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 Student Wishes Children's and Youth Literature Seminars that can used in the Professionalisierungsbereich Ah, please, somewhat more concrete - topics you want to use in whatever context - and if possible: with a statement why this special topic is so interesting and what texts one should read in this seminar... Anna Auguscik Pornography The Booker Prize 2008 and the Culture of Literary Prizes 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 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 Chapbooks Ossian The Best of all Possible Worlds The Invention of Psychology The English Rogue and the German Simplicissimus Pornography Histories of English Literature Cinematic Violence Online Communication, Blogs and Wikipedia The Linguistic Turn in Philosophy, Linguistics and Literature Poetic Justice

Image detail: Courtesy of Daniel Schwen Wikimedia Commons