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E N G L I S C H E S S E M I N A R
R U H R - U N I V E R S I T Ä T B O C H U M
SEMINARINTERNES VORLESUNGSVERZEICHNIS
B.A.-STUDIENGANG
FÜR DAS WINTERSEMESTER 2012/2013

Wichtige Infos für Erstsemesterstudierende
Die Einführungsveranstaltung für neu immatrikulierte Studierende ist vor‐
gesehen für
Mittwoch, d. 10. Oktober 2012, von 12.00 c.t. bis 14.00 Uhr
im Hörsaal HGB 10
Bitte achten Sie auf die Aushänge im Englischen Seminar.
Alle Lehrveranstaltungen des Englischen Seminars beginnen in der 2.
Semesterwoche, d.h. in der Woche ab dem 15. Oktober 2012. Bitte betrachten
Sie alle anders lautenden Ankündigungen als überholt. Die erste Semesterwoche
ist für die Durchführung und Korrektur von Nachprüfungen sowie für die Stu‐
dienberatung vorgesehen.
In der Zeit vom 4. bis 12. Oktober 2012 finden täglich von 10‐12 Uhr spezielle
Studienberatungen für Erstsemesterstudierende statt (bitte auf separate
Aushänge achten). In der Woche vom 8. bis 12. Oktober 2012 findet außerdem
jeden Vormittag ein Ersti‐Frühstück im Fachschaftsrat statt (GB 6/135), bei dem
erste Informationen über das Anglistik‐/Amerikanistik‐Studium eingeholt
werden können.
In Ihrem ersten Fachsemester Anglistik/Amerikanistik sollten Sie unbedingt die
folgenden Veranstaltungen der Basismodule belegen:
Introduction to Literary Studies
English Sounds and Sound Systems
Grammar BM
Academic Skills
(Die verbleibenden Basismodulveranstaltungen Introduction to Cultural Studies
und Introduction to English Linguistics sind von Ihnen im 2. Fachsemester, d.h.
im Sommersemester 2013, zu belegen.)

Anmeldung zu den Lehrveranstaltungen per VSPL
Wie in den letzten Semestern wird auch für das Wintersemester 2012/13 für alle
Lehrveranstaltungen ein elektronisches Anmeldeverfahren unizentral über VSPL‐
Campus durchgeführt. Mit dem Rechenzentrum ist vereinbart, dass wir ein
Verteilverfahren nutzen. Das bedeutet, dass die Anmeldung gewissermaßen in 2
Etappen erfolgt: zunächst also die Anmeldung für die gewünschte Veranstaltung,
wobei Sie jeweils auch Ihre 2. und 3. Wahl angeben für den Fall, dass die
Veranstaltung Ihrer 1. Wahl überbelegt wird. Auf elektronischem Wege erfolgt
dann in einem zweiten Schritt die Zuteilung der Plätze auf der Basis Ihrer
Priorisierung. Dies gilt für die Veranstaltungen der Basismodule ebenso wie für
die Veranstaltungen der Aufbaumodule.
Bei dieser Form des Anmeldeverfahrens geht es nicht darum, Studierende aus
Veranstaltungen auszuschließen, sondern im Rahmen des Möglichen für eine
gleichmäßigere Verteilung zu sorgen, damit die Studienbedingungen insgesamt
verbessert werden. Mit geringfügigen Einschränkungen wird dies schon jetzt
erreicht.
Auch für die Vorlesungen sollten Sie sich anmelden. Hier dient die Anmeldung
der Erfassung der Teilnehmernamen bzw. ‐zahlen. Das ist wichtig für die
Erstellung von Skripten (wir kennen frühzeitig die Teilnehmerzahl und können
die Druckaufträge entsprechend vergeben). Außerdem können wir mit den Teil‐
nehmerdaten Teilnehmerlisten erstellen und insbesondere zum Semesterende
die Notenverwaltung leichter handhaben.
Die Anmeldungen für die Veranstaltungen der Basismodule können in der Zeit
vorgenommen werden.
vom 3.9.2012, 10 Uhr, bis 11.10.2012, 14 Uhr
Die Anmeldungen für die Veranstaltungen der Aufbau‐ und Mastermodule
können in der Zeit
vom 3.9.2012, 10 Uhr, bis 5.10.2012, 14 Uhr
vorgenommen werden. Wegen des Verteilverfahrens kommt es nicht darauf an,
gleich am Starttag alle Anmeldungen durchzuführen. Nach Abschluss der
Anmeldungen wird das Verteilverfahren generiert, das dann zu den endgültigen
Teilnehmerlisten führt. Sollten sich nach dem Abschluss des Verteilverfahrens
auf der Basis der von Ihnen vorgegebenen Priorisierung Terminkonflikte mit
Veranstaltungen des 2. Faches oder des Optionalbereichs ergeben, wenden Sie
sich bitte an die Dozenten oder Dozentinnen der betroffenen Lehrveranstaltung.

Studienberatung und Service
Studienfachberater & Servicezimmer
Mit Beginn des Sommersemesters 2008 wurde das Beratungsangebot am
Englischen Seminar erweitert. Die Studienfachberaterin Dr. Monika Müller wird
an zwei Tagen in der Woche Sprechstunden anbieten, in denen offene Fragen
geklärt, Informationen eingeholt oder Probleme besprochen werden können.
Auch das Servicezimmer hat an mindestens zwei Tagen der Woche geöffnet und
leistet Hilfestellung bei Fragen zum Studienverlauf und zur Notenabbildung in
VSPL. Außerdem werden dort Leistungs‐ und Bafög‐Bescheinigungen ausgestellt.
Sprechzeiten des Studienfachberaterin Dr. Monika Müller im WS 2012/13:
dienstags 11.00‐14.00 Uhr in GB 5/141
mittwochs 11.00‐14.00 Uhr in GB 5/141
und nach Vereinbarung
Öffnungszeiten des Servicezimmers im WS 2012/13:
An mindestens zwei Tagen in der Woche. Die genauen Sprechzeiten werden zu
gegebener Zeit an der Dienstzimmertür GB 6/134 bekannt gegeben.
Obligatorische Studienberatung
Allen Studierenden wird ein Mentor / eine Mentorin zugeteilt, der/die als An‐
sprechpartner/in während der gesamten Dauer des Studiums für die Beratung in
Studienbelangen zur Verfügung steht. Damit haben alle Studierenden eine feste
Bezugsperson unter den Lehrenden. Hierzu gibt es feste Beratungstermine im 2.
Studiensemester (vor dem Übergang von den Basis‐ zu den Aufbaumodulen) und
im 4. Studiensemester (vor Beginn der Prüfungsphase) jeweils in der ersten Se‐
mesterwoche. Die genauen Termine werden auf geeignetem Wege bekannt
gegeben. Die Teilnahme an diesen Beratungen ist Pflicht.
Auslandsberatung
Bei Problemen mit der Organisation des obligatorischen Auslandsaufenthaltes
hilft die an das Servicezimmer angegliederte Auslandsberatung. Hier werden
Tipps gegeben, welche verschiedenen Möglichkeiten der Organisation sich anbie‐
ten und wie bzw. wann die Planung erfolgen sollte. Bei Bedarf gibt es auch
Hilfestellung bei der Recherche nach möglichen Plätzen sowie Unterstützung
beim Bewerbungsprozess.

Öffnungszeiten der Auslandsberatung im WS 2012/13:
An mindestens zwei Tagen in der Woche. Die genauen Sprechzeiten werden zu
gegebener Zeit an der Dienstzimmertür GB 6/134 bekannt gegeben.
Berater: Herr Sebastian Flaake, GB 6/134, E‐Mail: es‐auslandsaufenthalt@rub.de
______________________________________________________________________________________________
B.A.‐Prüfungsberechtigte im WS 2012/13
Prüfungsberechtigt sind zurzeit:
Dr. Sebastian Berg Jun.‐Prof. Dr. Simon Dickel Prof. Dr. Kornelia Freitag
Dr. Maik Goth Prof. Dr. Luuk Houwen PD Dr. Uwe Klawitter
Prof. Dr. Christiane
Meierkord
Dr. Robert McColl Dr. Verena Minow
PD Dr. Monika Müller Dr. Torsten Müller Prof. Dr. Burkhard Niederhoff
Dr. Claudia Ottlinger Prof. Dr. Anette Pankratz John Poziemski
Prof. Dr. Markus Ritter Dr. Robert Smith Dr. Angelika Thiele
Dr. Heinrich Versteegen Dr. Claus‐Ulrich Viol Dr. Susan Vogel
Dr. Sven Wagner Dr. Katie Walter Prof. Dr. Roland Weidle
Die Prüfungsprotokolle werden von BeisitzerInnen geführt, die von den
jeweiligen PrüferInnen bestellt werden.

INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
Wichtige Infos für Erstsemesterstudierende 01
B.A.-Prüfungsberechtigte im WS 2012/13 04
Feriensprechstunden der Dozenten/Dozentinnen 05
Sprechstunden im Sommersemester 2013 07
Raumpläne 09
Öffnungszeiten der Sekretariate des Englischen Seminars 11
Bibliothek 12
Seite
B.A.-STUDIUM 13
BASISPHASE 13
Basismodul Sprachwissenschaft 13
Basismodul Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft 15
Basismodul Sprach- und Textproduktion 17
AUFBAUPHASE 20
Medieval English Literature 20
Linguistik 21
Englische Literatur bis 1700 26
Englische Literatur von 1700 bis zur Gegenwart 31
Amerikanische Literatur 35
Cultural Studies (GB) 39
Cultural Studies (USA) 45
Fachsprachen 48

Fremdsprachenausbildung 53
Studierensekretariat – Fristen und Vorlesungszeiten 60
Vorläufiges Vorlesungsverzeichnis Anglistik
für das Sommersemester 2013 63
Seite

BIBLIOTHEK
Öffnungszeiten: Vorlesungszeit: Mo - Fr 8.30 - 18.30 Uhr
Sa 10-14 Uhr
vorlesungsfreie Zeit: Mo - Fr 9.30 - 17 Uhr
Sa 10-14 Uhr
(August und September samstags geschlossen)
Detaillierte Informationen einschließlich einer Übersicht über den Aufbau der
Signaturen finden Sie unter: http://www.bibphil.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Ang.htm .
Das Englische Seminar verfügt über eine umfangreiche Sammlung an
Videoaufzeichnungen, die in der Bibliothek zur Ausleihe zur Verfügung stehen
(Arbeitsraum im Südkern, Öffnungszeiten: s. Aushang an der Bibliothekstür). Die
Sammlung umfasst ca. 1.200 Bänder und wird laufend ergänzt. Ein Katalog liegt
neben dem Kopierer (in der Nähe des Bibliothekstreppenhauses im Nordkern) aus.
Die Videobänder können zu den angeschlagenen Zeiten auch von Ihnen entliehen
werden (Leihfrist: 1 Woche, Verlängerung um 1 Woche ist möglich).
Auf die umfangreiche Sammlung von Standardtexten der englischsprachigen
Literatur in der Ausleihbibliothek (Etage 5, rote Signaturschilder) wird verwiesen.
Diese Titel können für einen längeren Zeitraum entliehen werden.

