gb - Englisches Seminar - Ruhr

ENGLISCHES SEMINAR
RUHR-UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM
SEMINARINTERNES VORLESUNGSVERZEICHNIS
MASTER OF ARTS
FÜR DAS WINTERSEMESTER 2015/16
(Bitte beachten: Für den Master of Education gibt es ein eigenes
seminarinternes Vorlesungsverzeichnis!)
WichtigeInfosfürM.A.‐Studierende
AnmeldungzudenLehrveranstaltungen
Alle Lehrveranstaltungen des Englischen Seminars beginnen in der 2.
Semesterwoche, d.h. in der Woche ab dem 26. Oktober 2015. Bitte betrachten
SiealleanderslautendenAnkündigungenalsüberholt.DieersteSemesterwoche
ist für die Durchführung und Korrektur von Nachprüfungen sowie für die Stu‐
dienberatungvorgesehen.
WieindenletztenSemesternwirdauchfürdasWintersemester2015/16füralle
LehrveranstaltungeneinelektronischesAnmeldeverfahrenunizentralüberVSPL‐
Campus durchgeführt. Mit dem Rechenzentrum ist vereinbart, dass wir ein
Verteilverfahrennutzen.Dasbedeutet,dassdieAnmeldunggewissermaßenin2
Etappenerfolgt:zunächstalsodieAnmeldungfürdiegewünschteVeranstaltung,
wobei Sie jeweils auch Ihre 2. und 3. Wahl angeben für den Fall, dass die
Veranstaltung Ihrer 1. Wahl überbelegt wird. Auf elektronischem Wege erfolgt
dann in einem zweiten Schritt die Zuteilung der Plätze auf der Basis Ihrer
Priorisierung. Dies gilt für die Veranstaltungen der Basismodule ebenso wie für
dieVeranstaltungenderAufbaumodule.
Bei dieser Form des Anmeldeverfahrens geht es nicht darum, Studierende aus
Veranstaltungen auszuschließen, sondern im Rahmen des Möglichen für eine
gleichmäßigere Verteilung zu sorgen, damit die Studienbedingungen insgesamt
verbessert werden. Mit geringfügigen Einschränkungen wird dies schon jetzt
erreicht.
Auch für die Vorlesungen sollten Sie sich anmelden. Hier dient die Anmeldung
der Erfassung der Teilnehmernamen bzw. ‐zahlen. Das ist wichtig für die
Erstellung von Skripten (wir kennen frühzeitig die Teilnehmerzahl und können
dieDruckaufträgeentsprechendvergeben).AußerdemkönnenwirmitdenTeil‐
nehmerdaten Teilnehmerlisten erstellen und insbesondere zum Semesterende
dieNotenverwaltungleichterhandhaben.
DieAnmeldungenfürdieVeranstaltungenderMastermodulekönneninder
Zeit
vom21.September2015,10.00Uhr,bis16.Oktober2015,14.00Uhr
vorgenommen werden. Wegen des Verteilverfahrens kommt es nicht darauf an,
gleich am Starttag alle Anmeldungen durchzuführen. Nach Abschluss der
AnmeldungenwirddasVerteilverfahrengeneriert,dasdannzudenendgültigen
Teilnehmerlisten führt. Sollten sich nach dem Abschluss des Verteilverfahrens
auf der Basis der von Ihnen vorgegebenen Priorisierung Terminkonflikte mit
Veranstaltungen des 2. Faches oder des Optionalbereichs ergeben, wenden Sie
sichbitteandieDozentenoderDozentinnenderbetroffenenLehrveranstaltung.
StudienberatungundService
DieStudienfachberaterinDr.MonikaMüllerbietetanzweiTageninderWoche
Sprechstundenan,indenenoffeneFragengeklärt,Informationeneingeholtoder
Probleme besprochen werden können. Vor der Einschreibung in die M.A.‐Phase
sind für alle Studierenden der Abschluss des B.A.‐Studiums und ein
obligatorisches Beratungsgespräch erforderlich. Diese obligatorische Beratung
erfolgt durch die Prüfungsberechtigten und die Studienfachberaterin. Über die
BeratungwirdeineBescheinigungausgestellt.
AuchdasServicezimmerhatanmindestenszweiTagenderWochegeöffnetund
leistet Hilfestellung bei Fragen zum Studienverlauf und zur Notenabbildung in
VSPL.AußerdemwerdendortLeistungsbescheinigungenausgestellt.
SprechzeitenderStudienfachberaterinPDDr.MonikaMüllerimWintersemester
2015/16:
dienstags 9.30‐12.30Uhr GB5/141
mittwochs 9.30‐12.30Uhr GB5/141
undnachVereinbarung
ÖffnungszeitendesServicezimmersimWintersemester2015/16:
An mindestens zwei Tagen in der Woche. Die genauen Sprechzeiten werden zu
gegebenerZeitanderDienstzimmertürGB6/134bekanntgegeben.
Sollten Sie planen, während des M.A.‐Studiums einen (weiteren) Auslands‐
aufenthalt zu absolvieren, kann Ihnen die an das Servicezimmer angegliederte
AuslandsberatungHilfestellungbieten.
ÖffnungszeitenderAuslandsberatungimWintersemester2015/16:
An mindestens zwei Tagen in der Woche. Die genauen Sprechzeiten werden zu
gegebenerZeitanderDienstzimmertürGB6/134bekanntgegeben.
Berater:HerrFlaake,GB6/134,E‐Mail:es‐[email protected]
Forschungs‐undExamensmodule
ForschungsmodulebietenbesondersleistungsstarkenStudierendendieGelegen‐
heit, innerhalb eines Schwerpunktbereichs eigene Forschungsprojekte zu
entwickeln, betreiben und besprechen. Sie sind nicht obligatorisch und können
nur nach vorheriger persönlicher Absprache mit den betreffenden Lehrenden
belegt werden. Sie bestehen aus einem Forschungsseminar (5 CP) und – nach
Abstimmung mit den SeminarleiterInnen – einer Vorlesung oder Übung, die
jeweils fachbezogen oder interdisziplinär sein kann; auch zusammen mit den
SeminarleiterInnen
konzipierte
forschungsorientierte
selbständige
Studienanteile (im Umfang von 3 CP) können mit einem Leistungsnachweis
abgeschlossenundkreditiertwerden.
Examensmodule sind obligatorisch. In der Regel belegen Studierende ein
Examenskolloquium bei ihrer zukünftigen Prüferin / ihrem zukünftigen Prüfer
bzw. einem/r Lehrenden, der/die ein thematisch zur Prüfung passendes
Kolloquium anbietet. Diessollterechtzeitiggeplantundangegangenwerden,da
die einzelnen Prüfungsberechtigten nicht jedes Semester ein Kolloquium
anbieten. Um Studienzeitverzögerungen zu vermeiden, besteht in Ausnahme‐
fällen auch die Möglichkeit, das regulär angebotene Examensmodul durch ein
zusätzliches Seminar beim zukünftigen Prüfer (mit examensorientierter
Leistungserbringungsform)zuersetzen.
