SoSe 23: Institute of English Language and Literature

• Advanced Module I: Surveying English Literatures

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  • 17318 Basic Course
    GK-Surveying English Literatures (Wolfram Keller)
    Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
    Location: Hs 2 Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    The concept of “English Literature” is constantly changing. As our theoretical dispositions, tastes, and ideologies shift and change, new authors, works, new genres etc. are coming into focus and, in turn, affect and transform the academy’s theoretical dispositions, tastes, and ideological positions. This lecture series will provide students with an overview of the history of English literatures, from the (early) medieval beginnings via the early modern period, the long eighteenth-century, Romanticism, Victorianism, and Modernism to Postmodernism and Postcolonialism. This survey is not meant to represent a prescriptive canon, however, but rather presents students with a snapshot of how scholars currently conceive of their respective fields of study. This lecture is team-taught, so students will have an opportunity to get to know several of our faculty members and experience their different teaching styles. Further information about the individual lectures will be available on Blackboard at the beginning of the semester.

  • 17319 Proseminar
    PS-Surveying English Literatures: Forming Poetry (Jordan Lee Schnee)
    Schedule: Do 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-20)
    Location: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    Against the backdrop of the rise of free verse, the 20th century saw a parallel movement towards extremely constrained writing. This seminar examines form writing in English with a focus on 20th century to contemporary manifestations. Students will learn how to analyze English poetry for formal and structural characteristics through practical examples. In the course we will also get acquainted with Barthes’ theory of the Pleasure of the Text and look at contemporary UK writers like Philip Terry and publishers like Penteract Press. Some questions we will explore in the course are: How does form potentiate poetry? How do “difficult” constraints paradoxically bring new enjoyment to writers and readers?

  • 17320 Proseminar
    PS-Surveying English Literatures: Travel Fiction (James Daniel Mellor)
    Schedule: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-17)
    Location: J 32/102 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    There has always been an ambiguous relationship between travelogues and fiction, this course surveys the historical interaction between accounts of travel and the development of the novel. This course will include a lot of reading, of primary and secondary texts, with the view to examine what historically counts for a tellable journey, how the reception of foreign travel in Europe became inward looking, and how metafiction created a new genre that reflects on life as a journey. Please read J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K. before the first class.

  • 17321 Proseminar
    PS-Surveying English Literatures: Victorian Narratives (Cordula Lemke)
    Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
    Location: J 32/102 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    Victorian Society celebrated ideals of ordered family life and respectability. In literary texts of the time the smooth surface of social decorum and moral integrity is often challenged by the desires and experiences of outsiders. They allow glimpses into a life of unconventional values, excitement and adventure and introduce readers to alternatives worlds. However, the possibilities open to these outsiders are highly gendered. In this seminar we will look at Victorian social roles and ask how they are affected by alterity in general, by alternative ways of family life and in how far they are challenged by female characters at the margin.

    Texts:

    Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights George Eliot, Silas Marner

  • 17322 Proseminar
    PS-Surveying English Literatures: Modernist HisStories (Cordula Lemke)
    Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
    Location: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    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

  • 17323 Proseminar
    PS-Surveying English Literatures: Victorian Short Fiction (Susanne Schmid)
    Schedule: Do 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-27)
    Location: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    When talking about fiction and the Victorian Age, we are frequently confronted with the cliché that readers devoured long three-decker novels. In fact, also many shorter texts were printed and read. Many well-known authors also published in shorter formats. In this seminar we will look at fictional texts, among them detective stories, ghost stories and fairy tales by a range of authors (among them Charles Dickens, Sheridan Le Fanu, M. R. James, R. L. Stevenson, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle). We will analyse the stories as literary texts and discuss them. Besides we will look at contexts of publication (magazines, keepsakes), readerships and print culture. Please be aware that you will have to read one story per week. You will also be expected to attend regularly, to participate in an oral presentation and to write a term paper.

    We will begin with Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s ‘Eveline’s Visitant’ (1862), to be made accessible via Blackboard.

• Advanced Module II: Introduction to Cultural Studies

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  • 17324 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Doubles (Cordula Lemke)
    Schedule: Di 18:00-20:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
    Location: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    Scottish folk tales have always been haunted by ghosts, witches or the devil – and these creatures haunt Scottish literature up to this day. One of the most persistent is the Doppelgänger. It has always been fascinating to writers, but it certainly reached a peak in the nineteenth century. In this period of high moral standards and utilitarian business acumen, questions of how to distinguish between good and evil became more and more pertinent to society – and incidents where moral categories collapsed were as much feared as a financial break-down. In this seminar we will follow the most famous pair, Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, through different media.

    Text:

    Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

  • 17325 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Post-feminism and Intersectionality in Contemporary Television Comedy-Drama (Ji-Soo Kweon)
    Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00, Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-20)
    Location: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    In feminist scholarship, 'post-feminism' can mean any number of attitudes that emerged in the wake of various movements of women's liberation and sexual revolution. Angela McRobbie describes post-feminism as 'the process by which feminist gaims of the 70s and 80s are actively and relentlessly undermined'. Among other things, post-feminism has apparently undermined second wave feminism's encounter with difference an the emergence of intersectionality theory in the 80s and 90s, and can be regarded as a 'sensibility' comprised of capitalist, neo-liberal, feminist and anti-feminist ideals.

    Since the cultural watershed of Sex and the City (1998-2004) there has been an enduring niche in American television comedy-drama that has remained fixated on woman-centric narratives exploring female friendship and the sexual politics of New York City. Using an intersectional approach, this course will discuss the post-feminism that informs these texts, and to discuss how issues of diversity and representation have changed and/or remained static over time by comparing Sex and the City with its millennial spiritual successor, Girls (2012-2017).

  • 17326 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: National Identity in British Fiction and Film (Marie Catherine Menzel)
    Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
    Location: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    What does “national identity” mean in a specifically British context? Starting from a theoretical examination of concepts such as identity and alterity, nationhood, cultural memory, and subjectivity, this seminar will explore a selection of literary and cinematic conceptualisations of British national identity that represent different intersectional subject positions and nationhood-related ideas in a twentieth and twenty-first century British context. What is Englishness as opposed to Britishness? What can immigrant Britishness look and feel like? What roles do gender, sexuality, class, race etc. play in such conceptualisations? etc.

    The following novels will be on the syllabus and need to be procured by the participants, in addition to a number of short stories, essays, films, and, of course, theoretical texts, which will be made available through Blackboard:

    • Girl, Woman, Other (Bernadine Evaristo)
    • England, England (Julian Barnes)

    If you decide to take this course, please be prepared to do the readings and contribute to class.

    Participants of this course should already be familiar with the basic methodologies and perspectives of Literary and Cultural Studies, which are taught in the “Introduction to Literary Studies” module and in the companion lecture to this seminar, the AM2 “Grundkurs: Introduction to Cultural Studies” (only offered in the winter term). For self-study or review of the Cultural Studies basics ahead of the course, I recommend:

    • British Cultural Studies: An Introduction (Third Edition), Graeme Turner, 2003
    • The SAGE Dictionary of Cultural Studies, Chris Barker, 2004

    Full credits (5 CP) can be gained by participating regularly and actively in class and classroom activities, fulfilling the requirements for “active participation” (tba, e.g. assignments, presentation) and the eventual submission of a ca. 2000-word seminar paper.

  • 17327 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: That’s Not Very Historically Accurate: Pop Medievalism (Claudia Lorraine Rumson)
    Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
    Location: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    Ah, the Middle Ages! Era of beautiful princesses, knights in shining armour, filthy streets crammed with self-flagellating priests and wailing plague victims, the occasional good old-fashioned witch burning. But wait… most witch trials took place long after the Middle Ages ended! And for that matter, Medieval personal hygiene standards may not have been all that bad… and did knights and princesses even dress like that? Why do so many people create art about the Middle Ages that just seems to be… wrong?

