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  • AM1-Surveying English Literatures

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    • 17314 Grundkurs
      GK-Surveying English Literatures (Cordula Lemke)
      Zeit: Di 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2025)
      Ort: Hs 2 Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This lecture aims at giving an introduction to the large variety of English literatures. It will present a comprehensive survey from the beginnings of English literatures to the present day, it will look at questions of genre, periods, background and reception as well as offer readings of representative works from the different periods.
    • 17315 Proseminar
      PS-Surveying English Literatures: Scottish Nature Writing (Cordula Lemke)
      Zeit: Do 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 17.04.2025)
      Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      Today's image of Scotland is still dominated by the myths of peaty and moss-covered Highlands and their tartan-wearing inhabitants who entertain weary travellers with tales of ghosts and murderers; myths that were invented at the end of the eighteenth century and whose legacy still endures – albeit with a twist. New nature writing has changed romantic images by questioning how we appropriate nature and by contesting our own place in nature. In this seminar we will look at how nature was depicted at the end of the eighteenth century and where short stories, poems and novels take us today.

      Texts:

      Most texts will be available on Blackboard.

      Please purchase Donald Smith, Storm&Shore
    • 17316 Proseminar
      PS-Surveying English Literatures: Queer Spatiotemporalities in the Modernist Metropolis (Karoline-Rosina Strauch)
      Zeit: Fr 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 25.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      Modernist cities were sites of rapid transformation in the early 20th century, offering new possibilities for movement, identity, and desire. For many queer writers and artists, the metropolis became both a refuge and a site of alienation – shaping how queer lives were imagined and lived. This seminar explores how modernist literature by expatriate writers engages with queer spatiotemporalities (space & time) that diverge from heteronormative structures of chronology, domesticity, and progress.

      In recent decades, queer temporality and spatiality have become central concerns in literary and cultural theory, offering new ways of understanding marginality, resistance, and alternative modes of living. Drawing on theoretical frameworks by Jack Halberstam, Elizabeth Freeman, Lee Edelman, and others, we will analyse and discuss how queer modernist authors, and their characters, navigated urban space, challenged normative life trajectories, and resisted dominant temporal logics.

      In addition to material made available on Blackboard during the semester, we will read:

      • Isherwood, Christopher. Goodbye to Berlin. Vintage Classics, 2011. (Alternatively, you may also buy Isherwood, Christopher. The Berlin Novels. Vintage Classics, 1993 – it has both Berlin Novels in there and is only a few Euros more expensive.)
      • Mirrlees, Hope. Paris: A Poem. Faber & Faber, 2020.
      • Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood. Faber & Faber, 2007


      Please note that this is a reading-intensive course – it is a literature seminar which means that you will have to read either a novel or academic articles each week. The means of assessment is a 2000-word essay on a primary text we discussed in class.

    • 17317 Proseminar
      PS-Surveying English Literatures: The Grand Tour (James Daniel Mellor)
      Zeit: Do 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 17.04.2025)
      Ort: J 32/102 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      The Grand Tour began in the seventeenth century as a coming-of-age trip for wealthy young men to visit the primary sites of cultural heritage in Europe. In its wake, and with the rise of the middle class, people from many backgrounds embarked on touring as a way to see the cultural legacy and ruins of classic antiquity. By the late nineteenth century “Cook’s Tours” ushered in mass tourism, guide books, and souvenirs. In this century, cheap flights and the wish to go on “vacation” has made the original search for experience almost irrelevant. Yet the varieties of travel, writing, and ways of reading the world that have percolated down the ages continue to represent cultural encounters as way of imbuing oneself with knowledge or distinction. This course will survey the three centuries of touring to investigate the ways travel, reading, and writing continue to shape our notions of what “grand” experiences entail. This course is a literary course and will consist of extensive reading, so please only sign up if you have an interest in reading, and not just because it fits in with your timetable. Before the first session please read Turgenev’s The Torrents of Spring (sometimes entitled Spring Torrents).
    • 17318 Proseminar
      PS-Surveying English Literatures: Writing Modernism (Cordula Lemke)
      Zeit: Do 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 17.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      The period of Modernism distrusts and questions the claim of human reason to be a reliable means for understanding and controlling the world. The continuous process of decentring the subject which philosophers, theologians, psychologists and scientists alike described and perpetuated at the end of the nineteenth century led to new ways of writing and story telling at the beginning of the twentieth century. Narrative strategies were reconsidered within a newly structured world, textual experiments were celebrated as empowering spaces for the shaken subject, textual patterns were emphasised in order to compensate for the loss of a more tangible world order. Textual representation served as a 'hyper-realist' depiction of the chaotic state of decay whereas story telling provided a potential panacea in a world devoid of meaning. In this seminar we will look at the close relationship of textuality, story telling and subjectivity in three canonical modernist texts.

