Sommersemester 2006 - Englisches Seminar | Universität Freiburg

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KOMMENTAR
ZU DEN LEHRVERANSTALTUNGEN
ENGLISCHES SEMINAR
Sommersemester 2006
Wir bemühen uns, den Kommentar so früh wie möglich in Umlauf zu bringen. Deshalb
können sich bei den angegebenen Veranstaltungen bis zum Beginn der Vorlesungszeit unvorhersehbare Änderungen bezüglich Räumen, Zeiten und DozentInnen ergeben. Wir bitten
daher unbedingt, die Aushänge am Seminar Info-Brett zu Beginn des Semesters im Erdgeschoss des Kollegiengebäude IV, gegenüber von Raum 4008, zu beachten.
Es gibt zudem im Internet eine Version des Vorlesungsverzeichnisses, die permanent
aktualisiert wird. Diese findet man unter
http://www.studium.uni-freiburg.de/de/lehrveranstaltungen
Herausgegeben von der Geschäftsführung des Englischen Seminars der Universität Freiburg
Verantwortlich: Dr. Gert Fehlner, Tel.: 0761/203-3331
Werbung
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Inhalt
Vorbemerkungen
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Information und Beratung im Englischen Seminar
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Information for Socrates Students
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Veranstaltungskommentare
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LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT
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Einführungsvorlesung
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Vorlesungen
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Proseminare I
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Proseminare II
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Hauptseminare
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Literaturwissenschaftliche Übungen
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Kolloquien
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Oberseminare
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ANKÜNGIGUNG SHAKESPEARE-EXKURSION
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SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT
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Vorlesungen
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Proseminare I (synchron)
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Proseminare II (diachron)
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Hauptseminare
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Sprachwissenschaftliche Übungen
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LANDESKUNDE/ CULTURAL STUDIES
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FACHDIDAKTIK
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SPRACHLEHRE
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Belegungsvorschlag für Sprachlehre
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Course Descriptions
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Liste der sprachpraktischen Übungen
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KELTOLOGIE
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Infos der Fachschaft Anglistik
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Allgemeine Vorbemerkungen
Damit die Auswahl von Lehrveranstaltungen erleichtert wird, bietet der Kommentar umfassendere, detailliertere und zeitlich frühere Informationen darüber, was Sie im nächsten Semester
erwarten können (und was von Ihnen erwartet wird), als dies im Vorlesungsverzeichnis möglich
ist. Die Kommentare in diesem Heft stammen von den Kursleiterinnen und Kursleitern selbst;
technische Hinweise werden jedoch soweit wie möglich vereinheitlicht. Sie erscheinen jeweils
im ersten Absatz, die eigentliche Kursbeschreibung im zweiten Absatz. Direkt neben dem
Veranstaltungstitel stehen die voraussichtlichen Zeiten, darunter erscheinen die Raumangaben.
Sämtliche Änderungen und Ergänzungen zu diesem Veranstaltungskommentar werden am
Anschlagbrett des Englischen Seminars unter einer separaten Rubrik bekannt gegeben. Zudem
gibt es im Internet unter http://www.studium.uni-freiburg.de/de/lehrveranstaltungen eine Version
des Vorlesungsverzeichnisses, die ständig aktualisiert wird. Bei den technischen Hinweisen
werden folgende Abkürzungen benutzt:
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Anforderungen für die Scheine
Datum des Beginns
empfohlene Vorbereitung (zusätzlich zur Lektüre der unter T angegebenen
Texte)
Semesterzahl
anzuschaffende Texte
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen
Vorbesprechung
Außerdem gelten die folgenden Kürzel, die sich ohne zusätzlichen Text links von den technischen Angaben befinden:
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= nur nach persönlicher Anmeldung
= Übung
Zu diesen Angaben ist ergänzend zu bemerken: Aufgeführt wird nur, was nach Angaben der
Lehrkräfte für den jeweiligen Kurs zutrifft (mit Ausnahme der AS, die bei einigen Kursen erst zu
Semesterbeginn bekannt gegeben werden)! Wenn nicht anders angegeben, finden die Vorbesprechungen in dem Raum statt, in dem auch der Kurs abgehalten wird. Unabhängig von den
genannten Bedingungen für die einzelnen Kurse wird generell vorausgesetzt:
1. die Zentrale Anmeldung (ZA) für alle sprachpraktischen Übungen (ohne Foundation Courses)
2. vorheriger Besuch der Vorlesung Introduction to Literary Studies mit Begleitübung in der
Regel für literaturwissenschaftliche Proseminare I
3. bestandene Zwischenprüfung (ZP) in der Regel für alle Proseminare II (PS II) und für alle
Hauptseminare (HS).
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Die sprachpraktischen Übungen werden hier nur pauschal aufgeführt. Inhalt und Ziele der standardisierten Kurse wie Grammar, Pronunciation u.a. werden pauschal beschrieben.
Die Listen mit den Kursen der sprachpraktischen Übungen hängen spätestens eine Woche
vor Vorlesungsbeginn aus (KG IV, 1. Stock, Ostseite).
Die zentrale Anmeldung zu den Begleitübungen zur Vorlesung Introduction to Literary
Studies findet auf Listen in der ersten Vorlesungssitzung statt.
Anmeldelisten zu Seminaren finden sich in der Regel vor den Räumen der DozentInnen oder in
den entsprechenden Sekretariaten.
Anmeldungen zu Lehrveranstaltungen
Da es in der Vergangenheit oft Unsicherheiten über das Anmeldeprocedere gegeben hat, gilt ab
sofort für alle Lehrveranstaltungen (mit Ausnahme von Vorlesungen) der folgende Beschluss der
Direktorenkonferenz des Englischen Seminars:
Nur die schriftliche Anmeldung und die Teilnahme an der 1. Veranstaltungssitzung konstituieren die verbindliche Aufnahme eines Studierenden/einer Studierenden in eine Veranstaltung.
Im Einklang mit einem Dekanatsbeschluss werden die Veranstaltungen grundsätzlich auf eine
TeilnehmerInnenzahl von 45 (Hauptseminare 30) begrenzt. Dabei werden die ersten 40 (bzw.
25) Plätze nach Reihenfolge des Eingangs der schriftlichen Anmeldung vergeben (first come,
first served). Darüber hinaus werden bis zur ersten Sitzung 5 Plätze reserviert für Studierende,
die von einer anderen in- oder ausländischen Hochschule nach Freiburg gewechselt haben.
Werden diese Plätze nicht gefüllt, können weitere reguläre Freiburger Studierende nachrücken,
die ihren Namen auf einer Warteliste registriert haben, die die VeranstaltungsleiterInnen führen.
Mehrfachanmeldungen, d.h. zugleich für zwei linguistische oder zwei literaturwissenschaftliche Hauptseminare im gleichen Semester, werden nicht toleriert. Vielmehr ist von den Studierenden maximal nur jeweils 1 Hauptseminar pro Semester aus jeder der beiden Teildisziplinen zu
absolvieren.
Die Anmeldung zu den Hauptseminaren erfolgt ab sofort bei den SeminarleiterInnen bzw. in
deren Sekretariat. Bitte beachten Sie bei den nachfolgenden Veranstaltungsbeschreibungen die
entsprechenden Hinweise. Die Anmeldefrist beginnt in der Regel mit Erscheinen des
Kommentierten Vorlesungsverzeichnisses.
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PS I & PS II
Bitte beachten Sie die Unterscheidung zwischen Proseminar I und Proseminar II, sowohl in
Literatur- als auch in Sprachwissenschaft.
PS I: empfohlen für Studierende vor der Zwischenprüfung
PS II: empfohlen für Studierende höherer Semester nach der Zwischenprüfung
Zur Erfüllung der Prüfungsordnungen (Magister HF/ NF, Lehramt HF, B.A. HF, nicht aber Lehramt BF und B.A. NF) ist es notwendig, jeweils zwei Proseminare in den Teildisziplinen (Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft) zu erbringen. Hier wird für die Literaturwissenschaft
dringend empfohlen, zuerst ein Proseminar I zu wählen und dann ein Proseminar II; für die
Sprachwissenschaft ist dies gemäß der aktualisierten Zwischenprüfungsordnung für StudienanfängerInnen und WechslerInnen zum WS 04/05 sogar zwingend vorgeschrieben (Zulassungsvoraussetzung zur Zwischenprüfung ist ab sofort ein Proseminar aus der synchronen Sprachwissenschaft, also ein Proseminar I).
N.B. Soweit von den Dozenten nicht anders angekündigt, finden in den PS II in
Literaturwissenschaft am Samstag, 22.07.2006, zentrale Abschlussklausuren statt.
Soweit von den Dozenten nicht anders angekündigt, finden in den Hauptseminaren in
Sprachwissenschaft am Freitag, 28.07.2006, zentrale Abschlussklausuren statt.
General Rules am Englischen Seminar
Teilnahmepflicht
Für den Erhalt eines Scheines ist die regelmäßige Teilnahme an der Unterrichtsveranstaltung
grundsätzliche Voraussetzung. Wer im Wintersemester mehr als drei, im Sommersemester mehr
als zwei Unterrichtsveranstaltungen versäumt, verliert die Möglichkeit, einen Schein zu
erwerben.
Informationspflicht
Die Studierenden sind grundsätzlich dafür verantwortlich, sich über die Inhalte von versäumten
Lehrveranstaltungen zu informieren. Dies gilt auch für administrative Informationen.
Plagiat
Alle schriftlichen Arbeiten, die Sie im Verlauf Ihres Studiums im Rahmen von Lehrveranstaltungen einreichen, müssen selbständig und ohne fremde Hilfe verfasst werden. Zitate sowie der
Gebrauch von Quellen und Hilfsmitteln müssen von Ihnen deutlich nach den Regeln wissenschaftlicher Dokumentation markiert werden.
Es kommt immer häufiger vor, dass Texte oder Teile von Texten entweder aus dem Internet oder
anderen Quellen kopiert und als eigene Leistung ausgegeben werden. Dies ist ein
schwerwiegender Verstoß gegen die Grundregeln wissenschaftlicher Dokumentationspflicht.
Hinzu kommt, dass durch solche Plagiate („Diebstahl geistigen Eigentums“) die Lehrenden mit
Absicht getäuscht und die Mitstudierenden benachteiligt werden. Daher gilt am Englischen
Seminar folgende Regelung für alle Fälle nachgewiesenen Plagiats:
1. Schriftliche Arbeiten, in denen Fremdtexte (bzw. einzelne Elemente solcher Texte) als
Eigenleistungen ausgegeben sind (Plagiat) werden mit der Note „ungenügend“ zurückgegeben.
Eine Wiederholung der betreffenden Arbeit kann nicht gewährt werden.
2. Studierende, denen ein Plagiat nachgewiesen wird, werden aus dem betreffenden Kurs mit
sofortiger Wirkung ausgeschlossen.
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Information und Beratung im Englischen Seminar
Sprechstunden:
Alle MitarbeiterInnen im Englischen Seminar bemühen sich um die kompetente Beratung und
Information der Studierenden. Alle Lehrenden bieten daher wöchentlich mindestens zwei
Sprechstunden an. Frau Prof. Dr. Brigitte Halford (Sprachwissenschaft) und Herr Prof. Dr. Jon
Adams (Literaturwissenschaft) kümmern sich zusätzlich um spezielle Fragen zu den Teildisziplinen. Zudem halten Herr Dr. Gert Fehlner und Frau Ulrike Zimmermann in der Geschäftsführung täglich Sprechstunden ab, in denen primär solche Fragen behandelt werden, die sich
nicht unmittelbar auf bestimmte Lehrveranstaltungen beziehen (z. B. Prüfungsordnung/ planung, Auslandsaufenthalte, Anrechnung von Studienleistungen, etc.).
Sprechstunden der Geschäftsführung im Sommersemester 2006:
Dr. Gert Fehlner
Mo 20.30 - 22.00 Uhr
Di nach Vereinbarung
Mi 10.00 – 12.00 Uhr
Email: Gert.Fehlner@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
Ulrike Zimmermann
Do 10.00 - 12.00 Uhr
Fr 10.00 - 12.00 Uhr
Email: Ulrike.Zimmermann@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
Info-Reihe:
Darüber hinaus organisiert die Geschäftsführung in Zusammenarbeit mit der Fachschaft in jedem
Semester eine Reihe von Informationsveranstaltungen zu verschiedenen Themen (Auslandsstudium, Praktika, Berufsaussichten, Examensvorbereitung, etc.). Diese Veranstaltungen finden
etwa alle zwei Wochen statt (in der Regel am Mittwochabend, 18-20 Uhr im Raum 4008). Der
Veranstaltungsplan wird jeweils zu Semesterbeginn am Schwarzen Brett im Erdgeschoss des KG
IV ausgehängt.
Für das Sommersemester 2006 sind folgende Infoveranstaltungen vorgesehen:
03. Mai: Examen
17. Mai: Zwischenprüfung
31. Mai: Studium/ Praktikum im Ausland
21. Juni: Praxissemester
05. Juli: Offene Fragerunde (Fachschaft steht Rede und Antwort)
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Die Homepage des Seminars:
Ein hervorragendes Mittel der Informationsbeschaffung ist ein Besuch der Homepage des Seminars. Hier findet sich eine Fülle von ausführlichen und aktuellen Informationen zu allen
Aspekten des Studiums. Please visit us at http://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
Wo drückt der Schuh?
Mit dieser Frage wendet sich die Geschäftsführung des Seminars an alle Studierenden, die auf
Mängel im Studienbetrieb hinweisen wollen. Das Seminar versucht auf diese Weise auch jene
kritischen Anregungen aufzufangen, die sonst vielleicht im Alltag des Seminarbetriebs untergingen.
Die Bitte also: Kritik, am besten in Verbindung mit Verbesserungsvorschlägen, per E-mail an
Gert.Fehlner@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de schicken – you will be heard!
Hinweise für Studierende im Lehramtsstudiengang nach neuer Prüfungsordnung:
Ethisch-Philosophisches Grundlagenstudium (EPG)
Nach der neuen Prüfungsordnung müssen im Lehramtsstudium zwei Scheine im ethisch-philosophischen Grundlagenstudium erworben werden.
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Die erste Veranstaltung (EPG-1) ist interdisziplinär angelegt und besitzt einführenden
Charakter. Dieser EPG-1 Schein sollte möglichst im Grundstudium erworben werden.
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Die zweite Veranstaltung (EPG-2) ist eher fachspezifisch ausgerichtet, bezieht sich dann
also auf eines Ihrer zwei Hauptfächer. Der EPG-2 Schein soll im Hauptstudium erworben
werden.
Kurse des Englischen Seminars, in denen Sie einen EPG-Schein (in der Regel EPG-2) erwerben
können, sind im Kommentartext gekennzeichnet.
Genaue Modalitäten auf Nachfrage bei http://www.epg.uni-freiburg.de
Eine Liste aller EPG Veranstaltungen finden Sie im allgemeinen Vorlesungsverzeichnis der
Universität Freiburg, sowie unter http://www.epg.uni-freiburg.de
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Exkursion als Zulassungsvoraussetzung zur Magisterprüfung im
Haupt- und Nebenfach
Alle Studierenden, die
1. die Magisterprüfung im Haupt- oder Nebenfach ablegen und
2. den Schwerpunkt auf die Sprachwissenschaft legen oder
3. innerhalb des Schwerpunkts Literaturwissenschaft ein Spezialgebiet aus der
mittelalterlichen Literatur wählen
müssen an einer mindestens eintägigen Exkursion zur Besichtigung mittelalterlicher Handschriften teilgenommen haben und bei der Prüfungsanmeldung darüber eine Bescheinigung vorlegen. Die Exkursion wird am Lehrstuhl von Professor Mair organisiert und findet in der
Regel im Wintersemester statt. Detaillierte Informationen sind erhältlich im Sekretariat des
Lehrstuhls (Raum 4107, Tel. 203-3338).
Staatsexamen
Vorschau: Themen der Interpretationsklausur
(Alle Angaben ohne Gewähr!)
Termin Sprachwissenschaft Britische
Literaturwissenschaft.
Frühjahr Pragmatik /
Brit. Lyrik des 20.
2006
Textlinguistik
Jahrhunderts
Herbst Sprachwandel /
Brit. Roman seit 1945
2006
Histor. Linguistik
Frühjahr Soziolinguistik /
Brit. Lyrik der
2007
Varietäten
Romantik
Herbst Morphologie und
Brit. Roman des 18.