ENGLISCHES SEMINAR DER RUHR-UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM
F E R I E N S P R E C H S T U N D E N
der Dozenten/Dozentinnen des Englischen Seminars in der Zeit
vom 16. Juli bis 12. Oktober 2012

ENGLISCHES SEMINAR DER RUHR-UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM
S P R E C H S T U N D E N
der Dozenten/Dozentinnen des Englischen Seminars in der Zeit
im Wintersemester 2012/13

ÖFFNUNGSZEITEN
DER SEKRETARIATE
DES ENGLISCHEN SEMINARS
______________________________________________________________
Sekretariat Öffnungszeit
Geschäftszimmer des Englischen
Seminars
Frau Monika Marquart
GB 6/133
Lehrstuhl Anglistik I – Prof.
Dr. Roland Weidle
Frau Annette Pieper
GB 6/142
Lehrstuhl Anglistik II – Prof.
Dr. Christiane Meierkord
Frau Barbara Stauch-Niknejad
GB 6/32
Lehrstuhl Anglistik III – Prof.
Dr. Burkhard Niederhoff
Frau Hildegard Sicking
GB 5/129
Lehrstuhl Anglistik IV - Prof.
Dr. Kornelia Freitag
Frau Hildegard Sicking
GB 5/129
Lehrstuhl Anglistik V - Prof.
Dr. Luuk Houwen
Martina Dornieden
GB 6/32
Lehrstuhl Anglistik VI – Prof.
Dr. Anette Pankratz
Frau U. Pipke
GB 5/33
Prof. Dr. Markus Ritter
Frau Ute Pipke
GB 5/33
montags-freitags 9-13 Uhr
montags-donnerstags 9-12 Uhr
montags 8-15.30 Uhr
dienstags 8-12 Uhr
mittwochs 8-13 Uhr
donnerstags 8-12 Uhr
dienstags 8.30-14 Uhr
mittwochs 8.30-15 Uhr
donnerstags 8.30-12.30 Uhr
freitags 8.30-12 Uhr
dienstags 8.30-14 Uhr
mittwochs 8.30-15 Uhr
donnerstags 8.30-12.30 Uhr
freitags 8.30-12 Uhr
montags 10-13 Uhr
dienstags und mittwochs 10-
16.30 Uhr
donnerstags 12-16 Uhr
montags-donnerstags 8-12.30 Uhr
montags-donnerstags 8.00-12.30
Uhr

Modulnr. Workload/ Credits
Lehrveranstaltungsart:
Basismodul «Sprachwissenschaft»
150 Std./ 5 CP
Kontaktzeit:
Semester:
1.-2.
Selbststudium:
Übung + Übung 2 SWS + 2 SWS ca. 94 Std.
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen:
Englisch-Schulkenntnisse (Abitur oder Äquivalent).
English Sounds and Sound Systems (2 CP):
Häufigkeit
des Angebots:
jedes Semester
Dauer:
zwei Semester
Geplante Gruppengröße:
je Übung ca. 30
Lernergebnisse:
Studierende werden befähigt, die grundsätzlichen artikulatorischen Prozesse bei der Produktion
von Sprachlauten, mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf der englischen Received Pronunciation (RP),
nachzuvollziehen und adäquat, auch mit Hilfe phonemischer Umschrift, beschreiben zu können.
Zudem werden den Teilnehmern Grundkenntnisse der Englischen Sprachgeschichte vermittelt,
die es den Lernern ermöglicht, allgemeine Sprachwandelprozesse nachzuvollziehen.
Inhalte:
Die Studierenden werden in die Lautsysteme des Englischen und ihre Entwicklung eingeführt. Sie
lernen, einzelne Laute aber auch Wortbetonung und Satzintonation sowie Aspekte des
Redezusammenhangs (connected speech) wahrzunehmen und mit linguistischer Terminologie zu
beschreiben. Dabei liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der Beschreibung der britischen Standardvarietät
RP. Gleichzeitig wird die historische Entwicklung hin zum RP, aber auch zum General American
betrachtet. Theoretische Anteile werden durch praktische Übungen ergänzt, in denen Studierende
lernen, wie gesprochene Sprache mittels phonemischer Transkription beschrieben werden kann.
Introduction to English Linguistics (3 CP):
Lernergebnisse:
Studierende erwerben die Fähigkeit, die Funktion von Sprache und die fundamentalen Aspekte
menschlicher Sprache, insbesondere der englischen, auf Wort- und Satzebene zu erkennen und zu
beschreiben. Zudem wird ihnen vermittelt, wie Bedeutung in der Sprachwissenschaft beschrieben
wird, und warum sie zwischen kontextunabhäniger und kontextabhängiger Bedeutung
unterscheidet.
Inhalte:
Die Studierenden werden in die Grundlagen der anglistischen Sprachwissenschaft eingeführt und
mit den Grundbegriffen und Methoden der modernen Linguistik vertraut gemacht, insbesondere
in den Bereichen Morphologie, Syntax, Semantik und Pragmatik. Des Weiteren erwerben die

Studierenden Kenntnisse zu Fragen der Funktion von Sprache und der Geschichte der englischen
Sprache und zu Grundlagen der Zeichen- und Kommunikationstheorie. Ein besonderer
Schwerpunkt liegt auf der praktischen Anwendung der linguistischen Terminologie und
Methoden an authentischen Sprachbeispielen des Englischen.
Lehrformen:
Seminarvortrag, -arbeit und -diskussion; Gruppenarbeit; zusätzlich E-Learning-Elemente.
Prüfungsformen:
Studienbegleitende Aufgaben und Abschlussklausuren.
Voraussetzungen für die Vergabe von Kreditpunkten:
Regelmäßige Teilnahme und Erbringung der obligatorischen Arbeitsaufgaben; kursinterne
Klausur in English Sounds and Sound Systems; zentralisierte Abschlussklausur in Introduction to
English Linguistics.
Verwendung des Moduls:
Der erfolgreiche Abschluss des Basismoduls Sprachwissenschaft ist Voraussetzung für die
Teilnahme am Aufbaumodul Linguistik.
Stellenwert der Note für die Endnote:
Die Note des Basismoduls geht nicht in die Endnote ein.
Modulbeauftragter: Dr. Torsten Müller, Dr: Claus-Ulrich Viol
hauptamtlich Lehrende: Lehrende des Englischen Seminars mit Lehrschwerpunkt in der
Linguistik.
Termine im WS 2012/13
050 602 English Sounds and Sound Systems, 2 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. mi 12-14, HGB 30
Gruppe B: 2 st. mo 16-18, HGB 30
Gruppe C: 2 st. mo 14-16, HGB 50
Gruppe D: 2 st. di 14-16, HGB 10
Gruppe E: 2 st. fr 10-12, GABF 04/614 Süd
Gruppe F: 2 st. do 10-12, NA 2/99
Gruppe G: 2 st. mo 10-12, NB 5/99
050 603 Introduction to English Linguistics, 3/2 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. do 14-16, NA 6/99
Gruppe B: 2 st. di 10-12, ND 3/99
Vogel
Thiele
Vogel
Müller, T.
Zumhasch
N.N.
N.N.
Müller, T.
Busch

Basismodul «Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft»
Modulnr. Workload/ Credits
Lehrveranstaltungsart:
Übung + Übung
180 Std./ 6 CP
Kontaktzeit:
2 SWS + 2 SWS
Semester:
1.-2.
Selbststudium:
ca. 124 Std.
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen:
Englisch-Schulkenntnisse (Abitur oder Äquivalent).
Introduction to Literary Studies (3 CP):
Lernergebnisse:
Häufigkeit
des Angebots:
jedes Semester
Dauer:
zwei Semester
Geplante Gruppengröße:
je Übung ca. 30
Die Studierenden werden befähigt, Gegenstände der Literaturwissenschaft zu erkennen,
literaturwissenschaftlich relevante Fragen zu diesen Gegenständen stellen zu können sowie die
Fragen mit geläufigen literaturwissenschaftlichen Methoden beantworten bzw. bearbeiten zu
können.
Inhalte:
Behandlung von Aspekten wie Raum/Zeit, Handlung, Figur und Symbolik und ihre Funktionen
in fiktionalen Texten; rhetorische und poetische Mittel und ihre Funktionen in literarischen
Texten; die wichtigsten literarischen Vermittlungsformen und -instanzen; Gattungstypologien,
Periodisierung/Kontextualisierung; Kanonbildung.
Introduction to Cultural Studies (3 CP):
Lernergebnisse:
Die Studierenden erlernen die Grundlagen über Gegenstände, Modelle und Methoden der
Kulturwissenschaft und üben die Techniken kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschens – von der
produktiven kulturwissenschaftlichen Frage, bis zu Argumentationsstruktur und Analyse. Im
Vordergrund steht die Förderung des eigenständigen, interessegeleiteten Umgangs mit kulturellen
Phänomenen (in ihrer ganzen Breite von literarischen Texten bis zu Objekten des Alltags) sowie
das kritische Hinterfragen gängiger nationaler Stereotypen und Alltagsmythen über kulturelle
Differenz.
Inhalte:
Thematisierung des Kulturbegriffs; Einführung in die grundlegenden Methoden, Theorien und
Arbeitsweisen der Cultural Studies; Behandlung von zentralen kulturwissenschaftlichen

