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 Simpsons" and the US-American society Pulp Magazines and Pulp Fiction in the 1920s and 1930s. Anna Auguscik Winter: 1 Veranstaltung: Lit Summer: 1 Veranstaltung: Lit Winter Term 09-10 3.02.013 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature Part 2 - Course B - Anna Auguscik Mi 12-14 - A1 0-009 Summer Term 10 Options Pierre Bourdieu, or Sociology of Literature and the Arts Discourse Analysis: Foucauldian Approaches in Literary Studies "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 09-10 BM 5: Introduction to Integrated Language Skills BM 5: Grammar BM 5: Grammar AM 1 Written AM 1 Spoken MM 2 Academic Discourse Cult Summer Term 10 BM 5: Grammar BM 5: Grammar BM 5: Presentation Skills AM 1 Written AM 1 Spoken MM 2 Academic Discourse Cult Options Delia Duncan Winter: 3 BM-TMV + 3 Veranstaltungen: SP Summer: 3 BM-TMV + 3 Veranstaltungen: SP Winter Term 09-10 BM 5: Introduction to Integrated Language Skills BM 5: Pronunciation BM 5: Presentation Skills AM 1 Written AM 1 Spoken MM 1 Academic Discourse Lit Summer Term 10 BM 5: Pronunciation BM 5: Pronunciation BM 5: Presentation Skills AM 1 Written AM 1 Spoken MM 1 Academic Discourse Lit Options Maike Engelhardt Winter: 2 Basismodule + 1 Veranstaltungen: Ling, Did Summer: 2 Basismodule + 1 Veranstaltungen Ling, Did Winter Term 09-10 BM 3 BM 4 Summer Term 10 BM 3 BM 4 Options AM 9: Übung/Lektürekurs: Theories of Language 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 09-10 BM 4: Mi 14-16 AM MM Directed studies (BA-Abschlussmodul, Gehring) n.V. Directed studies (MM-Abschlussmodul, Gehring) n.V. Summer Term 10 BM 4: Mi 14-16 AM MM 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 09-10 AM MM Kolloquium für B.A. AbschlusskandidatInnen und DoktorandInnen: New Research in Applied Linguistics Examens- und Doktorandenkolloquium (alte Studiengänge) Summer Term 10 BM AM MM Examens- und Doktorandenkolloquium (alte Studiengänge) 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 09-10 BM 5: Introduction to Integrated Language Skills BM 5: Pronunciation BM 5: Presentation Skills AM 1 Spoken MM 3 Academic Discourse Ling Summer Term 10 BM 5: Introduction to Integrated Language Skills BM 5: Pronunciation BM 5: Pronunciation BM 5: Presentation Skills MM Academic Discourse Cult Options Cornelia Hamann Winter: 1 BM-TMV + 3 Veranstaltungen: Ling Summer: 4 Veranstaltungen: Ling Winter Term 09-10 BM 3, Introduction to English Linguistics Part I AM MM MM Summer Term 10 AM AM BA-ASM: Kolloquium - (New) Research in Language Acquisition MM Options Anton Kirchhofer Winter: 1 BM-TMV + 3 Veranstaltungen: Lit Summer: 1 BM-TMV + 3 Veranstaltungen: Lit Winter Term 09-10 3.02.012 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature Part 2 - Course A - Anton Kirchhofer - Di 10-12 - A1 0-004 AM 3.02.312 - Kolloquium für B.A. AbschlusskandidatInnen und DoktorandInnen: New Research in Literary and Cultural Studies (14-tägig) - Anton Kirchhofer 3.02.551 - Kolloquium für ExamenskandidatInnen (M.A., M.Ed., alte Studiengänge) (14-tägig) - Anton Kirchhofer Literaturwissenschaftliches Doktorandenkolloquium