ENGLISCHES SEMINAR RUHR-UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM SEMINARINTERNES VORLESUNGSVERZEICHNIS B.A.-STUDIENGANG FÜR DAS WINTERSEMESTER 2016/17 INHALTSVERZEICHNIS Seite Wichtige Infos für Erstsemesterstudierende 01 Anmeldung zu den Lehrveranstaltungen per VSPL 02 Studienberatung und Service 03 B.A.-Prüfungsberechtigte im Wintersemester 2015/16 04 Feriensprechstunden der Dozenten/Dozentinnen 05 Sprechstunden im Wintersemester 2015/16 08 Öffnungszeiten der Sekretariate des Englischen Seminars 10 Bibliothek 11 B.A.-STUDIUM BASISPHASE Basismodul Sprach- und Textproduktion 12 Basismodul Sprachwissenschaft 15 Basismodul Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft 17 AUFBAUMODULPHASE Medieval English Literature 19 Linguistik 20 Englische Literatur bis 1700 26 Englische Literatur von 1700 bis zur Gegenwart 31 Amerikanische Literatur 35 Cultural Studies (GB) 39 Cultural Studies (USA) 46 Fachsprachen 52 Fremdsprachenausbildung 58 Raumpläne 64 Wichtige Infos für Erstsemesterstudierende Die Einführungsveranstaltung für neu immatrikulierte Studierende ist vorgesehen für Donnerstag, d. 20. Oktober 2016, von 12.00 c.t. bis 14.00 Uhr im Hörsaal HGB 10 Bitte achten Sie auf die Aushänge im Englischen Seminar. Alle Lehrveranstaltungen des Englischen Seminars beginnen in der 2. Semesterwoche, d.h. in der Woche ab dem 24. Oktober 2016. Bitte betrachten Sie alle anders lautenden Ankündigungen als überholt. Die erste Semesterwoche ist für die Durchführung und Korrektur von Nachprüfungen sowie für die Studienberatung vorgesehen. In der Zeit vom 17. bis 21. Oktober 2016 finden täglich von 10.00 bis 12.00 Uhr spezielle Studienberatungen für Erstsemesterstudierende statt (bitte auf separate Aushängen achten). In der Woche vom 17. bis 21. Oktober 2016 von 9:00 bis 13:00 Uhr findet außerdem jeden Vormittag ein Ersti-Frühstück im Fachschaftsrat statt (GB 6/135), bei dem erste Informationen über das Anglistik/Amerikanistik-Studium eingeholt werden können. In Ihrem ersten Fachsemester Anglistik/Amerikanistik sollten Sie unbedingt die folgenden Veranstaltungen der Basismodule belegen: Introduction to Literary Studies English Sounds and Sound Systems Grammar BM Academic Skills (Die verbleibenden Basismodulveranstaltungen Introduction to Cultural Studies und Introduction to English Linguistics sind von Ihnen im 2. Fachsemester, d.h. im Sommersemester 2017, zu belegen.) 1 Anmeldung zu den Lehrveranstaltungen per VSPL Wie in den letzten Semestern wird auch für das Wintersemester 2016/17 für alle Lehrveranstaltungen ein elektronisches Anmeldeverfahren unizentral über VSPLCampus durchgeführt. Mit dem Rechenzentrum ist vereinbart, dass wir ein Verteilverfahren nutzen. Das bedeutet, dass die Anmeldung gewissermaßen in 2 Etappen erfolgt: zunächst also die Anmeldung für die gewünschte Veranstaltung, 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 die Veranstaltungen der Aufbaumodule. 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 die Druckaufträge entsprechend vergeben). Außerdem können wir mit den Teilnehmerdaten Teilnehmerlisten erstellen und insbesondere zum Semesterende die Notenverwaltung leichter handhaben. Die Anmeldungen für die Veranstaltungen der Basismodule können in der Zeit vom 19. September 2016, 10.00 Uhr, bis 20. Oktober 2016, 14.00 Uhr vorgenommen werden. Die Anmeldungen für die Veranstaltungen der Aufbau- und Mastermodule können in der Zeit vom 19. September 2016, 10.00 Uhr, bis 14. Oktober 2016, 14.00 Uhr vorgenommen werden. Wegen des Verteilverfahrens kommt es nicht darauf an, gleich am Starttag alle Anmeldungen durchzuführen. Nach Abschluss der Anmeldungen wird das Verteilverfahren generiert, das dann zu den endgültigen 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 sich bitte an die Dozenten oder Dozentinnen der betroffenen Lehrveranstaltung. 2 Studienberatung und Service Studienfachberater & Servicezimmer Mit Beginn des Sommersemesters 2008 wurde das Beratungsangebot am Englischen Seminar erweitert. Die Studienfachberaterin Dr. Monika Müller wird an zwei Tagen in der Woche Sprechstunden anbieten, in denen offene Fragen geklärt, Informationen eingeholt oder Probleme besprochen werden können. Auch das Servicezimmer hat an mindestens zwei Tagen der Woche geöffnet und leistet Hilfestellung bei Fragen zum Studienverlauf und zur Notenabbildung in VSPL. Außerdem werden dort Leistungs- und Bafög-Bescheinigungen ausgestellt. Sprechzeiten der Studienfachberaterin PD Dr. Monika Müller im Wintersemester 2016/17: dienstags 9.30-12.30 Uhr GB 5/141 mittwochs 9.30-12.30 Uhr GB 5/141 und nach Vereinbarung Öffnungszeiten des Servicezimmers im WS 2016/17: An mindestens zwei Tagen in der Woche. Die genauen Sprechzeiten werden zu gegebener Zeit an der Dienstzimmertür GB 6/134 bekannt gegeben. Obligatorische Studienberatung Allen Studierenden wird ein Mentor / eine Mentorin zugeteilt, der/die als Ansprechpartner/in während der gesamten Dauer des Studiums für die Beratung in Studienbelangen zur Verfügung steht. Damit haben alle Studierenden eine feste Bezugsperson unter den Lehrenden. Hierzu gibt es feste Beratungstermine im 2. Studiensemester (vor dem Übergang von den Basis- zu den Aufbaumodulen) und im 4. Studiensemester (vor Beginn der Prüfungsphase) jeweils in der ersten Semesterwoche. Die genauen Termine werden auf geeignetem Wege bekannt gegeben. Die Teilnahme an diesen Beratungen ist Pflicht. Auslandsberatung Bei Problemen mit der Organisation des obligatorischen Auslandsaufenthaltes hilft die an das Servicezimmer angegliederte Auslandsberatung. Hier werden Tipps gegeben, welche verschiedenen Möglichkeiten der Organisation sich anbieten und wie bzw. wann die Planung erfolgen sollte. Bei Bedarf gibt es auch Hilfestellung bei der Recherche nach möglichen Plätzen sowie Unterstützung beim Bewerbungsprozess. 3 Öffnungszeiten der Auslandsberatung im Wintersemester 2016/17: An mindestens zwei Tagen in der Woche. Die genauen Sprechzeiten werden zu gegebener Zeit an der Dienstzimmertür GB 6/134 bekannt gegeben. Berater: Herr Klasen, GB 6/134, E-Mail: [email protected] B.A.-Prüfungsberechtigte im Wintersemester 2016/17 Prüfungsberechtigt sind zurzeit: Dr. habil. Sebastian Berg Prof. Dr. Kornelia Freitag Dr. Maik Goth Prof. Dr. Luuk Houwen Dr. Evangelia Kindinger PD Dr. Uwe Klawitter Prof. Dr. Christiane Dr. Verena Minow PD Dr. Monika Müller Dr. Torsten Müller Prof. Dr. Burkhard Niederhoff Dr. Claudia Ottlinger Prof. Dr. Anette Pankratz John Poziemski, M.A. Prof. Dr. Markus Ritter Dr. Robert Smith Jun.-Prof. Dr. Heike Steinhoff Dr. Susanne Strubel-Burgdorf Dr. Angelika Thiele Dr. Simon Thomson Dr. Heinrich Versteegen Dr. Claus-Ulrich Viol Jun.-Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter Prof. Dr. Roland Weidle Meierkord Die Prüfungsprotokolle werden von BeisitzerInnen geführt, die von den jeweiligen PrüferInnen bestellt werden. 4 ENGLISCHES SEMINAR DER RUHR-UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM FERIENSPRECHSTUNDEN der Dozenten/Dozentinnen des Englischen Seminars in der Zeit vom 25. Juli bis 21. Oktober 2016 Name Tag Uhrzeit Raum Berg Böhm Di 27.7./3.8./17.8./31.8./ 7.9./28.9./5.10. Sprechstundentermine und Anmeldung unter simondickel.blogs.rub.de n.V. 24.8. 2.9. 21.9. 4.10. jeweils nach vorheriger Terminabsprache mit Frau Sicking nach Vereinbarung Mi (außer in der Zeit vom 27.7.-19.8.2016) 24.8./7.9. nach Rücksprache mit Frau Dornieden, FNO 02/83, [email protected] 2.8./16.8./30.8./27.9. nach vorh. Tel. V. Mo (bitte die Aushänge an meiner Bürotür beachten; in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit ist keine Voranmeldung durch Eintrag in Liste erforderlich) Di (für Ausnahmen s. Aushang an der Bürotür) Mittwoch 27.7./7.9./21.9. Montag 17.10. Bitte melden Sie sich bei [email protected] an. Di 11:00-12:00 11.00-12.00 GB 5/139 GB 5/135 Dickel Fonkeu Freitag Goth Hermann Houwen Kindinger Klähn Klawitter Linne Meierkord Minow 5 GB 6/143 12.00-14.00 8.00-9.00 8.00-10.00 8.00-9.00 GB 6/129 GB 5/132 UV 3/376 GB 5/132 UV 3/376 10.00-12.00 GB 5/29 FNO 01/140 12.00-14.00 FNO 02/85 12.00-13.00 11.30-12.30 GB 5/134 GB 5/138 GB 5/136 10.00-11.00 GB 5/29 11.00-13.00 10.00-11.00 GB 6/31 14.00-15.00 GB 5/136 Mraz Müller, M. Müller, T. Niederhoff Osterried Ottlinger Pankratz Pfeiler Poziemski Ritter Schielke Smith Ssempuuma Steinhoff Strubel-Burgdorf Thiele 25.7./1.8./8.8./29.8./5.9./ 19.9./26.9./3.10./10.10. (bitte per E-Mail anmelden unter [email protected]) Di/Do (außer Urlaubszeit; siehe und Aushang an der 26.7./9.8./30.8./6.9./27.9./ 11.10. 9.8./23.8./6.9./20.9./4.10. Do (außer Urlaubszeit, Aushang an meiner Tür) Di (außer Urlaubszeit; siehe Aushang an meiner Bürotür) 27.7./10.8./31.8./14.9./ 28.9. 12.10. Bitte melden Sie sich bei [email protected] an. 4.8./11.8./24.8./8.9./ 15.9./6.10./20.10. 6.9./13.9./20.9./4.10. 25.8. 6.9. 28.9. und nach Vereinbarung. Bitte melden Sie sich bei [email protected] an 9.8. 16.8. 6.9. 14.9. Bitte melden Sie sich bei [email protected] an. 12.00-13.00 GB 6/38 9:30-12:30 Homepage des ES Bürotür) 11:00-13:00 GB 5/141 11.00-13.00 13:00-14:00 GB 5/131 GB 6/136 10.00-11.00 GB 5/137 11:00-13:00 10.00-12.00 11.00-13.00 GB 5/34 10.00-12.00 GB 6/139 12:00-13:00 12:00-14:00 11:00-13:00 11:00-13:00 GB 5/31 GB 5/32 11:00-12:00 11:00-12:00 10:00-11:00 11:00-12:00 GB 5/138 n.V. Mo (nach vorh. Anmeldung per E-Mail Anmeldung unter http:// doodle.com/ 8z3s439fvxwbvtxh 6 10.00-11.00 GB 5/135 GB 6/139 GB 6/29 GB 5/134 FNO 01/131 GB 5/138 Thomson Versteegen Viol Wächter Walter Weidle Zucker Mi (außer 14.8. und 21.8.) 11.00-12.00 FNO 02/73 Mi (außer Urlaubszeit) 11.00-13.00 GB 5/31 GB 6/140 24.8./7.9./14.9./28.9./ 5.10. (Anmeldung unter [email protected]) Do 25.8./8.9./19.9./6.10. Bitte melden Sie sich zwecks Terminvereinbarung bei Frau Pieper, Büro N-Süd 22. Email: [email protected], Tel. 0234/32-28943 Di 11.00-12.00 GB 6/136 12.00-13.00 14.00-16.00 GB 5/136 N-Süd 03 11:00-12:00 GB 5/137 7 ENGLISCHES SEMINAR DER RUHR-UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM SPRECHSTUNDEN der Dozenten/Dozentinnen des Englischen Seminars im Wintersemester 2016/17 Name Tag Banhold contact via E-Mail ([email protected]) Berg Böhm Briest Fonkeu Freitag Hermann Houwen Kindinger Klawitter Linne Meierkord Mertes Minow Mraz Müller, M. Müller, T. Niederhoff Ottlinger Pankratz Pfeiler Poziemski Ritter Mo (nach vorheriger Terminvereinbarung bei Frau Sicking: [email protected]) Mi Bitte melden Sie sich bei [email protected] an Uhrzeit Raum 12.00-13.30 GB 5/139 GB 5/135 GB 6/142 GB 6/129 GB 5/133 14.00-15.00 Do (bitte in die Lisite an der Bürotür eintragen) Do 13.00-14.00 Di (bitte per E-Mail anmelden unter [email protected]) Di und Mi Di Do Di oder n.V. Di Mi Bitte melden Sie sich bei [email protected] an Do Di Mi Bitte melden Sie sich bei [email protected] an 10.00-11.00 Smith Ssempuuma 9.00-10.00 FNO 01/140 FNO 02/85 GB 5/134 GB 5/136 GB 5/29 GB 6/31 GB 6/38 GB 5/136 GB 6/144 9.30-12.30 16.00-17.00 14.00-15.00 14.30-16.00 GB 5/141 GB 5/135 10.00-11.00 11:00-13:00 GB 5/137 GB 5/34 12.30-13.30 12.00-13.00 11:00-13:00 GB 6/139 GB 5/31 GB 5/32 GB 5/131 GB 6/139 GB 6/29 8 Steinhoff StrubelBurgdorf Thiele Thomson Versteegen Viol Wächter Walter, M. Weidle Mi (mit vorheriger E-MailAbsprache) Anmeldung unter https://uaruhr.doodle.com/8z3s 439fvxwbvtxh 9.00-10.00 GB 5/138 Mi 11.00-13.00 Do nach Rücksprache mit Frau Pieper, N-Süd, Büro 22 [email protected] 12.00-13.00 Wenzel Zucker GB 5/134 FNO 01//131 FNO 02/73 GB 5/31 GB 6/140 GB 6/136 GB 5/139 N-Süd, Büro 03 GB 6/136 GB 5/137 9 ÖFFNUNGSZEITEN DER SEKRETARIATE DES ENGLISCHEN SEMINARS ______________________________________________________________ Sekretariat Öffnungszeit Geschäftszimmer des Englischen Seminars Frau Michaela Prskawetz GB 6/133 montags-freitags 08:30-12:30 Uhr sowie nach Vereinbarung Lehrstuhl Anglistik I – Prof. Dr. Roland Weidle Frau Annette Pieper GB 6/142 montags-donnerstags 8:00-12:30 Uhr Lehrstuhl Anglistik II – Prof. Dr. Christiane Meierkord Frau Britta Lederbogen GB 6/32 montags 9:00-14:00 Uhr dienstags 8:00-13:00 Uhr mittwochs 9:00-14:00 Uhr donnerstags 8:00-13:00 Uhr Lehrstuhl Anglistik III – Prof. Dr. Burkhard Niederhoff Frau Hildegard Sicking GB 5/129 montags-mittwochs 8:30-12:30 Uhr 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 10:00-16:30 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 10 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. 