Änderungen finden Sie HIER!
- Beginn der Vorlesungen: Montag, 11. April 2005
- Ende der Vorlesungen: Samstag, 16. Juli 2005
- Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2005 (Himmelfahrt)
- Montag, 16. Mai 2005 (Pfingstmontag)
- Dienstag, 17. Mai 2005 (Pfingstdienstag)
- Donnerstag, 26. Mai 2005 (Fronleichnam)
Beginn der Lehrveranstaltungen:
- Montag, 11. April 2005, falls kein anderer Termin bekannt gegeben ist.
Zentralklausur für Studierende im Bachelor- und Magisterstudiengang:
- Freitag, 15. Juli 2005, 14-17 Uhr
- Freitag, 14. Oktober 2005, 10-13 Uhr (Nachholtermin).
Postanschrift des Seminars:
Englisches Seminar
Wilhelmstrasse 50
72074 Tübingen
Postanschrift der Abteilung für Amerikanistik:
Englisches Seminar
Abteilung für Amerikanistik
Wilhelmstrasse 50
72074 Tübingen
Internet-Adressen
Homepage der Universität Tübingen:
Homepage der Neuphilologischen Fakultät:
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/Neuphil-Dekanat/
Homepage des Englischen Seminars:
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/nes/index.html
Homepage des Englischen Seminars, Abt. Amerikanistik:
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/ame/
Homepage des Dekanats:
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/Neuphil-Dekanat/dek.html
Studienanfänger
Für Studienanfänger gibt es am
eine Einführungsveranstaltung. In dieser Veranstaltung erhalten Sie Ratschläge zum Studienaufbau und zur Organisation des Studiums (Modellstundenplan).
Anfängerkurse sind:
- Language and Use
- Proseminar I Literatur
- Proseminar I Mediävistik.
Wir empfehlen Ihnen, im ersten Semester die Veranstaltungen "Language and Use" sowie mindestens eines der PS I zu belegen. Die Möglichkeit zur Anmeldung besteht auch noch nach der Einführungsveranstaltung bis zum Semesterbeginn.
Bitte beachten Sie, dass eine Anmeldung nach Semesterbeginn (Nachzüglerverfahren) lediglich für Studierende vorgesehen ist, die ihren Zulassungsbescheid erst nach dem offiziellen Semesterbeginn erhalten haben! Weitere Informationen hierzu finden Sie auf der Webseite für die Anmeldung:
Studierende im Grundstudium
Bitte beachten Sie:
Studierende im Hauptstudium
Zu den Kursen im Hauptstudium melden Sie sich i.d. R. persönlich an - in der letzten Semesterwoche in den Sprechstunden der Lehrenden bzw. wie im Veranstaltungsverzeichnis bei den einzelnen Kursen angekündigt. Bitte bringen Sie Studentenausweis und Zwischenprüfungszeugnis mit.
Informationen zur Internationalen VWL
Studierende des Studiengangs "Internationale VWL" mit Schwerpunkt Regionalstudien, Anglo-Amerikanischer Raum und Region Westeuropa B: bitte beachten Sie die folgenden Informationen.
Für Studierende dieses Studienganges werden vom Englischen Seminar Lehrveranstaltungen angeboten. Die Themen, Zeiten, Räume und Namen der Lehrenden entnehmen Sie bitte den Angaben auf den folgenden Seiten - und nicht dem offiziellen Vorlesungsverzeichnis der Universität - wegen erfolgter Änderungen.
Wegen Veränderungen im Studienplan des Seminars werden die Studierenden in den Regionalstudiengängen gebeten, die Übung Language and Use (2 st.) zu besuchen.
Studienberatung und Rückfragen bei Prof. Chris Harvie, Ph.D., Raum 359. Dort ist auch ein Informationsblatt zum Studienaufbau erhältlich.
Anmeldung zu den Lehrveranstaltungen: Bitte melden Sie sich zu den Lehrveranstaltungen gemeinsam mit allen Studierenden der Anglistik an; es gibt kein gesondertes Anmeldeverfahren.