M.A.‐PrüfungsberechtigteimWintersemester2015/16
Prüfungsberechtigtsindzurzeit:
Dr.habil.SebastianBerg
Jun.‐Prof.Dr.SimonDickel
Prof.Dr.KorneliaFreitag
PDDr.UweKlawitter
PDDr.BerndKlähn
Prof.Dr.LuukHouwen
Prof.Dr.Christiane
Meierkord
PDDr.MonikaMüller
Prof.Dr.Burkhard
Niederhoff
Prof.Dr.AnettePankratz
Prof.Dr.MarkusRitter
Prof.Dr.RolandWeidle
Die Prüfungsprotokolle werden von BeisitzerInnen geführt, die von den jeweili‐
genPrüferInnenbestelltwerden.
INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
(M.A.-Phase/Hauptstufe)
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Wichtige Infos für M.A.-Studierende
Anmeldung zu den Lehrveranstaltungen
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Studienberatung und Service
Forschungs- und Examensmodule
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M.A.-Prüfungsberechtigte im Wintersemester 2014/15
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Raumpläne
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Feriensprechstunden der Dozenten/Dozentinnen
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Sprechstunden im Wintersemester 2015/16
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Öffnungszeiten der Sekretariate des Englischen Seminars
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Bibliothek
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M.A.-STUDIUM
Linguistik
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Englische Literatur bis 1700
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Englische Literatur von 1700 bis zur Gegenwart
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Amerikanische Literatur
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Cultural Studies (GB)
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Cultural Studies (USA)
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Fremdsprachenausbildung
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Forschungsmodul Linguistik
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Forschungsmodul Englische Literatur
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Forschungsmodul Amerikanistik
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Examensmodul
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BIBLIOTHEK
Öffnungszeiten:
Vorlesungszeit:
Mo - Fr
8.30 - 18.30 Uhr
Sa
10-14 Uhr
vorlesungsfreie Zeit:
Mo - Fr
9.30 – 17 Uhr
Sa
10-14 Uhr
(August und September samstags geschlossen)
Detaillierte Informationen einschließlich einer Übersicht über den Aufbau der
Signaturen finden Sie unter: http://www.bibphil.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Ang.htm .
Das
Englische
Seminar
verfügt
über
eine
umfangreiche
Sammlung
an
Videoaufzeichnungen, die in der Bibliothek zur Ausleihe zur Verfügung stehen
(Arbeitsraum im Südkern, Öffnungszeiten: s. Aushang an der Bibliothekstür). Die
Sammlung umfasst ca. 1.200 Bänder und wird laufend ergänzt. Ein Katalog liegt
neben dem Kopierer (in der Nähe des Bibliothekstreppenhauses im Nordkern) aus.
Die Videobänder können zu den angeschlagenen Zeiten auch von Ihnen entliehen
werden (Leihfrist: 1 Woche, Verlängerung um 1 Woche ist möglich).
Auf die umfangreiche Sammlung von Standardtexten der englischsprachigen
Literatur in der Ausleihbibliothek (Etage 5, rote Signaturschilder) wird verwiesen.
Diese Titel können für einen längeren Zeitraum entliehen werden.
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ENGLISCHES SEMINAR DER RUHR-UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM
FERIENSPRECHSTUNDEN
der Dozenten/Dozentinnen des Englischen Seminars in der Zeit
vom 20.7.-23.10.2015
Name Tag Uhrzeit Raum Berg Brenzel Christinidis Dickel Di 11:00‐12:00 GB 5/139 Florian Fonkeu Freitag Gerhardt Goth Heimeroth Hermann Houwen Kindinger Klähn Klawitter 31.7./7.8./21.8./28.8./11.9./ 9:00‐10:00 18.9./2.10. n.V. GB 6/136 Sprechstundentermine und Anmeldung unter simondickel.blogs.rub.de nach Absprache per E‐Mail GB 6/143 GB 6/38 n.V. GB 6/129 23.9. nach Voranmeldung bei Frau Sicking: [email protected] Do GB 5/133 12:00‐13:00 GB 6/136 Di (für Ausnahmen s. Aushang an meiner Bürotür) n.V. 11:00‐12:00 GB 5/29 GB 6/136 n. vorh. V. GB 6/144 Termine bitte bei Frau Dornieden in GB 6/32 erfragen und sich dort auch anmelden 29.7./5.8./12.8./15.9./23.9./ 10:00‐11:00 7.10. nach vorh. Tel. V. bitte die Aushänge an meiner Bürotür beachten; in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit ist keine Voranmeldung durch Eintrag in Liste erforderlich GB 5/139 GB 6/33 GB 5/134 GB 5/138 GB 5/136 Feriensprechstunden Name Linne Meierkord Minow Müller, M. Müller, T. Niederhoff Osterried Ottlinger Pankratz Pfeiler Poziemski Ritter Rottschäfer Schielke Schubert Smith 20.7.‐23.10.2015 Tag Di (für Ausnahmen s. Aushang an der Bürotür) 29.7./2.9./30.9.2015 Uhrzeit 9:00‐10:00 Raum GB 5/29 11:00‐13:00 GB 6/31 Di (außer am 28.7./18.8./8.9. und 15.9.) Di/Do (außer Urlaubszeit; siehe und Aushang an der 21.7./4.8./18.8./1.9./22.9./ 6.10./13.10. 4.8./11.8./18.8./8.9./ 15.9./22.9./29.9./6.10. Do (außer Urlaubszeit, Aushang an meiner Tür) Di (außer Urlaubszeit; siehe Aushang an meiner Bürotür) 22.7./29.7./12.8./26.8./ 9.9./16.9./30.9./14.10. Bitte melden Sie sich bei [email protected] an. 23.7./28.7./10.8./17.8./ 27.8./3.9./10.9./29.9./8.10. 8.9./15.9./22.9. 14:00‐15:00 GB 5/136 9:30‐12:30 Homepage des ES Bürotür) 11:00‐13:00 GB 5/141 GB 5/135 11:00‐12:30 GB 5/131 13:00‐14:00 GB 6/136 10:00‐11:00 GB 5/137 11:00‐13:00 GB 5/34 11:00‐13:00 GB 6/139 12:00‐13:00 GB 5/31 12.8./24.8./7.9./ 30.9. Bitte melden Sie sich bei [email protected] an 29.7./2.9./30.9./14.10. 11:00‐13:00 14:00‐16:00 GB 5/32 14:00‐15:00 GB 6/29 22.7. 29.7. 12.8./19.8./26.8. 2.9./9.9./16.9./23.9./30.9. 7.10./14.10./21.10. n.V. 12:00‐13:00 13:00‐14:00 10:30‐11:30 10:30‐11:30 10:30‐11:30 GB 5/138 n. V. GB 5/140 GB 6/136 Feriensprechstunden Name Steinhoff Thiele Versteegen Viol von Contzen Walter Weidle Zucker 20.7.‐23.10.2015 Tag 10.8. 25.8./8.9./22.9. Anmeldung unter http:// doodle.com/ 8z3s439fvxwbvtxh Uhrzeit 11:30‐12:30 11:00‐12:00 Raum GB 5/134 GB 5/31 Mi (außer Urlaubszeit 16.7.‐
