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 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 Anna Auguscik Pornography The Booker Prize 2008 and the Culture of Literary Prizes "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) 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 Didactic ranges of didactic texts. How to comprehend reading comprehension Linguistic aspects of political speeches of the 20th and 21st century 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 Seminars on individual years

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