Course Schedule

Start > Lehramt an Grund- und Hauptschulen (M.Ed.) -> Unterrichtsfach Englisch -> English Linguistics, Literature and Area Studies

Lehrveranstaltungen

Canada: Exploring the Great White North (Vorlesung/Seminar)

Dozent/in: Maria Moss

Inhalt: One of the main motifs in Canadian culture, literature, and life is “the North”. By taking a close look at the disastrous Franklin expedition of the mid-nineteenth century, the endeavors of “Grey Owl”, a Native Canadian born as the Englishman Archie Belanie, and stories about men and women trapped in “the North”, the seminar will discuss and analyze what happens when the mystique of a northern environment – in both its negative and positive implications – influences a country’s imagination.

Irish Autobiography (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Emer O'Sullivan

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 14.10.2009 - 27.01.2010 | C 12.013 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Autobiography is most commonly defined as “the biography of a person narrated by that person”, or “the story of a person’s life as told by him or herself”. In this seminar we will look at the Irish autobiographical tradition, examining key trends and themes of autobiographies published in the last and the present centuries, and placing them in their historical, cultural, literary and ideological contexts. Authors and works will include James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Frank McCourt’s Angela Ashes (1996), Nuala O’Faolain’s Are You Somebody (1999) and Hugo Hamilton’s The Speckled People (2003). We will also examine the generic features of autobiographies in terms of ‘life writing’ and ask why the genre has moved, during the last four decades, from the peripheries to the centre of the literary canon.

Linguistic Underpinnings of TEFL (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Jürgen Quetz

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 16:15 - 17:45 | 12.10.2009 - 29.01.2010 | C 12.001 Seminarraum

The Death Penalty in the United States (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Sabrina Völz

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 08:15 - 09:45 | 12.10.2009 - 04.11.2009 | C 12.013 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Mi, 11.11.2009, 08:15 - Mi, 11.11.2009, 09:45 | C 12.009 Seminarraum
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 08:15 - 09:45 | 18.11.2009 - 29.01.2010 | C 12.013 Seminarraum

Inhalt: In this seminar we will discuss the history of the death penalty in the United States and take a brief look at the American judicial system, death row, and lynching. We will concentrate on the methods of execution, arguments for and against this court-sanctioned form of revenge as well as diverse theories relating to capital punishment. Finally we will discuss the depiction of the death penalty in non-fiction writing (Prejean's Dead Man Walking and Grisham's The Innocent Man).

Aspects of Discourse Analysis (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Thorsten Malkmus

Termin:
 Einzeltermin | Fr, 18.12.2009, 16:00 - Fr, 18.12.2009, 20:00 | C 3.121 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Sa, 19.12.2009, 08:00 - Sa, 19.12.2009, 16:00 | C 3.121 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Sa, 16.01.2010, 08:00 - Sa, 16.01.2010, 16:00 | C 12.105 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Sa, 06.02.2010, 08:00 - Sa, 06.02.2010, 16:00 | C 3.121 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Political language is traditionally characterized by its metaphors, by the usage of pronouns to construct in- and out-groups, by evaluative expressions to describe these groups positively and negatively, by characteristic speech acts and by the use of rhetorical devices. By investigating who communicates with whom in which context through which medium to which purpose, we get a more differentiated picture of the topic “political communication”. The various approaches summarized by the term “Critical Discourse Analysis” provide an appropriate framework for the analysis of political language and policital communication. In this class we shall therefore look at some linguistic tools that are important for critical analyses of political texts and apply them to speeches and other genres.