2007
Syntax
Jahrhunderts
Frühjahr Wortbildung
Brit. Drama seit 1945
2008
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Amerikanische
Literaturwissenschaft
Amerik. Roman des
19. Jhds.
Amerik. Drama des
19. Jahrhunderts
Short Story des 20.
Jahrhunderts
Moderne amerik.
Lyrik
Amerik. Roman des
Realismus/
Naturalismus
Altengl./Mittelenglisch
Altenglisch
Mittelenglisch
Altenglisch
usw. im
Wechsel
Berufsfeldorientierte Kompetenzen: Lehrveranstaltungen des Zentrums für
Schlüsselqualifikationen
Das Zentrum für Schlüsselqualifikationen (ZfS) organisiert als zentrale Einrichtung der
Universität Lehrveranstaltungen im Bereich „Berufsfeldorientierte Kompetenzen“ (BOK).
Die Veranstaltungen werden in folgenden Kompetenzfeldern angeboten:
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Management
Kommunikation
Medien
EDV
Fremdsprachen
Die Lehrveranstaltungen richten sich hauptsächlich an Studierende folgender Studiengänge:
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) und Rechtswissenschaft. Freie Plätze
werden an Studierende anderer Studiengänge (z. B. Magister und Lehramt) der Universität
Freiburg vergeben. Für die Bachelor-Studierenden ist der BOK-Bereich integrativer und
obligatorischer Bestandteil des Studiums. Alle anderen Studierenden haben durch das Angebot
des ZfS die Möglichkeit, ergänzend zu ihrem Fachstudium zusätzliche, praxisorientierte
Qualifikationen zu erwerben. Die Veranstaltungen gehören daher – mit Ausnahme einiger
Sprachkurse – nicht zu den von den Prüfungsordnungen vorgeschriebenen Leistungsnachweisen,
d. h. sie werden nicht als Scheine für das Fachstudium anerkannt.
Bei der Belegung der Veranstaltungen werden Bachelor- und Jura-Studierende vorrangig
behandelt. Für alle Lehrveranstaltungen des ZfS ist eine verbindliche elektronische
Belegung zwingend erforderlich. Das Belegverfahren ist ausführlich auf der ZfS-Homepage
beschrieben. Der regelmäßige Besuch einer Lehrveranstaltung (Anwesenheitspflicht!) und das
erfolgreiche und fristgemäße Erbringen aller erforderlichen Studienleistungen führen zur
Vergabe der für die jeweilige Lehrveranstaltung vorgesehenen ECTS-Punkte und zur
Ausstellung eines Leistungsnachweises. Alle Studierenden erhalten für den erfolgreichen Besuch
einer Veranstaltung eine aussagekräftige Teilnahmebestätigung.
Die gedruckten Programme liegen beim ZfS und am Englischen Seminar aus.
Kontakt und Information:
Zentrum für Schlüsselqualifikationen (ZfS)
Alte Universität
Tel.: 0761 / 203 9471
Bertoldstr. 17, Raum 208
Fax: 0761 / 203 9472
E-Mail: zfs-info@zfs.uni-freiburg.de
www.zfs.uni-freiburg.de
Sprechzeiten: Do 16-17.30 Uhr in Raum 208
Scheinausgabe: Di 14-16 Uhr und Do 10-12 Uhr in Raum 216
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Important Information for Socrates Students
Socrates is a program established by the European Union which promotes cooperation between
European universities and the exchange of students and teaching staff. To obtain more
information about Socrates, please consult http://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
ECTS
ECTS, the “European Credit Transfer System”, was developed by the European Union to
provide an equal basis for the recognition of students’ credits which are obtained during study
abroad. The credits are rated on the basis of a common grading scheme, thus making it easier for
the home university to fit the credits into its own requirements. The ECTS credits are awarded by
a system which assesses the volume of work in relation to what students must perform during an
academic year.
ECTS Course Assessment: Classes and Credits
The minimum study period for ECTS students is one semester. Students participating in ECTS
program can receive 30 credits per semester and 60 credits per year under the following
conditions:
Normally, each course and lecture lasts 2 x 45 minutes and is counted as 2 Semesterwochenstunden (SWS; the number of hours per week a given course takes place during a semester). In
addition, each course is allocated a certain number of ECTS credits, depending on the workload
of the course.
CONTACT
If you have further questions, please get in touch with our Socrates Coordinator Gisa Mischke
(Gisa.Mischke@jupiter.uni-freiburg.de) Rm. 4010. Weekly office hours are announced at her
door. She will also arrange for foreign Socrates students to obtain a Transcript of Records at the
end of a semester.
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The following credit system applies:
Course
Seminar/Lecture/Exercise/ Tutorial ECTS SWS
Civilization classes (Landeskunde)
Exercise
3
2
Introduction to Synchronic Linguistics
Lecture + Tutorial
6
3
Introduction to Diachronic Linguistics
Lecture + Tutorial
6
3
Introduction to English/ American
Literature
Lecture + Tutorial
6
4
Survey of English Literature
Lecture + Tutorial
6
3
Lecture + Tutorial
Lecture + Tutorial
3
3
Lecture
Lecture
1
2
Proseminar
Seminar
6
2
Exercise
Exercise
3
2
Hauptseminar
Seminar
8
2
For Socrates students who need to obtain more or fewer credits for a certain course they are
required to take, special arrangements can be made. Some additional course work (e.g. another
oral report, a written report) can be assigned to the students in order to justify additional credits.
Grading scale
The following grading scale applies:
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ausgezeichnet (extraordinary performance, brilliant) ECTS grading scale: A
sehr gut (very good; an excellent performance, which completely meets the requirements) ECTS grading scale: B
gut (good; a good performance, which meets the requirements in a good manner)
ECTS grading scale: C
befriedigend (satisfactory; a performance, which in general corresponds to the requirements) ECTS grading scale: D
ausreichend (sufficient; a performance, wich in spite of some faults still corresponds
to the requirements) ECTS grading scale: E
mangelhaft (failed; a performance, which does not correspond to the requirements but
which nevertheless proves some basic knowledge and justifies the hope that the
deficiencies can be removed in the foreseeable future) ECTS grading scale: FX
ungenügend (failed, a performance, which does not correspond to the requirements
and where even the basic knowledge is so faulty that the deficiencies are unlikely to
be removed in the foreseeable future) ECTS grading scale: F
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LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT
EINFÜHRUNGSVORLESUNG
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Vorlesung (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck) mit Begleitübung, insgesamt 4-stündig
Anmeldung
Für die Vorlesung Introduction to Literary Studies ist keine Anmeldung erforderlich.
Wohl aber für die Begleitübungen:
Zentrale Anmeldung für die Begleitübungen auf Listen in der ersten Vorlesungssitzung. Bei Überbelegung wird Studierenden im Bachelorstudiengang Vorrang
eingeräumt, da diese die Einführungsvorlesung besuchen müssen.
Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck
Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft / Introduction to Literary Studies
Mo 16-18
HS 3044
SWS: 2
B: 1. Semesterwoche (24.04.06)
AN: no previous registration required
AS: t.b.a.
TV: /
T: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Arden Critical Edition; Mark Twain, The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Vera and Ansgar Nünning, Introduction to the
Study of English and American Literature Klett Uni-Wissen, 2004; Matthew Barry,
Beginning Theory. An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. Manchester UP
LVtyp: VL
This lecture attempts to provide a survey of the main genres, the key issues, and some of the
current theories and methodologies in the field. The lecture is in English, using current
terminology, so a good command of English is a requirement. There will be several work papers/
writing assignments, an intermediate and a final test to assess students’ abilities. The class
consists of a two-hour lecture plus one two-hour tutorial every week.
Begleitübungen zur Vorlesung “Introduction to Literary Studies”
AN: Zentrale Anmeldung auf Listen in der ersten Vorlesungssitzung
Es finden folgende Parallelkurse statt:
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Name
Zeit
Raum
N.N.
N.N.
N.N.
N.N.
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N.N.
Di 08-10
Di 14-16
Di 16-18
Mi 08-10
Mi 14-16
Mi 16-18
Mi 18-20
Fr 08-10
Fr 10-12
Fr 14-16
HS 1136
HS 1137
HS 1137
HS 1136
HS 1137
HS 1136
HS 1137
HS 1137
HS 1136
HS 1137
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VORLESUNGEN
Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte
Survey of English Literature II – Romanticism to the Present
Mo 16-18
HS 3219
SWS: 2
AN: /
T: see comment
LVtyp: VL
This lecture course provides a survey of major developments in English literature and culture
since the late 18th century. Much of this lecture will be based on the Norton Anthology of
English Literature, vol II. A reading list will be obtainable from February. The texts on this list
will have to be read by all participants who wish to participate in the final exam
(Prüfungsleistung for BA students). BA students will also have to participate in the Übung
offered by Dr. Lethbridge (see separate entry).
Dozent/in: Dr. Stefanie Lethbridge
Begleitübung zur VL – Survey of English Literature II
Do 14-15
Peterhof, HS 4
SWS: 1
AN: Anmeldeliste in R 4211
AS: active participation, final exam
TV: /
T: A reading list will be provided at the beginning of term
LVtyp: Übung zur VL
This Übung is designed to accompany Prof. Korte’s lecture course “Survey of English Literature
II”. We will read and discuss texts relevant for lecture course and Klausur.
For BA candidates who wish to obtain a Schein for the lecture course, participation in this
Übung is obligatory.
Begleitübung zur VL – Survey of English Literature II
Do 9-10
Peterhof, HS 4
Course description: see above
Dozent/in: PD Dr. Sieglinde Lemke
Black American Literature from Slave Narratives to Rap Lyrics
Do 12-14
Alte Uni, HS 2
SWS: 2
AN: /
T: Recommended: The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. A reader
will be provided.
LVtyp: VL
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In the 19th century, black American authors had to write against the insidious, but widely held
notion that people of African descent were incapable of producing high art. The antebellum slave
narrative is a peculiar genre: while serving as propaganda, it also provided the basis for the first
black Renaissance. Around the turn of the century, a few black authors gained national visibility,
but not until the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920 did African American arts and letters
experience an unprecedented, nationally acknowledged cultural flowering. This lecture will give
a broad overview of the major literary texts and cultural trends, beginning with Phyllys
Wheatley’s poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America” to the slave narratives of the
antebellum South, and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. In addition, it will examine recent
developments in contemporary American literature, music and the visual arts. Along with
analysing the novels of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, this lecture will address the new avantgarde of black writers and artists shaping America’s cultural landscape at the beginning of the
21st century.
Dozent/in: PD Dr. Sieglinde Lemke
Begleitübung zur VL Black American Literature
Fr 14-18 (14-tg.)
KG IV ÜR 1
B: 05.05.2006
LVtyp: Ü
The tutorial will provide in-depth knowledge about African-American literature as well as basic
writing skills. Students will discuss in detail individual texts presented in the lecture. In meeting
the writing requirement of three term papers, the students will gain additional instructions on
how to write an academic essay. Before final submission/presentation, students will have the
opportunity to share their first drafts with the instructor, and with classmates in group
discussions.
Dozent/in: N.N.
Begleitübung zur VL Black American Literature
Fr 14-18 (14-tg.)
HS 1234
Course description: see above
PROSEMINARE I (empfohlen vor der ZP)
Dozent/in: Jon Adams
American Romanticism
Mo 16-18
Sedanstr. 6, Raum 3
SWS: 2
AN: amst@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
AS: Referat; Hausarbeit
TV: /
T: Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple; James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the
Mohicans; Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings;
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter; Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor and
Other Stories.
LVtyp: PS I
This course takes up early examples of American fiction, from Rowson’s best seller to Melville’s
posthumous classic. The focus of the course is on the form of fiction and the motifs of American
Romanticism.
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Dozent/in: Prof. Jon Adams
19th Century American Short Story
Do 16-18
Sedanstr. 6, Raum 4
SWS: 2
TV: /
T: [to be announced]
LVtyp: PS I
This course examines the 19th century American short story, from Washington Irving to Stephen
Crane.
Dozent/in: Dr. Jan Alber
The Prison in Charles Dickens’s Mature Fiction
Di 14-16
Peterhof, HS 2
SWS: 2
AN: list (room 4206)
AS: active participation, oral report, mid-term essay, term paper
TV: /
T: Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations
LVtyp: PS I
In this seminar, we will deal with the question of how literal and metaphorical forms of
imprisonment are represented in Charles Dickens’s mature fiction. More specifically, we will
look at literal prisons, prison-like settings, correlates of constraint and forms of mental
confinement in Little Dorrit (1855-57), A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations
(1860-61). Additionally, we will deal with the ideological underpinnings of these narrative texts
as well as the question of whether certain narrative structures or formal features can be said to
reproduce the prison and its agenda.
Dozent/in: Kerstin Fest
The Victorian Age – Politics and Poetry
Di 10-12
HS 1139
SWS: 2
AN: Liste Raum 4006 oder per Email an kerstin.fest@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
AS: oral report, midterm essay, final paper, active and regular participation
TV: /
T: Reader available at the beginning of term
LVtyp: PS I
The Victorian Age is usually associated with rigid morals, a strict class system and imperial
pride. It is also very often perceived as the ‘most English’ of periods. We will analyse how
Victorian poetry reflects issues of nationality, Englishness and imperialism, as well as question
to what extent it can be read as a reaction to the changes and developments the Victorian Age
had to face.
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Dozent/in: Anna Flügge, M.A.
Postmodern Novel
Mo 14-16
UB ÜR 7
SWS: 2
AN: AN: amst@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de oder Liste Rm. 4048
AS: Referat/Hausarbeit
T: Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926); Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
(1949); Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955); Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977);
Don DeLillo, White Noise (1984)
LVtyp: PS I
This course begins with a Modernist novel in order to establish the contrast between the
Modernist novel and the Postmodernist novel. Apart from close reading of the novels themselves
and the analysis of fundamental features of the novel, i.e. point of view, character, theme, and
plot, this course focuses on such postmodern themes as intertextuality, ethnicity, obsession, and
satire, among others.
Dozent/in: Rüdiger Heinze
Monsters, Monstrosity and Alterity in Fiction and Film
Do 16-18
HS 3219
SWS: 2
AN: Liste im Sekretariat Raum 4048
AS: report/midterm/final paper
T: Bram Stoker, Dracula; Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau; Films: The
Company of Wolves (1984); The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956); Dawn of the
Dead (1978); Alien (1979); Blade Runner (1982)
LVtyp: PS I; EPG II seminar
What do we mean when we designate something or someone as ‘monstrous’ or a ‘monster’?
Conceptions of the monstrous, monstrosity and alterity play and always have played an
important part in our culture, especially when the monstrous constitutes the other of ‘normal’,
when ‘us’ is pitted against ‘them’, belonging versus exclusion, known versus unknown, ratio
versus madness, human versus animal, gothic/romantic versus enlightenment. And why is it that
the monsters most recurrent and threatening to social order are those hybrids who present a
mixture of human and animal, human and monster? Indeed, it is a defining aspect that the
borders are rarely clear-cut. We will look at a variety of texts (literary and philosophical) and
films dealing with monsters, monstrosity and alterity: from vampires, homunculi, werewolves
and doppelgaenger to body snatchers, zombies, aliens and cyborgs. In addition to the novels texts
listed below, a reader with philosophical texts will be provided in class. The films will be made
available in screening sessions.
Dozent/in: Dr. Rüdiger Heinze
American Poetry from Whitman to the Present (Part II)
SWS: 2
AN: AN: Liste im Sekretariat Raum 4048
B: 1. Semesterwoche
AS: midterm/seminar paper/reports
T: Reader
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Do 10-12
HS 1234
LVtyp: PS I
This is the second part of a two-semester survey course on American poetry from the 1850s to
the present. We will cover the period from the 1950s up to today. You can take this course
without having taken the previous one. Texts will be taken from the Norton and Heath
Anthologies of American Literature, the latest editions. A reader will be available.
Mr Bennett and Mrs Woolf – Realist and Modernist Novel
Mi 10-12
Peterhof, HS 3
SWS: 2
AN: Anmeldung auf Teilnehmerliste in R1411
AS: active participation, short oral report, mid-term (BA Studienleistung), termpaper
(BA Prüfungsleistung)
TV: Introduction to Literary Studies
T: Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, Reader
(Kopiervorlage)
LVtyp: PS I
In an essay called “Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown” Virginia Woolf denounced some of the best
known realist writers of her time: Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy and H.G. Wells. She
claimed that their style of writing was outdated and inappropriate for modern conditions. In this
Seminar we will study Woolf’s argument in her essay and then turn to examine and compare the
modes of writing employed by Edwardian realists like Bennett and Wells and Georgian
modernists like Woolf. We will examine two novels and some short stories in detail and ask
whether Woolf’s criticism was justified. This seminar is designed for students before the
Zwischenprüfung.
