Lehramt an Integrierten Sekundarschulen und Gymnasien – Quereinstieg (ab WiSe 2019)
Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik Englisch 2 (SPO ab WiSe 24/25)
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Ausgewählte Themen der Englischdidaktik
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Seminar
Ausgewählte Themen der Englischdidaktik: A Positive Approach to Language Teaching (ISS/GYM) (Michaela Sambanis)
Zeit: Di 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
Ort: K 31/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Kommentar
This seminar introduces Positive Language Pedagogy, an approach rooted in Positive Psychology and strength-based didactics. Participants will engage with key theories and empirical findings. They will explore how concepts like the PERMA model (Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment), growth mindset, and appreciative communication can enhance both learner and teacher well-being. Through interactive activities and reflective practice, the course demonstrates how positive language teaching practices can foster motivation, resilience, and a supportive classroom climate—especially in secondary and upper-secondary (Gymnasium) settings. The seminar combines theoretical input with hands-on experimentation and encourages participants to critically reflect on how to implement these principles in their future language classrooms.
Reading recommendation:
Students are encouraged to read the Happy Learning resource book (Sambanis/Ludwig 2024, Hueber-Verlag) before or during the seminar. The book offers a practical introduction to key concepts of Positive Pedagogy and will be referenced regularly throughout the course. Reading it will support your understanding of the theoretical foundations and provide hands-on ideas for implementing positive practices in the English classroom. -
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Seminar
Ausgewählte Themen der Englischdidaktik: Digital Tools in English Language Teaching (ISS/GYM) (Christian Ludwig)
Zeit: Di 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
Ort: K 31/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Kommentar
Digital technology and artificial intelligence are integral parts of the modern world, profoundly shaping the experiences of today’s teenage generation. Growing up in an era dominated by the digital landscape presents both unique opportunities and challenges. This course begins by examining what it means to grow up in the digital age, considering the impact of technology on young people’s lives.
The course then explores innovative ways to incorporate digital tools into the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. By leveraging technology, educators can foster greater collaboration, enhance communication, and encourage more interactive, authentic, and engaging language learning experiences.
Taking a project-based approach, students will also delve into the potential risks and dangers associated with the digital and AI age – such as bias, cyberbullying, misinformation, privacy concerns, and the impact of screen time on mental health. By addressing these issues, students will develop a deeper understanding of how to navigate the digital world safely and responsibly. -
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Seminar
Ausgewählte Themen der Englischdidaktik: AI in English Language Teaching (ISS/GYM) (Christian Ludwig)
Zeit: Do 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2025)
Ort: KL 29/207 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Kommentar
This course is for everyone interested in understanding how AI can be meaningfully used in English language teaching. We’ll start by exploring what AI is, how it works, and why it’s important to be aware of potential bias in AI systems.
We’ll look at what AI literacy means for both teachers and students, and how it can support effective language learning. The course offers practical ideas for using AI in lesson planning, creating materials, and meeting diverse learning needs. You’ll also explore ways to use AI with students to help them develop all key language skills and competences in line with your curriculum.
Through a mix of input, hands-on activities, and reflection, you’ll gain the tools and confidence to use AI thoughtfully, creatively, and responsibly in your teaching. -
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Seminar
Ausgewählte Themen der Englischdidaktik: Education for Democracy: Supporting Language Learners’ Autonomy (GS/ISS/GYM) (Katja Heim)
Zeit: Do 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2025)
Ort: 2.2058 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
Kommentar
What does it imply if we say that we want to support learners’ autonomy? A frequent association is a scene in which every learner works individually, without any help, any bonds and any obligations. That is not what is meant here. Supporting language learners’ autonomy is an aim formulated in the central European document on language learning, the Common European Framework of References for Languages. The concept of autonomy used here is not individualistic but considers learners as members of communities. The aim is thus to develop not only responsibility for learning at an individual level but also responsibility within groups of learners. This aims to enable learners to uphold a democratic Europe, in which citizens interact internationally and engage in peaceful discourse.
In this course, we will look at strategies for developing language learner autonomy within school-based English lessons and will consider important issues, such as the balance between structure and freedom, types of interactions in class, target language use, assessment, and inclusion.
Throughout the course, we will connect theory and practice, will analyse lesson sequences, and will develop small-scale action research projects in preparation for your term papers.
Parts of this course will be taught online. Dates for on-site and online sessions will be announced in class. The first two sessions will be on-site.
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Seminar
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Fachdidaktik Englisch: Entwicklung, Forschung und Evaluation Variante 1
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Seminar
Entwicklung, Forschung und Evaluation. Variante 1: ohne Vorbereitung MA-Arbeit (GS/ISS/GYM) (Michaela Sambanis)
Zeit: Do 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2025)
Ort: JK 31/124 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Kommentar
The focus of this seminar is the professional activity of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL), considered both theoretically (as an object of investigation) and practically (as it is realized in the classroom). From the perspective of Performative Didactics, the course covers selected issues in teaching English as a foreign language (the arts in language teaching, digital texts, multilingualism, creativity in the classroom, etc.). Performative Didactics is defined as an approach that emphasizes embodied learning and draws on techniques and processes from the performing arts, amongst others from theater. Students get the possibility to discover activities for the EFL classroom inspired by Performative Didactics as well as Positive Psychology (focusing on strengths & flourishing as well as on student & teacher wellbeing).
The course gives insight into relevant studies (didactic & neuroscientific findings), and other scholarly publications. These will be critically discussed by the participants together with the lecturer, and linked to theoretical foundations, to the current body of knowledge, and to practical considerations/teaching ideas.