    In this course, we will be consuming a range of Medievalist media from the nineteenth century to today. We will be asking questions like: Why have so many artists in history been so fascinated by the Middle Ages? What information does using a Medieval setting convey to readers and viewers? Where did mainstream ideas about the Middle Ages come from? And if they’re not very historically accurate, then why do people keep using them? How do we determine historical accuracy and why does it matter to people — or doesn’t it?

    Through the lens of Medievalism, we will practice academic reading, critical analysis, and academic writing. Course material will be made available on Blackboard prior to the start of the course. Full credit can be obtained on the basis of regular participation in class discussions, informal writing assignments, and the eventual submission of a research paper of approximately 2000 words.

• Advanced Module III: Medieval English Literatures

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  • 17329 Basic Course
    GK-Medieval English Literatures: Unterseeboote, Flugmaschinen und nackte Philosophen: Das Nachleben Alexanders des Großen zwischen Macht und Märchen (Andrew James Johnston)
    Schedule: Do 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-20)
    Location: Hs 2 Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    Kaum eine historische Figur hat die Phantasie so sehr angeregt wie Alexander der Große. Über Epochen und Kontinente hinweg tritt er uns in immer neuer Gestalt entgegen, nicht nur als Eroberer, sondern auch als Forscher, Entdecker und Magier, der Flugmaschinen baute und Unterseebote konstruierte. Von Anfang an umrankten ihn geradezu märchenhafte Legenden, die spätestens ab dem 4. Jahrhundert unserer Zeitrechnung, als der sogenannte ‚Alexanderroman‘ entstand, ein veritables Eigenleben führten. Von seiner Entstehung bis ins 16. Jahrhundert gehörte dieser Roman zu den weltweit meistgelesenen Erzähltexten. Er wurde unter anderem ins Lateinische, Koptische, Syrische, Arabische, Armenische, Hebräische, Persische und fast alle europäischen Sprachen übersetzt.

    Diese Vorlesung setzt sich mit der verwirrenden Vielfalt kultureller Aneignungen Alexanders auseinander. Wir wollen anhand ausgewählter Beispiele aus verschiedenen Kulturen, Epochen, Sprachen sowie literarischen und künstlerischen Gattungen untersuchen, wie uns die historische Gestalt Alexanders von Makedonien in immer neuen Formen entgegentritt, welchen kulturellen und literarischen Deutungen sie unterworfen wird, wie sich mit ihr Träume von Expansion und Größe entfalten, aber auch, welches kritische Potenzial sie birgt. Denn schon früh gab es auch das: Die Kritik an Macht und Expansion, die sich an die Figur des Herrschers knüpfte. Gerade weil in Alexander über mehr als 2000 Jahre hinweg Historisches und Märchenhaftes eine unauflösliche Verbindung eingingen, bietet er uns einen einmaligen, kaleidoskopartigen Blick darauf, wie sich Mythenbildung und politische Propaganda, künstlerische Überformung und ideologische Inanspruchnahme in immer neuen Konstellationen und in fast unübertroffener Vielfalt miteinander verbinden.

  • 17330 Proseminar
    PS-Medieval English Literatures: Adapting the Middle Ages (Lea von der Linde)
    Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
    Location: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    The term ‘medieval’ often stands for ‘the Other’, a time and its cultural practices long past and vastly different from what we call ‘modern.’ However, there are myriad ways in which the Middle Ages impact postmedieval cultures to the present day. Whether in architecture, visual art, music, literature or film, the perpetual appearance and recreation of medieval images and concepts reflects a widespread interest in the medieval past and specifically in its continuous relevance for the modern world in both popular culture and academia.

    In this class, we will read and discuss medieval texts and examine representations of the European Middle Ages in modern literature and media. We will employ adaptation theory to discuss the relevance of the Middle Ages for modern culture before then turning to literary and cinematic works to explore the ways they reference, criticise, and (re-)construct notions of the Middle Ages.

  • 17331 Proseminar
    PS-Medieval English Literatures: Robert Henryson (Wolfram Keller)
    Schedule: Di 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
    Location: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    In this seminar, we shall read and discuss the most important works written by the fifteenth-century poet Robert Henryson. A few introductory sessions will be devoted to the history of (late) medieval insular literature and the socio-historical, cultural context for studying the works of the fifteenth-century Scottish author. Subsequently, we will look at some of Henryson’s short poems in order to develop strategies to read Middle Scots poetry. During the remainder of the semester, we will then study Henryson’s longer poems, The Fables, The Testament of Cresseid, and Orpheus and Eurydice.

  • 17332 Proseminar
    PS-Medieval English Literatures: Runes und Riddles in Old English Literature (Jan-Peer Hartmann)
    Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-20)
    Location: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    It seems that runes were associated with mysteries and hidden knowledge almost from their very inception. It may seem unsurprising, then, that runes also figure prominently in some of the Old English riddles, as well as in a number of other Old English texts that appear to deliberately shroud their subject matter in mystery. On the other hand, such use of runes in post-conversion, and hence Christian, texts written in the Roman alphabet may seem counter-intuitive to those who wish to associate them primarily with pre-Christian ‘Germanic’ paganism.

    Old English texts, transmitted in manuscripts that were mostly compiled over a thousand years ago, composed according to obscure poetic principles, and written in a language that has little to do with modern English, must by necessity appear enigmatic to those studying it today. However, modern scholarship has long noted that many of the texts in question appear to be deliberately enigmatic in their mode of presentation, that presenting their subject matter in vague or contradictory manner forms part of their playful challenge to the readers to decode their meaning. Intriguingly, this is the case not only with more straightforward examples of enigmatic texts such as the Exeter Book riddles, but also with more serious religious poetry.

    In this class, we will look at a number of Old English texts that appear to ask their readers to unriddle their meaning. Some of these employ runes as an additional means of encryption. Students should bring to this class a basic interest in medieval literature and a general open-mindedness to unfamiliar linguistic and literary forms and conventions, or at least an enjoyment of riddling and decoding. The final mark will be based on regular and active participation and a final essay of 2,000 words, to be handed in by the end of the semester.

  • 17333 Proseminar
    PS-Medieval English Literatures: Troilus und Criseyde (Kendrick Rowan)
    Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
    Location: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    With its medieval re-staging of a popular story from antiquity, Geoffrey Chaucer’s courtly romance Troilus and Criseyde allows its readers to explore the relationship between history and narrative. Criseyde, abandoned by her treacherous father, becomes the object of Troilus’ desire. This highly intimate and tragic love story plays against the backdrop of the Trojan War emphasizing the relationship between those caught up within great historical events and the representation of the events themselves. The text explores ethical questions, such as who controls narrative and its reproduction, as well as questions of desire, agency, and power. We will explore the many layers of myth and legend, examining how they are formed, reflected upon, and reformed within Chaucer’s text. While this course focuses mainly on the primary text, there will be occasional secondary readings provided. Students are expected to have purchased and read the Norton Critical Edition (Stephen A. Barney [ed.], New York: W. W. Norton, 2006) of the text.

• Advanced Module IV: Levels of Linguistic Analysis

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  • 17336 Lecture
    V-Levels of Linguistic Analysis I: Structures and Functions (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
    Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
    Location: Hs 1a Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17337 Proseminar
    PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis II: Grammar (Alexander Rauhut)
    Schedule: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-17)
    Location: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17338 Proseminar
    PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis II: Morphology (Elif Kara)
    Schedule: Di 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
    Location: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    In this seminar you will be introduced to the empirical analysis of language, with a focus on English morphology.

    The live sessions will be centred around discussing research papers and modelling corpus-linguistic research. From week two onwards, a laptop will be needed.

    You are expected to engage in collaborative work which includes the evaluation of a research paper, as well as a small-scale corpus study. At the end of the course, you will be equipped with the technical and linguistic knowledge to write an empirical paper of your own.

    It is strongly advised that you book the module lecture with this seminar.

  • 17339 Proseminar
    PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis II: Semantics (Kirsten Middeke)
    Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-20)
    Location: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    This seminar provides an introduction to the empirical analysis of semantics, i.e. of the meanings of linguistic constructions. We will read academic papers, trace their line of argumentation, critically assess the conclusions drawn and use electronic text corpora and other tools to replicate (and possibly improve on) the authors’ methodologies of investigation. After the course, students will be equipped with the technical and linguistic know-how to write an empirical paper of their own. Those interested are encouraged to think about possible ways of applying the linguistic knowledge gained in this seminar to issues in language teaching, translating, journalism, public relations or other areas of study.

