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• BM1 Introduction to Literary Studies

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  • 17300 Grundkurs
    GK-Introduction to Literary Studies: Basic Questions, Concepts and Methods (Lukas Lammers)
    Zeit: Di 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
    Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Hinweis für Erstsemester-Studierende: Detaillierte Informationen zum Bachelor Englische Philologie (inkl. StPo, Checklisten, FAQs) finden Sie hier.

    Kommentar

    This lecture (Grundkurs) is the first part of the Introduction to Literary Studies module, which is primarily designed for first-semester students. It introduces students to the study of English literature. Participants will be encouraged to consider their own engagement with literary texts and are introduced to standard methods of analysing poetry, prose and drama. They will also explore broader topics such as rhetoric, genre theory, literary history and different approaches to literary criticism. The module’s main objective is to help students develop their skills as independent, critical readers who can combine the enjoyment of reading with a more systematic approach to literature, examining its effects on readers and the world. The concepts and methods introduced in the lecture will form the basis of discussions and close readings of selected literary texts in the accompanying seminars (PS 17301, 17302 … 17308).
    
    Blackboard
    Courses for which you have signed up via Campus Management should automatically appear in your Blackboard account. We recommend double-checking to ensure that you have access to all necessary course materials. This lecture is a live, in-person event. It will not be streamed or recorded. Slides will be made available on Blackboard after each session.
    
    Requirements
    To successfully complete the module, students are expected to actively participate in the seminar (including assignments), follow the lecture series, and take the 90-minute final exam at the end of the semester. The exam will consist of two parts: one based on the lecture and one based on the seminar.
    
    Registration (Campus Management)
    Register for this lecture via Campus Management. Please note that you will need to enrol separately for one of the ‘Working with Literary Texts’ seminars (PS 17301, 17302 … 17308).

  • 17301 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Literary Studies: Working with Literary Texts (Lukas Lammers)
    Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Hinweis für Erstsemester-Studierende: Detaillierte Informationen zum Bachelor Englische Philologie (inkl. StPo, Checklisten, FAQs) finden Sie hier.

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture 17300, “GK Introduction to Literary Studies.” Please note that you must sign up for both courses separately. The lecture and seminar are closely connected and follow a similar structure. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of poetic, narrative, and dramatic texts. Additionally, students will read a small selection of critical texts that introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. The class also offers an introduction to academic writing and research techniques. Overall, the seminar aims to enable students to understand and contextualize a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to discuss and write about them in structured ways. This class will be conducted in English.
    
    Readings / Blackboard
    Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available in the first session through Blackboard.
    
    Normally, courses for which you have signed up via Campus Management (see below) will show up in your Blackboard account automatically. Please doublecheck. Also note that the individual Blackboard sites will become available only shortly before the start of the seminar.
    
    Requirements
    To complete the module and receive the full credits students will have to attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, submit three short written assignments and pass the final exam at the end of term (90 minutes; with one part based on the lecture and one based on the seminar).
    
    Registration (Campus Management)
    To participate in a course, you must sign up for it using Campus Management. Please note the following details for this module:

    • Seminar Options: There are several parallel seminars for this module (e.g., 17301, 17302, etc.), all covering identical content and materials.
    • Limited Spaces: The number of participants per seminar is limited (Teilnahmebeschränkung).
    • Preference Selection: Unlike other modules, you cannot immediately enroll in a seminar. Instead, you will be asked to select your preferences. The system will then assign places based on your choices.

    Individual lecturers cannot manually enroll you in a seminar. Please ensure you complete the preference selection process promptly to secure a place in your preferred seminar. Before the first session, make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to. For deadlines and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html.

  • 17302 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Literary Studies: Working with Literary Texts (Matilda Jones)
    Zeit: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Hinweis für Erstsemester-Studierende: Detaillierte Informationen zum Bachelor Englische Philologie (inkl. StPo, Checklisten, FAQs) finden Sie hier.

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture 17300, “GK Introduction to Literary Studies.” Please note that you must sign up for both courses separately. The lecture and seminar are closely connected and follow a similar structure. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of poetic, narrative, and dramatic texts. Additionally, students will read a small selection of critical texts that introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. The class also offers an introduction to academic writing and research techniques. Overall, the seminar aims to enable students to understand and contextualize a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to discuss and write about them in structured ways. This class will be conducted in English. Note the deadline for registration (below).
    
    Texts / Blackboard – Where do I find the readings for this course?
    Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available through Blackboard.
    
    Courses for which you have signed up via Campus Management will show up in your Blackboard account automatically. Courses and materials often only become fully available shortly before (or in) the first week of term.
    
    Requirements and exam – What will I need to do to complete the course?
    To complete the module and receive full credits, students must attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, and submit three short written assignments. Additionally, students must pass the final exam at the end of the term (90 minutes, with one part based on the lecture and one part based on the seminar).
    
    Registration (Campus Management) – How and when can I sign up for this course?
    There are several parallel seminars for this module (e.g., 17301, 17302, etc.), all covering the same questions and materials. Check which ones best fit your schedule.
    
    For this module, you cannot immediately enroll in your preferred seminar (platzbeschränkte Lehrveranstaltungen). Instead, you must select (three different) preferences. The system will then assign places based on your choices. Note that lecturers will not be able to enroll you in a seminar or help you swap places.
    
    Make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to and attend the first session of that course. To resolve possible clashes please send a short email to studienbuero@geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de, sketching the problem/clash.
    