14.8.2015) 24.7. 5.8./10.8. oder nach Vereinbarung 12.8.2015 26.8.2015 9.9./23.9./30.9./12.10.2015 (nach Rücksprache mit Frau Pieper, GB 6/142, [email protected]) Di 11:00‐13:00 GB 6/140 9:00‐10:00 11:00‐12:00 GB 6/34 10:00‐12:00 12:00‐14:00 10:00‐12:00 GB 5/136 GB 6/141 11:00‐12:00 GB 5/137 GB 5/138 
ENGLISCHES SEMINAR DER RUHR-UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM
SPRECHSTUNDEN
der Dozenten/Dozentinnen des Englischen Seminars
im Wintersemester 2015/16
Name Tag Uhrzeit Raum Berg Berndt Brenzel Di 11:00‐12:00 GB 5/139 nach der Veranstaltung Fr 9:00‐10:00 Briest Christinidis Dickel nach der Veranstaltung Sprechstundentermine und Anmeldung unter simondickel.blogs.rub.de 21.10. nach Voranmeldung bei Frau Sicking: [email protected] Do GB 6/136 TZR 4/405 GB 6/142 GB 5/139 GB 6/143 10:00‐12:00 GB 5/133 12:00‐13:00 GB 6/136 Mi 11:00‐12:00 GB 5/29 Di 11:00‐12:00 GB 6/144 GB 6/33 Mi 14:00‐15:00 GB 5/134 nach der Veranstaltung beurlaubt GB 5/138 GB 5/136 Mi 10:00‐11:00 GB 5/29 Mi Bitte bei Frau B. Stauch, GB 6/32, anmelden Di Di/Mi Di Do Di oder nach Vereinbarung 11:00‐13:00 GB 6/31 14:00‐15:00 9:30‐12:30 16:00‐17:00 14:00‐15:00 16:00‐17:30 GB 5/136 GB 5/141 GB 5/135 Freitag Gerhardt Goth Hermann Houwen Kindinger Klähn Klawitter Linne Meierkord Minow Müller, M. Müller, T. Niederhoff GB 5/131 Sprechstunden Wintersemester 2015/16 Name Tag Uhrzeit Raum Osterried Ottlinger Pankratz Do Di Mi Bitte melden Sie sich bei [email protected] an Do Di (ab 20.10.2015) Mi Bitte melden Sie sich bei [email protected] an Mi Mi nach dem Blockseminar n. d. Lehrveranstaltung Di Mi Do Mo Do Mi Do Do (nach Rücksprache mit Frau Pieper, GB 6/142) Di 13:00‐14:00 10:00‐11:00 11:00‐13:00 GB 6/136 GB 5/137 GB 5/34 12:00‐13:00 12:00‐13:00 11:00‐13:00 GB 6/139 GB 5/31 GB 5/32 14:00‐15:00 14:00‐15:00 14:00‐15:00 10:00‐12:00 14:30‐15:30 16:00‐17:00 11:00‐12:00 11:00‐13:00 12:00‐13:00 14:00‐16:00 GB 6/29 GB 5/138 GB 6/136 GB 6/136 GB 6/139
GB 6/29 GB 5/134 GB 5/138 GB 5/31 GB 6/140 GB 5/139 GB 6/141 11:00‐12:00 GB 5/137 Pfeiler Poziemski Ritter Rottschäfer Schielke Schlensag Schubert Smith Ssempuuma Steinhoff Thiele Versteegen Viol Walter, M. Weidle Zucker ÖFFNUNGSZEITEN
DER SEKRETARIATE
DES ENGLISCHEN SEMINARS
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Sekretariat
Öffnungszeit
Geschäftszimmer des Englischen
Seminars
Frau Monika Marquart
GB 6/133
montags-freitags 9:00-13:00 Uhr
Lehrstuhl Anglistik I – Prof.
Dr. Roland Weidle
Frau Annette Pieper
GB 6/142
montags-donnerstags 9:00-12:00
Uhr
Lehrstuhl Anglistik II – Prof.
Dr. Christiane Meierkord
Frau Barbara Stauch-Niknejad
GB 6/32
montags 8:00-13:00 Uhr
dienstags 8:00-12:00 Uhr
mittwochs 8:00-14:00 Uhr
donnerstags 8:00-13:00 Uhr
Lehrstuhl Anglistik III – Prof. montags-freitags 8:30-12:30 Uhr
Dr. Burkhard Niederhoff
Frau Hildegard Sicking
GB 5/129
Lehrstuhl Anglistik IV - Prof.
Dr. Kornelia Freitag
Frau Hildegard Sicking
GB 5/129
montags-freitags 8:30-12:30 Uhr
Lehrstuhl Anglistik V - Prof.
Dr. Luuk Houwen
Martina Dornieden
GB 6/32
montags 10:00-13:00 Uhr
dienstags und mittwochs 10:0016:30 Uhr
donnerstags 10:00-15:30 Uhr
Lehrstuhl Anglistik VI – Prof.
Dr. Anette Pankratz
Frau Ute Pipke
GB 5/33
montags-donnerstags 8:00-12:30
Uhr
Prof. Dr. Markus Ritter
Frau Ute Pipke
GB 5/33
montags-donnerstags 8:00-12:30
Uhr
M.A.-STUDIUM
LINGUISTIK
Vorlesung
050 610
Meierkord
The English Lexicon, 3 CP
2 st. mo 12-14
HGB 10
English has spread across the world, and it is today used by a large number of first
language, second language, and foreign language speakers. In this series of
lectures, we shall look at the diversity which, as a result, characterises the English
lexicon. The individual lectures will cover word use and meaning in a number of
national varieties of English but shall also address functional and stylistic variation.
Students will be given an opportunity to work with real language data, and we will
also repeat those areas of linguistics which are central to the study of words:
lexicology, semantics, and morphology.
The lecture course is based on the following book:
Gramley, Stephan (2001). The Vocabulary of World English. London: Arnold. ISBN:
0-340-74072-8.
Further literature will be made available via Blackboard towards the beginning of the
term.
Assessment/requirements: final test, additional reading of appr. 50 pages.
Seminare
050 702
Meierkord
Recent Trends in Pragmatics, 5 CP
2 st. do 12-14
GB 6/137 Nord
Pragmatics is one of the younger subfields of linguistics. Having emerged from within
philosophical studies, it soon developed into various branches to study aspects such
diverse as speech acts, conversational management, turn-taking etc. After a review
of the main theoretical and analytical concepts, we will discuss the following
approaches:
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Cross-cultural pragmatics aims at comparing speech acts and discourse
structures across different languages and cultures, taking a comparative
approach.
Interlanguage pragmatics emerged from within second language acquisition.
Studies look at learners' communicative competence and at how they perform
individual speech acts, manage turn-taking and topic changes etc.
Variational pragmatics is situated at the interface of pragmatics and
dialectology and links the study of speech acts to regional, ethnic, age, social,
and gender variation.
Postcolonial pragmatics is concerned with the study of various aspects of
pragmatics in postcolonial spaces. Based on the understanding that concepts
developed in Western contexts do not necessarily apply elsewhere, it aims at
exploring novel concepts to explain language use in other ecologies.
Assessment/requirements: Übung: a contribution to an in-class group presentation
(with handout) and five brief literature reviews; Seminar: the above, and an empirical
term paper.