Konzepten wie Klasse, Gender, Ethnizität und nationale Identität am Beispiel entweder der USamerikanischen
oder britischen Kulturen.
Lehrformen:
Seminarvortrag, -arbeit und -diskussion; Gruppenarbeit; zusätzlich E-Learning-Elemente.
Prüfungsformen:
Kursinternes Assessment (Arbeitsaufgaben und/oder Test) in Introduction to Literary Studies;
Continuous Assessment und Portfolio in Introduction to Cultural Studies.
Voraussetzungen für die Vergabe von Kreditpunkten:
Regelmäßige Teilnahme; Erbringung der obligatorischen Arbeitsaufgaben und/oder Test in
Introduction to Literary Studies; Regelmäßige Teilnahme; Erbringung der obligatorischen
Arbeitsaufgaben, Teilnahme an einem persönlichen Feedbackgespräch und Portfolio in
Introduction to Cultural Studies.
Verwendung des Moduls:
Der erfolgreiche Abschluss der Veranstaltung Introduction to Literary Studies ist Voraussetzung
für die Teilnahme an den Aufbaumodulen im Bereich Literatur. Der erfolgreiche Abschluss der
Veranstaltung Introduction to Cultural Studies ist Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme an den
Aufbaumodulen im Bereich Kulturwissenschaft.
Stellenwert der Note für die Endnote:
Die Note des Basismoduls geht nicht in die Endnote ein.
Modulbeauftragter: PD Dr. Uwe Klawitter, Dr. Claus-Ulrich Viol
hauptamtlich Lehrende: Lehrende des Englischen Seminars mit Lehrschwerpunkten in der
Literaturwissenschaft bzw. der Kulturwissenschaft.
Termine im WS 2012/13
050 604 Introduction to Literary Studies, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. mo 14-16, GABF 04/614 Süd Goth
Gruppe B: 2 st. mi 10-12, GB 03/49 Klawitter
Gruppe C: 2 st. do 12-14, GB 03/49 Klawitter
Gruppe D: 2 st. di 12-14, GB 02/160 McColl
Gruppe E: 2 st. di 16-18, GB 03/46 McColl
Gruppe F: 2 st. fr 10-12, GBCF 05/703 Niederhoff
Gruppe G: 2 st. fr 12-14, GABF 04/614 Süd Ottlinger
Gruppe H: 2 st. fr 10-12, GABF 04/613 Süd Versteegen
Gruppe I: 2 st. do 10-12, GB 03/49 Wagner
050 605 Introduction to Cultural Studies, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. mi 10-12, GB 03/46 (GB) Berg
Gruppe B: 2 st. do 12-14, GB 02/60 (US) Steinhoff

Modulnr. Workload/ Credits
Lehrveranstaltungsart:
Übung + Übung
Basismodul «Sprach- und Textproduktion»
120 Std./ 4 CP
Kontaktzeit:
2 SWS + 2 SWS
Semester:
1.
Selbststudium:
ca. 64 Std.
Häufigkeit
des Angebots:
jedes Semester
Dauer:
ein Semester
Geplante Gruppengröße:
je Übung ca. 30
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen:
Englisch-Schulkenntnisse (Abitur oder Äquivalent). Ferner ist die regelmäßige und aktive
Teilnahme an der Übung Grammar BM Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme an der der
Veranstaltung zugehörigen Zentralklausur.
Grammar BM (2 CP):
Lernergebnisse:
Die Studierenden konsolidieren ihre englische Sprachkompetenz auf dem Niveau B2 und
erweitern die vorhandene sprachliche Kompetenz durch die Vertiefung von Kenntnissen in
wichtigen Problemgebieten der englischen Grammatik und Erlangung von Kenntnissen über
strukturelle Unterschiede zwischen der deutschen und englischen Sprache (in Richtung Niveau
B2/C1). Ziel ist die Fähigkeit zum grammatikalisch angemessenen Ausdruck sowie die
Vorbereitung erster sprachanalytischer Kompetenzen, welche als Grundlage für den Erfolg des
gesamten weiteren Studiums von zentraler Bedeutung sind.
Inhalte:
Vermittelt werden kognitive Kenntnisse und analytische Fähigkeiten in Bezug auf grammatische
Strukturen der englischen Sprache, die mithilfe von kontextualisierten Aufgaben eingeübt werden.
Neben der grammatikalischen Regelvermittlung steht die Einführung in die wissenschaftliche
Reflexion von Grammatikalität sowie – im Sinne einer kontrastiven Sprachvermittlung – die
Einführung in die Übersetzung ins Englische. Schwerpunkte liegen in den Bereichen non-finites,
tense and aspect, modals, relative clauses und word order.
Academic Skills (2 CP):
Lernergebnisse:
Befähigung der Studierenden zur kompetenten Teilnahme an der fachwissenschaftlichen
Kommunikation sowie Schaffung logischer, methodischer und formaler Grundlagen für die
Produktion eigenständiger Forschungsleistungen in den unterschiedlichen fachwissenschaftlichen
Bereichen des Anglistikstudiums.
Inhalte:
Vermittlung grundlegender Zielvorstellungen, Ansätze und Techniken des wissenschaftlichen

Arbeitens innerhalb der anglistischen Philologie; Hilfsmittelkunde, Vermittlung von
Recherchekompetenz, Kompetenz im Bereich der wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation sowie
kompositorischer Kompetenzen insbesondere bezüglich der formalen, stilistischen, strukturellen
und inhaltlichen Gestaltung von schriftlichen Forschungsarbeiten.
Lehrformen:
Seminarvortrag, -arbeit und -diskussion; Gruppenarbeit; zusätzlich E-Learning-Elemente.
Prüfungsformen:
Continuous Assessment in den Veranstaltungen; schriftliche Abschlussklausur im Bereich
Grammar BM.
Voraussetzungen für die Vergabe von Kreditpunkten:
Regelmäßige Teilnahme; Erbringung der obligatorischen Arbeitsaufgaben; zentrale
Abschlussklausur im Bereich Grammar BM.
Das Modul ist erst dann bestanden, wenn alle 3 Komponenten, d.h. die zwei Lehrveranstaltungen
und die zentrale Abschlussklausur, bestanden sind.
Verwendung des Moduls:
Der erfolgreiche Abschluss des Basismoduls Sprach- und Textproduktion ist Voraussetzung für
die Teilnahme an allen Aufbaumodulen.
Stellenwert der Note für die Endnote:
Die Note des Basismoduls geht nicht in die Endnote ein.
Modulbeauftragter: Dr. Claudia Ottlinger, Dr. Claus-Ulrich Viol
hauptamtlich Lehrende: Lehrende des Englischen Seminars mit Lehrschwerpunkt in der
Fremdsprachenausbildung.
Termine in WS 2012/13
050600 Grammar BM, 2 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. mo 16-18, GABF 04/413 Süd Goth
Gruppe B: 2 st. mi 16-18, GABF 04/413 Süd Poziemski
Gruppe C: 2 st. mi 12-14, GABF 04/413 Süd Versteegen
Gruppe D: 2 st. fr 14-16, GB 6/137 Nord Viol
Gruppe E: 2 st. mo 12-14, GABF 04/413 Süd Werthschulte
Gruppe F: 2 st. mo 14-16, GB 03/46 Werthschulte
Gruppe G: 2 st. di 12-14, GB 5/37 Nord de Waal
Gruppe H: 2 st. di 14-16, GB 6/137 Nord N.N.

050601 Academic Skills, 2 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. mi 14-16, GABF 04/413 Süd Berg
Gruppe B: 2 st. fr 12-14, GB 6/137 Nord Berg
Gruppe C: 2 st. di 12-14, GABF 04/413 Süd Klawitter
Gruppe D: 2 st. mi 16-18, GABF 04/613 Süd Klawitter
Gruppe E: 2 st. mo 12-14, GABF 04/613 Süd Viol
Gruppe F: 2 st. fr 10-12, GABF 04/413 Süd Viol
Gruppe G: 2 st. do 14-16, GABF 04/614 Süd Müller, M.

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050 606
Medieval English Literature, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. do 10-12 HGB 50 Brenzel
Gruppe B: 2 st. fr 10-12 HGB 40 Brenzel
Gruppe C: 2 st. mi 14-16 HGB 20 Walter, K.
Description: Using a core set of medieval texts from the Old to Middle English period
(a800-1500AD) as case studies, this course combines an introduction to Medieval
English literature, language and culture, with theme-based research projects
developed by students working individually and in groups. Students will therefore
gain a broad knowledge base, useful for advanced study across periods of English,
while also having the opportunity to focus on areas of particular interest to them,
ranging from linguistics and contemporary critical theory, to gender studies and
‘practical criticism’ of literary texts.
Aims: Further to key knowledge specific to the study of the English Middle Ages, this
course also aims to develop general skills in individual research, group work, and the
presentation of research. As a result, teaching in introductory lectures and
discussion-based seminars is combined with a number of ‘virtual teaching’ sessions,
where students will be able to devote time to their research projects and utilize
online-communication tools to work with their peers and receive individual input to
their work from course teachers. The symposium held in the final session of the
course will give students the opportunity to practise scholarly methods for the
presentation and dissemination of research.
Course Assessment: The course has no central exam, but rather is assessed
continuously, including a group research project which will culminate in poster
presentations made at the final symposium.

LINGUISTIK
Vorlesung
050 608 Meierkord
Corpus Linguistics, 2/2,5 CP
2 st. mo 12-14 HGB 10
This series of lectures introduces students to the field of modern corpus linguistics.
After a brief look at the history of this discipline and its role in modern linguistics, the
lectures will describe how corpora are planned, compiled, annotated and analysed.
Students will also get a chance to familiarise themselves with a number of different
corpora, most notably with those that are of interest in an applied English linguistics
framework, such as the Corpus of International English, the International Corpus of
Learner English, or the SLX Corpus of Classic Sociolinguistic Interviews.
Requirements for credit points: BA: regular participation and written end-of-term
test.
The lecture course is largely based on the following book:
McEnery, Tony; Hardie, Andrew (2012). Corpus Linguistics. Method, Theory and
Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (strongly recommended for
purchase).
Seminare
050 610 Meierkord
The Grammar of Spoken English, 4 CP
2 st. do 12-14 GABF 04/613 Süd
Traditionally, grammar has focussed on the structures of written language. This
seminar aims at describing the characteristics of spoken English, such as deixis,
ellipsis, fronting or the use of tags, but also simultaneous talk, back-channeling,
discourse markers and hedges. Participants will analyse authentic spoken English
and compare its structures to those found in the written genre.