Die vorliegende Veranstaltungsbroschüre gibt den Stand der Planung vom Dezember 2004 wieder. Es ist daher möglich, dass bis zu Beginn des Sommersemesters noch Ergänzungen und Änderungen vorgenommen werden müssen. Die Studierenden werden deshalb gebeten, sich regelmässig über den aktuellen Stand am Informationsbrett in der Eingangshalle zu informieren. Änderungen werden rechtzeitig angeschlagen. Änderungen im Angebot werden ausserdem per Aushang an den Dienstzimmern der Kursleiter bekanntgegeben.
Die Lehrveranstaltungen beginnen ab Montag, 11. April 2005, falls kein anderer Termin bekanntgegeben ist.
Bitte beachten Sie, dass Ihre Anwesenheit in der ersten Sitzung verbindlich ist, da insbesondere in stark nachgefragten Seminaren Teilnehmer bereits in der ersten Sitzung nachrücken können.
Fachstudienberater:
- Neuere englische Literatur: Prof. Dr. Eckhard Auberlen (R. 361)
- Amerikanistik: Dr. Günter Leypoldt (R. 563)
- Linguistik: Dr. Sabine Braun (R. 469)
- Mediävistik: Dr. Fritz Kemmler (R. 407)
- Sprachpraxis: alle Lektoren
- Internationale VWL: Prof. Chris Harvie, Ph.D. (R. 359)
Zwischenprüfungsbeautragte:
- PD Dr. Susanne Winkler (R. 464)
Magisterangelegenheiten:
- Prof. Dr. Eckhard Auberlen (R. 361)
Staatsexamensangelegenheiten:
- Dr. Fritz Kemmler (R. 407)
Baccalaureusangelegenheiten:
- Dr. Fritz Kemmler (R. 407)
Masterangelegenheiten:
- Dr. Fritz Kemmler (R. 407)
Auslandsaufenthalte:
- Brendan Donnellan, Ph.D. (R. 466)
Studienberatung des Englischen Seminars zu Semesterbeginn
Im Sommersemester vor der Woche, in der die Vorlesungen beginnen:
- Mittwoch, 12-14 Uhr, R. 128
- Donnerstag, 10-12 Uhr, R. 128
- Freitag, 10-12 Uhr, R. 128
bitte nutzen Sie dieses Beratungsangebot.
Allgemeiner Hinweis
Bitte beachten Sie, dass Fragen im Zusammenhang mit Bescheinigungen, Zeugnissen und der Anerkennung von Studienleistungen in der Regel ein persönliches Gespräch mit dem jeweils Zuständigen erfordern; bitte nutzen Sie deshalb dessen Sprechstunden. Sollten Sie dennoch vorab eine Auskunft per E-mail wünschen
- wenden Sie sich bitte gezielt an den zuständigen Ansprechpartner
- schildern Sie Ihr Anliegen bitte kurz und strukturiert.
Bitte beachten Sie auch, dass Sie alle eventuellen Fragen rechtzeitig klären.
Orientierungsprüfung und Zwischenprüfung:
Die Ausstellung der OP und des ZP-Zeugnisses sowie die Anerkennung auswärtiger ZP-Zeugnisse erfolgt durch die ZP-Beauftragte, PD Dr. Susanne Winkler (R. 464).
Bitte lesen Sie die Informationen am Büro der ZP-Beauftragten.
Bitte beachten Sie: Wenn für Ihr ZP-Zeugnis auch einzelne Studienleistungen auswärtiger Universitäten angerechnet werden sollen, so klären Sie die Anerkennung bitte vorher mit dem (den) betreffenden Fachstudienberater(n).
Anerkennung auswärtiger Studienleistungen
Für die Anerkennung (Grund- und Hauptstudium) sind die Fachstudienberater zuständig (vgl. Studienberatung). Die Anerkennung von Studienleistungen aus unterschiedlichen Teilgebieten (z.B. Literaturwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft) erfordert demzufolge eine Konsultation verschiedener Fachstudienberater.
