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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 SOMMERSEMESTER 2012

Wichtige Infos für Erstsemesterstudierende
Die Einführungsveranstaltung für neu immatrikulierte Studierende ist vor‐
gesehen für
Mittwoch, d. 4. April 2012, von 12.00 c.t. bis 14.00 Uhr
im Hörsaal HGB 50
Bitte achten Sie auf die Aush<strong>ä</strong>nge im Englischen Seminar.
Alle Lehrveranstaltungen des Englischen Seminars beginnen in der 2.
Semesterwoche, d.h. in der Woche ab dem 10. April 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 26. M<strong>ä</strong>rz bis 12. April 2012 finden von montags bis donnerstags
spezielle Studienberatungen für Erstsemesterstudierende statt (10.00 bis
12.00 Uhr, GB 5/141).
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 Wintersemester 2012/13, zu belegen.)
Anmeldung zu den Lehrveranstaltungen per VSPL
Wie in den letzten Semestern wird auch für das Wintersemester 2011/12 für alle
Lehrveranstaltungen ein elektronisches Anmeldeverfahren unizentral über VSPL‐
Campus durchgeführt. Mit dem Rechenzentrum ist verein<strong>ba</strong>rt, dass wir ein
Verteilverfahren nutzen. Das bedeutet, dass die Anmeldung gewissermaßen in 2
Etappen erfolgt: zun<strong>ä</strong>chst 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 Pl<strong>ä</strong>tze auf der Basis Ihrer

Priorisierung. Dies gilt für die Veranstaltungen der Basismodule ebenso wie für
die Veranstaltungen der Auf<strong>ba</strong>umodule.
Bei dieser Form des Anmeldeverfahrens geht es nicht darum, Studierende aus
Veranstaltungen auszuschließen, sondern im Rahmen des Möglichen für eine
gleichm<strong>ä</strong>ßigere Verteilung zu sorgen, damit die Studienbedingungen insgesamt
verbessert werden. Mit geringfügigen Einschr<strong>ä</strong>nkungen 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 Druckauftr<strong>ä</strong>ge 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
vom 1. M<strong>ä</strong>rz 2012, 10.00 Uhr, bis 5. April 2012, 14.00 Uhr
vorgenommen werden.
Die Anmeldungen für die Veranstaltungen der Auf<strong>ba</strong>u‐ und Mastermodule
können in der Zeit
vom 1. M<strong>ä</strong>rz 2012, 10.00 Uhr, bis 30. M<strong>ä</strong>rz 2012, 14.00 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. Der Studienfachberater wird an zwei Tagen in
der Woche Sprechstunden anbieten, in denen offene Fragen gekl<strong>ä</strong>rt,
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.
Die genauen Sprechzeiten des Studienfachberaters werden noch bekannt
gegeben.
Öffnungszeiten des Servicezimmers im SS 2012:
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 w<strong>ä</strong>hrend 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 Auf<strong>ba</strong>umodulen) 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 Pl<strong>ä</strong>tzen sowie Unterstützung
beim Bewerbungsprozess.
Öffnungszeiten der Auslandsberatung im SS 2012:
An mindestens zwei Tagen in der Woche. Die genauen Sprechzeiten werden zu
gegebener Zeit an der Dienstzimmertür GB 6/134 bekannt gegeben.
Berater: Herr Flaake, GB 6/134, E‐Mail: es‐auslandsaufenthalt@rub.de

B.A.‐Prüfungsberechtigte im Sommersemester 2012
Prüfungsberechtigt sind zurzeit:
Dr. Se<strong>ba</strong>stian Berg Jun.‐Prof. Dr. Simon Dickel
Prof. Dr. Kornelia Freitag Prof. Dr. Luuk Houwen Dr. Guido Isekenmeier
PD Dr. Uwe Klawitter Prof. Dr. Christiane Meierkord Dr. Robert McColl
Dr. Verena Minow Dr. Torsten Müller Prof. Dr. Burkhard Niederhoff
(beurlaubt im SoSe 2012)
Dr. Claudia Ottlinger Prof. Dr. Anette Pankratz John Poziemski
Prof. Dr. Markus Ritter Dr. Robert Smith Dr. Heinrich Versteegen
Dr. Claus‐Ulrich Viol Dr. Susan Vogel (beurlaubt im
SoSe 2012)
Dr. Katie Walter Prof. Dr. Roland Weidle
(Forschungsfreisemester im
SoSe 2012)
Dr. Sven Wagner
Die Prüfungsprotokolle werden von BeisitzerInnen geführt, die von den
jeweiligen PrüferInnen bestellt werden.

INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
Wichtige Infos für Erstsemesterstudierende 01
Feriensprechstunden der Dozenten/Dozentinnen 05
Sprechstunden im Sommersemester 2012 07
Raumpl<strong>ä</strong>ne 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
AUFBAUMODULPHASE 19
Medieval English Literature 19
Linguistik 20
Englische Literatur bis 1700 27
Englische Literatur von 1700 bis zur Gegenwart 32
Amerikanische Literatur 37
Cultural Studies (GB) 41
Cultural Studies (USA) 47
Fachsprachen 51
Fremdsprachenausbildung 57
Studierensekretariat – Fristen und Vorlesungszeiten 65

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 Auf<strong>ba</strong>u 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 B<strong>ä</strong>nder und wird laufend erg<strong>ä</strong>nzt. Ein Katalog liegt
neben dem Kopierer (in der N<strong>ä</strong>he des Bibliothekstreppenhauses im Nordkern) aus.
Die Videob<strong>ä</strong>nder können zu den angeschlagenen Zeiten auch von Ihnen entliehen
werden (Leihfrist: 1 Woche, Verl<strong>ä</strong>ngerung 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 l<strong>ä</strong>ngeren 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 18. Juli bis 7. Oktober 2011

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
imWintersemester 2011/12

ÖFFNUNGSZEITEN
DER SEKRETARIATE
DES ENGLISCHEN SEMINARS
______________________________________________________________
Sekretariat Öffnungszeit
Gesch<strong>ä</strong>ftszimmer 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 Bar<strong>ba</strong>ra Stauch-Niknejad
GB 6/32
Lehrstuhl Anglistik III – Prof.
Dr. Burkhard Niederhoff/Prof.
Dr. Mark Freed
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

BASISMODUL SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT
Veranstaltungen:
English Sounds and Sound Systems
Introduction to English Linguistics
Workload/Credits:
150 Std./5 CP
SWS:
4
Modus:
Pflichtmodul
English Sounds and Sound Systems (2 CP):
Lernergebnisse:
Semester:
1.
2.
H<strong>ä</strong>ufigkeit des Angebots:
jedes Semester
Studierende werden bef<strong>ä</strong>higt, die grunds<strong>ä</strong>tzlichen artikulatorischen Prozesse bei der
Produktion von Sprachlauten, mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf der englischen
Received Pronunciation (RP), nachzuvollziehen und ad<strong>ä</strong>quat, 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 Standardvariet<strong>ä</strong>t RP. Gleichzeitig wird die historische
Entwicklung hin zum RP, aber auch zum General American betrachtet. Theoretische
Anteile werden durch praktische Übungen erg<strong>ä</strong>nzt, in denen Studierende lernen, wie
gesprochene Sprache mittels phonemischer Transkription beschrieben werden kann.
Introduction to English Linguistics (3 CP):
Lernergebnisse:
Studierende erwerben die F<strong>ä</strong>higkeit, 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 kontextunabh<strong>ä</strong>niger und kontextabh<strong>ä</strong>ngiger 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.

Voraussetzungen für die Vergabe von Kreditpunkten:
Regelm<strong>ä</strong>ßige Teilnahme und Erbringung der obligatorischen Arbeitsaufgaben;
kursinterne Klausur in English Sounds and Sound Systems; zentrale
Abschlussklausur in Introduction to English Linguistics.
Verwendung des Moduls:
Der erfolgreiche Abschluss des Basismoduls Sprachwissenschaft ist Voraussetzung
für die Teilnahme am Auf<strong>ba</strong>umodul Linguistik. Die Note des Basismoduls geht nicht
in die Endnote ein.
Termine im SS 2012:
050 604 Introduction to English Linguistics, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. mo 10-12, HGB 20
Gruppe B: 2 st. fr 10-12, GABF 04/613 Süd
Gruppe C: 2 st. mi 14-16, GABF 04/614 Süd
Gruppe D: 2 st. mi 10-12, GABF 04/252 Nord
Gruppe E: 2 st. di 14-16, GABF 04/613 Süd
Gruppe F: 2 st. mo 12-14, GABF 04/614 Süd
Gruppe G: 2 st. di 10-12, GB 02/60
Gruppe H: 2 st. do 10-12, GABF 04/413 Süd
050 603 English Sounds and Sound Systems, 2 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. mi 12-14, GABF 04/613 Süd
Gruppe B: 2 st. do 12-14, GABF 04/613 Süd
Minow
Minow
Ssempuuma
Minow
Busch
Strubel-Burgdorf
Busch
Busch
Müller
Müller