Requirements for credit points: Übung: regular active participation (this will include
regular reading and data analyses at home) and a contribution to one in-class group
presentation (with handout); Seminar: the above, and an empirical term paper.
Topics for presentations and for term papers will be allocated during my office hours
on a first come first served basis. Registration is strictly via VSPL only. Further
information and material will be distributed prior to the first session. Please read this
carefully and bring it along to the first session.
Students need to obtain the following book:
Carter, Ronald & McCarthy, Michael (1996). Exploring Spoken English. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
050 611 Müller, T.
Formulaic Language, 4 CP
2 st. mi 12-14 GB 03/46
This course is designed to provide an overview of work carried out in the area of
formulaic language and collocations (idioms, proverbs, frequently recurring
expressions, clichés etc.). This strand of research, which has benefited greatly from
improved corpus work, has revealed interesting patterns and language structures
which straddle the traditional division between grammar and the lexicon. More
importantly, research in this area suggests that our language consists far more of
pre-fabricated phrases than hitherto assumed and that it is precisely those phrases
which make a language sound “natural” and “idiomatic”. The aspects we will discuss
will provide insights which are relevant to other linguistic disciplines, such as first and
second language acquisition, as well.
Course Requirements: Seminar: regular attendance, active participation, reading
assignments and homework, seminar paper; Übung: regular attendance, active
participation, reading assignments and homework, oral presentation with handout.

050 612 Müller, T.
Getting to Know Old English, 4 CP
2 st. di 16-18 GABF 04/613 Süd
Old English, or Anglo-Saxon as it is sometimes known, is the oldest attested stage of
English, yet it bears only a very slight resemblance to the language we know today.
Knowledge of Old English is vital, not only as a key to the fascinating literature
produced over a thousand years ago but also to understand the important principles
of language change. While most of us can read Shakespeare and at least
understand some Chaucer, Old English poetry is almost impossible to comprehend
without an introduction to grammar, lexis and (some aspects of) phonology as well as
to the cultural and historical background of this early form of English. This course will
not cover all aspects of Old English but at the end of the semester you will be in a
position to read and understand most West-Saxon texts, i.e. the most commonly
studied Anglo-Saxon dialect.
Course Requirements: regular attendance, active participation, homework and final
exam.
050 613 Ssempuuma
Contact Linguistics, 4 CP
2 st. mi 14-16 GB 5/37 Nord
Contact linguistics is the linguistic study of language(s) used systematically in
contacts between speakers whose native languages are different. In this course, we
will look at the linguistic and social particularities of contact situations and their
respective outcomes. The core of our study will focus on language contact processes
such as bilingualism, multilingualism, language change, shift, and death, code-mixing
and code switching and theories propounded to explain them. We will also discuss
the emergence and evolution of languages with emphasis on English-based Pidgins
and Creoles.
Participants are expected to be active in class by taking part in discussions.
Requirements for credit points: Oral presentation plus final written exam (Übung) or a
term paper (Seminar).
Literature:
Matras, Yaron. 2009. Language Contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thomason, Sarah. 2001. Language Contact: An Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press.
Winford, Donald. 2003. An Introduction to Contact Linguistics. Malden: Blackwell.

050 614 Vogel
First Language Acquisition, 4 CP
2 st. di 10-12 GABF 04/413 Süd
This course is intended to give students an opportunity to solidify their knowledge of
the major linguistic approaches to first language acquisition. We will also consider
some of the more recent cross-cultural and neurolinguistic approaches, as well as
issues of language acquisition in unusual circumstances.
The course requirements include either a) an oral presentation plus final written exam
or b) a research paper (ca. 12 pages).
A bibliography and reader will be made available at the beginning of term.
Übungen
050 620 Meierkord
English Linguistics - Current Models and Methods, 3 CP
2 st. do 8.30-10 GABF 04/613 Süd
This course serves to introduce students to the various models and methods used in
empirical linguistics as regards data collection, data representation, and data
analysis. Students will be required to collect data and must be willing to analyse
these on a weekly basis. They should also be willing to report on their own projects
and to actively discuss each others' work.
Requirements for credit points: All students need to complete five written
assignments, all of which will be graded, with the best three counting towards their
final grade. Topics will be allocated during the first session.

050 621 Vogel
Semiotics: Meaning beyond Language, 3 CP
2 st. mo 10-12 GABF 04/613 Süd
Language can also be studied as part of a much wider domain of enquiry: semiotics.
This field investigates the structure of all possible sign systems and the role these
play in the way we create and perceive patterns (or ‘meanings’) in sociocultural
behavior. This course is a general introduction to some of the basic theories and
models, with special emphasis on the semiotics of non-verbal communication.
Students can meet the formal requirements for credit points by giving an oral
presentation and completing an essay assignment (ca. 5 pages).
A bibliography and reader will be provided at the beginning of the course.

ENGLISCHE LITERATUR BIS 1700
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Vorlesungen
050 623 Houwen
The Reinvention of Chaucer: Chaucer and the Critics, 2/2,5 CP
2 st. di 12-14 HGB 10
Description: If there is one medieval author who has invited a wide variety of literarycritical
approaches, it is Chaucer. His works have been the subject of numerous
critical approaches (structuralist, feminist, gender, deconstructionist, new historicist,
and even colonial studies).
Aim: The aim of this course is to consider and evaluate the various approaches to
Chaucer’s works over the years. The lecture series is not concerned with ‘good’ or
‘bad’ criticism, but wants to answer such questions as what critical approach is best
for what sort of research question.
Procedure: We shall take a relatively small selection of Canterbury Tales and
possibly some of the shorter poems and see how “the practice of theory” can result in
different readings of these texts. The emphasis is not on the primary texts but on the
secondary ones.
Assessment: The course will be rounded off with a written exam.
Set text: The required texts will be made available via Blackboard.
050 624 Weidle
Shakespeare and Literary Theory, 2/2,5 CP
2 st. do 10-12 HGB 10
The lecture focuses on theoretical approaches to Shakespeare’s works in the 20th
and 21st century, thereby pursuing two goals: first, to familiarise students with some
of the most important modern literary theories and second, to facilitate and
encourage students in the study and interpretation of the poems and plays. The
theories and approaches discussed will include formalism, structuralism,

psychoanalytic approaches, feminism, queer theory, Marxism, New Historicism and
(Post-)Colonial Theory.
The Powerpoint presentations will be made available on blackboard. There is no
need to purchase a course book. Nevertheless, for those who are interested in
preparing or reading up on the course I recommend the following titles:
Berensmeyer, Ingo. Literary Theory. An Introduction to Approaches, Methods and
Terms. Stuttgart: Klett, 2009.
Harris, Jonathan Gil. Shakespeare and Literary Theory. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2010.
Hopkins, Lisa. Beginning Shakespeare. Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2005.
Attention: There will be no sessions on the 13 th and 20 th of December! The
material/Powerpoint presentations for the missed sessions will be uploaded on
blackboard.
Requirements for credits:
Regular attendance; successful completion of test in last session.
Seminare
050 627 Houwen
Saints and Sinners in Old and Middle English, 4 CP
2 st. di 14-16 GABF 04/413 Süd
Description: ‘On a day towards even Jerome sat with his brethren for to hear the holy
lesson, and a lion came halting suddenly in to the monastery, and when the brethren
saw him, anon they fled, and Jerome came against him as he should come against
his guest, and then the lion showed to him his foot being hurt. Then he called his
brethren, and commanded them to wash his feet and diligently to seek and search for
the wound. And that done, the plant of the foot of the lion was sore hurt and pricked
with a thorn. Then this holy man put thereto diligent cure, and healed him, and he
abode ever after as a tame beast with them.’ Tales such as this one (from Caxton’s
Golden Legend) and others like it, like the one about St Francis and the wolf of
Gubbio present only one window on a saint, but there are many others. Some saints
are reformed prostitutes (Mary of Egypt), others are soldiers of Christ (St. Edmund,
St. Oswald and St. Æðelðryð), some are virgin-scholars with a predilection for
learned debate (St Margaret), some raise the dead, others talk to animals or have
them nest in their folded hands and do not budge until the fledglings have flown from

the nest. Some saints are martyrs, others are confessors or virgins. There is much to
be enjoyed in and learned from medieval vitae. They present us with windows on
medieval legend, narrative, and piety; they raise questions about their (ab)use and
their audiences.
Aim: An introduction to some of the most important Old and Middle English saints’
lives and the collections in which they are preserved.
Procedure: There will be more or less equal parts of Old and Middle English vitae.
The Old English lives will be presented in translation and so will the few Latin lives
that influenced all later vernacular ones.
Required reading: The relevant texts will be made available via Blackboard.
Assessment: Essay written under exam conditions in the last class. You can choose
your own topic and prepare that in advance.
050 628 Houwen
The Symbolic Mode: Middle English Allegorical Poetry, 4 CP
2 st. do 12-14 GB 03/42
Description: Allegory has sometimes been called the ‘Renaissance mode’ but that is
a misrepresentation in that it was an important medieval mode as well. In the Middle
Ages it was used to present religious doctrine (Pearl), social and religious criticism
(Piers Plowman), and even love (Roman de la Rose; Gower and Chaucer). Allegory
comes from Greek where it means ‘speaking otherwise than one seems to’. In
allegorical literature the literal is the vehicle for the figurative or symbolic
interpretation. A good Middle English example would be Deguileville’s Pilgrimage of
the Lyfe of Manhode in which a monk dreams of life as a voyage, with the ship
symbolising the Church and with heaven as the safe harbour at the end of the
journey, but allegory is also used for didactic literature not to mention the literature of
love.
Aim: An introduction to this important mode using some key Middle English texts.
Procedure: We shall study a large variety of Middle English texts predominantly in the
form of extracts so as to do justice to the many genres that are covered by this
symbolic mode.
Assessment: Term paper: 6-8 pages.