der Fakultät III (mit Doering, Kohler, Kyora) Directed Studies Summer Term 10 3.02.011 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature Part 2 - Anton Kirchhofer - Di 14-16 - HS 2 AM MM 3.02.312 - Kolloquium für B.A. AbschlusskandidatInnen und DoktorandInnen: New Research in Literary and Cultural Studies (14-tägig) - Anton Kirchhofer 3.02.551 - Kolloquium für ExamenskandidatInnen (M.A., M.Ed., alte Studiengänge) (14-tägig) - Anton Kirchhofer Literaturwissenschaftliches Doktorandenkolloquium der Fakultät III (mit Doering, Kohler, Kyora) Directed Studies Options 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) 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 Michaela Koch Exploring History and Theory Anke Leinweber Winter: 4 Veranstaltungen: Did Summer: 4 Veranstaltungen Did Winter Term 09-10 BM 4 AM MM MM Summer Term 10 BM 4 AM MM MM Directed studies: Schulpraktika im Ausland (ohne KP-Erwerb) n.V. Options Holger Limberg Winter: 1 Veranstaltung: Ling Summer: 1 Veranstaltung: Ling Winter Term 09-10 AM Summer Term 10 BM 3 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 09-10 BM 5: Introduction to Integrated Language Skills AM 1 Written MM 1 Academic Discourse Lit Summer Term 10 BM 5: Presentation Skills AM 1 Spoken AM 1 Written Options Christina Meyer Winter: 1 BM + 2 Veranstaltungen: Lit, Cult Summer: 2 BM (Übung) + 1 Veranstaltung Lit, Cult Winter Term 09-10 BM 2 AM MM Summer Term 10 BM 2 AM MM Options Aufbaumodule: AM 2b, AM 4a, AM 10, AM 11: History According to the Movies AM 2b, AM 4a, AM 10, AM 11: The Fifties AM 2b, AM 4a, AM 10, AM 11: The Western AM 2b, AM 4a, AM 10, AM 11: Noir AM 2b, AM 4a, AM 10, AM 11: Can Popular Culture Make Us Smarter? AM 2b, AM 4a, AM 10, AM 11: The American Renaissance AM 2b, AM 4a, AM 10, AM 11: Post 9/11 TV Landscape AM 2b, AM 4a, AM 10, AM 11: Teaching Comics Mastermodule MM 2 (auch klausurvorbereitend): L'amour fou...Love Stories, old and new 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) MM 2 (auch klausurvorbereitend): How to Read Fiction Like a Professor MM 2 (auch klausurvorbereitend): Discourses of Love (likely authors/texts: Luhman; Breton; Barthes; Fiedler) MM 2 (auch klausurvorbereitend): "The Body in Pain" (likely authors/texts: Scarry; Seltzer; Foster...) Joanna Pfingsthorn Winter: 1 Veranstaltung: Did Summer: 1 Veranstaltung: Did Winter Term 09-10 AM Summer Term 10 BM 4 Options Olaf Simons Winter: 2 Basismodul + 2 Veranstaltungen: Lit, Cult Summer: 1 Basismodule + 3 Veranstaltungen Lit, Cult Winter Term 09-10 Summer Term 10 Options (auch HS klausurvorbereitend) The Civil War in Print AM 2b, AM 10: James Bond - Olaf Simons AM 2b, AM 11: Chapbooks - Olaf Simons Time Travel AM 2b, AM 10: Cinematic Violence Poetic Justice English Translations of the Bible Cultural Studies 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 09-10 Summer Term 10 Options Michael Treichler Winter Term 09-10 BM 3 Summer Term 10 AM N.N. Amerikanistik Winter Term 09-10 AM 2b/2c, AM 11 AM 10 MM 1 MM 2 Summer Term 10 AM 2b/2c, AM 11 AM 10 MM 1 MM 2 N.N. LfbA BritKult Winter Term 09-10 BM 2 BM 2 AM 10/ MM 2 Summer Term 10 BM 2 BM 2 AM 10/ MM 2