      Texts:

      • Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
      • James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
      • Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
    • 17319 Proseminar
      PS-Surveying English Literatures: The Location of Culture in English Popular Poetry and Song (Jordan Lee Schnee)
      Zeit: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 16.04.2025)
      Ort: J 32/102 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      In this class we will examine the relationship between poetry and song, challenging the traditional separation between “high” literature and popular or folk forms. We will analyze how poetic structures such as the ballad and sonnet tie to (contemporary) English musical practice, seeing how poetry and song function as both aesthetic artifacts and contested sites of cultural negotiation.

      A central focus will be interrogating the cultural and power dynamics that shape the distinction between elite and vernacular forms. Drawing on Homi K. Bhabha’s The Location of Culture (1994), we will attend to the relationship between hegemonic “centers” like London and peripheral spaces, exploring how English artistic production is influenced by (neo)colonialism, cultural hybridity, and asymmetrical power structures.

      Additional theoretical readings will come from Stephen Roud’s Folk Song in England (2017) and Dave Harker’s Fakesong (1994). Applying the theory to primary texts, we will critically examine the ethics of collecting, recording, and commodifying folk traditions, questioning the construction of “authenticity” in literary and musical spaces.

  • AM2-Introduction to Cultural Studies

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    • 17321 Proseminar
      PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Scottish Witches (Cordula Lemke)
      Zeit: Fr 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 25.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      Scottish folktales have always been haunted by ghosts, murderers and the odd witch. Tales of witchcraft and magic have been part of the Scottish cultural memory since James VI of Scotland became James I of England and Scotland. His reign started a veritable witch craze when he accused Scottish women of riding the waves in sieves and conjuring up a storm that almost led to his and his new Danish wife’s death by drowning on their passage home to Scotland. From then on around 3000 women and men died being accused of witchcraft. Today, the campaign “Witches of Scotland” has made it their goal to remember all these women and men who died for acting as healers, for being loud or uncomfortable, or for simply being different. The texts of this seminar play a part in preserving the memory of these so-called witches. We are going to look at the various topics the texts address, at how witches are presented today and finally at the role Harry Potter plays in the debate.

      Texts:

      • Kate Foster, The King’s Witches
      • Philip Paris, The Last Witch of Scotland
      • J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
    • 17322 Proseminar
      PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Adapting Queer Stories from the Page to the Screen (Karoline-Rosina Strauch)
      Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 16.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      “Both adaptation and queerness suffer from the stereotype of being secondary: to identify something as an adaptation is to recognize it in relation to something else that seems more original, more authentic. Similarly, to identify something as queer is to place it in relation to what is assumed to be ‘normal’ or ‘straight’,” states Pamela Demory in Queer/Adaptation. This course explores the intersection of adaptation studies and queer narratives, examining how LGBTQIA+ stories are adapted from the page to the screen. Through close readings of novels and their cinematic adaptations, we will examine how form, medium, and context shape the representation of queer identities and relationships. Alongside our primary texts (listed below) we will read influential theories in film studies, e.g. the concept of the male gaze or haptic visuality, and we will examine how literary narratives are transformed into audio-visual experiences.

      In addition to material made available on Blackboard during the semester, we will read:

      • Forster, E.M. Maurice. Penguin Classics, 2005.
      • Highsmith, Patricia. Carol. Bloomsbury, 2015. (There are several editions of the novel available some are published as Carol some as The Price of Salt they are the same text)
      • Aciman, André. Call Me By Your Name. Atlantic Books, 2008.

      We will watch the following film adaptations:

      • Carol directed by Todd Haynes, 2015.
      • Call Me By Your Name directed by Luca Guadagnino, 2017.
      • Maurice, directed by James Ivory, 1987.

      No prior experience in film studies is required, but students should be prepared for intensive reading, viewing, and discussion. The means of assessment is a 2000-word essay on an adaptation we discussed in class.
    • 17323 Proseminar
      PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: National Affects: Structures of Feeling in Contemporary Britain (Matilda Jones)
      Zeit: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 14.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This module analyses the past thirty years of British culture through a lens of emotion and feeling. Paying tribute to Raymond Williams’ concept of ‘structures of feeling’ (1977), we will begin with a brief introduction to affect theory in relation to national culture. Subsequently, we will trace various affective states that have come to define some specific time periods, such as: the joy of 90s rave; the optimism of Cool Britannia; the imperial nostalgia of the Brexit years; the grief of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing; and the contemporary angst of climate breakdown. Following Sara Ahmed’s provocation ‘What do emotions do?’ (2013), we will ask: How do national affects correspond to periods of economic growth or downturn? How can we decipher counter-cultural affects from mainstream or hegemonic impositions of national feeling? What role does affect play in the process of social inclusion/exclusion? Addressing these questions and more, students will become well-versed in central thematic and methodological aspects of Cultural Studies whilst honing key skills in critical reading and analysis, argumentation, and academic writing.

    • 17324 Proseminar
      PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Museums and Cultural Studies (Claudia Lorraine Rumson)
      Zeit: Di 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      Museums: they’re some of the most popular tourist attractions in any given city, they house priceless treasures, they provide some of the only jobs that students in history can imagine getting with their degrees. Why is it like this? How did museums become a standard feature of our landscape? Why do they look the way they do?