050 629 McColl
The English Essay: Bacon to Orwell, 4 CP
2 st. mo 16-18 GABF 04/614 Süd
050 630 Walter, K.
What’s Love Got to Do With It? Affect, Ethics and Medieval Literature, 4 CP
2 st. di 10-12 GABF 04/253 Nord
Description: ‘We need to better flirt with and seduce each other, and -- hello? -- we
have to want to be seduced’. These words are taken, not from the pages of a glossy
magazine, but from a recent post by scholar, Eileen Joy; her topic is not relationship
self-help, but medieval scholarship. Flirtation, seduction, desire, love: what do these
have to do with scholarship? And what do they have to do with medieval literature in
particular? The medieval text, for many modern readers, is an object of the past, ripe
for objective historical study, giving access to a world in which people, ideas and
literature itself are not like our own. Recent trends, in particular what’s been termed
the ‘affective turn’ and the rise of the ‘new ethics’—not exclusive to but making their
mark decisively in literary studies—challenge this distancing, ‘othering’ stance to the
objects we study. In the past decade, the (partly economic) crisis in the universities
over the ‘value’ of literary study, events like 9/11 in the USA and those which followed
(war in Afghanistan, on terror, the indefinite detention of suspects in Guantanamo
Bay), have served to fuel the scholarly preponderance for ethically and affectivelyoriented
interpretations of literature, no less that of the Middle Ages than of other
periods.
This course will situate selected medieval texts in the context of the ‘affective turn’
and ‘new ethics’. It will combine readings from contemporary critical theory—
Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben—with medieval texts, ranging from
poetry and romance, treatises on chivalry and war, and sermons and homiletic
material. We will focus on topics such as love, ethics and reading, rhetoric and
exemplarity, and notions of political sovereignty and just war. We will consider both
how theory can illuminate the medieval, but also how ‘the medieval’ and its texts can
speak to our own political and moral preoccupations.
The primary texts required for this course will be made available through Blackboard.
Course Assessment: Further to attendance and active participation in class, this
course will be assessed through an essay submitted at the end of the course.

Übung
050 635 Ottlinger
The Sonnet from Wyatt to Milton, 3 CP
2 st. di 8.30-10 GABF 04/614 Süd
The sonnet was one of the major poetic innovations in 16th-century England. This
class will attempt to provide a broad survey of the history and development of the
sonnet and its main representatives Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, Daniel, Drayton,
Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert and Milton. The focus will be on in-depth analyses of
exemplary texts as well as on a comparative study of sonnet patterns and loveconcepts.
All the relevant texts will be provided in the form of a reader.
Course requirements: regular attendance and preparation, active class participation,
either a five-page essay or a short end-of-term test.

ENGLISCHE LITERATUR VON 1700 BIS ZUR GEGENWART
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Vorlesung
050 638 Niederhoff
Narrative Theory, 2/2,5 CP
2 st. do 8-10 HGB 20
This lecture will provide a systematic introduction to narrative, the emphasis being on
fictional narrative in prose, i.e. on novels and short stories. It will discuss such topics as
plot, setting, free indirect thought (Erlebte Rede), flashback, point of view, unreliable
narrator, etc. While it is my aim to give a rigorous and systematic description of the
various components of narrative, I will attempt not to indulge in terminological nitpicking.
Instead, I will attempt to show that the terms offered by narrative theory can be used in
interpreting a text; in other words, I will point out the meanings or effects created by
particular narrative choices. The lecture will be based on David Lodge’s comic novel,
The British Museum is falling Down, and a selection of shorter texts. Students who wish
to prepare for the lecture may read Franz Stanzel, Typische Formen des Romans, 10th
ed. (Göttingen: Vandenhoek und Ruprecht, 1981) or chs. 1 and 6 in Wayne Booth, The
Rhetoric of Fiction, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Chicago UP, 1983); for more advanced students, I
recommend Gérard Genette, Die Erzählung, 2nd ed. (Stuttgart: UTB, 1998).
Requirements for credit points: written exam.
Required text: David Lodge, The British Museum is Falling Down (Penguin pb.); all
other texts will be provided by way of Blackboard.
Seminare

050 641 Goth
Staging Lives: Biographical Plays in Postmodern Drama, 4 CP
2 st. mi 12-14 GB 6/137 Nord
This course discusses how postmodern drama stages the lives of famous scientists,
politicians, and poets. We will focus on three critically acclaimed plays: Michael
Frayn's Copenhagen (1998), which deals with an ill-fated meeting between physicists
Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen in 1941, and brings into focus
quantum physics, the atomic bomb, and wartime politics; Frayn's Democracy (2003),
which analyses the Guillaume affair in the early 1970s, when Chancellor Willy Brandt
resigned after his personal assistant Günter Guillaume was revealed to be a spy from
the GDR; and Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love (1997), which focuses on the
life of the homosexual poet and classical philologist A.E. Housman against the
backdrop of the late-Victorian period. The seminar will contextualise these plays in
recent dramatic developments, and explore themes like history (subjective/objective;
personal/public), memory (personal/collective), and the viability of historical
representation in theatre and drama. The course is also aimed at familiarising
students with the terminology and methodology of drama analysis.
Required editions:
Michael Frayn, Plays 4: Copenhagen; Democracy; Afterlife. London: Methuen, 2010.
Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love. London: Faber and Faber, 1997.
Credit requirements:
Seminar (4 CP): active participation and a 10-page paper;
Übung (3 CP): active participation and a 5-page paper.
050 642 Klawitter
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, 4 CP
2 st. do 10-12 GABF 04/613 Süd
Charles Dickens’s 500-page novel Great Expectations (1860-61) is not only one of
his most popular works of narrative fiction, it is also today regarded by literary critics
as his best composed.
In our seminar we will discuss this Bildungsroman in terms of generic conventions,
thematic concerns, narrative techniques and the unique mingling of such literary
modes as tragedy/pathos and comedy. Particular attention will be given to the
generation of psychological insight as well as the promotion of certain values and
their relation to preoccupations in Victorian society.

Participants should obtain the Penguin Classics edition of the novel and begin their
reading far ahead of the beginning of term.
Assessment: term paper (12-15 pages)
050 643 McColl
Poetry and Satire of the Long 18th Century, 4 CP
2 st. mo 12-14 GB 6/137 Nord
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The English Essay: Bacon to Orwell, 4 CP
2 st. mo 16-18 GABF 04/614 Süd
(vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 629)
050 644 Weidle
Selected Works by Oscar Wilde, 4 CP
2 st. do 14-16 GABF 04/413 Süd
In the seminar we shall be looking at selected works by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
within the social and historical contexts of the Victorian Age (1837-1901). Wilde's
major works, such as the plays The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady
Windermere's Fan, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, various short stories,
poems and some of his political and poetological writings/letters, will be considered in
the light of 19th-century discourses and phenomena such as aestheticism,
modernism and decadence.
I recommend the following edition (or any of the later reprints) of Wilde’s works:
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. With an introduction by Vyvyan Holland. London:
HarperPerennial, 1996.

Students are kindly asked to have read The Picture of Dorian Gray by the first
session!
Attention: There will be no sessions on the 13 th and 20 th of December! The material
and assignments for the missed sessions will be uploaded on blackboard.
Requirements for credits:
Übung: Regular attendance; active participation; thorough preparation of the primary
and secondary material; presentation
Seminar: Regular attendance; active participation; thorough preparation of the
primary and secondary material; term paper (10-15 pages) to be handed in by 1 April
2013.
Übung
050 646 Wagner
Reading Poetry: An Approach through Genre, 3 CP
2 st. fr 10-12 GB 5/39 Nord
This course serves a double function: to train students' skills in analyzing poetry and
to deepen their understanding of the major poetic genres, including the sonnet, the
elegy, and the dramatic monologue. Each genre will be illustrated by a number of
canonical poems, penned by such major poets as Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, and
W.H. Auden.
Credit Requirements: exam.

AMERIKANISCHE LITERATUR
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Vorlesung
050 648 Freitag
American Literature and Culture: Beginnings to Civil War, 2/2,5 CP
2 st. mo 14-16 HGB 10
This is the first part of a three-part lecture series that introduces to important
developments of US-American literature as part and expression of the shaping of US-
American culture. References to visual and popular art are meant to broaden the
general perspective. While well-established periods and movements like Early
American Literature and the American Renaissance will be covered, the lecture
series will also show how these periods and movements came to be canonized and
what other literary developments were thereby influenced, excluded, and/or
devaluated.
Each part of the lecture cycle can be attended independently of the other parts.
Texts: will be made available on Blackboard
Credit requirements: regular attendance and written test.
Seminare
050 650 Müller, M.
The American Renaissance, 4 CP
2 st. mo 16-18 GB 02/160
As the editors of the Norton Anthology of American Literature, 1820-1865 point out,
writers such as Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman are regarded as “central to
our understanding of American literary traditions from the nineteenth-century to the

present.” In fact, the authors listed above are known for having sparked the first
period of “significant maturity of American writing,” known as “the American
Renaissance.” In this seminar we will study this important period in American
literature by focusing on the major issues debated in mid-nineteenth-century society
and literature. Thus the topics covered will include transcendentalism as a
nineteenth-century social and religious philosophy; gender and the “cult of true
womanhood”; race, slavery and the Civil War. Please read The Scarlet Letter
(Nathaniel Hawthorne), Benito Cereno (Herman Melville and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(Harriet Beecher Stowe) before the class starts.
Texts: Please purchase a copy of The Norton Anthology of American Literature,
Seventh Edition, Volume B, 1820-1865, edited by Nina Baym (you need to make sure
that you order the right edition; it should be available through Amazon.de as well as
other distributors) or be prepared to read e-texts that are accessible through Project
Gutenberg and other online sources. Additional materials will be made available via
Moodle.
Requirements: attendance and active participation, presentation, term paper.
050 651 Dickel
The Harlem Renaissance, 4 CP
2 st. do 8.30-10 GABF 04/413 Süd
The term “Harlem Renaissance” refers to the 1920s and 30s, when, after the great
migration, many African Americans formed communities in the northern metropolises
in which art and literature flourished in an unprecedented way. In their texts, many
writers and intellectuals of the period negotiate how blackness should be represented
in literature and art. Thus, the ideas of the “talented tenth” and the “the new negro”
are put forward in Alain Locke’s seminal anthology The New Negro (1925). In order
to understand different approaches to the representation of blackness, we will read
excerpts from Locke’s anthology against its historical background and address the
response of the younger generation of Harlem Renaissance artists put forward in the
literary magazine Fire!! (1926). We will also address the philosophical context by
discussing W.E.B. DuBois’s concept of double consciousness and relate African
American texts to a modernist aesthetics, which emerged at the same time. In
addition to discussing shorter texts, such as the poetry of Langston Hughes and
Claude McKay, we will address two novels, Nella Larsen’s Passing (1928) and
Wallace Thurman’s Infants of the Spring (1932). Near the end of our seminar we will
discuss how the period of the Harlem Renaissance is remembered in contemporary
texts and films by black artists. The requirements for a Seminar are active
participation and a term paper, those for an Übung active participation and a written
assignment.
David Lewis, ed.: The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (1995).