    Credit requirements are:

    • weekly reading questions, to be submitted online the night before class
    • regular participation in discussions, based on weekly reading assignments and/or research homework
    • active participation, including the presentation (in groups) of an academic poster towards the end of the semester
    • an empirical academic paper of c2000 words

    The seminar is complemented by an obligatory lecture course.

  • 17340 Proseminar
    PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis II: Semantics (Kirsten Middeke)
    Schedule: Fr 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-21)
    Location: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    This seminar provides an introduction to the empirical analysis of semantics, i.e. of the meanings of linguistic constructions. We will read academic papers, trace their line of argumentation, critically assess the conclusions drawn and use electronic text corpora and other tools to replicate (and possibly improve on) the authors’ methodologies of investigation. After the course, students will be equipped with the technical and linguistic know-how to write an empirical paper of their own. Those interested are encouraged to think about possible ways of applying the linguistic knowledge gained in this seminar to issues in language teaching, translating, journalism, public relations or other areas of study.

    Credit requirements are:

    • weekly reading questions, to be submitted online the night before class
    • regular participation in discussions, based on weekly reading assignments and/or research homework
    • active participation, including the presentation (in groups) of an academic poster towards the end of the semester
    • an empirical academic paper of c2000 words

    The seminar is complemented by an obligatory lecture course.

  • 17341 Proseminar
    PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis II: Metaphor (Alexander Rauhut)
    Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-17)
    Location: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Comments

    During this seminar, we take a scientific perspective on language. We will learn about the tools and the thinking process involved in empirical research and review academic texts. We will deepen the knowledge from the introduction and apply it on various research questions in linguistics. Special focus of this seminar will be English metaphor and metonymy. By going beyond the idea of a simple figure of speech, we will explore its different forms, regularities, and finally understand metaphor as a crucial process in extending our lexicon, and study how everything is connected to our psychology.

    In the end, students will be able to design and carry out their own cropus linguistic research project.

    The accompanying lecture course 'Levels of Linguistic Analysis I' by Prof. Stefanowitsch (17336, Wednesday 10:00-12:00) will provide the theoretical basis, supplemented by a phenomenological overview, as well as an introduction to linguistic methodology such as psycholinguistic experimentation.

    Credit requirements are:

    • regular and active participation in seminar online meetings
    • regular and active participation in the accompanying lecture course by Prof. Anatol Stefanowitsch
    • weekly reading assignments and/or research homework
    • student presentation
    • an academic paper of c2000 words

    • Advanced Module V: History of English

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      • 17343 Lecture
        V-History of English I (Ferdinand von Mengden)
        Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: J 32/102 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        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 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 II: Historical Linguistics (Ferdinand von Mengden)
        Schedule: Mo 16:00-18:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2023-04-17)
        Location: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        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 generally 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.

        While the accompanying lecture provides a good deal of the historical background knowledge, this seminar will focus on a choice of individual processes and problems in the description and the analysis of English. 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 expand 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 II: From present-day variation to proto-languages (Martin Konvicka)
        Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        This is a course in the linguistic history and pre-history of English. We will read and analyse primary texts from various stages of English to learn about the major changes in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and we will read secondary texts to help us contextualise these changes.

        Usually, courses and textbooks on the history of English begin with the pre-history and early history of English and continue until present-day English. In our course, however, we will do things differently. We will start with discussions of the most recent changes in English and continue against the flow of time until the linguistic pre-history. By doing this, we will be able to better see the interconnectedness of (linguistic) variation and (linguistic) change.

        Apart from this aspect, there are three major goals of this course. First, to provide you with an overview of the internal and external history of the English language. Second, to familiarise you with the basic concepts and methods of historical linguistics. Third, to demonstrate how the knowledge of the history of a language can be beneficial for understanding its current structure (and vice versa).

        In order for you to pass the course, you have to attend regularly, i.e. not missing more than the allowed maximum of classes, you have to attend actively, i.e. being prepared for each session and participate in discussions and group tasks, and submit a term paper at the end of the semester.

        All organisational, administrative as well as technical issues will be discussed during the first session. If you, for whatever reason, cannot participate please contact me ahead of time.

      • 17346 Proseminar
        PS-History of English II: How to Become a Global Language (Antje Wilton-Franklin)
        Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        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.

      • 17347 Proseminar
        PS-History of English II: From the Age of Migrations to the Age of Explorations (Kirsten Middeke)
        Schedule: Fr 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-21)
        Location: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        This seminar introduces students to the history of the English language. We will cover the period between the coming of Germanic dialects to Britain and the spread of English around the Globe and its subsequent evolution into different national varieties. Students will gain knowledge about the socio-historical events relevant to the external history of the English language and study the internal history (sound change, morphological change, syntactic change, lexical change). Students will be introduced to the most important sources of historical language data and their analysis (text editions, dictionaries, thesauri, corpora) and will be given research tasks on all levels of linguistic analysis. Data elicitation (active cqp) will not be expected; all data will be provided.

        The exam will be an academic paper of 2000 words based on relevant academic literature and an original empirical investigation. Towards the end of the course, students will create and present academic posters (in groups) in preparation for their individual term papers.

        The seminar is complemented by an obligatory lecture course.

        Credit requirements are:

        • regular participation in discussions, based on weekly reading assignments, translation tasks and/or other linguistic exercises
        • active participation, including the design and presentation (in groups) of an academic poster
        • an academic paper of c2000 words

    • Specialization Module A1: Modernity and Alterity in the Literatures of Medieval Britain

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      • 17350 Advanced Seminar
        S-Literatures of Medieval Britain: Canterbury Tales (Andrew James Johnston)
        Schedule: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387) is Geoffrey Chaucer’s best-known work – and perhaps the best-known literary work of the English Middle Ages. A collection of shorter narratives – almost all of them in verse – the Tales plays a major role in the development of what we nowadays consider the canon of English literature and – not least because of its obvious affinities with Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decamerone – simultaneously stakes a claim for English letters within the wider context of European literature.

        Yet for all its indisputable canonicity the Tales is far more than a mere showcase of medieval poetic and narrative styles and genres. It betrays a fascination with tension and conflict, with debate and self-questioning that undermines all facile attempts to install the work and its author in the straightforward position of the fons et origo of an uninterrupted, glorious tradition of English literature. On the contrary, the Canterbury Tales presents itself as a rigorous investigation into such diverse issues as the roles of tradition and history for literature, the problem of social conflict and its representation in literature, the tensions between religion and aesthetics, the power and limitations of ideology and the relationship between gender and authority, to name but a few.

        Since even in its unfinished form the Canterbury Tales is a vast and sprawling work, this course will be able to deal only with a selection of the tales.

        Students are expected to have acquired an edition of the complete text by the first session of the course. This edition must be in the original Middle English and possess a full-fledged critical apparatus. Texts not meeting these standards will not be accepted in class. I recommend either the Riverside Chaucer (Larry D. Benson, ed., Oxford UP, 1988/2008) or the Penguin Classics edition (Jill Mann, ed., Penguin, 2005).

    • Specialization Module A2: Literary Studies: Periods - Genres - Concepts

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      • 17352 Advanced Seminar
        S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: Anger in Contemporary Literature (Sabine Schülting)
        Schedule: Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2023-07-27)
        Location: JK 29/118 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        We live in an “Age of Anger”. This diagnosis, made by Indian essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra in 2017, is corroborated by the heated quality of public discourse on topics as diverse as Brexit, the climate crisis, the #MeToo and the Black Lives Matter movements. But it also shows in contemporary literature where anger “seems to be among the decisive driving forces”, as Andreas Mahler stresses. This course will look at a number of recent literary texts that are not just ‘about’ anger but also seek to rhetorically evoke this strong emotion, criticize its powerful effects or celebrate its energy. Our readings will include poetry, fiction and drama, by Jonathan Coe, debbie tucker green, Jackie Kay, Hanif Kureishi and others, and we will study the representation of anger, the emotive language of the texts, and their aesthetic, cultural and political agenda. The course will also give an introduction to Affect Theory and gauge its potential for literary analysis.