      This course explores the cultural histories and traditions of the museum, the colonial and psychic roots of British museum culture, and teaches students how to analyse not just the things inside museums, but the way in which those things are curated, displayed, and described. We will practice critical examination of museum exhibits and understand those exhibits as products of cultural trends and preoccupations. 

      Using museums as a tool, we will practice critical reading and analysis, argumentation, and academic writing skills. Full credit can be obtained on the basis of participation in class discussions, informal writing assignments, mini-presentations, and the eventual submission of a research paper of approximately 2000 words.
    • 17325 Proseminar
      PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Botanical Aesthetics and the British Cultural Imagination (Lenka Filipova)
      Zeit: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 14.04.2025)
      Ort: J 32/102 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      Recent years have seen a surge of interest in plants across disciplines, from science and philosophy to art and literature. Concepts like the ‘wood wide web,’ mother trees, and plant-fungal networks—alongside debates on plant ‘intelligence,’ ‘sentience,’ ‘agency’ or even ‘consciousness’—have captivated both scholars and the public. While these ideas have sparked enthusiasm, they have also been met with scepticism, as some researchers question both their empirical accuracy and whether they reveal more about plants themselves or human projections onto them. In any case, plants are having a cultural moment. While this fascination is partly driven by ecological concerns, it also builds on a long history of botanical aesthetics and cultural significance. Plants have shaped artistic practices, scientific inquiry, and symbolic meaning for centuries.

       

      This course will examine case studies from the 18th century to the present, exploring the significance of plants and botanical aesthetics in British culture. How have different artistic forms represented the relationship between plants and humans, and how do floral narratives shape our perception of both botanical and human life? What can plants, when viewed as historical archives, reveal about trade, ecological shifts, and artistic traditions? In what ways do botanical aesthetics intersect with colonial histories and power structures? What ethical and philosophical challenges arise when considering plants as sentient or agential beings? What political and ecological stakes are involved in representing plants in the Anthropocene?

       

      We will explore plants’ roles in artistic and material cultures, from botanical motifs in textiles and design to the economic and political significance of natural dyes, such as indigo, cochineal, madder and saffron. We will consider how plants acquire symbolic meanings—such as joy, excess, horror, toxicity—and how these shifting associations have influenced literature, art, and science. Furthermore, we will examine how botanical aesthetics have reinforced and, at times, destabilised racial and gendered hierarchies, linking natural history with imperial expansion and the commodification of beauty. Through visual art, literature, and film, we will trace how plants have been represented in British culture over time, questioning both their aesthetic appeal and their entanglements with history, science, and ideology.

  • AM3-Medieval English Literatures

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    • 17326 Grundkurs
      GK-Medieval English Literatures: Middle English Poetry (Wolfram Keller)
      Zeit: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 14.04.2025)
      Ort: Hs 1a Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This lecture familiarizes students with Middle English literature, that is, vernacular literature written in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. While the focus of the lecture will be on late fourteenth-century and early fifteenth-century literature – on authors like Geoffrey Chaucer (dream poetry, Troilus and Criseyde, Canterbury Tales) and John Lydgate (Temple of Glass, Troy Book) – students will also be introduced to earlier Middle English renditions of Anglo-Norman romances and Breton lays, such as King Horn and Sir Launfal, as well as to late fifteenth and early sixteenth-century poetry, like Robert Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid and Gavin Douglas’s Palice of Honour.
    • 17327 Proseminar
      PS-Medieval English Literatures: The Canterbury Tales (Wolfram Keller)
      Zeit: Di 08:00-10:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This seminar shall introduce students to one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s most well-known works, his Canterbury Tales. A few introductory sessions will be devoted to questions concerning periodization and the ‘literariness' of medieval literature. Next, we shall turn to Chaucer as a medieval author and to the genre of frame-tale narratives. During the remainder of the semester, we shall read several tales, including the General Prologue, the Miller’s Tale, the Clerk’s Tale, and the Wife of Bath’s Tale. A detailed reading list will be available at the beginning of the semester.
    • 17328 Proseminar
      PS-Medieval English Literatures: Medieval Literature in/and Children’s Books: Modern Re-Tellings of Beowulf and Arthurian Legend (Peter Löffelbein)
      Zeit: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 16.04.2025)
      Ort: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      Medieval literature is constantly being adapted for modern readerships. Very popular, but often neglected, are retellings for children. Contrary to assumptions of simplicity, such adaptations present particular challenges related to adaptation theory, to the interplay between text and image/illustrations, and to the difficulties that reimagining the medieval past entails. The perceived didactic nature of children's literature draws special attention to questions about the cultural and ideological paradigms these adaptations endorse or critique.