BASISMODUL LITERATUR- UND KULTURWISSENSCHAFT
Veranstaltungen:
Introduction to Literary Studies
Introduction to Cultural Studies
Workload/Credits:
180 Std./6 CP
SWS:
4
Modus:
Pflichtmodul
Introduction to Literary Studies (3 CP):
Lernergebnisse:
Semester:
1.
2.
H<strong>ä</strong>ufigkeit des Angebots:
jedes Semester
Die Studierenden werden bef<strong>ä</strong>higt, Gegenst<strong>ä</strong>nde der Literaturwissenschaft zu
erkennen, literaturwissenschaftlich relevante Fragen zu diesen Gegenst<strong>ä</strong>nden stellen
zu können sowie die Fragen mit gel<strong>ä</strong>ufigen 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 Gegenst<strong>ä</strong>nde, 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
eigenst<strong>ä</strong>ndigen, interessegeleiteten Umgangs mit kulturellen Ph<strong>ä</strong>nomenen (in ihrer
ganzen Breite von literarischen Texten bis zu Objekten des Alltags) sowie das
kritische Hinterfragen g<strong>ä</strong>ngiger 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, Ethnizit<strong>ä</strong>t und nationale
Identit<strong>ä</strong>t am Beispiel entweder der US-amerikanischen oder britischen Kulturen.
Voraussetzungen für die Vergabe von Kreditpunkten:
Regelm<strong>ä</strong>ßige Teilnahme; Erbringung der obligatorischen Arbeitsaufgaben und/oder
Test in Introduction to Literary Studies; Regelm<strong>ä</strong>ßige Teilnahme; Erbringung der
obligatorischen Arbeitsaufgaben, Teilnahme an einem persönlichen
Feed<strong>ba</strong>ckgespr<strong>ä</strong>ch 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 Auf<strong>ba</strong>umodulen im Bereich Literatur. Der
erfolgreiche Abschluss der Veranstaltung Introduction to Cultural Studies ist
Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme an den Auf<strong>ba</strong>umodulen im Bereich
Kulturwissenschaft.
Die Note des Basismoduls geht nicht in die Endnote ein.
Termine im SS 2012:
050 606 Introduction to Literary Studies, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. mi 16-18, GABF 04/413 Süd Goth
Gruppe B: 2 st. di 16-18, GABF 04/613 Süd Klawitter
Gruppe C: 2 st. mo 16-18, GABF 04/253 Nord McColl
Gruppe D: 2 st. fr 12-14, GABF 04/614 Süd Ottlinger
050 605 Introduction to Cultural Studies, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. do 10-12, GABF 04/614 Süd (GB) Berg
Gruppe B: 2 st. mi 10-12, GABF 04/614 Süd (US) Bidlingmaier
Gruppe C: 2 st. do 12-14, GABF 04/614 (Süd) (US) Edwards
Gruppe D: 2 st. di 16-18, GABF 04/614 Süd (US) Isekenmeier
Gruppe E: 2 st. mo 14-16, GABF 04/614 Süd (GB) Pankratz
Gruppe F: 2 st. di 14-16, GABF 04/614 Süd (GB) Walter, M.
Gruppe G: 2 st. mi 12-14, GABF 04/614 Süd (GB) Werthschulte
Gruppe H: 2 st. mo 10-12, GABF 04/614 Süd (US) Zucker

BASISMODUL SPRACH- UND TEXTPRODUKTION
Veranstaltungen:
Grammar BM
Academic Skills
Workload/Credits:
120 Std./4 CP
SWS:
4
Modus:
Pflichtmodul
Semester:
1.
1.
H<strong>ä</strong>ufigkeit des Angebots:
jedes Semester
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 F<strong>ä</strong>higkeit 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 F<strong>ä</strong>higkeiten 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 Grammatikalit<strong>ä</strong>t 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:
Bef<strong>ä</strong>higung der Studierenden zur kompetenten Teilnahme an der fachwissenschaftlichen
Kommunikation sowie Schaffung logischer, methodischer und formaler
Grundlagen für die Produktion eigenst<strong>ä</strong>ndiger Forschungsleistungen in den
unterschiedlichen fachwissenschaftlichen Bereichen des Anglistikstudiums.
Inhalte:
Vermittlung grundlegender Zielvorstellungen, Ans<strong>ä</strong>tze 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.
Voraussetzungen für die Vergabe von Kreditpunkten:
Regelm<strong>ä</strong>ßige Teilnahme; Erbringung der obligatorischen Arbeitsaufgaben; zentrale
Abschlussklausur im Bereich Grammar BM.
Das Modul ist erst dann bestanden, wenn alle drei 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 Auf<strong>ba</strong>umodulen. Die Note des
Basismoduls geht nicht in die Endnote ein.
Termine im SS 2012:
050 600 Grammar BM, 2 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. do 12-14, GABF 04/257
Gruppe B: 2 st. do 14-16, GABF 04/613 Süd
Gruppe C: 2 st. di 14-16, GB 02/160
Isekenmeier
Isekenmeier
Werthschulte
050 601 Academic Skills, 2 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. di 8-10, GABF 04/413 Süd Bidlingmaier
Gruppe B: 2 st. di 10-12, GB 02/160 Bidlingmaier
Gruppe C: 2 st. mo 14-16, GABF 04/411 Goth
Gruppe D: 2 st. mi 10-12, HGB 10 Klawitter

AUFBAUMODULPHASE
_______________________________
050 607
Medieval English Literature, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. do 10-12 HGB 50 Brenzel
Gruppe B: 2 st. mi 12-14 HGB 50 Houwen
Gruppe C: 2 st. fr 12-14 GABF 04/413 Brenzel
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-<strong>ba</strong>sed research projects
developed by students working individually and in groups. Students will therefore
gain a broad knowledge <strong>ba</strong>se, 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-<strong>ba</strong>sed seminars is combined with a number of ‘virtual teaching’ sessions,
where students will be able to devote time to their research projects and utilise
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 practice 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
050 610 Meierkord
Language Contact, Dialect Contact, and Language Change, 2/2,5 CP
2 st. mo 12-14 HGB 10
From its early days in the 5th century to the present day, English has undergone
considerable change. Many changes resulted from extralinguistic events, such as the
Viking settlements, the Norman conquest, or trade with the Dutch and other nations.
These events led to language contact, as did the settlements of English speakers in
the various colonies, where English came into contact with local languages. In the
colonies, furthermore, speakers of different English dialects met and the ensuing
dialect contact involved processes that eventually shaped the new dialects in the
colonies.
This series of lectures will look at the changes resulting from language contact
and dialect contact from a theoretical as well as from a sociolinguistic perspective.
We will describe the diverse ecologies and investigate the resulting developments in
the English language empirically.
To obtain credits, BA and MA students need to pass a final written exam. MA
students are furthermore expected to summarise one of the lectures.
Readings:
Mesthrie, Rajend et. al. (2009). Introducing Sociolinguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press.
Trudgill, Peter (2006). New Dialect Formation. The Inevitability of Colonial Englishes.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Seminare
050 612 Meierkord
The Sociolinguistics of England in Scotland, 4 CP
Bochum Summer School, Stirling
Like all other parts of the UK, Scotland is home to many languages. Besides Scottish
English and Scots, Gaelic is used in some parts of the area. In addition, Scotland has
been characterised by immigration, and African, Caribbean, Chinese and Indian
communities add to Scotland’s linguistic ecology.
In this seminar, we will discuss issues such as language policy and
multilingualism in Scotland, minority languages, language contact with Gaelic, but of
course also how these factors impact on English as used in Scotland, both by first
language speakers but also by immigrant communities.
The course will include a lot of fieldwork. Students are expected, for instance, to
observe the linguistic landscape in Scotland or to conduct interviews during field trips
in the afternoons. We will then discuss our observations against the <strong>ba</strong>ckground of
sociolinguistic theory and descriptions of Scottish English.
Students need to read the following, prior to the summer school:
Mesthrie, Rajend et al. (2009). Introducing Sociolinguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press. (Chapters 1,2, and 12)
Hughes, Arthur, Peter Trudgill & Dominic Watt, (2005). English Accents and Dialects.
London: Arnold. (Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5. VIII, and 5. XIII.)
There will also be at least one meeting prior to the summer school to establish expert
and presentation groups.
To obtain credits, students need to contribute to an expert group or a brief in-class
presentation and to report on their data analyses (in the form of a report for 3 CP and
in a full term paper for 4 CP)
050 613 Minow
The Grammar of Contemporary English, 4 CP
2 st. mo 14-16 GABF 04/413 Sü d
“I’m lovin’ it”: This slogan by a well-known fast-food chain nicely illustrates the use of
the progressive aspect with a stative verb. This slogan also shows that the rule laid
out in grammar books is one thing and the speakers’ actual use might be another. A

look at the electronic Atlas of Varieties of English reveals that extension of the
progressive to stative verbs is attested in 49 out of 74 varieties of English around the
world.
In this seminar we will focus on what is currently happening in the domain of
grammar in selected first and second language English varieties. The focus will be,
for example, on the following areas: the noun phrase, tense and aspect, verb
morphology, and negation.
All students are expected to participate actively in class by engaging in the
discussions and by contributing to group work and to do the weekly <strong>ba</strong>ckground
reading. Requirements for credit points: in-class presentations for all plus a term
paper for those wishing to obtain 4 CPs.
Preparatory reading:
Kortmann, Bernd (2006). “Syntactic Variation in English: A Glo<strong>ba</strong>l Perspective.” In:
Bas Aarts and April MacMahon (eds.), The Handbook of English Linguistics.
Oxford: Blackwell, 603-624.
050 614 Müller
The Development of the English Lexicon, 4 CP
2 st. do 14-16 GB 6/137 Nord
English has extensively borrowed new words from a vast number of different
languages, thus reflecting the astonishing development the English language has
undergone in the last 500 years or so – a development which is closely connected to
the political influence of the United Kingdom and the United States.
The main sources for borrowing new words were, however, French and Latin, and
English has borrowed from these two languages to such an extent that, from a lexical
point of view, Modern English may seem more like a Romance language than a
Germanic one. The <strong>ba</strong>sic vocabulary, i.e. highly frequent words but also, for
example, sear words, is still of Germanic (Anglo-Saxon) origin.
In this course we will look at all these developments and will also examine which
political events and cultural innovations led to changes in the English lexicon.
Course requirements: presentation and Hausarbeit.