050 703
Meierkord
London’s Englishes, 5 CP
2 st. fr 10-12
GABF 04/413 Süd
London is a multilingual city and has been so for several centuries. Today, speakers
of English have various ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, and varieties of English
spoken in the metropolis include the traditional working-class Cockney dialect, Indian
English, Caribbean creoles and a form which is referred to as Estuary English. After a
review of concepts such as dialect, sociolect, and standard language, we shall take a
look at these different present-day Englishes from a sociolinguistic as well as from a
descriptive perspective. Apart from this synchronic focus, we shall discuss London's
role as a centre of language contact and standardisation from the Middle English
period onwards.
Assessment/requirements: Übung: a contribution to an in-class group presentation
(with handout) and five brief literature reviews; Seminar: the above, and an empirical
term paper.
Übungen
050 621
Meierkord
English Linguistics ̶ Current Models and Methods, 3 CP
2 st. do 8.30-10
GB 6/137 Nord
This course serves to introduce students to the various models and methods used in
empirical linguistics as regards data collection, data representation, and data
analysis. Students will be required to collect data and must be willing to analyse
these regularly. They should also be willing to report on their own projects and to
actively discuss each others’ work.
Assessment/requirements: All students need to complete three written assignments,
which will be graded for their final grade. M.Ed./M.A. students are furthermore
expected to take charge of one of the individual sessions, i.e. to prepare a
presentation and exercises on a particular data collection technique or on one of the
methods of data representation or analysis.
050 704
Müller, T.
Analysing Political Discourse, 3 CP
2 st. di 12-14
GB 6/137 Nord
In this linguistics class, we will analyse current discourse in British and American
political affairs, focusing not only on printed text (from quality press to tabloids) or
political speeches but also on the presentation of political issues in the media, from
the BBC to Fox News. We will employ approaches used in (Critical) Discourse
Analysis and, of course, Rhetoric, and discuss political topics against their cultural
and historical background.
Assessment/requirements: homework, written assignment.
ENGLISCHE LITERATUR BIS 1700
Vorlesungen
050 623
Houwen
The Bible and the Literature of the Middle Ages, 3 CP
2 st. di 12-14
HGB 50
Until the nineteenth century at least literary works were deeply influenced by the
Bible, and medieval literature is no exception. This lecture series will discuss the
Bible and its immediate history from the Vetus Latina and Vulgate to the Authorised
Version of 1611. Some of the topics that will be touched upon are: Bible and Bibles;
Christianity and bookish culture; Biblical exegesis; Allegory and literature; The Bible
as literature; Biblical legends and lore; Biblical imagery.
The basic aim of this lecture series is to provide the necessary Biblical background
knowledge for a successful interpretation of Medieval literature. This lecture makes
for an ideal companion to the M.A./M.Ed. seminar "Book and Verse" also held in the
winter semester.
The aim is to keep the reading within reasonable bounds and limited to primary
literature (the Bible itself and closely related texts). All literature will be made
available via Blackboard.
Assessment/requirements: the course will be concluded with a final written exam to
be held at the same time (and place) as the lecture in the last week of term.
050 624
Weidle
Introduction to Renaissance Drama, 3 CP
2 st. fr 12-14
HGB 10
The lecture will attempt to provide students with an overview of the main dramatic
genres of the English Renaissance (1485-1660). The first sessions will sketch the
cultural, historical and economic background of the period as well as the beginnings
of early modern secular drama. The lecture will then proceed to discuss some of the
most important representatives and examples of tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy and
history plays. In each lecture we will also try to look at particular plays (or passages
from them) in order to illustrate some of the discussed features.
The lectures will be based on my Englische Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit: Eine
Einführung published in the series "Grundlagen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik" with
Erich Schmidt Verlag (Berlin, 2013). The PowerPoint Presentations will be made
available on Moodle.
For the primary texts I recommend: Greenblatt, Stephen et al. (eds). The Norton
Anthology of English Literature. Vol I. New York: Norton & Company, 2012. Print.
Assessment/requirements: successful completion of (extended) test in final session.
Seminare
050 628
Houwen
Book and Verse: Biblical Literature in Old and Middle English, 5 CP
2 st. di 14-16
GABF 04/614 Süd
Medieval literature was deeply influenced by the Bible. This manifested itself in the
shape of translations, paraphrases, and citations, but also in the way such works like
universal histories are structured. Moreover, the system of Biblical interpretation also
left its mark on vernacular literature. All of these different influences (and more) will
be studied in this course.
Extracts from a wide variety of genres in Old and Middle English will be read and
discussed in class. The main aim will be to assess the impact of the Bible on
medieval literature and culture and what consequences that has for the
interpretation. Old English texts will be made available in translation.
Some knowledge of Middle English would be helpful.
All texts will be made available via Blackboard.
Assessment/requirements: Active participation is one of the basic requirements, and
this is only possible if the set texts have been prepared thoroughly for each week.
The course is rounded off with an essay. Übung: 6-8 pages (excl. title page and
bibliography); Seminar: 10-12 pages. All references should conform to MLA
stylesheet! No tables of contents please! Obviously the criteria for an academic
essay at MA level are higher than those for the BA.
050 629
Houwen
Late Medieval and Renaissance Ballads, 5 CP
2 st. mi 12-14
GABF 04/614 Süd
Songs that tell a story that more often than not starts in the “fifth act” (ballads) are not
just a late medieval and Renaissance phenomenon. They are still popular to this day
and many a popular musician has one or more ballads to his or her name (cf. Nick
Cave’s Murder Ballads). In this course we shall concentrate on the earlier ballads but
will also compare these wherever possible to modern renderings where they exist.
Some of the main topics that will be addressed concern the ballad genre itself, the
dissemination of ballads (many survived longer in the Appalachian mountains than in
Scotland and the borders), their use (and abuse) throughout the centuries, the role of
the supernatural and the like.
Primary and secondary material will be made available via Blackboard.
Assessment/requirements: The course will be rounded off with an essay. Übung: 6-8
pages (excl. title page and bibliography); Seminar: 10-12 pages. All references
should conform to MLA stylesheet! No tables of contents please! Obviously the
criteria for an academic essay at MA level are higher than those for the BA.
050 706
Weidle
Shakespeare’s Green Worlds, 5 CP
2 st. do 8.30-10
GABF 04/614 Süd
In this course we will engage with aspects of "green worlds" encountered in
Shakespeare's works and in doing so will prepare ourselves for the spring
conference "Shakespeare's Green Worlds" of the German Shakespeare Society to
be held in Bochum from 22 to 24 April 2016.
The idea of this course is to take a look at various plays and poems by Shakespeare
and investigate, among other things, the following issues: the representation of
nature; symbolic significances of plants, flowers and herbs; the semantics of spaces
such as gardens, parks, forests and orchards; socio-economic contexts of nature
(e.g. botanical trade, science, medicine).
The exact number and selection of Shakespearean texts to be discussed in class will
be announced in the first session, but it is highly likely that they will be taken from the
following group: A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, The Winter's Tale, The
Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Richard II, Venus and Adonis.
Please make sure to have read The Tempest by the first session.
All the secondary texts to be discussed in class will be made available on Moodle.