      Exploring these challenges, this seminar will focus on two of the most famous English literary works from the Middle Ages: the Old English verse epos Beowulf and Thomas Malory's Middle English Le Morte D'Arthur. Together, we shall familiarise ourselves with these texts and compare them with select modern versions for children. In what ways do they transform medieval literature for a child readership, and to what effect? How do they incorporate or modify tropes, narrative structures, and distinct aesthetic or poetic qualities? How do they navigate the presumed educational goals for their young audience? What ideological underpinning do they uphold or criticize? How do they relate themselves to the medieval past, and what understanding of the Middle Ages and medieval literature in general may they (re-)produce?

      Please note that course participation is limited.
    • 17329 Proseminar
      PS-Medieval English Literatures: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Andrew James Johnston)
      Zeit: Do 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 17.04.2025)
      Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      The anonymous Pearl Poet’s (aka Gawain Poet) works are amongst the most enigmatic and fascinating – and also the most beautiful and polished – literary texts transmitted to us from the English later Middle Ages. This course will take a closer look at what is arguably his most famous composition, the chivalric romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an Arthurian tale of love and adventure with a more than surprising sting in the tale.

      The text will make it possible for the class to gain insights into a wide variety of issues central to medieval literature in general and to Middle English literature in particular as well as into the problem of how modern scholars deal with literary texts from an age very different from our own. We will ask questions such as: How does the text respond to the aristocratic values of its time? How does the romance construct its perspective on subjectivity? How does its concept of beauty matter socially and politically? What notions of gender and sexuality are discussed by the poem? What do modern readers have to do to understand medieval literature? How can a text more than 600 years old matter to a twenty-first century audience?

      Participants in this class are required to use the following facing-page edition (Middle English and Modern English): W. R. J. Barron (ed. & trans.): Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998.
    • 17330 Proseminar
      PS-Medieval English Literatures: King Arthur in Middle English Texts (Jan-Peer Hartmann)
      Zeit: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 14.04.2025)
      Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      Among the many characters who populated medieval literature, King Arthur is perhaps the one whose popularity never really waned across the centuries and who still features regularly in contemporary works of fiction.

      In this class, we will look at the medieval origins of Arthurian literature, with a particular focus on Middle English texts of the later Middle Ages. Although King Arthur was regarded as a historical figure (as he still is in some quarters), he featured in two largely distinct literary traditions: the ‘historical’ tradition based on Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae, which described Arthur as a power-hungry conqueror who eventually came to challenge the power of the Roman Emperor, and the ‘romance tradition’ based on Old French literary models, where Arthur played the part of the jovial, if slightly weak, king presiding over an idealised chivalric society – the knights of the round table – whose claims to earthly perfection are constantly challenged from outside.

      We will read excerpts from historiographical Latin works (in modern English translation) as well as a few Middle English texts (in the original Middle English). All of these will be made available on Blackboard. Please make sure to subscribe to the Blackboard course, as all communication will be conducted via that platform.

      The course is also designed to introduce students to the writing of term papers, and special emphasis will be placed on the necessary techniques (close reading, literary analysis, coming up with and structuring arguments, researching and using secondary literature). Credit requirements include regular and active participation and a 2,000-word paper to be handed in after the end of the class.

  • AM4-Levels of Linguistic Analysis

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    • 17335 Vorlesung
      V-Levels of Linguistic Analysis: Structures and Functions of Language (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
      Zeit: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 16.04.2025)
      Ort: J 32/102 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    • 17336 Proseminar
      PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis: From Lexicon to Grammar (Rosa Hesse)
      Zeit: Di 10:00-12:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Erster Termin: 15.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      In this seminar, you will investigate the concepts learned in the Introduction to English Linguistics using authentic language data. You will also learn how to critically read and evaluate research papers and acquire the methodological knowledge to conduct corpus linguistic studies on your own. By the end of the lecture period, you will have modelled your own small corpus study, which will form the basis of your term paper.
       
      In preparation for the first session, read the first chapter (Why do I need corpora and how do I access them?) in https://t1p.de/cqpguide. Please bring a laptop to class.
    • 17337 Proseminar
      PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis: From Lexicon to Grammar (Elif Kara)
      Zeit: Mo 08:00-10:00 (Erster Termin: 14.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This seminar teaches you how to apply the terminological concepts learned in Introduction to English Linguistics to the analysis of linguistic usage patterns. You will learn how to analyse the forms and meanings of authentic linguistic data, as well as to model linguistic research. The module examination will be a collaborative project involving a small-scale empirical study on a linguistic topic of your choice, with a subsequent oral presentation plus a written component. At the end of the course, you will be equipped with the basic skillset required for scientific research in linguistics.

      In preparation for the first session, read the first chapter (Why do I need corpora and how do I access them?) in https://t1p.de/cqpguide. You will need to bring a laptop to class from week 1.

      This seminar is complemented by the module lecture and the tutorial.
    • 17338 Proseminar
      PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis: From Lexicon to Grammar (Arne Werfel)
      Zeit: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 14.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      In this seminar, you will investigate the concepts learned in the Introduction to English Linguistics using authentic language data. You will also learn how to critically read and evaluate research papers and acquire the methodological knowledge to conduct corpus linguistic studies on your own. By the end of the lecture period, you will have modelled your own small corpus study, which will form the basis of your term paper.

