed studies (Abschlussmodul, Gehring) n.V.
• Directed studies (Abschlussmodul, Gehring) n.V.

Options

Ronald Geluykens

Winter: 4 Veranstaltungen: Ling
Summer: 1 Basismodule + 3 Veranstaltungen Ling

Winter Term 08-09

• AM 3a, AM 4a, AM 9: History of the English Language

• AM 3b, AM 4b, AM 9: English as a Global Language

• MM (auch klausurbezogenes HS): Lexical Semantics

Summer Term 09

• BM 3, Part 2
• AM 3b, AM 4b, AM 9: English as a Global Language

• AM 3a, AM 4a, AM 9: History of the English Language

• MM (nicht klausurbezoges HS): From Old to Middle English

• MM (nicht klausurbezoges HS): Pragmatics

Options

Deidre Graydon

Winter: 3 BM-TMV + 2 Veranstaltungen: SP
Summer: 3 BM-TMV + 2 Veranstaltungen: SP

Winter Term 08-09

• BM 5: Introduction to Integrated Language Skills
• BM 5: Pronunciation
• BM 5: Presentation Skills
• AM 1 Spoken
• MM Academic Discourse Ling

Summer Term 09

• BM 5: Introduction to Integrated Language Skills
• BM 5: Pronunciation
• BM 5: Presentation Skills
• AM 1 Written
• MM Academic Discourse Cult

Options

Cornelia Hamann

Winter: 1 BM-TMV + 3 Veranstaltungen: Ling
Summer: 4 Veranstaltungen: Ling

Winter Term 08-09

• Basismodul 3, Introduction to English Linguistics Part I
• AM 7b, AM 9: The Language System - Areas of English Grammar
• MM: The English Tense System
• MM: The Critical Period Debate (Language Acquisition)

Summer Term 09

• AM 7a, AM 9: Language Acquisition and Language Impairment
• AM 7b and 3a, AM 9: Morphological and Syntactic Change
• MM: The Acquisition of Syntax from a Cross-linguistic Perspective (LA)
• MM: (Formal) Semantics

Options

Anton Kirchhofer

Winter: 1 BM-TMV + 3 Veranstaltungen: Lit
Summer: 1 BM-TMV + 3 Veranstaltungen: Lit

Winter Term 08-09

• BM 1, UE (Teil 2 alt)
• AM 5, 1 SE Literature and the School System (abgesprochen mit Wolfgang Gehring)
• MM1 (auch HS klausurvorbereitend), 1 SE The Booker Prize 2008 and the Culture of Literary Prizes (mit Anna Auguscik; abgesprochen mit Delia Duncan, UE)
• Advanced Perspectives on Literary History - a Workshop - UE AM 2a, 2b, 11, with Olaf Simons

Summer Term 09

• (1)Gesetzt: Directed studies, (Examens- und) Doktorandenkolloquium,
• (2) BM 1, 1 V (Teil 1 alt)

• (3) AM2c und 11: African Intertextualities: Writing and Rewriting in Anglophone Fiction from Africa
  • alternativ: AM 2b, 5 und 11 Childhood Stories and Children's Literature
  • alternativ: Modern Tales of a Puritan Past (e.g. Hogg, Justified Sinner, Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter …) (AM 2b und 11, oder MM 1 und klausurvorbereitend)

• MM1(auch klausurvorbereitend) Gothic Fiction – The Early Canon (Otranto, Udolpho, Monk, Northanger Abbey)
  • alternativ: John Milton
  • alternativ: African Intertextualities: Writing and Rewriting in Anglophone Fiction from Africa

Options

• Explorations in the History and Ideology of Purity
• The Cultural History of Shakespeare
• Writing (in) Ireland in the Mid-20th century. (Flann O'Brien, Patrick Kavanagh, Samuel Beckett)
• British Fiction in the 1850s – Dickens, Trollope, Eliot, book production of 1850s, the novel market and reviewing etc.
• The Sensational Novel - Popular and Transgressive Writing in the 1860s
• Confession and Narrative
• Exploring the Lord Chamberlain's Files (mit Exkursion und Editionsprojekten
• Representations of Gender and Violence from Shakespeare to the Present
• 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
• "National Allegories" - Allegory in Postcolonial Writing
• Modernism and Journalism

Anke Leinweber

Winter: 4 Veranstaltungen: Did
Summer: 4 Veranstaltungen Did

Winter Term 08-09

• BM 4: Mi 14-16
• AM 8: Primary English (Leinweber)
• MM: Praxismodul GYM (auch fachpraktisches TM), Do 18-20
• MM: Blockseminar: Begleitung und Auswertung des Fachpraktikums n.V.

