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Courses:
123: Advanced Writing Skills: Tell It Right – Storying from Fact to Fiction
Patricia Häusler-Greenfield, Fri 10-12, Room 4 (ab 18.3.)
So, is this a creative writing course No. Not really. Mainly not. The borders between factual and
fictional writing are tangled and impenetrable, a wilderness in which apprentice writers can
easily lose their way, given the multitude of tasks they must – or may want to - fulfil. As they
fight their way through the word-thickets, they can fall back on the strategies of seasoned
cultivators of words: cutting back wild growth; contemplating, shaping and arranging; adding a
bright splash of colour. How to do this with text is what we shall explore together.
You want to show your life history and your future plans in the best possible light Come along!
(CV, motivation statement). You want to do justice to your ‘big idea’ Come along! (report,
project / research proposal, academic paper / essay) You want to fashion fascinating texts from
your flashes of insight into Man - sorry, Humankind - and the Universe Come along! (essay,
vignette, short story, poem …). And you are really curious about The Preposition Project Well,
just come along.
Participants will be required to complete all assigned tasks, document their progress and take an
active part in The Preposition Project. Assessment will be on the basis of classwork, homework
and project participation.
124: Practical Translation for Tourism
Leigh Bailey, Wed 10-12, Room 1 (ab 9.3.)
The growing importance of international tourism and the role of English as a lingua franca have
led to a vast amount of material such as information brochures for towns and regions and
publicity leaflets for hotels and conference centres being translated into English. The quality of
these translations is often poor, and the aim of the course will be to examine some examples of
such material and to develop strategies for a more successful approach to this type of translation.
Authentic material in German and English will be used in a range of classwork and homework
exercises, these also providing the basis for assessment. Successful completion of the course will
mean that participants will be aware of the pitfalls facing anyone producing such translated
material and hence that they should also be able to produce competent results if they are asked to
undertake such tasks themselves.
124: World of Work 1 (ESP)
Liselotte Pope-Hofmann, Mon 13-15, Room 5 (ab 7.3.)
This course is an elective for students on the new curriculum but may be taken as an optional
class (K 801) by students on the old curriculum, depending on availability. It has been designed