Students are expected to attend class regularly and to participate actively, which includes a presentation ("Referat (ca. 10 Minuten) mit Ausarbeitung (ca. 5 Seiten)").
Focus areas: Performative Didactics, research from didactics, neuroscience and other sister disciplines, Positive Psychology, teaching ideas.
Recommended readings:- Sambanis, M. & Ludwig, C. (2024): Happy Learning – Glücklich und erfolgreich Sprachen lernen. München: Hueber.
- Sambanis, M. & Walter, M. (2022): Make it work! Interaktive Impulse zum Sprachenlernen. Von neuesten Befunden der Neurowissenschaft zu konkreten Unterrichtsimpulsen. Berlin: Cornelsen (Reihe Neurowissenschaftliche Impulse).
Course structure: Lectures, seminars, teaching activities, group work, performative components, presentations plus feedback, and discussions.
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Seminar
Abgesagt
Entwicklung, Forschung und Evaluation. Variante 1: ohne Vorbereitung MA-Arbeit (GS/ISS/GYM) (Katja Heim)
Zeit: Termine siehe LV-Details (Erster Termin: 23.02.2026)
Ort: JK 31/124 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
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Seminar
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Schulpraktische Studien im Unterrichtsfach Englisch - Fach 2
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Praktikum
Betreuung des Praktikums in der Schule (Katrin Harder)
Zeit: -
Ort: keine Angabe
Kommentar
Grundlage der Analysen sind die Unterrichtsbeobachtungen der Studentinnen und Studenten in ihren Hospitationsstunden an einer Berliner Schule (mind. 20 Stunden Hospitation). Im Unterrichtspraktikum sollen mindestens 16 Unterrichtsstunden geplant, durchgeführt und im Anschluss daran mit der Dozentin und/oder der anleitenden Lehrerin reflektiert werden. Die genaueren Vorgaben hinsichtlich der Unterrichtsstunden sind dem Leitfaden Praxissemester zu entnehmen.
Leistungsnachweis:- regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme und Anwesenheit an der Schule laut Leitfaden
- vollständiger Unterrichtsentwurf beim Unterrichtsbesuch
- 20 Hospitationsstunden im Fach Englisch an einer Berliner Schule
- 16 unterrichtete Stunden im Fach Englisch
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Praktikumsplatz an einer Berliner Schule
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Praktikum
Betreuung des Praktikums in der Schule (Leonie Fuchs)
Zeit: -
Ort: keine Angabe
Kommentar
Grundlage der Analysen sind die Unterrichtsbeobachtungen der Studentinnen und Studenten in ihren Hospitationsstunden an einer Berliner Schule (mind. 20 Stunden Hospitation). Im Unterrichtspraktikum sollen mindestens 16 Unterrichtsstunden geplant, durchgeführt und im Anschluss daran mit der Dozentin und/oder der anleitenden Lehrerin reflektiert werden. Die genaueren Vorgaben hinsichtlich der Unterrichtsstunden sind dem Leitfaden Praxissemester zu entnehmen.
Leistungsnachweis:- regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme und Anwesenheit an der Schule laut Leitfaden
- vollständiger Unterrichtsentwurf beim Unterrichtsbesuch
- 20 Hospitationsstunden im Fach Englisch an einer Berliner Schule
- 16 unterrichtete Stunden im Fach Englisch
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Praktikumsplatz an einer Berliner Schule
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17491
Praktikum
Betreuung des Praktikums in der Schule (Christian Ludwig)
Zeit: -
Ort: keine Angabe
Kommentar
Grundlage der Analysen sind die Unterrichtsbeobachtungen der Studentinnen und Studenten in ihren Hospitationsstunden an einer Berliner Schule (mind. 20 Stunden Hospitation). Im Unterrichtspraktikum sollen mindestens 16 Unterrichtsstunden geplant, durchgeführt und im Anschluss daran mit der Dozentin und/oder der anleitenden Lehrerin reflektiert werden. Die genaueren Vorgaben hinsichtlich der Unterrichtsstunden sind dem Leitfaden Praxissemester zu entnehmen.
Leistungsnachweis:- regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme und Anwesenheit an der Schule laut Leitfaden
- vollständiger Unterrichtsentwurf beim Unterrichtsbesuch
- 20 Hospitationsstunden im Fach Englisch an einer Berliner Schule
- 16 unterrichtete Stunden im Fach Englisch
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Praktikumsplatz an einer Berliner Schule
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Praktikum
Betreuung des Praktikums in der Schule (Anne Sophie Zahn)
Zeit: -
Ort: keine Angabe
Kommentar
Grundlage der Analysen sind die Unterrichtsbeobachtungen der Studentinnen und Studenten in ihren Hospitationsstunden an einer Berliner Schule (mind. 20 Stunden Hospitation). Im Unterrichtspraktikum sollen mindestens 16 Unterrichtsstunden geplant, durchgeführt und im Anschluss daran mit der Dozentin und/oder der anleitenden Lehrerin reflektiert werden. Die genaueren Vorgaben hinsichtlich der Unterrichtsstunden sind dem Leitfaden Praxissemester zu entnehmen.
