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, moved to Wi 08/09 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 - Elements of Film AM 1 Spoken - News & Views MM 2 Academic Discourse Cult - Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist Summer Term 09 BM 5: Grammar BM 5: Grammar BM 5: Presentation Skills AM 1 Written - Elements of Film AM 1 Spoken - News & Views MM 2 Academic Discourse Cult - America and the Movies 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 - Short Stories and a Play from Africa AM 1 Spoken - English Identities MM 1 Academic Discourse Lit - The Booker Prize 2008: selected readings Summer Term 09 BM 5: Pronunciation BM 5: Pronunciation BM 5: Presentation Skills AM 1 Written - Short Stories from the English-speaking World AM 1 Spoken - Australia: Fact and Fiction MM 1 Academic Discourse Lit - J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace: the novel in context 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, AM 8: Didactic ranges of didactic texts Academic study skills workshop: KP frei, jedes Wintersemester für Studierende nach den BM Summer Term 09 BM 3 BM 4 AM 4a, AM 9: Linguistic aspects of political speeches in the 20th and 21st century. Options AM 7a, vielleicht 6b, AM 9: Learning strategies AM 3b, 4b, 6a, AM 9: Phonetics and Phonology: American English AM 5, 7a, AM 8: (Ergänzende) Unterrichtsmaterialien im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe I & II Language Testing for Language Teachers English as a Lingua Franca Language and Age Techniques and Strategies of Foreign Language Learning Teaching Methods: Past, Present and Future Lehrwerksanalyse Red/Green/Orange Line 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 7a, 7b, 8: Skills, Knowledge, Abilities - Di 14-16 MM Gym 4: Platzhalter (fächerübergreifend) - Do 10-12 MM: Innovations in ELT (fächerübergreifend) Di 16-18 Directed studies (BA-Abschlussmodul, Gehring) n.V. Directed studies (MM-Abschlussmodul, Gehring) n.V. Summer Term 09 BM 4: Mi 14-16 AM 5, 8: Teaching for Communicative Competence, Di 14-16 AM 7a, 7b, 8: The Modern ELT-classroom, Do 10-12 MM Gym 4: Approaches in ELT (fächerübergreifend), Di 16-18 Directed studies (BA-Abschlussmodul, Gehring) n.V. Directed studies (MM-Abschlussmodul, Gehring) n.V. Options Ronald Geluykens Winter: 4 Veranstaltungen: Ling Summer: 1 Basismodule + 3 Veranstaltungen Ling Winter Term 08-09 AM 3b, AM 4b, AM 9: English as a Global Language MM 3: (auch klausurbezogenes HS) Lexical Semantics Summer Term 09 BM 3, Part 2 AM 3a, AM 4a, AM 9: History of the English Language MM 3: (nicht klausurbezoges HS) American English Options MM 3: (nicht klausurbezoges HS) From Old to Middle English MM 3: (nicht klausurbezoges HS) Pragmatics Deidre Graydon Winter: 3 BM-TMV + 2 Veranstaltungen: SP Summer: 4 BM-TMV + 1 Veranstaltungen: SP Winter Term 08-09 BM 5: Introduction to Integrated Language Skills BM 5: Pronunciation BM 5: Presentation Skills AM 1 Spoken - The US Presidential Election MM 3 Academic Discourse Ling - The US Presidential Election Summer Term 09 BM 5: Introduction to Integrated Language Skills BM 5: Pronunciation BM 5: Pronunciation BM 5: Presentation Skills MM Academic Discourse Cult - Varieties of American English 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 7a, AM 9: Language Acquisition from a Comparative Perspective MM 3: The English Tense System MM 3: The Syntax of Questions: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison Summer Term 09 AM 3a, AM 7b, AM 9: Morphological and Syntactic Change BA-ASM: Kolloquium - (New) Research in Language Acquisition MM 3: The Acquisition of Syntax from a Cross-linguistic Perspective (LA) MM 3: The Linguistic Turn 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 2b, AM 11: Gothic Fiction: The Early Canon (Otranto, Udolpho, Monk, Northanger Abbey) AM 2b, AM 11: Modern