Dozent/in: Dr. Greta Olson
Eighteenth-Century Animals and Ethics
Do 12-14
Wilhelmstr.26, HS 00 006
SWS: 2
AN: Please register your name on the list on the door of room 4207.
AS: Proseminar I students: midterm exam or oral report, term paper; EPG students:
midterm exam or oral report, final exam.
T: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726); Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
(1719); class reader
LVtyp: PS I; EPG II seminar; gender studies course
Beginning with a discussion of Rochester’s “A Satyr against Reason and Mankind” (1675) and
William Hogarth’s “The Four Stages of Cruelty” (1750), we find that animals are put to various,
often contradictory uses during the eighteenth-century. They may be employed in literature as
vehicles for satire, as mirrors of humankind’s failures, or as substitutive figures for humans
considered less worthy: foreigners and women. As Hogarth’s prints show, blood sports in which
animals were violently killed such as cockfighting were enormously popular and cruelty to
animals was rampant. In this course we will trace varied attitudes towards animals by paying
particular attention to two canonical texts: Gulliver’s Travels and Robinson Crusoe.
Whereas Robinson Crusoe equates “savages” and “cannibals” with wild beasts, and imposes rule
over them on his island, Gulliver learns from the Brobdingnags to think of man as “the most
pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the
earth.” Moreover, during his fourth voyage, Gulliver comes to worship the supremely rational
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Houyhnhnms—noble horses who coexist without violence—and to be increasingly horrified by
the filthy and vicious Yahoos who so greatly resemble himself. Considering the status and uses
of animals in these texts will help us to ask questions about gender, alterity, and ethics not only
with regard to the eighteenth century but also with respect to our time.
EPG Schein: Thinking about animals raises questions about our status as humans. Recently,
philosophers like Peter Singer have argued that the traditional assumption that nonhuman beings
are inherently inferior is analogous to the poor thinking that has informed racist as well as sexist
attitudes. This “speciesism” needs to be overridden. The eighteenth century saw a nascent
movement to humanize animals that has culminated in the animal rights movement today. The
Utilitarian Jeremy Bentham reasoned that if animals can suffer, and clearly they can, then they
deserve rights and protection just as humans do. We will ask how the ‘humane’ treatment of
animals reflects on human ethics and we will ponder the question of how animal rights may be
taught in the classroom.
Gender Studies Schein: Students interested in historical investigations of gender may parse the
primary texts to see how women are often relegated to the level of animals. Additional readings
may be necessary.
Dozent/in: Jochen Petzold
Joseph Conrad
Di 8.30-10
Alte Uni, HS 220
SWS: 2
AN: Liste in Raum 4211 (Sekretariat Prof. Korte)
AS: regelmäßige Teilnahme, mid-term essay, Hausarbeit
T: Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (ed. Robert Kimbrough, Norton Critical Ed.,
3rd ed.), Lord Jim (any ed.), The Secret Agent (any ed.)
LVtyp: PS I
Joseph Conrad had been a sailor for 25 years – working his way up from apprentice to captain –
before he published his first novel (in his third language). Many of his novels are based on his
experiences at sea, but they are more than exciting ‘yarns spun by an old tar’. In this seminar –
aimed at students before the Zwischenprüfung – we will analyse and discuss three of Conrad’s
novels, paying special attention to narrative strategies, the representation of ‘reality’ and its
(political, psychological) meanings.
Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Michelle Reutter
The American West – Imaginings and Appropriations
Mo 10-12
Sedanstr. 6, Raum 4
SWS: 2
AN: email (amst@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de)
T: Edward S. Wheeler’s Deadwood Dick (Western Dime Novel) and selected stories
from The Outcasts of Poker Flats by Bret Harte
Hamlin Garland, selected stories from Main-Travelled Road and Zane Gray, to be
determined; Louis L’Amour, Hondo; Karl May’s Winnetou and excerpts from Owen
Wister’s The Virginian; Leslie Silko’s Storyteller and Selected “trickster” narratives
Selected writings of Margaret Fuller and poetry by Ina Coolbrith and Walt Whitman
Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! and excerpts from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House
on the Prairie and Little House in the Big Woods
Film clips to be determined
LVtyp: PS I
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This course will focus on the “American West” (or more accurately the U.S. frontier) as a
conceptual space. We will examine what constitutes the American literary Western and the
Western film, for example issues such as Westward migration and settlement of the West as well
as U.S. American nationalism and identity. We will read a number of texts and view several film
clips that exemplify to some degree the category of “American Western.” We will consider both
“mainstream” and “marginal” works. By asking questions like “How is the geographic space of
the U.S. American West imagined conceptually” and “in what ways is the this imaginative space
appropriated to serve the agendas of various constituencies,” we will gain an understanding of
“how the west was won” – and to what purpose or purposes. Course work will include written
exercises and daily quizzes as well as one three to four-page essay and an intermediate and final
examination. For more details see http://www.studium.uni-freiburg.de/de/lehrveranstaltungen
Dozent/in: Christina Spittel, M.A.
Mapping A New World: Australian Short Stories
Di 10-12
t.b.a.
SWS: 2
TV: Einführungsvorlesung Literaturwissenschaft
AS: presentation, term paper
T: reader, available from mid April
AN: auf Liste im Sekretarat Korte, Raum 4211
“There never were any fauns in the eucalyptus forests, nor any naiads in the running creeks. No
mythological hero left behind him stories of wonder and enchantment. No white man’s hand has
carved records of a poetic past on the grey volcanic-looking boulders that over-shadow some
lonely gullies which I know.” (Rosa Campbell Praed, “The Bunyip,” 1891)
Our class will investigate how Australian writers from the 19th to the 21st century have used the
genre of the short story to map (and people) the eucalyptus forests, the running creeks, and the
volcanic boulders, but also, of course, the cities of the coast. We shall discuss the images of
Australia and Australian society they construct, and the narrative techniques they use.
Dozent/in: Hubertus Zander, M.A.
American Music – A Cultural History
Di 11-13
Sedanstr. 6, Raum 4
SWS: 2
AS: short midterm essay, term paper, participation
T: reader available in R. 4048 one week before semester start
This course will provide an overview of the development of popular music in the United States
of America, from Blues to Jazz, Rock 'n' Roll and Hip-Hop. It will focus on the broad cultural
movements surrounding the various musical genres discussed, while at the same time referring to
exemplary musicians and songs.
Dozent/in: Ulrike Zimmermann, M.A.
Modern Women’s Short Stories
Mi 16-18
Sedanstr. 6, Raum 3
SWS: 2
AN: Liste in Raum 4011
AS: regelmäßige Anwesenheit, Kurzreferat, mid-term essay, Hausarbeit
T: Reader (Kopierkostenersatz)
LVtyp: PS I; gender studies course
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In this seminar, which is aimed at students before the “Zwischenprüfung”, we will read and
interpret a selection of short stories by (predominantly British) women writers of the 20th
century. Various theoretical approaches to the genre will be taken into account.
We will examine how authors like A.S. Byatt, Margaret Drabble, Jackie Kay, Muriel Spark, Fay
Weldon, and Marina Warner explore the short story in different ways. Special attention will be
paid to issues of gender and their investigation in the texts, to the humorous and satirical vein,
and to the mode of the fantastic in the stories.
PROSEMINARE II (empfohlen nach der ZP)
N.B. Soweit von den DozentInnen nicht anders angekündigt, finden in den PS
II in Literaturwissenschaft am 22.07.06 zentrale Abschlussklausuren statt.
Dozent/in: Prof. Jon Adams
American Film – After New Hollywood
Fr 14-18
HS 3219
SWS: 2
AS: ZP
T: David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction, 6th ed. (New
York, McGraw-Hill, 2001).
LVtyp: PSII
This course examines Hollywood movies since 1980. Some of the movies that will be shown and
discussed include: Blue Velvet, Blade Runner, Pulp Fiction, L. A. Confidential, American
Beauty, Fargo, Unforgiven, The Truman Show, Memento, Mulholland Drive. The first movie
will be shown on the first day of class at 14:00 in room 3219.
Dozent/in: Dr. Jan Alber
The Deconstruction of Traditional Story Parameters in Postmodernist Fiction
Do 14-16
UB ÜR 1
SWS: 2
AN: list (room 4206)
AS: active participation, oral report, mid-term essay, written exam (Klausur)
TV: Zwischenprüfung
T: At Swim-Two-Birds, Lost in the Funhouse, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
LVtyp: PS II
In this seminar, we will deal with novels and short stories that are usually classified as being
postmodernist (like Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds, John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse,
John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Gabriel Josipovici’s “Mobius the Stripper” and
Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves”). Among other things, we will address the
deconstruction of traditional narratological parameters in postmodernist fiction. Also, we will
discuss various definitions of postmodernism and see whether they can applied to these texts.
Dozent/in: Dr. Irina Burlui-Wahrig
Modernism and the American Fiction
Mo 10-12
Peterhof, HS 4
SWS: 2
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AN: Liste in 4048 oder amst@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
AS: Hausarbeit
T: Ernest Hemingway: In Our Time; The Sun also Rises; F. Scott Fitzgerald: This
Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby; John Dos Passos: Manhattan Transfer; William
Faulkner: Soldier’s Pay, The Sound and the Fury.
LVtyp: PS II
Part of the important cultural inheritance of the early twentieth century, modernism established
itself as an elitist, form-seeking trend which reflected the whole complexity of the social,
spiritual and historical context of the time. Its peak period lay between 1910 – 1925, but it had an
overwhelming impact on later fictional creations, opening up new directions for an innovative
poetics of the novel. The texts proposed for discussion will reveal the impressive thematic and
formal variety of some first-rank American contributions to the development of the trend.
Dozent/in: Kerstin Fest
Academia in Literature – The British Campus Novel
Do 14-16
Wilhelmstr. 26, HS 00 016
SWS: 2
AN: Liste Raum 4006 oder per Email an kerstin.fest@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
AS: oral report, midterm essay, final exam, active and regular participation
T: Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim; David Lodge, Small World and Nice Work; A.S.
Byatt, Possession; Zadie Smith, On Beauty.
LVtyp: PS II
The campus novel is one of the most popular genres of British 20th-century fiction. In this
course we will explore the representation of university and academics in literary texts. We will
discuss to what extent these texts can be read as political novels as well as analyse the
metafictional and intertextual elements of the novels.
Dozent/in: Rüdiger Heinze
Theater and Performance
Mi 14-16
HS 1234
SWS: 2
AN: Liste im Sekretariat Raum 4048
AS: presentation/midterm/final essay
T: Reader
LVtyp: PS II
All theater is performance, but not all performance is theater. In fact, performance may cover
dance, opera, music, live (‘performance’) art, but also sports, games, rituals, etc. Many
disciplines have analyzed the various performative aspects of human life, but it is theater (and
art) – through its subjunctive mood of the ‘as if’ – which has proven to be one the most fertile
grounds for explorations of performance, especially in America. In this course, we will look at
the complex relationship between script, theater and performance. We will read key essays on
performance and performance theory (from Artaud, Beck and Brook to Grotowski, Stanislavski
and Schechner) and look at a period in American theater that proved particularly fecund ground
for experiment (1960s and 70s). In addition, we will cooperate with the local theater to
complement theory with practice. A reader will be available.
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American Drama
Do 12-14
Sedanstr. 6, Raum 1
SWS: 2
AN: registration on list, R. 4048, or via email: amst@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
T: George Aiken, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852); Bronson Howard, Shenandoah
(1885); David Belasco, The Girl from the Golden West (1911); and Eugene O’Neill,
The Emperor Jones (1920). Students in this class will write three essays, one of
which will be written under exam-like conditions.
LVtyp: PS II
This class is especially suited for students wanting to write the written examination in the fall on
American Drama. We will read and discuss a selection of 19th and early 20th century texts
crossing the borderline between the largely still unknown period of American Drama before
Eugene O’Neill and the modern.
Romantic Poetry
Mi 8:30-10
HS 1224/26
SWS: 2
AN: Anmeldung auf Teilnehmerliste in R1411
AS: active participation, short oral report, mid-term essay (BA Studienleistung), end
of term exam (BA Prüfungsleistung)
T: Jerome McGann, ed., The Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse
LVtyp: Proseminar 2
In this seminar we will read and analyse romantic poetry. We will examine the ‘big six’ (Blake,
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron) but also look at some minor romantic poets and
poetesses. This seminar is aimed at students AFTER the Zwischenprüfung. You will be required
to read a large amount of poetry as well as secondary texts.
Dozent/in: Dr. Jochen Petzold/ Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut
Shakespeare in Action – Romeo and Juliet
Di 14-16
Alte Uni, HS 220
SWS: 2
AS: regelmäßige Teilnahme, Abschlussklausur; Schein in Linguistik ODER
T: Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ed. Blakemore Evans. New Cambridge
Shakespeare. Updated ed. 2003; Barber, C. Early modern English. 1997. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh Press.
Additional material will be provided in a reader (Kopierkostenersatz); Further
reading: Romeo and Juliet, ed. James N. Loehlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2002; Dobson, E. English pronunciation 1500 – 1700. Oxford: Clarendon
Press; Kökeritz, H. 1960. Shakespeare’s pronunciation. New Haven: Yale
University Press; Braunmuller, A. & Hattaway, M. (eds.). 1990. The Cambridge
Companion to Renaissance Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
LTyp: PS II Literaturwissenschaft oder Linguistik
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This Proseminar has the unique format of combining literary criticism, linguistic analysis and
acting experience to equal parts. You will explore Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as a
Renaissance drama, learn about its staging history and analyse Shakespeare’s language, Early
Modern English, in terms of phonology, morphosyntax, vocabulary, word play and imagery. All
this will culminate in the performance of a scene in original pronunciation. Students are expected
to participate actively in class, to prepare thoroughly and to participate in the performance either
as actor/actress or as part of the director’s team. A Schein can be obtained for EITHER literary
studies OR linguistics.
Dozent/in: Ulrike Pirker, M.A.
The Representation of Blacks in English Literature 1600-1900
Fr 10-12
HS 3117
SWS: 2
AN: Anmeldung auf Liste Raum 4007, ab der letzten Vorlesungswoche des
Wintersemesters
AS: Kurzreferat, Klausur
TV: ZP
T: William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Arden Edition), Aphra Behn Oroonoko,
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, and Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim. A reader with
additional short texts will be provided in the first session (Kopierkostenersatz).
LVtyp: PS II
Race and ethnicity have not only become frequently addressed themes in today’s English
literature and culture – they are also much debated issues of cultural theory. This course aims at
an investigation of the literary treatment of race and ethnicity in earlier periods and pursues the
question how they became distinct markers of identity. Although historical and theoretical
perspectives will be considered, the focus will be on the discussion of the above mentioned
literary works. Students who are interested in the seminar should have passed the
Zwischenprüfung and must be prepared to read the required texts diligently and give a short
group presentation. The Tempest must be read until the beginning of term.
Dozent/in: Christoph Schüly
Charles Dickens
Mi 14-16
Alte Uni, HS 201
SWS: 2
AN: Persönlich in meinen Sprechstunden (Mo 15-16 Uhr, Raum 4007)
AS: active participation, short oral report, mid-term essay, final exam (Klausur)
T: The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, The Mystery of Edwin
Drood
LVtyp: PS II
Charles Dickens became a celebrity author very soon after he had published the opening
instalment of his first major work The Pickwick Papers. At the beginning of the 21st century, he
is still one of the most cited, most discussed and most popular British writers. However, the way
he is approached by his audience has changed considerably in the course of the last 150 years.
While many Victorians were enthusiastic readers of his novels as soon as they were published in
weekly or monthly instalments, his audience today usually gets to know him via the medium of
film. Therefore, at least one of the numerous filmic adaptations of Dickens’s novels shall be
discussed in this course. We will start off, however, with a close-reading of his first two novels
(The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist). We will then move on to his autobiographical work
David Copperfield and conclude with his last (and unfinished) novel The Mystery of Edwin
Drood. It is advisable to start reading the texts before the beginning of term.
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HAUPTSEMINARE
Dozent/in: Prof. Jon Adams, PhD
War and the American Novel
Mi 16-18
Sedanstr. 6, R 4
SWS: 2
TV: ZP
T: James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy; Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage;
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms; Joseph Heller, Catch-22; Joe Haldeman,
The Forever War.