    For deadlines, information for students with caring responsibilities, and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

  • 17303 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Literary Studies: Working with Literary Texts (Karoline-Rosina Strauch)
    Zeit: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2025)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Hinweis für Erstsemester-Studierende: Detaillierte Informationen zum Bachelor Englische Philologie (inkl. StPo, Checklisten, FAQs) finden Sie hier.

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture 17300, “GK Introduction to Literary Studies.” Please note that you must sign up for both courses separately. The lecture and seminar are closely connected and follow a similar structure. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of poetic, narrative, and dramatic texts. Additionally, students will read a small selection of critical texts that introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. The class also offers an introduction to academic writing and research techniques. Overall, the seminar aims to enable students to understand and contextualize a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to discuss and write about them in structured ways. This class will be conducted in English. Note the deadline for registration (below).
    
    Texts / Blackboard – Where do I find the readings for this course?
    Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available through Blackboard.
    
    Courses for which you have signed up via Campus Management will show up in your Blackboard account automatically. Courses and materials often only become fully available shortly before (or in) the first week of term.
    
    Requirements and exam – What will I need to do to complete the course?
    To complete the module and receive full credits, students must attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, and submit three short written assignments. Additionally, students must pass the final exam at the end of the term (90 minutes, with one part based on the lecture and one part based on the seminar).
    
    Registration (Campus Management) – How and when can I sign up for this course?
    There are several parallel seminars for this module (e.g., 17301, 17302, etc.), all covering the same questions and materials. Check which ones best fit your schedule.
    
    For this module, you cannot immediately enroll in your preferred seminar (platzbeschränkte Lehrveranstaltungen). Instead, you must select (three different) preferences. The system will then assign places based on your choices. Note that lecturers will not be able to enroll you in a seminar or help you swap places.
    
    Make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to and attend the first session of that course. To resolve possible clashes please send a short email to studienbuero@geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de, sketching the problem/clash.
    
    For deadlines, information for students with caring responsibilities, and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

  • 17304 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Literary Studies: Working with Literary Texts (James Daniel Mellor)
    Zeit: Do 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Hinweis für Erstsemester-Studierende: Detaillierte Informationen zum Bachelor Englische Philologie (inkl. StPo, Checklisten, FAQs) finden Sie hier.

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture 17300, “GK Introduction to Literary Studies.” Please note that you must sign up for both courses separately. The lecture and seminar are closely connected and follow a similar structure. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of poetic, narrative, and dramatic texts. Additionally, students will read a small selection of critical texts that introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. The class also offers an introduction to academic writing and research techniques. Overall, the seminar aims to enable students to understand and contextualize a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to discuss and write about them in structured ways. This class will be conducted in English. Note the deadline for registration (below).
    
    Texts / Blackboard – Where do I find the readings for this course?
    Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available through Blackboard.
    
    Courses for which you have signed up via Campus Management will show up in your Blackboard account automatically. Courses and materials often only become fully available shortly before (or in) the first week of term.
    
    Requirements and exam – What will I need to do to complete the course?
    To complete the module and receive full credits, students must attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, and submit three short written assignments. Additionally, students must pass the final exam at the end of the term (90 minutes, with one part based on the lecture and one part based on the seminar).
    
    Registration (Campus Management) – How and when can I sign up for this course?
    There are several parallel seminars for this module (e.g., 17301, 17302, etc.), all covering the same questions and materials. Check which ones best fit your schedule.
    
    For this module, you cannot immediately enroll in your preferred seminar (platzbeschränkte Lehrveranstaltungen). Instead, you must select (three different) preferences. The system will then assign places based on your choices. Note that lecturers will not be able to enroll you in a seminar or help you swap places.
    
    Make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to and attend the first session of that course. To resolve possible clashes please send a short email to studienbuero@geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de, sketching the problem/clash.
    
    For deadlines, information for students with caring responsibilities, and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

  • 17305 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Literary Studies: Working with Literary Texts (Peter Löffelbein)
    Zeit: Do 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2025)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Hinweis für Erstsemester-Studierende: Detaillierte Informationen zum Bachelor Englische Philologie (inkl. StPo, Checklisten, FAQs) finden Sie hier.

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture 17300, “GK Introduction to Literary Studies.” Please note that you must sign up for both courses separately. The lecture and seminar are closely connected and follow a similar structure. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of poetic, narrative, and dramatic texts. Additionally, students will read a small selection of critical texts that introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. The class also offers an introduction to academic writing and research techniques. Overall, the seminar aims to enable students to understand and contextualize a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to discuss and write about them in structured ways. This class will be conducted in English. Note the deadline for registration (below).
    
    Texts / Blackboard – Where do I find the readings for this course?
    Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available through Blackboard.
    
    Courses for which you have signed up via Campus Management will show up in your Blackboard account automatically. Courses and materials often only become fully available shortly before (or in) the first week of term.
    
    Requirements and exam – What will I need to do to complete the course?
    To complete the module and receive full credits, students must attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, and submit three short written assignments. Additionally, students must pass the final exam at the end of the term (90 minutes, with one part based on the lecture and one part based on the seminar).
    
    Registration (Campus Management) – How and when can I sign up for this course?
    There are several parallel seminars for this module (e.g., 17301, 17302, etc.), all covering the same questions and materials. Check which ones best fit your schedule.
    