Die erbrachten Studienleistungen müssen durch Zeugnisse bzw. Dokumente belegt sein. Bitte lesen Sie auch die "Richtlinien für die Anerkennung von Studienleistungen an ausländischen Universitäten".
Die Anrechnung des Sprachpraxis-Kurses "Language and Use" ist nur in Ausnahmefällen möglich.
Anrechnung von Studienzeiten ("Semestereinstufung") und Pflichtberatung bei Fach- und Studiengangwechsel
Bitte lassen Sie sich vom Fachstudienberater Ihres (ersten) Hauptfachs oder vertretungsweise bei den anderen Fachstudienberatern oder der ZP-Beauftragten beraten.
Sonstige Bescheinigungen
- Sprachzeugnisse: Lethbridge, Matley, Watts
- Gutachten für Bewerbungen um Assistant-Teacher-Stellen und Auslandsstipendien: alle Lehrenden
- Bescheinigung über erfüllte Voraussetzungen für das Magisterexamen:
- in Neuerer Englischer Literatur, Mediävistik und Linguistik des Englischen: Herr Auberlen
- in Amerikanistik: Herr Leypoldt
- Überprüfung erfüllter Voraussetzungen für das Staatsexamen: Herr Schwägerle (Oberschulamt, Keplerstrasse 2)
- Bescheinigung für BAFöG: Herr Auberlen und Herr Leypoldt
- Bescheinigung der Dringlichkeit eines Auslandsstudiums im Fach Anglistik (für andere Behörden als BAFöG): Studentensekretariat, Wilhelmstrasse 11
- Bescheinigung über die Durchführbarkeit eines Doppelstudiums (von der zeitlichen Belastung her): Herr Kellner (Dekanat der Neuphilologie, R. 219)
- Transkript über in Tübingen erbrachte Studienleistungen für die Heimatuniversität ausländischer StudentInnen: Akademisches Auslandsamt
- Anerkennung ausländischer Studienabschlüsse für die Zulassung zur Promotion: Dekanat der Neuphilologie.
Informationsbroschüren
Unter der Internet-Adresse
www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/nes/studiengaenge.html
finden Sie Informationsbroschüre zu den Studiengängen sowie Studien- und Prüfungsordnungen.
Leistungspunkte (Credit points)
Am Englischen Seminar und an der Abteilung für Amerikanistik sind den einzelnen Veranstaltungstypen die folgenden Leistungspunkte nach dem ECTS ("European Credit Transfer System") zugeordnet:
- Vorlesungen: 2 Punkte je Semesterwochenstunde
- Sprachpraktische Übungen: 2 Punkte je Semesterwochenstunde
- Proseminare (I/II/III/LPS): 8 Punkte
- Hauptseminare: 10 Punkte
- Oberseminare: 10 Punkte.
Studienbegleitende Bachelor- und Magisterabschlussklausur
Studienbegleitende Magisterabschlussklausur
Die verbindliche Meldung zur Magisterabschlussklausur erfolgt in den Haupt- bzw. Oberseminaren. Der Termin für die Magisterabschlussklausur ist i.d. R. der letzte Freitag des Semesters (Prüfungswoche). Sollten Sie durch Krankheit verhindert sein, müssen Sie ein ärztliches Attest vorlegen, andernfalls gilt die Klausur als nicht bestanden.
Bei Nichtbestehen der Klausur (ab Note 4,3) haben Sie die Möglichkeit, nach Rücksprache mit dem Seminarleiter eine Hausarbeit anzufertigen oder an der Nachholklausur teilzunehmen. Die Meldung zur Nachholklausur erfolgt ebenfalls über den Seminarleiter. Der Termin für die Nachholklausur ist i.d. R. der Freitag in der Woche vor dem Beginn des folgenden Semesters.
Bitte beachten Sie: Die Wiederholung einer bestandenen Prüfungsleistung (z.B. zur Verbesserung der Note) ist nicht zulässig (vgl. Magisterprüfungsordnung, § 20 Abs. 1).