Nella Larsen: Passing (1929).
Wallace Thurman: Infants of the Spring (1932).
050 652 Freitag
“I have no accurate knowledge of my age” – American Slave Narratives, 4 CP
2 st. di 14-16 GABF 04/614 Süd
Slave narratives are accounts of the lives of slaves who escaped to freedom. They
gained wide acceptance and international readership as authorized discourses on the
cruelties of slavery and played a major role in the abolitionist movement. We will
discuss a number of narratives, deal with their historical contexts and will also have a
look at other writings that were inspired by slave narratives, which are today
regarded as the „locus classicus of African American literary discourses.“
The reading load in the course will be heavy. Students are advised to start reading
the narratives by Olaudah Equiano, Nat Turner, Frederic Douglass, and Harriet
Jacobs as well as Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin before taking the course.
Texts:
1. slave narratives
Henry Louis Gates and William L. Andrews, eds. Slave Narratives (College). Library
of America, 2002. (Please, make sure to buy this paperback edition)
2. novels
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin (be careful to buy the unabridged
edition, not a version edited for children)
- Ishmael Reed Flight to Canada
3. a reader with secondary material will be provided.
Credit requirements:
Übung: attendance, active participation, assignments
Seminar: requirements for Übung + presentation and 15-page paper.

Übung
050 656 Müller
Asian American Literature, 3 CP
2 st. mo 14-16 GABF 04/252 Nord
In this course we will read a cross section of Asian American writing – prose, drama,
biography – focusing on the experience of Asian immigrants on the North American
continent. We will look at Asian American constructions of femininity and masculinity,
life in racialized communities and narrations of race and national belonging.
Furthermore, we will consider the impact of various wars (and U.S. involvement in
them) on different Asian American communities. Although we will discuss specific
ethnic and racial groups, the focus will also be the on the context that connects each
of those groups to a shared history. Please buy and read your own copies of Maxine
Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, Frank Chin, Donald Duk, Joy Kogawa, Obasan
and Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. Additional primary
and secondary materials will be made available via Moodle.
Requirements: attendance and active participation, presentation, written
assignments.

CULTURAL STUDIES (GB)
Vorlesung
050 660 Pankratz
Renaissance Culture, 2/2,5 CP
2 st. di 14-16 HNC 30
Still today, the English Renaissance is deeply embedded in the cultural memory:
Henry VIII and his wives, Shakespeare in and out of love and Cate Blanchett in a
white nightgown fighting the Spanish Armada. The aim of the lecture course is to put
all these glamorous images connected with 16th-century England between the reigns
of Henry VII and James I into the broader framework of the European Renaissance,
i.e. the rediscovery of classical antiquity and the beginning of the modern world. It will
look at the changes in the world picture, the Reformation and its consequences, the
system of Tudor foreign and domestic politics, Elizabethan court culture, the
beginnings of capitalism, colonialism and individualism. Last but not least, the lecture
course will focus on the flourishing Renaissance literature: from the sonnet and epics
to the plays written for the newly established professional theatres.
Requirement for credit points: regular attendance, written test at the end of the
semester.
Seminare
050 661 Berg
Liverpool, 4 CP
2 st. fr 10-12 GB 03/46
In this course, we try to come to terms with the ‘spatial turn’ in the humanities and the
social sciences. Popularised by the American geographer Edward Soja, the spatial
turn stands for the assumption that space and place are as important as time and
history when we explain social and cultural phenomena. Liverpool is a suitable object
for thinking about space. On the one hand, people in Britain emphasise Liverpool’s
‘exceptionalism’ and call the city ‘the capital of itself’. It definitely has a very specific

history – centre of the slave trade, transatlantic sea port, destination for Irish
emigrants, home to one of Britain’s oldest African communities, to one of the world’s
most famous pop groups, as well as to a traditionally militant working class, etc. On
the other hand, Liverpool suffered from the typical problems of ‘old industrial cities’ in
the late 20 th century, sharing a lot with other cities and towns. By investigating how
British history has been experienced in one specific place, we try to analyse the
interrelationships of developments at the local, national and international level.
A reader with key texts will be provided.
Requirement for credit points: active participation, organising and chairing part of a
course session, research paper (Hausarbeit).
To attend, students need to have passed the “Introduction to Cultural Studies”.
050 662 Berg
A Short History of British Colonialism, 4 CP
2 st. do 16-18 GABF 04/613 Süd
British colonialism has shaped the world in many different ways. The British Empire
was not only the largest that has ever existed; colonialism also caused the forced and
voluntary migration of large numbers of people across the globe. Colonialism
developed an economic system – which privileged Britain for a long time. It provided
a geostrategic safety net – for Britain. It brought cricket to, for example, the
Caribbeans and Pakistan, and Indian restaurants to all British towns. However, the
Empire was disbanded after World War II and colonialism – at least in a formal sense
– is, with a few exceptions, a thing of the past.
In this course, we ask why Britain became a colonial power, how colonial expansion
was justified, how public life in the colonies was organised, why the British elites
approved of practices such as the slave trade, how colonised people responded to
British domination, how they eventually received – or achieved – independence, and
what legacies of colonialism still exist.
A reader with key texts will be provided.
Requirement for credit points: active participation, organising and chairing part of a
course session, research paper (Hausarbeit).
To attend, students need to have passed the “Introduction to Cultural Studies”.
050 663 Pankratz

Terrorism, 4 CP
2 st. mo 14-16 GB 03/49
Terrorism is usually directed against the state apparatus. In contrast to war, it
foregoes open combat and tries to operate with stealth, aimed at both maximum
destruction and maximum psychological impact. Terrorist attacks usually have some
ideological underpinning, a political agenda which tries to justify the use of violence.
Hence, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. Moreover, making
others afraid by means of covert violence can also be ascribed to (not only)
totalitarian states whose state apparatuses in turn label their critics as terrorists.
The seminar tries to make sense of this complex web of otherings. It will deal with
British reactions to 9/11, 7/7 and the so-called war on terror. How did the New Labour
government justify its active support of George W. Bush’s crusade? How did it redefine
Britishness and citizenship? We will especially analyse the discourses of
othering and ouring British Muslims in legal texts, public debates and fictional texts,
such as Chris Morris’s Four Lions or Peter Kosminsky’s Britz.
Workload: regular attendance and preparation, oral presentation/expert group
(Übung) and seminar paper (Seminar).
Required texts: There will be a reader available at the beginning of the semester.
To be able to attend, students need to have passed the “Introduction to Cultural
Studies”.
050 664 Walter, M.
“A Land Fit For Heroes?” Britain between the Wars (1919-1939), 4 CP
2 st. di 12-14 GABF 04/614 Süd
“I reminded myself firmly that I was no economist. Thus, when the newspapers tell
me there is yet another financial crisis [...] I always feel some idiotic game is going on
and that it is as preposterous that the welfare of millions of real people should
depend on the fortunes of this game as it would if our happiness hung on the result of
the Stock Exchange golfing tournament” (J.B. Priestley, English Journey, 1934, 409).
When in 1933, in the midst of what is still today believed to be one of the most severe
economic depressions of all times, British writer J.B. Priestley went on a tour through
England to get a general idea of what his country had turned to, he painted a portrait
of England that for cultural historians sounds remarkably topical: failed banks,
panicked markets, rising unemployment.

Yet, the beginning of the 1930s is only one part of the history of a time that is often
labelled “the interwar period” – the time between the end of the First World War and
the beginning of the Second World War. Whereas the 1920s were a period of
considerable prosperity, often referred to as the “Roaring Twenties”, historians
usually paint a gloomy picture of the 1930s, with a society shaped by mass
unemployment and class divisions. The interwar period also saw the arrival of
consumer society, the breakthrough of the automobile and a massive restructuring of
public and private lives, setting the tone for what in 1920 H.G. Wells called a
“destruction of fixed ideas, prejudices, and mental limitations unparalleled in history”.
With the arrival of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the shaking of seemingly
‘fixed’ beliefs and values Britain was a damaged nation and on a new search of what
it meant to ‘belong’.
In the seminar we will look at a number of these ‘arenas of change’ of British cultural
life and try to challenge and critically engage with a number of common labels of the
interwar period. It will be our aim to understand how the impact of the Great War,
new forms of leisure and mobility began to have a major impact on society’s thinking
and behaviour. On a more global scale we will also analyse the radical changes in
the international order with special regard to Britain’s changing role in the world and
its relation to the newly-emerging superpower USA. Examples will include extracts
from contemporary literature ranging from novels, essays and new documentary
modes of realism such as George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier (1937).
A reader with key texts will be provided at the beginning of the semester. Students
who already wish to engage in the topic can take a look at Martin Pugh’s study We
Danced All Night. A Social History of Britain Between the Wars (2008) and Robert
Grave’s and Alan Hodge’s The Long Weekend (1940).
Requirement for credit points: active participation, short presentation/participation in
an expert group and a final term paper.
To be able to attend, students need to have passed the “Introduction to Cultural
Studies”.
050 665 Werthschulte
Ethnicities in Post-War Britain, 4 CP
2 st. mi 12-14 GB 5/37 Nord
The arrival of the SS Windrush in Tilbury on 22 June 1948 is a watershed moment in
British history. Whereas the presence of people from Africa, the Caribbean and
South East Asia dates back long before the 20th century, the "Windrush Generation"
marks the beginning of the multicultural Britain that we take for granted today. This
course will look at the stories and narratives of those that have come to Great Britain
after World War II and those of their children and grandchildren. We will see how