Assessment/requirements: Übung: active participation, thorough preparation of the
primary texts and the secondary material, being part of an expert group on one of
Shakespeare's texts (including the production of a portfolio to be handed in no later
than 31 March 2016), attending the conference "Shakespeare's Green Worlds" of the
German Shakespeare Society in Bochum from 22 to 24 April 2016; Seminar: active
participation, thorough preparation of the primary texts and the secondary material,
attending the conference "Shakespeare's Green Worlds" of the German
Shakespeare Society in Bochum from 22 to 24 April 2016, term paper (15-20 pages)
to be handed in by 31 March 2016.
Übung
050 652
Freitag
Introduction to Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory and Practice, 4 CP
2 st. di 16-18
GABF 04/614 Süd
What is literature? How can it be read? Are there ˈobviousˈ ways of reading? These
questions will be discussed in the seminar. It is designed to introduce students to
different theories of literary analysis including New Criticism, Structuralism, ReaderResponse Theory, Deconstruction, Postcolonial Criticism, or New Historicism.
Alongside Catherine Belsey's Critical Practice key texts by de Saussure, Fish,
Derrida, Lacan, and others will be read and discussed. The application of different
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theoretical approaches to the analysis of a literary text will be shown using Nathaniel
Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, which has to be read for this purpose.
Texts:
- Catherine Belsey. Critical Practice. 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2002) – you will
need this very edition!
- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (you may use any available edition – a
good choice for the seminar would be the edition of Case Studies in Contemporary
Criticism by Ross C. Murfin; the 1st edition is even better than the 2nd.)
- Reader
Assessment/requirements: active participation, reading, written assignments, final
written test.
ENGLISCHE LITERATUR VON 1700 BIS ZUR GEGENWART
Vorlesung
050 638
Niederhoff
Realism in the English Novel from Defoe to Joyce, 3 CP
2 st. do 8.30-10
HGB 30
Realism is a problematic concept. Many contemporary critics argue that it is
philosophically naive and politically suspect. However, it is very hard to avoid the
concept in the everyday practice of literary criticism. I will respond to this dilemma in
two ways. First, I will give a theoretical discussion of realism, pointing out what is
problematic about this term and how it can be used in a responsible manner. I will
then provide a historical treatment of the realist tradition in the English novel. This will
begin with Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Moll Flanders
(1722), who is considered the founding father of this tradition, and conclude with
James Joyce, whose Ulysses (1922) is the culmination of this tradition and also a
bold move beyond it. Along the way, I will look at a number of 18th- and 19th-century
writers who contributed to the realist tradition in different ways, including Henry
Fielding, Jane Austen, George Eliot and George Gissing.
Assessment/requirements: final written exam. For the exam, students will have to
read one novel from beginning to end and passages from a number of other works (I
cannot be more specific at this point as I will prepare the lecture during the summer
break).
Seminare
050 719
Niederhoff/Goth
Contemporary Rewritings of Homer’s Epics, 5 CP
2 st. di 14-16
GB 6/137 Nord
Homer’s two epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, are the oldest extant works of
Western Literature. Even 2,800 years after they were first written down, they are still
going strong. The enduring vitality of these works is shown by the long tradition of
adaptations which have been inspired by them. Even today, poets, novelists and
dramatists try to rewrite the two epics in their own terms. In the seminar, we will
discuss three contemporary rewritings of this kind: Omeros (1990), an epic poem in
which the Caribbean Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott reinvents Achilles, the hero of
The Iliad, as a Caribbean fisherman; The Penelopiad (2005), a novel by the
Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, who puts Odysseus‘ wife Penelope at the centre
of her version of The Odyssey; and Memorial (2011), a poem by the young English
poet Alice Oswald which is a catalogue of and a lament for the warriors who are killed
in The Iliad. Before analysing these contemporary works, we will familiarise ourselves
with Homer’s two epics by taking a look at selected cantos.
Required texts: Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad (Edinburgh: Canongate 2006);
Alice Oswald, Memorial (London: Faber and Faber 2012). Selections from Walcott’s
Omeros and Homer’s epics will be provided by way of Blackboard or a reader.
Assessment/requirements: Übung: presentation or expert group plus short paper;
Seminar: presentation or expert group plus research paper.
050 720
Niederhoff
Two Modernist Writers: E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf, 5 CP
2 st. do 12-14
GB 6/137 Nord
In this seminar, we will look at two major representatives of modernist fiction who
were both associated with the so-called Bloomsbury Group: E.M. Forster and Virginia
Woolf. We will focus on Forster’s Howards End (1910) and Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
(1925) while also looking at one or two short stories and some theoretical writings.
The novels have been chosen because they are very similar in both content and
form. Both are set in and around London; both contain a plot line centred around a
character that is socially inferior to the principal group of characters; and both make
extensive use of leitmotifs.
M.A./M.Ed. students may take this course in connection with the same teacher’s
lecture on the realist tradition in the English novel, but of course this is only an option,
not an obligation.
Required texts: E.M. Forster, Howards End (London: Penguin Classics 2012);
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, ed. Stella McNichol (London: Penguin Classics 2000).
Additional texts will be provided by way of Blackboard or a reader.
Assessment/requirements: Übung: presentation or expert group plus short paper;
Seminar: presentation or expert group plus research paper.
Übung
050 652
Freitag
Introduction to Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory and Practice, 4 CP
2 st. di 16-18
GABF 04/614 Süd
What is literature? How can it be read? Are there ˈobviousˈ ways of reading? These
questions will be discussed in the seminar. It is designed to introduce students to
different theories of literary analysis including New Criticism, Structuralism, ReaderResponse Theory, Deconstruction, Postcolonial Criticism, or New Historicism.
Alongside Catherine Belsey's Critical Practice key texts by de Saussure, Fish,
Derrida, Lacan, and others will be read and discussed. The application of different
theoretical approaches
to the analysis of a literary
text will beaus.
shown using Nathaniel
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fällt
Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, which has to be read for this purpose.
Texts:
- Catherine Belsey. Critical Practice. 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2002) – you will
need this very edition!
- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (you may use any available edition – a
good choice for the seminar would be the edition of Case Studies in Contemporary
Criticism by Ross C. Murfin; the 1st edition is even better than the 2nd.)
- Reader
Assessment/requirements: active participation, reading, written assignments, final
written test.
AMERIKANISCHE LITERATUR
Vorlesung
050 649
Freitag
American Literature and Culture After World War II, 2,5 CP
2 st. mo 14-16
HGB 10
This lecture introduces students to important developments of US-American literature
as part and expression of the shaping of US-American culture after World War II.
References to other art forms are meant to broaden the general perspective. Literary
periods and movements like the Beat Generation, the Black Arts Movement, New
Journalism, or Postmodernism will be covered and connected with the general trends
of U.S. post-war culture and society, the Civil Rights Movement, activism against the
war in Vietnam and other developments.
This is the third part of a three-part lecture series – each part can be attended
separately.
Texts will be made available on Blackboard.
Assessment/requirements: reading, written test + reading of one additional novel.