050 615 Minow
Introduction to the Mental Lexicon, 4 CP
2 st. di 10-12 GABF 04/413 Süd
We all use thousands of words in everyday conversation and we usually encounter
surprisingly few problems in remembering the words we need. But what exactly does
go on in our mind when we speak? How are words stored in the mind? How do we
find the words we want when we speak? Do children remember words in the same
way as adults? Are all the words we know stored in the same place irrespective of
which language they belong to? These are some of the questions that will be
discussed in the seminar. The seminar will not only focus on theory but students will
also be given the opportunity to carry out experiments.
All students are expected to participate actively in class by engaging in the
discussions and by contributing to group work and to do the weekly <strong>ba</strong>ckground
reading. Requirements for credit points: in-class presentations for all plus a term
paper for those wishing to obtain 4 CPs.
Set course text:
Aitchison, Jean (2012). Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon. 4 th
ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
050 616 Zumhasch
Sociolinguistics, 4 CP
2 st. fr 10-12 GB 5/37 Nord
Sociolinguistics, in the broadest sense, studies the relationship between language
and society. Sociolinguists are above all interested in variation in speech or in writing.
Speech varies according to the formality of the context, for instance, and the
presence or absence of certain linguistic features can provide clues about the
speakers’ age, gender, social class, or regional <strong>ba</strong>ckground. This course will explore
some of the core topics in sociolinguistics, such as regional and social variation,
language variation and change, language choice and code-switching, language and
gender, and language contact.
Requirements for the course include regular attendance, active participation, and a
presentation in class (3 CPs). Those who would like to obtain 4 CPs will have to write
a term paper.

Course book:
Mesthrie, Rajend et al. (2009). Introducing Sociolinguistics. 2 nd ed. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press.
050 617 Thiele
Second Language Acquisition, 4 CP
2 st. mo 16-18 GB 03/46
There are a number of popular opinions on how second or foreign languages are
learned and what is needed to become a successful speaker of another language.
Starting from these opinions, we will look at the research findings of recent decades
in the area of second language acquisition and review such popular views in the light
of this research. Topics we will cover include the role of previously learned
languages, non linguistic factors such as motivation, personality and learning styles.
We will also look at developmental stages in the language learning process and at
suggested explanations of how they come about.
Requirements for credit points: active participation, completion of all assignments,
plus a final test (3 CP) or seminar paper (4 CP). Reading material will be made
available
050 618 Strubel-Burgdorf
Exploring English Varieties with the International Corpus of English (ICE), 4 CP
2 st. mo 10-12 GB 5/37 Nord
In this seminar, we will have a look at one of the most compelling corpus projects:
The International Corpus of English (ICE), which compiles language data from
various English varieties from all over the world. The aim of this course will be to
understand how the ICE is designed and how we can work with it. What information
can we find in these corpora about the use of discourse markers (such as, "well") in
different registers or English varieties? What difference in use of the words "sorry" or
"like" can we detect? Can we even find out about differences in cultural values and
norms due to the usage of specific speech acts such as apologies or directives?

This course can be attended as an Übung (3 CP) with the requirement of giving a
presentation during the semester. If students want to obtain 4 CP (for a Seminar),
they will have to give a presentation (on a project) and write a term paper in which
they work with ICE data.
050 621 von Contzen
Historical Pragmatics, 4 CP
2 st. mi 14-16 GB 5/39 Nord
Pragmatics focuses on contextualised uses of language. From a historical
perspective, accessing speech contexts is usually confined to the graphic code, i.e.
written texts. Thus, methods such as interviewing, participant observation or
recordings of data cannot be applied to gain insight into language use of earlier
periods in the history of English. Yet historical pragmatics can rely on a wide range of
theories that allows for comprehensive and detailed analyses of linguistic material
e.g. from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period.
This course provides an introduction to the means and methods of historical
pragmatics, including speech act theory, implicature and presupposition,
conversation analysis, and deixis. Theoretical concerns will always be put into
practice; next to reading exemplary studies on selected pragmatic concepts, we will
also engage with a variety of texts in class in terms of their functions, strategies and
styles, especially patterns of social interaction and discourse organisation. Also,
particular attention will be paid to the question of how historical pragmatics can be
useful for literary scholars.
Students are expected to participate actively in class, which requires a thorough
preparation of the set texts and tasks for each week. Relevant material will be
provided via Blackboard. The course will be rounded off by a written exam in the last
session.

Übungen
050 620 Busch
Pidgins and Creoles, 3 CP
2 st. do 16-18 GABF 04/614 Süd
Within the field of language contact, pidgins and creoles constitute very interesting
cases. Having developed mainly during the era of European seafaring, which was
connected to the exploration, colonization and exploitation of different American,
African and Asian regions, they can be found on all continents today. In this respect,
Jamaican Creole, significantly popularized by Bob Marley and his music, is a wellstudied
and often cited example.
This course is intended to introduce students to the interesting and wide field of
pidgin and creole studies. Different issues relating to the origin, structure and
sociolinguistics of pidgin and creole languages will be treated. Furthermore, some
pidgins and creoles will be analyzed more closely in terms of their structure with the
help of written material, whereas the main focus will be on the variety of Jamaican
Creole.
Students are required to turn in a written assignment in order to obtain their credits.
050 622 Zumhasch
Exploring Spoken English, 3 CP
2 st. fr 14-16 GABF 04/614 Süd
This course explores the characteristics of spoken English from a range of different
genres, such as narrative, language-in-action, service encounters, de<strong>ba</strong>te and
argument, or decision-making. We will study how to transcribe and analyze data from
a corpus of natural spoken English from a conversation analytic perspective.
Conversation analysis studies the way talk in interaction is structured and organized
and considers aspects like turn taking, adjacency pairs and preference organization,
repair mechanisms, or opening and closing conversation.
Students can obtain the required credit points by submitting a short orthographic
transcript and a written data analysis.
A bibliography and further readings will be made available via Blackboard.

ENGLISCHE LITERATUR BIS 1700
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Vorlesung
050 625 Klawitter
Introduction to English Renaissance Drama, 2/2,5 CP
2 st. do 10-12 HGB 30
This series of lectures aims to give insight into the artistry and function of dramatic
writing in Shakespeare’s time. It will consider the political, social, economic and
cultural factors which contributed to the creation of a vibrant theatrical scene in
London and draw attention to the various traditions and critical de<strong>ba</strong>tes that shaped
the development of drama. Some of the most popular genres in Elizabethan and
Jacobean drama, namely the heroic play, the revenge tragedy and the satiric comedy
will be introduced through the discussion of the following classics (which are required
reading):
Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great; Part One (New Mermaids edition)
Shakespeare, Hamlet (Arden or New Cambridge Shakespeare edition)
Ben Jonson, Volpone (New Mermaids edition)
Assessment: test.
Seminare
050 628 Goth
Restoration Comedy, 4 CP
2 st. mi 14-16 GABF 04/613 Süd
"Obscene! Immoral!" – These were the charges levelled at the comedies written after
the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, when the theatres, after a twenty-year
hiatus, were re-opened. This seminar deals with three famous Restoration comedies
from the 1670s (William Wycherley, The Country Wife; George Etherege, The Man of
Mode; Aphra Behn, The Rover), and places them in the cultural and dramatic
developments of the Restoration period, focusing, among others, on the <strong>ba</strong>ttle

etween the sexes, and on the political clash between Tories and Whigs. We will
discuss how comedy developed after the Renaissance, and why these new plays
were deemed obscene by contemporaries and critics alike. The course is also aimed
at familiarising students with the terminology and methodology of drama analysis.
Required edition: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy. Ed. Scott McMillin.
Norton Critical Editions. Norton: New York, 1996.
Credit requirements:
Seminar (4 CP): active participation and a 10-page paper;
Übung (3 CP): active participation and a 5-page paper.
050 629 Houwen
Late Medieval and Renaissance Ballads, 4 CP
2 st. di 14-16 GB 6/137 Nord
Description: Songs that tell a story that more often than not starts in the “fifth act”
(<strong>ba</strong>llads) are not just a late medieval and Renaissance phenomenon. They are still
popular to this day and many a popular musician has one or more <strong>ba</strong>llads to his or
her name (cf. Nick Cave’s Murder Ballads). In this course we shall concentrate on the
earlier <strong>ba</strong>llads but will also compare these wherever possible to modern renderings
where they exist. Some of the main topics that will be addressed concern the <strong>ba</strong>llad
genre itself, the dissemination of <strong>ba</strong>llads (many survived longer in the Appalachian
mountains than in Scotland and the borders), their use (and abuse) throughout the
centuries, the role of the supernatural and the like.
Assessment: The course will be rounded off with an essay. BA/MA Übung: 6-8 pages
(excl. title page and bibliography; no table of contents please); BA Seminar: 8-10
pages; MA/MARS Seminar 10-12 pages. All references should conform to MLA
stylesheet! Obviously the criteria for an academic essay at MA level are higher than
those for the BA.
Set text: Primary and secondary material will be made available via Blackboard.