      In preparation for the first session, read the first chapter (Why do I need corpora and how do I access them?) in https://t1p.de/cqpguide. Please bring a laptop to class.
    • 17339 Proseminar
      PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis: From Lexicon to Grammar (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
      Zeit: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 14.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    • 17340 Proseminar
      PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis: From Lexicon to Grammar (Berit Johannsen)
      Zeit: Do 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 17.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This seminar teaches you how to apply the terminological concepts learned in Introduction to English Linguistics to the analysis of linguistic usage patterns. You will learn how to analyse the forms and meanings of authentic linguistic data, as well as to model linguistic research. The module examination will be a collaborative project involving a small-scale empirical study on a linguistic topic of your choice, with a subsequent oral presentation plus a written component. At the end of the course, you will be equipped with the basic skillset required for scientific research in linguistics.

      In preparation for the first session, read the first chapter (Why do I need corpora and how do I access them?) in https://t1p.de/cqpguide. You will need to bring a laptop to class from week 1.

      This seminar is complemented by the module lecture and the tutorial.
    • 17341 Proseminar
      PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis: From Lexicon to Grammar (Kirsten Middeke)
      Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 16.04.2025)
      Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This seminar teaches you how to apply the terminological concepts learned in Introduction to English Linguistics to the analysis of linguistic usage patterns. You will learn how to analyse the forms and meanings of authentic linguistic data, as well as to model linguistic research. The module examination will be a collaborative project involving a small-scale empirical study on a linguistic topic of your choice, with a subsequent oral presentation plus a written component. At the end of the course, you will be equipped with the basic skillset required for scientific research in linguistics.

      In preparation for the first session, read the first chapter (Why do I need corpora and how do I access them?) in https://t1p.de/cqpguide. You will need to bring a laptop to class from week 1.

      The seminar is complemented by the module lecture and a tutorial.

  • AM5-History of English

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    • 17343 Vorlesung
      V-History of English (Ferdinand von Mengden)
      Zeit: Di 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2025)
      Ort: J 32/102 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This lecture will provide an overview of the history of the English language. We will start off in the pre-history of English, long before its earliest written attestations, and see what English was like before it became English and how we gain access to these pre-historic stages. The journey will then bring us to the early Middle Ages when, in the course of the Migration Period, Germanic tribes settled in Britain. We will observe the English language developing over time and explain the enormous changes that English has undergone ever since. We will see how the English language eventually spreads in almost all parts of the world, bringing forth new linguistic practices that are seen as different Englishes. As the historically most recent step, we will eventually watch English conquering new media rather than new lands and becoming the most important language of global communication.

      This lecture forms an essential part of the module History of English together with the parallel seminars (Proseminare). The more specialized discussions in these seminars are based on, and therefore require the background knowledge from this lecture.

      Because not all regular students are registered in Campus Management, there will be a special enrolment for this lecture in the first week of term. Students who cannot attend the first session are kindly asked to notify me before the beginning of the lecture period.

       
    • 17344 Proseminar
      PS-History of English: Historical Linguistics (Ferdinand von Mengden)
      Zeit: Fr 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 25.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      For studying the history of a language, a mere description of its development, i.e., treating history as a story, is not sufficient. If we wish to understand why and under which circumstances English developed the way it did, we will have to understand how language changes and which factors influence language in which way.

      As we will see, the mechanisms underlying the historical development of English do not only vary considerably with respect to the different levels of linguistic description – phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics – but individual processes can also conflict with each other and / or mutually reinforce each other. A closer look at all historical periods of English will reveal how subtle digressions from an established grammatical system, in the long run, cause completely new structures to emerge.

      Accompanied by the lecture on the History of English, we will focus on individual processes and problems in their description and their analysis. The participants of this seminar will thus profit from an introduction into the methods and aims of Historical Linguistics as a central branch of linguistics and at the same time extend and intensify their knowledge on the history of English provided in the lecture.

      Requirements are a short term paper, an oral presentation in class and regular and active participation. The seminar starts in the first week of term. Students who are interested in the class but cannot come in the first week, are kindly asked to notify me via email before the start of the lecture period.
    • 17345 Proseminar
      PS-History of English: English Historical Pragmatics (Sofia Rüdiger)
      Zeit: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 16.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This course shows how the fields of historical linguistics and pragmatics come together to investigate communicative patterns of the past. Students will gain insights into different types of historical data and how they are used to study pragmatic phenomena throughout the history of English. These include, among other, discourse markers, terms of address, politeness and impoliteness, speech acts, genre and text types, and narrative patterns.

    • 17346 Proseminar
      PS-History of English: Lexical Changes in the History of English (Berit Johannsen)
      Zeit: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 14.04.2025)
      Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      Words come and go, spread from and to different speech communities, and people may use them in different ways over time and at different places. In this class, we will focus on such developments in the history of English and its varieties.