Für die Klausur sind drei Fragen aus dem Themenbereich des Haupt- bzw. Oberseminars zu stellen, von denen eine zu bearbeiten ist. Die Klausur ist i.d. R. in englischer Sprache abzufassen. Studierende im Studiengang "Internationale VWL" müssen die Klausur in englischer Sprache abfassen. Zugelassene Hilfsmittel sind das Collins English Dictionary oder das American Heritage College Dictionary.
Plagiat: Abschreiben aus dem Internet und anderen Quellen
Alle schriftlichen Arbeiten, die Sie im Verlauf Ihres Studiums im Rahmen von Lehrveranstaltungen einreichen, müssen Sie selbständig und ohne fremde Hilfe verfassen. Zitate sowie der Gebrauch von fremden Quellen und Hilfsmitteln müssen von Ihnen deutlich nach den Regeln wissenschaftlicher Dokumentation markiert werden, so wie es in den einführenden Lehrveranstaltungen (PS I, Propädeutikum) gelehrt wird.
In der letzten Zeit sind eine Reihe von Fällen aufgetreten, wo Texte oder Teile von Texten vor allem aus dem Internet kopiert und als eigene Leistung ausgegeben und eingereicht wurden. Dies ist nicht nur ein gravierender Verstoss gegen die Grundregeln wissenschaftlicher Dokumentationspflicht. Schwerer noch wiegt, dass durch Plagiate ("Diebstahl geistigen Eigentums") die Lehrenden mit Absicht getäuscht und die Mitstudierenden benachteiligt werden.
Daher gilt am Englischen Seminar und an der Abteilung für Amerikanistik für alle Fälle nachgewiesenen Plagiats folgende Regelung:
1. Schriftliche Arbeiten, in denen Fremdtexte 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.
Lehrende des Englischen Seminars
Vorlesung: Grundlagen des literaturwissenschaftlichen Arbeitens
Di 18-20 · Raum 036 · Beginn: siehe Aushang
Diese Veranstaltung ist verpflichtend für alle Studierende, die ein Proseminar I Literatur besuchen. Sie bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die grundlegenden Arbeitstechniken, die in den literaturwissenschaftlichen Seminaren im weiteren Studienverlauf vorrausgesetzt werden: Dies betrifft etwa Tipps zur Vorbereitung und Präsentation von Referaten, Hinweise zur Bibliotheksbenutzung und Literaturrecherche, Lesetechniken, Vorgaben zur formalen und inhaltlichen Strukturierung von Hausarbeiten, Zitierregeln, Tipps fürs Auslandsstudium u.v. m.
Ein Reader zur Vorlesung wird zu Beginn des Semesters zur Verfügung gestellt.
Lars Eckstein (Organisation)
Vorlesung: Englische Literaturen weltweit
Mo 18-20 · Raum 037 · Beginn: 18. 4. 2005
Anglistik studieren, das heisst für viele: Die Literatur Grossbritanniens lesen, einige der historischen, sozialen und politischen Hintergründe auf der Insel verstehen lernen, vielleicht sogar mal was "amerikanistisches" machen. Einige werden sich dann vielleicht wundern, dass ab der Moderne die meisten der Autoren, die man vorgesetzt bekommt, gar keine Briten mehr sind: James, Eliot, Stein sind Amerikaner, Shaw, Yeats, Joyce sind Iren, Conrad ist Pole, usw. Schaut man auf die Namen der englischsprachigen Nobelpreisträger für Literatur der letzten 40 Jahre, so wird man weiter feststellen, dass tatsächlich nur ein Brite darunter ist (William Golding), dagegen aber zwei jüdische Amerikaner und eine Afroamerikanerin (Bellow, Singer und Morrison), zwei Iren (Beckett und Heaney), ein Australier (White), drei Afrikaner (Soyinka, Gordimer und Coetzee) und zwei Autoren aus der Karibik (Walcott und Naipaul).
