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. For a provisional combination of courses for the next two semesters, please go to Course Plan. 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: 2 Basismodule + 1 Veranstaltungen: Ling, Did Summer: 2 Basismodule + 1 Veranstaltungen Ling, Did Winter Term 08-09 BM 3 BM 4 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 BM 3 BM 4 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 Options 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: 3 Veranstaltungen: Lit, Cult Summer: 3 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

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