Leistungsnachweis:- regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme und Anwesenheit an der Schule laut Leitfaden
- vollständiger Unterrichtsentwurf beim Unterrichtsbesuch
- 20 Hospitationsstunden im Fach Englisch an einer Berliner Schule
- 16 unterrichtete Stunden im Fach Englisch
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Praktikumsplatz an einer Berliner Schule
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Praktikum
Betreuung des Praktikums in der Schule (Stephanie Laura Milger-Ramsay)
Zeit: -
Ort: keine Angabe
Kommentar
Grundlage der Analysen sind die Unterrichtsbeobachtungen der Studentinnen und Studenten in ihren Hospitationsstunden an einer Berliner Schule (mind. 20 Stunden Hospitation). Im Unterrichtspraktikum sollen mindestens 16 Unterrichtsstunden geplant, durchgeführt und im Anschluss daran mit der Dozentin und/oder der anleitenden Lehrerin reflektiert werden. Die genaueren Vorgaben hinsichtlich der Unterrichtsstunden sind dem Leitfaden Praxissemester zu entnehmen.
Leistungsnachweis:- regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme und Anwesenheit an der Schule laut Leitfaden
- vollständiger Unterrichtsentwurf beim Unterrichtsbesuch
- 20 Hospitationsstunden im Fach Englisch an einer Berliner Schule
- 16 unterrichtete Stunden im Fach Englisch
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Praktikumsplatz an einer Berliner Schule
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Praktikum
Betreuung des Praktikums in der Schule (Andreas von Reppert)
Zeit: -
Ort: keine Angabe
Kommentar
Grundlage der Analysen sind die Unterrichtsbeobachtungen der Studentinnen und Studenten in ihren Hospitationsstunden an einer Berliner Schule (mind. 20 Stunden Hospitation). Im Unterrichtspraktikum sollen mindestens 16 Unterrichtsstunden geplant, durchgeführt und im Anschluss daran mit der Dozentin und/oder der anleitenden Lehrerin reflektiert werden. Die genaueren Vorgaben hinsichtlich der Unterrichtsstunden sind dem Leitfaden Praxissemester zu entnehmen.
Leistungsnachweis:- regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme und Anwesenheit an der Schule laut Leitfaden
- vollständiger Unterrichtsentwurf beim Unterrichtsbesuch
- 20 Hospitationsstunden im Fach Englisch an einer Berliner Schule
- 16 unterrichtete Stunden im Fach Englisch
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Praktikumsplatz an einer Berliner Schule
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Praktikum
Betreuung des Praktikums in der Schule (Natasha Janzen-Ulbricht)
Zeit: -
Ort: keine Angabe
Kommentar
Grundlage der Analysen sind die Unterrichtsbeobachtungen der Studentinnen und Studenten in ihren Hospitationsstunden an einer Berliner Schule (mind. 20 Stunden Hospitation). Im Unterrichtspraktikum sollen mindestens 16 Unterrichtsstunden geplant, durchgeführt und im Anschluss daran mit der Dozentin und/oder der anleitenden Lehrerin reflektiert werden. Die genaueren Vorgaben hinsichtlich der Unterrichtsstunden sind dem Leitfaden Praxissemester zu entnehmen.
Leistungsnachweis:- regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme und Anwesenheit an der Schule laut Leitfaden
- vollständiger Unterrichtsentwurf beim Unterrichtsbesuch
- 20 Hospitationsstunden im Fach Englisch an einer Berliner Schule
- 16 unterrichtete Stunden im Fach Englisch
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Praktikumsplatz an einer Berliner Schule
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Praktikum
Betreuung des Praktikums in der Schule (Natasha Janzen-Ulbricht)
Zeit: -
Ort: keine Angabe
Kommentar
Grundlage der Analysen sind die Unterrichtsbeobachtungen der Studentinnen und Studenten in ihren Hospitationsstunden an einer Berliner Schule (mind. 20 Stunden Hospitation). Im Unterrichtspraktikum sollen mindestens 16 Unterrichtsstunden geplant, durchgeführt und im Anschluss daran mit der Dozentin und/oder der anleitenden Lehrerin reflektiert werden. Die genaueren Vorgaben hinsichtlich der Unterrichtsstunden sind dem Leitfaden Praxissemester zu entnehmen.
Leistungsnachweis:- regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme und Anwesenheit an der Schule laut Leitfaden
- vollständiger Unterrichtsentwurf beim Unterrichtsbesuch
- 20 Hospitationsstunden im Fach Englisch an einer Berliner Schule
- 16 unterrichtete Stunden im Fach Englisch
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Praktikumsplatz an einer Berliner Schule
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17497
Praktikum
Betreuung des Praktikums in der Schule (Natasha Janzen-Ulbricht)
Zeit: -
Ort: keine Angabe
Kommentar
Grundlage der Analysen sind die Unterrichtsbeobachtungen der Studentinnen und Studenten in ihren Hospitationsstunden an einer Berliner Schule (mind. 20 Stunden Hospitation). Im Unterrichtspraktikum sollen mindestens 16 Unterrichtsstunden geplant, durchgeführt und im Anschluss daran mit der Dozentin und/oder der anleitenden Lehrerin reflektiert werden. Die genaueren Vorgaben hinsichtlich der Unterrichtsstunden sind dem Leitfaden Praxissemester zu entnehmen.