Mit dieser Überblicksvorlesung soll der Tatsache Rechnung getragen werden, dass weltweit neben der britischen und US-amerikanischen eine Vielfalt von bedeutungsvoller Literatur in englischer Sprache existiert, die erst in letzter Zeit verstärkt von den westlichen Universitäten unter dem Label "Postkoloniale Literatur" wahrgenommen wird. Ziel dieser Veranstaltung, die an Studierende aller Semester gerichtet ist, soll sein, einen systematischen Überblick über die weltweite Vielfalt englischer Literaturen zu gewinnen. Entgegen der Vorstellung einer homogenen "postkolonialen" Literatur werden dabei gerade die regionalen Besonderheiten und Entwicklungen in verschiedenen Teilen der Welt hervorgehoben. Dazu werden verschiedene Experten - auch zu Ehren von Prof. Stilz, der mit Ende des kommenden Wintersemesters aus dem Lehrbetrieb ausscheidet - nach Tübingen eingeladen, um in jeweils einer Sitzung sukzessive über die Literaturen Indiens, Australiens, Neuseelands und des Pazifiks, der Karibik, der USA, Kanadas, Irlands, Ost- West- und Zentralafrikas, des südlichen Afrikas und Grossbritanniens zu sprechen.
In dieser Veranstaltung können keine Scheine für die BA- bzw. MA-Studiengänge erworben werden.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer
Vorlesung: Renaissance Love Poetry
Mi 16-18 · Raum 037 · Beginn: 13. 4. 2005
In this lecture course, a broad survey will be given of English love poetry from the early 16th century to the middle of the 17th century, i.e. from Skelton and Wyatt via Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare to Donne, Herbert, Marvell and the Cavaliers. Apart from sonnets and other forms of lyric poetry, we will also read some short epic poems such as Marlowe's Hero and Leander and Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. Themes will include changing definitions of love (in comparison to friendship and desire); the rhetorical representation of love (the performance of authentic emotions); roles played by men and women; literary, philosophical, religious and social contexts of love poetry.
The attempt will be made to address the needs and interests of beginners as well as those who will choose the subject as a topic for their final exams.
Texts: William Shakespeare. The Complete Sonnets and Poems. Ed. Colin Burrow. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford. OUP, 2002. Other texts will be provided.
Prof. Dr. J. O. Fichte
Vorlesung: Einführung ins englische Drama des Mittelalters und der Tudorzeit
Di, Do 11-12 (zweistündig) · Raum 027 · Beginn: 19. 4. 2005
Diese Vorlesung ist als Überblick über die verschiedenen Formen und Typen des mittelalterlichen englischen Dramas gedacht. Zunächst sollen die liturgischen Feiern und Spiele dargestellt werden, d.h. die dramatischen Veranstaltungen des Klerus, die noch im Kirchenraum aufgeführt wurden. Danach gilt die Aufmerksamkeit der volkssprachigen laikalen Dramentradition. Miracle plays, Moralitäten (katholische und protestantische) und Fronleichnamszyklen werden hinsichtlich ihrer Struktur, Aufführungspraxis, Wirkungsstrategien und ihres moraltheologischen Gehalts untersucht. Die Vorlesung schliesst mit einem Ausblick auf die Entwicklung der Komödie und Tragödie vor Shakespeare.
Prof. Christopher Harvie
Vorlesung: The Visual Image of Modern Britain: 1900-2005
Do 14-16 · Raum 037 · Beginn: 14. 4. 2005
This lecture series will display and discuss ways in which the image of Britain in the twentieth century has been projected in visual terms. It will concern itself with such aspects as government propaganda in war and peace, painting and caricature, journalism and social investigation, feature film, architecture and planning, and relate these both to the major social and political changes of the century and the ownership and control of the media. Among the artists to be analysed will be the cartoonists Carl Giles and David Low, the documentary film-makers John Grierson and Humphrey Jennings, and the photographers Bert Hardy and Don McCullin.
Most of the lecture sessions will be accompanied by slides and video/DVDs.