11 Basismodul «Sprach- und Textproduktion» Modulnr. Workload/ Credits Semester: Häufigkeit des Angebots: Dauer: 120 Std./ 4 CP 1. jedes Semester ein Semester Lehrveranstaltungsart: Kontaktzeit: Selbststudium: Geplante Gruppengröße: Übung + Übung 2 SWS + 2 SWS ca. 64 Std. je Übung ca. 30 Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Englisch-Schulkenntnisse (Abitur oder Äquivalent). Ferner ist die regelmäßige und aktive Teilnahme an der Übung Grammar BM Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme an der der Veranstaltung zugehörigen Zentralklausur. Grammar BM (2 CP): Lernergebnisse: Die Studierenden konsolidieren ihre englische Sprachkompetenz auf dem Niveau B2 und erweitern die vorhandene sprachliche Kompetenz durch die Vertiefung von Kenntnissen in wichtigen Problemgebieten der englischen Grammatik und Erlangung von Kenntnissen über strukturelle Unterschiede zwischen der deutschen und englischen Sprache (in Richtung Niveau B2/C1). Ziel ist die Fähigkeit zum grammatikalisch angemessenen Ausdruck sowie die Vorbereitung erster sprachanalytischer Kompetenzen, welche als Grundlage für den Erfolg des gesamten weiteren Studiums von zentraler Bedeutung sind. Inhalte: Vermittelt werden kognitive Kenntnisse und analytische Fähigkeiten in Bezug auf grammatische Strukturen der englischen Sprache, die mithilfe von kontextualisierten Aufgaben eingeübt werden. Neben der grammatikalischen Regelvermittlung steht die Einführung in die wissenschaftliche Reflexion von Grammatikalität sowie – im Sinne einer kontrastiven Sprachvermittlung – die Einführung in die Übersetzung ins Englische. Schwerpunkte liegen in den Bereichen non-finites, tense and aspect, modals, relative clauses und word order. Academic Skills (2 CP): Lernergebnisse: Befähigung der Studierenden zur kompetenten Teilnahme an der fachwissenschaftlichen Kommunikation sowie Schaffung logischer, methodischer und formaler Grundlagen für die Produktion eigenständiger Forschungsleistungen in den unterschiedlichen fachwissenschaftlichen Bereichen des Anglistikstudiums. 12 Inhalte: Vermittlung grundlegender Zielvorstellungen, Ansätze und Techniken des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens innerhalb der anglistischen Philologie; Hilfsmittelkunde, Vermittlung von Recherchekompetenz, Kompetenz im Bereich der wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation sowie kompositorischer Kompetenzen insbesondere bezüglich der formalen, stilistischen, strukturellen und inhaltlichen Gestaltung von schriftlichen Forschungsarbeiten. Lehrformen: Seminarvortrag, -arbeit und -diskussion; Gruppenarbeit; zusätzlich E-Learning-Elemente. Prüfungsformen: Continuous Assessment in den Veranstaltungen; schriftliche Abschlussklausur im Bereich Grammar BM. Voraussetzungen für die Vergabe von Kreditpunkten: Regelmäßige Teilnahme; Erbringung der obligatorischen Arbeitsaufgaben; zentrale Abschlussklausur im Bereich Grammar BM. Das Modul ist erst dann bestanden, wenn alle 3 Komponenten, d.h. die zwei Lehrveranstaltungen und die zentrale Abschlussklausur, bestanden sind. Verwendung des Moduls: Der erfolgreiche Abschluss des Basismoduls Sprach- und Textproduktion ist Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme an allen Aufbaumodulen. Stellenwert der Note für die Endnote: Die Benotungen der Studienleistungen im Basismodul gehen nicht in die Endnote ein. Modulbeauftragter: Dr. Claudia Ottlinger, Dr. Claus-Ulrich Viol hauptamtlich Lehrende: Lehrende des Englischen Seminars mit Lehrschwerpunkt in der Fremdsprachenausbildung. Termine im Wintersemester 2016/17: 050600 Grammar BM, 2 CP Gruppe A: 2 st. mo 14-16, GABF 04/613 Süd Klawitter Gruppe B: 2 st. mo 10-12, GABF 04/613 Süd Minow Gruppe C: 2 st. di 10-12, GABF 04/413 Süd Minow Gruppe D: 2 st. fr 12-14, GABF 04/613 Süd Ottlinger Gruppe E: 2 st. do 14-16, GBCF 05/703 Viol Gruppe F: 2 st. mi 14-16, GABF 04/613 Süd Zucker Gruppe G: 2 st. do 10-12, GABF 04/613 Süd Zucker 13 050601 Academic Skills, 2 CP Gruppe A: 2 st. mi 12-14, GABF 04/613 Süd Berg Gruppe B: 2 st. fr 12-14, GABF 04/413 Süd Berg Gruppe C: 2 st. mo 10-12, GABF 04/413 Süd Klawitter Gruppe D: 2 st. mo 14-16, GABF 04/413 Süd Strubel-Burgdorf Gruppe E: 2 st. mi 10-12, GABF 04/613 Süd Versteegen Gruppe F: 2 st. di 10-12, NA 2/99 Osterried 14 Basismodul «Sprachwissenschaft» Modulnr. Lehrveranstaltungsart: Workload/ Credits Semester: Häufigkeit des Angebots: Dauer: 150 Std./ 5 CP 1.-2. jedes Semester zwei Semester Kontaktzeit: Selbststudium: Geplante Gruppengröße: ca. 94 Std. je Übung ca. 30 Übung + Übung 2 SWS + 2 SWS Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Englisch-Schulkenntnisse (Abitur oder Äquivalent). Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme an der Übung Introduction to English Linguistics ist die vorherige erfolgreiche Teilnahme an English Sounds and Sound Systems. English Sounds and Sound Systems (2 CP): Lernergebnisse: Studierende werden befähigt, die grundsätzlichen artikulatorischen Prozesse bei der Produktion von Sprachlauten, mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf der englischen Received Pronunciation (RP), nachzuvollziehen und adäquat, auch mit Hilfe phonemischer Umschrift, beschreiben zu können. Zudem werden den Teilnehmern Grundkenntnisse der Englischen Sprachgeschichte vermittelt, die es den Lernern ermöglicht, allgemeine Sprachwandelprozesse nachzuvollziehen. Inhalte: Die Studierenden werden in die Lautsysteme des Englischen und ihre Entwicklung eingeführt. Sie lernen, einzelne Laute aber auch Wortbetonung und Satzintonation sowie Aspekte des Redezusammenhangs (connected speech) wahrzunehmen und mit linguistischer Terminologie zu beschreiben. Dabei liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der Beschreibung der britischen Standardvarietät RP. Gleichzeitig wird die historische Entwicklung hin zum RP, aber auch zum General American betrachtet. Theoretische Anteile werden durch praktische Übungen ergänzt, in denen Studierende lernen, wie gesprochene Sprache mittels phonemischer Transkription beschrieben werden kann. Introduction to English Linguistics (3 CP): Lernergebnisse: Studierende erwerben die Fähigkeit, die Funktion von Sprache und die fundamentalen Aspekte menschlicher Sprache, insbesondere der englischen, auf Wort- und Satzebene zu erkennen und zu beschreiben. Zudem wird ihnen vermittelt, wie Bedeutung in der Sprachwissenschaft beschrieben wird, und warum sie zwischen kontextunabhäniger und kontextabhängiger Bedeutung unterscheidet. Inhalte: Die Studierenden werden in die Grundlagen der anglistischen Sprachwissenschaft eingeführt und mit den Grundbegriffen und Methoden der modernen Linguistik vertraut gemacht, insbesondere 15 in den Bereichen Morphologie, Syntax, Semantik und Pragmatik. Des Weiteren erwerben die Studierenden Kenntnisse zu Fragen der Funktion von Sprache und der Geschichte der englischen Sprache und zu Grundlagen der Zeichen- und Kommunikationstheorie. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt auf der praktischen Anwendung der linguistischen Terminologie und Methoden an authentischen Sprachbeispielen des Englischen. Lehrformen: Seminarvortrag, -arbeit und -diskussion; Gruppenarbeit; zusätzlich E-Learning-Elemente. Prüfungsformen: Studienbegleitende Aufgaben und Abschlussklausuren. Voraussetzungen für die Vergabe von Kreditpunkten: Regelmäßige Teilnahme und Erbringung der obligatorischen Arbeitsaufgaben; kursinterne Klausur in English Sounds and Sound Systems; zentralisierte Abschlussklausur in Introduction to English Linguistics. Verwendung des Moduls: Der erfolgreiche Abschluss des Basismoduls Sprachwissenschaft ist Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme am Aufbaumodul Linguistik. Stellenwert der Note für die Endnote: Die Benotungen der Studienleistungen im Basismodul gehen nicht in die Endnote ein. Modulbeauftragter: Dr. Torsten Müller, Dr. Claus-Ulrich Viol hauptamtlich Lehrende: Lehrende des Englischen Seminars mit Lehrschwerpunkt in der Linguistik. Termine im Wintersemester 2016/17: 050 602 English Sounds and Sound Systems, 2 CP Gruppe A: 2 st. di 8.30-10, GABF 04/614 Süd Gruppe B: 2 st. do 10-12, GB 03/42 Gruppe C: 2 st. mo 12-14, GABF 04/614 Süd Gruppe D: 2 st. mi 12-14, GABF 04/614 Süd Gruppe E: 2 st. mo 10-12, GABF 04/253 Nord Gruppe F: 2 st. di 10-12, NB 02/99 Gruppe G: 2 st. di 12-14, HMA 40 050 603 Introduction to English Linguistics, 3 CP Gruppe A: 2 st. mo 14-16, GBCF 05/703 Gruppe B: 2 st. mi 14-16, GABF 04/614 Süd 16 Minow Minow Müller, T. Müller, T. Strubel-Burgdorf Schielke Schielke Minow Müller, T. Basismodul «Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft» Modulnr. Workload/ Credits Semester: Häufigkeit des Angebots: Dauer: 180 Std./ 6 CP 1.-2. jedes Semester zwei Semester Lehrveranstaltungsart: Kontaktzeit: Selbststudium: Geplante Gruppengröße: Übung + Übung 2 SWS + 2 SWS ca. 124 Std. je Übung ca. 30 Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Englisch-Schulkenntnisse (Abitur oder Äquivalent). Introduction to Literary Studies (3 CP): Lernergebnisse: Die Studierenden werden befähigt, Gegenstände der Literaturwissenschaft zu erkennen, literaturwissenschaftlich relevante Fragen zu diesen Gegenständen stellen zu können sowie die Fragen mit geläufigen literaturwissenschaftlichen Methoden beantworten bzw. bearbeiten zu können. Inhalte: Behandlung von Aspekten wie Raum/Zeit, Handlung, Figur und Symbolik und ihre Funktionen in fiktionalen Texten; rhetorische und poetische Mittel und ihre Funktionen in literarischen Texten; die wichtigsten literarischen Vermittlungsformen und -instanzen; Gattungstypologien, Periodisierung/Kontextualisierung; Kanonbildung. Introduction to Cultural Studies (3 CP): Lernergebnisse: Die Studierenden erlernen die Grundlagen über Gegenstände, Modelle und Methoden der Kulturwissenschaft und üben die Techniken kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschens – von der produktiven kulturwissenschaftlichen Frage, bis zu Argumentationsstruktur und Analyse. Im Vordergrund steht die Förderung des eigenständigen, interessegeleiteten Umgangs mit kulturellen Phänomenen (in ihrer ganzen Breite von literarischen Texten bis zu Objekten des Alltags) sowie das kritische Hinterfragen gängiger nationaler Stereotypen und Alltagsmythen über kulturelle Differenz. Inhalte: Thematisierung des Kulturbegriffs; Einführung in die grundlegenden Methoden, Theorien und Arbeitsweisen der Cultural Studies; Behandlung von zentralen kulturwissenschaftlichen 17 Konzepten wie Klasse, Gender, Ethnizität und nationale Identität am Beispiel entweder der USamerikanischen oder britischen Kulturen. Lehrformen: Seminarvortrag, -arbeit und -diskussion; Gruppenarbeit; zusätzlich E-Learning-Elemente. Prüfungsformen: Kursinternes Assessment (Arbeitsaufgaben und/oder Test) in Introduction to Literary Studies; Continuous Assessment und Portfolio in Introduction to Cultural Studies. Voraussetzungen für die Vergabe von Kreditpunkten: Regelmäßige Teilnahme; Erbringung der obligatorischen Arbeitsaufgaben und/oder Test in Introduction to Literary Studies; Regelmäßige Teilnahme; Erbringung der obligatorischen Arbeitsaufgaben, Teilnahme an einem persönlichen Feedbackgespräch und Portfolio in Introduction to Cultural Studies. Verwendung des Moduls: Der erfolgreiche Abschluss der Veranstaltung Introduction to Literary Studies ist Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme an den Aufbaumodulen im Bereich Literatur. Der erfolgreiche Abschluss der Veranstaltung Introduction to Cultural Studies ist Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme an den Aufbaumodulen im Bereich Kulturwissenschaft. Stellenwert der Note für die Endnote: Die Benotungen der Studienleistungen im Basismodul gehen nicht in die Endnote ein. Modulbeauftragte: PD Dr. Uwe Klawitter, Dr. habil. Sebastian Berg, Dr. Claus-Ulrich Viol hauptamtlich Lehrende: Lehrende des Englischen Seminars mit Lehrschwerpunkten in der Literaturwissenschaft bzw. der Kulturwissenschaft. Termine im Wintersemester 2016/17: 050 604 Introduction to Literary Studies, 3 CP Gruppe A: 2 st. di 14-16, GB 03/46 Gruppe B: 2 st. di 16-18, GABF 04/413 Süd Gruppe C: 2 st. do 16-18, GABF 04/613 Süd Gruppe D: 2 st. mo 10-12, GB 02/60 Gruppe E: 2 st. mo 8.30-10, GABF 04/413 Süd Gruppe F: 2 st. fr 8.30-10, GABF 04/413 Süd Gruppe G: 2 st. do 12-14, GB 03/46 Briest Klawitter Klawitter Müller, M. Niederhoff Ottlinger Versteegen 050 605 Introduction to Cultural Studies, 3 CP Gruppe A: 2 st. do 12-14, GABF 04/413 Süd (GB) Gruppe B: 2 st. mi 12-14, GB 03/49 (GB) Gruppe C: 2 st. fr 10-12, GABF 04/613 Süd (GB) Gruppe C: 2 st. di 10-12, GABF 04/252 Nord (US) Berg Böhm Wächter Pfeiler 18 AUFBAUMODULPHASE _______________________________ 050 606 Medieval English Literature, 3 CP Gruppe A: 2 st. mi 16-18 Gruppe B: 2 st. fr 10-12 HGB 40 HZO 100 Thomson Wenzel Each MEL group will have a different over-arching theme which may vary from semester to semester. Some of the themes covered so far are: “Woman Defamed, Woman Defended”, “Love from the Sacred to the Profane”, or “Of Men, Monsters and Marvels”. Students must choose a subtopic from within the theme and set up a research project resulting in an individual research report as well as a slide presentation based on this report at the end of the course. Several quizzes, a bibliography and a review are also part of the requirements. The lectures, seminars and virtual teaching sessions (which can be used to ‘compare notes’ with fellow students and/or consult on an individual or group basis with the lecturer) introduce both medieval literature as well as the more practical aspects of doing actual research: how to formulate an interesting research question, how to structure one’s research, where to look for secondary information, how to present one’s findings, in short the methodology behind (successful) research. The course is intended as a first and carefully guided introduction to research in the medieval field. It goes without saying that the methods and approaches discussed will also be of relevance to other areas of studies. Assessment/requirements: continuous assessment (quizzes, bibliography, review), research report and poster presentation (in the form of a slide presentation). 19 LINGUISTIK Vorlesung 050 610 Meierkord Variation in the History of the English Language, 2,5 CP 2 st. mo 12-14 HGB 10 Ever since its beginnings, the English language has been characterised by regional, social, and functional variation. Whilst this was already the case when English was confined to the British Isles, the global spread of English has resulted in a much higher variability. This series of lectures discusses the different forms of English, starting from Old English until today. We will explore the history of English and the dialects that existed in previous times, explain how standard varieties developed, describe the various forms of Englishes that exist today, and take a look at new forms of English that are emerging from language contact in multilingual communities. The theoretical parts will be supplemented by discussions of data excerpts. Despite the lecture character of this course, students will be expected to actively participate in the data analysis parts, which will take place during the last third of each lecture. Obligatory reading: Fennell, Barbara (2000). A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. Assessment/requirements: written end-of-term test. 20 Seminare 050 612 Müller, T. An Introduction to Early Modern English, 4 CP 2 st. di 12-14 GABF 04/413 Süd All of Shakespeare’s plays were written in a form of English which today is commonly referred to as Early Modern English. While it is much closer to present-day English than the Middle English of Chaucer, it still differs considerably in many linguistic aspects, e.g. phonology, morphology, word-formation and, of course, syntax. Early Modern English is usually taken to cover the 200 years from 1500 to 1700, during which a written standard begins to emerge and cultural influences, especially the Renaissance, have a strong impact on English vocabulary. In this class, we will look at various Early Modern English texts (not only Shakespeare’s), which we will read and analyse mainly from a linguistic point of view. Assessment/ requirements: active participation, homework, final exam. 050 613 Ssempuuma Lexical Variation in Varieties of English, 4 CP 2 st. mi 14-16 GB 5/37 Nord English as used world-wide does not only differ at the phonological and morphosyntactic levels but also at the lexical level. Through language contact, new words have entered the English lexicon and other English words gained new meanings. For instance, while in the Cameroonian context, the word stranger means a guest or visitor, in British and American context, it means an unknown person. In this course, we will look at how language contact has enriched the English language with words from different cultures and countries. In addition, using the ICE-corpora, we will investigate how various lexemes are used in the varieties of English. Assessments/requirements: Students are expected to participate actively in class discussions and group work. Students taking this course as a Seminar (for 4 CP) have to do a final written exam and those taking it as an exercise (for 3 CP) will do a short test at the end of the semester. 21 050 614 Strubel-Burgdorf Power and Politeness in the Workplace, 4 CP 2 st. di 10-12 GABF 04/614 Süd Is it ok to tell a joke at work – even when the boss is around? How do you tell your colleague that you need a favor? What might influence your choice of words? Communication needs to run smoothly and misunderstandings must be avoided in a productive work environment. Rules for using language are negotiated on a daily basis and depend on social factors such as relative power, how well the interactants know each other and the content of the conversation. In this course, we will have a look at recent research in this area and how corpus-based analyses can produce information about the way we talk at work. Assessments/requirements: Students are expected to participate actively in class discussions and group work. Students taking this course as a Seminar (for 4 CP) have to write an empirical term paper and those taking it as an exercise (for 3 CP) have to do an end-of-term test. 050 615 Strubel-Burgdorf Discourse Analysis, 4 CP 2 st. mi 10-12 GABF 04/614 Süd How can we tell a shopping list from a song? A blog entry from an academic text? Which conventions do we follow in which genre – and where and how may we decide to break these rules? In this course, we will investigate the major approaches and methodological tools used in discourse analysis. We will discuss key readings from leading scholars in this interdisciplinary field, work with recent research articles and analyze corpora and other data samples students may choose. Assessments / requirements: Students are expected to participate actively in class discussions and group work. Students taking this course as a Seminar (for 4 CP) have to write an empirical term paper and those taking it as an exercise (for 3 CP) have to do an end-of-term test. 22 050 616 Thiele Second Language Acquisition, 4 CP 2 st. mo 14-16 GABF 04/614 Süd There are a number of popular opinions on how second or foreign languages are learned and what is needed to become a successful speaker of another language. Starting from these opinions, we will look at the research findings of recent decades in the area of second language acquisition and review such popular views in the light of this research. Topics we will cover include the role of previously learned languages, non-linguistic factors such as motivation, personality and learning styles. We will also look at developmental stages in the language learning process and at suggested explanations of how they come about. Course book: VanPatten, B., Benati, A.G. (2015). Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition. Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury. Assessment/requirements: Übung: active participation, final test; Seminar: active participation, final exam/term paper. Übungen 050 620 Meierkord English Linguistics – Current Models and Methods, 3 CP 2 st. do 8.30-10 GABF 04/614 Süd Following its spread throughout the world, English is now typically used in interactions of speakers who have different first languages and who are multilingual. This course serves to introduce students to the various models that aim to capture this development and to the empirical methods (data collection, data representation, and data analysis) used to describe and research these modern uses of English. Students will be required to collect data and must be willing to analyze these regularly. They should also be willing to report on their own projects and to actively discuss each other’s work, in class or online. Assessment/requirements: students need to complete three written assignments (data analysis and annotation), which will be graded for their final grade. 23 050 621 Meierkord Sprachmiteinander um Afro-Mülheim, 3 CP Blockveranstaltung: Raum und Zeit nach Absprache GB 6/31 Nord This course is the third in a series of project workshops, all of which aim to capture and describe language use in the African diaspora communities in the Ruhr area. This semester, the results of the previous workshops will be edited to be exhibited on posters, at the Volkshochschule Mülheim and the Universitätsbibliothek Bochum. Students will practice their skills in communicating scientific results to non-scientists, i.e. rather than writing exam papers they will design popular scientific posters for the exhibition. Furthermore, students can design independent studies projects or BA theses based on the project. Due to the special character of this workshop, attendance in all of the following is compulsory: Preparatory meeting: July 22, 2016 at 6:00 pm Workshop: Sept. 6 - 8, 10am ~ 3pm Preparation of the exhibition at VHS Mülheim: Nov. 4, 2016, afternoon Exhibition opening VHS Mülheim: Nov. 12, 2016, 2pm ~ 6pm Preparation of the exhibition at Universitätsbibliothek: Jan. 14, 2017 Exhibition opening Universitätsbibliothek: Jan. 16, 2017, 4pm Assessment/requirements: regular active participation, editing of six posters. 050 622 Minow English Accents around the World, 3 CP 2 st. do 14-16 GABF 04/413 Süd This Übung is intended as a fairly hands-on course to build on students’ knowledge acquired in “English Sounds and Sound Systems.” We will analyse selected L1 and L2 English accents and discuss some of the major sound changes that are currently going on in different regions in the world, for example the Northern Cities Vowel Shift in the US, the PIN-PEN merger in the Southern US, and /æ/-tensing in Australian English. Students will be introduced to working with Praat to carry out phonetic analyses. The weekly readings will be made available on Moodle. 24 Assessment/requirements: All students are expected to participate actively in class by engaging in the discussions and by contributing to group work and to do the background reading. Students have the option of doing a final written or oral exam. 25 ENGLISCHE LITERATUR BIS 1700 _______________________________________ Vorlesung 050 623 Klawitter English Renaissance Tragedies, 2,5 CP 2 st. di 10-12 HGB 50 The dramatic genre of tragedy flourished in Elizabethan and Early Stuart times. The course of lectures will be concerned with the genesis and development of the genre and will show, in particular, how tragedies reflect early modern concerns and participate in the ideological struggles of their time. While well-known tragedies by Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Middleton/Rowley and Webster will serve as constant reference texts, the lectures themselves do not focus on single plays but on certain aspects of tragedy which have been productively explored in recent Renaissance studies. Materials will be made available via Moodle. Assessment/requirements: test. Seminare 050 643 Briest Allegorical Travels, 4 CP 2 st. mo 12-14 GABF 04/253 Nord In this course we will investigate the ‘other-sense’ of some outstanding allegorical and satiric travel narratives. The text selection will take us on a journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City (John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress), from England to minuscule Lilliput and gargantuan Brobdingnag (Johnathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels), and, finally, through the mists of forgetfulness, past the place where the buried giant lies (Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant), toward the end of term. We will search into and discuss phenomena such as religious allegory, 26 personification, satire, scatology, and misogyny, as well as the place of allegory in contemporary literature. Required reading: You will need print copies of The Pilgrim’s Progress, Gulliver’s Travels, and The Buried Giant. All secondary materials will be made available on Moodle. Assessment/requirements: All participants: expect some quizzes and minor assignments throughout the semester; Übung: short essay or presentation; Seminar: research paper (12-15 pages). 050 629 Houwen Chaucer’s Dream Visions, 4 CP 2 st. di 14-16 GABF 04/413 Süd In addition to his magnum opus, the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer wrote several other works which proved to be of seminal importance to his successors and imitators. This course will concentrate on the dream-visions; these dream-visions are inspired largely by the work of French poets and the Roman de la Rose in particular. They allow Chaucer to ride several of his favourite hobbyhorses: the battle between the sexes; poetry, rhetoric and the self-conscious writer; the obtuse narrator; irony. The following works will be studied in class: The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and The Legend of Good Women. Set text: L.D. Benson, ed., The Riverside Chaucer (Oxford, 1988) (paperback) [this is the only acceptable edition]. Secondary texts 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; no table of contents please); Seminar: 8-10 pages. All references should conform to MLA stylesheet! 050 630 Houwen Women’s Songs, Women’s Language: Middle English Prose by Women, 4 CP 2 st. mi 12-14 GABF 04/413 Süd This course consists of two approaches. In the first we shall study texts directed against women by such authors as Ovid, Isidore, Tertullian, St Jerome, and the sort 27 of responses they initiated by medieval writers like Abelard, Gower and Christine de Pizan. The second approach will consider the writings by medieval women themselves: these range from medical treatises (how to simulate virginity) and autobiography to religious and moral-didactic treatises. These two approaches run almost simultaneously throughout the courses. In the process the following topics will be dealt with: the classical and medieval misogynist tradition; women’s education and culture in the Middle Ages, the question of authority and authorship (authority of experience, submission and silence, appropriation and assimilation), and the tradition of women’s writing. This course will be task-oriented and will therefore not involve the usual frontal teaching. All texts have tasks associated with them which will be tackled by the students themselves in class. A thorough preparation of the set texts is therefore essential. Since all the texts are either in modern English translation or (very) late Middle English, they are relatively easy to read, so no thorough knowledge of Middle English is necessary. Set texts: Barratt, Alexandra, ed. Women's Writing in Middle English. 2nd ed. Longman Annotated Texts. Harlow: Longman, 2010. Blamires, Alcuin, ed. Woman Defamed, Woman Defended. An Anthology of Medieval Texts. Oxford: OUP, 1992 [expensive; see if you can get it 2nd hand]. Kempe, M. The Book of Margery Kempe. Trans. B. A. Windeatt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985 [modernised text, unlike the Lynn Staley text]. You must have a copy of the first two texts when classes start. The last is also available for download (edited by Lynn Staley) at http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tmsmenu.htm. Assessment/requirements: The final exam will consist of an essay written under exam conditions. In view of the wide variety of texts you are free to choose your own topic. Active participation in class and approval of the essay topic are a prerequisite for the exam! 050 663 Houwen ‘Howling Wolves’: Lycanthropy in Medieval Texts, 4 CP 2 st. do 12-14 FNO 02/073 Accounts of werewolves or lycanthropes appear throughout western literature, appearing first in the work of the Roman writer Petronius (of Satyricon fame) and later in the Middle Ages in both Latin and the vernacular. In this course a selection of texts from the whole early tradition will be studied. They include Ovid and Petronius, 28 Geraldus Cambrensis, Marie de France (Bisclavret), and the Middle English romance William of Palerne. If time permits we may even include some material from the Renaissance. All primary and secondary texts will be made available on Blackboard. Assessment/requirements: The course will be rounded off with an essay. Übung: 6-8 pages (excl. title page and bibliography; no table of contents please); Seminar: 8-10 pages. All references should conform to MLA stylesheet! 050 631 Ottlinger Metaphysical Poetry, 4 CP 2 st. di 8.30-10 GABF 04/613 Süd Metaphysical Poetry originated in the 1590s and broke with the clichés and conventions of Elizabethan Poetry so that it can be considered a poetic revolution. In this seminar the focus will be on key poems by four major representatives of this movement: John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan. All the poems will be subjected to in-depth analyses against their historical, philosophical and literary background. The overriding aim of this seminar is to improve students’ skills in text analysis. The primary texts will be provided in the form of a reader. Assessment/requirements: Übung: regular preparation, active class participation, short test (3 CP); Seminar: regular preparation, active class participation, term paper or end-of-term exam (4 CP). 050 632 Thomson Poets, Heroes, and Kings: Anglo-Saxon Court Culture, 4 CP 2 st. mo 14-16 FNO 02/073 Anglo-Saxon literature is preoccupied with questions about power and authority, and much of that naturally revolves around the courts established by kings and other high status individuals. The court becomes a richly symbolic site for the construction of social identity, often expressed through the achievements of heroic individuals, at which the roles of poets in shaping narratives for entertainment, record, and propaganda is key. 29 This course focuses on Old English literature and court culture, considering works which were produced in connection with a particular court and works whose contents include representation of a court or courts. It starts with the early Germanic tribes as reported in the Germania of the Roman historian Tacitus, then considers myths of Anglo-Saxon migration, in relation to Bede, the royal genealogies, and the poem Exodus. Moving on to early factual and fictionalised courts, we will look at Bede and then at Beowulf in some detail. Jumping to the end of the ninth century, we will discuss King Alfred the Great’s programme of literary revival, before concluding at the international court of the Danish King Cnut the Great and his Norman queen Emma in the 1020s and ‘30s. No prior knowledge of Old English or Latin is required, though either will help you engage more closely with issues of language and style. All required texts will be provided as extracts with translations. Assessment / requirements: active participation; Seminar students will write an essay of 8-10 pages at the end of the semester; Übung students will sit an examination in the final session of the semester. Übung 050 635 Klawitter Reading Poetry, 3 CP 2 st. do 14-16 GB 5/38 Nord This class explores the formal and thematic diversity of English poetry, its social function and cultural influence. It gives students the opportunity to read much admired and challenging poems, to improve their analytical skills and to become familiar with a variety of critical approaches. Amongst other tasks, participants will produce an annotated edition of Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” and approach Alfred Tennyson’s ballad “The Lady of Shalott” through its productive reception in Pre-Raphaelite paintings and recent music (Loreena McKennitt). Materials will be made available via Moodle. Assessment/requirements: homework tasks, test at the end of term. 30 ENGLISCHE LITERATUR VON 1700 BIS ZUR GEGENWART ___________________________________________________________________ Vorlesung 050 638 Niederhoff Narrative Theory, 2,5 CP 2 st. do 8.30-10 HGB 30 This lecture will provide a systematic introduction to narrative, the emphasis being on fictional narrative in prose, i.e. on novels and short stories. It will discuss such topics as plot, setting, free indirect thought (erlebte Rede), flashback, point of view, unreliable narrator, etc. While it is my aim to give a rigorous and systematic description of the various components of narrative, I will attempt not to indulge in terminological nitpicking. Instead, I will try to show that the terms offered by narrative theory can be used in the analysis and interpretation of texts; in other words, I will point out the meanings or effects created by particular narrative choices. The lecture will be based on David Lodge’s comic novel, The British Museum Is Falling Down, and a selection of shorter narratives. Students who wish to prepare for the lecture may read Franz Stanzel, Typische Formen des Romans, 10th ed. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1981) or chs. one and six in Wayne Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Chicago UP, 1983); for more advanced students, I recommend Gérard Genette, Die Erzählung, 2nd ed. (Stuttgart: UTB, 1998). Required text: David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down (Penguin pb.); all other texts will be provided by way of Blackboard. Assessment/requirements: written exam. 31 Seminare 050 641 Linne Governesses and Teachers: The Novels of Charlotte and Anne Brontë, 4 CP 2 st. do 10-12 GB 02/160 From 1847 on, several novels were published in quick succession under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The female authors who hid their identities (and their sex) behind these ambiguous pen names were the sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, the daughters of a Yorkshire clergyman. In childhood, they had written numerous poems, tales and plays. These paved the way for their later compositions, which are considered some of the major works of Victorian fiction. The seminar will focus on the works of the eldest sister Charlotte and the youngest sister Anne, which will be examined against the socio-cultural and literary background of the period as well as against the personal backgrounds of their authors. We will read Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1848), Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey (1847) as well as some texts yet to be determined. These readings will be complemented by passages from other contemporary sources, including for instance Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857), which appeared only two years after Charlotte Brontë’s death. Required texts: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Penguin Classics, ed. Stevie Davies (London: Penguin, 2006) (ISBN: 978-0141441146); Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey, Penguin Classics, ed. Angeline Goreau (London: Penguin, 2004) (ISBN: 9780140432107). Further texts will be provided by way of Blackboard or a reader. Assessment/requirements: Übung: presentation or expert group plus essay; Seminar: presentation or expert group plus research paper. 050 642 Niederhoff Editing Stevenson, 4 CP 2 st. di 16-18 GABF 04/614 Süd I am preparing a volume of short stories for The New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, the first critical edition of this writer. The seminar is directly related to this project. We will familiarise ourselves with the principles of 32 textual criticism, establish a critical text, compile a textual apparatus, discuss emendations etc. We will also compose annotations that explain difficult passages or trace allusions. Required texts: these will be provided by way of Blackboard or a reader. Assessment/requirements: presentation or participation in expert group; a critical edition of a text passage and/or annotations. 050 665 Walter Cultures of Ecology and the Rise of Climate Fiction, 4 CP 2 st. mi 14-16 GABF 04/413 Süd The last 20 years have seen the rise of what is often called eco-criticism – the critical study of humans’ interaction with their environment and how this surfaces in the realm of culture. While it raises such questions as ‘how is nature represented in a specific poem, novel or film?’, it is also a genuinely political mode of analysis, trying to evaluate texts and debates as possible answers to environmental crises. In the course we will try to do exactly this by looking at some of the political and philosophical debates that have been connected to nature and ecology in Britain within the last couple of decades. We will try to understand how climate change and its cultural repercussions play a role in shaping our responses to the recognition that humans are now collectively changing their environment. This will include literary and filmic representations, such as Sarah Hall’s novel The Carhullan Army (2007) and Maggie Gee’s The Ice People (1998), but also questions of environmentalism, eco-consumerism and green marketing. Texts will be made available electronically at the beginning of the term; however, students are advised to start reading the novels mentioned above. Assessment/requirements: active participation, participation in an expert group and a final term paper. 050 643 Briest Allegorical Travels, 4 CP 2 st. mo 12-14 GABF 04/253 Nord In this course we will investigate the ‘other-sense’ of some outstanding allegorical and satiric travel narratives. The text selection will take us on a journey from the City 33 of Destruction to the Celestial City (John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress), from England to minuscule Lilliput and gargantuan Brobdingnag (Johnathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels), and, finally, through the mists of forgetfulness, past the place where the buried giant lies (Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant), toward the end of term. We will search into and discuss phenomena such as religious allegory, personification, satire, scatology, and misogyny, as well as the place of allegory in contemporary literature. Required reading: You will need print copies of The Pilgrim’s Progress, Gulliver’s Travels, and The Buried Giant. All secondary materials will be made available on Moodle. Assessment/requirements: All participants: expect some quizzes and minor assignments throughout the semester; Übung: short essay or presentation; Seminar: research paper (12-15 pages). Übung 050 635 Klawitter Reading Poetry, 3 CP 2 st. do 14-16 GB 5/38 Nord This class explores the formal and thematic diversity of English poetry, its social function and cultural influence. It gives students the opportunity to read much admired and challenging poems, to improve their analytical skills and to become familiar with a variety of critical approaches. Amongst other tasks, participants will produce an annotated edition of Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” and approach Alfred Tennyson’s ballad “The Lady of Shalott” through its productive reception in Pre-Raphaelite paintings and recent music (Loreena McKennitt). Materials will be made available via Moodle. Assessment/requirements: homework tasks, test at the end of term. 34 AMERIKANISCHE LITERATUR ___________________________________ Vorlesung 050 649 Freitag American Literature and Culture: Beginnings to Civil War, 2,5 CP 2 st. mo 14-16 HGB 50 This is the first part of a three-part lecture series that introduces students to important developments of US-American literature as part and expression of the shaping of US-American culture. Students learn to understand US culture and its representations as result of complex national, transnational, and global historical developments. They learn to identify and evaluate particular historical periods and their modes of literary, rhetorical, and/or artistic representation within the overall history of US culture. The periods and their characteristic modes of representation are demonstrated on the basis of especially suitable literary texts made available on Blackboard. The lecture aims at supplying a foundation for the study of US culture and at helping to make informed choices of other courses in the modules “Amerikanische Literatur” and “Cultural Studies (USA).” Each part of the three-part lecture series can be attended separately. Texts: will be provided via Blackboard. Assessment/requirements: regular reading and final test. 35 Seminare 050 673 Kindinger The Rough South, 4 CP 2 st. di 10-12 GB 03/49 In the popular imagination, two narratives inform the American South: one is “moonlight and magnolia,” the myth of a region of chivalry, pristine landscapes, and cherished but long forgotten codes of conduct. Yet the history of the region – slavery, the Civil War and its aftermaths, segregation and resistance to civil rights – taints this idyllic image. In this seminar, we will shed light on the ‘dark’ side of the South, deal with its roughness and the violence, poverty, racism and moral depravity supposedly inherent to the region. The material we will discuss will range from 19thcentury accounts of slavery and the Civil War to more contemporary texts (literary, cinematic, televisual) that especially address the precarious intersections of poverty and violence. Required reading: All texts will be made available in a Reader, and Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone (Sceptre Publishers, 2007) is to be purchased. Assessment/requirements: active participation and preparation, assignments to be handed in during the semester, and final paper. 050 675 two written Laemmerhirt Decades of Triumph and Trouble: 1920s to 1940s, 4 CP 2 st. di 8-10 GABF 04/413 Süd The decades between the 1920s and 1940s are among the most turbulent in American literary as well as cultural history. While the 1920s are frequently deemed to be “The Roaring Twenties,” the 1930s are first and foremost associated with the Great Depression, while the 1940s in America are considered both – a decade of prosperity and loss. Based on literary as well as cultural texts, this class will discuss how the United States have developed throughout these decades. Novels to be discussed are: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men (1937), and Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940). Additional texts will be made available. Assessment/requirements: three short written essays or one long term paper. 36 050 652 Pfeiler US Romanticism, 4 CP 2 st. di 14-16 GABF 04/613 Süd Retrospectively canonized as “The American Renaissance” (F.O. Matthiessen), with its focus on a declared literary independence from Europe as well as its decisive shift away from the Enlightenment’s ‘Age of Reason’, US Romanticism is but one term to cover a diverse set of emerging literary styles, cultural affiliations, and world views roughly between 1820 and 1865. In this discussion-based course we will read a number of texts from US folklore, detective fiction, transcendentalism, dark romanticism, gothic literature, sentimental fiction, reform literature, African American literature, and Civil War ballads. Our goal will be to critically assess one of the most significant literary foundations of the United States, its prominent focus on the reconfiguration of the self as well as its lasting impact on subsequent periods of US literature. Authors include, but are not limited to: Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Margarete Fuller, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Emma C. Embury. A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester. Assessment/requirements: Übung: critical engagement with all of the assigned texts, short presentation/response; Seminar: critical engagement with all of the assigned texts, short presentation/response, term paper or final exam. 050 653 Banhold Writing Reality: Representing Race during the Harlem Renaissance, 4 CP Blockseminar: Startseminar 21.10.2016, 16.00-18.00 Uhr, GB 6/137 Nord Unterrichtsblöcke dann Freitag, 11.2.2017, 12.00-16.00 Uhr; Freitag, 17.2.2017, und Samstag, 18.2.2017, 10.00-17.00 Uhr; Freitag, 24.2.2017, und Samstag, 25.2.2017, 10.00-17.00 Uhr The Harlem Renaissance is known as the first great African American literary movement of the 20th century, if not in American history as a whole. Its unifying goal was to inscribe African Americans into the hegemonic discourse and to claim their equality as citizens and human beings. But the shared label must not conceal the fact that it subsumes a heterogeneous variety of different aesthetics, poetics, ideologies, and politics. The era “when the Negro was in vogue” (Langston Hughes) shows, above all, that “the Negro” was hardly more than a myth, an ascription for various individuals with notably different experiences, world views and agendas. The course gives an overview of the divergent tendencies of the Harlem Renaissance, 37 especially the conflict between a conservative black urban middle class and young modernists, concerning the question of how to represent African American life in literature. It is mandatory to acquire The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader by David Levering Lewis and Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman. Assessment/requirements: Übung: participation, written assignments, presentation Seminar: participation, 15-page term paper (wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit) Übung 050 656 Kindinger The Sentimental Tradition in the 19th Century, 3 CP 2 st. mi 12-14 GB 02/160 Sentimentalism, the conceptualization of human emotions such as sympathy and sensibility, was a philosophical and moral framework that dominated much of the 19th century in the United States. Its literary ‘partner’, the sentimental novel, is considered one of the first truly American art forms and was one of the most popular methods of writing back then. Mostly practiced and consumed by white, middle-class American women, sentimental writing was often considered too popular or even ‘trashy’ to be taken seriously, yet this did not stop its popularity, nor its important cultural work. This course is dedicated to inspecting this 19th-century literary tradition and the philosophy that informed it. We will mainly read sentimental texts of the time, among them Maria Cummins’s The Lamplighter, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Charles Brockden Brown’s Clara Howard, to name a few. Required reading: All texts will be made available in a Reader, and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is to be purchased. Assessment/requirements: active participation and preparation and two written assignments to be handed in during the semester. 38 CULTURAL STUDIES (GB) Vorlesung 050 660 Pankratz British Monarchies, 2,5 CP 2 st. di 14-16 HGB 40 Nowadays, British monarchs and the British monarchy are mainly cherished for their entertainment value, their yellow-press appeal and their enhancement of British heritage. Yet, despite these tinges of uselessness and anachronism, the monarch still serves as Head of State with a range of prerogatives. The lecture course aims at explaining this friction between pomp and power by looking at the history of the monarchy since the Renaissance. It will deal with religious and ideological conflicts of the 16th and 17th centuries, the intricacies and contingencies of ruling dynasties and the spectacular 'inventions of traditions' since the 19th century. Apart from elaborate family trees, complex theories about hegemony and a gallop through British history, the lecture offers to inform participants about royal mistresses and bastards, gory executions and the difference between corgies and dorgies. Assessment/requirements: written test at the end of the semester. Seminare 050 661 Berg Comparative Politics, 4 CP 2 st. di 16-18 GABF 04/613 Süd Comparing phenomena is a strategy for explaining and understanding them. This course is about comparing (and explaining) politics in Britain and the USA. It is also about the theories and methods of comparative politics, a specific field within political studies. Finally, it is about the question of whether cultural studies can make 39 a specific contribution to comparative politics. We will use comparative perspectives and approaches in order to analyse political institutions (for example, Congress and Parliament), ideologies (for example, Republicanism and Conservatism), actors (for example, the National Rifle Association and the Countryside Alliance), and procedures (for example, presidential and general elections). Materials will be provided in a moodle course. Assessment/requirements: active participation, organising and chairing part of a course session, research paper. 050 663 Houwen ‘Howling Wolves’: Lycanthropy in Medieval Texts, 4 CP 2 st. do 12-14 FNO 02/073 Accounts of werewolves or lycanthropes appear throughout western literature, appearing first in the work of the Roman writer Petronius (of Satyricon fame) and later in the Middle Ages in both Latin and the vernacular. In this course a selection of texts from the whole early tradition will be studied. They include Ovid and Petronius, Geraldus Cambrensis, Marie de France (Bisclavret), and the Middle English romance William of Palerne. If time permits we may even include some material from the Renaissance. All primary and secondary texts will be made available on Blackboard. Assessment/requirements: The course will be rounded off with an essay. Übung: 6-8 pages (excl. title page and bibliography; no table of contents please); Seminar: 8-10 pages. All references should conform to MLA stylesheet! 050 632 Thomson Poets, Heroes, and Kings: Anglo-Saxon Court Culture, 4 CP 2 st. mo 14-16 FNO 02/073 Anglo-Saxon literature is preoccupied with questions about power and authority, and much of that naturally revolves around the courts established by kings and other high status individuals. The court becomes a richly symbolic site for the construction of social identity, often expressed through the achievements of heroic individuals, at which the roles of poets in shaping narratives for entertainment, record, and propaganda is key. 40 This course focuses on Old English literature and court culture, considering works which were produced in connection with a particular court and works whose contents include representation of a court or courts. It starts with the early Germanic tribes as reported in the Germania of the Roman historian Tacitus, then considers myths of Anglo-Saxon migration, in relation to Bede, the royal genealogies, and the poem Exodus. Moving on to early factual and fictionalised courts, we will look at Bede and then at Beowulf in some detail. Jumping to the end of the ninth century, we will discuss King Alfred the Great’s programme of literary revival, before concluding at the international court of the Danish King Cnut the Great and his Norman queen Emma in the 1020s and ‘30s. No prior knowledge of Old English or Latin is required, though either will help you engage more closely with issues of language and style. All required texts will be provided as extracts with translations. Assessment / requirements: active participation; Seminar students will write an essay of 8-10 pages at the end of the semester; Übung students will sit an examination in the final session of the semester. 050 665 Viol Mapping Britain and Ireland, 4 CP 2 st. do 12-14 GB 03/49 Maps never just mirror what is given. While they may provide orientation and, quite practically, help us find our way around the world, they also select, distort, focus our perception and direct our experience in a certain way, and may thus even be seen to close us off from potentially different understandings of our physical and social environment. Their “intensely political nature” (Bernhard Klein) has led to them being used, apart from for constructing coherence, making sense or containing spatial anxieties, as tools for government, as documents showing off power and influence, as narratives of conquest, and as material manifestations of what some have called ‘cartographic violence’. In this course, we will be looking at how maps have been designed and used in the British and Irish context, starting from the ‘cartographic revolution’ in the 16th century and their role in organising the relationship between the two countries as well as the ownership and class structures and the construction of national identities in them. We will then fast-forward to the 19th century to explore how maps were used for understanding (and apparently improving) the medical and social condition of urban populations (e.g. in Charles Booth’s poverty maps) and then move on to – the less harrowing and more stylish – road and transport maps of the early 20th century (e.g. Harry Beck’s tube map). Time allowing, we will also deal with the use of maps in fiction and film (e.g. The Englishman Who Went up a Hill But Came down a Mountain), and we will conclude by looking at the – fairly recent – cultural-political strategy of ‘countermapping’. 41 Those who want to take part in the class must show up for the first session and bring a copy of Cartography: An Introduction, which they can obtain for £4.99 from the British Cartographic Society at http://www.cartography.org.uk/product/cartography-an-introduction/ VSPL registration is not enough! Assessment/requirements: active participation; Übung: short oral presentation and two-page reading of a map or making a countermap; Seminar: short oral presentation and research paper. 050 665 Walter Cultures of Ecology and the Rise of Climate Fiction, 4 CP 2 st. mi 14-16 GABF 04/413 Süd The last 20 years have seen the rise of what is often called eco-criticism – the critical study of humans’ interaction with their environment and how this surfaces in the realm of culture. While it raises such questions as ‘how is nature represented in a specific poem, novel or film?’, it is also a genuinely political mode of analysis, trying to evaluate texts and debates as possible answers to environmental crises. In the course we will try to do exactly this by looking at some of the political and philosophical debates that have been connected to nature and ecology in Britain within the last couple of decades. We will try to understand how climate change and its cultural repercussions play a role in shaping our responses to the recognition that humans are now collectively changing their environment. This will include literary and filmic representations, such as Sarah Hall’s novel The Carhullan Army (2007) and Maggie Gee’s The Ice People (1998), but also questions of environmentalism, eco-consumerism and green marketing. Texts will be made available electronically at the beginning of the term; however, students are advised to start reading the novels mentioned above. Assessment/requirements: active participation, participation in an expert group and a final term paper. 42 050 666 Schlensag Resistance through Noise: Punk as Art, Fashion, Subculture and Mainstream, 4 CP 2 st. fr 10-12 GB 5/38 Nord Broadly speaking this class will deal with noise, art and resistance. In particular it will deal with a very complex and influential subculture that has been characterised as a fashion movement, a youth rebellion, an artistic or a political statement. There are many myths about the origin and influence of punk: perhaps it had its heyday only in a brief three-year period between 1976 and 1979. Maybe it started as a marginal movement most visible in the USA and Great Britain. Surely, its impact on almost all levels of cultural discourse was strong in its own time. Most definitely, its influence is still powerfully felt today. Take a look at punk and the fine arts for example: whereas in the past the aesthetics of punk were mostly found on record covers, flyers and fanzines they have arrived at the centre of today's dominant discourses. Tracey Emin's works are displayed in art galleries throughout the world, Vivienne Westwood's fashion designs are considered haute couture and Daniel Clowes and Charles Burns are only two among many illustrators who successfully worked their way up from the margins to the centre. In this class we will critically analyse the multi-layered myths that surround punk. We shall discuss music, art, fashion and social resistance within a theoretical framework of cultural studies as signifying practices, as practices of encoding and decoding and as what Raymond Williams called “a way of life”. A reader will be provided at the beginning of the semester. Assessment/requirements: will be discussed in the first session. Students taking the class as a Seminar may write a term paper. Übungen 050 668 Berg Nationalism and Devolution, 3 CP 2 st. mi 16-18 GABF 04/613 Süd This course investigates the different nations of the United Kingdom. We discuss theories of nationalism, the relationship of nations and states and the function of 43 devolution in the political set-up of Britain. With this general background, we analyse the different forms of nationalism and (correspondingly?) of devolution that we find in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. We ask whether the specificities of English nationalism help to explain why people in England have more problems with devolution than in the other part of the UK. Finally, we will discuss, in how far devolution has changed nationalism and the traditional self-perception of people in Britain. Materials will be provided in a moodle course. Assessment/requirements: active participation, organising and chairing part of a course session. 050 669 Berg Political Movies, 3 CP Blockveranstaltung: 16./17.02., 27.02.-01.03., 13:30-18:00 Uhr In this course, we will analyse a number of films in detail. On the one hand, we contextualise them in two different ways: we discuss the political issues and/or events that are taken up by these movies and ask what messages the viewers might receive. On the other hand, we investigate how these issues and events are represented: we look at the films’ aesthetics and their stylistic devices. On the first day, we discuss approaches to the study of films and later watch a movie. On the second day, we analyse and discuss it in class. We continue by preparing for the other films to be introduced and investigated by groups of students. In the second block of the course, we watch and reflect on the films, which have been introduced by the expert groups. Assessment/requirements: active participation, organising and chairing a collective film viewing. 050 670 Mosch Contemporary British Fiction, 3 CP 2 st. fr 14-16 GABF 04/613 Süd Along with the self-reflexive interest in the capacities of literature, the dismantling of our trust in stable knowledge, authenticity or objective history is a hallmark of recent fiction. We will explore these ideas by analysing examples of short fiction as well as 44 two quite different novels, Julian Barnes’s England, England (1999) and Ian McEwan’s Sweet Tooth (2012). Barnes’s novel tells of a new business venture on the Isle of Wight: a miniature England that has gathered the quintessence of Englishness in one place. However, before we enjoy the tourist amenities, we must ask some questions: if the King of England moves to the island as a royal employee, is his blood still blue? And can we believe the project’s CEO when she insists that she “constructed her life” by disowning her personal history: the memory of her absent father? Sweet Tooth, by contrast, uses tropes of the spy novel (the hidden observation, the blood-soaked mattress) to acquaint us with Serena, a voracious reader of books, and Tom, a writer. Their love affair doubles as a clever commentary on the production of literature between money and art, the reader’s expectations and the author’s aesthetics. Will the couple stand a chance even though Serena wants fiction “to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual” whereas Tom believes it impossible “to recreate life on the page without tricks” – and on which side will Sweet Tooth come down? Please make sure to obtain copies of England, England (which you should also read for the first session) as well as Sweet Tooth. The short stories as well as additional material will be made available via Moodle. Assessment/requirements: Thorough preparation of the primary and secondary texts and either a presentation in class or an essay to be handed in by the end of the semester. 45 CULTURAL STUDIES (USA) Vorlesung 050 649 Freitag American Literature and Culture: Beginnings to Civil War, 2,5 CP 2 st. mo 14-16 HGB 50 This is the first part of a three-part lecture series that introduces students to important developments of US-American literature as part and expression of the shaping of US-American culture. Students learn to understand US culture and its representations as result of complex national, transnational, and global historical developments. They learn to identify and evaluate particular historical periods and their modes of literary, rhetorical, and/or artistic representation within the overall history of US culture. The periods and their characteristic modes of representation are demonstrated on the basis of especially suitable literary texts made available on Blackboard. The lecture aims at supplying a foundation for the study of U.S. culture and at helping to make informed choices of other courses in the modules “Amerikanische Literatur” and “Cultural Studies (USA).” Each part of the three-part lecture series can be attended separately. Texts: will be provided via Blackboard. Assessment/requirements: regular reading and final test. 46 Seminare 050 653 Banhold Writing Reality: Representing Race during the Harlem Renaissance, 4 CP Blockseminar: Startseminar 21.10.2016, 16.00-18.00 Uhr, GB 6/137 Nord Unterrichtsblöcke dann Freitag, 11.2.2017, 12.00-16.00 Uhr; Freitag, 17.2.2017, und Samstag, 18.2.2017, 10.00-17.00 Uhr; Freitag, 24.2.2017, und Samstag, 25.2.2017, 10.00-17.00 Uhr The Harlem Renaissance is known as the first great African American literary movement of the 20th century, if not in American history as a whole. Its unifying goal was to inscribe African Americans into the hegemonic discourse and to claim their equality as citizens and human beings. But the shared label must not conceal the fact that it subsumes a heterogeneous variety of different aesthetics, poetics, ideologies, and politics. The era “when the Negro was in vogue” (Langston Hughes) shows, above all, that “the Negro” was hardly more than a myth, an ascription for various individuals with notably different experiences, world views and agendas. The course gives an overview of the divergent tendencies of the Harlem Renaissance, especially the conflict between a conservative black urban middle class and young modernists, concerning the question of how to represent African American life in literature. It is mandatory to acquire The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader by David Levering Lewis and Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman. Assessment/requirements: Übung: participation, written assignments, presentation Seminar: participation, 15-page term paper (wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit) 050 661 Berg Comparative Politics, 4 CP 2 st. di 16-18 GABF 04/613 Süd Comparing phenomena is a strategy for explaining and understanding them. This course is about comparing (and explaining) politics in Britain and the USA. It is also about the theories and methods of comparative politics, a specific field within political studies. Finally, it is about the question of whether cultural studies can make a specific contribution to comparative politics. We will use comparative perspectives and approaches in order to analyse political institutions (for example, Congress and 47 Parliament), ideologies (for example, Republicanism and Conservatism), actors (for example, the National Rifle Association and the Countryside Alliance), and procedures (for example, presidential and general elections). Materials will be provided in a moodle course. Assessment/requirements: active participation, organising and chairing part of a course session, research paper. 050 673 Kindinger The Rough South, 4 CP 2 st. di 10-12 GB 03/49 In the popular imagination, two narratives inform the American South: one is “moonlight and magnolia,” the myth of a region of chivalry, pristine landscapes, and cherished but long forgotten codes of conduct. Yet the history of the region – slavery, the Civil War and its aftermaths, segregation and resistance to civil rights – taints this idyllic image. In this seminar, we will shed light on the ‘dark’ side of the South, deal with its roughness and the violence, poverty, racism and moral depravity supposedly inherent to the region. The material we will discuss will range from 19thcentury accounts of slavery and the Civil War to more contemporary texts (literary, cinematic, televisual) that especially address the precarious intersections of poverty and violence. Required reading: All texts will be made available in a Reader, and Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone (Sceptre Publishers, 2007) is to be purchased. Assessment/requirements: active participation and preparation, assignments to be handed in during the semester, and final paper. 050 674 two written Zucker The Apocalypse in American Culture, 4 CP 2 st. di 14-16 GB 02/60 Remember how the world ended in 2012 (at the much-ballyhooed end point of the Mayan calendar)? No? Well, that's because it didn't, but scenarios of the apocalypse were as ubiquitous back then as they had ever been, and are in fact to this day. While products of popular culture, particularly the mainstream Hollywood film, mine biblical sources as well as secular imaginations of the end of the world for their 48 potential spectacle, the apocalypse is also a mainstay in e.g. the creeds of several religious communities and the rhetoric of politics, indicating that, especially in the US, there is a widespread cultural affinity to prophecy and doomsday scenarios that exceeds the mere pleasure of watching things get destroyed. In this class, we will ask how this culture of precariousness is constructed and how it is situated in a field of tension between faith, fear, and other constituent factors. In examining the history and cultural functions of the concept of 'the apocalypse' as well as its appropriation in different media, we will thus analyze a broad variety of texts ranging from the Book of Revelation to contemporary Hollywood cinema. A reader containing relevant material will be sold at the SSC at the beginning of the semester. Details will be announced in the first session. Assessment/requirements: final exam or academic paper. 050 675 Laemmerhirt Decades of Triumph and Trouble: 1920s to 1940s, 4 CP 2 st. di 8-10 GABF 04/413 Süd The decades between the 1920s and 1940s are among the most turbulent in American literary as well as cultural history. While the 1920s are frequently deemed to be “The Roaring Twenties,” the 1930s are first and foremost associated with the Great Depression, while the 1940s in America are considered both – a decade of prosperity and loss. Based on literary as well as cultural texts, this class will discuss how the United States have developed throughout these decades. Novels to be discussed are: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men (1937), and Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940). Additional texts will be made available. Assessment/requirements: three short written essays or one long term paper. 49 Übungen 050 678 Müller, M. American Photography, 3 CP 2 st. do 10-12 GB 02/60 This class is designed to introduce students to both American photography and the critical methodologies for studying and describing photographs. Using classical texts about photography and also applying recent cultural studies approaches to the analysis of visual culture, we will discuss photography’s contested relationship to ‘the real’, and we will also examine the cultural work that photographs perform at particular historical moments. We will have a look at the work of individual photographers and – with a focus on the ‘trinity’ of class, race, and gender – we will also explore the social discourses that photography participates in. Please buy (and read) your own copy of Susan Sontag’s On Photography; additional materials will be made available on moodle. Assessment/requirements: active participation, presentation, test/s. 050 679 Pfeiler The Concept of Freedom in American Culture, 3 CP 2 st. do 10-12 GABF 05/608 This course critically examines the concept of freedom as intricately intertwined with − and fundamental to − US American culture from 1776 to 2017. We will question various ideological notions that this term evokes from its political inception in the “Declaration of Independence”, to the Civil War, to contemporary debates in the current election. In the first half to the semester we will analyze and discuss a range of texts such as historical documents, excerpts from autobiographies, US Civil War poems, political speeches, short stories, songs, and a documentary movie. Our goal will be to contextualize these sources as a contested space for social change within the time they originated in and to further clarify their cultural function from an individual, national, global, and theoretical perspective. In the second half of the semester you will work in group-based projects (topics free of choice) and come up with a presentation followed by a discussion. A reader will be available at the beginning of the semester. 50 Assessment/requirements: critical engagement with all of the assigned texts, group presentation and portfolio. 51 FACHSPRACHEN Seminare 050 680 Smith Science and Technology, 4 CP 2 st. mo 10-12 GB 5/37 Nord The course will take in a wide variety of ESP texts including articles from information and computer science, the sciences of physics, astronomy, geology, (evolutionary) biology, history, anthropology, archaeology, medicine as well as from several fields of engineering. The study of the characteristics of specialist languages in general and of each of these specialist languages in particular will be complemented by exercises in terminology work and glossary management. Student input will be allowed to expand the range of texts and/or shift the analytical focus of sessions. Having said that, no detailed analysis of an ESP text or related terminology work is possible without simultaneously engaging with the ideas conveyed with the help of the ESP language in question. Assessment/requirements: learner’s diary (including glossary management) and written end-of-term exam (or term paper). 050 681 Smith Translation Theory and Practice, 4 CP 2 st. di 10-12 GB 02/160 On the theoretical side the seminar will supply a broad survey of translation theories and issues from the metaphysical to the mundane, from the historical to a critique of state-of-the-art developments in translation technology ̶ while at the same time allowing students to try their hand at translating a broad variety of challenging ESP texts (which focus in the main on the sciences of physics, astronomy, biology, geology, anthropology and engineering). The interaction of the two facets of the translation endeavour will hopefully allow students to both apply the absorbed translation school paradigms to actual problems and conversely develop a feeling for the roots, intricacies and problems of translation theory. 52 Recommended reading: Anthony Pym. Exploring Translation Theories. London: Routledge, 2010. David Bellos. Is that a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything. New York: Faber and Faber, 2012. Assessment/requirements: presentation, learner’s diary and written end-of-term exam (or term paper). 050 682 Smith Anglo-American Law: Theory and Practice, 4 CP 2 st. mi 10-12 GB 02/160 The course will look in detail at a variety of legal texts ‒ and hence legal concepts ‒ from both a legal theory and a legal practice perspective. While the legal theory part will cover basic notions and schools of jurisprudence that should permit the analysis of legal systems and their evolution over large stretches of space and long periods of time, the model chosen for understanding the language of the common law system will be the legal system of England and Wales. By breaking down the system into its (historical) components, the language and terminology of (and hence the ideas behind) this intricate system will be brought to light. By the same token, the language of the common law system will be used to elucidate the inner workings of the model. As a result students should subsequently be in a better position to consider and appreciate legal English texts with the eye of a linguist, a lawyer and a (moral) philosopher. Recommended reading: Ian McLeod. Legal Theory. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Ian McLeod. Legal Method. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Assessment/requirements: presentation, learner’s diary and written end-of-term exam or term paper. 050 683 Versteegen Uses of Metaphor in English for Special Purposes, 4 CP 2 st. di 12-14 GABF 04/613 Süd When prices go through the roof, and when the economic bubble bursts, when a court hears a case, when the judge hands down a sentence, when a virus attacks 53 someone’s heart muscle, when a plane goes into a nosedive, when a computer crashes then all this is evidence of the ubiquitous presence of metaphorical language in expert communication. Metaphorical thought is what makes abstract reasoning possible in the first place and may constitute the basis of terminological systems, but, then, the use (and usefulness) of metaphor is not restricted to its cognitive dimension alone; metaphor can also be used (and abused) to serve manipulative functions and ideological purposes. In this seminar, we will examine both the structural patterns and the pragmatic functions of metaphorical language in some of the more common fields of specialization (business, science, computer technology, law, politics, sport). Materials will be taken from specialist communications at various different levels of expertise (expert-to-expert, expert-to-layperson, layperson-to-layperson). Assessment/requirements for credit: written exam or research paper. Übungen 050 685 Smith Business English I, 3 CP Gruppe A: 2 st. mo 12-14 GB 5/37 Nord On the basis of the textbook: Herbert Geisen, Dieter Hamblock, John Poziemski, Dieter Wessels, Englisch in Wirtschaft und Handel (Berlin: Cornelsen & Oxford University Press, 2002) and with the help of additional material the course will introduce some of the basic terminology and concepts of business English. Assessment/requirements: presentation (limited slots) or written end-of-term test. 050 685 Poziemski Business English I, 3 CP Gruppe B: 2 st. mi 10-12 Gruppe C: 2 st. mi 16-18 GBCF 05/705 GABF 04/413 Süd 54 This Business English class is intended as an introduction to the language and topics of business and commerce. Course materials will be provided online on Moodle at the beginning and during the semester. Assessment/requirements: various homework assignments and test. 050 685 Bachem Business English I, 3 CP Gruppe D: 2 st. di 16-18 GABF 04/253 Nord This Business English class is intended as an introduction to the language of business and commerce. The course focuses on developing students’ English language knowledge and skills with particular emphasis on business knowledge and contexts. The primary aims of the course are to cultivate students’ understanding of basic business concepts, to develop students’ knowledge of business relevant vocabulary and terminology as well as communication skills they require to study and discuss basic business topics. Assessment/requirements: active participation and completion of term assignments. 050 686 Poziemski Business English II, 3 CP Gruppe A: 2 st. di 10-12 Gruppe B: 2 st. di 16-18 GBCF 05/703 GBCF 05/709 This class is a continuation of Business English I, and participants should ideally have completed Business English I before signing up for this class. Course materials will be provided online on Moodle at the beginning and during the semester. Assessment/requirements: various class assignments and test. 55 050 686 Smith Business English II, 3 CP Gruppe C: 2 st. di 12-14 GABF 04/614 Süd This course is a continuation of Business English I. On the basis of the textbook: Herbert Geisen, Dieter Hamblock, John Poziemski, Dieter Wessels, Englisch in Wirtschaft und Handel (Berlin: Cornelsen & Oxford University Press, 2002) and with the help of additional material the course will introduce further basic terminology and concepts of business English. Assessment/requirements: presentation, assignment at the end of the course. written 050 687 end-of-term test or written Bachem Legal English, 3 CP Blockseminar: Termine und Räume s. Aushang The course – which will be based on a broad variety of legal texts and other sources – is designed to familiarise students with English legal language. By the end of the course, students should be familiar with numerous areas of English law. Assessment/requirements: written end-of-term test. 050 688 Versteegen Technical English, 3 CP 2 st. fr 10-12 GABF 04/614 Süd This class will deal with rather general scientific and technical topics which laypeople can be expected to be familiar with: Current issues in research and technology (e.g. environmental issues, energy) Technology in everyday life (e.g. DIY, household equipment, home entertainment) Famous classic inventions Interesting new inventions 56 (Very) basic maths and science It will develop the following language skills: Basics of scientific language, e.g. verbalising formulas and symbols, describing technical processes and systems, talking about diagrams, graphs etc. Text forms and communication skills required in professional situations, e.g. Presentation: Explaining a technical or scientific problem Writing a manual Editing a given text Interlingual communication. Assessment/requirements: short presentation, end-of-semester test. 57 FREMDSPRACHENAUSBILDUNG 050 690 Müller, T. Grammar AM, 3 CP Gruppe A: 2 st. di 14-16 Gruppe B: 2 st. do 12-14 GABF 04/614 Süd GABF 04/613 Süd This course will build on what you have learned in Grammar BM and will focus on a number of problem areas of English grammar, e.g. tense, aspect, clause structure, prepositions, adverbs and participles. Assessment/requirements: active participation, homework and final test. 050 691 Berg Communication AM, 3 CP Gruppe A: 2 st. do 16-18 GABF 04/614 Süd The major aim of this course is to improve your writing skills. We will make use of a variety of techniques and exercises to practise different – first of all academic, but also some other – genres of writing. The course focuses on spoken communication too, especially on oral presentations. Finally, the course has a self-reflexive dimension – we will discuss some of the problems you might have encountered in your written and spoken academic work and try to identify – and test – possible solutions. Assessment/requirements: active participation, written assignments, presentations. 58 050 691 Zucker Communication AM, 3 CP Gruppe B: 2 st. mo 10-12 GABF 04/614 Süd The essay serves two important functions during your studies of English: On the one hand, it is a popular assignment type in written course exams; on the other hand, the principles behind a good essay are applicable to any number of text types, academic or journalistic. Building on a number of concepts covered in your “Academic Skills“ class, this tutorial will thus focus on enhancing your essay writing skills. After an introduction to strategies of argumentation (and a discussion of its negative flipside: logical and argumentative fallacies), the class will highlight certain controversial issues from political, cultural and academic fields that will serve as the basis of structured discussion, partly in class, partly in the form of essay exercises. In order to attain a grade and the corresponding CP, students must have passed the complete basic module Sprach- und Textproduktion (Grammar BM + Academic Skills). Assessment/requirements: two short essays, one prepared at home, one written in an exam situation. 050 692 Müller, M. Translation AM, 3 CP Gruppe A: 2 st. mo 12-14 GABF 04/413 Süd Intermediate-level texts addressing the fields of culture, literature and everyday life will be translated from German into English with a focus on recurring grammatical and terminological problems. Assessment/requirements: active participation, two written tests. 59 050 692 Ottlinger Translation AM, 3 CP Gruppe B: 2 st. do 10-12 GABF 04/614 Süd Intermediate-level texts from the fields of literature and culture will be translated from German into English with the focus on recurring grammatical and terminological problems. Assessment/requirements: regular preparation of texts, active class participation, two written tests. 050 685 Smith Business English I, 3 CP Gruppe A: 2 st. mo 12-14 GB 5/37 Nord On the basis of the textbook: Herbert Geisen, Dieter Hamblock, John Poziemski, Dieter Wessels, Englisch in Wirtschaft und Handel (Berlin: Cornelsen & Oxford University Press, 2002) and with the help of additional material the course will introduce some of the basic terminology and concepts of business English. Assessment/requirements: presentation (limited slots) or written end-of-term test. 050 685 Poziemski Business English I, 3 CP Gruppe B: 2 st. mi 10-12 Gruppe C: 2 st. mi 16-18 GBCF 05/705 GABF 04/413 Süd This Business English class is intended as an introduction to the language and topics of business and commerce. Course materials will be provided online on Moodle at the beginning and during the semester. Assessment/requirements: various homework assignments and test. 60 050 685 Bachem Business English I, 3 CP Gruppe D: 2 st. di 16-18 GABF 04/253 Nord This Business English class is intended as an introduction to the language of business and commerce. The course focuses on developing students’ English language knowledge and skills with particular emphasis on business knowledge and contexts. The primary aims of the course are to cultivate students’ understanding of basic business concepts, to develop students’ knowledge of business relevant vocabulary and terminology as well as communication skills they require to study and discuss basic business topics. Assessment/requirements: active participation and completion of term assignments. 050 686 Poziemski Business English II, 3 CP Gruppe A: 2 st. di 10-12 Gruppe B: 2 st. di 16-18 GBCF 05/703 GBCF 05/709 This class is a continuation of Business English I, and participants should ideally have completed Business English I before signing up for this class. Course materials will be provided online on Moodle at the beginning and during the semester. Assessment/requirements: various class assignments and test. 050 686 Smith Business English II, 3 CP Gruppe C: 2 st. di 12-14 GABF 04/614 Süd This course is a continuation of Business English I. On the basis of the textbook: Herbert Geisen, Dieter Hamblock, John Poziemski, Dieter Wessels, Englisch in Wirtschaft und Handel (Berlin: Cornelsen & Oxford University Press, 2002) and with 61 the help of additional material the course will introduce further basic terminology and concepts of business English. Assessment/requirements: presentation, assignment at the end of the course. written 050 687 end-of-term test or written Bachem Legal English, 3 CP Blockseminar: Termine und Räume s. Aushang The course – which will be based on a broad variety of legal texts and other sources – is designed to familiarise students with English legal language. By the end of the course, students should be familiar with numerous areas of English law. Assessment/requirements: written end-of-term test. 050 688 Versteegen Technical English, 3 CP 2 st. fr 10-12 GABF 04/614 Süd This class will deal with rather general scientific and technical topics which laypeople can be expected to be familiar with: Current issues in research and technology (e.g. environmental issues, energy) Technology in everyday life (e.g. DIY, household equipment, home entertainment) Famous classic inventions Interesting new inventions (Very) basic maths and science It will develop the following language skills: Basics of scientific language, e.g. verbalising formulas and symbols, describing technical processes and systems, talking about diagrams, graphs etc. Text forms and communication skills required in professional situations, e.g. Presentation: Explaining a technical or scientific problem Writing a manual Editing a given text Interlingual communication. 62 Assessment/requirements: short presentation, end-of-semester test. Technical English, 3 CP 2 st. fr 10-12 GABF 04/614 Süd Topics: Rather general scientific and technical topics which laypeople can be expected to be familiar with: Current issues in research and technology (e.g. environmental issues, energy) Technology in everyday life (e.g. DIY, household equipment, home entertainment) Famous classic inventions Interesting new inventions (Very) basic maths and science Language skills: Basics of scientific language, e.g. verbalising formulas and symbols, describing technical processes and systems, talking about diagrams, graphs etc. Text forms and communication skills required in professional situations, e.g. Presentation: Explaining a technical or scientific problem Writing a manual Editing a given text Interlingual communication. Assessment/requirements: short presentation, end-of-semester test. 63 Geschäftsführ. Sekretärin: Prskawetz Servicezimmer/ Auslandsberatung Fachschaft Anglistik Dr. Osterried Lehrbeauftragte 6/131 6/29 Ssempuuma, Wilson 23013 WC 6/129 Hilfskräfte Anglistik II Fonkeu 22519 6/133 6/134 6/135 28589 22589 22591 25053 22588 6/136 6/137 Hermann (FNO 1/140) N.N. Schw. Brett II Briest/Pieper Hilfskräfte Angl. I (N-Süd 24/22) Anglistik V Prof. Houwen (FNO 02/85) Hilfskräfte Angl. V (FNO 02/79) 22599 Anglistik I Prof. Weidle (N-Süd 03) Lederbogen Dornieden (FNO 02/83) 22518 Dr. Viol 6/34 6/37 6/38 6/39 Thomson (FNO 02/79) Mertes/Mraz van Ackern (GanzIn) Medienraum 26769 22598 22597 6/139 22595 Durchgang zu Etage 5 6/140 Bibl. Aufsicht Perk 6/36 Computerraum Lincke/Schneider Wießner Schw. Brett I 6/33 Treppe 22590 28518 28590 6/32 Dr. Pfeiler Dr. Smith Anglistik II Prof. Meierkord 6/31 Seminarraum Geschäftsführender Direktor: Prof. Niederhoff Geschäftsführer: Dr. Viol Englisches Seminar, 6. Etage 6/40 6/141 VideoAusl. 25054 Eingang Bibliothek Aufzüge Aufzüge 6/142 6/143 6/144 22593 28591 27943 28943 22522 22521 Anglistik IV Prof. Freitag Angl. IV Dr. Kindinger Dr. Steinhoff Böhm (InStudies) Dr. T. Müller PD Dr. Klawitter Dr. Minow Dr. Ottlinger Zucker Schielke Dr. Thiele Strubel-Burgdorf (FNO 01/131) Dr. habil. Berg Walter 5/131 5/132 Anglistik VI Prof. Pankratz 22600 22601 28602 22602 5/29 Linne 25056 WC 5/129 Sicking Hilfskräfte Anglistik III 28051 5/133 5/134 Treppe Hilfskräfte Ritter Pipke 5/33 5/37 5/135 5/136 5/137 5/138 5/39 5/40 Hilfskräfte Bibliothek 5/38 Hilfskräfte Bibliothek Seminarraum 5/34 Seminarraum Prof. Ritter 5/32 5/139 25051 28052 25052 25058 25059 25060 25069 25062 25063 PD Dr. M. Müller Studienberatung Hilfskräfte Angl. IV Poziemski Dr. Versteegen 5/31 Hilfskräfte Anglistik VI Anglistik III Prof. Niederhoff Englisches Seminar, 5. Etage Bibliothek (Eingang auf Etage 6) Aufzüge Durchgang zu Etage 6 5/140 . Aufzüge 5/141 25064 25066
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