Leistungsnachweis:- regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme und Anwesenheit an der Schule laut Leitfaden
- vollständiger Unterrichtsentwurf beim Unterrichtsbesuch
- 20 Hospitationsstunden im Fach Englisch an einer Berliner Schule
- 16 unterrichtete Stunden im Fach Englisch
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Praktikumsplatz an einer Berliner Schule
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17483
Seminar
Begleitseminar (ISS/GYM) (Leonie Fuchs)
Zeit: Fr 12:00-14:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Erster Termin: 12.09.2025)
Ort: JK 31/124 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Hinweise für Studierende
Zusatztermine: 12.09.25 & 26.09.25, jeweils 8 bis 12 Uhr
Kommentar
Im Rahmen des Begleitseminars stehen exemplarische und konkrete Planungstechniken für den schulischen Englischunterricht im Vordergrund. Unterrichtsvorhaben werden unter Bezugnahme auf didaktische Unterrichtsmodelle und unter Berücksichtigung der Kernelemente einer Planung, wie z.B. Bedingungsfeld, didaktische Analyse, Thematik, Methodik, Differenzierung aber auch der Interaktion der am Unterricht Beteiligten analysiert und bereits durchgeführte Unterrichtsversuche reflektiert. Der Kurs ist auf ISS/Gym ausgerichtet.
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: erfolgreicher Abschluss des Vorbereitungskurses.
Leistungsnachweis:- regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme
- Unterrichtsplanungen
- Prüfungsvariante A: mediengestützte Präsentation im Seminar mit ausführlichem Handout und schriftlicher Ausarbeitung (5 Seiten)
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Seminar
Begleitseminar (ISS/GYM) (Leonie Fuchs)
Zeit: Fr 14:00-16:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Erster Termin: 12.09.2025)
Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Hinweise für Studierende
Zusatztermine: 12.09.25 & 26.09.25, jeweils 12 bis 16 Uhr
Kommentar
Im Rahmen des Begleitseminars stehen exemplarische und konkrete Planungstechniken für den schulischen Englischunterricht im Vordergrund. Unterrichtsvorhaben werden unter Bezugnahme auf didaktische Unterrichtsmodelle und unter Berücksichtigung der Kernelemente einer Planung, wie z.B. Bedingungsfeld, didaktische Analyse, Thematik, Methodik, Differenzierung aber auch der Interaktion der am Unterricht Beteiligten analysiert und bereits durchgeführte Unterrichtsversuche reflektiert. Der Kurs ist auf ISS/Gym ausgerichtet.
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: erfolgreicher Abschluss des Vorbereitungskurses.
Leistungsnachweis:- regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme
- Unterrichtsplanungen
- Prüfungsvariante A: mediengestützte Präsentation im Seminar mit ausführlichem Handout und schriftlicher Ausarbeitung (5 Seiten)
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17485
Seminar
Begleitseminar Schwerpunkt Grundschule (GS/ISS/GYM) (Katrin Harder)
Zeit: Do 14:00-16:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Erster Termin: 18.09.2025)
Ort: JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Hinweise für Studierende
Zusatztermine: 19.09.25 & 10.10.25, jeweils 12 bis 14 Uhr
Kommentar
Der Kurs richtet sich im Schwerpunkt an Studierende für das Lehramt an Grundschulen.
Das Begleitseminar beginnt bereits im September (s. Termine), dafür entfallen Termine im laufenden Semester.
Im Rahmen des Begleitseminars stehen exemplarische und konkrete Planungstechniken für den schulischen Englischunterricht im Vordergrund. Unterrichtsvorhaben werden unter Bezugnahme auf didaktische Unterrichtsmodelle und unter Berücksichtigung der Kernelemente einer Planung, wie z.B. Bedingungsfeld, didaktische Analyse, Thematik, Methodik, Differenzierung, aber auch der Interaktion der am Unterricht Beteiligten analysiert und bereits durchgeführte Unterrichtsversuche reflektiert.
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: erfolgreicher Abschluss des Vorbereitungskurses
Leistungsnachweis:
- regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme
- Unterrichtsplanungen
- Prüfungsvariante A: mediengestützte Präsentation im Seminar mit ausführlichem Handout und schriftlicher Ausarbeitung (5 Seiten)
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17486
Seminar
Begleitseminar (ISS/GYM) (Christian Ludwig)
Zeit: Fr 16:00-18:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Erster Termin: 26.09.2025)
Ort: JK 31/124 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Hinweise für Studierende
Zusatztermin: 26.09.25, 16 bis 20 Uhr
Kommentar
Im Rahmen des Begleitseminars stehen exemplarische und konkrete Planungstechniken für den schulischen Englischunterricht im Vordergrund. Unterrichtsvorhaben werden unter Bezugnahme auf didaktische Unterrichtsmodelle und unter Berücksichtigung der Kernelemente einer Planung, wie z.B. Bedingungsfeld, didaktische Analyse, Thematik, Methodik, Differenzierung aber auch der Interaktion der am Unterricht Beteiligten analysiert und bereits durchgeführte Unterrichtsversuche reflektiert. Der Kurs ist auf ISS/Gym ausgerichtet.
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: erfolgreicher Abschluss des Vorbereitungskurses.
Leistungsnachweis:- regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme
- Unterrichtsplanungen
- Prüfungsvariante A: mediengestützte Präsentation im Seminar mit ausführlichem Handout und schriftlicher Ausarbeitung (5 Seiten)
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Praktikum
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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). -
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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.
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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
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17300
Grundkurs
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BM2-Introduction to English Linguistics
0042fA1.2-
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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17308
Vorlesung
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AM1-Surveying English Literatures
0042fB1.1-
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 18th 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
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17318
Proseminar
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AM2-Introduction to Cultural Studies
0042fB1.2-
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)
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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.
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17324
Grundkurs
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AM3-Medieval English Literatures
0042fB1.3-
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)
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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.