Seminare
050 725
Dickel
Perception, Embodiment and Culture, 5 CP
2 st. mi 10-12
GABF 04/413 Süd
The focus of this seminar lies on the notions of perception and embodiment and their
relevance for cultural and literary studies. Our theoretical approach will be based on a
range of philosophical texts with leanings to the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty,
among them Siri Hustvedt’s Living, Thinking, Looking (2012), Vivian Sobchack’s
Carnal Thoughts (2004), and excerpts from Linda Mártin Alcoff’s Visible Identities
(2006). We will first take a phenomenological perspective and ask what happens
when we look at a work of art or watch a movie. We will then discuss Alcoff’s notion
of “perceptual habits” and its ongoing significance for structures of dominance and
oppression. The discipline of disability studies is the third perspective we will take to
discuss perception and embodiment, putting a particular focus on the relation of the
visual sense and blindness. We will read excerpts from Rosemarie GarlandThomson’s Staring: How We Look (2009) and from Stephen Kuusisto’s memoir
Planet of the Blind (1998). We will then discuss filmic representations of blindness
and discuss Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights (1931), Guy Green’s A Patch of Blue
(1965), and the Paris-episode of Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth (1991). All texts will
be made available in a reader at the beginning of the semester. The films will be
made available at the Mediathek.
Assessment/requirements: Übung: active participation and a written assignment;
Seminar: active participation and a term paper. All participants must attend the first
session.
050 726
Freitag
Growing Up in Native American Fiction, 5 CP
2 st. di 14-16
GABF 04/613 Süd
Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and Jerome D. Salinger’s The
Catcher in the Rye (1951) are classics of U.S. literature that feature young
protagonists growing up. Bret Easton Ellis’s Less Than Zero (1985) and Russell
Bank’s Rule of the Bone (1995) supply more contemporary (and disturbing) versions
of the same process. Yet what if the protagonist is not white but ethnic, if he (or she)
is Native American? As Devon A. Mihesua has written, “[n]o other ethnic group in
the USA has suffered
greater and more varied
distortionsaus.
of its cultural identity than
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fällt
American Indians.” This class aims at raising an awareness of the cultural identities
of Native Americans and of the meaning of growing up Native American in the United
States. It looks at how ‘race’ alters the stories of adolescence told in fiction and what
the possibilities and roles ascribed to Native American youths today are. The seminar
will concentrate on more recently published fiction and on fiction written for young
adult readers. Next to Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time
Indian (2007) and Flight (2007), novels by Joseph Bruchac, Richard van Camp, Louis
Erdrich, Cynthia Leitich Smith, and Drew Hayden Taylor will be discussed.
Texts: Sherman Alexie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Flight, two more novels, Reader.
Assessment/requirements: Übung: active participation, written assignments, oral
presentation; Seminar: the above, plus 10-page paper.
050 727
Müller, M.
Rural Landscapes vs. Urban Spaces in U.S. Culture, 5 CP
2 st. do 12-14
GABF 04/253 Nord
Proceeding from Leo Marx’s seminal The Machine in the Garden: Technology and
the Pastoral Ideal in America, we will explore the tension between “the great
outdoors” and city life in American culture since the nineteenth century. We will study
a number of historical texts along with theoretical texts on American nature writing
and urban planning and will also read a number of short stories and longer works of
fiction addressing these subjects. Please read Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Last American
Man and Teju Cole’s Open City before the beginning of class. Additional texts will be
uploaded on moodle.
Assessment/requirements: active participation, presentation, mid-term exam, term
paper.
Übung
050 652
Freitag
Introduction to Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory and Practice, 4 CP
2 st. di 16-18
GABF 04/614 Süd
What is literature? How can it be read? Are there ˈobviousˈ ways of reading? These
questions will be discussed in the seminar. It is designed to introduce students to
different theories of literary analysis including New Criticism, Structuralism, ReaderResponse Theory, Deconstruction,
Postcolonialfällt
Criticism, aus.
or New Historicism.
Veranstaltung
Alongside Catherine Belsey's Critical Practice key texts by de Saussure, Fish,
Derrida, Lacan, and others will be read and discussed. The application of different
theoretical approaches to the analysis of a literary text will be shown using Nathaniel
Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, which has to be read for this purpose.
Texts:
- Catherine Belsey. Critical Practice. 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2002) – you will
need this very edition!
- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (you may use any available edition – a
good choice for the seminar would be the edition of Case Studies in Contemporary
Criticism by Ross C. Murfin; the 1st edition is even better than the 2nd.)
- Reader
Assessment/requirements: active participation, reading, written assignments, final
written test.
CULTURAL STUDIES (GB)
Vorlesung
050 660
Pankratz
Modernist Britain, 3 CP
2 st. di 14-16
HGB 10
According to Virginia Woolf, “in or about December 1910 human character changed”.
Britain not only had a new monarch, George V, in 1910, there was also a series of
strikes indicating the growing influence of the Trade Unions and the then new Labour
Party. Suffragists fought for the vote for women. Last but not least, a London
exhibition of works by Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso puzzled
many spectators and indicated new ways of representation. These changes did not
come out of the blue. Theories by Darwin, Freud, Marx, Einstein and De Saussure
undermined traditional absolutes about God, the universe, the nature of human
beings and the functions of language. The atrocities of the “Great War” were to
exacerbate this spirit of scepticism and relativism. High Modernist writers try to cope
with this new "structure of feeling" by way of textual experiments which challenged
conventional ways of seeing, writing and thinking. But Joyce, Woolf and Eliot are only
the puzzling tips of a cool iceberg. The years between 1900 and 1930 saw
mechanisation, commercialisation and urbanisation. Skyscrapers and the cinema,
cars, planes and washing machines were to change a "whole way of life". The lecture
course aims at a survey of British culture between 1910 and 1939, balancing
between high and popular modernism, Jazz and Joyce, Woolf and Wimsey.
Assessment/requirements: participation in Blackboard, written test at the end of the
semester.
Seminare
050 738
Pankratz
Cannibalism as Cultural Trope, 5 CP
2 st. mo 12-14
GABF 04/413 Süd
Eating people is wrong. But fascinating. From mythical Polyphem to the inhabitants of
the Americas, cannibalism can be interpreted as strategy of Othering. Early modern
travelogues and novels about cannibalistic tribes draw an opposition between the
rational and civilised West and the colonial rest. Cannibalistic incorporation and
violence, however, can also stand for the return to an idealised and desired unity with
nature. Montaigne’s essay “Des cannibales” presents a counter-discourse, which
constructs cannibalistic societies as Utopian alternatives to Western culture.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, representations of cannibalism get closer to home.
Anthropophagy advances to one of the dominant cultural tropes with which to
negotiate anxieties about contemporary capitalist "dog-eats-dog" culture. The aim of
the seminar is to analyse cannibalism as cultural trope from the early modern times
until nowadays.
Texts: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Students are asked to buy (and read)
Further texts will be made available on Blackboard.
Assessment/requirements: Seminar: expert group
(wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit); Übung: expert group.
050 739
and
seminar
paper
Pankratz
Censorship, 5 CP
2 st. mo 14-16
GABF 04/413 Süd
Not everything in a culture can be articulated. Especially in early modern times, laws
and institutions like the Lord Chamberlain actively intervened in the publication and
performance of texts which contained material supposedly criticising religion, the
monarchy or rules of decorum. Especially the new medium of printing was eyed
suspiciously and "naughty printed books" (as the proclamation of Henry VIII puts it in
1538) were controlled before publication. In the 20th century, the authorities aimed at
policing representations of illicit sexuality. James Joyce's Ulysses was banned in the
United States, and until 1960 D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover could not be
published in Britain in its full version. Nowadays, although official censorship has
been abolished, there are more indirect, structural forms of censorship, preventing
the publication of texts because of public pressure or economic reasons – or
emotional discussions about what can or cannot be said, written, put on stage or
broadcast. Should children read the Harry Potter novels? Should theatre audiences
or TV viewers be made to see sex and violence?