LVtyp: HS
The course traces the representation of war through the history of the American novel, from the
Revolutionary War to Vietnam War.
Native American and Canadian First Nations Drama
Di 10-12
UB ÜR 9
SWS: 2
AN: via email (wolfgang.hochbruck@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de)
T: Gerald Vizenor, “Ishi and the Wood Ducks”; Drew H. Taylor, The Bootlegger
Blues. Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1991; Tomson Highway, Dry Lips Oughta Move to
Kapuskasing Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1989, possibly others.
Texts not available through bookstores will be placed in a reader.
LVtyp: HS
Whereas there is not even a handful of Native American plays out of more than 150 years of
literary history, the Canadian First Nations Theatre scene has been enjoying a series of brilliant
successes with the plays by Tomson Highway, Drew Hayden Taylor, Shirley Cheechoo, and
others. We will discuss the curiosities of this reversal of literary historical orders (compared to
the over-all situation of US and Canadian literatures) as well as read a selection of texts.
Bernard MacLaverty
Blockseminar
Zeit und Ort siehe
Aushang Rm. 4211
SWS: 2
B: 1. Semesterwoche
AN: nur persönliche Anmeldung in der Sprechstunde (nach Erscheinen des
kommentierten VV)
AS: expert group, term paper
TV: ZP
T: see comment
LVtyp: HS
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This Blockseminar might be of particular interest to Staatsexamen candidates since it is co-taught
with Prof. Mechthild Hesse from the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg and will include
consideration of the teaching of MacLaverty’s work. However, our main focus will be on literary
and cultural aspects.
Brian MacLaverty is a prominent contemporary writer from Northern Ireland and will be present
during one session to discuss a selection of his recent short stories with us. We will also discuss
some of his novels (Cal, Lamb and The Anatomy School) and their film adaptations. The seminar
will be accompanied by an exhibition and other extras.
A seminar outline, reading list and bibliography will by available from mid-June. Papers are
due four weeks after the end of term.
The Picaresque Paradigm in the English Novel
Di 14-16
Sedanstr. 6, R 4
SWS: 2
kommentierten VV)
TV: ZP
T: Please obtain: Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, Daniel Defoe, Moll
Flanders, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, William M.
Thackeray, Barry Lyndon, Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim, Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha
of Suburbia.
LVtyp: HS
Picaresque narrative originates in early-modern Europe under specific cultural and
socioeconomic conditions. Since then, the picaresque paradigm has undergone change
but retained its vitality as a mode in which resistance to dominant cultural assumptions can be
expressed. The seminar will trace the history of the picaresque paradigm in the English novel
from the sixteenth century until today. Thackeray’s novel will be compared to its film adaptation
(Stanley Kubrick), and we will also discuss one recent Hollywood example, the feature
film Catch Me If You Can.
All participants will have to join an expert group [responsible for one session]. Other
requirements: regular attendance and oral participation. Seminar papers are due four weeks after
the end of term.
Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte/Prof. Dr. Sylvia Paletschek
Geschichte und Kriminalroman
Di 8.30-10.00
Sedanstr. 6, R 1
SWS: 2
kommentierten VV)
TV: ZP
T: Ein genauer Seminarplan und eine Bibliographie sind ab Februar in den
zuständigen Sekretariaten erhältlich.
LVtyp: HS
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Historische Kriminalromane, bzw. Kriminalromane, die in historischen Epochen von der Antike
bis zur Zeitgeschichte angesiedelt sind, haben sich zu einer literarischen ‘Mode’ entwickelt. Das
Seminar betrachtet dieses Genre aus literatur-, kultur- und geschichtswissenschaftlicher
Perspektive, wobei Kriminalromane aus der englischsprachigen Welt einen besonderen
Stellenwert einnehmen werden. Die Diskussion wird sich u.a. Fragen nach der besonderen
Affinität des Kriminalromans zu Geschichte und Vergangenheit, dem Quellenwert des
Kriminalromans, den Bezügen zwischen Historiker und Detektiv, den Gründen für die besondere
Beliebtheit der historischen Krimis im gegenwärtigen kulturellen Spektrum widmen. Auch die
Geschichte und Theorie des Kriminalromans selbst (und seiner vielfältigen Varianten) sowie ein
kurzer Einblick in die Geschichte der Kriminalität wird Gegenstand des Seminars sein. Ein
genauer Seminarplan und eine Bibliographie sind ab Februar in den zuständigen Sekretariaten
erhältlich.
Dozent/in: Dr. Sieglinde Lemke
Classics of American Literature II
Mi 16-18
Sedanstr. 6, R 2
SWS: 2
AN: Liste in 4048 oder per Email: amst@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
AS: AS: Moderation, response papers, Hausarbeit, regelmäßige Teilnahme
TV: Studierende im Hauptstudium (nach der ZP)
T: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), Harriet
Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom´s Cabin (1852), and Mark Twain’s Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn (1885)
LVtyp: HS
Concentrating on three canonical novels: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an
American Slave (1845), Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom´s Cabin (1852), and Mark Twain’s
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), this class examines literary works that deal with one of
the most significant political conflicts of the 19th Century. The students will acquire skills in
textual analysis, and learn about genre-specific differences (slave narrative, popular and
regionalist/ humorous fiction) as well as the socio-historical context of the antebellum period.
Primitivism and Transatlantic Modernism
Fr 14-18: 12.5., 26.6., 9.6., 23.6., 7.7., 21.7.
KG IV, ÜR 1
SWS: Blockseminar
AN: Liste in 4048 oder per email: amst@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
AS: Moderation, response papers, Hausarbeit, regelmäßige Teilnahme
T: A reader will be provided
LVtyp: HS; EPG II semimar
This course explores the concept of Primitivism in its philosophical, cultural, and art historical
manifestations. Ranging from Jean Jacques Rousseau’s famous essay to Pablo Picasso’s
legendary cubist painting “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,” from Josephine Baker’s primitivist
dance performances to the creation of a black American modernism in music and the visual arts,
this class explores the interrelation of modernism and primitivism in a broader transnational
perspective. It shows how African and African American artistic expressions as well as fantasies
permeated high and mass culture on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Introduction to Textual Analysis
Do 16-18
Sedanstr. 6, R 1
SWS: 2
AS: Moderation, response papers, Hausarbeit, regelmäßige Teilnahme
T: A reader will be provided
LVtyp: Ü
In this course students will acquire the tools and critical apparatus necessary for producing a
competent written/oral analysis of American literary and visual texts.
The course presents the standard techniques of textual analysis, and provides students with the
analytic terminology necessary for proficiently reading a text or film.
Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. mult. Herbert Pilch
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Fr 11-13
R 4008
SWS: 2
T: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. F.N. Robinson, Boston 21957: Houghton
Mifflin Co. [this edition contains all the essentials required].
LVtyp: HS
Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” are considered, by many literary scholars, the finest piece of
medieval English literature. They consist of a frame story about a party of pilgrims on their way
to the shrine of St.Thomas of Canterbury. Embedded therein are twenty-two individual verse
tales and fragments which, between them, offer a spectrum of the contemporary narrative genres
extending from the gruesomeness of the Martyr’s Legend (The Prioress’s Tale) to the crude
humour of the Fabliau (the Miller’s Tale), from the ridicule of an excessive sense of chivalry (the
Knight’s Tale) to the witty arguments of the domineering, multi-marriage female (the Wife of
Bath’s Tale) whose interpretation of the Bible puts the clerics to shame. At the same time, each
tale reflects the character of the specific pilgrim narrator involved, the collection as a whole thus
representing a cross-section of character-types from contemporary society except the very toplevel aristocracy. There is a pervading sense of humor in the style of telling, for instance in the
double meaning of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale as animal fable and as controversy on the veracity of
dreams. All those attending will be asked to read the stories at the rate of one per week. At each
meeting, one student will be asked to report about the problems of the pertinent tale, which will
then be up for discussion either in English or in German. The topic of discussion will be the
original Middle English text (which is relatively easy to read even to the novice with no
preliminary knowledge of 14th century London English). Those who find an additional modern
translation helpful, are welcome to use one, but the latter will not be the topic of discussion.
Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Michelle Reutter
Feminine Appropriations – The Girl Western and the Women’s Western
SWS: 2
AN: list in Room 4048 oder per Email: amst@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
AS: t.b.a
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Mi 10-12
HS 1034
TV: ZP
T: for a reading list see http://www.studium.uni-freiburg.de/de/lehrveranstaltungen
LVtyp: HS
This course will focus on the “American West” (or more accurately the U.S. frontier) as a
conceptual and gendered space. We will focus primarily on the genres of the Girl Western and
the Women’s Western. We will read and view film clips from a select number of mainstream and
marginal” examples of Westerns, including the above genres. Course work will include written
exercises and daily quizzes as well as two essays and an intermediate and final examination.
Interspersed with the lecture component of this seminar will be a number of points from critical
interpretations of the West by scholars including Annette Kolodny, Ann Romines, and Susan
Rosowski. For more details see http://www.studium.uni-freiburg.de/de/lehrveranstaltungen
LITERATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHE ÜBUNGEN
10 x Begleitübung zur VL Introduction to Literary Studies
(für genauere Angaben siehe unter „Vorlesungen“)
2 x Begleitübung zur VL Survey of English Literature
2 x Begleitübungen zur VL Black American Literature
Dozent/in: Jon Adams
Survey of British and American Literature
Di 16-18
HS 1224/26
SWS: 2
T: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet; Kate Chopin, The Awakening; Arthur
Miller, The Crucible; Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Susanna Rowson,
Charlotte Temple
LVtyp: Literaturwiss. Übung
This course is a survey of the major genres of British and American literature, including poetry,
drama, and the novel.
Carl Schurz (1827-1906) and the German-American Heritage
Fr 10-14
Carl-Schurz-Haus, Seminarraum
SWS: 4
B: Blockseminare am 3.3. und 24.3.2006; zentrale Veranstaltung 15.5.06, letzte
Sitzung 19.5.05
AN: personal registration via e-mail (wolfgang.hochbruck@anglistik.unifreiburg.de)
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T: reader available by Feb. 22
LVtyp: Ü
This class will prepare and conduct a memorial event on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of
the death of Carl Schurz, former revolutionist, newspaper editor, Civil War general, senator, and
U.S. Minister of the Interior. Schurz was the most well-known German-American of the 19th and
most of the 20th century. His anniversary provides the opportunity for a reassessment.
The class will read and discuss some German-American material (reader available by Feb. 22),
and then operate in groups. We will prepare an exhibition and an internet presentation, and
conduct the central memorial event in connection with the Carl Schurz Haus Freiburg, plus
whatever else you might have in terms of ideas and plans. The class is especially suited for
students who want to get an idea of what “project days” in schools may be like, and for those
interested in the field of event management.
Interpretation and Essay
Do 10-12
HS 1236
SWS: 2
AN: Anmeldeliste in R 4211
AS: 2 exams
LVtyp: Ü
This Übung is aimed at students of English literature towards the end of their Hauptstudium,
expecially exam candidates. We will practice techniques of literary interpretation and essay
writing under exam conditions in order to prepare students for their final written exams.
Dozent/in: Jochen Petzold
Reading and Discussing Shakespeare (and the semiotics of theatre)
Di 16-18
HS 1108
SWS: 2
AS: regelmäßige Teilnahme, Abschlussklausur
TV: keine, empfohlen nach der ZP
T: Shakespeare, King John, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar
(recommended ed.: New Cambridge Shakespeare oder Arden Shakespeare)
LVtyp: Ü
This ‘Übung’ gives you an opportunity to read and discuss a ‘cross-section’ of Shakespeare’s
oeuvre: a comedy (Much Ado About Nothing), a tragedy (Julius Caesar), a history play (King
John) and a romance (The Tempest). We will spend two sessions on each text, discussing major
themes and dramatic techniques. Special emphasis will be placed on the semiotics of theatre, i.e.
the way the production of a play generates meaning with the help of a system of signs (stage
design, costumes, acting, etc.). If you want a ‘Schein’, you will have to pass a written exam.
All four plays discussed in this Übung will be part of the programme of this year’s ‘ShakespeareExkursion’ in October. If you are interested in taking part in the excursion (and have not yet
signed up), please contact me as soon as possible – preferably before the start of the summer
term. Taking part in the excursion is not a prerequisite for taking this class; neither do you have
to attend the Übung if you want to participate in the excursion.
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KOLLOQUIEN
Examenskolloquium
Do 17-18
Peterhof, HS 3
SWS: 1
TV: for registered candidates
LVtyp: EX
Designed for candidates who have already registered with me. We will discuss British and
American texts preparing candidates for the final oral as well as written exams. Expect to write a
test essay, and to pass a mock oral exam.
Examenskolloquium
Di 16-17
Peterhof, HS 2
SWS: 1
LVtyp: EX
OBERSEMINARE
Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte & Prof. Dr. F. J. Brüggemeier
Die 1980er Jahre in Großbritannien
Mo 18-20
KG IV, ÜR 2
SWS: 2
AN: Programm und Termin für die persönliche Anmeldung werden per Aushang
bekannt gegeben
LVtyp: OS
Das Seminar widmet sich den wesentlichen politischen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen
einer Dekade, die durch Margaret Thatcher geprägt wurde und auf die Schriftsteller, Künstler
und Filmemacher vielfältig reagierten.
Eine Bibliographie und ein genauer Seminarplan mit Lektürehinweisen stehen ab Februar in den
jeweiligen Sekretariaten zur Verfügung. Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an Studierende vor dem
Examen sowie Doktoranden.
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Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte und Dr. Jochen Petzold
Shakespeare-Exkursion
nach Stratford-upon-Avon
vom 9. bis 14. Oktober 2006
Ein Shakespeare-Stück in einem Seminar zu lesen ist eine Sache. Das Stück von der Royal
Shakespeare Company aufgeführt zu sehen ist eine ganz andere.
Falls Sie Lust haben, fünf von Shakespeares Dramen zu sehen und die Aufführungen zu
diskutieren, kommen Sie doch mit nach Stratford!
In Stratford werden wir an einem Kurs des renommierten Shakespeare-Institutes teilnehmen und
fünf Aufführungen der Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) besuchen. Auf dem Kursprogramm
stehen u.a. Einführungen zu den Stücken, die gemeinsame Besprechung der Aufführungen,
Diskussionsrunden mit Darstellern der RSC sowie Veranstaltungen mit anderen Mitarbeitern des
Theaters (z.B. Make-up artist oder Voice coach). Außerdem wird es Führungen durch
Shakespeares Geburtshaus und hinter die Kulissen des Theaters geben.
Dieses Jahr sehen wir einen Querschnitt durch das Werk Shakespeares: eine Komödie, eine
Tragödie, eine Romance, ein History Play und ein Roman Play:
Much Ado About Nothing
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest
King John
Julius Caesar
Falls Sie an der Exkursion teilnehmen wollen, kommen Sie bitte zur Info-Veranstaltung:
Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006, 18 Uhr ct., HS 1016
Auskünfte erteilt außerdem: Dr. Jochen Petzold, Tel. 203-3334
jochen.petzold@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
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SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT
Informationen zur sprachwissenschaftlichen Zwischenprüfung
Im SS 2006 findet die virtuelle Übung „Linguistic Exercises Online“ zur Vorbereitung auf den
sprachwissenschaftlichen Teil der Zwischenprüfung statt. (Siehe Vorlesungsverzeichnis.) Stoff
der Zwischenprüfung wird – wie bisher – im Wesentlichen der Inhalt der Vorlesung
„Introduction to Synchronic Linguistics“ sein, d.h. die Gebiete Phonetik/Phonologie,
Morphologie, Syntax, Semantik, Varietätenlinguistik, Soziolinguistik, kontrastive Linguistik
(Deutsch – Englisch) sowie grundlegende Kenntnisse phonologischer Veränderungen in der
Sprachgeschichte des Englischen.
Die Teilnahme an der Übung ist freiwillig, wird aber dringend empfohlen.