Timetable:
14. 4. 1 21. 4. 2 28. 4. 3 12. 5. 4 19. 5. 5 2. 6. 6 9. 6. 7 16. 6. 8 23. 6. 9 30. 6. 10 7. 7. 11 14. 7. 12
Requirements: for an LPS-equivalent Schein: attendance plus a Hausarbeit (c. 2500 words) or a 3-hour Klausur.
Prof. Dr. Kurt Kohn / Stu Watts, BA, MA / PD Dr. Susanne Winkler
Do 8.30-10 · Raum 036 · Beginn: 14. 4. 2005
The main goal of this lecture is to bring together the core areas of linguistic research with the main aim of showing how the individual components work together when people use language to
communicate. The lecture consists of three parts. The first part will review the main trends in the development of modern linguistic theory: structuralism, generative grammar, pragmatics, discourse
analysis. Particular attention will be given to models of language (system, knowledge, use) with an emphasis on cognitive approaches. The second part will focus on phonetics and phonology. The third
part will concentrate on the structural aspects of meaning with a special emphasis on the formation and interpretation of words (morphology), phrases and sentences (syntax). In doing this, we will
discuss different approaches to the study of language (traditional, formal, cognitive, minimalist) and relate them to different resulting grammars.
A final web-based test is relevant for the "Zwischenprüfung" in English Linguistics.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Reinfandt
Do 10-12 · Raum 036 · Beginn: 14. 4. 2005
This lecture will provide an outline of the Romantic period in British literature (c. 1770-1832). Particular attention will be paid to the processes of canon-building that established the Romantic
period as a cornerstone of cultural and aesthetic modernization in spite of the fact that only a small proportion of the works produced in this era can actually be called 'Romantic' in any definable
sense of the term. Largely neglected or scorned in its own time, what came to be known as 'Romantic' art and literature pointed to the future: in many ways the aesthetic paradigm of Romanticism is
still with us, and the lecture will present a systematic account of its basic tenets and ist importance for modern culture at large. As a brief general introduction to the topic I recommend Gerhard
Schulz, Romantik. Geschichte und Begriff. München: Beck, #'22002.
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Stilz
Do, Fr 9-10
Die angekündigte Vorlesung wird verschoben auf WS 2005/2006. An ihrer Stelle wird im SS 2005 die Ringvorlesung Englische Literaturen Weltweit angeboten.
Prof. Dr. Horst Tonn
Di 9-11 · Raum 036 · Beginn: 12. 4. 2005
This lecture course will offer a survey of American cultural history during the 20th century. We will work through the major periods of cultural history during the last century by way of exemplary
popular films. Films from Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" to "Forrest Gump" will be discussed: How do films reflect the major topics, ideas and mentalities of their time? What do we learn from these films about social and cultural history?
Texts: Paul Boyer et al., The Enduring Vision. A History of the American People (Lexington, 1990), chapters 21-31.
Stu Watts, BA, MA; Adv.Dip.Ed.
Mi 10-12 · Raum 037 · Beginn: 13. 4. 2005
Despite the pleas of your fellow students, you have admitted to yourself that Phonetics and Phonology are interesting after all. If that is the case, this is the lecture for you! We will greatly
expand upon the areas you have already covered, as well as investigating new ones. To begin with, we will take a closer look at Speech Production. Then we will move on to a Phonemic Phonology of
English (e.g. The Phonemes and Phonotactics of the language). Afterwards, Rhythm and Intonation will be scrutinized. Finally, we will cover such topics as:
High German compared to British English;
British English compared to American English;
Other English Dialects;
Basic Speech Synthesis.
Obviously, we will focus on English, though, where interesting/relevant, we will briefly examine other languages. This is a lecture course; nevertheless, come along prepared to ask/answer questions
and participate in 'exercises'. You have been warned...