      You will learn about the creation, diffusion and establishment of words, how words can be related in lexical fields and about different ways of extending lexical resources: combining existing morphemes and words (word-formation), copying words from other languages (borrowing), or using an existing word with a different meaning (semantic change). In addition, you will learn how researchers have studied specific aspects of these topics empirically and you will be introduced to different data sources (corpora, text collections, dictionaries, thesauruses) and methods of analysis, which will allow you to conduct your own small case studies of lexical changes in the history of English.

      Regular and active participation in this class includes working on a small case study and presenting the project design in a brief elevator pitch at the end of the semester. The module exam consists of a term paper (2000 words) about your case study.

      This seminar is complemented by the module lecture.
    • 17347 Proseminar
      PS-History of English: Migration and the History of English (Berit Johannsen)
      Zeit: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 14.04.2025)
      Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      The English language and its varieties have been shaped in various ways by different migration movements in the past 1500 years. In this class, we will look at what can happen to language when people move to a different place.

      You will learn about important migration movements in the history of English, as well as basic concepts in sociolinguistics and the study of language and dialect contact. More specifically, you will learn about processes such as borrowing and code-switching, language transfer, dialect levelling and how new varieties and dialects are formed. In addition, you will learn how researchers have studied specific aspects of these topics empirically and you will be introduced to different data sources (corpora, text collections, dictionaries) and methods of analysis, which will allow you to conduct your own small case studies of migration-related linguistic phenomena in the history of English.

      Regular and active participation in this class includes working on a small case study and presenting the project design in a brief elevator pitch at the end of the semester. The module exam consists of a term paper (2000 words) about your case study.

      This seminar is complemented by the module lecture.
    • 17348 Proseminar
      PS-History of English: Lexical Changes in the History of English (Janel Zoske)
      Zeit: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 14.04.2025)
      Ort: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    • 17349 Proseminar
      PS-History of English: How to Become a Global Language (Antje Wilton)
      Zeit: Mi 08:00-10:00 (Erster Termin: 16.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This seminar will explore the processes that led to English becoming a global language in the last few centuries. To widen the perspective, we will apply a comparison with Latin where appropriate, to investigate sociolinguistic aspects of language spread, linguistic imperialism, language contact and multilingualism as core processes in the acquisition of global language status. Furthermore, we will address the issue of lingua franca use and the development of local and regional varieties.

  • Grundlagen der Fachdidaktik Englisch für die Grundschule

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    • 17470 Grundkurs
      Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (Leonie Fuchs)
      Zeit: Fr 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 25.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This course provides an overview of the basic principles, concepts and open questions in the field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Topics covered include: history and perspectives of English language teaching; TEFL's foundations in psychology, linguistics and pedagogy; theories of second/foreign language acquisition; curriculum and curricular decision making; methodology (historical and systematic); literature and cultural studies; textbook analysis and evaluation; characteristics of a good lesson; assessment. Course meetings are conducted partly in English and in German (CEF: C1/C2).

      Students are expected to attend class regularly and to participate actively, which includes reading assigned texts to prepare for each session, and handing in a number of small writing assignments during the course of the semester.

      Assigned texts will be announced at the beginning of the term.

      The topic of the “Hausarbeit” (requirements to be found in the style sheet) can either be taken from this course or from the “Proseminar”, the second constituent of the “Basismodul”. The paper is to be handed in after successful completion of both module constituents (“Grundkurs & Proseminar”).

      Course structure: lectures, discussions, group/partner work, hands-on activities.
    • 17471 Grundkurs
      Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (Natasha Janzen-Ulbricht)
      Zeit: Di 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This course provides an overview of the basic principles, concepts and open questions in the field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Topics covered include: history and perspectives of English language teaching; TEFL's foundations in psychology, linguistics and pedagogy; theories of second/foreign language acquisition; curriculum and curricular decision making; methodology (historical and systematic); literature and cultural studies; textbook analysis and evaluation; characteristics of a good lesson; assessment. Course meetings are conducted in English (CEF: C1/C2).

      Students are expected to attend class regularly and to participate actively, which includes reading assigned texts to prepare for each session, and handing in a number of small writing assignments during the course of the semester.

      Assigned texts will be announced at the beginning of the term.

      The topic of the “Hausarbeit” (requirements to be found in the style sheet) can either be taken from this course or from the “Proseminar”, the second constituent of the “Basismodul”. The paper is to be handed in after successful completion of both module constituents (“Grundkurs & Proseminar”).

      Course structure: lectures, discussions, group/partner work, hands-on activities.
    • 17472 Proseminar
      Grundlagen der FDE: Task-Based Language Learning in der Grundschule (Katrin Harder)
      Zeit: Fr 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 25.04.2025)
      Ort: JK 31/124 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This course enlarges upon selected topics of the Grundkurs (“Introduction to TEFL”), and applies them to classroom practice. Issues such as dealing with heterogeneity and facilitating communicative competence are linked with teaching methods and techniques. The course also covers related practical topics such as lesson planning and classroom management skills. Students are expected to attend class regularly and to participate actively, which includes a presentation (“Impulsreferat,” approx.10 minutes, with handout). The term paper (Hausarbeit - requirements to be found in the style sheet) can be written either in this course or in the first part of the Basismodul.