Tales of a Puritan PastModern Tales of a Puritan Past (e.g. Hogg, Justified Sinner, Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter) MM 1 (auch HS klausurvorbereitend) - The Booker Prize 2008 and the Culture of Literary Prizes - (mit Anna Auguscik; abgesprochen mit Delia Duncan, UE) Directed Studies Summer Term 09 BM 1, 1 V (Teil 1 alt) AM 5, AM 11: Literature and the School System (abgesprochen mit Wolfgang Gehring) UE - AM 2a, 2b, 11: Advanced Perspectives on Literary History: A Workshop - with Olaf Simons MM 1 (auch klausurvorbereitend) African Intertextualities: Writing and Rewriting in Anglophone Fiction from Africa Directed studies, (Examens- und) Doktorandenkolloquium Options John Milton AM 2b, 5 und 11 Childhood Stories and Children's Literature 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 7a, 7b, 8: Primary English MM GYM 4: Praxismodul GYM (auch fachpraktisches TM), Do 18-20 MM GYM 4: Blockseminar: Begleitung und Auswertung des Fachpraktikums n.V. Summer Term 09 BM 4: Mi 14-16 AM 7a, 7b, 8: Primary English II MM GYM 4: Praxismodul GYM/BBS, Do 18-20 MM Abschluss: 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 4a, AM 7b, AM 9: Institutional Discourse Summer Term 09 BM 3 AM 4a, AM 7b, AM 9: evtl. Lehrautrag Semantics and Pragmatics/Corpus Linguistics Options AM Topics in Pragmatics (4a, 7b, 9) AM Sociolinguistics (4a, 7b, 9) Mastermodul: Communication for Specific Purposes (MM3) Aufbaumodul: Semantics and Pragmatics (4a, 7b, 9) Aufbaumodul: Corpus Linguistics (4a, 7b, 9) Robert McLaughlin Winter: 1 BM-TMV + 2 Veranstaltungen: SP Summer: 1 BM-TMV + 2 Veranstaltungen: SP Winter Term 08-09 BM 5: Introduction to Integrated Language Skills AM 1 Written - America: Literature and Culture MM 1 Academic Discourse Lit - North-American Short Fiction Lehrauftrag: MM Fachdidaktik - Praxismoudl GHR/BBS Summer Term 09 BM 5: Presentation Skills AM 1 Spoken - History, Fiction and Language (America) AM 1 Written - 19th and Early 20th-Century American Literature Options Christina Meyer Winter: 1 BM + 2 Veranstaltungen: Lit, Cult Summer: 1 BM + 2 Veranstaltungen Lit, Cult Winter Term 08-09 BM 2 AM 2b, AM 10, AM 11: Trauma Narratives (Bsp.: Holocaust Lit.; Vietnam War lit.; 9/11 lit.; nur als Auswahl...) MM 2: (auch klausurvorbereitend) Fashion/Consumption/Desire in Literature Summer Term 09 BM2 AM 2b, AM 10, AM 11: Postmodernism in America (in Literatur, Kunst, Architektur - als 1. Block; ausgewählte Texte von DeLillo, Auster, Barthelme, Barth, Pynchon u.m.) MM 2: (auch klausurvorbereitend) Memory – Perception – Photography – Literature (theoretical texts: e.g. Aristotles, Benjamin, Gombrich, Barthes, Freud, Lacan, Sontag, Sturken, etc. + selection of literary texts) Options AM 2b, AM 4a, AM 10, AM 11: How to Read a Filmic Text Joanna Pfingsthorn Winter: 1 Veranstaltung: Did Summer: 1 Veranstaltung: Did Winter Term 08-09 AM 7a, 7b, 8: Errors in Language Learning, Mo Summer Term 09 BM 4 Options Olaf Simons Winter: 2 Basismodul + 2 Veranstaltungen: Lit, Cult Summer: 1 Basismodule + 3 Veranstaltungen Lit, Cult Winter BM 1 BM 1 AM 2b, AM 11: Time Travel AM 2b, AM 10: Cinematic Violence Summer BM 1 AM 2a, AM 3a, AM 11: Canterbury Tales UE - AM 2a, 2b, 11: Advanced Perspectives on Literary History: A Workshop - Anton Kirchhofer and Olaf Simons MM 1: The Linguistic Turn Options Poetic Justice English Translations of the Bible Cultural Studies 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 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 Seminars on individual years Richard Stinshoff Winter: 1 Basismodul + 3 Veranstaltungen: Cult Summer: Cult Winter Term 08-09 BM 2 AM 2c, AM 4b, AM 10: Britain & Globalisation AM 2b, AM 4a, AM 10: Old Labour, New Labour MM 2: The 'Condition of England Question' and the Industrial Novel Summer Term 09 Options

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