Achtung: Ab dem Sommersemester 2003 greift im Bereich der Sprachpraxis folgende Regelung:
Die erfolgreiche Teilnahme am Kurs Language and Use (früher: English Grammar and Usage I) ist Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme an allen weiteren Sprachpraxiskursen, den
Proseminaren II/III und den landeskundlichen Proseminaren (LPS).
Bei der Anmeldung zu den weiterführenden Kursen müssen Sie einen mit mindestens "ausreichend" benoteten Teilnahmeschein für Language and Use bzw. English Grammar and Usage I vorlegen.
Language and Use (2 st.) (früher: English Grammar and Usage I)
Die Lehrveranstaltung Language and Use besteht aus einer einstündigen Vorlesung und einer einstündigen Übung. Der Besuch beider Veranstaltungen ist verbindlich und relevant für die
Abschlussklausur. Die Termine für die Abschlussklausur (letzte Semesterwoche) werden in der Veranstaltung sowie per Aushang bekannt gegeben - bitte informieren Sie sich in der Eingangshalle.
Vorlesung: Lethbridge, Mittwoch, Zeitraum 18-20 Uhr; (genaue Zeit wird noch bekannt gegeben), Audimax - Neue Aula.
A10: Donnellan Mo 18-19 · Raum 108
A11: Donnellan Mo 19-20 · Raum 108
A12: Donnellan Di 20-21 · Raum 108
A13: Donnellan Di 21-22 · Raum 108
A14: Löffler Fr 8-9 · Raum 108
A15: Löffler Fr 9-10 · Raum 108
A16: Löffler Fr 10-11 · Raum 108
A17: Löffler Fr 11-12 · Raum 108
A18: Matley Di 10-11 · Raum 206
A19: Matley Di 11-12 · Raum 206
A20: Martin Di 11-12 · Raum 119
A21: Martin Di 12-13 · Raum 119
A22: Martin Di 13-14 · Raum 406
A23: Martin Mi 11-12 · Raum 406
Diese Kurse können Sie nur belegen, wenn Sie den Kurs Language and Use bzw. English Grammar and Usage I erfolgreich absolviert haben (bitte benoteten Schein zum Anmeldeverfahren mitbringen).
Oral Communication I (2 st.) (früher: Oral Communication)
B10: Lethbridge Di 12-14 · Raum 108
B11: Lethbridge Do 12-14 · Raum 108
B12: Matley Di 12-14 · Raum 206
B13: Matley Mo 14-16 · Raum 108
B14: Martin Di 8-10 · Raum 206
B15: Martin Mi 16-18 · Raum 119
Written Communication I (2 st.) (früher: Grammar and Usage II)
C10: Lethbridge Di 16-18 · Raum 108
C11: Lethbridge Mi 10-12 · Raum 119
C12: Löffler Fr 12-14 · Raum 108
C13: Matley Mi 12-14 · Raum 206
C14: Matley Mi 16-18 · Raum 108
C15: Martin Mi 8-10 · Raum 206
C16: Martin Mi 12-14 · Raum 406
Translation I (2 st.) (früher: Translation II bzw. Translation Grundstudium)
D10: Donnellan Di 18-20 · Raum 108
D11: Donnellan Mi 18-20 · Raum 108
D12: Martin Mo 8-10 · Raum 206
D13: Watts Fr 10-12 · Raum 206
D14: Watts Fr 12-14 · Raum 206
Siehe auch:
- Lektürekurs Mediävistik ("Mediävistik am Donnerstag")
Dr. Fritz Kemmler
Do 12-13 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 14. 4. 2005
Dieser Kurs wendet sich an alle an der (englischen) Mediävistik interessierten Studierenden. Der Schwerpunkt dieses Kurses liegt auf der intensiven Lektüre
(kürzerer) alt- und mittelenglischer Texte aus ganz unterschiedlichen literarischen Gattungen. Zusätzlich soll auch der literatur- und sozialgeschichtliche Kontext der Texte erarbeitet werden.
Schwerpunktthema im Sommersemester 2005: "Historical"
Anmeldung: nicht erforderlich.