050 630 Houwen
Chaucer’s Dream Visions, 4 CP
2 st. do 12-14 GABF 04/253 Nord
Description: In addition to his magnum opus, the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer wrote
several other works which proved to be of seminal importance to his successors and
imitators. This course will concentrate on the dream-visions; these dream-visions are
inspired largely by the work of French poets and the Roman de la Rose in particular.
They allow Chaucer to ride several of his favourite hobbyhorses: the <strong>ba</strong>ttle between
the sexes; poetry, rhetoric and the self-conscious writer; the obtuse narrator; irony.
The following works will be studied in class: The Book of the Duchess, The House of
Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and The Legend of Good Women.
Assessment: The course will be rounded off with an essay. BA/MA Übung: 6-8 pages
(excl. title page and bibliography; no table of contents please); BA Seminar: 8-10
pages; MA/MARS Seminar 10-12 pages. All references should conform to MLA
stylesheet! Obviously the criteria for an academic essay at MA level are higher than
those for the BA.
Set text: L.D. Benson, ed., The Riverside Chaucer (Oxford, 1988) (paper<strong>ba</strong>ck) [this is
the only acceptable edition]. Secondary texts will be made available via Blackboard.
050 631 McColl
Shakespeare’s ‘Problem Plays’, 4 CP
2 st. mo 12-14 GABF 04/613 Süd
The term ‘problem play’ is itself something of a problem, post-dating Shakespeare by
three hundred years, and imbuing him with the colour of late nineteenth-century
drama. Nevertheless, it recognises an ambiguous strain in Shakespearean comedy
in particular, offering us an experimental Shakespeare, exploring the limits and
capacities of genre. Following the likes of Edward Dowden, E.M.W. Tillyard and
Frederick Boas, who coined the term 'problem play' in Shakespeare and his
Predecessors (1896), this course will look at the three plays most commonly
regarded as ‘problems’: Troilus and Cressida, All’s Well That Ends Well and Measure
For Measure; and finish with the more – or less – problematically situated Hamlet.
The course grade will be determined by one oral exposition and one term paper
(Hausarbeit).
050 632 Walter, K.

Medieval Bodies, 4 CP
2 st. mo 14-16 GABF 04/613 Süd
Description:
In a post made on the medieval blog In the Middle in 2008, scholar Jeffrey Jerome
Cohen poses the question: 'Was there ever a time when people were not interested
in bodies?' In philosophical discussions from Aristotle to St Thomas Aquinas through
to Jacques Derrida and beyond, the physical body has been central to answering
questions about what it means to be human; so too has the body long been a
touchstone in discussions of gender, race, sexuality, politics and religion; and the
stuff of narrative and story is arguably built of bodies, both literal and metaphorical. If
interest in bodies is transhistorical, ideas about the body are not: this course will
explore beliefs about and representations of the body in Old through to Middle
English literature (c.1000-1500), in texts ranging from the medical and pastoral to the
academic and poetic. We will focus, for example, on the ways in which the body
plays a part in posing and answering philosophical questions as they appear in
learned, 'scientific' texts like Bartholomew the Englishman's De proprietatibus rerum,
or advice literature, like that of Giles of Rome's De regimine principum (both
translated into Middle English by John Trevisa in the fourteenth century) and 'popular'
vernacular literature like The Life of Saint Margaret (Ashmole Codex 61) and Havelok
the Dane.
The primary texts required for this course will be made available through Blackboard.
Assessment: Further to attendance and active participation in class, this course will
be assessed through an essay (Hausarbeit) submitted at the end of the course.
Übungen
050 633 Walter, K.
French Connections: The French of England in the Later Middle Ages, 3 CP
2 st. di 10-12 GABF 04/253 Nord
Description:
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer's Pardoner (one member of the group of pilgrims
travelling to Canterbury), comes in for some abuse: 'I wolde I hadde thy coillons in
myn hond', Harry Bailey says to the Pardoner - that is, 'I wish I had your testicles in
my hand'. Coillons is a borrowing from French, and we would not have to search
long or hard to find ample evidence for the polyglot nature of Chaucer's poetry or

later medieval English literature more generally. This is not, for the most part, the
result of contact with Continental French (though this is influential), but a result of an
insular French tradition which developed in England after the Norman Conquest in
1066. Referred to as Anglo-Norman, Anglo-French, or the French of England, the
importance of this insular French tradition, not only for the development of the
English language but also of English literature (and, in some specific cases, of
Continental French literature), is not always given due place by scholars and
students of Middle English. This course aims to offer an introduction to the French of
England - its history, the language, and its literature - and show its importance for our
understanding of medieval English culture. We will look at a range of texts - from
historical sources like Magna Carta, to treatises used for teaching French to English
children such as that by Walter Bibbesworth, and to romances like Amys e Amillyoun
(as well as its Middle English version) and the fables of Marie de France.
We will mainly work with Modern English translations, but several sessions will be
devoted to examining some passages from Anglo-Norman texts in their original
language. Knowledge of Modern French is not a requirement though would be an
advantage.
The primary texts required for this course will be made available through Blackboard.
Assessment: Further to attendance and active participation in class, this course will
be assessed through a number of assignments which will practice and test
knowledge and skills learned and developed in the course.
050 634 Klawitter
Seventeenth-Century Poetry from Donne to Marvell, 3 CP
2 st. mi 16-18 GABF 04/614 Süd
In this seminar we will interpret secular and religious lyrics by John Donne, George
Herbert, Ben Jonson, Lady Mary Wroth, Robert Herrick, John Milton, Abraham
Cowley, Richard Lovelace and Andrew Marvell. The discussions will centre on
thematic interests, important poetic conventions, rhetorical strategies and the
decoding of images. There will be presentations on the literary traditions, the sociocultural
settings and the fundamental beliefs that had a formative influence on poetic
writing in the seventeenth century.
Most of the poems which will be discussed are taken from the anthology
Seventeenth-Century Poetry, ed. by Terence Dawson and Robert Scott Dupree
(Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994). The purchase of this or a similarly
well-annotated edition of seventeenth-century poetry is strongly recommended.
Assessment: presentation in class or test.

ENGLISCHE LITERATUR VON 1700 BIS ZUR GEGENWART
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Vorlesung
050 635 Freed
History of Literary and Cultural Theory, 2/2,5 CP
2 st. mi 14-16 HGB 20
In one sense, everyone knows what literature is and how to read it. But then again,
what is “literature”? How exactly does it differ from other kinds of writing in ways that
makes it “literature”? And why do we read “literature” differently than, say, an
instruction manual or telephone book? How and why have the academic practices of
reading changed through time? To ask and explore these and related questions is to
engage in the theory of literature.
This series of lectures will introduce students to significant contributions to and
developments in the theory of literature since the time English Literature became an
academic discipline. The course is organized around the institutional history of
literature studies in Britain and the US. Included are examinations of hermeneutics,
Arnoldean humanism, New Critical formalism, phenomenology and reader response
criticism, structuralism, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, versions of
feminism, and poststructuralism and deconstruction.
Seminare
050 638 McColl
Poetry and Prose of Sir Walter Scott, 4 CP
Bochum Summer School, Stirling
Generally credited with the invention of the historical novel, Walter Scott was feted
across Europe as both poet and novelist. Indeed, he is the only major Romantic
writer to succeed popularly and critically in both disciplines, so that while Byron
protests, repeatedly, that his poetry could not imitate the ‘inimitable’ Scott - the
‘monarch of our Parnassus’ - Jane Austen laments: ‘Walter Scott has no business to

write novels, especially good ones. – It is not fair’. This course examines both these
strings to Scott’s bow, focusing upon The Lady of the Lake and Waverley, which
include settings not far from our <strong>ba</strong>se in Stirling. Over the two weeks, we will be
inquiring if poetry and prose exert different claims upon his narratives, whether
romance and history have a competing or complementary character in his work, and
whether Scott is predominantly romantic or satirical.
To take part in this course, you should have purchased and read Waverley (Penguin
edition) and The Lady of the Lake (preferably the edition published by the Association
for Scottish Literary Studies, edited by Thomas Crawford) before the course begins.
Supplementary material: Scott, Selected Poems (Carcanet); Scott, Chronicles of the
Canongate (Penguin).
050 639 McColl
The Gothic, 1760-1820, 4 CP
2 st. di 12-14 GB 5/37 Nord
This course looks at the inception and development of the Gothic as a genre,
beginning with Horace Walpole’s influential The Castle of Otranto (1764), centring on
representative novels of Radcliffe and Matthew 'Monk' Lewis, and culminating in
Walter Scott’s brooding The Bride of Lammermoor, which, in blending the Gothic with
the historical novel, describes the popular shift toward the latter, and the surcease of
the Gothic first wave. Often considered formulaic, employing stock characters and
stagey locations, we examine the genre's odd collusion of nature and artifice, while,
in Coleridge's Christabel and Austen's Northanger Abbey, looking at Gothic
versatility, in poetry and parody respectively.
To reduce the amount of term-time reading, students are advised to read at least the
first two volumes of Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (Penguin edition)
before the course begins.
The course grade will be determined by one oral exposition and one essay
(Hausarbeit).