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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)
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17329
Proseminar
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AM4-Levels of Linguistic Analysis
0042fB1.4-
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)
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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)
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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)
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17335
Vorlesung
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AM5-History of English
0042fB1.5-
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)
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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)
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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).
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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)
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17345
Proseminar
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Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures
0546bA1.10-
17360
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Writing Abolition (Jennifer Wawrzinek)
Zeit: Di 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Kommentar
Between 1700 and 1810 British merchants transported almost three million Africans across the Atlantic for the purposes of chattel slavery – a trade upon which the British economy eventually came to depend. Yet from the middle of the eighteenth century, various abolitionist movements began to speak out against this practice, which they saw as brutal and inhumane. The British had long seen themselves as a people devoted to liberty, and whose spirit was embodied in the rights of the Magna Carta. By the 1780s a wave of abolitionist fervour swept through Britain, led by the Quakers and the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and by 1807 the slave trade had been abolished (although slavery itself was not made illegal in the British Empire until 1833). This course will examine the various discourses of human rights and humanitarian sympathy that emerged at the end of the long eighteenth century in relation to the abolitionist movement. Students will be asked to analyse and compare texts by British abolitionists with those of ex-slaves such as Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince in order to examine debates over civil and religious liberties, forms of cultural exchange, the problem of geographical migration, and conceptions of British nationhood as a land of liberty and equality.
Students are expected to acquire the following texts:
- Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings. Any edition.
- Prince, Mary. The History of Mary Prince. Any edition.
A course reader will be made available on Blackboard at the beginning of semester.
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17361
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Narrating India (Stephan Laqué)
Zeit: Do 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2025)
Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
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17362
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Empire and the Globalising Gothic around 1800 (Caroline Kögler)
Zeit: Di 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
Ort: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Kommentar
This course examines the Gothic as a literary mode emerging in tandem with the rapid expansion of European imperial power in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Far from being confined to the haunted castles of a fictionalised Europe, the Gothic became a globalising form, absorbing and refracting anxieties about colonial encounters, the Atlantic slave trade, revolution, and shifting ideas of race, gender, and national identity. We will explore how Gothic fiction negotiated the “otherness” of distant geographies, the fear and fascination of the exotic, and the violent realities of imperialism—often transforming imperial peripheries into the haunted landscapes of the imagination.
Our intersectional readings will pair canonical Gothic works with novels and narratives shaped by the circulation of people, goods, and ideas across, primarily, the Atlantic and Mediterranean. We will investigate how this globalising Gothic contributed to, and at times critiqued, the cultural logics of empire, drawing on postcolonial theory, transnational literary history, and critical race studies.
Primary texts include:- Anne Radcliffe, The Sicilian Romance (1790)
- Matthew Lewis, The Monk (1796)
- Leonora Sansay, Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo (1808)
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)
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17360
Vertiefungsseminar
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Culture - Gender - Media
0546bA1.11-
17367
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Culture - Gender - Media: Enlightenment Cosmopolitans (Jennifer Wawrzinek)
Zeit: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 13.10.2025)
Ort: J 32/102 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Kommentar
The eighteenth century was a period in which the expansions of global trade networks and scientific exploration resulted not only in the emergence of modern capitalism, but similarly in the movement of people and cultural artefacts across national and international borders. It was an age in which Europeans developed a fascination for Chinese and East Asian artistic traditions, and in which the travel narrative emerged as the most popular genre of literature next to the novel. Philosophers resurrected the ancient Greek concept of the kosmopolites to refer to citizens of the world, with Christoph Martin Wieland using it in 1788 to define humanity as so many branches of a single tree, and Immanuel Kant proposing a cosmopolitan law as the treatment of individuals as human beings rather than as citizens of the state. At the core of these ideas is that we have obligations to others, and that we take seriously the value of human life, as well as the various practices and beliefs that give these lives significance. Yet whilst most of the English-language narratives of cross-cultural encounter during this period were written by British travellers and voyagers, it was also the case that those from other lands wrote of their experiences in contact with British subjects. This course will compare the writings of eighteenth-century British, Indian, and African cosmopolitans who either narrate an encounter with difference as intercultural exchange or situate that difference within British culture itself. Over the course of the semester, students will be asked to consider to what extent these writers reconceive a cosmopolitan existence as an obligation to human life, and to what extent they imagine and negotiate the various dimensions of intercultural contact, hospitality, globalisation and the emergence of modern capitalism.
A course reader will be made available on Blackboard prior to the beginning of semester.
Students are expected to acquire the following texts:
- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Turkish Embassy Letters. Any Edition.
- Hamilton, Elizabeth. Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah. Any Edition.
- Mahomet, Dean. The Travels of Dean Mahomet. Any Edition.
- Sancho, Ignatius. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. Any Edition.
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17368
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Culture - Gender - Media: Shakespeare's Othello: Text, Stage, Screen (Sabine Schülting)
Zeit: Di 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
Ort: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Kommentar
The course will be concerned with Othello, one of Shakespeare’s most controversial tragedies. It is a play about love and jealousy, but also racism and misogyny. The course will start with a close-reading of the play, its contextualization in early modern debates about gender and race, and an overview of important critical responses to the play. We will then have a look at the stage history of Othello and different approaches to performing Blackness. This will include a consideration of more recent stage productions and film versions. Our discussions of these contemporary interpretations and adaptations of Othello will consider the ways in which the tragedy has been used to address current debates about cultural and racial differences as well as the intersections of gender and race.
Texts: Students should purchase a scholarly edition of Othello (preferably the Arden, Cambridge or Oxford edition) and have read the play by the beginning of the semester.