        Organisation of the course:

        The course is primarily addressed to students who had signed up for Professor Andreas Mahler’s course on “Anger”, which unfortunately had to be cancelled.

        To register for the course, please send an email to studienbuero@geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de. Please state “Anmeldung Vertiefungsseminar 17352” in the subject line of your message and don’t forget to give your full name and your matriculation number in the body of the message. The deadline for registration is the 30th of June.

        The course will be offered as a compact seminar (Blockseminar) after the end of the semester, on 27 and 28 July, and 3 and 4 August (from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on all four days). Students are expected to have read the assigned texts, attend the seminar, participate in course activities, and give one short in-class presentation. For full credits and a grade, you will have to write a term paper (to be submitted by the beginning of the winter semester).

        Further information on the course and the readings will be provided by email and on Blackboard.

        Most texts are short and will be made available via Blackboard. Please purchase a copy of the novel that we will read: Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Penguin, 2019, ISBN 978-0-241-98368-3). The novel can be ordered in every bookshop in town (and should be available within 24 hrs); it costs 12.50 EUR. You should have read the novel for the second week of the course.

      • 17353 Advanced Seminar Cancelled
        S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: Anger (Andreas Mahler)
        Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Anger seems to be among the decisive driving forces of producing twentieth-century literature. The seminar will depart from the so-called ‘angry young men’ in the 1950s, take a look at the poetry of someone like Anna Mendelssohn, and end up with the so-called ‘In-Your-Face’ theatre of Sarah Kane in order to explore the nexus between violence and literature in the post WWII-era.

      • 17354 Advanced Seminar
        S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: Shakespeare's Histories (Stephan Laqué)
        Schedule: Do 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-20)
        Location: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Far from being lessons in English history, Shakespeare’s history plays are fascinating reflections on the power of theatrical representation as well as on the nature of history, of its constructedness and transmission. This course will examine a selection of Shakespeare’s history plays in terms of genre and of the close interrelation between theatre and historiography. Please purchase either individual editions of Richard II, Henry IV (1+2), Henry V and Richard III (preferably from the Arden Shakespeare Series) or the Norton Shakespeare: Histories (or indeed the complete The Norton Shakespeare (ed. Stephen Greenblatt)). Please start reading Richard II before the start of the semester.

      • 17355 Advanced Seminar
        S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: The English Ballad (Jordan Lee Schnee)
        Schedule: Fr 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-21)
        Location: J 30/109 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        The ballad, one of the most popular forms of English poetry for centuries, lies at the intersection between literature and music, between lyric and narrative. In this course, we will analyze the texts and musical interpretations of important ballads, exploring questions of mediality from the broadsheet, to the field recording, to the pop song. We will use archivist Stephen Roud’s 2017 Folk Song in England. London: Faber & Faber, among other texts, to contextualize the primary sources. We will also think about the ethical questions and power dynamics present in collection/recording of ostensibly “pure” and “local” ballads for cataloguing and mass consumption. We will interrogate the notion of high art/literature being separate from its popular/folk forms.

    • Specialization Module A3: Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures

      0042eC1.3
      • 17329 Basic Course
        GK-Medieval English Literatures: Unterseeboote, Flugmaschinen und nackte Philosophen: Das Nachleben Alexanders des Großen zwischen Macht und Märchen (Andrew James Johnston)
        Schedule: Do 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-20)
        Location: Hs 2 Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Kaum eine historische Figur hat die Phantasie so sehr angeregt wie Alexander der Große. Über Epochen und Kontinente hinweg tritt er uns in immer neuer Gestalt entgegen, nicht nur als Eroberer, sondern auch als Forscher, Entdecker und Magier, der Flugmaschinen baute und Unterseebote konstruierte. Von Anfang an umrankten ihn geradezu märchenhafte Legenden, die spätestens ab dem 4. Jahrhundert unserer Zeitrechnung, als der sogenannte ‚Alexanderroman‘ entstand, ein veritables Eigenleben führten. Von seiner Entstehung bis ins 16. Jahrhundert gehörte dieser Roman zu den weltweit meistgelesenen Erzähltexten. Er wurde unter anderem ins Lateinische, Koptische, Syrische, Arabische, Armenische, Hebräische, Persische und fast alle europäischen Sprachen übersetzt.

        Diese Vorlesung setzt sich mit der verwirrenden Vielfalt kultureller Aneignungen Alexanders auseinander. Wir wollen anhand ausgewählter Beispiele aus verschiedenen Kulturen, Epochen, Sprachen sowie literarischen und künstlerischen Gattungen untersuchen, wie uns die historische Gestalt Alexanders von Makedonien in immer neuen Formen entgegentritt, welchen kulturellen und literarischen Deutungen sie unterworfen wird, wie sich mit ihr Träume von Expansion und Größe entfalten, aber auch, welches kritische Potenzial sie birgt. Denn schon früh gab es auch das: Die Kritik an Macht und Expansion, die sich an die Figur des Herrschers knüpfte. Gerade weil in Alexander über mehr als 2000 Jahre hinweg Historisches und Märchenhaftes eine unauflösliche Verbindung eingingen, bietet er uns einen einmaligen, kaleidoskopartigen Blick darauf, wie sich Mythenbildung und politische Propaganda, künstlerische Überformung und ideologische Inanspruchnahme in immer neuen Konstellationen und in fast unübertroffener Vielfalt miteinander verbinden.

      • 17360 Lecture
        V-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Postcolonialism (Stephan Laqué)
        Schedule: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: Hs 1a Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Postcolonial theory analyses the lingering effects of colonial oppression and thereby addresses pivotal issues of our globalised world. It has adopted terms such as ‘hybridity’ and ‘mimicry’ from other disciplines and turned them into new and influential concepts. Starting from Edward Said's seminal book Orientalism, this lecture will follow the trajectory of Postcolonial Studies from the late 1970s to the present day.

      • 17361 Advanced Seminar
        S-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Amitav Ghosh (Justus Conrad Gronau)
        Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        This seminar delves into selected works of the Indian author and intellectual Amitav Ghosh. Our main focus will be on the analysis of his novels The Hungry Tide (2004) and Gun Island (2019) in relation to various themes such as the construction of cultural identities, the juxtaposition and transformation of different knowledge systems, the function and limits of language, inter- and cross-cultural translation, indigenous, oral, and non-secular myths and practices, the history of colonialism and global trade, as well as displacement and migration. Additionally, the novels raise important ecocritical questions about the relationship between humans, animals, and the forces of nature. In this context, we shall critically discuss excerpts of Ghosh’s recent non-fictional writing on the Anthropocene and climate change and analyse how nature as a non-human agency is negotiated in the texts under discussion.

        Participants of the seminar need to acquire and read both Ghosh novels. Editions used in class are Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide (2004, ISBN: 9780007141784); Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island (2019, ISBN: 9781473686656). Further course material will be made available over the course of the semester.

        Assessment in this course is based on regular attendance, active participation in classroom activities such as presentations and response papers, and a final term paper of about 4,000 words (for the Vertiefungsmodul with 10 LP), to be submitted by the end of the semester.

      • 17362 Advanced Seminar
        S-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Afropolitan Historiography (Cordula Lemke)
        Schedule: Fr 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-21)
        Location: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Teju Cole once said about Taiye Selasi's novel Ghana Must Go: "Selasi does more than merely renew our sense of the African novel: she renews our sense of the novel, period." He claims that with an afropolitan writer like Selasi a new aesthetics of global significance has entered the stage. In this seminar, we will explore this new aesthetics in the historical novel and its colonial baggage. We will look at how afropolitan texts rewrite the historical novel in order to decolonise historiography and create something new.