their arrival has been met with mistrust and hostility and the cultural and political
articulations that immigrants have developed as a reaction to that. We will also
examine the change in subject positions that have emerged in the same period. In
what ways is being part of the "Windrush Generation" different from being "British
Asian" or "Black British" today? Finally, we will examine how the lived differences of a
multicultural Britain have been translated into the official discourse of
"multiculturalism" in the 1990s and 2000s and the forms of inclusions and exclusions
which were the result of this shift in policy.
Most course material will be made available in a reader, but please buy a copy of
Sam Selvon's novel The Lonely Londoners (Penguin Classic Edition) if you want to
take this class.
All students need to have passed the “Introduction to Cultural Studies” if they want to
participate in this course.
050 666 Budde
(Post)Colonialism and Nineteenth-Century Ireland, 4 CP
2 st. do 14-16 GABF 04/253 Nord
The question whether or not nineteenth-century Ireland can be properly
characterised as a British colony has been one of the most debated questions in the
field of Irish Studies over the last two decades. While there seems to be a certain
consensus on the nature of Ireland's relationship with the British Empire before the
nineteenth century, the Act of Union practically wiped out any common ground
among historians and cultural theorists. How can an equal partner in the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland be conceived of as a colony? Is there any such
thing as a 'semi-colonial' status which could be applied to post-Union Ireland? Or was
the Union nothing more than an attempt to disguise what was in effect a relationship
of colonial oppression between a world power and its 'primitive' neighbour?
In the first part of this course we will try to find possible answers to these questions
by analysing various views, both historical and contemporary, on Ireland's status
within the British Empire. In the second part we will attempt to determine the effect
different interpretations of this status might have on theoretical conceptions of
various Irish cultural products. The last part of the course will be dedicated to
attempting an application of these new theoretical insights to various popular Irish
texts.
Key texts will be provided via Blackboard.

Students will be expected to participate actively in the course sessions, give a short
presentation and hand in a research paper.
To be able to attend, students need to have passed the “Introduction to Cultural
Studies”.
Übung
050 668 Berg
Political Movies, 3 CP
Blockveranstaltung 21./22.02. & 04.-06.03.2013, GB 6/137 Nord
13:30-18:00 Uhr
The idea of this course is to analyse a number of films in detail. On the one hand, we
contextualise them in two different ways: firstly, we discuss the political issues or
events that are represented in the movies. Secondly, we try to identify the political
messages the viewers might receive. On the other hand, we look into the films’
aesthetics: are they conventional or experimental, do they transport subtle arguments
or teach propaganda lessons?
On the first day, we discuss approaches to the study of films and later watch a first
movie. On the second day, we discuss it and start preparations for the other films to
be analysed by groups of students. Ten days later, we meet again to watch and
reflect on the films which have been introduced by these expert groups.
Requirement for credit points: (a) active participation, (b) organising and chairing a
collective film viewing or writing a short research paper.
To attend, students need to have passed the “Introduction to Cultural Studies”.

CULTURAL STUDIES (USA)
Vorlesung
--- --- Freitag
American Literature and Culture: Beginnings to Civil War, 2/2,5 CP
2 st. mo 14-16 HGB 10
(vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 648)
This is the first part of a three-part lecture series that introduces to important
developments of US-American literature as part and expression of the shaping of US-
American culture. References to visual and popular art are meant to broaden the
general perspective. While well-established periods and movements like Early
American Literature and the American Renaissance will be covered, the lecture
series will also show how these periods and movements came to be canonized and
what other literary developments were thereby influenced, excluded, and/or
devaluated.
Each part of the lecture cycle can be attended independently of the other parts.
Texts: will be made available on Blackboard
Credit requirements: regular attendance and written test.
Seminare
--- --- Dickel
The Harlem Renaissance, 4 CP
2 st. do 8.30-10 GABF 04/413 Süd
(vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 651)
The term “Harlem Renaissance” refers to the 1920s and 30s, when, after the great
migration, many African Americans formed communities in the northern metropolises
in which art and literature flourished in an unprecedented way. In their texts, many

writers and intellectuals of the period negotiate how blackness should be represented
in literature and art. Thus, the ideas of the “talented tenth” and the “the new negro”
are put forward in Alain Locke’s seminal anthology The New Negro (1925). In order
to understand different approaches to the representation of blackness, we will read
excerpts from Locke’s anthology against its historical background and address the
response of the younger generation of Harlem Renaissance artists put forward in the
literary magazine Fire!! (1926). We will also address the philosophical context by
discussing W.E.B. DuBois’s concept of double consciousness and relate African
American texts to a modernist aesthetics, which emerged at the same time. In
addition to discussing shorter texts, such as the poetry of Langston Hughes and
Claude McKay, we will address two novels, Nella Larsen’s Passing (1928) and
Wallace Thurman’s Infants of the Spring (1932). Near the end of our seminar we will
discuss how the period of the Harlem Renaissance is remembered in contemporary
texts and films by black artists. The requirements for a Seminar are active
participation and a term paper, those for an Übung active participation and a written
assignment.
David Lewis, ed. The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (1995).
Nella Larsen: Passing (1929).
Wallace Thurman: Infants of the Spring (1932).
To be able to attend this class, students need to have passed the “Introduction to
Cultural Studies”.
--- --- Freitag
“I have no accurate knowledge of my age” – American Slave Narratives, 4 CP
2 st. di 14-16 GABF 04/614 Süd
(vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 652)
Slave narratives are accounts of the lives of slaves who escaped to freedom. They
gained wide acceptance and international readership as authorized discourses on the
cruelties of slavery and played a major role in the abolitionist movement. We will
discuss a number of narratives, deal with their historical contexts and will also have a
look at other writings that were inspired by slave narratives, which are today
regarded as the „locus classicus of African American literary discources.“
The reading load in the course will be heavy. Students are advised to start reading
the narratives by Olaudah Equiano, Nat Turner, Frederic Douglass, and Harriet
Jacobs as well as Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin before taking the course.

Texts:
1. slave narratives
Henry Louis Gates and William L. Andrews, eds. Slave Narratives (College). Library
of America, 2002. (Please, make sure to buy this paperback edition)
2. novels
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin (be careful to buy the unabridged
edition, not a version edited for children)
- Ishmael Reed Flight to Canada
3. a reader with secondary material will be provided.
Credit requirements:
Übung: attendance, active participation, assignments.
Seminar: requirements for Übung + presentation and 15-page paper.
To be able to attend this class, students need to have passed the “Introduction to
Cultural Studies”.
Übungen
050 670 Müller, M.
“One Nation Under God?” (Christian) Religion in the U.S., 3 CP
2 st. do 16-18 GABF 04/614 Süd
After exploring the Puritan roots of religion in America and studying other important
historical developments in American religious life such as Transcendentalism and the
two „Great Awakenings,“ this class will focus on more recent forms of religious
worship in the United States. We will have a look at modern versions of old-fashioned
types of Christian belief such as the Shaker and the Amish faiths and we will also
look at rural versions of established denominations as, for example, the “footwashing
Baptists” and “snakehandling” members of the Church of God. More recent
developments such as televangelism, feminist theology, and the Church of the
Subgenius will conclude this survey of religion in the U.S. Some attention will also be
given to non-Christian denominations. All reading materials will be made available via
Moodle.
Requirements: attendance and active participation, presentation, written assignments
or short paper.

FACHSPRACHEN
Seminare
050 680 Smith
Introduction to ESP, 4 CP
2 st. mo 14-16 GABF 04/613 Süd
The seminar will seek to introduce students to the language of a broad range of ESP
domains. Thus texts will be read and analysed from numerous scientific and other
disciplines such as: history, archaeology, physics, cosmology, biology, philosophy,
music, engineering and invention, and the arts. The details of the manner in which
students can obtain their credit points will be discussed at the beginning of the
course. The usual attendance rules apply.
050 681 Smith
ESP Translation Theory and Practice, 4 CP
2 st. di 12-14 GABF 04/613 Süd
The course will take in a wide variety of texts. To obtain their marks students will be
expected to attempt to translate the various texts from one week to the next and be
prepared to discuss their approaches and variants in class ‒ including providing
details of the sources used and the choices made from a practical and theoretical
point of view. In addition to being obliged to join at least one group presenting in brief
a translation theory at the beginning of each class, each student will be expected to
keep a learner's diary. The usual attendance rules apply.
Suggested Reading:
Anthony Pym, Exploring Translation Theories (London and New York: Routledge,
2010).
Sándor Hervey, Ian Higgins and Michael Loughridge, Thinking German Translation
(London and New York: Routledge, 2000).

050 682 Smith
Legal English – Theory & Practice
2 st. mi 14-16 GABF 04/252 Nord
The course will look in detail at a variety of legal texts. To obtain their marks (groups
of) students will be expected to analyse one of the texts that form the basis of the
seminar from a linguistic, legal method and legal theory point of view and present and
discuss their findings in class. The course is design to help students hone their
understanding of such texts by giving them the tools to look at them with the eye of a
linguist, a lawyer and a (moral) philosopher. The usual attendance rules apply.
Suggested Reading:
Ian McLeod, Legal Theory (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Ian McLeod, Legal Method (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Übungen
050 684 Poziemski
Business English I, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. mi 10-12 GABF 04/413 Süd
This Business English class is intended as an introduction to the language and topics
of business and commerce.
Course credits will be awarded to participants who complete the various homework
assignments and pass the end-of-semester exam. Normal attendance rules apply.
Course materials: Englisch in Wirtschaft und Handel, Cornelsen, 2002. This and
other course materials will be provided throughout the semester.

050 684 Smith
Business English I, 3 CP
Gruppe B: 2 st. mo 10-12 GABF 04/614 Süd
Gruppe C: 2 st. mi 12-14 GABF 04/613 Süd
On the basis of the textbook: Herbert Geisen, Dieter Hamblock, John Poziemski,
Dieter Wessels, Englisch in Wirtschaft und Handel (Berlin: Cornelsen & Oxford
University Press, 2002) and with the help of additional material the course will
introduce some of the basic terminology and concepts of business English. Credits
will be awarded to participants who pass the written end-of-term test.
050 684 de Waal
Business English I, 3 CP
Gruppe D: 2 st. do 10-12 GB 5/39 Nord
This course will introduce students to the language and topics of business and
economics. The focus will be on trade and industry, national economies, tourism and
banking.
Course credits will be awarded to participants who pass the end-of-term written test.
Course materials: Englisch in Wirtschaft und Handel, Cornelsen, 2002 (ISBN 978-3-
8109-2674-6). Further materials will be provided during the semester. Please bring
the textbook (or copies of the first four units plus word lists) to our first session.
050 685 Poziemski
Business English II, 3 CP
Gruppe A: di 10-12 GABF 04/613 Süd
This class is a continuation of Business English I, and participants should ideally
have completed Business English I before signing up for this class.