      Focus areas: Task-based language learning puts the „good“ task in the centre of the language learning process. „Good“ tasks are often defined as meaningful and true to life. They integrate the interests and experiences of the individual learner and are therefore seen as the key to motivation and sustainable learning. The focus of this seminar will be on evaluating and developing „good“ tasks for the language classroom. Further aspects will be differentiation and assessment.

      Literature:

      • Ellis, R., Skehan, P., Li, S., Shintani, N., & Lambert, C. (2020). Task-based language teaching: Theory and practice. Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
      • Müller-Hartmann, A., & Schocker-von Ditfurth, M. (2011). Lernaufgaben: Kompetenzen entwickeln. Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch, 45(109), 10–14.
      • Müller-Hartmann, A., & Schocker-von Ditfurth, M. (2011). Teaching English: Task-supported language learning (1 ed.). Paderborn, Paderborn: UTB; Schöningh.
    • 17473 Proseminar
      Grundlagen der FDE: Primary English - Schwerpunkt GS (Katrin Harder)
      Zeit: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 14.04.2025)
      Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This course enlarges upon selected topics of the Grundkurs (“Introduction to TEFL”), and applies them to classroom practice. Issues such as dealing with heterogeneity and facilitating communicative competence are linked with teaching methods and techniques. The course also covers related practical topics such as lesson planning and classroom management skills. Students are expected to attend class regularly and to participate actively, which includes a presentation (“Impulsreferat,” approx.10 minutes, with handout). The term paper (Hausarbeit - requirements to be found in the style sheet) can be written either in this course or in the first part of the Basismodul.

      Focus areas:

      This course covers a variety of aspects of teaching English as a foreign language to young learners, putting special emphasis on using stories, poetry and songs in the EFL classroom. Moreover, participants will be introduced to lesson planning.

      Introductory readings:

      • Kolb, Annika, Marita Schocker (2021). Teaching English in the Primary School: a task-based introduction for pre- and in-service teachers. Hannover: Klett, Kallmeyer.
      • Haß, Frank (2016): Fachdidaktik Englisch: Tradition – Innovation – Praxis. Stuttgart: Klett.

      More relevant readings will be announced at the beginning of the term.

      Course structure: Lectures, seminars, group work, microteaching, presentations plus feedback, and discussions.
    • 17474 Proseminar
      Grundlagen der FDE: Die Storyline-Methode im Englischunterricht (Klassenstufe 4-10) (Katrin Harder)
      Zeit: Fr 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 25.04.2025)
      Ort: JK 31/101 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Kommentar

      This course enlarges upon selected topics of the Grundkurs (“Introduction to TEFL”), and applies them to classroom practice. Issues such as dealing with heterogeneity and facilitating communicative competence are linked with teaching methods and techniques. The course also covers related practical topics such as lesson planning and classroom management skills. Students are expected to attend class regularly and to participate actively, which includes a presentation (“Impulsreferat,” approx.10 minutes, with handout). The term paper (Hausarbeit - requirements to be found in the style sheet) can be written either in this course or in the first part of the Basismodul.

      Focus areas:

      The Storyline Approach was developed in Scotland fifty years ago for the subject of “environmental studies.” In the last two decades, its value for teaching foreign languages has been recognized, especially at the primary and lower secondary levels. It is a project-oriented method that aligns well with the principles of foreign language teaching and addresses current issues and challenges in education today—just to name a few buzzwords: task-based learning, differentiation and individualization, inclusive education, learning to learn, lifelong learning, motivation, and creativity. After a general introduction, participants will engage in a hands-on experience of an example of a Storyline, followed by reflection. In the second part of the seminar, students will develop their own Storylines for either a primary or secondary school context.

      Introductory readings:

      • Mitchell, Peter (ed.), Marie Jeanne McNaughton (ed.): Storyline – A Creative Approach to Learning and Teaching. Cambridge, 2016.
      • Karlsen, Kristine Høeg, Häggström, Margaretha [Hrsg.] (2020): Teaching through stories. Renewing the Scottish storyline approach in teacher education. Münster; New York : Waxmann.

      Course structure:

      Seminars, group work, hands-on activities, presentations plus feedback, lectures and discussions.