Assessment will be on the basis of regular attendance, active participation in class activities (such as short presentations, group work, short written assignments etc.) and the submission of an essay (of c. 4000 words). Exchange students with a background in English and/or Cultural Studies are welcome; your proficiency in English should be at least B2. Exchange students can get up to 10 ECTS for this course. -
17369
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Culture - Gender - Media: The British Empire in Film and Fiction (Lukas Lammers)
Zeit: Fr 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2025)
Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Kommentar
In this seminar we will study a range of recent films and fiction that represent different phases and aspects of the British Empire. The first few sessions are intended to provide an introduction to three key contexts: empire, memory and media. We will then turn to six fictional representations (three novels and three films) as well as some shorter texts. The materials that we will be discussing span a considerable temporal, geographical, and thematic range. Temporally, they will take us from the heyday of Empire to its decline and beyond; geographically, there will be spotlights on Australia, Botswana, Britain, the Caribbean, India, and Singapore.
TEXTS
Novels: Matthew Kneale, English Passengers (2000), Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace (2000), Jane Gardam, Old Filth (2004).
Shorter texts will be made available on Blackboard.
Films: A United Kingdom (2016, dir. Amma Asante), Victoria and Abdul (2017, dir. Stephen Frears), Small Island (2009, BBC Television, dir. John Alexander)
ASSESSMENT
Assessment will be based on short writing assignments, very short presentations in class (‘aktive Teilnahme’), and a final essay of 4.000 words to be submitted after the end of class. Exchange students with a background in English and/or Cultural Studies are welcome; your proficiency in English should be at least B2.
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17367
Vertiefungsseminar
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Sociolinguistics and Varieties of English
0546bA1.12-
17371
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Socioling. and Varieties of English: Language and Tourism (Antje Wilton)
Zeit: Di 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
Ort: JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Kommentar
In this seminar, we will explore the relationship between (public) language use and the field of tourism. Tourism is a global societal domain in which language serves distinct purposes and manifests itself in a variety of genres and media. We will investigate, for instance, how language is used in transient linguistically and culturally mixed groups of people, how written interpretive infrastructure shapes the linguistic landscape of tourism sites, how language and visual semiotic elements structure gastronomic and medial promotion of touristic offers and how local languages are commodified as an economic resource in tourism. Students will engage more deeply with a topic of their choice in group student sessions, which they will plan and conduct themselves.
One highlight of the course will be a short joint COIL project on historic tourism sites with students and their lecturer from the German department of the University of Minnesota, Duluth. More information about this specific form of virtual cooperation can be found here: https://becoil.de/.
Please note that some knowledge of German is required for this course.
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17371
Vertiefungsseminar
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Structure of Englisch
0546bA1.13-
17373
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Structure of English: Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
Zeit: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 13.10.2025)
Ort: JK 31/125 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
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17373
Vertiefungsseminar
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Semantics and Pragmatics
0546bA1.14-
17376
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Semantics and Pragmatics: Meaning and Context (Ferdinand von Mengden)
Zeit: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 13.10.2025)
Ort: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Kommentar
That linguistic expressions (words, utterances) have a meaning seems to be a very natural thing to assume. How else would it be possible to communicate successfully by means of linguistic expressions? But what exactly is meaning? What does it mean for an expression to ‘have’ a meaning? And how do expressions actually acquire their meaning?
We can argue that linguistic expressions must have some meaning prior to us speakers using them – otherwise, how could we use them reasonably if we didn’t know what a word can be used for? But this approach doesn’t explain where a word meaning comes from in the first place. We could also argue that we create the meaning of an expression the moment we use it. But how exactly does this work and how do we know which expressions we can or cannot use in a given situation?
The main aim of this seminar will be to resolve this paradox. A crucial factor in determining the meaning of an expression will be the clues which the context provides in each specific communication. The class therefore focuses on the act of generating meaning during the interaction of people who communicate with each other. How do the speakers’ intentions, their assumptions, and the environment shape the semantic patterns? And how do these spread across a larger community of speakers?
Students who wish to participate in the class but cannot come in the first week, are kindly asked to notify me via email before the start of the lecture period.
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17376
Vertiefungsseminar
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Language Change
0546bA1.15-
17381
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Language Change: Emergent Grammar (Ferdinand von Mengden)
Zeit: Fr 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2025)
Ort: JK 31/124 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Kommentar
There have been various approaches for explaining how linguistic structures come about – how and why they vary and change. This class will approach this question from the perspective of system theory. The notion 'Emergent Grammar’ is derived from the idea that systems of any kind can be dynamic, fluid as well as open and adaptive. ‘Dynamic’ and ‘fluid’ means that they are never stable at any point and yet retain their functionality. ‘Open’ and ‘adaptive’ means that the system is in exchange with its environment, i.e. with factors and impulses that are themselves not part of the system.
What exactly does this mean when we want to study and understand how human language functions? How do expressions, their meaning and the grammar behind them come into being, vary, disappear, and yet obviously show enough resilience for enabling communication across generations of people? Rather than looking at cognitive processes of individual speakers in isolation, this seminar will focus on social systems as models for understanding the dynamic systematicity of human language. What are the complex and subtle ways in which social conventions interact with individual needs in communication? How does the complex feedback loop work between individual behavior, social conventions and the environment in which we communicate with each other?
Those who wish to participate but cannot come to the first class are kindly asked to notify me via email before the beginning of the lecture period.