The seminar aims at analysing censorship as complex historical phenomenon.
Students will have a closer look at the changing laws indicating shifting anxieties
about licit and illicit discourses. At the centre of the seminar will be studies of famous
censorship cases, discussing the effects of censorship for both producers and
recipients of texts.
Texts: will be made available on Blackboard.
Assessment/requirements: Seminar: expert group
(wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit); Übung: expert group.
and
seminar
paper
Übung
050 742
Berg
Teaching Cultural Studies, 3 CP
2 st. mi 16-18
GABF 04/413 Süd
Teaching cultural studies – what does it mean and how does it work? Does teaching
cultural studies mean teaching certain topics, or teaching certain methods and
approaches, or is it a method of teaching itself? These are just some of the questions
that might be asked about a scholarly field that originally emerged in the context of
adult education. Since many of you plan to work in teaching professions, it might be
interesting to look into the possibilities and difficulties that are linked to teaching
cultural studies that are supposedly (a) interdisciplinary and (b) emancipatory. You
are invited to discuss a number of theoretical and methodical reflections on the
teaching of cultural studies, formulate your own ideas about how to teach and plan
small teaching projects on the basis of these reflections.
Assessment/requirements: active participation, preparation and presentation of a
teaching project.
CULTURAL STUDIES (USA)
Vorlesung
050 649
Freitag
American Literature and Culture After World War II, 2,5 CP
2 st. mo 14-16
HGB 10
This lecture introduces students to important developments of US-American literature
as part and expression of the shaping of US-American culture after World War II.
References to other art forms are meant to broaden the general perspective. Literary
periods and movements like the Beat Generation, the Black Arts Movement, New
Journalism, or Postmodernism will be covered and connected with the general trends
of U.S. post-war culture and society, the Civil Rights Movement, activism against the
war in Vietnam and other developments.
This is the third part of a three-part lecture series – each part can be attended
separately.
Texts will be made available on Blackboard.
Assessment/requirements: reading, written test + reading of one additional novel.
Seminare
050 725
Dickel
Perception, Embodiment and Culture, 5 CP
2 st. mi 10-12
GABF 04/413 Süd
The focus of this seminar lies on the notions of perception and embodiment and their
relevance for cultural and literary studies. Our theoretical approach will be based on a
range of philosophical texts with leanings to the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty,
among them Siri Hustvedt’s Living, Thinking, Looking (2012), Vivian Sobchack’s
Carnal Thoughts (2004), and excerpts from Linda Mártin Alcoff’s Visible Identities
(2006). We will first take a phenomenological perspective and ask what happens
when we look at a work of art or watch a movie. We will then discuss Alcoff’s notion
of “perceptual habits” and its ongoing significance for structures of dominance and
oppression. The discipline of disability studies is the third perspective we will take to
discuss perception and embodiment, putting a particular focus on the relation of the
visual sense and blindness. We will read excerpts from Rosemarie GarlandThomson’s Staring: How We Look (2009) and from Stephen Kuusisto’s memoir
Planet of the Blind (1998). We will then discuss filmic representations of blindness
and discuss Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights (1931), Guy Green’s A Patch of Blue
(1965), and the Paris-episode of Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth (1991). All texts will
be made available in a reader at the beginning of the semester. The films will be
made available at the Mediathek.
Assessment/requirements: Übung: active participation and a written assignment;
Seminar: active participation and a term paper. All participants must attend the first
session.
050 726
Freitag
Growing Up in Native American Fiction, 5 CP
2 st. di 14-16
GABF 04/613 Süd
Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and Jerome D. Salinger’s The
Catcher in the Rye (1951) are classics of U.S. literature that feature young
protagonists growing up. Bret Easton Ellis’s Less Than Zero (1985) and Russell
Bank’s Rule of the Bone (1995) supply more contemporary (and disturbing) versions
of the same process. Yet what if the protagonist is not white but ethnic, if he (or she)
is Native American? As Devon A. Mihesua has written, “[n]o other ethnic group in
the USA has suffered
greater and more varied distortions
its cultural identity than
Veranstaltung
fällt ofaus.
American Indians.” This class aims at raising an awareness of the cultural identities
of Native Americans and of the meaning of growing up Native American in the United
States. It looks at how ‘race’ alters the stories of adolescence told in fiction and what
the possibilities and roles ascribed to Native American youths today are. The seminar
will concentrate on more recently published fiction and on fiction written for young
adult readers. Next to Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time
Indian (2007) and Flight (2007), novels by Joseph Bruchac, Richard van Camp, Louis
Erdrich, Cynthia Leitich Smith, and Drew Hayden Taylor will be discussed.
Texts: Sherman Alexie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Flight, two more novels, Reader.
Assessment/requirements: Übung: active participation, written assignments, oral
presentation; Seminar: the above, plus 10-page paper.
050 727
Müller, M.
Rural Landscapes vs. Urban Spaces in U.S. Culture, 5 CP
2 st. do 12-14
GABF 04/253 Nord
Proceeding from Leo Marx’s seminal The Machine in the Garden: Technology and
the Pastoral Ideal in America, we will explore the tension between “the great
outdoors” and city life in American culture since the nineteenth century. We will study
a number of historical texts along with theoretical texts on American nature writing
and urban planning and will also read a number of short stories and longer works of
fiction addressing these subjects. Please read Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Last American
Man and Teju Cole’s Open City before the beginning of class. Additional texts will be
uploaded on moodle.
Assessment/requirements: active participation, presentation, mid-term exam, term
paper.
Übung
050 652
Freitag
Introduction to Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory and Practice, 4 CP
2 st. di 16-18
GABF 04/614 Süd
What is literature? How can it be read? Are there ˈobviousˈ ways of reading? These
questions will be discussed in the seminar. It is designed to introduce students to
different theories of literary analysis including New Criticism, Structuralism, Readerfällt
aus.
Response Theory, Veranstaltung
Deconstruction, Postcolonial
Criticism,
or New Historicism.
Alongside Catherine Belsey's Critical Practice key texts by de Saussure, Fish,
Derrida, Lacan, and others will be read and discussed. The application of different
theoretical approaches to the analysis of a literary text will be shown using Nathaniel
Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, which has to be read for this purpose.
Texts:
- Catherine Belsey. Critical Practice. 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2002) – you will
need this very edition!
- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (you may use any available edition – a
good choice for the seminar would be the edition of Case Studies in Contemporary
Criticism by Ross C. Murfin; the 1st edition is even better than the 2nd.)
- Reader
Assessment/requirements: active participation, reading, written assignments, final
written test.
FREMDSPRACHENAUSBILDUNG
Übungen
050 754
Müller, T.
Grammar MM, 2/4 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. do 12-14
GABF 04/252 Nord
This course will give you the opportunity to revise some problem areas of English
grammar. It will also address the difficult issues of prescriptive rule vs. actual usage
and of regional variation.
Assessment/requirements: homework, final test.