    For this module, you cannot immediately enroll in your preferred seminar (platzbeschränkte Lehrveranstaltungen). Instead, you must select (three different) preferences. The system will then assign places based on your choices. Note that lecturers will not be able to enroll you in a seminar or help you swap places.
    
    Make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to and attend the first session of that course. To resolve possible clashes please send a short email to studienbuero@geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de, sketching the problem/clash.
    
    For deadlines, information for students with caring responsibilities, and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

  • 17306 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Literary Studies: Working with Literary Texts (Lenka Filipova)
    Zeit: Fr 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Hinweis für Erstsemester-Studierende: Detaillierte Informationen zum Bachelor Englische Philologie (inkl. StPo, Checklisten, FAQs) finden Sie hier.

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture 17300, “GK Introduction to Literary Studies.” Please note that you must sign up for both courses separately. The lecture and seminar are closely connected and follow a similar structure. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of poetic, narrative, and dramatic texts. Additionally, students will read a small selection of critical texts that introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. The class also offers an introduction to academic writing and research techniques. Overall, the seminar aims to enable students to understand and contextualize a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to discuss and write about them in structured ways. This class will be conducted in English. Note the deadline for registration (below).
    
    Texts / Blackboard – Where do I find the readings for this course?
    Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available through Blackboard.
    
    Courses for which you have signed up via Campus Management will show up in your Blackboard account automatically. Courses and materials often only become fully available shortly before (or in) the first week of term.
    
    Requirements and exam – What will I need to do to complete the course?
    To complete the module and receive full credits, students must attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, and submit three short written assignments. Additionally, students must pass the final exam at the end of the term (90 minutes, with one part based on the lecture and one part based on the seminar).
    
    Registration (Campus Management) – How and when can I sign up for this course?
    There are several parallel seminars for this module (e.g., 17301, 17302, etc.), all covering the same questions and materials. Check which ones best fit your schedule.
    
    For this module, you cannot immediately enroll in your preferred seminar (platzbeschränkte Lehrveranstaltungen). Instead, you must select (three different) preferences. The system will then assign places based on your choices. Note that lecturers will not be able to enroll you in a seminar or help you swap places.
    
    Make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to and attend the first session of that course. To resolve possible clashes please send a short email to studienbuero@geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de, sketching the problem/clash.
    
    For deadlines, information for students with caring responsibilities, and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

  • 17307 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Literary Studies: Working with Literary Texts (Sophie Kriegel)
    Zeit: Do 18:00-20:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Hinweis für Erstsemester-Studierende: Detaillierte Informationen zum Bachelor Englische Philologie (inkl. StPo, Checklisten, FAQs) finden Sie hier.

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture 17300, “GK Introduction to Literary Studies.” Please note that you must sign up for both courses separately. The lecture and seminar are closely connected and follow a similar structure. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of poetic, narrative, and dramatic texts. Additionally, students will read a small selection of critical texts that introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. The class also offers an introduction to academic writing and research techniques. Overall, the seminar aims to enable students to understand and contextualize a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to discuss and write about them in structured ways. This class will be conducted in English. Note the deadline for registration (below).
    
    Texts / Blackboard – Where do I find the readings for this course?
    Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available through Blackboard.
    
    Courses for which you have signed up via Campus Management will show up in your Blackboard account automatically. Courses and materials often only become fully available shortly before (or in) the first week of term.
    
    Requirements and exam – What will I need to do to complete the course?
    To complete the module and receive full credits, students must attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, and submit three short written assignments. Additionally, students must pass the final exam at the end of the term (90 minutes, with one part based on the lecture and one part based on the seminar).
    
    Registration (Campus Management) – How and when can I sign up for this course?
    There are several parallel seminars for this module (e.g., 17301, 17302, etc.), all covering the same questions and materials. Check which ones best fit your schedule.
    
    For this module, you cannot immediately enroll in your preferred seminar (platzbeschränkte Lehrveranstaltungen). Instead, you must select (three different) preferences. The system will then assign places based on your choices. Note that lecturers will not be able to enroll you in a seminar or help you swap places.
    
    Make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to and attend the first session of that course. To resolve possible clashes please send a short email to studienbuero@geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de, sketching the problem/clash.
    
    For deadlines, information for students with caring responsibilities, and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

• BM2 Introduction to English Linguistics

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  • 17308 Vorlesung
    V-Introduction to English Linguistics: Survey of Language and Linguistics (Ferdinand von Mengden)
    Zeit: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 13.10.2025)
    Ort: Hs 1a Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Hinweis für Erstsemester-Studierende: Detaillierte Informationen zum Bachelor Englische Philologie (inkl. StPo, Checklisten, FAQs) finden Sie hier.

    Kommentar

    As part of the module Introduction to English Linguistics, this lecture introduces and explains basic terms, concepts and theories of linguistics. In contrast to the seminar, the lecture will contextualize the basic concepts and assumptions in the historical development of linguistic thought. How and in which historical contexts did our modern understanding of language and of the underlying models of description emerge? How are they motivated? To an extent, this approach will give the lecture a chronological structure. The major part of the lecture will deal with the linguistics of the past one hundred years, this being the period when most of present-day linguistics was formed. The main aim of this lecture will be to familiarise students with the most important concepts and with the major subdisciplines of linguistics.
    
    Students who cannot attend the first class are kindly asked to notify me before the beginning of the lecture period.