        Texts:

        Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

        Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

        Yvonne Adhiambo Owour, The Dragonfly Sea

    • Specialization Module A4: Culture - Gender - Media

      0042eC1.4
      • 17329 Basic Course
        GK-Medieval English Literatures: Unterseeboote, Flugmaschinen und nackte Philosophen: Das Nachleben Alexanders des Großen zwischen Macht und Märchen (Andrew James Johnston)
        Schedule: Do 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-20)
        Location: Hs 2 Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Kaum eine historische Figur hat die Phantasie so sehr angeregt wie Alexander der Große. Über Epochen und Kontinente hinweg tritt er uns in immer neuer Gestalt entgegen, nicht nur als Eroberer, sondern auch als Forscher, Entdecker und Magier, der Flugmaschinen baute und Unterseebote konstruierte. Von Anfang an umrankten ihn geradezu märchenhafte Legenden, die spätestens ab dem 4. Jahrhundert unserer Zeitrechnung, als der sogenannte ‚Alexanderroman‘ entstand, ein veritables Eigenleben führten. Von seiner Entstehung bis ins 16. Jahrhundert gehörte dieser Roman zu den weltweit meistgelesenen Erzähltexten. Er wurde unter anderem ins Lateinische, Koptische, Syrische, Arabische, Armenische, Hebräische, Persische und fast alle europäischen Sprachen übersetzt.

        Diese Vorlesung setzt sich mit der verwirrenden Vielfalt kultureller Aneignungen Alexanders auseinander. Wir wollen anhand ausgewählter Beispiele aus verschiedenen Kulturen, Epochen, Sprachen sowie literarischen und künstlerischen Gattungen untersuchen, wie uns die historische Gestalt Alexanders von Makedonien in immer neuen Formen entgegentritt, welchen kulturellen und literarischen Deutungen sie unterworfen wird, wie sich mit ihr Träume von Expansion und Größe entfalten, aber auch, welches kritische Potenzial sie birgt. Denn schon früh gab es auch das: Die Kritik an Macht und Expansion, die sich an die Figur des Herrschers knüpfte. Gerade weil in Alexander über mehr als 2000 Jahre hinweg Historisches und Märchenhaftes eine unauflösliche Verbindung eingingen, bietet er uns einen einmaligen, kaleidoskopartigen Blick darauf, wie sich Mythenbildung und politische Propaganda, künstlerische Überformung und ideologische Inanspruchnahme in immer neuen Konstellationen und in fast unübertroffener Vielfalt miteinander verbinden.

      • 17360 Lecture
        V-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Postcolonialism (Stephan Laqué)
        Schedule: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: Hs 1a Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Postcolonial theory analyses the lingering effects of colonial oppression and thereby addresses pivotal issues of our globalised world. It has adopted terms such as ‘hybridity’ and ‘mimicry’ from other disciplines and turned them into new and influential concepts. Starting from Edward Said's seminal book Orientalism, this lecture will follow the trajectory of Postcolonial Studies from the late 1970s to the present day.

      • 17367 Advanced Seminar
        S-Culture-Gender-Media: Literature and Intermediality (Justus Conrad Gronau)
        Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        This seminar focuses on the interrelations between literature and other media. An investigation of the phenomenon of intermediality first raises the question of what is meant by terms such as 'medium' and 'mediality'. In the first sessions, we will therefore deal with the current media-theoretical debates with a close focus on intermediality research in order to provide an adequate inventory of terms for analysing intermedial relations, i.e., intermedial references and transpositions. We will encounter literature in its variety of intermedial relations with the visual arts, music, performance, film, graphic novel/comic, and video games. In the seminar, we will primarily be interested in those intermedial interactions in which the artworks reflect, transform, and transgress the respective media-specific conditions and boundaries of their mediality. We shall therefore concentrate on those intermedial configurations and spaces in which such intermedial frictions, ruptures and transgressions of boundaries become meta-reflexively virulent.

        For a comprehensive overview of current debates on intermediality, see The Handbook of Intermediality (ed. Gabriele Rippl, 2015, ISBN: 978-3-11-031107-5) which is available (also digitally) at the FU library. Course material will be made available at the beginning of the semester.

        Assessment in this course is based on regular attendance, active participation in classroom activities such as presentations and response papers, and a final term paper of about 4,000 words (for the Vertiefungsmodul with 10 LP), to be submitted by the end of the semester.

      • 17368 Advanced Seminar
        S-Culture-Gender-Media: Gender and Nation in Irish Film (Kübra Özermis)
        Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        2023 has been described as “the year of Irish film” with the Banshees of Inisherin and the Irish language film An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl) being recognised by an astonishing number of Academy Award nominations – the former film with nine in total. Irish actors, among them Kerry Condon, Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan and Paul Mescal (for his role in Aftersun) also shined in the spotlight amidst their Academy Award nominations for their respective leading and supporting roles. The fascination with Irish films and actors seems to have reached an unseen peak. However, this is not the first time there is an increase of interest in films from Ireland or about Ireland. The 1990s and early 2000s also produced a number of films that were lauded for their insight into Irish history, society and politics. Some films reinforced the image of Ireland as a place that is eternally plagued by inner turmoil and undiscernible feuds. Others played with this trope and subverted it by satirising or complicating this narrative. In this seminar we will explore how these images about Ireland emerged in the first place and what makes these films “Irish” to begin with. We will be looking at the specific historical moments in which the interest in Ireland on screen peaked. We will be exploring how questions of nation and national identity are depicted and how these films contribute or deconstruct myths about the Irish nation and past. We will examine how gender, class and race are negotiated within these debates and especially focus on how traditional and binary perceptions of gender are subverted and/or consolidated with ideas of nationhood.

        Students will be assessed in this seminar based on regular and active participation and a final term paper.

        Reading material will be provided on Blackboard. Film viewings are to be done in preparation before the respective seminar sessions.

    • Specialization Module A5: Sociolinguistics and Varieties of English

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      • 17370 Practice seminar
        Ü-Socioling. a. Varieties of English: Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Antje Wilton)
        Schedule: Mi 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        This class will provide an overview over the most important issues, approaches and methodologies in contemporary (English) sociolinguistics, addressing aspects of social, regional and functional variation, gender, conversation and discourse, and multilingualism. We will put particular emphasis on the English language, investigating variation and change in its use and relevance for speech communities around the world.

      • 17371 Advanced Seminar
        S-Socioling. and Varieties of English: Language and Media (Antje Wilton)
        Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        In this seminar we will explore various types of media and their relationship with language use and society. We will incorporate insights from media linguistics, conversation analysis, and genre studies to analyse and describe language use and language change in different media, by different actors and in different contexts, from news reporting to sports discourse, from interviews to storytelling, from strategic communication to hate speech and fake news. The seminar will incorporate blended learning elements. Students will be able to show their active participation by designing their own media product.

    • Specialization Module A6: Structure of English

      0042eC1.6
      • 17372 Practice seminar
        Ü-Structure of English: Construction Grammar (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
        Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        
      • 17373 Advanced Seminar
        S-Structure of English: Construction Grammar and Collostructional Analysis (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
        Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-17)
        Location: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

    • Specialization Module A7: Semantics and Pragmatics

      0042eC1.7
      • 17375 Advanced Seminar Cancelled
        S-Semantics and Pragmatics: The Pragmatics of Space
        Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        In this seminar we will investigate the complex relationship between language and (material) space from a pragmatics perspective. Classes will be based on a new publication, the handbook on “Pragmatics of Space” (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110693713/html), comprising various contributions on the linguistic description of space, interaction in different spaces, communicative resources of constructed spaces and cultural differences in the pragmatics of space. We will work closely with a selection of texts from the handbook, which students will be required to present, summarise and discuss.

    • Specialization Module B1: Modernity and Blterity in the Literatures of Medieval Britain

      0042eC2.1
      • 17350 Advanced Seminar
        S-Literatures of Medieval Britain: Canterbury Tales (Andrew James Johnston)
        Schedule: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387) is Geoffrey Chaucer’s best-known work – and perhaps the best-known literary work of the English Middle Ages. A collection of shorter narratives – almost all of them in verse – the Tales plays a major role in the development of what we nowadays consider the canon of English literature and – not least because of its obvious affinities with Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decamerone – simultaneously stakes a claim for English letters within the wider context of European literature.