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17381
Vertiefungsseminar
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Lernersprache - Englisch
0546bA1.2-
54960I
Sprachpraktische Übung
Lernersprache I - Effective Teacher Talk (Katherine Bull)
Zeit: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2025)
Ort: KL 23/216 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen
The module Lernersprache is comprised of two distinct courses: the course "Effective Teacher Talk" is indicated by the Roman numeral I; the course "Working with Learner Texts" is indicated by the Roman numeral II. You can choose any combination of the two courses from the parallel options (if there are any). In other words, any part I can be combined with any part II.
Kommentar
Anmeldung nur in Campus Management (nicht über das Anmeldeformular der ZE Sprachenzentrum)
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54961I
Sprachpraktische Übung
Lernersprache I - Effective Teacher Talk (Katherine Bull)
Zeit: Fr 08:00-10:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2025)
Ort: KL 25/104 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen
The module Lernersprache is comprised of two distinct courses: the course "Effective Teacher Talk" is indicated by the Roman numeral I; the course "Working with Learner Texts" is indicated by the Roman numeral II. You can choose any combination of the two courses from the parallel options. In other words, any part I can be combined with any part II.
Kommentar
Anmeldung nur in Campus Management (nicht über das Anmeldeformular der ZE Sprachenzentrum)
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54962I
Sprachpraktische Übung
Lernersprache I - Effective Teacher Talk (Matthew Emery)
Zeit: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 13.10.2025)
Ort: L 23/25 Medienunterstützter Unterrichtsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen
The module Lernersprache is comprised of two distinct courses: the course "Effective Teacher Talk" is indicated by the Roman numeral I; the course "Working with Learner Texts" is indicated by the Roman numeral II. You can choose any combination of the two courses from the parallel options. In other words, any part I can be combined with any part II.
Kommentar
Anmeldung nur in Campus Management (nicht über das Anmeldeformular der ZE Sprachenzentrum)
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54963I
Sprachpraktische Übung
Lernersprache I - Effective Teacher Talk (Matthew Emery)
Zeit: Di 08:00-10:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
Ort: L 23/25 Medienunterstützter Unterrichtsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen
The module Lernersprache is comprised of two distinct courses: the course "Effective Teacher Talk" is indicated by the Roman numeral I; the course "Working with Learner Texts" is indicated by the Roman numeral II. You can choose any combination of the two courses from the parallel options (if there are any). In other words, any part I can be combined with any part II.
Kommentar
Anmeldung nur in Campus Management (nicht über das Anmeldeformular der ZE Sprachenzentrum)
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54960II
Sprachpraktische Übung
Lernersprache II - Working with Learner Texts (Katherine Bull)
Zeit: Di 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
Ort: L 202 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen
The module Lernersprache is comprised of two distinct courses: the course "Effective Teacher Talk" is indicated by the Roman numeral I; the course "Working with Learner Texts" is indicated by the Roman numeral II. You can choose any combination of the two courses from the parallel options (if there are any). In other words, any part I can be combined with any part II.
Kommentar
Anmeldung nur in Campus Management (nicht über das Anmeldeformular der ZE Sprachenzentrum)
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54961II
Sprachpraktische Übung
Lernersprache II - Working with Learner Texts (Katherine Bull)
Zeit: Fr 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2025)
Ort: KL 25/104 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen
The module Lernersprache is comprised of two distinct courses: the course "Effective Teacher Talk" is indicated by the Roman numeral I; the course "Working with Learner Texts" is indicated by the Roman numeral II. You can choose any combination of the two courses from the parallel options (if there are any). In other words, any part I can be combined with any part II.
Kommentar
Anmeldung nur in Campus Management (nicht über das Anmeldeformular der ZE Sprachenzentrum)
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54962II
Sprachpraktische Übung
Lernersprache II - Working with Learner Texts (Katherine Bull)
Zeit: Di 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
Ort: L 202 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen
The module Lernersprache is comprised of two distinct courses: the course "Effective Teacher Talk" is indicated by the Roman numeral I; the course "Working with Learner Texts" is indicated by the Roman numeral II. You can choose any combination of the two courses from the parallel options. In other words, any part I can be combined with any part II.
Kommentar
Anmeldung nur in Campus Management (nicht über das Anmeldeformular der ZE Sprachenzentrum)
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54963II
Sprachpraktische Übung
Lernersprache II - Working with Learner Texts (Matthew Emery)
Zeit: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2025)
Ort: KL 24/105 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen
The module Lernersprache is comprised of two distinct courses: the course "Effective Teacher Talk" is indicated by the Roman numeral I; the course "Working with Learner Texts" is indicated by the Roman numeral II. You can choose any combination of the two courses from the parallel options (if there are any). In other words, any part I can be combined with any part II.
Kommentar
Anmeldung nur in Campus Management (nicht über das Anmeldeformular der ZE Sprachenzentrum)
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54960I
Sprachpraktische Übung
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Schriftliche und mündliche Sprachkompetenz im Unterricht - Englisch
0546bA1.3-
54964I
Sprachpraktische Übung
Schriftliche und mündliche Sprachkompetenz im Unterricht I (Katherine Bull)
Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2025)
Ort: KL 23/216 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen
Voraussetzung: Erfolgreicher Abschluss des Moduls "Lernersprache - Englisch"
The module Schriftliche und mündliche Sprachkompetenz im Unterricht is comprised of two distinct courses: part one (Intercultural Topics) is indicated by the Roman numeral I; part two (Media, Literature & Language Learning) is indicated by the Roman numeral II. You can choose any combination of the two parts from the parallel options (if there are any). In other words, any part I can be combined with any part II.