050 640 Versteegen
The Translation of Literature, 4 CP
2 st. do 12-14 GB 5/37 Nord
In this course we will be focusing on three different aspects of literary translation:
translation practice, translation theory and translation critique. That means: we will try
our own hand at translating literature, then we will study various theories of literary
translation, from the eighteenth century until today, and, lastly, we will also analyse
and compare existing translations of famous – ‘literary’ – works (from Shakespeare’s
sonnets to Donald Duck cartoons).
It is hoped that the course will help you to improve not only your translation skills but
also your understanding of literature.
050 641 Wagner
Poetry of the First World War, 4 CP
2 st. do 10-12 GB 5/39 Nord
In this seminar we will read such well-known soldier-poets as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried
Sassoon, Charles Hamilton Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Robert Graves. Apart from
exploring the poetic techniques employed to convey the horror of trench warfare, we
will consider the poems in the wider context of the contemporary representation of
war.
Credit Requirements:
If you take the course as a seminar (4 CP): 10-page paper
If you take the course as an Übung (3 CP): 5-page paper.
050 642 Wagner

Intertextuality, 4 CP
2 st. di 10-12 GABF 04/252 Nord
In this seminar we will explore one of the "dominant idea[s] within literary and cultural
studies" (Allen), the idea of intertextuality. The seminar will be divided into two parts,
one theoretical, the other practical. First, we will examine the contributions made to
the theory of intertextuality by such thinkers as Mikhail Bakhtin, Julia Kristeva, Roland
Barthes, and Gérard Genette. Then, we will apply our theoretical knowledge to a
novel (to be determined), tracing its engagements with and uses of other literary
texts. The focus in this part will be on intergeneric intertextuality: how does the novel
interact with poems by different writers and from different periods?
Credit Requirements:
If you take the course as a seminar (4 CP): 10-page paper
If you take the course as an Übung (3 CP): 5-page paper.
Übungen
050 643 Klawitter
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, 3 CP
2 st. di 14-16 GABF 04/252 Nord
Daniel Defoe's The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
(1719) is commonly regarded as the first realistic novel and rated as one of the great
classics of narrative fiction.
In our discussions we will consider the themes of the novel, explore the narrative
techniques employed by Defoe and consider the traditions and eighteenth-century
preoccupations which exerted a formative influence on the new genre.
Participants are expected to have read the entire text before the first session.
Recommended edition: Penguin Classics
Assessment: presentation in class or test.
050 644 Poziemski

From Robert Burns to Edwin Morgan – An Introduction to Scottish Poetry, 3 CP
2 st. di 10-12 GABF 04/614 Süd
This Übung will introduce participants to a selection of Scotland's leading poets –
from Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns to Edwin Morgan, Scotland’s last great
poet. The focus will be on the main themes that feature in their work, and we will
reflect especially on notions of place, identity, language, Scottishness.
To be awarded credit for this course, students will complete various written and oral
assignments (blog, essay, presentation).
Course materials: A reader with selected texts will be ready in time for the course.

AMERIKANISCHE LITERATUR
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Vorlesung
050 645 Freitag
US Ethnic Literatures, 2/2,5 CP
2 st. mo 14-16 HGB 10
Ethnic literatures have long been neglected in the U.S. literary canon. Yet slowly but
steadily texts written by Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans,
and Asian Americans have been recognized: published in big publishing houses,
reviewed on the pages of the New York Times Book Review, and added to the
reading lists of schools and colleges. While this attention often tends to focus only on
the ethnic difference, the lecture will introduce ethnic texts as interventions in and
interactions with the traditional canon of US literature.
Texts: will be provided
Credits: regular attendance, regular reading, written test.
Seminare
050 647 Bidlingmaier
Place and Displacement: Transnationalism in Writing, 4 CP
2 st. do 10-12 GB 6/137 Nord
The current academic discussion of transnationalism has renewed ways of thinking
about issues such as mobility, nationality, immigration, as well as homeland and their
socio-cultural effects on individuals in constant passage between nation-states. This
course explores the literary works of subjects living and writing between the spaces
of place and displacement. It will focus on the negotiation of cultural and national
identity, the idea of home, and the experience of living in the interstices.

050 648 Freed
Paul Auster: Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry, 4 CP
2 st. mi 10-12 GB 5/39 Nord
Paul Auster is a well known contemporary author often associated with issues of
postmodern metafiction. This seminar will read and explore a number of themes
related to fiction, authorship, human identity/subjectivity as they emerge in four of
Paul Auster’s works. These include The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, Travels in
the Scriptorium, and his screenplay/movie script Lulu on the Bridge.
050 649 Freitag
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Contemporary US Literature, 4 CP
2 st. mo 16-18 GABF 04/613 Süd
The course takes its title from Jonathan Safran Foer’s post-9/11 best seller Extremely
Loud & Incredibly Close (2005). It is devoted to US literary texts that have been
published after 2000 and highlight a range of important issues in U.S. literature and
culture after the turn of the millennium. The seminar is focused on close reading,
hence you should be prepared for a relatively high reading load of primary texts.
Texts to be discussed in the seminar will include Tom Pain’s “Will You Say
Something, Monsieur Eliot?”, Dao Strom’s “Guam, 1975,” Jumpa Lahiri’s
“Unaccustomed Earth,” “Joyce Carol Oates’s “Landfill,” Courtney Eldridge’s “Fits &
Starts” and “Summer of Mopeds,” Susan Straight’s Highwire Moon, and Michael
Chabon’s The Final Solution.
Make sure to have read Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Straight’s
Highwire Moon before the course starts.
Shorter texts and secondary material: will be available in a Reader
Books to be bought and read before the course starts:
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,
Susan Straight Highwire Moon
Credits: attendance and active participation, reading journal (Übung) + presentation
(transformed into a paper)/paper (Seminar).

050 650 Isekenmeier
Robert Coover, The Public Burning, 4 CP
2 st. di 14-16 GB 5/39 Nord
This seminar will look at Coover’s masterpiece, one of the major novels of the 20th
century, from a variety of perspectives. We will read the novel as a quintessential
example of American postmodernism, as representative of the encyclopedic novel,
as commentary on McCarthyism and the politics of the Cold War and explore the
range and depth of its many intertextual and intermedial references, which include
<strong>ba</strong>sic tenets of American ideology, literary and media texts of the year 1953, and
Coover’s numerous pre-texts for the novel.
Texts: digital Course Reader
Coover, Robert. The Public Burning. New York: Grove Press, 1998. [orig. New York:
Viking, 1977]
Course Requirements:
project work (Online Companion), short term paper (8-10 pp.).
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Intertextuality, 4 CP
2 st. di 10-12 GABF 04/252 Nord
(vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 642)
In this seminar we will explore one of the "dominant idea[s] within literary and cultural
studies" (Allen), the idea of intertextuality. The seminar will be divided into two parts,
one theoretical, the other practical. First, we will examine the contributions made to
the theory of intertextuality by such thinkers as Mikhail Bakhtin, Julia Kristeva, Roland
Barthes, and Gérard Genette. Then, we will apply our theoretical knowledge to a
novel (to be determined), tracing its engagements with and uses of other literary
texts. The focus in this part will be on intergeneric intertextuality: how does the novel
interact with poems by different writers and from different periods?
Credit Requirements:
If you take the course as a seminar (4 CP): 10-page paper
If you take the course as an Übung (3 CP): 5-page paper.

Übung
050 655 Bidlingmaier
Reading Chinese American Literature, 3 CP
2 st. di 14-16 GBCF 05/703
This introductory course to reading Chinese American literature traces the
development of this “genre” beginning with the first writings in English by Chinese
Americans in the 1950s to contemporary works. We will discuss critical issues such
as nationhood, citizenship, ethnicity, gender, and the experiences of immigration that
have shaped the ways in which Chinese American identities have been produced,
constructed and negotiated. The works that will be covered in this course include
Marlon K. Hom’s Songs of Gold Mountain, Jade Snow Wong’s Fifth Chinese
Daughter, Shawn Wong’s Home<strong>ba</strong>se, David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly, Frank
Chin’s Donald Duk, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, and Fae Myenne
Ng’s Bone.
Course format: To attain credit for this seminar, students are required to actively
participate in class discussions and write a final term paper.
Please purchase the books and finish reading Jade Snow Wong’s Fifth Chinese
Daughter prior to commencement of the course.

