Englisches Seminar - Leibniz Universität Hannover · Kommentar In linguistics, semantics is the subfield that is devoted to the study of meaning, as inherent at the levels of words,

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 1

Englisches Seminar

Fächerübergreifender Bachelor Englisch

Foundations of Linguistics 1Introduction to Linguistics IVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungShahrokny-Prehn, ArianMo, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 13.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 003 II 003Kommentar This course provides a first general introduction to English linguistics. We will initially deal

with questions related to the nature of language and then focus on the major areas inthe study of linguistics: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics andpragmatics. Further areas of study (e.g. varieties of English, historical linguistics, corpuslinguistics) will be tackled in the summer semester 2009.

The following textbook will be used in class and is recommended for purchase: Finnegan,

Edward. 2008. Language: Its Structure and Use . 5th edition. Boston, MA: Wadsworth.Please make sure that you order your copy of the book asap.

Prerequisites: none

Prerequisites for certificate (LingF1): regular attendance, active participation, final exam(Studienleistungen)

Language in class: English

For further information, please contact me at: [email protected] Introduction to Linguistics IVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungSchulze, RainerMo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 13.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703

Mo, Einzel, 10:00 - 11:30, 26.01.2009 - 26.01.2009, 1208 - A001 Kesselhaus , Klausur, Schulze, RainerKommentar This course provides a first general introduction to English linguistics. We will initially

deal with questions related to the nature of language and then focus on the major areasin the study of linguistics: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semanticsand pragmatics. Areas such as sociolinguistics, varieties of English, first and secondlanguage acquisition, comparative linguistics English/German, historical linguistics,corpus linguistics, language universals and language typology will be tackled in thesummer semester 2009.

The following textbook will be used in class and is recommended for purchase: Finegan,


Prerequisites: none

Prerequisites for certificate (LingF1): regular attendance, active participation in class, endof term test all Studienleistungen


For further information, please contact me at: [email protected] [email protected]

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 2

Introduction to Linguistics IIVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungHöche, SilkeFr, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 17.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615

Fr, Einzel, 08:00 - 10:00, 16.01.2009 - 16.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar This course is a sequel to Introduction to Linguistics I and will cover areas such as

sociolinguistics, varieties of English, first and second language acquisition, comparativelinguistics English/German, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, language universalsand language typology.

The following textbook will be used in class and is recommended for purchase:

Finegan, Edward. 2008. Language: Its Structure and Use. 5th edition. Boston, MA:Wadsworth.

Please make sure that you order your copy of the book asap.

Prerequisites: LingF1

Prerequisites for certificate (LingF2): regular attendance, active participation in class, endof term test (all Prüfungsleistungen)


For further information please contact me at: [email protected]

Foundations of Linguistics 2Lexical SemanticsSeminarHöche, SilkeDo, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 16.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703

Do, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 15.01.2009 - 15.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar In linguistics, semantics is the subfield that is devoted to the study of meaning, as

inherent at the levels of words, phrases, sentences, and even larger units of discourse.This seminar is designed as an introduction to the study of meaning in language, thefocus being on the representation of meaning at the lexical level (though other levelsmight be considered as well).One of the guiding questions to be addressed in class ishow we can best describe meaning in human language. Students will be made familiarwith the descriptive tools of lexical semantics such as the analyis of paradigmatic andsyntagmatic relations between words and with different theoretical approaches to wordmeaning, among them semantic field theory or prototype and frame semantics. Moreover,we will explore in how far the use of language corpora can provide us with valuableinsights on the semantic content of words.

Prerequisites for certificate (LingF4): regular attendance, active participation in class, endof term test (all Prüfungsleistungen)Language in class: English

Literature: Selected texts will be made available at the beginning of the semester.


Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 3

Middle EnglishSeminarShahrokny-Prehn, ArianDo, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 09.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar Middle English is commonly described as the transitional period between Old English

and Early Modern English. Although this is certainly true, it can create the – false –impression of Middle English being a historical footnote. However, during this periodEnglish underwent the most profound changes that still have tremendous influence on thelanguage today.

In this seminar we will take a close look at how the language developed before, duringand after this period. We will do so by tracking the linguistic changes as well as takinginto account social and cultural developments. Different texts will be translated, analysedand put into their historical context. The overall aim of this seminar is to achieve adeeper understanding of English (and indeed any language) as an ever evolving, alwayschanging system of communication.

Prerequisites: Introduction to Linguistics I + II

Prerequisites for certificate (LingF4): regular attendance, active participation, readingassignments, final exam (Prüfungsleistung)


For further information, please contact me at: [email protected]

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 4

Words, Meaning and VocabularyVorlesungSchulze, RainerMo, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 13.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 003 II 003Kommentar This lecture is a systematic and accessible introduction to the lexicology of contemporary

English. Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that studies all aspects of the vocabularyof a particular language. The lecture will provide an account of the sources of modernEnglish words and will study the development of vocabulary over time. It will examinewhat constitutes a word, with discussions of words that look and sound the same, wordsthat have several meanings, and ‚words’ that are made up of more than one word. Aswell as considering the borrowing of words from other languages throughout the historyof English, the lecture will also outline how English forms new words by exploiting thestructure of existing words, through processes of derivation and compounding.

The lecture will also tackle the vexed question of how words actually mean (reference toexternal context, relations with other words of similar or opposite meaning, collocationalrelations, etc.) and also examine the contexts in which words are used. Finally, thelecture will present methods of investigating vocabulary, including the use of computercorpora, as well as the treatment of words in dictionaries.

For general reference, I recommend the following publications:

Cruse, David Alan. 2004. Meaning in Language. An Introduction to Semantics andPragmatics . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Jackson, Howard and Etienne Zé Amvela. 2007. Words, Meaning and Vocabulary. AnIntroduction to Modern English Lexicology . 2nd. ed. London and New York: Cassell.

Lipka, Leonhard. 2002. English Lexicology. Lexical Structure, Word Semantics &Word-Formation. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.

Further secondary literature will be made available on my reserve shelf in the library.

Prerequisites: none

Prerequisites for certificate LingF3 (BA students only): Studienleistung andPrüfungsleistung : regular attendance, preparation, active participation in class, readingassignments, final written examination



Voraussetzung Prerequisites: nonePrerequisites for certificate: regular attendance, final examLanguage in class: English

Advanced Linguistics

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 5

Changes in the History of the English LanguageSeminarMindt, IlkaMi, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 15.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar How can the mismatch between spelling and pronunciation in Modern English be

explained? Why do modal verbs show so-called defective features, such has having noinfinitive? What is the reason for irregular plurals as in feet? Questions such as thesewill be discussed in this course which will focus on changes from Old English times toModern English. By considering the development of the English language, several topicsand theoretical issues such as grammaticalization will be discussed.

We will consider various texts from different sources. These will be made available at thebeginning of the seminar.

Prerequisites: intermediate exam or required LingF modules

Prerequisites for certificate (LingA1 / LingA2, FAL 4.1/FAL 4.2): regular attendance,active participation in class, reading assignments, an oral presentation and/or a termpaper


For further information, please contact me at: [email protected] Construction GrammarSeminarSchulze, Rainer (verantwort)Di, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 709 II 709Kommentar This seminar will investigate the nature of generalization in language and examine how

language is known by adults and acquired by children. The seminar will look at how andwhy constructions are learned, the relation between their forms and functions, and howcross-linguistic and language-internal generalizations about them can be explained.The course will be divided into three parts: in the first, we will provide an overview ofconstructionist approaches, including the constructionist approach to argument structure,and argue for a usage-based model of grammar. In the second, we will address issuesconcerning how generalizations are constrained and constructional generalizations arelearned. In the third, we will show that a combination of function and processing accountsfor a wide range of language-internal and cross-linguistic generalizations. We will thenconsider the degree to which the function of constructions explains their distribution andexamine cross-linguistic tendencies in argument realization. We will be able to show thatpragmatic and cognitive processes account for the data without appeal to stipulations thatare language-specific.The seminar will be an interesting contribution to the study of howlanguage operates in the mind and in the world and how these operations relate.

Texts that we will discuss in class will be made available in a reader at the beginning ofthe seminar. Further secondary literature will be made available on my reserve shelf inthe library.


Prerequisites for certificate (LingA1, LingA2; FAL 1.1/1.2, FAL 2.1/2.2): regularattendance, active participation in class, reading assignments, an oral presentationand/or a term paper



Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 6

One Language, many Varieties: Focussing on British and American EnglishSeminarMindt, IlkaMi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 15.10.2008 - 15.10.2008, 1502 - 003 II 003

Mi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 22.10.2008 - 22.10.2008, 1501 - 301 I 301

Mi, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 29.10.2008 - 19.11.2008, 1502 - 003 II 003

Mi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 26.11.2008 - 26.11.2008, 1501 - 301 I 301

Mi, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 03.12.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 003 II 003Kommentar Two very important varieties of the English language are the British and American ones.

This course attempts to describe the major differences between the two varieties in termsof phonological, syntactic and lexical aspects. With the help of data taken from computercorpora we will try to analyse, explain and categorize them. Furthermore, some specificdialect features of British as well as of American English will provide further insights intothese two varieties.





For further information, please contact me at: [email protected] Practical LexicographySeminarSchulze, RainerDi, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 709 II 709Kommentar This seminar will focus on the best and most useful work in a linguistic area that primarily

deals with the compilation and design of dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses, usageguides, concordances, etc.; it will cover topics hotly debated in lexicography circles.

After a brief and historical introduction (Samuel Johnson), we will divide the seminarin various parts, devoted to different problem areas: theoretical perspectives (SueAtkins, Juri D. Apresjan), corpus design (Douglas Biber, Adam Kilgarriff and GregoryGrefenstette), lexicographical evidence (Charles J. Fillmore), word senses and polysemy(Patrick Hanks, Adam Kilgarriff, Penelope F. Stock), collocations and idioms (AnthonyP. Cowie, Thierry Fontenelle), definitions (Dwight Bolinger, Michael Rundell), examples(Batia Laufer), grammar and usage (Michael Rundell), bilingual lexicography (Sue Atkins,Alain Duval), tools and methods (Kenneth W. Church and Patrick Hanks, Adam Kilgarriffet al., Gregory Grefenstette), semantic networks (George A. Miller et al.), and howdictionaries are used (Sue Atkins and Krista Varantola).

Texts that we will discuss in class will be made available in a reader at the beginningof the seminar: all texts will be taken from Thierry Fontenelle, ed. 2008. PracticalLexicography: A Reader . Oxford: Oxford University Press.



Prerequisites for certificate (LingA1/LingA2; FAL 1.1/1.2; FAL 2.1/2.2) : regularattendance, active participation in class, reading assignments, an oral presentationand/or a term paper



Advanced English Skills

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 7

SPCSCommunication Skills (SPCS)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungBennett, PeterDi, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703

Do, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 16.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703

Do, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 16.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar This course aims to give students an understanding of what communication and

communication skills are, and an understanding of and practical experience in media use,body language, voice training and presentation styles. This course prepares students forthe academic presentations that they will hold during their studies.

Studienleistungen : one informal presentationPrüfungsleistung : one academic presentation (based on SPAWR paper)

Communication Skills (SPCS)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungJones, JacobMo, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 13.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703 , Dozent: Jones

Mo, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 13.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615 , Dozent: JonesKommentar This course aims to give students an understanding of what communication and



SPAWRAcademic Writing and Research (SPAWR)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungJones, JacobDi, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609

Di, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703

Di, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 113 II 113

Di, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703

Do, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 16.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar This course covers the basics of writing an academic research paper, including thesis

statements, outlines, sources and bibliographies, citation and paraphrasing, structuresof papers (titles, tables of contents, introductions, body of arguments, conclusions),structures of paragraphs, editing and the writing process. This course prepares studentsfor the academic papers that they will write during their studies.

Studienleistungen : an academic paper and two other assignments which build up to thepaper

Writing in EnglishExpository Writing (SPEW)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungMenis, AnneMo, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, ab 13.10.2008, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar This course investigates organisational patterns used in various genres and discourse

forms of expository writing (informative/explanatory writing). Some aspects of languageand grammar will also be discussed as necessary.Studienleistungen: two writing tasks in various genres of expository writingPrüfungsleistung: in-class essay (120 minutes)

SPTAP

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 8

Textual Analysis and Production (SPTAP)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungIlsemann, HartmutMo, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, ab 13.10.2008, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar This course examines language, grammar and style of some text types (e.g., news items,

biographies, literary texts, advertising, etc). Students will analyse and translate existingtexts as well as compose their own original texts.

Studienleistungen: two translations and one textual analysis

SPEW

Integrated English PracticeTopics (SPTOP): Canadian Popular CultureSprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungHunter, KateFr, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 17.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar This module incorporates two courses dealing with various topics of relevance to students

of Anglophone Studies. The language focus will mainly be on grammar, vocabulary andthe translation of short texts, which are investigated through the medium of the topic.

Studienleistungen : one writing task and one translation for all students

Prüfungsleistung : a term paper of 2000 words in one of the SPTOP courses (studentswho started their studies in or after WS 2007/08) or two term papers of 1600 words, onein each SPTOP course (students who started their studies before WS 2007/08)

Topics (SPTOP): Canadian Women WritersSprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungHunter, KateFr, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 17.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar This module incorporates two courses dealing with various topics of relevance to students




Topics (SPTOP): Children's LiteratureSprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungMenis, AnneDi, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar This module incorporates two courses dealing with various topics of relevance to students




Topics (SPTOP): SitcomsSeminar / Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungMenis, AnneDi, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609 Topics (SPTOP): Translation ProjectSprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungMenis, AnneDi, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615

SPTOP1

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 9

SPTOP2

Contexts of English Language Use

SPEPEnglish for Professional Use (SPEP)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungMenis, AnneMo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, ab 13.10.2008, 1502 - 613 II 613

Mo, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, ab 13.10.2008, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar This course deals with language and communication in professional contexts

(organisations, trade fairs, public situations, etc). Forms of communication includeapplications, resumes and CVs, presentations and interviews, social conventions, officialletters, emails, faxes, memos, minute taking, reports, notices, telephoning.

Studienleistungen: two written tasks (including a CV and application) and one oralpresentation

SPVEVarieties of English (SPVE)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungJones, JacobDo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, ab 16.10.2008, 1502 - 615 II 615

Do, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, ab 16.10.2008, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar This course incorporates units dealing with various varieties of language use in English.

These include, but are not limited to, Newspapers, Classroom English, Children'sLiterature, English in Australia. The focus is the use of language (vocabulary andgrammar) as well as other features of each variety.

Studienleistungen : two writing tasksPrüfungsleistung : a term paper of 2500 words (students who started their studies in orafter WS 2007/08) or a term paper of 3500 words (students who started their studiesbefore WS 2007/08)

Bachelorarbeit

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 10

ExamenskolloquiumKolloquiumGohrisch, Jana (verantwort)Di, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar Das auf die gesamte Vorlesungszeit angelegte Examenskolloquium richtet sich an

alle Studierenden, die kurz vor ihrer Abschlussprüfung (BA, Staatsexamen, Magister)stehen und diese im Bereich der englischen und amerikanischen Literatur- undKulturwissenschaft (insbesondere Anglistik und Neue Englischsprachige Literaturen)ablegen wollen.

Der Veranstaltungsplan umfasst (je nach Bedarf der TeilnehmerInnen) die zentralenBereiche der Literaturwissenschaft wie Literaturtheorie, Literaturgeschichte, Textanalyseund Interpretation. Darüber hinaus werden wir die Abschlussklausuren (vorbereitendeRecherche und Lektüre, Schreibtechniken), die mündlichen Abschlussprüfungen(Themenwahl in Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Thesenpapier) und die schriftlicheAbschlussarbeit (Themenwahl, Arbeitstechniken) besprechen. Es wird auch dieMöglichkeit geben, Prüfungen zu simulieren.

Lektüreempfehlungen:

Franck, Norbert und Joachim Stary. Die Technik des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens. Einepraktische Anleitung . 11. überarb. Aufl. Paderborn, München, Wien, Zürich: Schönigh2003 (UTB).

Nünning, Vera und Ansgar. An Introduction to the Study of English and AmericanLiterature . Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Sprachen 2005.

Nünning, Ansgar, Hrsg. Metzler-Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie: Ansätze - Personen- Grundbegriffe . Stuttgart [u.a]: J. B. Metzler 2001.

Poplawski, Paul, ed. English Literature in Context . Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress 2008.

Seeber, Hans-Ulrich (Hg.). Englische Literaturgeschichte . Stuttgart: J. B. MetzlerscheVerlagsbuchhandlung 2004.

Prerequisites: intermediate exam

For further information: [email protected] Prerequisites: intermediate exam ExamenskolloquiumKolloquiumBlell, Gabriele / Kupetz, RitaDi, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 07.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar Hier sind alle Studierenden angesprochen, die eine Examensarbeit planen oder denen

eine mündliche Prüfung bevorsteht. Gegenstand der einzelnen Treffen werden diePrüfungsthemen/-vorhaben der TeilnehmerInnen sein. Die Vorstellung des eigenenThemas dient dazu, die fachlichen und methodischen Aspekte der Arbeit /Prüfung ingeschütztem Rahmen kritisch zu diskutieren.

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 11

ExamenskolloquiumKolloquiumMayer, RuthDi, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 07.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar Das Examenskolloquium richtet sich an Studierende aller Studiengänge, die ihre

Abschlussarbeit oder eine mündliche Prüfung in den American Studies ablegen wollen.Das Vorgehen richtet sich nach den Bedürfnissen der Teilnehmer und Teilnehmerinnenund reicht von mündlichen und schriftlichen mock exams (Vorbereitung für Klausurenund mündliche Prüfungen) über die Frage nach der Themenfindung und Gliederung einerExamensarbeit bis hin zu grundsätzlichen Aspekten der Prüfungsvorbereitung (etwa:Was ist ein gutes Prüfungsthema? Wie gestalte ich ein Thesenpapier? Wie bereite ichmich auf die Klausuren vor?).

Prerequisites: none


For further information: [email protected] ExamenskolloquiumKolloquiumSchulze, RainerMi, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 15.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 709 II 709

Foundations of American Studies 1American Literature and Culture from the Beginnings to the 1850sVorlesungMayer, RuthMo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 13.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 003 II 003Kommentar This lecture will provide an introduction to early American culture and literature, focusing

on the emergence of a national ideology against the backdrop of ethnic, religious, andsocial conflicts. We will try to come to terms with the fact that only one version of thestories of discovery and colonization has survived, and cast a close look at the wayreligious, political, and aesthetic lines of expression interact in the representations ofrevolution and independence. A reader with course material will be made available atthe beginning of the class. For general reference (not only for this class) I recommendbuying Metzler Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte , ed. Hubert Zapf (new revised edition,Stuttgart: Metzler, 2004) and The Enduring Vision. A History of the American People (concise edition, complete), ed. Boyer, Clark et al. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005). Bothare standard textbooks.

Before the beginning of the semester, the final class syllabus and proceedings can bedownloaded from the American Studies website at:

http://www.engsem.uni-hannover.de/amst/profil_mayer/mayer_courses.htm

Please register for this class in the first class-session – not in advance by email.

Prerequisites: none

Prerequisites for certificate (BA students only): Studienleistung: regular attendance,preparation, final exam covering AmerF2, Prüfungsleistung : final written examinationcovering the contents of module Foundations American Studies 1 (resp. FoundationsAmerican Studies 2 )


For further information: [email protected]

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 12

Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (American Studies)Vorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungKünnemann, VanessaDi, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar This class provides an introduction to methods of interpretation and analysis, focusing

on the field of US literary and cultural history. We will discuss a variety of genres and textsorts – ranging from prose (Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening ) to drama (David HenryHwang's play M. Butterfly ), poetry, and film. Please purchase The Awakening (PenguinClassics; ISBN-10: 0142437328). A reader with additional course material will be madeavailable at the beginning of the semester.


http://www.engsem.uni-hannover.de/amst/profil_kuennemann/kuennemann_courses.htm

Please register for this class through the registration sheets (7th floor, Englishdepartment) before Wednesday, 08 October 2008, 1 p.m.

Prerequisites: none

Prerequisites for certificate AmerF1 ('Studienleistungen'): regular attendance,preparation, one written assignment, presentation/group work, test



Foundations of American Studies 2American Literature and Culture from the Beginnings to the 1850sVorlesungMayer, RuthMo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 13.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 003 II 003Kommentar This lecture will provide an introduction to early American culture and literature, focusing





Prerequisites: none




Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 13

American Women Writers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesSeminarHenneberg, Sylvia-BabetteMi, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 08.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar This course spans two centuries of American women’s writing focusing on feminist

perspectives and the theme of feminist awakening. Moving chronologically from the 19thto the 20th century and exploring several literary genres including poetry, the short story,the novel, the novella, and the essay, we will examine how definitions of femininity andfeminism have shifted over time and as a result of their intersection with perceptions ofgender, sexual identity, race, ethnicity, class, and age. Our discussions will center on avariety of American women writers who have shaped both the American literary canonand American feminism including, but not limited to, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson,Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, SylviaPlath, Adrienne Rich, Maxine Hong Kingston, Louise Erdrich, and Toni Morrison. Pleasepurchase The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English (eds. Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2, Norton, 2007, ISBN-10:0393930157).

Please register for this class at the e-mail address given below by October 1, 2008

Starting on: 08/10/08

Prerequisites: none

Prerequisites for certificate (AmerF4/AmerF5): regular attendance, short assignments,term paper


For further information: [email protected] Major American PoetsSeminarHenneberg, Sylvia-BabetteDo, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 09.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar This course examines various poetic theories and practices of selected major American

poets of the 19th and 20th centuries. As we take a close look at the innovations ofDickinson and Whitman, Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, Beat Poetry, ConfessionalPoetry, and contemporary poetry, it will be our goal to determine how these poets havereacted or responded to existing traditions and how they have set the stage for newdevelopments in poetry. We will acquire a working factual knowledge of several majorperiods, poets, and works in American literature, develop reading strategies and analyticskills appropriate to the study of poetry, and acquire research skills and a command ofliterary terminology conducive to the production of written and spoken discourse centeringon poetry. Please purchase Anthology of Modern American Poetry (ed. Cary Nelson,Oxford UP, 2000, ISBN-10: 0195122712).

Please register for this class at the e-mail address given below by October 1, 2008.


Prerequisites: none


Language in class: EnglishFor further information: [email protected]

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 14

The Harlem RenaissanceSeminarMayer, Ruth (verantwort)Di, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 07.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar In this class we will be concerned with African-American literature and culture in the

1920s in New York, the period known as the Harlem Renaissance. Originally calledthe ‘New Negro Renaissance’, this period attests to an unprecedented upsurge ofblack art, music, and writing, which went along with political projects aiming at blackemancipation and equality. We will engage with the literary output of the period – thewritings of Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Countée Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, JeanToomer, and Nella Larsen – but we will also be concerned with the cultural developmentsof the day, with black art and music, and with white views on the ‘Harlem vogue’ of theday. Please purchase Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem (Northeastern UP) and NellaLarsen’s Passing (Penguin Classics). A reader with additional course material will bemade available at the beginning of the class.





Prerequisites: none

Prerequisites for certificate (amerF4/AmerF5): regular attendance, short assignments,term paper


For further information: [email protected] (b,c) AmerF4; AmerF5

Advanced American Studies

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 15

Reading Literary and Cultural TheorySeminarMayer, Ruth (verantwort)Mi, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 08.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar In this class we will be concerned with major trends and developments in Anglophone

literary and cultural theory. We will approach the development of the field exemplarilyby largely focusing on the history and present state of American Studies, a disciplinewhich since its very inception in the late 1920s has been concerned with both literarytexts and cultural contexts. We will investigate the dominant debates in the 20th and 21stcentury around representation (both in a literary/artistic and in a political sense), takinginto account the positions of cultural studies, gender studies, postcolonial theory, andthe New Historicism. Obviously, to take (and enjoy) this class you should not be averseto theory. A reader with course material will be made available in the first session of theclass.






Prerequisites for certificate (AmerA1; AAS 1.2): regular attendance, moderation andpresentation, term paper


For further information: [email protected] (b,c) AmerA2; AAS 2.1; AAS 2.2; AAS 4.1; AAS 4.2

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 16

Studying Popular CultureSeminarGroß, FlorianDo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 09.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar In this class, we will approach - with an emphasis on the U.S. context - those texts

and practices that are labeled as popular culture: television shows, films, bestsellers,pop music, sports, etc. After addressing the question of what exactly popular culture isand how it is to be distinguished from concepts such as mass, folk, or high culture, wewill take a look at the emergence of popular culture and the development of a criticaldiscourse on the topic that ranges from the extreme pessimism of the Frankfurt Schoolto the sometimes equally extreme celebration of popular culture to be found in culturalstudies. In the second part of the seminar, we will analyze concrete examples fromdifferent media (independent and mainstream Hollywood cinema, current televisionseries, bestsellers, comics, music) and genres (soap opera, crime fiction, science fiction,fantasy), always with an emphasis on contemporary developments. The main goal of thiscourse is not only to familiarize students with the topic itself, but also to equip them withmeans of analyzing texts from popular culture.

A reader with course material will be made available in the first session of the class.Before the beginning of the semester, the final class syllabus and proceedings can bedownloaded from the American Studies website at:

http://www.engsem.uni-hannover.de/amst/profil_gross/gross_courses.htm




Prerequisites for certificate (AmerA1; AmerA2; AAS 2.1/2.2; AAS 4.1/4.2): regularattendance, moderation and presentation, term paper



Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 17

The Thirties. The Great Depression and the New Deal in American Literature and CultureSeminarMayer, Ruth (verantwort)Mo, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 06.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar In this class we will discuss the art and literature that came about in the wake of the

great depression and in the course of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's so-called ‘New Deal'.We will focus on this political program's first phase, in which the goal was relief andrecovery in the face of a deepgoing economic crisis. In these days, an unprecedentedand much-disputed government intervention on behalf of the poor set in, which wentalong on the cultural side with radically new programs for the promotion of the arts.Roosevelt's ambitious Works Progress Administration (WPA) comprised several supportprogram for artists - the Federal Writers Project, the Federal Theatre Project, the FederalArts Project. We will look into the effects and repercussions of such political measureson the artists and writers of the period. In particular, we will discuss James Agee's andWalker Evans' photo book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) together with otherdocumentary photography of the day (Dorothea Lange, Erskine Caldwell, MargaretBourke-White); we will watch and discuss Frank Capra's Meet John Doe (1941),read Richard Wright's Native Son (1940), Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio (written 1932-37,publ. 1974) and other fiction of the day. Please purchase Native Son (restored text,HarperPerennial) and Yonnondio (Bison Books). A reader with additional course materialwill be made available at the beginning of the class.






Prerequisites for certificate (AmerA1; AAS 2.1; AAS 2.2; AAS 3.1, AAS 3.2): regularattendance, moderation and presentation, term paper


For further information: [email protected] (b,c) AmerA1; AAS 2.1; AAS 2.2

Foundations British Studies 1Introduction to English Literary StudiesVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungEmig, RainerMi, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 15.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar The course will teach students the skills required for the description, analysis and

interpretation of literary text from all genres (poetry, drama, and prose). It will introducecritical terms and methods and apply them in close-reading exercises to selected textsfrom various periods. It will also question central terms, including “literature”, “the author”,“reading” and “the reader”, and “meaning”. Moreover, it will introduce students to thebasic rules of research and scholarly presentation.

Students should purchase:

Michael Meyer, English and American Literatures , 3rd edition, UTB Basics (Tübingen:Francke, 2008)

Prerequisites: none

Prerequisites for certificate (BritF1): regular attendance, active participation in class, shortoral presentation, mid-term exam, and final exam



Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 18

Introduction to English Literary StudiesVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungGohrisch, JanaMi, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 15.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar This course is designed as a general introduction into English Literary Studies. It

has two aims: firstly, to acquaint students with the different theoretical models andmethodological approaches to literature and, secondly, to enable students to developanalytical skills based on examples from English poetry, prose and drama. In addition tothe textbook by Vera and Ansgar Nünning, we shall read essays by critics from a varietyof methodological schools, Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 73” and the first act of Othello as wellas short stories by Thomas Hardy and Virginia Woolf. Students will learn to make senseof a difficult theoretical text, to use secondary material in the interpretation of literature, todesign a contention of their own and to prepare a term paper.

Textbook:

Vera and Ansgar Nünning. An Introduction to the Study of English and AmericanLiterature . Translated from the German by Jane Dewhurst. Stuttgart: Klett 2005. ISBN3-12-939619-5

Please buy Nünning’s textbook. I shall provide a reader at the beginning of the semesterwhich contains the theoretical essays, the secondary material as well as the sonnet andthe short stories.

Prerequisites: none

Prerequisites for certificate (BritF1): regular attendance, active participation in class,reading and written homework assignments, final exam


For further information: [email protected] Introduction to Literary AnalysisVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungIlsemann, HartmutFr, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 17.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar In this seminar we will deal with plays, poems and prose fiction, each type represented

by text examples. We will establish the distinctive features of each type of text, and wewill also consider what they have in common. The main focus will be on questions ofanalysis – the communication model plays an important role here, as does the conceptof point-of-view. Verse and metre will become familiar terms. The theoretical and formalconcepts will be explained with textual evidence and then utilised in descriptions of textpassages.

As well as doing weekly homework, every participant will present a topic in class as thebasis for a paper that will be submitted and graded. The formal requirements for writing apaper successfully will also be discussed in detail. There will be a final test.

The material required for the course is available from the Handapparat in the library andfrom StudIP. It is also possible to download the manuscript from the homepage of theEnglish Department: http://Hartmut.Ilsemann.phil.uni-hannover.de/downloads

Prerequisites: TOEFL-Test or appropriate requirement

Prerequisites for certificate (BritF1): oral presentation, regular attendance, homework,written paper, final exam


For further information: [email protected] or 762-3216Bemerkung (b), S, BritF1

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 19

Survey of British CulturesVorlesung, SWS: 2Bennett, PeterFr, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 17.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 003 II 003Kommentar The aims of this lecture are

1. to provide a broad introduction to major institutional, social and cultural aspects ofmodern British society, and

2. to give insight into current debates and conflicts in British culture.

We shall look at each in terms of the other and, with the support of historical backgroundand some cultural theory, try to come to a better understanding of the complexity, fluidityand plurality of modern British culture.

BA students are recommended to buy British Civilization: An Introduction by JohnOakfield (6th edition, 2006). The lecture will follow the structure of the book, but will addmuch to it, especially in respect of the latest developments.

All students are welcome to attend. BA students will have to pass a written examination inthe final teaching week.

No need to register beforehand, but you must be present at the first meeting.

PLEASE NOTE: this is the last time that BritF2 will be offered in this form. FromWinter 2009, BritF2 and BritF3 will combine the cultural survey with the literarysurvey over two semesters.

Prerequisites: None

Prerequisites for certificate (BritF2): regular attendance, final written examination



Foundations British Studies 219th Century PoetrySeminarIlsemann, Hartmut (verantwort)Do, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 09.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar Selected representative poems of the nineteenth century and their analysis and

interpretation will form the backbone of this class. We'll start off with Coleridge's AncientMariner and will get to Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach by the end of term. On 16October we'll have the honour and pleasure of welcoming Tony Maude in class who willgive us his view of 19th century poetry, and sure enough it will be great fun to listen to hisrecitals.

In due time there will be a list of topics and poems on StudIP as well as on myhomepage.

Please select a poem for analysis, and at a given date present your findings in classto your fellow students. It is obvious that depending on the choice of poems we willalso deal with the typical characteristics of sonnets, odes, etc. Foot and metre, rhymingschemes and other prosodic features will be explained as well.

Apart from presenting your choice in class you should be prepared to write a term paper.

Prerequisites: BritF1 et al.

Prerequisites for certificate (BritF4; AAS 2.1/2.2): regular attendance, presentation ofassignment, term paper



Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 20

Adaptations of Jane Austen's Pride and PrejudiceSeminarKrämer, LuciaDo, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 23.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615 , Ersatzveranstaltung Jane Austen’s NovelsSeminarGrünkemeier, Ellen (verantwort)Mi, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 08.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar Jane Austen is one of the most influential British novelists. Her novels explore a variety

of topics such as love, courtship and marriage, property and social class, sensibilityand reason. In this seminar we will address these and other topics as well as questionsconcerning language and writing style, character and gender construction, setting, etc.Two of her novels, i.e. Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Pride and Prejudice (1813), willbe subject to our analysis. We will also locate the texts in their wider social, historical andcultural context.

A reader with background material will be provided. Students who want to attend thiscourse should purchase the following novels, preferably in well-annotated editions as, forexample, from Penguin or Oxford Classics. Read one of them before the course starts.

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811)

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Prerequisites: none

Prerequisites for certificate (BritF4/BritF5; Schlüsselkomp. (b)): regular attendance, activeparticipation in class, reading and written homework assignments, term paper



Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 21

Jane Eyre: Past, Present, Future – From Charlotte Brontë to Jasper FfordeSeminarFunk, WolfgangMo, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 06.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609 , fällt ausKommentar Jane Eyre is one of the most influential texts of the 19th century, both widely read and

admired by a broader public (coming in at number 24 at the bestselling classics onAmazon) and scrutinized by generations of academics. In this course we will not only takea close look at what an analysis of Jane Eyre can tell us about the time in which it waswritten, but also on various spin-offs it has generated, eventually proving that the novel’scharacters and plot structure can offer useful insights even to our own post-modernsociety.

The theoretical approaches that we will use to investigate the texts include gender theory(“Jane Eyre as a Feminist Text”), postcolonial theory (“Bertha as Jane’s Significant Otherin Wide Sargasso Sea ”), but also questions of authorship, intertextuality (“Breaking theBoundaries of Fiction and Reality in The Eyre Affair ”) and intermediality (“Staging Janewith Polly Teale”).

A reader with theoretical texts and background material will be provided. Students whowant to attend this course must get hold of the following text (if possible in well-annotatededitions). All of the texts should and Jane Eyre must be read by the first session:

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847).

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966).

Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (2001).

Polly Teale, After Mrs Rochester (2004).

If you want to join the course, please send an informal email to the address given below.

Prerequisites: none

Prerequisites for certificate (BritF4/Britf5; Schlüsselkomp. (b)): regular attendance,preparation, presentation and moderation, term paper



Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 22

Sphinxes without Secrets? – Short Stories from the Nineteenth CenturySeminarFunk, WolfgangDi, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 07.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar In this course we will take a closer look at a genre which is usually not immediately

associated with British 19th century literature – the short story. We will trace the dramaticshifts in society and politics that characterize this century in Britain in stories by Byron,Dickens, Hardy, Kipling, Mary Russell Mitford, Agnes Strickland and others. Aspectsto be investigated will span a period from the phase-out of Romanticism to the loomingclouds of World War I. The rise of industrialization and urbanization (and the subsequentemergence of a poor working class) and the rules governing Victorian Britain will play animportant role as will the high point of British Imperialism.

A reader with theoretical texts and background material will be provided. Students whowish to attend this course should get hold of the following texts:

Davies, David Stuart, Selected Short Stories from the 19th Century (WordsworthClassics), 2000.

Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884). Must by read by thefirst session.


Prerequisites: none

Prerequisites for certificate (BritF4/BritF5; Schlüsselkomp. (b)): regular attendance,preparation, presentation and moderation, term paper


For further information: [email protected] Survey of British CulturesVorlesung, SWS: 2Bennett, PeterFr, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 17.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 003 II 003Kommentar The aims of this lecture are








Prerequisites: None




Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 23

Writing GlobalisationSeminarKrämer, LuciaFr, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 17.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 709 II 709 , fällt ausKommentar This course focuses on three recent novels by Robert Newman, Hari Kunzru and

Kiran Desai that deal with globalisation. While we will contextualise these works in theframework of various theories of globalisation, the main focus of the seminar will be onthe literary analysis of the novels. The works are of special interest in this respect, sincetheir writers engage with the topic of globalisation not only on the level of content butalso on the level of narrative technique. The life stories of their characters are determinedby the side-effects of globalisation, especially migration and feelings for example ofhope, desire, alienation or disorientation. At the same time, the writers convey theselife stories and emotions by strategies that make the novels particularly interesting froma narratological point of view. Please buy the books indicated below and bring yourpersonal copies along to class. You should have read at least one of the novels by thebeginning of the course.

Compulsory purchase:

Desai, Kiran. The Inheritance of Loss . London et al.: Penguin, 2006.

Kunzru, Hari. Transmission . London et al.: Penguin, 2005.

Newman, Robert. The Fountain at the Centre of the World . London and New York:Verso, 2003.

Recommended Background Reading :

Beynon, John and David Dunkerley (eds). Globalization: The Reader . London and NewYork: Routledge, 2000.


Prerequisites: none

Prerequisites for certificate (BritF4/BritF5; Schlüsselkomp. (b)): regular attendance, activeparticipation, oral presentation, term paper


Advanced British Studies

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 24

19th Century English NovelsSeminarBirkner, Gerd (verantwort)Mi, wöchentl., 08:30 - 10:00, 15.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar This seminar will discuss important nineteenth-century English novels from the

beginnings towards the end of the century. Their usual common denominator of"nineteenth-century novel" suggests a considerable degree of homogeneity of thesetexts. This, however, will not be our prime interest. We shall rather discuss the quiteastonishing differences between the respective texts and change our approach as we goalong. In Austen's Emma and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre the respective techniques ofpoint of view and their effect on positioning the heroines in their environment will be ourmain concern. In Dickens' Oliver Twist and W.M. Thackeray's Vanity Fair our interest willbe in their respective perception and critical evaluation of contemporary British society.George Eliot's Middlemarch will be read as an example of fully developed realism inEnglish novel-writing. Ultimately, Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native will be readas an indication that the balanced relationships between the individual and society areover and literary modernism is looming on the horizon.Certificate: BritA1; BritA2

For further information: [email protected] Pamphlets by John Milton:

The Tenure of King and Magistrates (1649)Eikonoklastes (1649)The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Common Wealth (1660)The History of Britain (1670)Of True Religion (1673)John Milton, Paradise Lost (begun in 1658)John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by Spaniards (1610-11)John Dryden, All for Love (1677)Thomas Otway, Venice Preserved (1682)Poetry by Andrew Marvell (1670-71)

Australian Literature in ContextSeminarGrünkemeier, EllenDi, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 07.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar In this seminar students will be introduced to the literature of Australia, one of the

new English literatures of the world. Questions concerning identity and belonging,nation-building, national icons and legends will serve as guidelines for our analysis ofselected short stories and poems as well as two novels, i.e. A Fringe of Leaves byPatrick White, the only Australian author so far to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (in1973), and Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang . We will also watch and discussthe film Rabbit-Proof Fence . Our analysis will include the discussion of Australia's pastas a convict settlement as well as modern Australian history and Aborigine culture.

A reader with additional material will be provided. Students who wish to attend this courseshould get hold of the following novels:

Patrick White, A Fringe of Leaves (1976)

Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang (2000)

Prerequisites: BritF1 or intermediate exam

Prerequisites for certificate (BritA1; BritA2; AAS3.1; AAS3.2; AAS5.2, Schlüsselkomp. (b,c)): regular attendance, active participation in class, oral presentation, term paper



Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 25

Bollywood in BritainSeminarKrämer, LuciaDo, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 16.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar While this course will introduce students to the stylistic and narrative specificities of

popular Indian cinema, its main focus of interest will lie on Britain as a place of productionand consumption of Hindi films. Concerning the aspect of production, we will concentrateon the role of Britain as a setting of Hindi films (a trend since the 1990s) and analysetheir representation of Britain and the British in general, and of British Asians in particular.In order to chart the development and expansion of the consumption of popular Indiancinema in Britain in the past years, we will analyse various kinds of texts ranging fromfilm reviews and autobiographical writings to a deliberately hybrid film such as GurinderChadha's Bride & Prejudice as well as Indian heritage films targeted at an internationalmarket. These texts raise interesting points about the role of overseas markets forthe Indian film industry as well as the role of popular Indian cinema for the identityconstruction of diasporic South Asians in Britain. They indicate, moreover, that overthe past few years ‘Bollywood' has become a vital part of British constructions of India,especially in reductionist and stereotyping versions that lay particular emphasis on theexoticism and otherness of Hindi films.

As we will not have time to screen entire films in class, students will have to watch thefilms for the seminar at home. All of them are available for borrowing or buying fromwell-stocked video shops, DVD stores and retailers such as amazon.de or amazon.co.uk.In order to facilitate your search for the films, I indicate their German titles in squarebrackets. You should have watched Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham , Lagaan and Dil Se bythe beginning of the course.

Films treated in the seminar :

Bride & Prejudice . [Liebe lieber indisch ]. Dir. Gurinder Chadha. Act. Aishwarya Rai,Martin Henderson. Prod. Pathé et al. UK, 2004.

Dil Se . [Von ganzem Herzen ]. Dir. Mani Ratnam. Act. Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala.Prod. Shekhar Kapur, Ram Gopal Varma, Mani Ratnam. India, 1998.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge . [Wer zuerst kommt, kriegt die Braut ]. Dir. Aditya Chopra.Act. Shahrukh Khan, Kajol. Prod. Yash Chopra. India, 1995.

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham . [Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad , oder In guten wie inschweren Tagen ]. Dir. Karan Johar. Act. Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, ShahrukhKhan, Kajol, Hrithik Roshan, Kareena Kapoor. Prod. Dharma Productions. India, 2001.

Lagaan . Dir. Ashutosh Gowariker. Act. Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley. Prod.Aamir Khan. India, 2001.

Mangal Pandey: The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey . [The Rising: Aufstand derHelden ]. Dir. Ketan Mehta. Act. Aamir Khan, Toby Stephens, Rani Mukherjee. Prod.Bobby Bedi, Deepa Sahi. India, 2002.

All other texts treated in the seminar will be made available in a reader in the first session.


Kabir, Nasreen Munni. Bollywood: The Indian Cinema Story . London: Channel 4 Books,2001.

Uhl, Matthias und Keval J. Kumar. Indischer Film: Eine Einführung . Bielefeld: transcript,2004.

Please register for this class at the e-mail address given below by 1 October, 2008.


Prerequisites for certificate (BritA1; BritA2; AAS4.1, AAS4.2; AAS 5.2; Schlüsselkomp. (b,c)): regular attendance, active participation, oral presentation and term paper



Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 26

Books into Films: Last Orders, Enduring Love and AtonementSeminarIlsemann, Hartmut (verantwort)Mo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 06.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar In this seminar we will acquaint ourselves with the main features of film analysis, then

look into the respective novels by Graham Swift and Ian McEwan to evaluate their literarycharacteristics and achievements. In the case of Last Orders the film script will becompared to both novel and film to detect the transformational rules that were taken intoconsideration by film director Fred Schepisi.

Instead of presenting one topic once during term participants will be expected to conductsmaller assignments from all fields of investigation. This could well mean that someonelooks into the effects of switching from medium range to close-ups. Later on he or she willtransfer that theoretical aspect to the comparison of how Jack's ashes are spilled in thenovel, the film script and and in the film.

Similar close-up shots from scenes of the other two films would then, in the course ofclass meetings, complete the thematic links that could be put down in writing as a kind ofterm paper.

Please make sure that you have read the three novels by the beginning of term. They areall available as paperbacks. Please register for this class as early as possible.

Prerequisites: intermediate exam or comparable ranking

Prerequisites for certificate (BritA1; BritA2; AAAS 4.1/4.2): regular attendance,presentation of various assignments, term paper



Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 27

Colonial West Africa in Historiography and LiteratureSeminarGohrisch, Jana (verantwort)Di, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar This course offers a new interdisciplinary approach to both history and literature.

Rather than treating literary texts as a mere reflection of history we shall investigate thecomplex relationships between text and context to chronicle the colonial exploration and

exploitation of western Africa by the British in the 19th and 20th century.

We shall begin with historical material on the slave trade conducted both by Africans andEuropeans, reading excerpts from Olaudah Equiano's famous slave narrative publishedin 1789. We will move on to investigate why and how the British colonized westernAfrica and how the Africans acted during this prolonged period of interference whichfundamentally changed their social and political structures as well as their cultures.

Joyce Cary (1888-1957), who served as a district magistrate and administrative officerin Nigeria, published his novel Mister Johnson in 1939. It is set in northern Nigeriaand features a young black man who adapts to colonial culture and tries to exploit itfor personal gain. Cary's colonial image of blacks is challenged by the Nigerian authorChinua Achebe (born in 1930) who presents a critical black perspective on colonizationin his classic novel Things Fall Apart published in 1958. The novel is set amongst theIgbos of eastern Nigeria around 1900, the period of consolidated "indirect rule" by theBritish. The protagonist of the novel is a village community which is portrayed as it comesto terms with challenges from both its inside and outside. Achebe's novel not only writesback to Cary but appropriates the English language and the novel genre by infusing itwith Igbo features such as sayings and proverbs.

Texts:

Joyce Cary. Mister Johnson . (Norton or Penguin editions with introductions)

Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart . Expanded edition with notes. London: Heinemann2000.

The historical and literary studies essays will be provided in a reader at the beginning ofthe semester. Please buy and bring along your own copies of the novels in good editions(i. e. with an introduction and notes) and read one of them before the course starts.


Prerequisites for certificate (BritA1; BritA2, AAS 5.2; Schlüsselkomp. (c)): a goodcommand of English and an interest in historical issues, regular attendance, activeparticipation in class, oral presentation and term paper

Languages in class: English and German


Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 28

Literary MasculinitiesSeminarEmig, RainerMo, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 13.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar What is dominant often remains invisible. This is certainly true for masculinity in literature,

which, as feminist scholarship continually reminds us, has shaped the majority of literarytexts throughout history. Yet what does this dominant paradigm ‘masculinity' looklike? Is it always the same? Is it without contradictions? Is it still a hegemonic force incontemporary writing? The seminar will combine a broad historical survey of literaturewith the study of some recent theoretical texts on masculinity. It will attempt to definemasculinity not as an essence (biological or psychological), but as a cultural constructwhose foundations in signifying processes make it resemble literary fiction. Readings willinclude excerpts from medieval texts (a modern English version of "The Wanderer" plusChaucer's "The Knight's Tale"), Shakespeare's Coriolanus, and the Restoration comedyThe Country Wife by William Wicherley. It will then proceed via examples from theeighteenth century and the Romantic era (Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling andexcerpts from Byron's Lara) to Victorian writings (among them a section from ThomasCarlyle‘s On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History). Contemporary views ofmasculinity will be provided by Nick Hornby's About a Boy and Alan Holinghurst's gaynovel The Swimming Pool Library.


Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling [1771], ed. Brian Vickers (Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2001)

Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library [1988] (London: Vintage, 1998)

Nick Hornby, About a Boy [1998] (London: Penguin, 2000)

All other texts will be provided as mastercopies.


Prerequisites for certificate (BritA1; BritA2; AAS2.1; AAS2.2; AAS3.1; AAS3.2;Schlüsselkomp. (b)): regular attendance, active participation in class, oral presentationand term paper



Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 29

Modern Theories of Literature and CultureVorlesungEmig, RainerMo, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 13.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar This series of lectures introduces students to the plurality of theories of literature and

culture in the twentieth century. It will cover Semiotics, Formalism and New Criticism,Reader-Response Theory, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Structuralism, Deconstructionand Poststructuralism, Feminism, Gender Studies and Queer Theory, New Historicismand Cultural Materialism, Postcolonial Theory, and theories of Intertextuality andIntermediality. The lectures will follow a regular format and will always introduce keytheories, their concepts and terminologies, explore key texts of these theories, anddemonstrate their application on a selection of literary texts or cultural artefacts. Studentswill thus gain an insight into the diverse approaches in current scholarship and increasedconfidence in using theory themselves.

Recommended Background Reading:

Michael Ryan, Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)

David Lodge, ed., Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, 2nd edition (Harlow:Longman, 2000)

Prerequisites: none

Prerequisites for certificate (BritA1; BritA2; AAS 1.1): regular attendance, final exam


For further information: [email protected] The Representations of Gypsies in Nineteenth-Century English LiteratureSeminarBennett, Peter (verantwort)Fr, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 10.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar Gypsies have featured sporadically in English literature from about 1600 up to the

present. They are central in some works, peripheral in others, but they are almost alwaysrepresented in stereotypical ways that characterize them as entirely "other" in relationto the cultural and behavioural norms of the inferred readership. This tends to producesimple negative or positive images rather than complex representations. Gypsies areusually therefore either depicted as idle, dirty, untrustworthy, even criminal, or they areromanticized in a racialist manner that links their oriental origins with magical powers,mysticism and the exotic Enthusiastic folklorists in the nineteenth century also provedinfluential in perceiving and representing Gypsies as primitive and carefree people of theheath and forest, with an enviably pre-industrial lifestyle.

The seminar will focus on three elements: the theory of representation, detailed analysisof the various representations of Gypsies in a wide range of nineteenth-century literature,and a comparison of the latter with the legal and social relations between Gypsies andBritish society during the period in question.

Most of the primary literary sources, consisting of single poems and extracts from novels,will be available on counter reference in the library. One novel, however, is essential reading:

Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering (1815).

The recommended edition is that by Penguin Classics, ISBN 0-140-43657-X. Everyoneshould get hold of a copy and have started reading it before the semester begins.


Prerequisites for certificate (BritA1; BritA2; AAS 2.1/2.2; AAS 3.1/3.2; Schlüsselkomp.(a, b)): regular attendance and reading, presentation (Studienleistung); term paper(Prüfungsleistung)



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Winter 2008/09 30

The School Story: From Tom Brown to Harry PotterSeminarEmig, RainerMi, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 15.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar The British public school system has had a pervasive effect on British history and society

- to the extent that it is often believed that the Duke of Wellington claimed that "TheBattle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton." What is certain is that not onlyupper class, but also common British values were shaped by structures encounteredin all-male boarding schools. This seminar will look at fictional texts dealing with thepublic school system. It will start with Tom Brown's Schooldays of 1857, a largelyidealised novel for boys that contains many of then current ideas of school reform. Itwill continue with selected stories by Rudyard Kipling featuring the rake hero Stalkyand his loyal schoolmates (published between 1897 and 1929). A female version of theschool story will be provided by Antonia Forest's Autumn Term (1948). Muriel spark'sThe Prime of Miss Jean Brody (1961) will act as a subversive counter-example to theidylls encountered so far. Finally, the most modern example will be the first volume ofthe Harry Potter series (1997), where we will check if its mixed-sex and multiculturalenvironment has really done away with traditional norms and values, or if it perpetuatesthem in nostalgic disguise.


Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, ed. Andrew Sanders (Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 1989)

Antonia Forest, Autumn Term , Faber Children's Classics (London: Faber & Faber, 2000)

Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brody , Penguin Modern Classics (London:Penguin, 2000)J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (London: Bloomsbury, 1997)

Selections from Rudyard Kipling's Stalky stories will be provided as mastercopies.


Prerequisites for certificate (BritA1; BritA2; AAS2.1; AAS2.2; AAS 3.1; AAS3.2; AAS4.1;AAS4.2; Schlüsselkomp. (b)): regular attendance, active participation in class, oralpresentation and term paper



Foundations Anglistik 1Introduction to English Literary StudiesVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungEmig, RainerMi, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 15.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar The course will teach students the skills required for the description, analysis and




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Foundations Anglistik 219th Century PoetrySeminarIlsemann, Hartmut (verantwort)Do, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 09.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar Selected representative poems of the nineteenth century and their analysis and









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Winter 2008/09 32

Jane Austen’s NovelsSeminarGrünkemeier, Ellen (verantwort)Mi, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 08.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar Jane Austen is one of the most influential British novelists. Her novels explore a variety





Prerequisites: none




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Winter 2008/09 33

Jane Eyre: Past, Present, Future – From Charlotte Brontë to Jasper FfordeSeminarFunk, WolfgangMo, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 06.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609 , fällt ausKommentar Jane Eyre is one of the most influential texts of the 19th century, both widely read and

admired by a broader public (coming in at number 24 at the bestselling classics onAmazon) and scrutinized by generations of academics. In this course we will not only takea close look at what an analysis of Jane Eyre can tell us about the time in which it waswritten, but also on various spin-offs it has generated, eventually proving that the novel’scharacters and plot structure can offer useful insights even to our own post-modernsociety.

The theoretical approaches that we will use to investigate the texts include gender theory(“Jane Eyre as a Feminist Text”), postcolonial theory (“Bertha as Jane’s Significant Otherin Wide Sargasso Sea ”), but also questions of authorship, intertextuality (“Breaking theBoundaries of Fiction and Reality in The Eyre Affair ”) and intermediality (“Staging Janewith Polly Teale”).

A reader with theoretical texts and background material will be provided. Students whowant to attend this course must get hold of the following text (if possible in well-annotatededitions). All of the texts should and Jane Eyre must be read by the first session:

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847).

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966).

Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (2001).

Polly Teale, After Mrs Rochester (2004).


Prerequisites: none

Prerequisites for certificate (BritF4/Britf5; Schlüsselkomp. (b)): regular attendance,preparation, presentation and moderation, term paper



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Foundations Methodology of Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 43

Approaches, Skills and Competencies in Language TeachingSeminarKupetz, Rita (verantwort)Mi, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 08.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar We will deal with an overview of major approaches to foreign language teaching and

analyse the potential of different methods, such as the Grammar-Translation Method,Total Physical Response, Suggestopedia or the Communicative Approach .

We will consider how the various approaches go about skill development and knowledgeconstruction. Be prepared to design a mini-practice following one of these approaches.

Basic reader of the course:

Richards, Jack C. and Theodore S. Rodgers. (2001). Approaches and Methods inLanguage Teaching. A description and analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress.

Please register via Stud.IP before October 1, 2008.

Prerequisites: DidF1

Prerequisites for certificate (DidF2): participation/oral contribution (mini-practice)/finalpaper/project;

BA: Modulabschlussprüfung DidF (DidF1 and DidF2)



Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 44

Introduction to English Language TeachingSeminarBlell, Gabriele (verantwort)Do, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 16.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 003 II 003Kommentar This introductory methodology course is obligatory for all student teachers; we

recommend participation in the 3rd/4th semester (PVO 1998). The course gives anintroduction into the complex subject matter of teaching and learning English as a foreignlanguage with special regard to teacher education. The course is based on four aspectsof EFL teaching and learning which we consider to be particularly relevant today:

- Promoting intercultural communicative competence (ICC)

- (Foreign) language learning as individual and collaborative achievement

-.Developing learner- and learning centred teaching

- Supporting task-based learning.

Main issues will be introduced, relevant research will be summarized and discussed, andexamples of good classroom practice are illustrated.

The course goes along with a tutorial.

Literature:

Müller-Hartmann, A. & von Schocker-Ditfurth, M.: Introduction to English LanguageTeaching . Klett 2004 (obligatory)

Shrum, Judith L. & Glisan, Eileen W.: Teacher’s Handbook. Contextualized LanguageInstruction. Boston: Thomson & Heinle.

Recommended:

Bausch, K.-R./ Christ, H./ Krumm, H.-J.(Hrsg.) Handbuch Fremdsprachenunterricht .;Tübingen: Francke 1995 (überarbeitete Auflage).

Heuer, H. und F. Klippel: Englischmet hodik. Problemfelder, Unterrichtswirklichkeit undHandlungsempfehlungen. Berlin: Cornelsen 1993 (3. Druck).

Jung, Udo H. (Hrsg.): Praktische Handreichung für Fremdsprachenlehrer . (2.Aufl.) PeterLang 1998;

Timm, J.-P./ Bach, G. (Hrsg.): Englischunterricht. (2. Aufl.) Tübingen: Francke 1998.

Weskamp, Ralf (2001): Fachdidaktik: Grundlagen & Konzepte. Berlin: Cornelsen.


Prerequisites: None.

Prerequisites for certificate (DidF1): regular attendance; two passed quizzes; MLP;(Klausur for ‘Non’-BA students)

Language in class: English.For further information: [email protected]

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Winter 2008/09 45

Learning beyond schooling: Project-oriented work in the EFL-classroomSeminarBlell, Gabriele (verantwort)Di, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 07.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar Since learning in the 21st century will be life-long learning, teachers and educators must

adapt their learning infrastructure more flexibly to learner needs and learning conditions.‘In-class learning’ is complemented by forms of ‘out-of-class learning’ in many schoolsubjects in the meantime, English included.

Within the context of project work – as “a theme and task-centred mode of teachingand learning which results from a joint process of negotiation between all participants”(Legutke & Thomas 1993) – we will review different forms of ’Learning beyond theClassroom’: encounter projects (learners meet people face-to-face inside or outside theclassroom); survey projects (learners design survey instruments or collect and analyzeinformation from people), correspondence projects (learners communicate with otherpeople via e-mail, chat etc.), research projects (learners engage in library and or/internetresearch and field work projects (learners learn ‘at the face’ – in the museum or in themovies.)

Literature:

Legutke, Michael/ Thomas, Howard (1993): Process and Experience in the LanguageClassroom. London/NY: Longman.

Stoller, Fredericka (2002): Project Work: A Means to Promote Language and Content.In: Richards, Jack /Renandya, Willy A. (Eds.). Methodology in Language Teaching: AnAnthology of Current Practice. CUP, 107-119.

Eyring, Janet L. (2001): Experiential and Negotiated Language Learning. In:Celce-Murcia, M. (Ed.). Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 333-344.

Prerequisites: Introduction to English Language Teaching (DidF1)

Prerequisites for certificate (DidF2): regular attendance; ‘Studienleistung’ will be specifiedin the seminar.

Language in class: English.

For further information: [email protected] S, DidF2

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 46

Teaching Storytelling SkillsSeminarRuhm, HannahFr, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 10.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar Stories are a fundamental part of everyday life and an essential component of human

communication. We read them, we listen to them, we watch them on TV, we tell them atthe dinner table, in the pub, at school and at work.

In the classroom, stories can provide an engaging and motivating source of linguisticinput. Thus, story-based activities offer a wide range of possibilities for authentic,creative and meaningful language interaction between students and teachers. However,what makes a “good” story? Which skills do students need to acquire to become“competent” storytellers? Most importantly, in what ways can language teachers fosterthe development of oral narrative skills? In this seminar we will review basic approachesto narrative analysis and different developmental studies on the acquisition of oralstorytelling skills. We will deal with teaching concepts and methods that involve narrativeprinciples, discuss and develop activities which integrate these concepts, and evaluatetheir potential for the foreign language classroom.

A reader with theoretical texts and material will be provided.

Please register for this class at the e-mail address given below before October 1, 2008.

Morgan, John & Rinvolucri, Mario. (2004). Once upon a time. Using Stories in thelanguage Classroom . Cambridge: CUP.

Piepho, Hans-Eberhard. (2007). Narrative Dimensionen im Fremdsprachenunterricht .(hrsg. von Otfried Börner & Christoph Edelhoff). Braunschweig: Schroedel, Diesterweg,Klinkhardt.

Wajnryb, Ruth. (2003). Stories: Narrative activities in the language classroom .Cambridge: CUP

Prerequisites: Introduction to Teaching English (DidF1)

Prerequisites for certificate (DidF2): reading/writing assignments, group project



1. Grundwissen Erziehungswissenschaft/Psychologie, 2. Allg. SchulpraktikumVeranstaltungen werden im Vorlesungsverzeichnis des Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft eingepflegt. (Für denentsprechenden Link drücken Sie bitte auf das Informationssymbol.)

Professionalisierungsbereich: SchlüsselkompetenzenFür weitere Veranstaltungen siehe das Angebot des Zentrums für Schlüsselkompetenzen. (Für die entsprechendenLinks drücken Sie bitte auf das Informationssymbol.)

B.Sc.Technical Education

Foundations Linguistics 1

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 47

Introduction to Linguistics IVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungShahrokny-Prehn, ArianMo, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 13.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 003 II 003Kommentar This course provides a first general introduction to English linguistics. We will initially deal




Prerequisites: none



For further information, please contact me at: [email protected] Introduction to Linguistics IVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungSchulze, RainerMo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 13.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703





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Foundations Linguistics 2Lexical SemanticsSeminarHöche, SilkeDo, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 16.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703






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Winter 2008/09 49

Middle EnglishSeminarShahrokny-Prehn, ArianDo, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 09.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar Middle English is commonly described as the transitional period between Old English

and Early Modern English. Although this is certainly true, it can create the – false –impression of Middle English being a historical footnote. However, during this periodEnglish underwent the most profound changes that still have tremendous influence on thelanguage today.

In this seminar we will take a close look at how the language developed before, duringand after this period. We will do so by tracking the linguistic changes as well as takinginto account social and cultural developments. Different texts will be translated, analysedand put into their historical context. The overall aim of this seminar is to achieve adeeper understanding of English (and indeed any language) as an ever evolving, alwayschanging system of communication.

Prerequisites: Introduction to Linguistics I + II

Prerequisites for certificate (LingF4): regular attendance, active participation, readingassignments, final exam (Prüfungsleistung)



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Advanced English Skills

SPCSCommunication Skills (SPCS)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungBennett, PeterDi, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703

Do, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 16.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703




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SPAWRAcademic Writing and Research (SPAWR)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungJones, JacobDi, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609

Di, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703

Di, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 113 II 113

Di, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703




Writing in EnglishTextual Analysis and Production (SPTAP)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungIlsemann, HartmutMo, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, ab 13.10.2008, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar This course examines language, grammar and style of some text types (e.g., news items,



SPTAPTextual Analysis and Production (SPTAP)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungIlsemann, HartmutMo, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, ab 13.10.2008, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar This course examines language, grammar and style of some text types (e.g., news items,



SPEW

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 52

Expository Writing (SPEW)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungMenis, AnneMo, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, ab 13.10.2008, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar This course investigates organisational patterns used in various genres and discourse


Intergrated English PracticeTopics (SPTOP): Canadian Popular CultureSprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungHunter, KateFr, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 17.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar This module incorporates two courses dealing with various topics of relevance to students













SPTOP1

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SPTOP2

Foundations Methodology of Teaching English as a Foreign LanguageApproaches, Skills and Competencies in Language TeachingSeminarKupetz, Rita (verantwort)Mi, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 08.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar We will deal with an overview of major approaches to foreign language teaching and











Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 54

Introduction to English Language TeachingSeminarBlell, Gabriele (verantwort)Do, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 16.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 003 II 003Kommentar This introductory methodology course is obligatory for all student teachers; we

recommend participation in the 3rd/4th semester (PVO 1998). The course gives anintroduction into the complex subject matter of teaching and learning English as a foreignlanguage with special regard to teacher education. The course is based on four aspectsof EFL teaching and learning which we consider to be particularly relevant today:

- Promoting intercultural communicative competence (ICC)

- (Foreign) language learning as individual and collaborative achievement

-.Developing learner- and learning centred teaching

- Supporting task-based learning.

Main issues will be introduced, relevant research will be summarized and discussed, andexamples of good classroom practice are illustrated.

The course goes along with a tutorial.

Literature:

Müller-Hartmann, A. & von Schocker-Ditfurth, M.: Introduction to English LanguageTeaching . Klett 2004 (obligatory)

Shrum, Judith L. & Glisan, Eileen W.: Teacher’s Handbook. Contextualized LanguageInstruction. Boston: Thomson & Heinle.

Recommended:

Bausch, K.-R./ Christ, H./ Krumm, H.-J.(Hrsg.) Handbuch Fremdsprachenunterricht .;Tübingen: Francke 1995 (überarbeitete Auflage).

Heuer, H. und F. Klippel: Englischmet hodik. Problemfelder, Unterrichtswirklichkeit undHandlungsempfehlungen. Berlin: Cornelsen 1993 (3. Druck).

Jung, Udo H. (Hrsg.): Praktische Handreichung für Fremdsprachenlehrer . (2.Aufl.) PeterLang 1998;

Timm, J.-P./ Bach, G. (Hrsg.): Englischunterricht. (2. Aufl.) Tübingen: Francke 1998.

Weskamp, Ralf (2001): Fachdidaktik: Grundlagen & Konzepte. Berlin: Cornelsen.


Prerequisites: None.

Prerequisites for certificate (DidF1): regular attendance; two passed quizzes; MLP;(Klausur for ‘Non’-BA students)

Language in class: English.For further information: [email protected]

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Teaching Storytelling SkillsSeminarRuhm, HannahFr, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 10.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar Stories are a fundamental part of everyday life and an essential component of human

communication. We read them, we listen to them, we watch them on TV, we tell them atthe dinner table, in the pub, at school and at work.

In the classroom, stories can provide an engaging and motivating source of linguisticinput. Thus, story-based activities offer a wide range of possibilities for authentic,creative and meaningful language interaction between students and teachers. However,what makes a “good” story? Which skills do students need to acquire to become“competent” storytellers? Most importantly, in what ways can language teachers fosterthe development of oral narrative skills? In this seminar we will review basic approachesto narrative analysis and different developmental studies on the acquisition of oralstorytelling skills. We will deal with teaching concepts and methods that involve narrativeprinciples, discuss and develop activities which integrate these concepts, and evaluatetheir potential for the foreign language classroom.

A reader with theoretical texts and material will be provided.

Please register for this class at the e-mail address given below before October 1, 2008.

Morgan, John & Rinvolucri, Mario. (2004). Once upon a time. Using Stories in thelanguage Classroom . Cambridge: CUP.

Piepho, Hans-Eberhard. (2007). Narrative Dimensionen im Fremdsprachenunterricht .(hrsg. von Otfried Börner & Christoph Edelhoff). Braunschweig: Schroedel, Diesterweg,Klinkhardt.

Wajnryb, Ruth. (2003). Stories: Narrative activities in the language classroom .Cambridge: CUP

Prerequisites: Introduction to Teaching English (DidF1)

Prerequisites for certificate (DidF2): reading/writing assignments, group project



Foundations American Studies 1

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 57

American Literature and Culture from the Beginnings to the 1850sVorlesungMayer, RuthMo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 13.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 003 II 003Kommentar This lecture will provide an introduction to early American culture and literature, focusing





Prerequisites: none



For further information: [email protected] Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (American Studies)Vorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungKünnemann, VanessaDi, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar This class provides an introduction to methods of interpretation and analysis, focusing





Prerequisites: none




Foundations British Studies 1

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 58

Introduction to English Literary StudiesVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungEmig, RainerMi, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 15.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar The course will teach students the skills required for the description, analysis and




Prerequisites: none



For further information: [email protected] Introduction to English Literary StudiesVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungGohrisch, JanaMi, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 15.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar This course is designed as a general introduction into English Literary Studies. It


Textbook:



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Winter 2008/09 59

Introduction to Literary AnalysisVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungIlsemann, HartmutFr, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 17.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar In this seminar we will deal with plays, poems and prose fiction, each type represented







For further information: [email protected] or 762-3216Bemerkung (b), S, BritF1 Survey of British CulturesVorlesung, SWS: 2Bennett, PeterFr, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 17.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 003 II 003Kommentar The aims of this lecture are








Prerequisites: None




Bachelorarbeit

Schlüsselkompetenzen

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 60

Für weitere Veranstaltungen siehe das Angebot des Zentrums für Schlüsselkompetenzen.

M.Sc. Technical Education

Advanced LinguisticsChanges in the History of the English LanguageSeminarMindt, IlkaMi, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 15.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar How can the mismatch between spelling and pronunciation in Modern English be













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Mi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 22.10.2008 - 22.10.2008, 1501 - 301 I 301

Mi, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 29.10.2008 - 19.11.2008, 1502 - 003 II 003

Mi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 26.11.2008 - 26.11.2008, 1501 - 301 I 301
















Contexts of English Language Use

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Winter 2008/09 62

Varieties of English (SPVE)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungJones, JacobDo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, ab 16.10.2008, 1502 - 615 II 615




Advanced Methodology of Teaching English as FLContent and Language Integrated LearningSeminarKupetz, Rita (verantwort)Mo, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 06.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar CLIL is said to be one of the most promising approaches to foreign language learning.

We will study this grassroots movement initiated by teachers and discovered byresearchers recently. We will watch recorded biology, geography and history lessonstaught in English. Our project will focus on "Music taught in English". Students will beencouraged to design materials or a unit for teaching a subject of their own choice usingthis approach.

Bach, Gerhard & Niemeier, Susanne. (Hrsg.). (2000). Bilingualer Unterricht. Grundlagen,Methoden, Praxis, Perspektiven . Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang.

Cummins, Jim & Swain, Merrill. (1986). Bilingualism in Education . London/ New York:Longman.

Finkbeiner, Claudia. (Hrsg.). (2002). Bilingualer Unterricht. Lehren und Lernen in zweiSprachen . Hannover: Schroedel.

Swain, Merrill. (1993). The Output Hypothesis. Just Speaking and Writing Aren't Enough.The Canadian Modern Languages Review 50 (1), 158-164.

Swain, Merrill & Lapkin, Sharon. (1995). Problems in Output and the Cognitive Processesthey Generate: A Step Towards Second Language Learning. Applied Linguistics , 16, (3),371-391.

Vollmer, Helmut J. (2000). Förderung des Spracherwerbs im bilingualenSachfachunterricht. In: Bach, Gerhard. & Niemeier, Susanne. (Hrsg.), BilingualerUnterricht. Grundlagen, Methoden, Praxis, Perspektiven . Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang.

Wildhage, Manfred & Otten, Edgar. (Hrsg.). (2003). Praxis des bilingualen Unterrichts .Berlin: Cornelsen.

Wode, Henning. (1995). Lernen in der Fremdsprache. Grundzüge von Immersion undBilingualem Unterrich t. Ismaning: Hueber.


Prerequisites: Intermediate Exam

Prerequisites for certificate (DidA1/A2): participation/ oral contribution/final paper/project;

MEd: Studienleistungen: participation/ oral contribution/project

Prüfungsleistung: Hausarbeit in DidA1 oder DidA2


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Teaching FilmSeminarBlell, Gabriele (verantwort)Do, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 09.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar Students enjoy watching movies and TV for a variety of reasons. For one, they get

exposure to authentic language in a non-threatening setting. Secondly, movies andvideo provide common ground to students of any cultural background. From the teachingperspective, film as a text-genre has been fully accepted for the EFL classroom inLower Saxony since 2003. The course is designed to help you to teach media literacy(particularly audio-visual literacy) in your classroom. Some of the objectives of the coursewill be:

- critically analyze and understand the purpose for the use of basic film/video techniquesand methods for teaching them to students, as well as intertextual connections betweenmedia (e.g. film & novel).

- understand and apply different critical approaches to studying film (e.g semiotic,postcolonial, cultural studies) and teach them in a task-based learning context

- develop ‘reading/viewing' skills through a range of classroom activities that demonstratehow audience interaction works to create meaning in film.

A film-screening for the films discussed in the classroom will be organized.

Bibliography:

Blell, Gabriele & Lütge, Christiane. (2004). Sehen, Hören, Verstehen und Handeln: Filmeim Fremdsprachenunterricht. PRAXIS Fremdsprachenunterricht 6, 402-405, 430.

Lütge, Christiane. (2005). Reality versus Illusion: Science Fiction Films in the EnglishLanguage Classroom. In: Blell, Gabriele & Kupetz, Rita. (Hrsg.). Fremdsprachenlernenzwischen Medienverwahrlosung und Medienkompetenz. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang,151-162.

Mikos, Lothar. (2001). Fern-Sehen. Bausteine zu einer Rezeptionsästhetik desFernsehens . Berlin: VISTAS.

Mikos, Lothar. (2003). Film- und Fernsehanalyse . Konstanz: UVK VerlagsgesellschaftmbH.

Müller-Hartmann, Andreas & Schocker-v. Ditfurth, Marita. (Hrsg.). (2005).Aufgabenorientierung im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Task-Based Language Learning andTeaching . Tübingen: Narr.

Ohler, Peter. (1994). Kognitive Filmpsychologie. Verarbeitung und mentaleRepräsentation narrativer Filme . Münster: MakS-Publikationen.

The New London Group. (2000). A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies. In: Cope, Bill & Kalantzis,Mary. (Eds.). Multiliteracies. London/New York: Routledge, 9-37.

Themenhefte Teaching Film:

PRAXIS Fremdsprachenunterricht 6/2004

Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch , 2004

Prerequisites: DidF1&2 (Foundations Methodology)

Prerequisites for certificate (DidA1/A2): regular attendance; ‘Studienleistung' will bespecified in the seminar.





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Masterarbeit

Masterstudiengang an berufsbildenden Schulen


Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 65

Practical LexicographySeminarSchulze, RainerDi, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 709 II 709Kommentar This seminar will focus on the best and most useful work in a linguistic area that primarily









Contexts of English Language UseVarieties of English (SPVE)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungJones, JacobDo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, ab 16.10.2008, 1502 - 615 II 615




Advanced Methodology of Teaching English as FL

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 66

Content and Language Integrated LearningSeminarKupetz, Rita (verantwort)Mo, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 06.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar CLIL is said to be one of the most promising approaches to foreign language learning.

















Foundations British Studies 2Adaptations of Jane Austen's Pride and PrejudiceSeminarKrämer, LuciaDo, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 23.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615 , Ersatzveranstaltung

Masterarbeit

M.A. Funktionale und Angewandte Linguistik / MA Functional and AppliedLinguistics

Grammatikalische Beschreibung/ Grammatical Description (FAL 1)

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 67

Construction GrammarSeminarSchulze, Rainer (verantwort)Di, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 709 II 709Kommentar This seminar will investigate the nature of generalization in language and examine how







Theorien und Methoden der Linguistik / Linguistic Theory and Methodology (FAL 2)

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 68








Medienkommunikation / Media and Communication (FAL 3)

Fremdsprachenkenntnisse / Foreign Language Skills (SK 1)

Auslandsstudium, Praktikum / Study Abroad, Internship (SK 2)

Sprachvariation und Sprachwandel / Language Variation and Language Change (FAL 4)

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For further information, please contact me at: [email protected] One Language, many Varieties: Focussing on British and American EnglishSeminarMindt, IlkaMi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 15.10.2008 - 15.10.2008, 1502 - 003 II 003

Mi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 22.10.2008 - 22.10.2008, 1501 - 301 I 301

Mi, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 29.10.2008 - 19.11.2008, 1502 - 003 II 003

Mi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 26.11.2008 - 26.11.2008, 1501 - 301 I 301








Sprachkontrast und Sprachwandel / Language Variation and Language Change (FAL 5

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Mehrsprachigkeit und Multiliteralität / Multlingualism and Multiliteracies (FAL 6)

Spracherwerb und Sprachvermittlung / Language Acquisition and Language Teaching(FAL 7

Masterarbeit / M. A. Thesis

M.A. Advanced Anglophone Studies

Theory and Method (AAS1)

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Prerequisites: none



For further information: [email protected] Reading Literary and Cultural TheorySeminarMayer, Ruth (verantwort)Mi, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 08.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar In this class we will be concerned with major trends and developments in Anglophone










Epochs and Phenomena in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (AAS2)

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 72

19th Century PoetrySeminarIlsemann, Hartmut (verantwort)Do, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 09.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar Selected representative poems of the nineteenth century and their analysis and









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Independent Studies (AAS6)

MA-Thesis (AAS7)

Professional Skills (AAS8)

Electives (AAS9)

Research and Internship (AAS10)

Concepts of Race, Class, and Gender (AAS3)

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Media, Cultural Communication and Popular Culture (AAS4)

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Winter 2008/09 82




















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New English Literatures and Cultures (AAS5)

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Winter 2008/09 87










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Winter 2008/09 88




















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Winter 2008/09 89






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M. Ed. Lehramt Gymnasium

Fachpraktikum

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 90

















Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 91

Planung und Analyse von EnglischunterrichtSeminarKupetz, RitaMo, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 06.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar Das Seminar ist obligatorisch für alle Lehramtsstudierenden. Es ist

praktikumsvorbereitend, wenn Sie das Fachpraktikum im Hauptfach Englisch absolvieren,es ist praktikumsersetzend, wenn Sie das Fachpraktikum in einem anderen Fachabsolvieren.

Im MEd ist die Veranstaltung Teil des Moduls DidPA.

Es werden Aufzeichnungen von Unterricht analysiert und Unterrichtssequenzen geplant.Die Veranstaltung ist stufen- und schulartübergreifend angelegt. Die KursteilnehmerInnenerarbeiten Planungsentwürfe für ihre jeweilige Schulart.

Bach, Gerhard & Timm, Johannes-Peter. (Hrsg.). (1989). Englischunterricht. Grundlagenund Methoden einer handlungsorientierten Unterrichtspraxis . Tübingen: Francke.

Heuer, Helmut & Klippel, Friederike. (1993). Englischmethodik. Problemfelder,Unterrichtswirklichkeit und Handlungsempfehlungen . Berlin: Cornelsen.

Meyer, Hilbert. (1987). Unterrichtsmethoden . Frankfurt a.M.: Cornelsen Scriptor. (2Bände)

Mindt, Dieter. (1995). Unterrichtsplanung Englisch für die Sekundarstufe I . Stuttgart:Klett.

Schaefer, Klaus. (1992). So schaffen Sie den Englischunterricht . Münster: Aschendorff.

Timm, Johannes-Peter. (Hrsg.) (1998). Englisch lernen und lehren. Didaktik desEnglischunterrichts. Berlin: Cornelsen.

Ziegésar, Detlev v. & Margaret v. (2001). Einführung von Grammatik imEnglischunterricht: Materialien und Modelle . München: Oldenbourg.


Voraussetzungen: Einführung in die Didaktik des Englischen / Zwischenprüfung / 1.Schulpraktikum; für BA Did F 1/2

Studienleistungen (DidPA): für den M Ed. schriftliche Ausarbeitung einer Analyseoder das Bestehen von Quizzes (Selbstlernmodule) und eines Unterrichtsentwurfs(Teamarbeit)

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 92

Planung und Analyse von EnglischunterrichtSeminarVinals-Stein, NicoleDi, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 07.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar Das Seminar ist obligatorisch für alle Lehramtsstudierenden. Es ist



Es werden Unterrichtssequenzen geplant, durchgeführt und analysiert.

Die Veranstaltung ist stufen- und schulartübergreifend angelegt. Die KursteilnehmerInnenerarbeiten Planungsentwürfe für ihre jeweilige Schulart.









Studienleistungen: für den M Ed. schriftliche Ausarbeitung einer Analyse oder dasBestehen von Quizzes (Selbstlernmodule) und eines Unterrichtsentwurfs (Teamarbeit)

Teaching Practice as Foreign Language AssistantSeminarRuhm, Hannah (verantwort)Fr, Einzel, 10:00 - 16:00, 16.01.2009 - 16.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613

Sa, Einzel, 10:00 - 16:00, 17.01.2009 - 17.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613

Fr, Einzel, 10:00 - 16:00, 30.01.2009 - 30.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar This course gives a practical introduction to different teaching assistant programmes

(PAD, Amity) and provides useful information about the tasks and responsibilities ofForeign Language Assistants. We will develop and discuss different activities andresources for teaching German as a foreign language and you will have the chance tomeet and talk to former teaching assistants.

Please note: This course is obligatory for BA or MEd students planning to substitute theFachpraktikum with the assistant year. The course will prepare for the 30 minute oralexam which will take place after your return.

Please register for this course by December 20, 2008 ([email protected]).

Advanced Methodology

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Bibliography:















Advanced Studies

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For further information, please contact me at: [email protected] One Language, many Varieties: Focussing on British and American EnglishSeminarMindt, IlkaMi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 15.10.2008 - 15.10.2008, 1502 - 003 II 003

Mi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 22.10.2008 - 22.10.2008, 1501 - 301 I 301

Mi, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 29.10.2008 - 19.11.2008, 1502 - 003 II 003

Mi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 26.11.2008 - 26.11.2008, 1501 - 301 I 301









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Mi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 22.10.2008 - 22.10.2008, 1501 - 301 I 301

Mi, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 29.10.2008 - 19.11.2008, 1502 - 003 II 003

Mi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 26.11.2008 - 26.11.2008, 1501 - 301 I 301
















Advanced American Studies

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Winter 2008/09 98











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Advanced Anglistik

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Winter 2008/09 101














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Prerequisites: none



For further information: [email protected] The Representations of Gypsies in Nineteenth-Century English LiteratureSeminarBennett, Peter (verantwort)Fr, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 10.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar Gypsies have featured sporadically in English literature from about 1600 up to the










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Winter 2008/09 106

Integrated English PracticeTopics (SPTOP): Children's LiteratureSprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungMenis, AnneDi, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar This module incorporates two courses dealing with various topics of relevance to students





SPTOP1

SPTOP2

Contexts of English Use

SPEPEnglish for Professional Use (SPEP)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungMenis, AnneMo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, ab 13.10.2008, 1502 - 613 II 613




SPVEVarieties of English (SPVE)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungJones, JacobDo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, ab 16.10.2008, 1502 - 615 II 615




Masterarbeit / Master Thesis

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Englisches Seminar

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Prerequisites: none



Pädagogisches Handeln in der Schule (EW 1)

Pädagogische Kontexte (EW 2)

Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht


Linguistic Survey

Ergänzungsstudiengang Drittes Fach Lehramt Gymnasium

Foundations of Linguistics

Advanced English SkillsAcademic Writing and Research (SPAWR)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungJones, JacobDi, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609

Di, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703

Di, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 113 II 113

Di, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703




Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 109

Communication Skills (SPCS)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungBennett, PeterDi, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703

Do, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 16.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703











Writing in EnglishExpository Writing (SPEW)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungMenis, AnneMo, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, ab 13.10.2008, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar This course investigates organisational patterns used in various genres and discourse


Foundations Methodology of Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Foundations of American Studies 1

Foundations of American Studies 2



Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 110

Adaptations of Jane Austen's Pride and PrejudiceSeminarKrämer, LuciaDo, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 23.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615 , Ersatzveranstaltung

Integrated English PracticeTopics (SPTOP): Canadian Popular CultureSprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungHunter, KateFr, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 17.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar This module incorporates two courses dealing with various topics of relevance to students













Contexts of English Use

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 111

English for Professional Use (SPEP)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungMenis, AnneMo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, ab 13.10.2008, 1502 - 613 II 613




Varieties of English (SPVE)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungJones, JacobDo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, ab 16.10.2008, 1502 - 615 II 615




Planung und Analyse von Englischunterricht

Advanced Methodology

Linguistic Survey

Advanced LinguisticsChanges in the History of the English LanguageSeminarMindt, IlkaMi, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 15.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar How can the mismatch between spelling and pronunciation in Modern English be







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Mi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 22.10.2008 - 22.10.2008, 1501 - 301 I 301

Mi, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 29.10.2008 - 19.11.2008, 1502 - 003 II 003

Mi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 26.11.2008 - 26.11.2008, 1501 - 301 I 301








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Winter 2008/09 113











Magister / Staatsexamensstudiengänge

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 114

Planung und Analyse von EnglischunterrichtSeminarVinals-Stein, NicoleDi, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 07.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar Das Seminar ist obligatorisch für alle Lehramtsstudierenden. Es ist



Es werden Unterrichtssequenzen geplant, durchgeführt und analysiert.

Die Veranstaltung ist stufen- und schulartübergreifend angelegt. Die KursteilnehmerInnenerarbeiten Planungsentwürfe für ihre jeweilige Schulart.









Studienleistungen: für den M Ed. schriftliche Ausarbeitung einer Analyse oder dasBestehen von Quizzes (Selbstlernmodule) und eines Unterrichtsentwurfs (Teamarbeit)

SprachpraxisAcademic Writing and Research (SPAWR)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungJones, JacobDi, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609

Di, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703

Di, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 113 II 113

Di, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703




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Winter 2008/09 115

Communication Skills (SPCS)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungBennett, PeterDi, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703

Do, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 16.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703








English for Professional Use (SPEP)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungMenis, AnneMo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, ab 13.10.2008, 1502 - 613 II 613




Expository Writing (SPEW)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungMenis, AnneMo, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, ab 13.10.2008, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar This course investigates organisational patterns used in various genres and discourse





Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 116

Topics (SPTOP): Canadian Popular CultureSprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungHunter, KateFr, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 17.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar This module incorporates two courses dealing with various topics of relevance to students












Topics (SPTOP): SitcomsSeminar / Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungMenis, AnneDi, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609 Topics (SPTOP): Translation ProjectSprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungMenis, AnneDi, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615 Varieties of English (SPVE)Sprachpraxis / Sprachpraktische ÜbungJones, JacobDo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, ab 16.10.2008, 1502 - 615 II 615




Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 117

Grundstudium / Basic StudiesAmerican Literature and Culture from the Beginnings to the 1850sVorlesungMayer, RuthMo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 13.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 003 II 003Kommentar This lecture will provide an introduction to early American culture and literature, focusing





Prerequisites: none



For further information: [email protected] Introduction to English Literary StudiesVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungEmig, RainerMi, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 15.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar The course will teach students the skills required for the description, analysis and




Prerequisites: none




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Textbook:



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For further information: [email protected] Introduction to Linguistics IVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungShahrokny-Prehn, ArianMo, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 13.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 003 II 003Kommentar This course provides a first general introduction to English linguistics. We will initially deal




Prerequisites: none




Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 119

Introduction to Linguistics IVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungSchulze, RainerMo, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 13.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703





Prerequisites: none














Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 120

Introduction to Literary AnalysisVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungIlsemann, HartmutFr, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 17.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar In this seminar we will deal with plays, poems and prose fiction, each type represented







For further information: [email protected] or 762-3216Bemerkung (b), S, BritF1 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (American Studies)Vorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungKünnemann, VanessaDi, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 14.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar This class provides an introduction to methods of interpretation and analysis, focusing





Prerequisites: none




Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 121

Jane Austen’s NovelsSeminarGrünkemeier, Ellen (verantwort)Mi, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 08.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar Jane Austen is one of the most influential British novelists. Her novels explore a variety





Prerequisites: none



For further information: [email protected] Lexical SemanticsSeminarHöche, SilkeDo, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 16.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703






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Grund- und Hauptstudium (ab 3. Semester) / Mid-Level Studies

Englisches Seminar

Winter 2008/09 124

19th Century PoetrySeminarIlsemann, Hartmut (verantwort)Do, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 09.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar Selected representative poems of the nineteenth century and their analysis and








For further information: [email protected] Introduction to English Literary StudiesVorlesung/Seminar/Theoretische ÜbungEmig, RainerMi, wöchentl., 08:00 - 10:00, 15.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar The course will teach students the skills required for the description, analysis and




Prerequisites: none




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Textbook:



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For further information: [email protected] Major American PoetsSeminarHenneberg, Sylvia-BabetteDo, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 09.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar This course examines various poetic theories and practices of selected major American

poets of the 19th and 20th centuries. As we take a close look at the innovations ofDickinson and Whitman, Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, Beat Poetry, ConfessionalPoetry, and contemporary poetry, it will be our goal to determine how these poets havereacted or responded to existing traditions and how they have set the stage for newdevelopments in poetry. We will acquire a working factual knowledge of several majorperiods, poets, and works in American literature, develop reading strategies and analyticskills appropriate to the study of poetry, and acquire research skills and a command ofliterary terminology conducive to the production of written and spoken discourse centeringon poetry. Please purchase Anthology of Modern American Poetry (ed. Cary Nelson,Oxford UP, 2000, ISBN-10: 0195122712).



Prerequisites: none



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For further information: [email protected] The Harlem RenaissanceSeminarMayer, Ruth (verantwort)Di, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 07.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar In this class we will be concerned with African-American literature and culture in the

1920s in New York, the period known as the Harlem Renaissance. Originally calledthe ‘New Negro Renaissance’, this period attests to an unprecedented upsurge ofblack art, music, and writing, which went along with political projects aiming at blackemancipation and equality. We will engage with the literary output of the period – thewritings of Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Countée Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, JeanToomer, and Nella Larsen – but we will also be concerned with the cultural developmentsof the day, with black art and music, and with white views on the ‘Harlem vogue’ of theday. Please purchase Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem (Northeastern UP) and NellaLarsen’s Passing (Penguin Classics). A reader with additional course material will bemade available at the beginning of the class.





Prerequisites: none

Prerequisites for certificate (amerF4/AmerF5): regular attendance, short assignments,term paper


For further information: [email protected] (b,c) AmerF4; AmerF5

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Hauptstudium / Advanced Studies

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19th Century English Political Caricatures: A Legitimate Approach to the Study of History?VorlesungRohloff, HeideFr, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 17.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar Political caricatures were immensely popular in Britain throughout the 19th century, and

hardly any prominent person, spectacular event or social grievance escaped the satiricalwit and genius of such artists as George Cruikshank, James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandsonand others. This is all the more surprising as control over printed matter was still in forceunder the law of libel although formal censorship had waned after the lapsing of theLicensing Act in 1694. Indeed, a charge of “seditious libel” was the favourite methodfor silencing adversaries and suppressing unfavourable portrayals of statesmen andmembers of the Royal Family or satirical attacks of whatever kind which might threatenthe public order. However, even the most venomous caricatures could not successfully bebanished from the market because demand was ever more increasing, the many privateprinting presses beyond effective control and because the public simply enjoyed suchunauthorized prints directed at “those above”. Thus, only few charges of seditious libelwere taken to the courts and seriously prosecuted. Since caricaturists, therefore, werecomparably free in giving voice to public opinion a large number of political caricaturesmay be said to present an unadulterated view of many crucial issues of the period.

In this class we will study and analyse the major works of the most well known 19th

century caricaturists considering whether the deliberately distorted and exaggerated wayof picturing events and the fortunes and misfortunes of people may nevertheless providea proper insight into historical conditions and developments – when stripped of thespecific devices typical of the genre. Thus, attention will also be paid to the instrumentsof caricature as a form of art. Copies of the caricatures will be made available at thebeginning of the term and further from week to week.

Prerequisites: none (“Hauptseminarschein“: intermediate exam)

Prerequisites for certificate (Schlüsselkomp. (b,c) Sen / StG): regular attendance,presentation, term paper


For further information: [email protected] Australian Literature in ContextSeminarGrünkemeier, EllenDi, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 07.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar In this seminar students will be introduced to the literature of Australia, one of the









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For further information: [email protected] Changes in the History of the English LanguageSeminarMindt, IlkaMi, wöchentl., 14:00 - 16:00, 15.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 703 II 703Kommentar How can the mismatch between spelling and pronunciation in Modern English be







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For further information: [email protected] One Language, many Varieties: Focussing on British and American EnglishSeminarMindt, IlkaMi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 15.10.2008 - 15.10.2008, 1502 - 003 II 003

Mi, Einzel, 12:00 - 14:00, 22.10.2008 - 22.10.2008, 1501 - 301 I 301

Mi, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 29.10.2008 - 19.11.2008, 1502 - 003 II 003

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The Representations of Gypsies in Nineteenth-Century English LiteratureSeminarBennett, Peter (verantwort)Fr, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 10.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar Gypsies have featured sporadically in English literature from about 1600 up to the










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Didaktische u. berufspraktische Seminare / Didactical and Practical Seminars

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Approaches, Skills and Competencies in Language TeachingSeminarKupetz, Rita (verantwort)Mi, wöchentl., 10:00 - 12:00, 08.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar We will deal with an overview of major approaches to foreign language teaching and











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Planung und Analyse von EnglischunterrichtSeminarKupetz, RitaMo, wöchentl., 12:00 - 14:00, 06.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 615 II 615Kommentar Das Seminar ist obligatorisch für alle Lehramtsstudierenden. Es ist



Es werden Aufzeichnungen von Unterricht analysiert und Unterrichtssequenzen geplant.Die Veranstaltung ist stufen- und schulartübergreifend angelegt. Die KursteilnehmerInnenerarbeiten Planungsentwürfe für ihre jeweilige Schulart.










Studienleistungen (DidPA): für den M Ed. schriftliche Ausarbeitung einer Analyseoder das Bestehen von Quizzes (Selbstlernmodule) und eines Unterrichtsentwurfs(Teamarbeit)

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Teaching Practice as Foreign Language AssistantSeminarRuhm, Hannah (verantwort)Fr, Einzel, 10:00 - 16:00, 16.01.2009 - 16.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613

Sa, Einzel, 10:00 - 16:00, 17.01.2009 - 17.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613

Fr, Einzel, 10:00 - 16:00, 30.01.2009 - 30.01.2009, 1502 - 613 II 613Kommentar This course gives a practical introduction to different teaching assistant programmes

(PAD, Amity) and provides useful information about the tasks and responsibilities ofForeign Language Assistants. We will develop and discuss different activities andresources for teaching German as a foreign language and you will have the chance tomeet and talk to former teaching assistants.

Please note: This course is obligatory for BA or MEd students planning to substitute theFachpraktikum with the assistant year. The course will prepare for the 30 minute oralexam which will take place after your return.

Please register for this course by December 20, 2008 ([email protected]).

Kolloquien /ColloquiaExamenskolloquiumKolloquiumBlell, Gabriele / Kupetz, RitaDi, wöchentl., 16:00 - 18:00, 07.10.2008 - 31.01.2009, 1502 - 609 II 609Kommentar Hier sind alle Studierenden angesprochen, die eine Examensarbeit planen oder denen




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Englisches Seminar - Leibniz Universität Hannover · Kommentar In linguistics, semantics is the subfield that is devoted to the study of meaning, as inherent at the levels of words,