Course credits will be awarded to participants who complete the various class and
online assignments.
Course materials will be provided at the beginning and during the semester.
050 685 Smith
Business English II, 3 CP
Gruppe B: 2 st. mi 16-18 GABF 04/614 Süd
This course is a continuation of Business English I. On the basis of the textbook:
Herbert Geisen, Dieter Hamblock, John Poziemski, Dieter Wessels, Englisch in
Wirtschaft und Handel (Berlin: Cornelsen & Oxford University Press, 2002) and with
the help of additional material the course will introduce further basic terminology and
concepts of business English. Credits will be awarded to participants who do a
presentation, pass a written end-of-term exam or hand in a written assignment at the
end of the course.
050 685 Schwedmann
Business English II, 3 CP
Gruppe C: Blockseminar: 13.10./1.12./15.12.2012
und 12.1.2013, jeweils in der Zeit GB 6/137 Nord
von 9.00 bis 15.00 Uhr
(Ausweichtermin bei Ausfall eines anderen Termins bzw. möglicher Resit-Termin:
26.1.2013, 9.00-15.00 Uhr)
This class is a continuation of Business English I, and participants should ideally
have completed Business English I before signing up for this class. Course credits
will be awarded to participants who complete the various assignments. This course
will be held as a block seminar on four Saturdays.
Course textbook: Englisch in Wirtschaft und Handel. Neue Ausgabe, Cornelsen
2002. ISBN 978-3-8109-2674-6.
Please bring the textbook (or copies of the units 5-9 plus vocabulary lists) to our first
session. Other materials will be provided in the course of the semester.

050 686 Smith
Legal English, 3 CP
2 st. di 10-12 GABF 04/614 Süd
The course – which will be based on a broad variety of legal texts and other sources
– is designed to familiarise students with English legal language. By the end of the
course students should be familiar with numerous areas of English law. One option
for obtaining the credit points for this course is a final written exam.
050 687 Versteegen
Technical English, 3 CP
2 st. mi 10-12 GABF 04/613 Süd
Topics:
Rather general scientific and technical topics which laypeople can be expected to be
familiar with:
Current issues in research and technology (e.g. environmental issues, energy)
Technology in everyday life (e.g. DIY, household equipment, home entertainment)
Famous classic inventions
Interesting new inventions
(Very) basic maths and science
Language skills:
Basics of scientific language, e.g. verbalising formulas and symbols, describing
technical processes and systems, talking about diagrams, graphs etc.
Text forms and communication skills required in professional situations, e.g.
Presentation: Explaining a technical or scientific problem
Writing a manual
Editing a given text
Interlingual communication.

FREMDSPRACHENAUSBILDUNG
050 690 Müller, T.
Grammar AM, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. mo 16-18 GABF 04/613 Süd
Gruppe B: 2 st. mi 14-16 GABF 04/614 Süd
050 690 Ottlinger
Grammar AM, 3 CP
Gruppe C: 2 st. do 10-12 GABF 04/614 Süd
This class is intended to offer intensive practice in select problem areas of English
grammar. The aims of the course are twofold: to help you use your grammar
correctly, and to help you identify typical errors and explain your corrections.
Course requirements: regular attendance, active participation, diagnostic test at the
beginning of the course, end-of-term test.
050 691 McColl
Communication AM, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. mi 10-12 GB 6/137 Nord
Gruppe B: 2 st. mi 14-16 GB 6/137 Nord
This Übung is about exactly that: practice. Students will have the chance to hone
their written skills through a series of assignments on various topics, and will be
expected to share their results with fellow participants. Centring upon academic

writing in particular, this course pays particular attention to economy of expression
and the foregrounding of argument, both on a local and large scale. Through
exercises in rephrasing, paraphrasing and synopsis, we will question which
information is most relevant in any given text, while keeping an eye out for fallacies,
mixed metaphors and unnecessary ambiguities.
There will also be an oral component to the course. Participants will be expected to
give a speech before the class.
050 691 Klawitter
Communication AM, 3 CP
Gruppe C: 2 st. di 10-12 GB 6/137 Nord
This course is designed to improve the communication skills which are typically
demanded in academic and occupational situations. Participants are expected to
engage in discussions, give speeches in class and to hand in short written assignments.
Materials will be provided on Blackboard during the course of term.
050 692 Brenzel
Translation AM, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. fr 12-14 GABF 04/413 Süd
Description: In this course we will translate intermediate-level texts drawn from the
field of literature from German into English.
Aim: Being an Übung, this course aims at practice, focusing on recurring grammatical
and terminological problems and their solution.
Assessment: Regular attendance, active participation and preparation of the
necessary texts for each week are basic requirements. The course will be rounded
off by a written test.
Texts: All necessary material will be made available via Blackboard.

050 692 Ottlinger
Translation AM, 3 CP
Gruppe B: 2 st. fr 8.30-10 GABF 04/614 Süd
Intermediate-level texts from the fields of literature and culture will be translated from
German into English with the focus on recurring grammatical and terminological
problems.
Course requirements: regular attendance, active participation, two written tests.
050 692 Versteegen
Translation AM, 3 CP
Gruppe C: 2 st. do 12-14 GABF 04/413 Süd
Students will learn to solve the principle difficulties involved in translating German
texts into English. They will learn the analytical concepts to identify and name such
difficulties, and they will be familiarized with methods and tools to find appropriate
solutions (ranging from standard dictionaries to various electronic sources, and from
vocabulary-building activities to advanced translation strategies).
Thematically, the texts to be translated will deal with the culture, literature and current
affairs in English-speaking countries.
To obtain credit, students will have to prepare regular tasks at home, translate
various texts in a wiki (working together in groups) and pass two shorter tests.
050 684 Poziemski
Business English I, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. mi 10-12 GABF 04/413 Süd
This Business English class is intended as an introduction to the language and topics
of business and commerce.

Course credits will be awarded to participants who complete the various homework
assignments and pass the end-of-semester exam. Normal attendance rules apply.
Course materials: Englisch in Wirtschaft und Handel, Cornelsen, 2002. This and
other course materials will be provided throughout the semester.
050 684 Smith
Business English I, 3 CP
Gruppe B: 2 st. mo 10-12 GABF 04/614 Süd
Gruppe C: 2 st. mi 12-14 GABF 04/613 Süd
On the basis of the textbook: Herbert Geisen, Dieter Hamblock, John Poziemski,
Dieter Wessels, Englisch in Wirtschaft und Handel (Berlin: Cornelsen & Oxford
University Press, 2002) and with the help of additional material the course will
introduce some of the basic terminology and concepts of business English. Credits
will be awarded to participants who pass the written end-of-term test.
050 684 de Waal
Business English I, 3 CP
Gruppe D: 2 st. do 10-12 GB 5/39 Nord
This course will introduce students to the language and topics of business and
economics. The focus will be on trade and industry, national economies, tourism and
banking.
Course credits will be awarded to participants who pass the end-of-term written test.
Course materials: Englisch in Wirtschaft und Handel, Cornelsen, 2002 (ISBN 978-3-
8109-2674-6). Further materials will be provided during the semester. Please bring
the textbook (or copies of the first four units plus word lists) to our first session.

050 685 Poziemski
Business English II, 3 CP
Gruppe A: di 10-12 GABF 04/613 Süd
This class is a continuation of Business English I, and participants should ideally
have completed Business English I before signing up for this class.
Course credits will be awarded to participants who complete the various class and
online assignments.
Course materials will be provided at the beginning and during the semester.
050 685 Smith
Business English II, 3 CP
Gruppe B: 2 st. mi 16-18 GABF 04/614 Süd
This course is a continuation of Business English I. On the basis of the textbook:
Herbert Geisen, Dieter Hamblock, John Poziemski, Dieter Wessels, Englisch in
Wirtschaft und Handel (Berlin: Cornelsen & Oxford University Press, 2002) and with
the help of additional material the course will introduce further basic terminology and
concepts of business English. Credits will be awarded to participants who do a
presentation, pass a written end-of-term exam or hand in a written assignment at the
end of the course.
050 685 Schwedmann
Business English II, 3 CP
Gruppe C: Blockseminar: 13.10./1.12./15.12.2012
und 12.1.2013, jeweils in der Zeit GB 6/137 Nord
von 9.00 bis 15.00 Uhr
(Ausweichtermin bei Ausfall eines anderen Termins bzw. möglicher Resit-Termin:
26.1.2013, 9.00-15.00 Uhr)

This class is a continuation of Business English I, and participants should ideally
have completed Business English I before signing up for this class. Course credits
will be awarded to participants who complete the various assignments. This course
will be held as a block seminar on four Saturdays.
Course textbook: Englisch in Wirtschaft und Handel. Neue Ausgabe, Cornelsen
2002. ISBN 978-3-8109-2674-6.
Please bring the textbook (or copies of the units 5-9 plus vocabulary lists) to our first
session. Other materials will be provided in the course of the semester.
050 686 Smith
Legal English I, 3 CP
2 st. di 10-12 GABF 04/614 Süd
The course – which will be based on a broad variety of legal texts and other sources
– is designed to familiarise students with English legal language. By the end of the
course students should be familiar with numerous areas of English law. One option
for obtaining the credit points for this course is a final written exam.
050 687 Versteegen
Technical English, 3 CP
2 st. mi 10-12 GABF 04/613 Süd
Topics:
Rather general scientific and technical topics which laypeople can be expected to be
familiar with:
Current issues in research and technology (e.g. environmental issues, energy)
Technology in everyday life (e.g. DIY, household equipment, home entertainment)
Famous classic inventions
Interesting new inventions
(Very) basic maths and science
Language skills:
Basics of scientific language, e.g. verbalising formulas and symbols, describing
technical processes and systems, talking about diagrams, graphs etc.
Text forms and communication skills required in professional situations, e.g.

Presentation: Explaining a technical or scientific problem
Writing a manual
Editing a given text
Interlingual communication.