Summer Term 09

• BM 4: Mi 14-16
• AM: Primary English II
• MM: Praxismodul GYM/BBS, Do 18-20
• Directed studies: Schulpraktika im Ausland (ohne KP-Erwerb) n.V.

Options

Holger Limberg

Winter: 1 Veranstaltung: Ling
Summer: 1 Veranstaltung: Ling

Winter Term 08-09

• AM Alternativen:

• 1) Topics in Pragmatics (4a, 7b, 9)
• 2) Institutional Discourse (4a, 7b, 9)
• 3) Sociolinguistics (4a, 7b, 9)

Summer Term 09

• BM 3
• evtl. Lehrautrag

• 1)Mastermodul:Communication for Specific Purposes (MM3)
• 2)Aufbaumodul: Semantics and Pragmatics (4a, 7b, 9)
• 3)Aufbaumodul: Corpus Linguistics (4a, 7b, 9)

Options

Robert McLaughlin

Winter: 1 BM-TMV + 2 Veranstaltungen: SP
Summer: 3 BM-TMV + 2 Veranstaltungen: SP

Winter Term 08-09

• BM 5: Introduction to Integrated Language Skills
• AM 1 Written
• MM Academic Discourse Lit
• Lehrauftrag: MM Fachdidaktik

Summer Term 09

• BM 5: Presentation Skills
• AM 1 Spoken
• MM Academic Discourse Ling

Options

Christina Meyer

Winter: 4 Veranstaltungen: Lit, Cult
Summer: 4 Veranstaltungen Lit, Cult

Winter Term 08-09

• BM 2
• AM 2b, AM 4a, AM 10, AM 11: How to Read a Filmic Text

• alternativ: AM 2b, AM 4a, AM 10, AM 11: Memory - Perception - Photography - Literature

• MM (auch klausurvorbereitend) Fashion/Consumption/Desire in Literature

• alternativ Memory - Perception - Photography - Literature

Summer Term 09

• BM2
• AM2b, AM10, AM11: Postmodernism in America (in Literatur, Kunst, Architektur - als 1. Block; ausgewählte Texte von DeLillo, Auster, Barthelme, Barth, Pynchon u.m.)

• alternativ AM2b, AM10, AM11 (oder MM): Trauma Narratives (Bsp.: Holocaust Lit.; Vietnam War lit.; 9/11 lit.; nur als Auswahl...)

• MM (auch klausurvorbereitend): Memory – Perception – Photography – Literature (dieser ist ja nur als Alternativvorschlag angedacht, und den würde ich sonst im Sommersemester als Mastermodul konzipieren); theoretical texts: e.g. Aristotles, Benjamin, Gombrich, Barthes, Freud, Lacan, Sontag, Sturken, etc. + selection of literary texts

Options

Joanna Pfingsthorn

Winter: 1 Veranstaltung: Did
Summer: 1 Veranstaltung: Did

Winter Term 08-09

• AM 8: Errors in Language Learning, Mo

Summer Term 09

• BM 4

Options

Olaf Simons

Winter: 1 Basismodul + 3 Veranstaltungen: Lit, Cult
Summer: 2 Basismodule + 2 Veranstaltungen Lit, Cult

Winter

• BM 1
• Deep Space Nine American Culture
• Advanced Perspectives on Literary History - a Workshop - UE AM 2a, 2b, 11, with Anton Kirchhofer
• Canterbury Tales, Literature

Summer

• BM 1
• BM 1
• The Linguistic Turn in Philosophy, Linguistics and Literature Literature and Linguistics
• English Translations of the Bible Cultural Studies

Options

• Time Travel Literature (and Film)
• Chapbooks Literature
• Theories of the Novel Literature
• Fathers and Sons in American Movies American Culture
• The Bayeux Tapestry, Cultural Studies
• 18th-century Sentimental Novels and Plays English Literature
• Cinematic Violence Cultural Studies
• Pornography Literature, with Anna Auguscik
• 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

Richard Stinshoff

Winter: 1 Basismodul + 3 Veranstaltungen: Cult
Summer: 1 Basismodule + 3 Veranstaltungen Cult

Winter Term 08-09

• AM 2b/c, AM 6b, AM 10: Britain & Globalisation
• AM 2b, AM 10: Old Labour, New Labour

• MM: The 'Condition of England Question' and the Industrial Novel

Summer Term 09

Options