  • 17309 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to English Linguistics (Elif Kara)
    Zeit: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 13.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Hinweis für Erstsemester-Studierende: Detaillierte Informationen zum Bachelor Englische Philologie (inkl. StPo, Checklisten, FAQs) finden Sie hier.

  • 17310 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to English Linguistics (Kirsten Middeke)
    Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2025)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Hinweis für Erstsemester-Studierende: Detaillierte Informationen zum Bachelor Englische Philologie (inkl. StPo, Checklisten, FAQs) finden Sie hier.

  • 17311 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to English Linguistics (Arne Werfel)
    Zeit: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 13.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Hinweis für Erstsemester-Studierende: Detaillierte Informationen zum Bachelor Englische Philologie (inkl. StPo, Checklisten, FAQs) finden Sie hier.

  • 17312 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to English Linguistics (Janel Zoske)
    Zeit: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    IMPORTANT INFORMATION: The first session (15.10.2025) of this seminar will be held online via Webex (https://fu-berlin.webex.com/meet/j.zoske).
    
    Hinweis für Erstsemester-Studierende: Detaillierte Informationen zum Bachelor Englische Philologie (inkl. StPo, Checklisten, FAQs) finden Sie hier.

    Kommentar

    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The aims of linguistics are to understand human communication, cognition and psychology and the evolution of languages as communication systems.
    
    This course offers an introduction to the basic concepts and methods of linguistics on various levels of analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax), with English as our primary object of investigation. You will be equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to read academic literature and to carry out linguistic analyses of your own in more advanced modules, and to pursue further studies in the discipline.
    
    The seminar will be completed by a written exam and is complemented by an obligatory lecture course.

  • 17313 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to English Linguistics (Sofia Rüdiger)
    Zeit: Do 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2025)
    Ort: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Hinweis für Erstsemester-Studierende: Detaillierte Informationen zum Bachelor Englische Philologie (inkl. StPo, Checklisten, FAQs) finden Sie hier.

    Kommentar

    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The aims of linguistics are to understand human communication, cognition and psychology, and the evolution of languages as communication systems. Language is fascinating to study for its own sake, but a knowledge of linguistics is also extremely helpful for a range of other activities, for instance language teaching or translating/interpreting.
    
    The seminar will introduce you to basic concepts and methods in linguistics. We will study phenomena on various levels of analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax), with English as our primary object of investigation and occasional glances at other languages. You will be equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to read academic literature, to carry out linguistic analyses of your own in more advanced modules, and to pursue further studies in the discipline.
    
    The seminar is complemented by an obligatory lecture course and a tutorial.

  • 17314 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to English Linguistics (Berit Johannsen)
    Zeit: Do 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Hinweis für Erstsemester-Studierende: Detaillierte Informationen zum Bachelor Englische Philologie (inkl. StPo, Checklisten, FAQs) finden Sie hier.

    Kommentar

    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The aims of linguistics are to understand human communication, cognition and psychology and the evolution of languages as communication systems. Language is fascinating to study for its own sake, but a knowledge of linguistics is also extremely helpful for a range of other activities, for instance language teaching or translating/interpreting.
    
    The seminars will introduce you to basic concepts and methods in linguistics. We will study phenomena on various levels of analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax), with English as our primary object of investigation and occasional glances at other languages. You will be equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to read academic literature and to carry out linguistic analyses of your own in more advanced modules, and to pursue further studies in the discipline.
    
    Credit requirements are:
    

    • regular attendance
    • regular active participation in discussions, based on weekly reading assignments and homework
    • a written exam

    The seminar is complemented by an obligatory lecture course and a tutorial.

  • 17315 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to English Linguistics (Alice Cesbron)
    Zeit: Di 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Hinweis für Erstsemester-Studierende: Detaillierte Informationen zum Bachelor Englische Philologie (inkl. StPo, Checklisten, FAQs) finden Sie hier.

    Kommentar

    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The aims of linguistics are to understand human communication, cognition and psychology, and the evolution of languages as communication systems. Language is fascinating to study for its own sake, but a knowledge of linguistics is also extremely helpful for a range of other activities, for instance language teaching or translating/interpreting.
    
    The seminar will introduce you to basic concepts and methods in linguistics. We will study phenomena on various levels of analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax), with English as our primary object of investigation and occasional glances at other languages. You will be equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to read academic literature, to carry out linguistic analyses of your own in more advanced modules, and to pursue further studies in the discipline.
    
    The seminar is complemented by an obligatory lecture course and a tutorial.

• AM1 Surveying English Literatures

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  • 17318 Proseminar
    PS-Surveying English Literatures: Early Modern City Comedy (Lukas Lammers)
    Zeit: Fr 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2025)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    Do you remember Sex and the City? Are you intrigued by “deeds, and language, such as men do use; / And persons, such as Comedy would choose”? Perhaps you are even inclined to agree that “tragic passion / And such grave stuff, is this day out of fashion”? Then you might want to consider taking this course. The quotations are taken from two plays first staged around 1600. And while it is not quite true that tragedy was “out of fashion,” it is definitely true that a specific kind of comedy was very much in vogue: city comedy or citizen comedy.
    