CULTURAL STUDIES (GB)
Vorlesungen
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History of Literary and Cultural Theory, 2/2,5 CP
2 st. mi 14-16 HGB 20
(vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 635)
In one sense, everyone knows what literature is and how to read it. But then again,
what is “literature”? How exactly does it differ from other kinds of writing in ways that
makes it “literature”? And why do we read “literature” differently than, say, an
instruction manual or telephone book? How and why have the academic practices of
reading changed through time? To ask and explore these and related questions is to
engage in the theory of literature.
This series of lectures will introduce students to significant contributions to and
developments in the theory of literature since the time English Literature became an
academic discipline. The course is organized around the institutional history of
literature studies in Britain and the US. Included are examinations of hermeneutics,
Arnoldean humanism, New Critical formalism, phenomenology and reader response
criticism, structuralism, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, versions of
feminism, and poststructuralism and deconstruction.
050 658 Pankratz
Postmodern British Literature and Culture, 2 CP/2,5 CP
2 st. di 16-18 HGB 20
Postmodernism is an umbrella term for cultural trends from the 1940s until nowadays
summed up by the slogan "anything goes". This covers new approaches in
architecture, the arts and literature – a trend towards parody, pastiche and
deconstruction. It also denotes new ways of thinking about society and culture
developed by theorists such as Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Homi Bhabha or
Jean-Francois Lyotard, who emphasised the breaking up of binaries and states of
oscillation between self and other, local and glo<strong>ba</strong>l, reality and representation. This

new relativity also informed the various new subcultures, the different styles of
consumerism and pop culture.
The aim of the lecture course is to give a survey of British post-war culture and its
different stages of post-modernisms – from the beginnings of the affluent society up
to New Labour's "Cool Britannia". By means of the framework of postmodernism it
will try to analyse diverse cultural phenomena such as Magic Realism and metahistoric
novels, Beatlemania, James Bond or the Royal Family.
Requirement for credit points: regular attendance, contributions on Blackboard and
written test at the end of the semester.
Seminare
050 660 Berg
Society, Culture, and Politics in Ireland, 4 CP
2 st. fr 10-12 GABF 04/614 Süd
Specialists in Irish Studies argue that there are not only two Irelands in a
geographical and political sense, the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, but also
several Irelands which succeeded each other in history. There was Ireland, the first
British colony, exploited and oppressed by England/Britain. There was postcolonial
Ireland, still relying on the UK economically and to a certain extent politically, and all
the more eager to prove its difference in terms of identity, culture, and religion. In the
1980s and 1990s, a new Ireland came into being, suddenly rich, increasingly secular,
and considered to be one of the ‘most glo<strong>ba</strong>lised’ countries in the world. Today, also
the Celtic Tiger phenomenon (as the rapid period of growth and change has been
called) is a thing of the past. Instead, traditional patterns of poverty and emigration
seem to reappear.
In this course, we will discuss how these transformations came about, how much of
the older Irelands can still be found in the newer ones, and how changes in the
cultural, political, social, and economic spheres interacted in the different phases of
modern and contemporary Irish history.
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 be able to attend, students need to have passed the “Introduction to Cultural
Studies”.

--- --- Houwen
Late Medieval and Renaissance Ballads, 4 CP
2 st. di 14-16 GB 6/137 Nord
(vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 629)
Description: Songs that tell a story that more often than not starts in the “fifth act”
(<strong>ba</strong>llads) are not just a late medieval and Renaissance phenomenon. They are still
popular to this day and many a popular musician has one or more <strong>ba</strong>llads to his or
her name (cf. Nick Cave’s Murder Ballads). In this course we shall concentrate on the
earlier <strong>ba</strong>llads but will also compare these wherever possible to modern renderings
where they exist. Some of the main topics that will be addressed concern the <strong>ba</strong>llad
genre itself, the dissemination of <strong>ba</strong>llads (many survived longer in the Appalachian
mountains than in Scotland and the borders), their use (and abuse) throughout the
centuries, the role of the supernatural and the like.
Assessment: The course will be rounded off with an essay. BA/MA Übung: 6-8 pages
(excl. title page and bibliography; no table of contents please); BA Seminar: 8-10
pages; MA/MARS Seminar 10-12 pages. All references should conform to MLA
stylesheet! Obviously the criteria for an academic essay at MA level are higher than
those for the BA.
Set text: Primary and secondary material will be made available via Blackboard.
To be able to attend, students need to have passed the “Introduction to Cultural
Studies”.
050 662 Pankratz
Evil, 4 CP
2 st. do 10-12 GABF 04/613 Süd
De<strong>ba</strong>tes about evil and human wickedness belong to the genuinely big (and
unanswerable) questions of a culture: where does simple crime end and evil start?
Why do people make other people suffer? How can one explain evil in a supposedly
rational and well-ordered society? In fiction, evil is often personalised and dehumanised:
from the evil count Dracula to Lord Voldemort, the equally evil wizard.
Philosophers like Hannah Arendt or Susan Neimann, however, take a more complex
perspective on evil. Analysing the Holocaust, they propose the “<strong>ba</strong>nality of evil” and
evil as essential part of humanity.

The seminar aims at analysing evil as central point with which a culture tries to make
sense of itself. It will deal with modern and postmodern philosophies on evil and use
examples from British culture which attempt to represent evil – with a special focus
on Holocaust literature and the recent war on terrorism.
Required texts:
Edward Bond, Saved (1965).
Stella Feehilly, Bang Bang Bang (2011).
There will be a reader with additional texts available at the beginning of the semester.
To be able to attend, students need to have passed the “Introduction to Cultural
Studies”.
050 663 Viol
James Bond, Space and Gender, 4 CP
2 st. mi 16-18 GB 6/137 Nord
We all know that neither one woman alone nor the world is enough for James Bond.
But is the representation of space and gender in the film franchise really nothing but
chauvinist and sexist? In this seminar, we will take a detailed look at both the films
and the many space and gender-related critical readings they have provoked. Our
main concern will be how space and gender have been constructed by the series,
how its spaces are gendered, and how – vice versa – its gender positions are
produced within particular spatial constellations. Our approach will be largely
diachronic, focusing on the potential continuities and changes of six selected films
from Dr No (1962) to Casino Royale (2006). Which Bonds are potent symbols of
masculinity, Britishness and empires old and new, which rather represent a crisis of
these concepts, and which may even invite queer and progressive interpretations?
And: have the Bond girls finally managed to grow up?
In contrast to the vast expanses traversed by our filmic hero, the space in GB 6/137
is em<strong>ba</strong>rrassingly restricted. Similar to Bond, however, we depend on the technology
to be found in that space to see us through. This is why the number of participants
will have to be limited to 30. In addition to VSPL registration, participants also need to
pass, in the first session, a short test on their familiarity with Dr No and Casino
Royale. It is the result of the test that determines whether you will be allowed to take
part in the course.
To be able to attend, students need to have passed the “Introduction to Cultural
Studies”.

050 664 Werthschulte
Beyond Keywords – Cultural Studies and Contemporary Britain, 4 CP
2 st. di 12-14 GABF 04/252 Nord
Cultural Studies has always regarded itself as a way to understand the everyday. Yet
much of the ideas, terms and theories that make up Cultural Studies were a direct
reaction to the post-war consensus and Thatcherism in a Britain not yet affected by
the rise of lads' magazines, CCTV, club cultures, ur<strong>ba</strong>n regeneration and the
construction of an 'underclass'. This means that we must adjust and re-think some
ideas about how gender roles or class identities are constructed and how
representation works in a mediascape that in many ways differs from that of the
1970s and 1980s. The aim of this course is thus twofold. You will learn about
contemporary British culture in detail and you will acquire the theoretical terminology
to help you make sense of it. This means that you will have to do a lot of intensive
reading and independent thinking.
Students that want to take this course as an Übung (3 CP) will have to do the
obligatory reading, participate in class discussion and complete several written
assignments. Students that want full credit (4 CP) will have to write an additional
3000 word term paper, which is due on 30 September 2012.
All students need to have passed the “Introduction to Cultural Studies” in order to be
able to participate in this course.
Übung
050 667 Berg
Cultural Studies in Practices, 3 CP
Blockveranstaltung: 20./21./24./25./26. September 2012
jeweils 13.30-18.00 Uhr
As you know form the “Introduction to Cultural Studies”, Cultural Studies constitutes
an ‘interdisciplinary’ approach that aims at finding out about people’s ‘whole ways of
life’. It focuses on discourses (the dialogical process of ‘sense-making’) within various
areas of society and its sub-groups (classes, genders, ethnic groups, generations,
etc.), in politics, religion, literature, the arts, advertising, music, internet
communication, body styles, clothes, dance, architecture, etc.