Kommentar
Anmeldung nur in Campus Management (nicht über das Anmeldeformular der ZE Sprachenzentrum)
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54964II
Sprachpraktische Übung
Schriftliche und mündliche Sprachkompetenz im Unterricht II (Peter Stear)
Zeit: Di 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
Ort: KL 25/121b Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen
Voraussetzung: Erfolgreicher Abschluss des Moduls "Lernersprache - Englisch"
The module Schriftliche und mündliche Sprachkompetenz im Unterricht is comprised of two distinct courses: part one (Intercultural Topics) is indicated by the Roman numeral I; part two (Media, Literature & Language Learning) is indicated by the Roman numeral II. You can choose any combination of the two parts from the parallel options (if there are any). In other words, any part I can be combined with any part II.
Kommentar
Anmeldung nur in Campus Management (nicht über das Anmeldeformular der ZE Sprachenzentrum)
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54964I
Sprachpraktische Übung
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Modernity and Alterity in the Literatures of Medieval Britain
0546bA1.8-
17351
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Literatures of Medieval Britain: Abandoned Women (Wolfram Keller)
Zeit: Di 08:00-10:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2025)
Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Kommentar
Observing that the word abandonment connotes being exiled or an outcast as well as being shameless or outside the law, Lawrence Lipking observes that “the poetry of abandonment tends to touch on the limits of what is permitted or what is repressed in ordinary, comfortable life” (Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition [U Chicago P, 1988], xii). Female abandonment is a topos in western European literatures, one that resonates with contemporary concerns within feminism/gender/queer studies as well as postcolonial theory. In this course, we will revisit the depiction of abandoned women in classical, medieval and post-medieval literature—within the mentioned theoretical frameworks.
Coursework will ensue in three stages. At the beginning of the semester, we will discuss Ovid’s Heroides (in translation), before we shall move on to Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women to see how a medieval English writer engaged with female abandonment. Towards the end of the semester, we will study a few (shorter) poems about abandoned women in Romantic, Victorian and contemporary literatures in English to assess the differences and similarities in the depiction of abandonment across the period divide between ‘the medieval’ and ‘the modern.’
Student should be familiar with Ovid’s Heroides by the beginning of the semester:
- A. S. Kline’s translation of the Heroides is available online at https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Heroideshome.php
- Alternatively, students could consult the translation by Paul Murgatroyd, Bridget Reeves, and Sarah Parker [Routledge, 2017], which includes commentary and additional materials)
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17352
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Literatures of Medieval Britain: Appropriating the Medieval Past: The Political Middle Ages in Literary and Cultural Discourse (Peter Löffelbein)
Zeit: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2025)
Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Kommentar
The Middle Ages keep playing an important role in the cultural imagination of the modern (Western) world. Literary and cultural productions – from video games to TV series and fantasy literature – continue to return to the Middle Ages as modernity’s Other, alternately casting them as a ‘Dark Age’ of cruelty, ignorance and superstition, or as an idealized era of authenticity and social cohesion.
Inevitably, these conceptions carry ideological implications concerning social identities, societal dynamics, and the body politic. Conversely, political discourse has long been using and abusing the Middle Ages and their representation in literature and culture: the most telling cases include the 19th-century formation of national identities, the Chartist movement for social reform, fascist ideologies, and contemporary debates surrounding neo-feudalism and techno-feudalism.
In this seminar, we will examine the political dimensions of the Middle Ages in literary and cultural discourse, including the appropriation of ‘the medieval’ in political discussions past and present. By discussing literary texts, select other forms of cultural production, and political analyses, students shall become familiar with historical and contemporary manifestations of medievalism and learn to analyse its incidental and strategic uses in various discursive fields.
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17351
Vertiefungsseminar
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Literary Studies: Periods - Genres - Concepts
0546bA1.9-
17354
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Periods - Genres - Concepts: Shakespeare's Histories (Stephan Laqué)
Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2025)
Ort: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
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17355
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Periods - Genres - Concepts: Odysseys (Wolfram Keller)
Zeit: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 13.10.2025)
Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Kommentar
While the western European classics may not generally seem to be important reference points for contemporary writers, the Odyssey—either in its entirety or by way of individual episodes—has become an important intertext for recent novels and films. In this seminar, we shall investigate how different recent adaptations engage with the classical nostos epic. During the semester, we will discuss the following reworkings of Homer’s Odyssey: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen’s film O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe (2001), Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad (2005), and Amor Towles’s The Lincoln Highway (2021). Students should be familiar with Homer’s Odyssey by the beginning of the semester; I recommend Emily Wilson’s recent (paperback) verse translation (Norton, 2018), but there are countless other translations available, some of them online.
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17356
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Periods - Genres - Concepts: Literature and Ecology in the Early Modern World (Katrina Spadaro)
Zeit: Do 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2025)
Ort: KL 29/207 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Kommentar
While forests and pastures once served as the bedrock of an early modern “green” criticism, recent scholarship focuses on a much vaster colour spectrum - including blue waterways, frosty arctic landscapes, ominous grey skies and the sedimented hues of stone. This course gives you an overview of how such diverse ecosystems, natural features, and meteorological events fuelled a powerful, and often anxious, early modern imaginary. Over the course of the semester, we will contextualise familiar early modern texts within an intellectual climate that was highly attuned to contemporary ecological changes and pressures (including coal pollution, deforestation, rapid urban development, and the “Mini Ice Age”) and which associated different modes and genres of writing with a rich variety of natural environments.
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17354
Vertiefungsseminar