    In this course we will read four early modern city comedies: Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Ben Jonson’s Every Man In His Humour (first quotation), Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton’s The Roaring Girl, and Eastward Ho by George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston (second quotation). The plays are diverse in many ways, but they are united by their portrayal of urban life. Unlike Shakespeare’s romantic comedies, for example, they are all set in a recognisable contemporary London, and deal with the “everyday” lives of “ordinary” people. “Money and sex, rather than Shakespearean courtship and romance, are central to these plays,” as Pascale Aebischer puts it. Tracing the steps of gallants, tricksters, prostitutes, citizen wives, and city merchants around early modern London, the plays virtually “map” the city – both geographically and socially.
    
    By examining a range of critical texts, the course also aims to introduce students to the study of early modern literature and culture more generally. Among other things, we will discuss questions of class, gender, performance practices, and the emergence of capitalism and consumerism. Prior knowledge of early modern drama and theatre is certainly helpful but not a requirement – a willingness and interest to engage with the language and conventions of the time and genre are imperative.
    
    TEXTS
    Despite their often mundane subject matter, these texts can, at times, be difficult to read, as they abound with regional colloquialisms and allusions to specific places, people and fashions. Acquiring a good critical edition of the plays is therefore paramount.
    
    Fortunately, all four plays are available in a single, reasonably cheap volume with an excellent introduction and helpful notes on the texts. Students wishing to participate in this course should get hold of the following edition as soon as possible before the start of the course (check book shops for delivery times):
    
    Knowles, James. The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001 (also available at the philological library [https://t1p.de/cnqvh] and as an ebook).
    
    ASSESSMENT
    Assessment will be based on short writing assignments, ultra short oral presentations in class (‘aktive Teilnahme’), and a final essay of 2.000 words to be submitted after the end of class. The course will offer guidance for academic writing. Those who have not written a term paper yet are advised to attend the tutorial on academic writing offered by Lilian Frielinghaus. Exchange students with a background in English and/or Cultural Studies are welcome; your proficiency in English should be at least B2.

  • 17319 Proseminar
    PS-Surveying English Literatures: The Beauty of Survival: Writing the Second World War (Andrew James Johnston)
    Zeit: Di 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    As the generation which actively took part in the Second World War has all but died out, that most terrible of military conflicts is being subjected to ever-increasing scrutiny. For the British especially, the memory of the Second World War is fraught with ambivalence. On the one hand, it conjures up images of “their finest hour” (Winston Churchill, June 18^th 1940), on the other, its glories are tarnished by the supposedly shameful appeasement policies that led up to it, by the Allies’ relative inaction in the face of the Holocaust and by the systematic strategic bombing of Germany, directed primarily against the civilian population. Besides, the war crucially accelerated the decline of Britain as an empire.
    
    Yet it is precisely this ambivalence that provides the basis for complex literary attempts to re-fashion and interrogate the memory of the war. Thus, in literature written in English, the Second World War has become something of a perfect narrative theatre in which to stage issues of history and memory, identity and experience, story-telling and myth-making, and to cast these issues in terms of perspectives depending on the frequently conflicting dynamics of class, nation and gender.
    
    This course will seek to trace some of these narrative trajectories in the novels The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje, 1992) and Atonement (Ian McEwan, 2001). Students are presumed to have acquired copies of these novels and to have read them before the course starts. They will be given the opportunity to prove their familiarity with the texts in a series of short tests.

  • 17320 Proseminar
    PS-Surveying English Literatures: Emotion and the Narrative Mind in Neo-/Victorian Literature (Lenka Filipova)
    Zeit: Do 18:00-20:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2025)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    How do stories shape the way we feel, think, and imagine the lives of others? Why do some stories grip us immediately and hold on, while others fade quickly, and some reveal their power only long after the last page? How are the emotions we encounter in literature bound to the historical and cultural worlds that produced them, even when they resonate with our own? And what can the Victorian world, with its defining role in the evolution of the novel and its emotional codes, reveal when contemporary writers return to it with present-day understandings of mind and feeling?
    
    This course brings together literary study, affect theory, and contemporary cognitive science to explore how Victorian and Neo-Victorian fiction represents the relationship between emotion, consciousness, and narrative form. Moving between nineteenth-century works and contemporary reimaginings of the period, we will consider how literary texts both depict and shape emotional life, and how these representations engage with changing understandings of the mind. Drawing on Lisa Feldman Barrett’s insights into the construction of emotion, Sara Ahmed’s work on the cultural and political life of emotion and affect, and Keith Oatley’s writing on fiction as a simulation of social experience, among others, we will examine how narrative both reflects and transforms the ways we feel and think. Primary works will be paired with critical and interdisciplinary readings to trace evolving conceptions of emotion and the narrative mind over time.

  • 17321 Proseminar
    PS-Surveying English Literatures: Gentle Women, Hard Work (Hendrikje Kaube)
    Zeit: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 13.10.2025)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, the primary workplace shifted from homes to factories. While hitherto women had commonly participated in the family business, Victorian ideology favoured separate spheres for men and women, with the latter reigning over house and hearth. Though their working-class counterparts sought employment in agriculture and other industries, performing paid manual labour jeopardized the social status of middle-class women, leaving those without financial support with limited opportunities to make a living.
    
    This course will explore the few occupations for impoverished gentlewomen over the course of the long nineteenth century as portrayed in fact and fiction, and explore modern notions of gender and work. We are going to look at three novels which participants are expected to have read before the respective sessions as well as shorter texts to be provided during the semester.
    