        Yet for all its indisputable canonicity the Tales is far more than a mere showcase of medieval poetic and narrative styles and genres. It betrays a fascination with tension and conflict, with debate and self-questioning that undermines all facile attempts to install the work and its author in the straightforward position of the fons et origo of an uninterrupted, glorious tradition of English literature. On the contrary, the Canterbury Tales presents itself as a rigorous investigation into such diverse issues as the roles of tradition and history for literature, the problem of social conflict and its representation in literature, the tensions between religion and aesthetics, the power and limitations of ideology and the relationship between gender and authority, to name but a few.

        Since even in its unfinished form the Canterbury Tales is a vast and sprawling work, this course will be able to deal only with a selection of the tales.

        Students are expected to have acquired an edition of the complete text by the first session of the course. This edition must be in the original Middle English and possess a full-fledged critical apparatus. Texts not meeting these standards will not be accepted in class. I recommend either the Riverside Chaucer (Larry D. Benson, ed., Oxford UP, 1988/2008) or the Penguin Classics edition (Jill Mann, ed., Penguin, 2005).

    • Specialization Module B2: Literary Studies: Periods - Genres - Concepts

      0042eC2.2
      • 17352 Advanced Seminar
        S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: Anger in Contemporary Literature (Sabine Schülting)
        Schedule: Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2023-07-27)
        Location: JK 29/118 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        We live in an “Age of Anger”. This diagnosis, made by Indian essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra in 2017, is corroborated by the heated quality of public discourse on topics as diverse as Brexit, the climate crisis, the #MeToo and the Black Lives Matter movements. But it also shows in contemporary literature where anger “seems to be among the decisive driving forces”, as Andreas Mahler stresses. This course will look at a number of recent literary texts that are not just ‘about’ anger but also seek to rhetorically evoke this strong emotion, criticize its powerful effects or celebrate its energy. Our readings will include poetry, fiction and drama, by Jonathan Coe, debbie tucker green, Jackie Kay, Hanif Kureishi and others, and we will study the representation of anger, the emotive language of the texts, and their aesthetic, cultural and political agenda. The course will also give an introduction to Affect Theory and gauge its potential for literary analysis.

        Organisation of the course:

        The course is primarily addressed to students who had signed up for Professor Andreas Mahler’s course on “Anger”, which unfortunately had to be cancelled.

        To register for the course, please send an email to studienbuero@geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de. Please state “Anmeldung Vertiefungsseminar 17352” in the subject line of your message and don’t forget to give your full name and your matriculation number in the body of the message. The deadline for registration is the 30th of June.

        The course will be offered as a compact seminar (Blockseminar) after the end of the semester, on 27 and 28 July, and 3 and 4 August (from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on all four days). Students are expected to have read the assigned texts, attend the seminar, participate in course activities, and give one short in-class presentation. For full credits and a grade, you will have to write a term paper (to be submitted by the beginning of the winter semester).

        Further information on the course and the readings will be provided by email and on Blackboard.

        Most texts are short and will be made available via Blackboard. Please purchase a copy of the novel that we will read: Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Penguin, 2019, ISBN 978-0-241-98368-3). The novel can be ordered in every bookshop in town (and should be available within 24 hrs); it costs 12.50 EUR. You should have read the novel for the second week of the course.

      • 17353 Advanced Seminar Cancelled
        S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: Anger (Andreas Mahler)
        Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Anger seems to be among the decisive driving forces of producing twentieth-century literature. The seminar will depart from the so-called ‘angry young men’ in the 1950s, take a look at the poetry of someone like Anna Mendelssohn, and end up with the so-called ‘In-Your-Face’ theatre of Sarah Kane in order to explore the nexus between violence and literature in the post WWII-era.

      • 17354 Advanced Seminar
        S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: Shakespeare's Histories (Stephan Laqué)
        Schedule: Do 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-20)
        Location: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Far from being lessons in English history, Shakespeare’s history plays are fascinating reflections on the power of theatrical representation as well as on the nature of history, of its constructedness and transmission. This course will examine a selection of Shakespeare’s history plays in terms of genre and of the close interrelation between theatre and historiography. Please purchase either individual editions of Richard II, Henry IV (1+2), Henry V and Richard III (preferably from the Arden Shakespeare Series) or the Norton Shakespeare: Histories (or indeed the complete The Norton Shakespeare (ed. Stephen Greenblatt)). Please start reading Richard II before the start of the semester.

      • 17355 Advanced Seminar
        S-Lit. Stud.: Periods-Genres-Concepts: The English Ballad (Jordan Lee Schnee)
        Schedule: Fr 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-21)
        Location: J 30/109 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        The ballad, one of the most popular forms of English poetry for centuries, lies at the intersection between literature and music, between lyric and narrative. In this course, we will analyze the texts and musical interpretations of important ballads, exploring questions of mediality from the broadsheet, to the field recording, to the pop song. We will use archivist Stephen Roud’s 2017 Folk Song in England. London: Faber & Faber, among other texts, to contextualize the primary sources. We will also think about the ethical questions and power dynamics present in collection/recording of ostensibly “pure” and “local” ballads for cataloguing and mass consumption. We will interrogate the notion of high art/literature being separate from its popular/folk forms.

    • Specialization Module B3: Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures

      0042eC2.3
      • 17329 Basic Course
        GK-Medieval English Literatures: Unterseeboote, Flugmaschinen und nackte Philosophen: Das Nachleben Alexanders des Großen zwischen Macht und Märchen (Andrew James Johnston)
        Schedule: Do 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-20)
        Location: Hs 2 Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Kaum eine historische Figur hat die Phantasie so sehr angeregt wie Alexander der Große. Über Epochen und Kontinente hinweg tritt er uns in immer neuer Gestalt entgegen, nicht nur als Eroberer, sondern auch als Forscher, Entdecker und Magier, der Flugmaschinen baute und Unterseebote konstruierte. Von Anfang an umrankten ihn geradezu märchenhafte Legenden, die spätestens ab dem 4. Jahrhundert unserer Zeitrechnung, als der sogenannte ‚Alexanderroman‘ entstand, ein veritables Eigenleben führten. Von seiner Entstehung bis ins 16. Jahrhundert gehörte dieser Roman zu den weltweit meistgelesenen Erzähltexten. Er wurde unter anderem ins Lateinische, Koptische, Syrische, Arabische, Armenische, Hebräische, Persische und fast alle europäischen Sprachen übersetzt.

        Diese Vorlesung setzt sich mit der verwirrenden Vielfalt kultureller Aneignungen Alexanders auseinander. Wir wollen anhand ausgewählter Beispiele aus verschiedenen Kulturen, Epochen, Sprachen sowie literarischen und künstlerischen Gattungen untersuchen, wie uns die historische Gestalt Alexanders von Makedonien in immer neuen Formen entgegentritt, welchen kulturellen und literarischen Deutungen sie unterworfen wird, wie sich mit ihr Träume von Expansion und Größe entfalten, aber auch, welches kritische Potenzial sie birgt. Denn schon früh gab es auch das: Die Kritik an Macht und Expansion, die sich an die Figur des Herrschers knüpfte. Gerade weil in Alexander über mehr als 2000 Jahre hinweg Historisches und Märchenhaftes eine unauflösliche Verbindung eingingen, bietet er uns einen einmaligen, kaleidoskopartigen Blick darauf, wie sich Mythenbildung und politische Propaganda, künstlerische Überformung und ideologische Inanspruchnahme in immer neuen Konstellationen und in fast unübertroffener Vielfalt miteinander verbinden.

      • 17360 Lecture
        V-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Postcolonialism (Stephan Laqué)
        Schedule: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: Hs 1a Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Postcolonial theory analyses the lingering effects of colonial oppression and thereby addresses pivotal issues of our globalised world. It has adopted terms such as ‘hybridity’ and ‘mimicry’ from other disciplines and turned them into new and influential concepts. Starting from Edward Said's seminal book Orientalism, this lecture will follow the trajectory of Postcolonial Studies from the late 1970s to the present day.