  • Oral & Writing Skills I plus

    0427cA1.6
    • 54010 Sprachpraktische Übung
      Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1, 1. Gr. (Kimberly Specht)
      Zeit: Di 14:00-16:00, Do 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2025)
      Ort: Di JK 30/021 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Do Online

      Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen

      Entspricht

      • dem Modul "Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1" (Bachelor Englische Philologie),
      • dem Modul "Oral and Writing Skills A" (Bachelor Nordamerikastudien / Angewandte Nordamerikastudien) und
      • der Sprachpraktischen Übung 1 des Moduls "Oral & Writing Skills I plus" (Bachelor Grundschulpädagogik)

      Kommentar

      Anmeldung vom 17.03. bis 08.04.2025, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

    • 54011 Sprachpraktische Übung
      Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1, 2. Gr. (Kimberly Specht)
      Zeit: Di 16:00-18:00, Do 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2025)
      Ort: Di JK 30/021 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Do Online

      Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen

      Entspricht

      • dem Modul "Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1" (Bachelor Englische Philologie),
      • dem Modul "Oral and Writing Skills A" (Bachelor Nordamerikastudien / Angewandte Nordamerikastudien) und
      • der Sprachpraktischen Übung 1 des Moduls "Oral & Writing Skills I plus" (Bachelor Grundschulpädagogik)

      Kommentar

      Anmeldung vom 17.03. bis 08.04.2025, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

    • 54012 Sprachpraktische Übung
      Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1, 3. Gr. (Daniel Hedges)
      Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00, Fr 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 16.04.2025)
      Ort: Mi KL 25/137 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Fr JK 30/021 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen

      Entspricht

      • dem Modul "Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1" (Bachelor Englische Philologie),
      • dem Modul "Oral and Writing Skills A" (Bachelor Nordamerikastudien / Angewandte Nordamerikastudien) und
      • der Sprachpraktischen Übung 1 des Moduls "Oral & Writing Skills I plus" (Bachelor Grundschulpädagogik)

      Kommentar

      Anmeldung vom 17.03. bis 08.04.2025, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

    • 54013 Sprachpraktische Übung
      Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1, 4. Gr. (Daniel Hedges)
      Zeit: Mi 14:00-16:00, Fr 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 16.04.2025)
      Ort: Mi JK 25/132 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Mi JK 26/140 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Fr JK 30/021 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen

      Entspricht

      • dem Modul "Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1" (Bachelor Englische Philologie),
      • dem Modul "Oral and Writing Skills A" (Bachelor Nordamerikastudien / Angewandte Nordamerikastudien) und
      • der Sprachpraktischen Übung 1 des Moduls "Oral & Writing Skills I plus" (Bachelor Grundschulpädagogik)

      Kommentar

      Anmeldung vom 17.03. bis 08.04.2025, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

    • 54014 Sprachpraktische Übung
      Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1, 5. Gr. (Jennifer Rol Singer)
      Zeit: Di 10:00-12:00, Fr 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2025)
      Ort: Di L 23/25 Medienunterstützter Unterrichtsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Fr KL 25/137 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen

      Entspricht

      • dem Modul "Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1" (Bachelor Englische Philologie),
      • dem Modul "Oral and Writing Skills A" (Bachelor Nordamerikastudien / Angewandte Nordamerikastudien) und
      • der Sprachpraktischen Übung 1 des Moduls "Oral & Writing Skills I plus" (Bachelor Grundschulpädagogik)

      Kommentar

      Anmeldung vom 17.03. bis 08.04.2025, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

    • 54015 Sprachpraktische Übung
      Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1, 6. Gr. (Jennifer Rol Singer)
      Zeit: Di 08:00-10:00, Fr 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2025)
      Ort: Di L 23/25 Medienunterstützter Unterrichtsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Fr KL 25/137 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen

      Entspricht

      • dem Modul "Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1" (Bachelor Englische Philologie),
      • dem Modul "Oral and Writing Skills A" (Bachelor Nordamerikastudien / Angewandte Nordamerikastudien) und
      • der Sprachpraktischen Übung 1 des Moduls "Oral & Writing Skills I plus" (Bachelor Grundschulpädagogik)

      Kommentar

      Anmeldung vom 17.03. bis 08.04.2025, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

    • 54016 Sprachpraktische Übung
      Oral Skills and Writing Skills plus, 1. Gr. (Louise Catherine Steinike McCloy)
      Zeit: Fr 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 25.04.2025)
      Ort: JK 24/140 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen

      Sprachpraktische Übung 2 des Moduls "Oral & Writing Skills I plus" (Bachelor Grundschulpädagogik)

      Kommentar

      Anmeldung vom 17.03. bis 08.04.2025, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

    • 54017 Sprachpraktische Übung
      Oral Skills and Writing Skills plus, 2. Gr. (Louise Catherine Steinike McCloy)
      Zeit: Di 08:00-10:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2025)
      Ort: JK 30/021 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen

      Sprachpraktische Übung 2 des Moduls "Oral & Writing Skills I plus" (Bachelor Grundschulpädagogik)

      Kommentar

      Anmeldung vom 17.03. bis 08.04.2025, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

    • 54018 Sprachpraktische Übung
      Oral Skills and Writing Skills Plus, 3. Gr. (Louise Catherine Steinike McCloy)
      Zeit: Di 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 15.04.2025)
      Ort: JK 30/021 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

      Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen

      Sprachpraktische Übung 2 des Moduls "Oral & Writing Skills I plus" (Bachelor Grundschulpädagogik)

      Kommentar

      Anmeldung vom 17.03. bis 08.04.2025, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren