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Lehrveranstaltungen

Creative Writing: Poetry, Short Fiction, and Beyond. Englisch ab B2.2 (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Maria Moss

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 12:15 - 15:45 | 12.10.2020 - 29.01.2021 | Online-Veranstaltung

Inhalt: Interested in awakening your creative spirit and discovering your potential for equally creative output? This seminar puts theory into practice by offering a variety of exercises to ignite ideas, experiment with literary styles and genres as well as give and receive constructive criticism in peer-editing sessions. This seminar will help you develop your own style and voice when writing poetry, flash fiction, vignettes, and a short story or part of a drama. While students will use the Cisneros “snapshot approach” to writing vignettes (e.g. expressing a certain moment, mood, character, or object while creating an atmosphere, not a story), they will initially write traditional Japanese Haikus before moving on to the great modernists, such as Robert Frost and W.C. Williams. In the end, students will have a portfolio (for lack of a better name), consisting of 3 Haikus, 3 pieces of short fiction, and 3 poems.

Dramatize This! Writing and Performing for the Stage and Screen. Englisch ab B2.2 (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Maryann Henck

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 14:15 - 17:45 | 12.10.2020 - 29.01.2021 | Online-Veranstaltung

Inhalt: This seminar is not just for drama kings and queens, but for anyone interested in the link between written and spoken words in general as well as composing and performing dialogues in specific. By examining excerpts from plays, sitcoms, and dramadies, we will explore possibilities for transforming stories into dramatic scenarios. In the following sessions, we will experiment with creative writing techniques that will help you craft dialogues for your own dramatic scenario. The seminar will consist of group peer-editing sessions as well as individual appointments to support you during the creative process. Of course, drama is meant to be performed. Therefore, at the end of the semester, you will be expected to translate your dramatic scenarios into a final mini-performance, e.g. on stage, as street theater, or in sitcom/dramedy format.

Language, Culture and Communication. Englisch ab B2.2 (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Paul Lauer

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 14:15 - 17:45 | 12.10.2020 - 29.01.2021 | Online-Veranstaltung

Inhalt: In this seminar you (alone or together with a partner) will have the opportunity to explore how travel can be meaningful culturally. This understanding should be primarily based on your own and others' experiences of culture. However we will read about and discuss several theories of culture and how they might influence our experiences. The project is to design a journey or tour in another culture so that its participants can experience that culture meaningfully. The results of your project should be presented in the form you deem appropriate (website, blog, podcast etc.). We will also focus on learning how to do qualitative interviewing.

Persuasive Presentations: The Power of Storytelling. Englisch ab B2.2 (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Paul Lauer

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 14:15 - 17:45 | 12.10.2020 - 30.11.2020 | Online-Veranstaltung

Inhalt: This 7-week course will take place between October 13 and November 24. This class is explicitly designed for students of all majors interested in communication in a professional context. In this class you will develop your own proposal and then deliver it as a 7-minuten presentation. In a portfolio you will document your preparation for the presentation and in a brief reflective essay what you have learned in giving the presentation. In addition to improving your written and oral communicative competencies in English, you will have an opportunity to rethink what persuasive communication means and – step by step – craft your own proposal over the course of seven weeks. We will look at rhetorical concepts dating back to Aristotle – such as the rhetorical triad of ethos, pathos, and logos – in order to help understand the importance of context in persuasion and what means you have to reach your goals. We will also look at how storytelling is used in professional organizations to engage and influence audiences.

The Art of Debate: The Rhetoric of Disagreement. Englisch B2.2 (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Paul Lauer

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 14:15 - 17:45 | 12.10.2020 - 29.01.2021 | Online-Veranstaltung

Inhalt: In this seminar you will have the opportunity to develop the rhetorical and linguistic skills needed for critical and argumentative reasoning. Debating is not about scoring points and "smashing" your opponents with irrefutable arguments. Instead, I hope we are all interested in learning how to debate as a means to find insight into issues of deep importance to us. It is, if you will, an opportunity to leave your “bubble” and question your most deeply held beliefs. Substantial research and preparation will be involved in preparing your final debate.