      • 17361 Advanced Seminar
        S-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Amitav Ghosh (Justus Conrad Gronau)
        Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        This seminar delves into selected works of the Indian author and intellectual Amitav Ghosh. Our main focus will be on the analysis of his novels The Hungry Tide (2004) and Gun Island (2019) in relation to various themes such as the construction of cultural identities, the juxtaposition and transformation of different knowledge systems, the function and limits of language, inter- and cross-cultural translation, indigenous, oral, and non-secular myths and practices, the history of colonialism and global trade, as well as displacement and migration. Additionally, the novels raise important ecocritical questions about the relationship between humans, animals, and the forces of nature. In this context, we shall critically discuss excerpts of Ghosh’s recent non-fictional writing on the Anthropocene and climate change and analyse how nature as a non-human agency is negotiated in the texts under discussion.

        Participants of the seminar need to acquire and read both Ghosh novels. Editions used in class are Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide (2004, ISBN: 9780007141784); Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island (2019, ISBN: 9781473686656). Further course material will be made available over the course of the semester.

        Assessment in this course is based on regular attendance, active participation in classroom activities such as presentations and response papers, and a final term paper of about 4,000 words (for the Vertiefungsmodul with 10 LP), to be submitted by the end of the semester.

      • 17362 Advanced Seminar
        S-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Afropolitan Historiography (Cordula Lemke)
        Schedule: Fr 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-21)
        Location: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Teju Cole once said about Taiye Selasi's novel Ghana Must Go: "Selasi does more than merely renew our sense of the African novel: she renews our sense of the novel, period." He claims that with an afropolitan writer like Selasi a new aesthetics of global significance has entered the stage. In this seminar, we will explore this new aesthetics in the historical novel and its colonial baggage. We will look at how afropolitan texts rewrite the historical novel in order to decolonise historiography and create something new.

        Texts:

        Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

        Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

        Yvonne Adhiambo Owour, The Dragonfly Sea

    • Specialization Module B4: Culture - Gender - Media

      0042eC2.4
      • 17329 Basic Course
        GK-Medieval English Literatures: Unterseeboote, Flugmaschinen und nackte Philosophen: Das Nachleben Alexanders des Großen zwischen Macht und Märchen (Andrew James Johnston)
        Schedule: Do 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-20)
        Location: Hs 2 Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Kaum eine historische Figur hat die Phantasie so sehr angeregt wie Alexander der Große. Über Epochen und Kontinente hinweg tritt er uns in immer neuer Gestalt entgegen, nicht nur als Eroberer, sondern auch als Forscher, Entdecker und Magier, der Flugmaschinen baute und Unterseebote konstruierte. Von Anfang an umrankten ihn geradezu märchenhafte Legenden, die spätestens ab dem 4. Jahrhundert unserer Zeitrechnung, als der sogenannte ‚Alexanderroman‘ entstand, ein veritables Eigenleben führten. Von seiner Entstehung bis ins 16. Jahrhundert gehörte dieser Roman zu den weltweit meistgelesenen Erzähltexten. Er wurde unter anderem ins Lateinische, Koptische, Syrische, Arabische, Armenische, Hebräische, Persische und fast alle europäischen Sprachen übersetzt.

        Diese Vorlesung setzt sich mit der verwirrenden Vielfalt kultureller Aneignungen Alexanders auseinander. Wir wollen anhand ausgewählter Beispiele aus verschiedenen Kulturen, Epochen, Sprachen sowie literarischen und künstlerischen Gattungen untersuchen, wie uns die historische Gestalt Alexanders von Makedonien in immer neuen Formen entgegentritt, welchen kulturellen und literarischen Deutungen sie unterworfen wird, wie sich mit ihr Träume von Expansion und Größe entfalten, aber auch, welches kritische Potenzial sie birgt. Denn schon früh gab es auch das: Die Kritik an Macht und Expansion, die sich an die Figur des Herrschers knüpfte. Gerade weil in Alexander über mehr als 2000 Jahre hinweg Historisches und Märchenhaftes eine unauflösliche Verbindung eingingen, bietet er uns einen einmaligen, kaleidoskopartigen Blick darauf, wie sich Mythenbildung und politische Propaganda, künstlerische Überformung und ideologische Inanspruchnahme in immer neuen Konstellationen und in fast unübertroffener Vielfalt miteinander verbinden.

      • 17360 Lecture
        V-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Postcolonialism (Stephan Laqué)
        Schedule: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: Hs 1a Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Postcolonial theory analyses the lingering effects of colonial oppression and thereby addresses pivotal issues of our globalised world. It has adopted terms such as ‘hybridity’ and ‘mimicry’ from other disciplines and turned them into new and influential concepts. Starting from Edward Said's seminal book Orientalism, this lecture will follow the trajectory of Postcolonial Studies from the late 1970s to the present day.

      • 17367 Advanced Seminar
        S-Culture-Gender-Media: Literature and Intermediality (Justus Conrad Gronau)
        Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        This seminar focuses on the interrelations between literature and other media. An investigation of the phenomenon of intermediality first raises the question of what is meant by terms such as 'medium' and 'mediality'. In the first sessions, we will therefore deal with the current media-theoretical debates with a close focus on intermediality research in order to provide an adequate inventory of terms for analysing intermedial relations, i.e., intermedial references and transpositions. We will encounter literature in its variety of intermedial relations with the visual arts, music, performance, film, graphic novel/comic, and video games. In the seminar, we will primarily be interested in those intermedial interactions in which the artworks reflect, transform, and transgress the respective media-specific conditions and boundaries of their mediality. We shall therefore concentrate on those intermedial configurations and spaces in which such intermedial frictions, ruptures and transgressions of boundaries become meta-reflexively virulent.

        For a comprehensive overview of current debates on intermediality, see The Handbook of Intermediality (ed. Gabriele Rippl, 2015, ISBN: 978-3-11-031107-5) which is available (also digitally) at the FU library. Course material will be made available at the beginning of the semester.

        Assessment in this course is based on regular attendance, active participation in classroom activities such as presentations and response papers, and a final term paper of about 4,000 words (for the Vertiefungsmodul with 10 LP), to be submitted by the end of the semester.

      • 17368 Advanced Seminar
        S-Culture-Gender-Media: Gender and Nation in Irish Film (Kübra Özermis)
        Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        2023 has been described as “the year of Irish film” with the Banshees of Inisherin and the Irish language film An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl) being recognised by an astonishing number of Academy Award nominations – the former film with nine in total. Irish actors, among them Kerry Condon, Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan and Paul Mescal (for his role in Aftersun) also shined in the spotlight amidst their Academy Award nominations for their respective leading and supporting roles. The fascination with Irish films and actors seems to have reached an unseen peak. However, this is not the first time there is an increase of interest in films from Ireland or about Ireland. The 1990s and early 2000s also produced a number of films that were lauded for their insight into Irish history, society and politics. Some films reinforced the image of Ireland as a place that is eternally plagued by inner turmoil and undiscernible feuds. Others played with this trope and subverted it by satirising or complicating this narrative. In this seminar we will explore how these images about Ireland emerged in the first place and what makes these films “Irish” to begin with. We will be looking at the specific historical moments in which the interest in Ireland on screen peaked. We will be exploring how questions of nation and national identity are depicted and how these films contribute or deconstruct myths about the Irish nation and past. We will examine how gender, class and race are negotiated within these debates and especially focus on how traditional and binary perceptions of gender are subverted and/or consolidated with ideas of nationhood.

        Students will be assessed in this seminar based on regular and active participation and a final term paper.

        Reading material will be provided on Blackboard. Film viewings are to be done in preparation before the respective seminar sessions.

    • Specialization Module B5: Sociolinguistics and Varieties of English

      0042eC2.5
      • 17370 Practice seminar
        Ü-Socioling. a. Varieties of English: Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Antje Wilton)
        Schedule: Mi 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        This class will provide an overview over the most important issues, approaches and methodologies in contemporary (English) sociolinguistics, addressing aspects of social, regional and functional variation, gender, conversation and discourse, and multilingualism. We will put particular emphasis on the English language, investigating variation and change in its use and relevance for speech communities around the world.

      • 17371 Advanced Seminar
        S-Socioling. and Varieties of English: Language and Media (Antje Wilton)
        Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        In this seminar we will explore various types of media and their relationship with language use and society. We will incorporate insights from media linguistics, conversation analysis, and genre studies to analyse and describe language use and language change in different media, by different actors and in different contexts, from news reporting to sports discourse, from interviews to storytelling, from strategic communication to hate speech and fake news. The seminar will incorporate blended learning elements. Students will be able to show their active participation by designing their own media product.

    • Specialization Module B6: Structure of English

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      • 17372 Practice seminar
        Ü-Structure of English: Construction Grammar (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
        Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        
      • 17373 Advanced Seminar
        S-Structure of English: Construction Grammar and Collostructional Analysis (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
        Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-17)
        Location: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

    • Specialization Module B7: Semantics and Pragmatics

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      • 17375 Advanced Seminar Cancelled
        S-Semantics and Pragmatics: The Pragmatics of Space
        Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        In this seminar we will investigate the complex relationship between language and (material) space from a pragmatics perspective. Classes will be based on a new publication, the handbook on “Pragmatics of Space” (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110693713/html), comprising various contributions on the linguistic description of space, interaction in different spaces, communicative resources of constructed spaces and cultural differences in the pragmatics of space. We will work closely with a selection of texts from the handbook, which students will be required to present, summarise and discuss.

    • Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1

      0042eD1.1
      • 54011 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1, 1.Gr. (Matthew Emery)
        Schedule: Mo 12:00-14:00, Mi 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-17)
        Location: Mo L 23/25 Medienunterstützter Unterrichtsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Mi KL 25/121a Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Additional information / Pre-requisites

        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)

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54012 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1, 2.Gr. (Matthew Emery)
        Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00, Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-17)
        Location: Mo L 23/25 Medienunterstützter Unterrichtsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Mi JK 24/140 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Additional information / Pre-requisites

        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)

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54013 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1, 3.Gr. (Darren Paul Foster)
        Schedule: Mo 08:00-10:00, Mi 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-17)
        Location: KL 26/130 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Additional information / Pre-requisites

        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)

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54014 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1, 4.Gr. (Kimberly Specht)
        Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00, Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: JK 30/021 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Additional information / Pre-requisites

        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)

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54015 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1, 5.Gr. (Mark Baker)
        Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00, Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: Di KL 25/137 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Do K 24/20 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Additional information / Pre-requisites

        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)

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54016 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Oral Skills and Writing Skills 1, 6.Gr. (Darren Paul Foster)
        Schedule: Mo 10:00-12:00, Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-17)
        Location: Mo KL 25/122a Multifunktionsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Mi KL 24/105 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Additional information / Pre-requisites

        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)

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

    • Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2

      0042eD1.2
      • 54021 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2, 1.Gr. (Annette Stemmerich)
        Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00, Do 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: KL 25/122a Multifunktionsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Additional information / Pre-requisites

        Entspricht den Modulen

        • "Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2" (Bachelor Englische Philologie) und
        • "Oral and Writing Skills B" (Mono-Bachelor Nordamerikastudien)

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54022 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2, 2.Gr. (Matthew Emery)
        Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00, Do 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: KL 23/216 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Additional information / Pre-requisites

        Entspricht den Modulen

        • "Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2" (Bachelor Englische Philologie) und
        • "Oral and Writing Skills B" (Mono-Bachelor Nordamerikastudien)

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54023 Language Course Cancelled
        Sprachpraxismodul Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2, 3.Gr. (Matthew Emery)
        Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00, Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: KL 23/216 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Additional information / Pre-requisites

        Entspricht den Modulen

        • "Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2" (Bachelor Englische Philologie) und
        • "Oral and Writing Skills B" (Mono-Bachelor Nordamerikastudien)

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54024 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2, 4.Gr. (Darren Paul Foster)
        Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00, Do 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: Di K 26/21 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Do KL 25/122a Multifunktionsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Additional information / Pre-requisites

        Entspricht den Modulen

        • "Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2" (Bachelor Englische Philologie) und
        • "Oral and Writing Skills B" (Mono-Bachelor Nordamerikastudien)

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54025 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2, 5.Gr. (Darren Paul Foster)
        Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00, Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: Di JK 26/140 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Do KL 25/122a Multifunktionsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Additional information / Pre-requisites

        Entspricht den Modulen

        • "Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2" (Bachelor Englische Philologie) und
        • "Oral and Writing Skills B" (Mono-Bachelor Nordamerikastudien)

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54026 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2, 6.Gr. (Mark Baker)
        Schedule: Mo 16:00-18:00, Mi 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-17)
        Location: L 23/25 Medienunterstützter Un
        

        Additional information / Pre-requisites

        Entspricht den Modulen

        • "Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2" (Bachelor Englische Philologie) und
        • "Oral and Writing Skills B" (Mono-Bachelor Nordamerikastudien)

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54027 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2, 7.Gr. (Annette Stemmerich)
        Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00, Fr 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: Mi KL 25/122a Multifunktionsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Fr KL 25/201 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Additional information / Pre-requisites

        Entspricht den Modulen

        • "Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2" (Bachelor Englische Philologie) und
        • "Oral and Writing Skills B" (Mono-Bachelor Nordamerikastudien)

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54028 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2, 8.Gr. (Louise Catherine Steinike McCloy)
        Schedule: Mi 08:00-10:00, Fr 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: Mi KL 24/105 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Fr K 24/10 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Additional information / Pre-requisites

        Entspricht den Modulen

        • "Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2" (Bachelor Englische Philologie) und
        • "Oral and Writing Skills B" (Mono-Bachelor Nordamerikastudien)

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54029 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2, 9.Gr. (Louise Catherine Steinike McCloy)
        Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00, Fr 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: Mi L 23/25 Medienunterstützter Unterrichtsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Fr K 24/10 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Additional information / Pre-requisites

        Entspricht den Modulen

        • "Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2" (Bachelor Englische Philologie) und
        • "Oral and Writing Skills B" (Mono-Bachelor Nordamerikastudien)

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54030 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2, 10.Gr. (Mark Baker)
        Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00, Do 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: Di KL 26/130 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Do K 24/10 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Additional information / Pre-requisites

        Entspricht den Modulen

        • "Oral Skills and Writing Skills 2" (Bachelor Englische Philologie) und
        • "Oral and Writing Skills B" (Mono-Bachelor Nordamerikastudien)

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

    • Mediating Skills

      0042eD1.3
      • 54031 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Mediating Skills (Englische Philologie), 1.Gr. (Michael Bawden)
        Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00, Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: KL 24/121a Multifunktionsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54032 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Mediating Skills (Englische Philologie), 2.Gr. (Michael Bawden)
        Schedule: Mi 08:00-10:00, Fr 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-19)
        Location: JK 30/021 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54033 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Mediating Skills (Englische Philologie), 3.Gr. (Peter Stear)
        Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00, Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-17)
        Location: Mo KL 25/122a Multifunktionsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Mi KL 25/137 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54034 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Mediating Skills (Englische Philologie), 4.Gr. (Peter Stear)
        Schedule: Mo 16:00-18:00, Mi 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-17)
        Location: Mo KL 25/122a Multifunktionsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Mi KL 25/137 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

      • 54035 Language Course
        Sprachpraxismodul Mediating Skills (Englische Philologie), 5.Gr. (Peter Stear)
        Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00, Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-04-18)
        Location: Di KL 25/122a Multifunktionsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45), Do KL 24/105 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
        

        Comments

        Anmeldung vom 20.03. bis 11.04.2023, 9:00 Uhr an der ZE Sprachenzentrum > Anmeldeverfahren

    • Modules w/o courses in this semester

      4 Modules
      • Introductory Module I: Introduction to Literary Studies 0042eA1.1
      • Introductory Module II: Introduction to English Linguistics 0042eA1.2
      • Specialization Module A8: Language Change 0042eC1.8
      • Specialization Module B8: Language Change 0042eC2.8