050 754
Osterried
Grammar MM, 2/4 CP
Gruppe B: Blockveranstaltung:
Saturdays, 14/11/15; 28/11/15; 12/12/15
9/1/16; 16/1/16; 23/1/16; 29/1/16
Time: 10:15 – 13:45
Raum: s. Aushang
This course will give advanced students the opportunity to repeat and amplify their
knowledge of English grammar. In addition to practical training and usage we shall
also discuss quite a number of further questions:
e.g. the cognitive aspect of syntax (How does grammar influence our way of
thinking? How does our mind influence grammar), the question of how to teach
grammar, and, last but not least, how important grammar is for the understanding of
texts (text linguistics).
The course will conclude with a final written test on 29 January 2016, i.e. during the
last session.
050 755
Poziemski
Translation MM (Schwerpunkt: Fachsprachen), 2/4 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. mi 16-18
GABF 04/614 Süd
This class will focus on a variety of texts from business & commerce. To this end, an
interest in English for Specific Purposes and a general grasp of business issues is
desirable.
Texts will be distributed via Moodle throughout the semester. Grading will be based
on a final translation assignment.
050 755
Smith
Translation MM, 2/4 CP
Gruppe B: 2 st. fr 12-14
GB 6/137 Nord
The course will look at a wide variety of complex ESP texts and the intricate
challenges they present to translators.
Assessment/requirements: uploading of translation attempts and translations edited
in class and written end-of-term test.
050 756
Thiele
Communication MM (Schwerpunkt: Classroom Communication), 2/4 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. do 12-14
GABF 04/413 Süd
050 756
Zucker
Communication MM, 2/4 CP
Gruppe B: 2 st. mo 16-18
Gruppe C: 2 st. do 14-16
GB 6/137 Nord
GB 02/160
This class builds on the BA-level courses Academic Skills and Communication AM.
We will focus on oral presentation skills, specifically in the format of the academic talk
(not to be confused with the classic 'Referat'). As a particular convention of
presenting the results of one's original research, this is the main form of
communication found at academic conferences.
Whether you will actually pursue a career in the academy or teach students in a
classroom environment, public speaking skills are essential in many professions
nowadays. The principles we discuss and apply in this very interactive class
(regarding structure, language and, of course, keeping it concise) will thus serve you
well in your professional future.
To attain credit, you will write and present a 15-minute academic talk as well as
provide written and verbal feedback to your co-students' presentations. Active
participation is thus of central importance for the final grade. Be advised that you will
have to talk a lot in this class and be open to criticism, both the dispensing and the
receiving thereof. If you like to keep quiet, this class is not for you.
FORSCHUNGSMODUL LINGUISTIK
050 758
Meierkord
Forschungsseminar: Post-Variety Models of English, 5 CP
2 st. mi 16-18 (14-tägig)
GB 6/137 Nord
This seminar is intended for advanced students, particularly those writing (or
intending to write) their M.A./M.Ed. thesis or doctoral thesis. The focus of the seminar
will be on recent developments in English linguistics theory, which advocate nonterritorial models of English that go beyond discussing varieties.
Students not writing a thesis are expected to plan and work towards an empirical
research project of their own choice during this course. They also need to present
their results orally and in a written paper. The course therefore requires advanced
background knowledge in English linguistics, and participation will normally only be
possible for students who have already successfully completed a term paper in one
of the regular M.A./M.Ed. linguistics seminars. Enrolment is via the lecturer, in the
office hours.
Assessment/requirements: Annotated bibliography of 20 titles on your chosen topic;
and an empirical term paper.
FORSCHUNGSMODUL ENGLISCHE LITERATUR
050 760
Houwen
Forschungsseminar: The Calendar of Shepherds: Text and Context, 5 CP
2 st. do 14-16
GB 5/37 Nord
In 1503 the Parisian printer Antoine Vérard published a work in the Scots dialect of
English entitled The Kalendayr of Shyppars. It was the first of several English
translations of the French Le compost et kalendrier des bergiers first published in
Paris in 1493. These “Shepherds’ calendars” are essentially almanacs that contain a
wealth of practical information about diet and health, planting seasons, medicinal
plants and the like, but they also contain moral and religious instruction in both prose
and verse. The Renaissance poet Edmund Spenser (of Faery Queene fame) later
borrowed this title for his own pastorals. The early English prints with which we will be
concerned will be tackled from a number of different angles, depending on your own
interests. I envisage as many different approaches as there are participants in the
course. Some of the themes that come to mind are: a study of the woodcuts in the
incunable editions; a (critical) edition of a section of the work; a study of its sources; a
critical comparison of the different translations; the cultural background; the political
and religious impact, a study of the language (dialect variations, Anglicisation) etc.
After a week or two of introductory reading and discussion you choose a theme that
you will pursue for the rest of the term and on which you will teach a class, which
means you must introduce your own topic first and then engage the other students in
one or more aspects of your own research.
Stamina and a willingness to tackle something new (reading early printed books). It
goes without saying that active participation is a prerequisite for the successful
completion of the research seminar.
Primary material will be made available via Blackboard. You will be responsible for
collecting the secondary material required for your own research.
Assessment/requirements: the course is rounded off with a research essay of
between 15 and 20 pages.
FORSCHUNGSMODUL AMERIKANISTIK
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Grünzweig
Forschungsseminar im Promotionsstudiengang American Studies:
Democratic Superheroes? Emerson’s Representative Men, 5 CP
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2 st. mo 10.15-11.45
Raum: TU Dortmund, Emil-Figge-Straße 50, Campus Nord Raum 0.0406
What is the status and function of “Genius” in a democratic and egalitarian society
like that of the United States? This is the fundamental question of Ralph Waldo
Emerson’s Representative Men (1850). This seminar will investigate Emerson’s
appreciation of the six personalities treated in this book: Plato, Emanuel
Swedenborg, Michel de Montaigne, William Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe. In a second step, Emerson’s representation of these men will
be compared to their significance and appreciation in the 21st century.
Texts: t.b.a. at the beginning of the class
Die Einschreibung erfolgt nicht über VSPL, bei Interesse melden Sie sich bitte bei
Frau Prof. Dr. K. Freitag.
EXAMENSMODUL
050 761
Freitag
Examenskolloquium, 5 CP
2 st. mo 16-18
GB 5/37 Nord
Im ersten Teil des Kolloquiums wird anhand von literatur- und kulturtheoretischen
sowie literaturhistorischen Texten, die von Woche zu Woche zu lesen sind, auf die
mündliche und ggf. die schriftliche Prüfung vorbereitet - es werden
Prüfungssituationen besprochen und ggf. die schriftliche Prüfung simuliert. Es
werden Fragestellungen für die MEd- oder Masterarbeit besprochen.
In individuellen Gesprächen werden Teilgebiete für die mündliche und ggf. die
schriftliche Prüfung sowie Themen für die Masterarbeit abgesprochen.
Im zweiten Teil des Kolloquiums stellt jeder Teilnehmer ein Teilgebiet, das er bis
dahin gründlich vorbereitet hat, vor. An dieser Stelle erfolgt die Simulation mündlicher
Prüfungsgespräche.
Texts: will be provided on Blackboard.
Assessment/requirements: active participation, oral presentation on one topic for the
examination (mock exam), regular response papers.