    Texts:
    Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
    Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
    George Gissing, The Odd Women

• AM2 Introduction to Cultural Studies

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  • 17324 Grundkurs
    GK-Introduction to Cultural Studies (Sabine Schülting)
    Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2025)
    Ort: Hs 1a Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    The course will give an overview of the questions, main approaches, and terminology of Cultural Studies. After a clarification of what we mean when we speak of ‘culture’ and a brief sketch of the historical development of (British) Cultural Studies, the course will focus on contemporary cultural phenomena (such as Britishness, cultural identity and cultural memory, constructions of gender and race, popular culture, etc.) as represented in different genres and media. These topics will serve as examples for an introduction to the basic theories and methods in Cultural Studies. The course will thus lay the foundation for the seminars in this module as well as in the “Culture – Gender – Media” module.
    
    The course will be organised as a series of weekly lectures with discussion. There is no exam in the course. Exchange students are welcome; they can get 2 ECTS for participation.

  • 17325 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Media (Cordula Lemke)
    Zeit: Fr 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2025)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17326 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Green and Pleasant: The Politics of the Countryside (Matilda Jones)
    Zeit: Do 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This module explores the construction of the UK countryside, examining how rural Britain has been idealised and contested from the Romantic period to the present day. Beginning with William Blake’s poetic vision of a ‘green and pleasant land’ (1808) up to Corinne Fowler’s theoretical Green Unpleasant Land (2021), the course interrogates the countryside not simply as a geographical space, but as a symbolic landscape deeply entwined with questions of race, class, colonialism and national identity. We will consider how the rural is constructed in opposition to the urban, and how representations of idyllic pre-industrial landscapes – complete with hedgerows, hay bales, and rolling hills – serve to naturalise particular conceptions of ‘Englishness’. Crucially, the module questions who is conventionally seen to ‘belong’ in countryside spaces, foregrounding the exclusionary politics that underpin nostalgic rural imaginaries.
    
    Topics include: the relationship between rural Britain and the colonial extractions of Empire; the construction of Englishness in contrast to the Celtic peripheries (Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Cornwall); the impact of enclosure and the loss of the commons; cultural revivals from 1970s pagan festivals to 1990s rave; and contemporary questions of environmental concern in the face of climate breakdown.
    
    In this way, through analysis of poetry, novels, televisual culture and theoretical texts, the module offers a critical framework for understanding the countryside as a politically charged and ideologically loaded space. Ultimately, students will become well-versed in central thematic and methodological aspects of Cultural Studies whilst honing key skills in close reading, analysis, argumentation, and academic writing.

  • 17327 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Queer Cities (Sophie Kriegel)
    Zeit: Do 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2025)
    Ort: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    The city is omnipresent in our culture, but we rarely pause to contemplate what the city actually is. This seminar offers space to explore citiness in anglophone literatures from different perspectives as an attempt to queer our understanding of the urban worlds that we inhabit. No previous knowledge about city literature or queer studies is necessary. The seminar will provide an introduction to city literature as a genre followed by a thematic focus on gender that also takes migration and ecology into consideration. Consequently, the obligatory reading for the course is not solely comprised of canonical genre texts but also looks to cultures outside the British Isles for inspiration. The texts will be made available online during the first week of the lecture period.
    
    The readings will be approached through the method of psychogeography to highlight the frictions and flows that guide the individual experience of the city. Psychogeography highlights the subjective experience of citiness and allows a very practical engagement with texts and cities. In addition to the psychogeographic analysis of literary texts, students will learn to visualise their own experience of the city of Berlin in psychogeographic flow maps to better understand the advantages and limitations of psychogeography. This course then is addressed to students that enjoy reading city literature, are keen to engage with scholarship on cities, and like to broaden their own practical experience of the city through interactive participation.

  • 17328 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Retelling Shakespeare (Claudia Lorraine Rumson)
    Zeit: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2025)
    Ort: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    When Taylor Swift said “You were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter”… we felt that. Shakespeare’s plays are among the most famous, most quoted, and most retold stories in the English canon, and people never grow tired of referring to them and retelling them in new, creative ways. But why? What do modern creators get out of retelling Shakespeare?
    
    In this course, we will be reading (watching, listening to, and looking at) unusual and unexpected adaptations of Shakespeare plays. From pop songs and erotic fanfiction to Victorian paintings and big-budget movies, we will study the relationships between these adaptations and the plays they are based on. We will ask why the adaptations made the choices (and changes) they made, why they refer to Shakespeare at all, and what these new takes can tell us both about the plays, and about the new takes’ contexts. You will learn to analyse adaptations beyond how accurate they are to the source material, and, as a bonus, you can impress your friends by telling them how their favourite TV show is actually an adaptation of Hamlet.
    
    Through the lens of Shakespeare, we will practice critical adaptation studies, close reading, and academic writing. Course material will be made available on Blackboard prior to the start of the course. Full credit can be obtained on the basis of regular participation in class discussions, informal writing assignments, a short presentation, and the eventual submission of a research paper of approximately 2000 words.

• AM3 Medieval English Literatures

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  • 17329 Proseminar
    PS-Medieval English Literatures: Runes and Riddles (Jan-Peer Hartmann)
    Zeit: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 13.10.2025)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17330 Proseminar
    PS-Medieval English Literatures: Medieval Scottish Literature (Wolfram Keller)
    Zeit: Di 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This course is meant to familiarize students with (late) medieval Scottish literature. After briefly touching upon the relevant historical and cultural contexts, we will read a number of mostly short poems by authors that were once, reductively, referred to as the ‘Scottish Chaucerians’: Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas. Reading (short) poems of the mentioned writers, we shall focus first and foremost on the primary texts.