In this course, you will do your own small cultural studies projects (pro<strong>ba</strong>bly in
groups). The good thing is that Cultural Studies can investigate almost anything. So
you can choose according to your interests. Finally, you will present the results of
your projects in class.
Since this course has a workshop character, it is organised as a block seminar. On
the first day, I will outline in more detail how we might proceed. Then we will discuss
some key texts and key concepts that are particularly relevant for project work. Later,
you design possible projects and form research groups. The research groups work
independently for some time and the last part of the course is reserved for the
presentation of your research results.
Perhaps, this reads a bit cryptic. If you have questions, do not hesitate to send me an
e-mail or to ask me in person.
Requirement for credit points: active participation, participation in and presentation of
a research project.

CULTURAL STUDIES (USA)
Vorlesung
--- --- Freitag
US Ethnic Literatures, 2/2,5 CP
2 st. mo 14-16 HGB 10
(vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 645)
Ethnic literatures have long been neglected in the U.S. literary canon. Yet slowly but
steadily texts written by Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans,
and Asian Americans have been recognized: published in big publishing houses,
reviewed on the pages of the New York Times Book Review, and added to the
reading lists of schools and colleges. While this attention often tends to focus only on
the ethnic difference, the lecture will introduce ethnic texts as interventions in and
interactions with the traditional canon of US literature.
Texts: will be provided
Credits: regular attendance, regular reading, written test.
Seminare
050 670 Bidlingmaier
Asian American Cinema, 4 CP
2 st. do 12-14 GB 5/39 Nord
This course is an introduction to cinematic works by and about Asian Americans. We
will examine the social and cultural aspects of Hollywood’s narrative of Asia, Asians
and Asian Americans beginning with the silent movies of the 1930s to the present
and dialogically juxtapose them with the cinematic productions of Asian Americans
from the 1970s to their contemporary works. What roles and narratives did Asian
Americans feature in Hollywood films and how do Asian American filmmakers reflect
and refract them? How do popular ideologies, discourses and imaginaries of

ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nation and nationality play out on the silver screens?
How are these constructs negotiated by Asian filmmakers and by us viewers? What
is the role and responsibility of the viewer and what part do we play in the
interpretation and bringing forth of these images and stories?
To be able to attend this class, students need to have passed the “Introduction to
Cultural Studies”.
--- --- Freitag
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Contemporary US Literature, 4 CP
2 st. mo 16-18 GABF 04/613 Süd
(vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 649)
The course takes its title from Jonathan Safran Foer’s post-9/11 best seller Extremely
Loud & Incredibly Close (2005). It is devoted to U.S. literary texts that have been
published after 2000 and highlight a range of important issues in U.S. literature and
culture after the turn of the millennium. The seminar is focused on close reading,
hence you should be prepared for a relatively high reading load of primary texts.
Texts to be discussed in the seminar will include Tom Pain’s “Will You Say
Something, Monsieur Eliot?”, Dao Strom’s “Guam, 1975,” Jumpa Lahiri’s
“Unaccustomed Earth,” “Joyce Carol Oates’s “Landfill,” Courtney Eldridge’s “Fits &
Starts” and “Summer of Mopeds,” Susan Straight’s Highwire Moon, and Michael
Chabon’s The Final Solution.
Make sure to have read Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Straight’s
Highwire Moon before the course starts.
Shorter texts and secondary material: will be available in a Reader
Books to be bought and read before the course starts:
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,
Susan Straight Highwire Moon
Credits: attendance and active participation, reading journal (Übung) + presentation
(transformed into a paper)/paper.
To be able to attend this class, students need to have passed the “Introduction to
Cultural Studies”.
050 671 Steinhoff

Fragmented Selves, Bodies and Narratives: An Introduction to Postmodern American
Literature and Culture, 4 CP
___________________________________________________________________
2 st. do 12-14 GABF 04/255
What is postmodernism? What is postmodernity? How are identities, bodies and
narratives constructed that we consider as postmodern? These are some of the
questions which will be discussed in this seminar. In the first part of this course we
will study a number of theoretical but also fictional texts to explore the main concepts
associated with postmodernism and postmodernity (e.g. “grand narratives”, “sliding
signifier”, “simulacrum”, “pastiche”, “cyborg”, etc.). In the second part we will use this
<strong>ba</strong>ckground knowledge to analyze a variety of cultural texts from contemporary
American culture, including novels (e.g. Chuck Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters), films
(e.g. Blade Runner, Fight Club or Romeo & Julia), and television series (e.g.
postmodern elements in The Simpsons or True Blood). Throughout the seminar, we
will particularly focus on the specific construction of narratives, bodies and identities
in the context of both postmodernism as an artistic movement and postmodernity as
a wider cultural and historical condition.
Students are expected to be motivated to read complex theoretical and fictional texts,
watch a number of films and TV series, and conduct their own research in small
groups.
Requirements: regular attendance, active participation, short written assignments,
group project, final paper.
Required texts: the theoretical texts will be made available in a Reader or on
Blackboard. Students will be expected to purchase the novels that will be assigned in
the first session.
Students need to have passed the “Introduction to Cultural Studies” before enrolling
for this course.

Übung
050 676 Isekenmeier
The American Mediascape, 3 CP
2 st. mi 12-14 GB 6/137 Nord
This course provides an overview of the history of the media in America. It explores
the historical development of different media ensembles (early print culture to rise of
the great publishing houses; colonial gazette to illustrated magazine; Big Three
Networks television to digital programming), important media genres (entertainment,
news, sports reporting) and seminal media texts (D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation;
Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds; landmark TV broadcasts).
Texts: digital Course Reader
Course Requirements: oral presentation; written assignment.

FACHSPRACHEN
Seminare
050 680 Smith
From IT to the Moon – ESP Science and Technology, 4 CP
2 st. mo 10-12 GABF 04/413 Süd
The seminar will seek to introduce students to the language of a broad range of ESP
domains with a focus on science and technology. Thus texts will be read and
analysed from numerous disciplines such as: physics, computer science, and
engineering (on various scales). 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
Translating ESP, 4 CP
2 st. mi 12-14 GABF 04/413 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 Versteegen
Language of the Law, 4 CP
2 st. di 12-14 GABF 04/413 Süd
In this seminar, we will explore the use of legal language within its cultural contexts.
Students will learn to understand the fundamental ideas underlying the legal systems
of Britain, the USA, and – to some extent – also of Germany. We will study the
historical development and the present state of legal institutions, legal professions
and important legal principles. Much of the course work will be devoted to case
studies focusing on topical issues (introduction of ID cards in the UK, European law
vs. national law etc.) as well as on famous court cases which have had a lasting
influence on the administration of justice today. All students will be expected to give a
short presentation (e.g. introducing an institution, a procedure, or a classic case).
The course will conclude with a written exam – though, alternatively, students may
also choose to submit a research paper in order to obtain credit.
Übungen
050 684 Poziemski
Wirtschaftsenglisch I, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. di 16-18 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 online assignments.
Course materials: Englisch in Wirtschaft und Handel, Cornelsen, 2002. Other course
materials will be provided during the semester.

050 684 Smith
Wirtschaftsenglisch I, 3 CP
Gruppe B: 2 st. mo 12-14 GABF 04/413 Süd
Gruppe C: 2 st. mi 14-16 GABF 04/413 Süd
On the <strong>ba</strong>sis 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 <strong>ba</strong>sic terminology and concepts of business English. Credits
will be awarded to participants who pass the written end-of-term test.
050 684 Bachem, K.
Wirtschaftsenglisch I, 3 CP
Gruppe D: 2 st. mo 16-18 GB 5/37 Nord
This Business English class is intended as an introduction to the language of
business and commerce. The course focuses on developing students’ English
language knowledge and skills with particular emphasis on business knowledge and
contexts.
The primary aims of the course are to cultivate students’ understanding of <strong>ba</strong>sic
business concepts, to develop students’ knowledge of business relevant vocabulary
and terminology as well as communication skills they require to study and discuss
<strong>ba</strong>sic business topics.
Course credits will be awarded for active participation and completion of term
assignments.

050 684 Schwedmann
Wirtschaftsenglisch I, 3 CP
Gruppe E: Blockveranstaltung GB 6/137 Nord
Termine: 21.4./28.4./12.5./16.6.2012
jeweils in der Zeit von 9.00 – 14.30 Uhr
(Ausweichtermin bei Ausfall eines anderen Termins bzw. möglicher Resit-Termin:
23.6.2012, 9.00-14.30 Uhr)
This Business English I class is intended as an introduction to the language of
business and commerce. Course credits will be awarded to participants who sit the
mid-term test (12/5/2012) and pass the end-of-semester exam paper (16/6/2012).
This course will be held as a block seminar on four Saturdays.
Course textbook: English in Wirtschaft und Handel. Neue Ausgabe, Cornelsen 2002.
ISBN 978-3-8109-2674-6.
Please bring the textbook (or copies of the first four units plus vocabulary lists) to our
first session.
050 685 Poziemski
Wirtschaftsenglisch II, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. Bochum Summer School in Stirling
This class will work on the following topics: tourism & marketing, recruitment &
careers, retailing, and <strong>ba</strong>nking. Because of the authentic location of the summer
school, some of the work will take place “on site” in supermarkets, <strong>ba</strong>nks, town
centres, offices.
Students will be expected to do fieldwork and a variety of other homework & class
assignments. Credit points will be awarded for group presentations on one of the four
topic areas above.
A reader with text and language materials will be compiled and made available to
participants prior to the start of the summer school.

