Course Schedule
Lehrveranstaltungen
Academic Writing (Übung)
Dozent/in: Sabrina Völz
Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 08.04.2024 - 05.07.2024 | C 12.009 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Do you have a good command of academic vocabulary? Do you know how to write a proper introduction to a research paper? Or what strategies apart from the summary you can use for the conclusion? Do you know the difference between informal and formal English? Do you have a good idea of how to vary your sentence structure or integrate creative elements into your academic prose? Can you use commas effectively? If you have answered no to two or more of these questions, then this might be the course for you. Each participant will gain experience reading and responding to academic texts, and working with a variety of reference works. Students will be introduced to and practice using academic register and conventions. Finally, students will be encouraged to develop their own academic voices and apply techniques learned in the seminar to an essay on film.
Creative Writing: Poetry and Short Fiction (Übung)
Dozent/in: Maria Moss
Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 02.04.2024 - 05.07.2024 | C 5.310 Seminarraum
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 (including Haikus) and vignettes. In the end, students will have a portfolio (for lack of a better name), consisting of 2-3 Haikus, 2-3 vignettes, and 2-3 poems.
English for Social Occupations (Übung)
Dozent/in: Kara O'Neil
Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 16:15 - 17:45 | 02.04.2024 - 05.07.2024 | C 5.310 Seminarraum
Inhalt: This course is intended as an opportunity for students to overcome fears of speaking and reading texts in the subject matter and will include short readings in English with seminar-style discussion to follow. Participation will be determined by comfort-level of individual students. The level of discussion and language used will be determined based upon the prior knowledge of students – no specific English level is expected or required upon entry or exit of the course.
English for Specific Purposes: Effective Communication and Negotiation (Übung)
Dozent/in: Maryann Henck
Termin:
wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 16:15 - 17:45 | 02.04.2024 - 05.07.2024 | C 5.019 Seminarraum
Inhalt: In this seminar, you will be able to explore the following professional competencies: effective communication styles, intercultural competence, problem-solving and negotiation strategies as well as effective leadership and motivation. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to practice and refine verbal and written communication skills in interactive tasks related to the aforementioned key competencies.
Grammar Review (Übung)
Dozent/in: Michael Schumacher
Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 16:15 - 17:45 | 02.04.2024 - 05.07.2024 | C 5.111 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Grammar - Piece of cake or piece of art? Besides dealing with basic and specific grammar issues (such as conditional clauses, tenses, gerunds) we will discuss and try different approaches of teaching grammar in a fun and interesting way. The second part of this course will deal with pieces of art ( e.g. films, songs, short stories) or pieces of cake...
Narrative Nonfiction Writing (Übung)
Dozent/in: Sabrina Völz
Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 02.04.2024 - 05.07.2024 | C 6.026 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Until recently, narrative nonfiction writing was often seen as the stepchild of literary studies. As a result of the internet, blogging, Twitter, and the growing interest in the daily lives of people in general, narrative nonfiction writing is booming. Increasingly more attention is being given to groups whose voices have not been elevated much. In this project-oriented class, students will be introduced to life writing and techniques writers of non-fiction use to tell their own stories. Moreover, students will explore the genre by closely reading a variety of nonfictional texts and stories. In particular, students will choose between Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (2003) by Firoozeh DuMas, and Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots (2012) by Deborah Feldman as the main text of the seminar. In the second part of the course, students will be mentored on an individual basis and write about their own lives. They will be involved in peer editing and expected to revise their own writing as well as present/read their life writing piece to the class. Students will produce lively audio versions of their stories that will be compiled into a class anothology. Everyone has a story to tell. What is yours?
Words and Beyond: Enhancing Your Vocabulary (Übung)
Dozent/in: Maryann Henck
Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 12:15 - 13:45 | 02.04.2024 - 05.07.2024 | C 5.019 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Do you find yourself dodging the dictionary, confounded by collocations, terrified by translation yet somehow in love with LEO? Perhaps you just feel overwhelmed by words and their wily ways. If you haven’t found your inner “word nerd” yet (and even if you have), this seminar will make a logophile (or maybe even a logomaniac) out of you. After a brief introduction to the perils of translation and the benefits of effective cross-referencing skills, subsequent course topics will include but are not limited to: eponyms; acronyms and initialisms; clippings and blends; connotations and denotations; homonyms, homophones, and homographs. Using a variety of cultural texts (e.g. lyrics/poetry, fiction and non-fiction, films and television series, etc.) as potential sources, you will begin collecting and selecting new words for practical as well as creative exercises. The ultimate objective is not only to learn how to work with words but also how to make them work for you.