  • 17331 Proseminar
    PS-Medieval English Literatures: Medieval English Romance (Andrew James Johnston)
    Zeit: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 13.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    Romance - broadly speaking: tales of magic and chivalry - is probably the medieval genre whose traditions have best survived into twenty-first century (popular) imagination. Figures such as Sir Perceval or Tristan and Iseult are known to a broad modern audience through different media such as opera and film, while King Arthur, Lancelot and Guinevere remain even more famous, eternally locked as they are in their romantic triangle.
    
    For various reasons, most of England’s contribution to this body of literature is remarkably late, beginning only in the fourteenth century, and uneven in quality, especially if compared to the grand products of Old French and Middle High German literature written in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Only in the second half of the fifteenth century did an English author, Sir Thomas Malory, undertake to create a version of the Arthurian cycle whose ambition was to rival that of his French models.
    
    But what, from a conservative point of view, may look like a rather embarrassing feature of fourteenth-century (and earlier) Middle English romance, can also be seen as a peculiar advantage. Precisely because Middle English romance as a genre is so diverse, and in some cases even odd and – supposedly – naïve, does it give us a remarkable insight into the tastes and habits of thought of a broad segment of the late medieval English reading/listening public and, thus, into the various aesthetic, ideological and cultural uses to which Medieval literature could be put.
    
    The texts to be discussed in this course are:
    

    • Havelok the Dane (anonymous)
    • Sir Orfeo (anonymous)
    • The Franklin’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer)

    The primary texts will be made available to students on blackboard at the beginning of the semester.

• AM4 Levels of Linguistic Analysis

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  • 17335 Vorlesung
    V-Levels of Linguistic Analysis: Structures and Functions (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
    Zeit: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2025)
    Ort: J 32/102 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17337 Proseminar
    PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis: English Corpus Linguistics (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
    Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17338 Proseminar
    PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis: English Corpus Linguistics (Rosa Hesse)
    Zeit: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 13.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    In what ways does the use of adorare in Italian differ from the use of adore in English?, Which swear words are most common in the 2010s, and are these different from the 1990s?, What lexical, grammatical and pragmatic options exist in the Bathroom Formula (clauses and phrases expressing speakers’ need to leave any ongoing activity in order to go to the bathroom)?, Which functional changes did the suffix -ish undergo in the course of English language history?, ... 
    
    In this seminar, you will apply the concepts learned in Introduction to English Linguistics through the critical reading and evaluation of linguistic research papers that are concerned with questions such as the above ones. You will also conduct your own corpus linguistic research using authentic language data in the form of text corpora (sets of natural language data) to answer your own questions (Which euphemistic and dysphemistic expressions for menstruation are most common in English and German Web corpora?, How does gender, class and age of the speaker affect the frequency and choice of apologies?, ...). To do this, you will learn the basics of a formal query language and how to access databases and search for complex grammatical or lexical patterns. This methodological knowledge will enable you to carry out your own small-scale corpus study and design an academic poster to be presented at a poster session at the end of the semester. This will form the basis of your term paper.
    
    Please bring a laptop to class from week 1 onwards.

  • 17339 Proseminar
    PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis: English Corpus Linguistics (Berit Johannsen)
    Zeit: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 13.10.2025)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This seminar teaches you how to apply the terminological concepts learned in Introduction to English Linguistics to the analysis of linguistic usage patterns. You will learn how to analyse the forms and meanings of authentic linguistic data, as well as to model linguistic research. The module examination will be a collaborative project involving a small-scale empirical study on a linguistic topic of your choice, with a subsequent oral presentation plus a written component. At the end of the course, you will be equipped with the basic skillset required for scientific research in linguistics.
    
    This seminar is complemented by the module lecture and a tutorial.

  • 17340 Proseminar Abgesagt
    PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis: English Corpus Linguistics (Ben Mohai)
    Zeit: Do 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2025)
    Ort: J 32/102 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

• AM5 History of English

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  • 17345 Proseminar
    PS-History of English: Synthetic and Analytic Constructions (Kirsten Middeke)
    Zeit: Do 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17346 Proseminar
    PS-History of English: Synthetic and Analytic Constructions (Kirsten Middeke)
    Zeit: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2025)
    Ort: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17347 Proseminar
    PS-History of English: Speech Acts Through Time and Space (Sofia Rüdiger)
    Zeit: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This course combines diachronic and synchronic perspectives on speech acts, i.e., how speakers ‘do things with words.’ After a short introduction to speech act theory and historical pragmatics, we will turn our attention to several diachronic case studies, such as greetings, insults, and expressions of gratitude. In the second part of the course, we will then consider the realization of speech acts in different geographical varieties of English (with a focus on Outer and Expanding Circle Englishes).

  • 17348 Proseminar Abgesagt
    PS-History of English: The Evolution of English into a Global Lingua Franca (Chiara Migliore)
    Zeit: Di 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

• Grundlagen der Fachdidaktik Englisch für die Grundschule

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  • 17470 Grundkurs
    Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (Katrin Harder)
    Zeit: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 13.10.2025)
    Ort: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This course provides an overview of the basic principles, concepts and open questions in the field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Topics covered include: history and perspectives of English language teaching; TEFL's foundations in psychology, linguistics and pedagogy; theories of second/foreign language acquisition; curriculum and curricular decision making; methodology (historical and systematic); literature and cultural studies; textbook analysis and evaluation; characteristics of a good lesson; assessment. Course meetings are conducted partly in English and in German (CEF: C1/C2).