050 685 Poziemski
Wirtschaftsenglisch II, 3 CP
Gruppe B: 2 st. mi 10-12 GB 6/137 Nord
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
Wirtschaftsenglisch II, 3 CP
Gruppe C: 2 st. mo 14-16 GBCF 04/511
This course is a continuation of Business English I. On the <strong>ba</strong>sis 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 <strong>ba</strong>sic 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.
050 686 Smith
Rechtsenglisch I, 3 CP
2 st. di 10-12 NA 5/99
The course – which will be <strong>ba</strong>sed 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 Bachem, W.
Rechtsenglisch II, 3 CP
2 st. mo 16-18 GABF 04/252 Nord
This course is designed to introduce law students and students of Anglistik to major
areas and aspects of the British legal system. The Law of Tort and Contract Law will
be the two major fields of inquiry. Cross-references to the US system will also be
made. Reading comprehension exercises, involving the precise and quick recognition
of recurrent lexical, grammatical and syntactic patterns, and written as well as oral
assignments are meant to consolidate and develop students´ communicative
competence in at least two special areas of the law.
Prior attendance of Rechtsenglisch I is not obligatory though of some help. Students
are required to give an oral presentation or pass a final exam.
050 688 Smith
Technisches Englisch II, 3 CP
2 st. di 12-14 GABF 04/614 Süd
The course will look at the intricacies and challenges of a wide variety of technical
texts. The manner in which students can obtain their credit points will be discussed at
the beginning of the course. The usual attendance rules apply.

FREMDSPRACHENAUSBILDUNG
050 690 Isekenmeier
Grammatik AM, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. do 16-18 GABF 04/613 Süd
This course combines intensive practice in select problem areas of English grammar
(verb forms and ver<strong>ba</strong>l complexes; prepositions and prepositional phrases; complex
sentence patterns and types) with an attempt to formalize some segments of English
syntax in a generative grammar framework.
Course requirements:
Mid-term test (theory into practice), project work (sample grammar of an English
Text).
050 690 Müller
Grammatik AM, 3 CP
Gruppe B: 2 st. di 14-16 GABF 04/255
This course will build on what you have learned in Grammar I in the areas of tense
and aspect and non-finites. In addition we will take a closer look at the use of the
progressive, the gerund vs. infinitive, conditional clauses and ways of expressing
past and future time.
Requirements: regular and active participation in class plus a written exam at the end
of the semester.

050 690 Versteegen
Grammatik AM, 3 CP
Gruppe C: mi 10-12 GB 5/37 Nord
The aim of the course is to give students a fine-tuning of their grammatical skills and
knowledge. Special attention will be given to the English verb system, prepositions
and word order, especially the position of adverbial phrases. Students will be
expected to present selected grammatical topics individually, using appropriate visual
aids such as diagrams, OHP transparencies, or Powerpoint. There will also be
several short tests during the semester.
050 691 Bidlingmaier
Kommunikation AM, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. 14-16 GABF 04/253 Nord
This course is designed to improve communication skills within both academic as
well as occupational fields such as critical thinking, argumentation, analysis of issues
across various academic disciplines, as well as writing cover letters and resumes.
050 691 Bidlingmaier
Kommunikation AM, 3 CP
Gruppe B: Bochum Summer School in Stirling
This course is designed to improve communication skills within both academic as
well as occupational fields focusing primarily on critical thinking, critical reading and
argumentation. We will also analyze the differences in cultural communication.

050 691 McColl
Kommunikation AM, 3 CP
Gruppe C: 2 st. mi 12-14 GB 5/37 Nord
Gruppe D: 2 st. mi 16-18 GABF 04/613 Süd
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, 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.
050 692 Brenzel
Übersetzung AM, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. do 12-14 GABF 05/608
Gruppe B: 2 st. fr 10-12 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 <strong>ba</strong>sic requirements. The course will be rounded
off by a written test.
Texts: All necessary material will be made available via Blackboard.

050 692 Zucker
Übersetzung AM, 3 CP
Gruppe C: 2 st. mo 16-18 GB 5/39 Nord
Gruppe D: 2 st. di 14-16 GABF 04/253 Nord
In this class, we will translate intermediate-level texts of various types (mainly from
the field of cultural studies, contentwise). We will focus especially on problems of
vocabulary and grammar that arise frequently in German-to-English translations, but
also deal with issues of style and register.
Course requirements include regular attendance and active participation. Grades are
given on the <strong>ba</strong>sis of two written tests or hand-in translations.
050 684 Poziemski
Wirtschaftsenglisch I, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. di 16-18 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 online assignments.
Course materials: Englisch in Wirtschaft und Handel, Cornelsen, 2002. Other course
materials will be provided during the semester.
050 684 Smith
Wirtschaftsenglisch I, 3 CP
Gruppe B: 2 st. mo 12-14 GABF 04/413 Süd
Gruppe C: 2 st. mi 14-16 GABF 04/413 Süd
On the <strong>ba</strong>sis 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 <strong>ba</strong>sic terminology and concepts of business English. Credits
will be awarded to participants who pass the written end-of-term test.
050 684 Bachem, K.
Wirtschaftsenglisch I, 3 CP
Gruppe D: 2 st. mo 16-18 GB 5/37 Nord
This Business English class is intended as an introduction to the language of
business and commerce. The course focuses on developing students’ English
language knowledge and skills with particular emphasis on business knowledge and
contexts.
The primary aims of the course are to cultivate students’ understanding of <strong>ba</strong>sic
business concepts, to develop students’ knowledge of business relevant vocabulary
and terminology as well as communication skills they require to study and discuss
<strong>ba</strong>sic business topics.
Course credits will be awarded for active participation and completion of term
assignments.
050 684 Schwedmann
Wirtschaftsenglisch I, 3 CP
Gruppe E: Blockveranstaltung GB 6/137 Nord
Termine: 21.4./28.4./12.5./16.6.2012
jeweils in der Zeit von 9.00 – 14.30 Uhr
(Ausweichtermin bei Ausfall eines anderen Termins bzw. möglicher Resit-Termin:
23.6.2012, 9.00-14.30 Uhr)
This Business English I class is intended as an introduction to the language of
business and commerce. Course credits will be awarded to participants who sit the
mid-term test (12/5/2012) and pass the end-of-semester exam paper (16/6/2012).
This course will be held as a block seminar on four Saturdays.
Course textbook: English in Wirtschaft und Handel. Neue Ausgabe, Cornelsen 2002.
ISBN 978-3-8109-2674-6.

Please bring the textbook (or copies of the first four units plus vocabulary lists) to our
first session.
050 685 Poziemski
Wirtschaftsenglisch II, 3 CP
Gruppe A: 2 st. Bochum Summer School in Stirling
This class will work on the following topics: tourism & marketing, recruitment &
careers, retailing, and <strong>ba</strong>nking. Because of the authentic location of the summer
school, some of the work will take place “on site” in supermarkets, <strong>ba</strong>nks, town
centres, offices.
Students will be expected to do fieldwork and a variety of other homework & class
assignments. Credit points will be awarded for group presentations on one of the four
topic areas above.
A reader with text and language materials will be compiled and made available to
participants prior to the start of the summer school.
050 685 Poziemski
Wirtschaftsenglisch II, 3 CP
Gruppe B: 2 st. mi 10-12 GB 6/137 Nord
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
Wirtschaftsenglisch II, 3 CP
Gruppe C: 2 st. mo 14-16 GBCF 04/511
This course is a continuation of Business English I. On the <strong>ba</strong>sis 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 <strong>ba</strong>sic 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.
050 686 Smith
Rechtsenglisch I, 3 CP
2 st. di 10-12 NA 5/99
The course – which will be <strong>ba</strong>sed 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 Bachem, W.
Rechtsenglisch II, 3 CP
2 st. mo 16-18 GABF 04/252 Nord
This course is designed to introduce law students and students of Anglistik to major
areas and aspects of the British legal system. The Law of Tort and Contract Law will
be the two major fields of inquiry. Cross-references to the US system will also be
made. Reading comprehension exercises, involving the precise and quick recognition
of recurrent lexical, grammatical and syntactic patterns, and written as well as oral
assignments are meant to consolidate and develop students´ communicative
competence in at least two special areas of the law.

Prior attendance of Rechtsenglisch I is not obligatory though of some help. Students
are required to give an oral presentation or pass a final exam.
050 688 Smith
Technisches Englisch II, 3 CP
2 st. di 12-14 GABF 04/614 Süd
The course will look at the intricacies and challenges of a wide variety of technical
texts. The manner in which students can obtain their credit points will be discussed at
the beginning of the course. The usual attendance rules apply.