Alle Materialien, Skripte, Literaturlisten, Übungen etc. werden auf der Lehr-Lernplattform der
Uni Freiburg CampusOnline zur Verfügung stehen:
https://campusonline.uni-freiburg.de > Philologie > Englisches Seminar
Hinweise zur Prüferwahl
Die Zuteilung eines Prüfers für den Bereich Sprachwissenschaft erfolgt zentral. Hierzu steht
unter http://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/institut/zp-linguistics/ ein Formular zum Download
bereit, auf welchem einige Daten und insbesondere der erste und zweite Wunschprüfer
anzugeben sind. Folgende Dozenten nehmen im SS 2006 den sprachwissenschaftlichen Teil der
Zwischenprüfung ab:
Dr. Lieselotte Anderwald
Dr. Dagmar Deuber
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Halford
Dr. Verena Haser
Lars Hinrichs
Dr. Joachim Schmole-Rostosky
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Die ausgefüllten Formulare sind bis zum 16. Juni 2006 im Postfach von Dr. Lieselotte
Anderwald zu deponieren. Wir werden versuchen, Ihren Wünschen weitgehend
entgegenzukommen und werden Sie bis zum 21.06.2006 über Ihren Prüfer per eMail
informieren.
Beachten Sie, dass diese Anmeldung nicht die formelle Anmeldung bei dem
Zwischenprüfungsbeauftragten des Englischen Seminars ersetzt!
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VORLESUNGEN
Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Halford
Introduction to Synchronic Linguistics
Mo 10-12
HS 2006
SWS: 2
AN: none
AS: final written exam
TV: none
T: a lecture script will be provided
LVtyp: VL
This lecture offers a trip around the world of linguistics to beginning students with little or no
previous knowledge of the discipline. Present-Day English will be our travelling guide to the
basic concepts of semantics (the study of meaning relations), morphology (the study of words
and other meaning-carrying elements), phonology (the study of sound patterns), and syntax (the
study of sentence patterns). After this encounter with language as a system, we will venture into
the area of language and its use in actual communication (discourse analysis and pragmatics),
language and its users (the geographic and social variability of English, English as a world
language), and language and the brain.
Note: This lecture series will be accompanied by tutorials.
Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christian Mair
Introduction to Diachronic Linguistics
Mo 10-12
HS 1015
SWS: 2
T: Baugh/Cable, A History of the English Language, 4th ed.
LVtyp: VL
This is the standard introduction to the history of the English language for beginners. After an
introduction, in which we shall look at examples of linguistic change going on in present-day
English, we will survey the major developments in English phonology, grammar and the
vocabulary from Old English times to the present. Where appropriate, the facts of linguistic
history will be discussed against the socio-cultural context of the time.
Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut
Phonetics
Di 11-12
HS 3219
SWS: 1
T: Ball, M. & Rahilly, J. 1999. Phonetics. London: Arnold.
LVtyp: VL
This lecture will give an overview of the field of phonetics including articulatory phonetics,
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acoustic phonetics and auditory phonetics. In detail, the physiology and function of the speech
organs, phonation and articulation, the acoustic properties of the various sounds and sound
classes and the psychophysical properties of the auditory system will be presented and discussed.
In addition, the IPA and phonemic/phonetic transcription will be introduced.
This lecture is designed for students of English and of Phonetics at any level and comprises
lecture parts as well as opportunities for active participation in exercises and discussions.
Language Acquisition
Do 10-12
Sedanstr. 6, R 4
SWS: 2
TV: Vorlesung Introduction to synchronic linguistics
T: a lecture script will be provided
LVtyp: VL
This lecture offers a first introduction to the vast area of language acquisition research. How do
children learn to talk? How do they manage to learn the phonology, morphology, syntax,
vocabulary and writing system of the language they are exposed to? How do they become
efficient communicators who can hold conversations, make requests, tell stories, play role
games? Current issues of acquisition research will be discussed such as communicative need,
social interaction, the importance of the right kind of input, the nature nurture debate, the issue of
universal grammar. Towards the end of the term I will compare first language acquisition with
bilingual acquisition, and second language acquisition and also look at special populations such
as deaf and blind children, and children with genetic disorders affecting language acquisition and
use.
Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Bernd Kortmann
Typology of European Languages
Mi 10-12
HS 3117
SWS: 2
AS: regelmäßige Anwesenheit und Mitarbeit in Arbeitsgruppen
TV: V Introduction to Synchronic Linguistics
EV: Lektürehinweis für die erste Sitzung: Comrie, Bernard. 1988. “Linguistic
Typology”. In: Newmeyer, Frederick J., eds. Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey.
Vol I: Linguistic Theory: Foundations. 447-461. (Eine Masterkopie des Artikels
befindet sich in dem Ordner zur Vorlesung im Semesterapparat Kortmann.)
Comrie, Bernard. 1996. Language universals and linguistic typology. Oxford:
Blackwell; Croft, William. 2004². Typology and universals. Cambridge: CUP;
Haspelmath, Martin/Hans-Jörg Bibiko, eds. 2005. The world atlas of language
structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Haspelmath, Martin et al., eds. 2001.
Language typology and language universals. 2 vols. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter;
Kortmann, Bernd, ed. 2004. Dialectology meets typology: dialect grammar from a
cross-linguistic perspective. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter; Roelcke,
Thorsten, ed. 2003. Variationstypologie: ein sprachtypologisches Handbuch der
europäischen Sprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Berlin: de Gruyter; Shibatani,
Masayoshi/ Theodora Bynon, eds. 1995. Approaches to language typology. Oxford:
Clarendon Press; Shopen, Timothy, ed. 1985 (2nd edition to appear 2006).
Language typology and linguistic description. 3 vols. Cambridge: CUP.
LVtyp: VL
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Typology is a branch of comparative linguistics which is interested in the patterns and especially
in the limits of variation observable in the world's languages. This includes the search for
language properties which may be universal, i.e. common for all languages. The concept of
universality is much more important however in Chomskyan linguistics, where the exploration of
the so-called Universal Grammar (UG), i.e. the set of grammatical properties holding for the
grammars of all existing and possible natural languages, is regarded as the ultimate purpose of
modern linguistics. It is one of the aims of this lecture to give an account of the basic concepts
(e.g. types of universals, iconicity, markedness), methodologies, and central claims of the two
approaches, and ultimately of the great differences between them. The lecture will have two foci:
(a) selected areas of morphology and grammar (e.g. word order, tense and aspect, subordination)
as studied from the functional (or: Greenbergian) approach to typology, which has clearly proved
to be the most fruitful one in the course of the last few decades; (b) the European languages,
drawing in particular on the results of the international research programme “Typology of
European Languages” (EUROTYP) published in several volumes since 1998. Further topics to
be addressed will include the following: the role that recent approaches to linguistics (e.g.
prototype theory, cognitive semantics) play in functional typology, characteristics of the major
language families in Europe, areal typology (including the notion of Sprachbund and Benjamin
Lee Whorf's hypothesis of a Standard Average European), and the usefulness of typology for
dialectology, contrastive linguistics and historical linguistics (especially grammaticalization
research).
NOTE: Students from all language departments are welcome. Students interested in this lecture
may also find the Ringvorlesung “Minderheitensprachen in Europa” worth attending.
The Spread of English II – Africa, Asia & the Pacific
Di 10-12
HS 1023
SWS: 2
AS: depends on participants’ status
LVtyp: VL
This is a sequel to last term’s lecture on the “Spread of English” in North America and the
Caribbean. Newcomers are welcome, however, and will be able to follow the lecture without
having attended part I. We shall explore the establishment of first- and second-language Englishspeaking communities in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, focussing both on the new varieties which
have emerged and on the sociocultural contexts in which they are used. In the final weeks of the
term we will explore the relevance of research in EWC studies for (socio)linguistic theory and
literary and cultural studies.
PROSEMINARE I (synchrone Proseminare)
Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
Di 10-12
HS 1021
SWS: 2
AN: Listeneintrag vor R 4215
AS: regular active participation and a final written exam
T: tba
LVtyp: PS I
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This seminar is an introduction to the basic concepts of phonetics and phonology . It is mainly
descriptive rather than theory-oriented. The methods of articulatory, auditory and acoustic
phonetics will be addressed using English language material. This will be followed by an
analysis of the phonological systems of different varieties of English and a contrastive
comparison between English, German, French and Spanish. The last part of the term will be
devoted to applied phonology: the mechanisms of first language acquisition, characteristics of
child-directed speech, second language teaching and learning, and speech therapy. The course is
intended for students of English and of phonetics (with a good knowledge of English).
Note: There is also a practical course (Übung Practical Phonetics) which may be taken in
combination with this seminar if you are looking for a practical application of the knowledge you
will acquire here.
Dozent/in: Dr. Verena Haser
Language and Thought
Di 14-16
Peterhof, HS 4
SWS: 2
AN: please register by e-mail (verena.haser@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de)
AS: regular attendance, reading assignments, presentation, term paper
TV: Introduction to Synchronic Linguistics
LVtyp: PS I
This seminar will be concerned with the relation between language and thought. Issues to be
addressed include the following: How to characterize the relation between concepts and word
meanings? How are insights from psychological research on concepts applied to the study of
word meaning? What is the evidence for the existence of an innate “language of thought” which
we tacitly use as a guide for understanding ordinary words? Another focus of our discussions
will be the question whether language influences or even determines the way we think, an idea
originally proposed by Sapir in 1929 which has received much interest in recent years. Due to
the interdisciplinary nature of research on language and thought, the articles discussed offer not
merely linguistic, but also philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspectives on the
respective topics. Overall, students will have to invest c. 125 hours in reading, preparing the oral
presentation and writing their term paper (this is what a proseminar is supposed to be worth).
Dozent/in: Dr. Joachim Schmole-Rostosky
Hauptkapitel der englischen Grammatik
Di 8.30-10.00
HS 1108
SWS: 2
AN: per E-mail: joachim.schmole@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
AS: Referat oder Hausarbeit und Klausur
TV: linguistische Grundkenntnisse
T: /
LVtyp: PS I
In diesem Proseminar werden wir uns mit verschiedenen wichtigen Kapiteln der englischen
Grammatik beschäftigen. U.a. werden folgende Themen behandelt: Numerus im Englischen,
Verbalaspekt (simple form vs. Progressive form), Tempora: Präsens, Present Perfect, Past und
Pluperfect, Ausdruck des Futurs, Infinitiv und Gerundium, Artikelgebrauch. Das Seminar ist
praxisorientiert, soll praktische Übungen aber nicht ersetzen, sondern ergänzen.
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Synchrone Lexikologie des Englischen
Do 10-12
HS 1136
SWS: 2
AS: Referat und Hausarbeit
T: /
LVtyp: PS I
Mit der ständig wachsenden Komplexität der modernen Welt wächst auch der Bedarf an neuen
Bezeichnungen. Wie werden diese im Englischen bereitgestellt? Neben Entlehnung, Wortbildung und Bedeutungserweiterung werden wir auch Phänomene wie Wortschatzschichtung,
Slang, Spezialvokabulare diskutieren.
Dozent/in: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Interactional Sociolinguistics
Di 8-10
HS 1228/30
SWS: 2
AN: sign up on list outside my office (4222), starting February 20
AS: regular attendance, participation, presentation, term paper
TV: Introduction to Synchronic Linguistics
LVtyp: PS I
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to theories and methods of discourse analysis
as applied to dialogic or multi-party discourse. The course will provide reading and discussion
of, and practice trying out on the basis of authentic conversation transcripts, a variety of
approaches to the analysis of conversational discourse. The theoretical focus is primarily
interactional sociolinguistics, though ethnomethodological approaches will be subject to
discussion as well. Topics will include discourse topic; turn-taking; adjacency pairs; repair;
conversational style; involvement strategies; politeness, humor, and discourse markers.
Students will be required to read on a regular basis, take an active part in class (this will be part
of your final grade), participate in group work, present excerpts or other summaries on the basis
of reading assignments, and write a term paper. The time students will have to invest in reading,
preparation, and writing the term paper is going to total c. 125 hours (which is what a Proseminar
is supposed to be “worth”).
Registration: there will be a list on my office door (4222) from February 20 onwards. Unless you
are a “Studienortwechsler” or an exchange student, email registration is not possible.
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PROSEMINARE II (diachrone Proseminare)
Cognitive and Social Factors in Language Change
Mi 8.30-10
HS 1108
SWS: 2
AN: Listeneintrag vor 4215
AS: regular active participation in class and in a team accompanying the class and a
final written exam
TV: none
T: to be announced
LVtyp: PS II
Why do languages change constantly? After a short review of the major changes the English
language has undergone and an assessment of common types of changes in general, we will
discuss various models explaining language change with a focus on those approaches which look
beyond the language system taking into account cognitive and social factors. Recent research
from fields such as psycholinguistics, sociolingiustics, and grammaticalization theory will be
discussed in class.
Dozent/in: Dr. Dagmar Deuber
Old English
Di 11-12 & Di 14-16
SWS: 2
AN: Liste in Raum 4107 (Sekretariat Prof. Mair) ab 24.4.2006; keine Anmeldung
vor dem 24.4.2006, keine E-mail Anmeldung
AS: regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme, Klausur
TV: ZP, “Introduction to Diachronic Linguistics” erwünscht
T: Smith, Jeremy J. (2005). Essentials of Early English. 2nd ed. London: Routledge;
Baugh, Albert C. and Thomas Cable (2002). A History of the English Language. 5th
ed. London: Routledge.
EV: Chapters 1 and 3 in Smith (2005)
LVtyp: PS II
After briefly reviewing the main developments in the history of English which make Old English
and the present-day language so different, this course will focus on the structure of Old English
(phonology, morphology and syntax); reading and analysing Old English prose texts from a
linguistic point of view will be an important component of the course. In addition, we will
consider the historical background and literary aspects of Old English texts.
Note: Students must attend both morning sessions (11-12) and afternoon sessions (14-16), as the
course starts only in the 8th week of the semester. It is not possible to attend only morning or
only afternoon sessions.
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Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut/ Dr. Jochen Petzold
Shakespeare in Action – Romeo and Juliet
Di 14-16
Alte Uni, HS 220
SWS: 2
AS: regelmäßige Teilnahme, Abschlussklausur; Schein in Linguistik ODER
T: Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ed. Blakemore Evans. New Cambridge
Shakespeare. Updated ed. 2003.
Barber, C. Early modern English. 1997. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Press.
Additional material will be provided in a reader (Kopierkostenersatz)
Further reading: Romeo and Juliet, ed. James N. Loehlin. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002; Dobson, E. English pronunciation 1500 – 1700. Oxford:
Clarendon Press; Kökeritz, H. 1960. Shakespeare’s pronunciation. New Haven:
Yale University Press; Braunmuller, A. & Hattaway, M. (eds.). 1990. The
Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
LTyp: PS II Literaturwissenschaft oder Linguistik
This Proseminar has the unique format of combining literary criticism, linguistic analysis and
acting experience to equal parts. You will explore Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as a
Renaissance drama, learn about its staging history and analyse Shakespeare’s language, Early
Modern English, in terms of phonology, morphosyntax, vocabulary, word play and imagery. All
this will culminate in the performance of a scene in original pronunciation. Students are expected
to participate actively in class, to prepare thoroughly and to participate in the performance either
as actor/actress or as part of the director’s team.
A Schein can be obtained for EITHER literary studies OR linguistics.
Dozent/in: Lars Hinrichs, M.A.
Middle English
Mi 10-12
Wilhelmstr. 26, HS 00 016
SWS: 2
AN: Anmeldeliste Raum 4105 ab 20. Februar 2006
AS: Referat, 3-stünd. Abschlussklausur
TV: “Introduction to Diachronic Linguistics”
T: J.J. Smith (1999), Essentials of Early English. London: Routledge.
LVtyp: PS II
This Proseminar II is intended for students who have passed their “Zwischenprüfung” in English.
The main segment of the course will be devoted to a synchronic analysis of Middle English,
including regional variation, with the final three sessions tracing the most important changes
from Middle English to standard Present Day English.
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Einführung in das Altenglische
Mi 16-18
UB ÜR 7
SWS: 2
AN: per E-mail joachim.schmole@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
AS: 2 Hausarbeiten
T: B.Mitchell/Fred C.Robinson: A guide to Old English (6th ed. Oxford 2001)
LVtyp: PS II
In diesem Proseminar werden wir die Gebiete der Phonologie, der Morhologie, der Flektion, der
Wortsemantik sowie der Syntax und der Dialektologie des Altenglischen anhand von 6-7
altenglischen Texten studieren. Die Texte werden linguistisch und literarisch analysiert.
Einführung in die englische Sprache des Mittelalters
Mi 10-12
UB ÜR 7
SWS: 2
AS: 2 Hausarbeiten ggf. 1 Hausarbeit u. 1 Klausur
T: Altenglisch: B.Mitchell/C.F.Robinson: A Guide to Old English (6th ed. Oxford,
2001); Mittelenglisch: J.A.Burrow/Thorlac Turville-Petre: A Book of Middle English
(3rd ed. London, 2005)
LVtyp: PS II
In diesem Proseminar werden wir die Gebiete der Phonologie, Morphologie, Flektion, Syntax,
Wortsemantik und Dialektologie der beiden Sprachperioden Alt-und Mittelenglisch behandeln.
Je 3 Texte aus beiden Epochen werden linguistisch und literarisch analysiert.
Englische Phraseologie
Mo 16-18
HS 1234
SWS: 2
AS: Kurzreferat mit schriftl. Ausarbeitung
TV: /
T: /
LVtyp: PS II
Gegenstand dieses Proseminars werden die verschiedenen Ausprägungen wiederholter Rede
sein. Zu diesem Zweck werden wir von Wortbildungen mit idiomatischer Bedeutung über
stereotype Vergleiche und clichés bis hin zu Sprichwörtern die verschiedensten Formen
wiederholter Rede analysieren und klassifizieren.
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Early Modern English: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Mo 8.30-10.00
HS 1234
SWS: 2
AN: in meinen Sprechstunden oder per E-mail: joachim.schmole@anglistik.unifreiburg.de
AS: Referat/Hausarbeit in englischer Sprache
T: The Arden Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
LVtyp: PS II
The aim of this Proseminar will be to analyse Shakespeare’s language on the levels of phonetics
and phonology, inflection and word-formation, grammatical categories and syntax, as well as its
vocabulary, word semantics, word play and imagery. The linguistic analyses will be
supplemented by literary considerations focusing not only on Julius Caesar but also on
Shakespearean tragedy in general.
HAUPTSEMINARE
Die Anmeldung zu den Hauptseminaren erfolgt ab sofort bei den SeminarleiterInnen bzw. in deren Sekretariat. Bitte beachten Sie bei den nachfolgenden
Veranstaltungsbeschreibungen die entsprechenden Hinweise. Die Anmeldefrist
beginnt in der Regel mit Erscheinen des Kommentierten Vorlesungsverzeichnisses.
Soweit von den DozentInnen nicht anders angekündigt, finden in den
Hauptseminaren in Sprachwissenschaft am Freitag, 28.07.2006, zentrale
Abschlussklausuren statt.
Phonological Variation in Present-Day English
Di 8.30-10
HS 1224/26
SWS: 2
AN: Anmeldung durch Listeneintrag
AS: regular active participation in class, work in an expert team plus term paper or
final written exam
TV: ZP, interest in and basic knowledge of phonology
T: t.b.a
LVtyp: HS
The seminar offers an introduction to the phonological variability of English. In a grand tour of
English-speaking countries around the world we will discuss the present-day pronunciation of
the major varieties of English including new Englishes and creoles, their historical development,
present variability, and ongoing changes. On a more theoretical note we will discuss motors and
mechanisms of sound change in general. The course has three major aims: it will enable you to
recognize and place accents of English around the world, it will provide you with auditory as
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well as acoustic analytical skills for their analysis, and it will introduce you to the field accent
development and sound change in general
Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut
Contrastive Morphology of English and German
Mo 14-16
HS 1231/32
SWS: 2
AN: by email: ulrike.gut@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
TV: ZP
T: Katamba, F. 2002. Morphology. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Bauer, L. 2003. Introducing linguistic morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Press.
LVtyp: HS
In this seminar we will describe, analyse and compare inflectional morphology and word
formation processes in English and German. We will compare different theories of morphology
and investigate how well they describe English and German morphological processes. Further
topics such as morphological universals will also be discussed. Students are expected to take an
active part in class in a variety of forms (group work, discussion, presentation). Requirement for
a Schein is a 4-hour exam (Klausur) at the end of term. This HS is worth 8 ECTS points. Please
sign up by e-mail.
Adverbial Subordination
Mi 14-16
HS 1108
SWS: 2
AN: Liste in R. 4223 ab 07.02.05
AS: Referat (15 Minuten) mit Handout, Hausarbeit (15-20 Seiten) oder 4-stündige
Klausur, regelmäßige Anwesenheit und Mitarbeit
TV: ZP
EV: Auwera, Johan van der, ed. 1998. Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of
Europe. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Biber, Douglas et al. Longman grammar of
spoken and written English. Harlow: Longman. Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth/Bernd
Kortmann, eds. 2000. Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast. Cognitive and
Discourse Perspectives. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Ford, Cecilia E.
1993. Grammar in Interaction: Adverbial Clauses in American English
Conversations. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. Rudolph, Elisabeth. 1996.
Contrast: Adversative and Concessive Relations and their Expressions in English,
German, Spanish, Portuguese on Sentence and Text Level. Berlin/New York: de
Gruyter. Kortmann, Bernd. 1991. Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English: Problems
of Control and Interpretation. London: Routledge. Kortmann, Bernd. 1997.
Adverbial Subordination. A Typology and History of Adverbial Subordinators Based
on European Languages. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter; Mair, Quirk,
Randolph et al. 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language.
London: Longman, chapters 14 and 15.
LVtyp: HS
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There are four basic sets of questions that will be explored in this course: (i) What can be said
about the semantics, pragmatics and, marginally, the evolution of clausal connectives? (ii) Which
semantic and pragmatic factors play a role in the interpretation of adverbial clauses if there is no
explicit marker of an adverbial relation present (as in the Reading... example above)? (iii) Which
differences can be observed in the signalling of coherence relations in written and spoken
discourse? How, for example, are the relevant relations negotiated in linguistic interaction? (iv)
What can be said about adverbial subordination in English from a comparative perspective, and
which major patterns of variation in adverbial subordination can be observed across the
European languages? There will be ample opportunity for working with authentic data in class
and between classes.
All students, whether or not they wish to obtain a certificate, are expected to participate actively
(e.g. engage in group work) and to be willing to give a brief presentation in class. Students
interested in taking this class MUST enter their name in the relevant list in room 4223 beginning
with February 7. NOTE: Students who are not on the list will not be admitted to the course.
A term plan, bibliography and list of topics for presentations and term papers can be picked up
from my secretary (room 4223) from the 2nd week of April onwards.
Masters students (MEL) attending this seminar as a Masters seminar have to attend the tutorial
Tue 9-10 as well.
Cognitive Linguistics
Do 10-12
HS 1231/32
SWS: 2
AN: Liste in R. 4223 ab 07.02.05
AS: Referat (15 Minuten) mit Handout, Hausarbeit (15-20 Seiten) oder 4-stündige
Klausur, regelmäßige Anwesenheit und Mitarbeit
TV: ZP
EV: Cohen, Henry/Claire Lefebvre. 2005. Handbook of categorization in cognitive
science. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Croft, William/D. Alan Cruse. 2004. Cognitive
linguistics. Cambridge: CUP. Haser, Verena. 2005. Metaphor, metonymy and
experientialist philosophy: challenging cognitive semantics. Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter. Mangasser-Wahl, Martina (ed.) 2000. Prototypentheorie in der Linguistik:
Anwendungsbeispiele, Methodenreflexion, Perspektiven. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
Taylor, John R. 2003³. Linguistic categorization: Prototypes in linguistic theory.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. Ungerer, Friedrich/Hans-Jörg Schmid. 2003. An introduction
to cognitive linguistics. London: Longman.
LVtyp: HS
In this seminar we will take stock and evaluate the current state of cognitive linguistics, which
argues that language is governed by general cognitive principles. Central areas to be discussed
will be categorization (notably the relevance of the notion of prototype in linguistics) and the
organization of conceptual structure (e.g. in terms of frames scripts, or figure-ground relationships), cognitive semantics (including a critical discussion of the works by Lakoff and Johnson
on metaphor and metonymy), and cognitive grammar (including the newcomer in syntactic
theorizing: construction grammar). Although the focus will clearly be on cognitive accounts of
Present-Day English, we will also take a look at recent cognitive approaches to the study of
language change in English and other languages.
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Current trends in English syntax
Di 16-18
UB ÜR 7
SWS: 2
AN: Anmeldeliste ab Erscheinen des KVV vor Raum 4107, Themenvergabe in den
Sprechstunden
AS: active participation, short oral presentation (15 mins), term paper OR four-hour
written final
T: Huddleston/Pullum, A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar. (Cambridge:
CUP, 2005); Newmeyer, Language Form and Language Function (Cambridge MA:
MIT Presss, 1998)
LVtyp: HS
The seminar is designed to provide both a comprehensive introduction to the major grammatical
structures of present-day English and a survey of the major current theoretical approaches to
grammar and syntax. Participants will be encouraged to design their own research projects,
which may range from the analysis of digital language corpora to the study of grammatical
problems in learner language.
Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. Richard Matthews
Halliday’s Functional Grammar
Mo 14-16
UB ÜR 9
SWS: 2
AN: Email an richard.matthews@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de mit: Namen, Vornamen,
Matrikel-Nr., Fächerkombination, Studiengang, Semesterzahl, e-mail-Adresse
AS: Referat bzw. Hausarbeit bzw. Klausur
TV: ZP
T: Halliday, M. A. K. Revised Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen. An introduction to
functional grammar. 3rd ed. London : Arnold. 2004.
LVtyp: Hauptseminar
Functionalism is broadly an approach to linguistics that focuses on function rather than form, and
is thus something of an antithesis to extremely formalist approaches to language analysis like
categorical grammar and the various versions of generative grammar (X-bar, minimalism, etc.).
In particular, it incorporates many pragmatic aspects of language. Apart from Prague School
functionalism, three other major functional approaches developed in the latter half of C20th:
Dik’s Functional Grammar, Halliday’s Systemic-Functional Grammar and Givon’s
Functionalist-Typological approach. In this seminar we will look primarily at selected topics in
the most accessible and most influential functional approach by Halliday, as revised by
Matthiessen, with the occasional comparative glance at Dik’s and Givon’s approaches. It is
hoped to include a look at the Functionalist-inspired Rhetorical Structure Theory, in addition.
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SPRACHWISSENSCHAFTLICHE ÜBUNGEN
Es finden Begleitübungen zur Vorlesung Introduction to Synchronic Linguistics
statt. Genauere Information siehe Rubrik Vorlesungen Introduction to Synchronic
Linguistics.
Dozent/in: Dr. Lieselotte Anderwald
Oral and Written Presentation of Research in English
Fr 10-12
HS 1023
SWS: 2
AN: nur für MEL-Studenten
LVtyp: Ü
This “Übung” is a special class for Master students in their third semester, and not open to other
students. We will practice oral presentations in particular, but also look at (and practice) more
written “genres” such as the book report, literature reviews, how to summarize texts without
risking the charge of plagiarism, etc. In particular, we will devise criteria for what makes a good
presentation (both oral and written) and discuss and practice how to realize them. Students
should be prepared to give a short presentation in class (not more than 20 minutes) on a topic of
their choice, preferably a presentation already given to a different audience; to give and receive
critical feedback, and to hand in various written exercises over the course of the class.
Dozent/in: Dr. Lieselotte Anderwald und Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, M.A.
LEO – Linguistic Exercises Online
Fr 14-16
HS 2006
SWS: 2
AN: in erster Sitzung
AS: /
TV: Schein “Introduction to Synchronic Linguistics”, Teilnahme an erster Sitzung
T: /
LVtyp: Ü
Am 21.07.06 findet die LV in einem anderem Raum statt, der noch bekannt gegeben
wird.
This “Übung” is designed for students who intend to take their “Zwischenprüfung” at the end of
this semester. It constitutes a novel approach to the problem of preparing students for the
linguistic part of the “Zwischenprüfung”. As it is not possible any longer – unfortunately – to
offer customized classes to repeat and practice the basics of English linguistics that are expected
from students in their intermediate exam, we have chosen to devise the next-best thing, an
electronic alternative. Running by the name of LEO (Linguistic Exercises Online), a pool of
questions, mock exams, quizzes and exercises as well as a forum for more open-ended questions
will be available on the platform CampusOnline from this semester onwards.
For instructions on how to use the platform, how to register, what to expect from the course and
how to employ the platform profitably it is absolutely essential that students come to the first
meeting.
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Practical Phonetics
Mo 12-14
Phonetiklabor 1026
SWS: 2
AN: Anmeldung durch Listeneintrag vor R 4215, participation will be limited due to
technical restrictions
AS: regular active participation and practice and one short presentation
TV: none
T: Texts and materials to be announced and partly provided at the
beginning of the term
LVtyp: Übung
After an introduction to the basic concepts of articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics, the
main focus of this course will be on articulatory phonetics, specifically the recognition and
description as well as the active production of the sounds of English and to a lesser extent other
languages. We will concentrate on RP and General American English and compare those to other
national, regional and social varieties of English as well as to other languages such as German,
French and Spanish and “exotic” ones. Analysis of the accents in question as well as some nonnative accents will be complemented by practical work: production of isolated sounds and
syllables, prosodic patterns and last but not least your overall accent in English. This course is
open to students of English and of phonetics.
Note: The seminar PS I Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology can be taken in combination
with this class if you would like further background knowledge.
Note: also suitable for phonetics students
Dozent/in: Dr. Verena Haser
Planning and Conducting Linguistic Research
Do 14-16
HS 1108
SWS: 2
AN: register by e-mail (verena.haser@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de)
AS: regular attendance, tasks in class
TV: registered MEL-students
LVtyp: Übung
This class is specifically designed for the Master of European Linguistics programme and is
reserved for MEL students, for whom it is compulsory. Nevertheless, advanced students with a
particular interest in research design may be able to participate if the number of MEL students
does not exceed 25. In this class, we will look at our individual research histories and discuss in
detail such areas as finding suitable topics, accessing information, planning and conducting
research, and writing term papers. Participants are expected to attend regularly and carry out
various tasks over the course of the semester.
Essentials of English Linguistics
Do 14-17
HS 1023
SWS: 2
B: 2. Semesterwoche (04.05.06); Blockveranstaltung ab 22. Juni 2006
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AN: Liste vor R. 4223
TV: ZP; 1 Hauptseminar (Linguistik)
T: Kortmann, Bernd. 2005. English Linguistics: Essentials. Berlin: Cornelsen.
LVtyp: Übung
This course is designed for students preparing for their exams and searching for suitable topics.
The first part will be concerned with distinctive properties of Present-Day English phonology,
morphology and syntax (including the major differences between English and German, and
British and American English). The following parts will be devoted to major concepts and
theories in various branches of linguistics (lexical semantics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics,
sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, language change, and the history of linguistics).
Students interested in taking this class must enter their name in the relevant list outside my
office. The list will be put up in early February together with a preliminary term plan. At any
time students can pick up from my secretary the Selected Reading List Linguistics and an
information sheet for those who want to take their oral exam in linguistics with me. Alternatively
visit my homepage: http://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/institut/lskortmann/sheets.htm
Adverbial Subordination in European Languages
Di 09-10
R 4008
SWS: 2
AN: Liste in R. 4223
TV: nur für Master-Studierende; Besuch des HS Adverbial Subordination
LVtyp: Übung
In this tutorial for MEL-students participating in the Hauptseminar Adverbial Subordination
special texts will be read, presented and discussed from a specifically areal typological (more
exactly European) point of view. Some relevant references are given in the course description of
the Hauptseminar.
Evidence in Linguistic Research
Mi 18.00-19.30 (14-tg.)
HS 1140/41
SWS: 2
AN: Liste vor R. 4223
AS: regelmäßige Anwesenheit und Mitarbeit, Vortrag (max. 30 Minuten)
TV: Master-Studierende (MEL) im 2. Jahr
LVtyp: Übung/Projektseminar
This seminar is exclusively reserved for the advanced (second-year) Masters students in the
“European Linguistics” programme. On the one hand, we will read and discuss recent texts on
the importance attributed to (the nature of) evidence in formalist and functionalist linguistics. On
the other hand, and primarily, it is in this seminar that all MEL-students in their second year need
to present the projects for their Masters theses, focussing on the issue of which data they intend
to base their theses on. A reader containing some relevant recent publications will be provided
by the beginning of the term.
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LANDESKUNDE/ CULTURAL STUDIES
PROSEMINARE
Dozent/in: Dr. Rebecca Davies
Contemporary Britain
Di 10-12
UB ÜR 8
SWS: 2
AN: e-mail registration from Monday 17th April – you must include the following
details: Name, Fachsemester, Studiengang, Matrikelnummer, plus which of the two
parallel courses you want to join. Prior registration is not possible
AS: annotated webography, plus final exam or term paper
TV: Students must have passed both Foundation Courses
T: Students must be prepared to work with online texts
LVtyp: PS
This Proseminar provides a survey of important aspects of British life, institutions and culture(s).
Topics will include the political system, the historical developments that have made Britain what
it is today, current cultural patterns and developments, social structures, questions of identity and
Britain’s place on the world stage. Since there is a widespread and annoying fallacy that
‘England’ and ‘Britain’ are synonyms, we will spend time looking at non-English Britain and
how it differs from England itself. Students will regularly be given topics to research and reading
material to prepare. The final exam will test how successfully they have absorbed the course
material and how well they can apply the insights and knowledge gained in the course.
Dozent/in: Dr. Rebecca Davies
Contemporary Britain
Di 14-16
UB ÜR 8
SWS: 2
AN: e-mail registration from Monday 17th April – you must include the following
details: Name, Fachsemester, Studiengang, Matrikelnummer, plus which of the two
parallel courses you want to join. Prior registration is not possible
AS: annotated webography, plus final exam or term paper
TV: Students must have passed both Foundation Courses
T: Students must be prepared to work with online texts
LVtyp: PS
This Proseminar provides a survey of important aspects of British life, institutions and culture(s).
Topics will include the political system, the historical developments that have made Britain what
it is today, current cultural patterns and developments, social structures, questions of identity and
Britain’s place on the world stage. Since there is a widespread and annoying fallacy that
‘England’ and ‘Britain’ are synonyms, we will spend time looking at non-English Britain and
how it differs from England itself. Students will regularly be given topics to research and reading
material to prepare. The final exam will test how successfully they have absorbed the course
material and how well they can apply the insights and knowledge gained in the course.
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Dozent: Andreas Hüther
Northern Ireland – The Troubles Revisited
Fr 14-16
HS 1108
SWS: 2
AN: Andreas.Huether@dekanate.uni-freiburg.de
AS: active participation in class and 3 short essays
TV: ZP
T: reader in term week 1
LVtyp: PS
The ‘Troubles’ are often interpreted as a religious or national conflict. In this seminar we will
look behind such monocausal explanations to understand the historical, cultural, political, and
socio-economic realities that also helped to shape the conflict.
Dozent: Andreas Hüther
Filming Ireland, 1911 to 2006
Fr 08-12
UB-Konferenz-Raum
SWS: 4
AN: Andreas.Huether@dekanate.uni-freiburg.de
AS: active participation in class and 3 short essays
TV: ZP
T: reader in term week 1
LVtyp: PS
Popularising myths as well as umasking them, cinema in Ireland has been and still is both mirror
and opposition to society. Analysing a set number of films we will be charting the social and
cultural developments in Ireland as well as analysing the way film makers have seen these
changes.
Dozent/in: Kai Woodfin
American Society Today
Do 12-14
HS 1236
SWS: 2
AN: Come see the instructor during the 2 weeks before the semester begins.
Otherwise via email.
AS: Regelmäßige Teilnahme & Hausarbeit
TV: Mindestens im 3. Semester und ‘Foundation Courses’ mit Erfolg abgeschlossen
T: Wird in der 1. Sitzung erörtert bzw. im Laufe des Semesters
Lvtyp: PS
A course that will cover several very current and probably significant aspects of culture and
society in the United States, occasionally stepping away from the present to look for traditions,
trends and/or ideas that might serve to explain the whys and wherefores of American society
today. Active participation on the part of students is not only the basis for a grade: active and
creative input is expected as to the very organization of the course and every student will be
expected to do some basic research and either individually or with others to present the results
orally to class as well as in a term paper.
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FACHDIDAKTIK
Die fachdidaktischen Lehrveranstaltungen am Englischen Seminar werden von erfahrenen Lehrkräften/ LehrerausbilderInnen der Staatlichen Seminare für Schulpädagogik angeboten. Scheine,
die in diesen Lehrveranstaltungen erworben werden, zählen im Sinne der Lehramtsprüfungsordnung von 2001.
Dozent/in: StDin Katja Fabel
Grundlegende Fragen der englischen Fachdidaktik
Fr 14-16
UB ÜR 1
SWS: 2
AN: verbindlicher Eintrag auf Liste in R 4011, begrenzt auf max. 25
Teilnehmer/innen
AS: regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme: aktive Mitarbeit in den Sitzungen auf der
Grundlage gezielter (auch schriftlicher) Vorbereitungen
TV: Zwischenprüfung/Praxissemester
T: /
LVtyp: PS Fachdidaktik
Im Rahmen dieser Übung beschäftigen wir uns mit grundlegenden Fragen der englischen
Fachdidaktik, wie z. B.
– Ziele, Inhalte und Grundprinzipien des Englischunterrichts
– Englischunterricht auf elementarer Spracherlernungsstufe
– Grammatikbehandlung
– Wortschatzarbeit
– Entwicklung des Hörverstehens
– Lesefertigkeiten
– Literatur im Englischunterricht
– Lehrersprache
Die Beschäftigung mit diesen Fragen erfolgt stets mit Blickrichtung auf die Unterrichtspraxis
und bezieht die Planung und Erarbeitung – wo möglich auch die Erprobung – von
Unterrichtsschritten, Unterrichtsstunden und eventuell kürzerer Unterrichtseinheiten mit ein.
Dozent/in: OstRin Annette Melcher
Grundlegende Fragen der englischen Fachdidaktik
Mi 16-18
UB ÜR 1
SWS: 2
AN: verbindlicher Eintrag auf Liste in R 4011, begrenzt auf max. 25
Teilnehmer/innen
AS: regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme: aktive Mitarbeit in den Sitzungen auf der
Grundlage gezielter (auch schriftlicher) Vorbereitungen
TV: Zwischenprüfung/Praxissemester
T: /
LVtyp: PS Fachdidaktik
Im Rahmen dieser Übung beschäftigen wir uns mit grundlegenden Fragen der englischen
Fachdidaktik, wie z. B.
– Ziele, Inhalte und Grundprinzipien des Englischunterrichts
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– Englischunterricht auf elementarer Spracherlernungsstufe
– Grammatikbehandlung
– Wortschatzarbeit
– Entwicklung des Hörverstehens
– Lesefertigkeiten
– Literatur im Englischunterricht
– Lehrersprache
Die Beschäftigung mit diesen Fragen erfolgt stets mit Blickrichtung auf die Unterrichtspraxis
und bezieht die Planung und Erarbeitung – wo möglich auch die Erprobung – von
Unterrichtsschritten, Unterrichtsstunden und eventuell kürzerer Unterrichtseinheiten mit ein.
SPRACHLEHRE
Belegungsvorschlag für SPRACHLEHRE (Lehramt u. Magister):
1./2. SEMESTER
Foundation
Foundation
Course: Speaking Course: Grammar
English
& Writing
3./4. SEMESTER
Oral Formulation
Translation:
Introductory
Oral
Formulation:
Intermediate
Translation:
Intermediate
Intermediate
Writing
Translation:
Advanced
Written
Formulation:
Advanced
Reading &
Discussion
British/American
Newspapers
Reading &
Discussion*
British/American
Newspapers*
ZWISCHENPRÜFUNG (ZP)
5./6. SEMESTER
BZW. NACH ZP
7./8. SEMESTER
EXAMENSSEMESTER
Translation:
Exam Candidates
* wenn nicht vor der ZP belegt.
Bitte beachten Sie auch bei der Verteilung der einzelnen Veranstaltungen den Studienplan Ihres
Studienganges (Bachelor/ Magister/ Staatsexamen). Die einzelnen Kursbeschreibungen (Inhalte/
Anforderungen etc.) finden Sie auf den nachfolgenden Seiten.
Alle Kurse werden in englischer Sprache abgehalten und setzen – abgesehen von anderen
Teilnahmebedingungen – Englisch im Abitur voraus. Da das Fach Englisch bzw. Anglistik einer
Zulassungsbeschränkung (NC) unterliegt, besteht kein Angebot für „Hörer aller Fakultäten“.
Alle Lehramts- und Magister-Studierende im ersten Studienjahr (1. u. 2. Semester) sollen pro
Semester einen der beiden Foundation Courses (Speaking English und Grammar & Writing)
belegen (für BA-Studierende werden Abfolge sowie Zeitpunkt dieser Kurse anders geregelt, s.
BA-Infobrett). Der erfolgreiche Abschluss eines dieser Kurse gilt als Orientierungsprüfungsleistung. Der erfolgreiche Abschluss beider Kurse ist als Vorleistung zur Zwischenprüfung vorgeschrieben. Da diese Kurse kontaktstundenintensiv sind (3 bzw. 4 Semesterwochenstunden),
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sollte davon abgesehen werden, beide im gleichen Semester zu belegen. Foundation Courses
können nicht von Austauschstudierenden (z. B. Sokrates- bzw. Erasmus-Programm) belegt
werden.
Kurse für Erst- und Zweitsemester:
1.
Foundation Course: Speaking English Britisches Englisch
Foundation Course: Speaking English Amerikanisches Englisch
2.
Foundation Course: Grammar and Writing
Nach erfolgreichem Abschluss der beiden Foundation Courses gibt es im restlichen
Grundstudium folgende Übungstypen:
3.
4.
5.
6.
Oral Formulation
Translation: Introductory
Reading and Discussion
British Newspapers/North American Newspapers
Im Hauptstudium gibt es folgende Kurse:
7.
Oral Formulation: Intermediate
8.
Translation: Intermediate bis 7. Semester
9.
Intermediate Writing
10.
Language and the ‘Praxissemester’
11.
Translation: Advanced ab 7. Semester
12.
Written Formulation Advanced
13.
Translation: Advanced – Cascade ab 7. Semester
StaatsexamenskandidatInnen: Für Studierende unmittelbar vor dem Staatsexamen gibt es eine
Übung mit Probeklausuren, die auf die Übersetzungsklausur im Staatsexamen vorbereitet. Diese
Übung darf nur einmal – nur im Examenssemester – besucht werden. Ein Schein wird in der
Regel nicht vergeben.
14.
Translation: Exam Candidates
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
1. Foundation Course: Speaking English
AN: Application forms will be available as of Tuesday 18th April, 8 am and must be submitted
by 8 pm on Thursday 20th April.
AS: regular participation and preparation; final assessment (Orientierungsprüfungsleistung) SZ:
1st or 2nd semester
TV: Students must be registered for BA / MA / Lehramt / Promotion with English as one of their
subjects; no exchange students
This course combines practice in the skills relating to correct pronunciation and oral formulation.
There will be an initial assessment of all students taking the course at the beginning of the
semester. For the first half of the semester work will focus on matters of pronunciation and
learning how to work with phonemic transcription. This will be followed by a mid-term
assessment. In the second half of the semester work will consist of speaking practice:
descriptions, interviews, discussions and presentations. There will be a final assessment in the
last week of the semester.
2. Foundation Course: Grammar and Writing
AN: Application forms will be available as of Tuesday 18th April, 8 am and must be submitted
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by 8 pm on Thursday 20th April.
AS: regular participation and preparation; final assessment (Orientierungsprüfungsleistung) SZ:
1st or 2nd semester TV: Students must be registered for BA / MA / Lehramt / Promotion with
English as one of their subjects; no exchange students
This course combines practice in grammatical skills and in writing English. There will be an
initial assessment of all students taking the course at the beginning of the semester. For the first
half of the semester work will focus on matters of controlling sentence structure. This will be
followed by a mid-term assessment. In the second half of the semester work will consist of
writing practice: descriptions, reports and essays. There will be a final assessment in the last
week of the semester.
3. Oral Formulation
AN: Registration will take place during the week preceding the beginning of the semester,
17.04.-21.04 2006. Please watch for more details posted on notices in the Department and on the
Department’s website: www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de “Aktuelle Mitteilungen” in early April.
AS: preparation of texts and topics for in-class group work discussions; oral presentation;
facilitation of a plenary discussion; mini-presentations in small groups; group and pair work
activities; peer assessment; active participation.
SZ: 3rd semester - ZP.
TV: Participants are required to have successfully completed both Foundation Courses
The aim of this course is to strengthen oral performance and aural comprehension. Students will
have the opportunity to develop their skills in giving oral presentations and leading
discussions. The oral presentations will include producing an outline, documentation of sources,
and prior consultation with the instructor and making use of audio or visual aids. Students will
also participate in class discussions as well as pair and group activities involving problemsolving, information-sharing, argumentation and the correction of typical student errors. In
addition, students will be expected to evaluate and provide feedback to other class participants
on their language and presentation skills.
4. Translation: Introductory
AS: active participation, exams, assessed assignments, text collection.
TV: students must have passed both Foundation Courses before taking this course ( with the
exception of exchange students)
SZ: 3rd semester to ZP
This class concentrates on the translation of German journalistic texts. Particular attention will
be paid to comprehensibility, factual accuracy, and grammatical and orthographical accuracy.
Since the texts for translation generally treat issues and events in the anglophone world regular
reading of American & British newspapers and journals is essential. Students will build up a
collection of parallel texts on a selection of topics in the course of the term.
5. Reading and Discussion
AS: regular attendance, regular preparation of reading material, oral report on a section of
reading material, active participation in and-or chairing a discussion, final written report.
SZ:
3rd semester or above
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TV: successful completion of both Foundation Courses. /Exchange students are exempted from
this requirement)
The aim of this course is to increase students’ competence in analysing and discussing literary
and cultural texts (essays, articles, chapters, short monographs, etc.) assigned on a weekly basis.
By giving oral reports, students will be able to practise and improve their oral skills, and by
taking part in a panel discussion, they should be able to improve their ability to represent a
particular position and to argue against other positions. A graded Schein will be awarded for
three assessed assignments (oral report, participation in discussion panel, written report).
6. British / North American Newspapers
AS: 2-3 written assignments, final exam, further homework / research / reading as required,
active participation
TV: Students must have successfully completed both Foundation Courses (exchange students
excepted) and be prepared to spend time reading newspapers in English
SZ: 3rd semester upwards (see also TV)
The courses British Newspapers and North American Newspapers introduce students to the
range of major newspapers available in the relevant geographical area. Through regular reading
of newspapers, discussion of texts and newspaper characteristics in class, and the completion of
the various assignments, students will develop awareness and knowledge of the media landscape
and culture of the region chosen, as well as focusing on a range of language issues (e.g. headline
style, tabloid vs. broadsheet register) and textual comparisons (e.g. how different newspapers
treat the same topic). The assignments will offer the opportunity to develop creative writing and
descriptive skills as well as textual analysis, while the final exam will deal with a range of topics
encountered during the course. Obviously, students must be willing to spend time reading
British and North American newspapers and to research topics as required, and they will need to
show interest in current affairs in the region concerned.
7. Oral Formulation: Intermediate
AN: this course is not available in SS 2005/6
AS: presentation, peer assessment, active participation, other homework / preparation
TV: ZP
SZ: ZP upwards
This course is intended for post-ZP students. It will focus on developing oral and presentation
skills in the context of intercultural studies. Students will be required to give a presentation as
part of a group of three students and to choose an intercultural topic from a list or (subject to
approval) one of their own. Each student will also be required to provide a written report on
another student’s contribution. The main focus will be on developing knowledge of the cultures
of the English-speaking countries, often through contrast with the students’ own cultural
experiences. We will draw on the experiences of those who have already spent time in an
English-speaking country and, it is hoped, prepare those planning to spend time abroad for what
they should expect. Active participation is essential, and from time to time students will be
required to prepare topics in advance for discussion in the plenary sessions.
8. Translation: Intermediate
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AS: active participation, exams, assessed assignments, text collection.
TV: successful completion of Translation Introductory
SZ: ZP – 7th semester
This class is intended for post ZP students. It concentrates on the translation of more challenging
German journalistic texts. Since the texts for translation generally treat issues and current affairs
in the anglophone world regular reading of American & British newspapers and journals is
essential. Students will build up a collection of parallel texts in the course of the term.
9. Intermediate Writing
AN: This course will not be offered in SS 2006
AS: 3 graded papers; weekly writing exercises and homework assignments; reading assignments
for class discussion; and active participation in group discussions and activities.
SZ: 5th - 7th semester.
TV: Participants are required to have successfully completed the ZP.
The goal of this course is to help students develop the skills needed for effective expository
writing. Participants will be expected to take an active role in fostering their own progress, which
will include working cooperatively with classmates in peer-editing sessions and sharing their
photocopied corrected work so that all can benefit from the instructor's feedback.
The three papers to be graded are to be preceded by an outline and a rough draft and followed by
a rewritten, final copy based on the instructor's recommendations.
10. Language and the “Praxissemester”
AN: email registration starting 10th April
AS: active participation, simulation, peer evaluation, contribution to a text collection
SZ: students who are about to start on their ‘Praxissemester’ or have done half of it
This course aims at meeting the practical language needs of students embarking on their
‘Praxissemester’ or half-way through it. Students will be required to do classroom simulations,
peer-reviewing, and produce a written contribution on a relevant class-room language topic.
Likely areas covered will be language for giving instructions, explaining grammar, introducing
cultural issues, and coping with classroom occurrences.
11. Translation: Advanced
Department’s website: www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de "Aktuelle Mitteilungen" in early April.
AS: active participation, exams, assessed assignments, text collection
TV: successful completion of Translation Intermediate
SZ: 7th semester onwards
This course offers German-English translation at Staatsexam level. Students will be expected to
achieve near-native competence in grammar, formulation and rhetorical skills.
Assessed work will be marked at Staatsexam level.
Since the texts for translation generally treat issues and current affairs in the anglophone world
regular reading of American & British newspapers and journals is essential. Students will build
up a collection of parallel texts in the course of the term. Knowledge of significant cultural and
political issues and institutions is expected at this stage.
12. Written Formulation: Advanced
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AS: active participation, regular writing of short pieces for class work, 3-5 pieces of assessed
work
SZ: 7th semester onwards
This course aims at expanding the personal repertoire of students’ written English rather than
dealing with expository essay writing. Classwork will provide practice in stylistic differentiation
through analysis, “re-writing” exercises, and the production of short guided creative texts.
Writing texts for each weekly session for presentation and peer-editing is essential. Feedback
will be given in individual correcting sessions.
13. Cascade Translation: Advanced
AN: This course will not be offered in SS 2006
AS: preparation of texts, an individual contribution for class work, co-correction of assignments
for Translation Introductory students, contribution to a brochure
SZ: 7th semester onwards, preferably with Assistant Teacher experience
The translation courses Woods, Translation Advanced and Translation Introductory are two
classes taught in tandem, thus forming a cascade structure. Advanced students prepare texts and
exercises with the lecturer and then work through the same texts with small groups of
Introductory students in the two hours following. In effect they become tutors under the
supervision of the lecturer. The aim is to strengthen the Advanced students’ grasp of English
(“learning by teaching”) and to give the Introductory students more individual help than is
usually possible.
14. Translation: Exam Candidates
AN: Registration will be conducted online. Please see notices and Department website:
www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de “Aktuelle Mitteilungen” for details.
AS: active participation, 3-4 translations under exam conditions (4 hours)
TV: evidence of registration for Staatsexam ( as soon as available)
SZ: exam semester only
This course is reserved exclusively for students in their exam (final) semester and can be done
once only.
It provides an opportunity to work on exam-type texts, both in class and under exam conditions.
It assumes that the questions of technique handled in other classes have been properly mastered.
At regular intervals there will be mock exams. These will be marked according to Staatsexam
criteria and discussed in depth in class. In addition there will be some in-class translation of
unseen text. Since the texts for translation generally treat issues and current events in the
anglophone world regular reading of American & British newspapers and journals is essential.
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OTHER LANGUAGE-RELATED ACTIVITIES
•
maniACTs: Wanted: actresses & actors, specialists & helpers for light & sound
design/technique, stage design/building, costume, makeup, publicity, box office, and
cooking.
o The maniACTs are the English Department’s theatre group, open to English
students and anyone else interested in English theatre. They usually produce one
or two shows per term. New members are acquired at the beginning of each term,
and there is an orientation meeting for anyone interested in joining in the first
week of the semester. For the exact date and time, look out for postings around
the KG IV, or join the maniACTs e-mail newsgroup (sign up at
www.maniacts.de).
o If you would like to suggest a play, any time is the right time to do so – contact us
at info@maniacts.de. We are always looking for people who are willing to direct
a show, so if you could see yourself directing a play, we encourage you to do so!
o There is no semester fee, but a fixed amount (€25) due for all who participate in
the rehearsal weekend, which is mandatory for the director and all actresses/actors
and open to all members.
•
For news broadcasts and English language videos, see notices, Sprachlabor.
•
Tandem-Program: Contact IES-Freiburg via e-mail if you would like to find somebody
to chat with in English (Joanna King: joanna.king@ies.uni-freiburg.de):
•
The Carl-Schurz-Haus http://www.carl-schurz-haus.de has an extensive audio- and
video cassette library (and very low fees!)
LISTE DER SPRACHPRAKTISCHEN ÜBUNGEN
Foundation Course: Speaking
Nr.
1.
Titel der Lehrveranstaltung
FC: Speaking English (British)
2.
3.
4.
5.
FC: Speaking English (American)
6.
FC: Speaking English (American)
Zeit
Di 14-16
Do 14-16
Di 12-14
Mi 8.30-10
Mo 14-16
Mi 12-14
Di 16-18
Do 8-10
Di 12-14
Do 12-14
Mo 16-18
Do 16-18
Raum
UB ÜR 9
UB ÜR 9
UB ÜR 6
UB ÜR 5
UB ÜR 6
UB ÜR 5
UB ÜR 8
UB ÜR 1
Peterhof, HS 4
Peterhof, HS 4
Peterhof, HS 2
Peterhof, HS 1
DozentIn
Richard Matthews
Raum
Peterhof, HS 2
Peterhof, HS 4
HS 1227
UB ÜR 8
HS 1234
HS 1142
HS 1108
DozentIn
Richard Matthews
N.N.
Rebecca Davies
Teresa Woods-Czisch
Charla Teufel
Kai Woodfin
Foundation Course: Grammar & Writing
Nr.
1.
FC: Grammar and Writing
2.
3.
4.
Zeit
Di 10-12
Do 10-12
Di 16-18
Do 12-14
Di 14-16
Do 14-16
Mo 12-14
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N.N.
Charla Teufel
Rebecca Davies
5.
Mi 10-12
Mo 18-20
Mi 14-16
UB ÜR 8
HS 1021
HS 1016
Kai Woodfin
Zeit
Mo 8-10
Mo 10-12
Mi 12-14
Mi 14-16
Raum
Peterhof, HS 3
Peterhof, HS 3
UB ÜR 8
UB ÜR 8
DozentIn
Alison Nagel
Alison Nagel
Charla Teufel
Charla Teufel
Zeit
Mo 12-14
Mo 14-16
Mo 12-14
Mo 14-16
Fr 10-12
Fr 12-14
Raum
HS 1132
HS 1134
HS 1228/30
HS 1228/30
UB ÜR 6
UB ÜR 1
DozentIn
N.N.
N.N.
Alison Nagel
Ingrid Vonrhein
N.N.
N.N.
Zeit
Di 18-20
Mo 12-14
Mo 14-16
Di 16-18
Di 18-20
Raum
UB ÜR 1
Sedanstr. 6, R 3
Sedanstr. 6, R 2
UB ÜR 9
UB ÜR 9
DozentIn
Norin Veselaj
Charla Teufel
Charla Teufel
Kai Woodfin
Kai Woodfin
Oral Formulation
Nr.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Oral Formulation
Oral Formulation
Oral Formulation
Oral Formulation
Translation Introductory
Nr.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Translation Intermediate
Nr.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Translation Advanced & Translation Exam Candidates
Nr.
1.
2.
3.
4.
4.
5.
(6.)
Translation Advanced
Translation: Exam Candidates
Translation Exam Candidates
3-wöchentliche Probeklausuren
Zeit
Do 8-10
Do 10-12
Mi 8-10
Fr 12-14
Mi 14-16
Mi 14-16
Mi 12-17
Raum
UB ÜR 7
HS 1032
UB ÜR 1
HS 1231/32
HS 2121
UB ÜR 1
HS 2121
DozentIn
Rebecca Davies
Rebecca Davies
Teresa Woods-Czisch
Kai Woodfin
Richard Matthews
Teresa Woods-Czisch
Matthews/WoodsCzisch
Raum
UB ÜR 4
HS 1231/32
Peterhof, HS 2
HS 1034
HS 1034
UB ÜR 1
UB ÜR 1
DozentIn
Jason Brown
Ingrid Vonrhein
Jason Brown
N.N.
N.N.
Teresa Woods-Czisch
Teresa Woods-Czisch
Andere Sprachpraktische Lehrveranstaltungen
Nr.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
American Newspapers
British Newspapers
British Newspapers
Written Formulation Advanced
Language and the ‘Praxissemester’
Zeit
Di 10-12
Mo 16-18
Di 12-14
Mi 14-16
Do 14-16
Mi 10-12
Do 10-12
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KELTOLOGIE
PROSEMINAR
Dozent/in: Prof. Dr. mult. Herbert Pilch
Kymrisch/Irisch (bei Nachfrage auch Bretonisch oder Gälisch)
Do 11-13
R 4008
SWS: 2
AN: /
AS: tba
TV: /
T: Tom Peete Cross und Clark Harris Slover, Ancient Irish Tales, New York 31996
[in engl.Übs.].
Die vier Zweige der Mabinogion, übs. Martin Buber, Frankfurt-Main 1966
[englische bzw. deutsche Übersetzung zur eigenen, einführenden Lektüre, im
Seminar lesen wir gegebenenfalls eine einzelne Geschichte im irischen bzw.
kymrischen Original. Auswahl nach Wunsch der Teilnehmer].
LVtyp: PS
Je nach Wunsch und Kenntnisstand der Teilnehmer entweder ein Sprachkurs für Anfänger bzw.
Fortgeschrittene oder Lektüre eines mittelalterlichen oder modernen Textes, z.B. einer irischen
bzw. kymrischen Erzählung oder der aktuellen irischen Wochenzeitung Anois bzw. der
kymrischen Wochenzeitung Baner ac Amserau Cymru.
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Die Fachschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
www.fachschaftanglistik.de
fachschaftanglistik@yahoo.de
Wir sind etwa 20 Anglistik-Studenten verschiedener Semester, die versuchen, im Uni-Alltag
etwas auf die Beine zu stellen und zu bewegen, z.B. in der Berufungskommission (für neue
Professoren), in der Fachschaftskonferenz und im Fakultätsrat. Wir sind die Vertretung aller
Anglistik-Studenten der Uni. Jeder der mitmachen möchte ist gern bei uns willkommen.
Teamarbeit, Spaß und Abwechslung kommen natürlich auch nicht zu kurz. Jeden Mittwoch um
20h treffen wir uns in unserem Fachschaftsraum (Belfortstraße 24, 2. Stock Æ 100 m hinter der
UB) zur Fachschaftssitzung.
Antreffen kannst du viele Fachschaftler immer donnerstags von 12-14h im KG IV bei unserem
Fachschaftscafé. Für 50 Cent (+ 1 € Pfand) gibt’s Kaffee oder Tee und Kekse.
Jede Woche findet donnerstags in einem Pub unsere Conversation Group statt, die ihr nicht
verpassen solltet, falls ihr mal wieder außerhalb der Uni Englisch reden und Muttersprachler
treffen wollt.
Wir schaffen Klarheit wenn du keine Ahnung hast was dich in der Zwischenprüfung … erwartet:
Alle zwei Wochen finden unsere Informationsveranstaltungen statt, die wir zusammen mit der
Geschäftsführung des Englischen Seminars organisieren. Themen sind z.B. der Ablauf der
Zwischenprüfung, Studium/ Praktika im Ausland, Organisation des Studienabschlusses, …
Fürs Sommersemester 2006 sind folgende Infoveranstaltungen vorgesehen:
03. Mai: Examen
17. Mai: Zwischenprüfung
31. Mai: Studium/ Praktikum im Ausland
21. Juni: Praxissemester
05. Juli: Offene Fragerunde (Fachschaft steht Rede und Antwort)
Falls ihr Anregungen für weitere Veranstaltungen/ Themen hab, sendet sie bitte per Mail an uns.
Einmal im Semester organisieren wir eine große Anglistenfete in der StuSie. Immer im Wintersemester veranstalten wir ein Kulturfest mit vielen verschiedenen Beiträgen von Studenten und
Dozenten. Im KG IV, neben dem Eingang zur Bibliothek, steht unser Fachschaftsbrett, an dem
du alle aktuellen Termine und Infos einsehen kannst.
Weitere Infos gibt es bei unseren Kontaktpersonen
Marko Glaubitz
blitzeblau@gmx.de
Isabelle Straub
Isabelle_St@web.de
Sarah Raphaël
Ronya26@web.de
Unsere Angebote für Erstsemester und Uniwechsler in der Einführungswoche
Orientierung in der Freiburger Kneipenlandschaft gibt es bei unserem Kneipenbummel am
Mittwoch, den 19. April; Treffpunkt um 19.30 Uhr an der Rampe (Osteingang) am KG IV. In
Kleingruppen werden wir losziehen und einige Kneipen unsicher machen.
Frühstück, Infos, sowie Dozenten und Fachschaftler zum Anfassen gibt es beim
Erstsemesterfrühstück am Donnerstag, den 20. April ab 10 Uhr im KG IV. (Der Weg zum
Raum ist ausgeschildert). Bitte bring Teller, Tasse und Besteck mit.
Vom 5.-7. Mai findet unser Ersti-Hüttenwochenende statt. Wir fahren von Freitag bis Sonntag
auf eine Hütte im Schwarzwald. Neben dem Kennenlernen vieler Erstsemester verbringen wir
lustige Stunden beim gemeinsamen Kochen, Spielen, Wandern, Tanzen, Quatschen ... Die
Anmeldung für das Hüttenwochenende findet direkt im Anschluss an das Einführungsreferat
Anglistik/Amerikanistik statt.
C Ya, Eure Fachschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Tina, Isabelle, Marko, Maria, Elli, Sarah, Hanna, Lissy, Karin, Jasma, Domenike, Kristina,
Ulrike, Patricia, Caro, Valerie
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Die StARS
(Mentorenprogramm des Englischen Seminars)
StARS ist ein Mentorenprogramm von Studierenden aus höheren Semestern, die ihre
Erfahrungen an Erstsemester und Studienort- und Fachwechsler weitergeben wollen, um ihnen
ein wenig die Mühen des Einstiegs zu nehmen – vor allem, damit das A und O des Studiums
nicht verloren geht: der Spaß!
StARS hat das Ziel, die garantiert aufkommende anfängliche Anonymität der Universität zu
überwinden. Außerdem möchten die StARS eine Art Brücke zwischen dem wissenschaftlichen
Englischstudium einerseits und dem Spaß an Sprache und Kultur andererseits bilden. Kleine
Gruppen von Erstsemestern treffen sich mit ihren Mentoren während des gesamten ersten
Semesters in regelmäßigen Abständen, um sich auszutauschen und kennenzulernen, z.B. bei
einem Pub Crawl, Kinobesuchen (in der Originalfassung), typisch englischen Kochabenden usw.
Die Mentoren wollen helfen, der drohenden Orientierungslosigkeit entgegenzuwirken und
Antworten zu finden: sowohl zu studienrelevanten als auch zu persönlichen Fragen. Wir
kooperieren mit der Fachschaft und sind keine Konkurrenzveranstaltung zur bestehenden
Einführungswoche, sondern wollen vielmehr an diese anknüpfen, denn viele Fragen zum ersten
Semester ergeben sich erst in seinem Verlauf.
Neben all den wichtigen Fragen, die das Studium betreffen, ist StARS auch eine ganz
hervorragende Möglichkeit erste Freunde zu treffen oder einfach völlig unverbindlich ein wenig
Spaß zu haben.
Ihr könnt Euch für die StARS direkt im Anschluss an das Einführungsreferat(genauer Termin
wird im KG IV aushängen) anmelden. Ihr könnt Euch auch per Email direkt bei Lissy unter
Lissy.D@gmx.de anmelden. Bei weiteren Fragen wendet Euch an die MentorInnen oder schaut
auf der Homepage vorbei: www.fachschaft-anglistik.de/Stars/Stars.html
Events
Summer Barbecue: Anfang Juli veranstalten wir ein Summer Barbecue im Seepark
Thanksgiving Dinner: Ende November organisieren wir ein traditionelles amerikanisches
Truthahn-Essen
Kontakt
Weitere Informationen erhaltet ihr bei unserer StARS-Koordinatorin Elisabeth Duensing
Lissy.D@gmx.de
Ein schönes und erfolgreiches Semester wünschen euch eure StARS- Mentoren
Elli, Lissy, Jakob, Johanna, Tina, Oli, Johanna, Caro, Alex und Jenny
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