    Students are expected to attend class regularly and to participate actively, which includes reading assigned texts to prepare for each session, and handing in a number of small writing assignments during the course of the semester.

    Assigned texts will be announced at the beginning of the term.

    The topic of the “Hausarbeit” (requirements to be found in the style sheet) can either be taken from this course or from the “Proseminar”, the second constituent of the “Basismodul”. The paper is to be handed in after successful completion of both module constituents (“Grundkurs & Proseminar”).

    Course structure: lectures, discussions, group/partner work, hands-on activities.

  • 17471 Grundkurs
    Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (Katrin Harder)
    Zeit: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 13.10.2025)
    Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This course provides an overview of the basic principles, concepts and open questions in the field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Topics covered include: history and perspectives of English language teaching; TEFL's foundations in psychology, linguistics and pedagogy; theories of second/foreign language acquisition; curriculum and curricular decision making; methodology (historical and systematic); literature and cultural studies; textbook analysis and evaluation; characteristics of a good lesson; assessment. Course meetings are conducted partly in English and in German (CEF: C1/C2).

    Students are expected to attend class regularly and to participate actively, which includes reading assigned texts to prepare for each session, and handing in a number of small writing assignments during the course of the semester.

    Assigned texts will be announced at the beginning of the term.

    The topic of the “Hausarbeit” (requirements to be found in the style sheet) can either be taken from this course or from the “Proseminar”, the second constituent of the “Basismodul”. The paper is to be handed in after successful completion of both module constituents (“Grundkurs & Proseminar”).

    Course structure: lectures, discussions, group/partner work, hands-on activities.

  • 17472 Grundkurs
    Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (Leonie Fuchs)
    Zeit: Fr 10:00-12:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Erster Termin: 07.11.2025)
    Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Achtung: Es entfallen die Sitzungen am 17.10.25, 24.10.25, 31.10.25 und 19.12.25. Beginn der Lehrveranstaltung ist somit erst der 07.11.25. Folgende Ersatzsitzungen sind geplant: 22.11.25 (10-14 Uhr), 24.01.26 (10-14 Uhr)

    Kommentar

    This course provides an overview of the basic principles, concepts and open questions in the field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Topics covered include: history and perspectives of English language teaching; TEFL's foundations in psychology, linguistics and pedagogy; theories of second/foreign language acquisition; curriculum and curricular decision making; methodology (historical and systematic); literature and cultural studies; textbook analysis and evaluation; characteristics of a good lesson; assessment. Course meetings are conducted partly in English and in German (CEF: C1/C2).

    Students are expected to attend class regularly and to participate actively, which includes reading assigned texts to prepare for each session, and handing in a number of small writing assignments during the course of the semester.

    Assigned texts will be announced at the beginning of the term.

    The topic of the “Hausarbeit” (requirements to be found in the style sheet) can either be taken from this course or from the “Proseminar”, the second constituent of the “Basismodul”. The paper is to be handed in after successful completion of both module constituents (“Grundkurs & Proseminar”).

    Course structure: lectures, discussions, group/partner work, hands-on activities.

  • 17473 Grundkurs
    Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (Christian Ludwig)
    Zeit: Di 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
    Ort: J 32/102 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    In this course, we will delve into various aspects of teaching English as a foreign language. Topics covered will include the history of English language teaching, theories of second/foreign language acquisition, and curriculum/material design. Additionally, we will explore commonly used methods in the EFL classroom, as well as areas such as learning through literature and cultural/global learning. We will also address strategies for addressing key challenges in teaching English, including diversity and inclusion. Regular class attendance and active participation, including reading assigned texts, are expected from all participants.

  • 17474 Proseminar
    Picturebooks in Primary English Teaching and Beyond (Katja Heim)
    Zeit: Termine siehe LV-Details (Erster Termin: 17.10.2025)
    Ort: K 23/11 Digilab (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Hinweise für Studierende

    Die Lehrveranstaltung findet in Teilen in K 23/11 (Digilab) und K 31/102 statt. Bitte schauen Sie in den jeweiligen Terminen nach der Raumangabe.
    
    Der Name Digilab bezieht sich auf die Ausstattung des Raumes und bestimmt nicht die primäre thematische Ausrichtung des Seminars.

    Kommentar

    While picturebooks are integral to primary English teaching, they are less commonly used in secondary English teaching. In this course, we will look at picturebooks and other multimodal texts for different levels of learners.
    
    We will
    

    • explore the various aims of reading picturebooks
    • consider competences that can potentially be developed, and
    • look at competences teachers need for including literary learning and the development of multiliteracies from early on.

    We will combine theoretical considerations with hands-on work with picturebooks. The course will also involve developing lesson ideas.
    
    Note: This course is a Blockseminar. It will take place on
    

    • Fri, 17.10.25, 2 – 6 pm,
    • Sat, 18.10.25, 8 am – 4 pm,
    • Fri, 24.10.25, 2 – 6 pm,
    • Sat, 25.10.25, 8 am – 4 pm,
    • Sat, 08.11.25, 8 am – 4 pm.        

             

• Module ohne Lehrangebot in diesem Semester

  1 Modul
  • Oral & Writing Skills I plus 0427aA1.6