Das Lehrangebot der Linguistik umfasst die Einführungsvorlesung "Introduction to Linguistics" sowie Proseminare mit unterschiedlichen Schwerpunkten. Das obligatorische Programm im Grundstudium
umfasst die Vorlesung sowie 2 Proseminare. Bezüglich der Reihenfolge des Besuchs dieser Veranstaltungen empfehlen wir Ihnen dringend, (im ersten Semester) mit der Vorlesung zu beginnen. Sie bietet
einen Überblick über das Fachgebiet. Die Proseminare sollten Sie danach besuchen.
Dr. Sabine Braun
Mo 12-14 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 11. 04. 2005
Pragmatics is the (vast) subfield of linguistics that is concerned with language in use: People use language to communicate ideas, beliefs, attitudes or emotions, and they do so as part of social
events, e.g. in such contexts as an encounter with friends, a phone call, a job interview, or when writing or reading a news report. The goals of this course are to give students a basic understanding
of pragmatics as well as to promote a general approach to the study of linguistic phenomena, based on the analysis of naturally-occurring data.
We will focus on how we use language to performs actions (Speech Act Theory), how we manage to communicate and understand more than we actually say (Theory of Conversational Implicature), and how
we recover a speaker's (or writer's) explicit and implicit assumptions, metaphor and irony (Relevance Theory). The course will involve in-class discussion of the different approaches, data analysis
exercises and group presentations of selected topics.
Texts:
George Yule. Pragmatics. Oxford: OUP, 1996.
Diane Blakemore. Understanding Utterances. An Introduction to Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
additional papers and articles from selected books.
Requirements: regular attendance, participation in class activities, written assignments, oral group presentation, set paper (Klausur) at the end of term
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Dr. Sabine Braun
Mo 16-18 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 11. 04. 2005
What is 'text' and what does it mean for a text to be 'coherent'? The goals of this course are to give students a basic understanding of how texts come to be interpreted as meaningful units as well
as to promote a general approach to the study of linguistic phenomena, based on the analysis of naturally-occurring data.
First we will investigate the lexical and grammatical 'cues' which are available in a text (the so-called cohesive ties such as lexical relationships between words and grammatical connections).
Then we will examine how readers/speakers use these cues to construct a coherent representation of a text in their mind. We will focus on how textual cues interact with a hearer's/reader's world
knowledge in this process. This will take us to examine different approaches to meaning and to how knowledge is stored and retrieved in and from our mind. The course will involve in-class discussion
of the different aspects of cohesion and coherence, data analysis exercises and group presentations of selected topics.
Literatur:
M.A. K. Haliday & Ruqaiya Hasan Cohesion in English. Longman: London, 1976.
Gillian Brown & George Yule Discourse Analysis, Cambridge: CUP, 1983.
additional papers and articles from selected books.
Requirements: regular attendance, participation in class activities, written assignments, oral group presentation, set paper (Klausur) at the end of term
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Dr. Edward Göbbel
Mi 10-12 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 13. 4. 2005
This seminar offers an introduction to Semantics, particularly the meaning of sentences and the way it is computed from the meaning of a sentence's parts. Topics to be discussed include
quantifiers, modality, tense, aspect, events, argument structure and aspectual classes of events. The knowledge you have acquired in practical courses will thus be supplemented by rigorous accounts
rooted in the philosophical and formal semantics tradition. It is highly recommended that participants have attended the lecture Introduction to Linguistics or an equivalent introductory course before signing up for this course.
Texts:
Kate Kearns Semantics. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000)
Requirements: regular attendance and participation, assignments, final exam
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Dr. Edward Göbbel
Mi 12-14 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 13. 4. 2005
This seminar offers an introduction to recent developments in generative syntax, usually referred to as the Minimalist Program. Topics to be discussed include the structure of phrases and
sentences, different complementation patterns, questions, passive sentences and various other syntactic phenomena. The major aim is not only to formulate rigorous syntactic rules, but to develop an
explanatory account. This means that we will also be concerned with explaining why certain constructions are ungrammatical in English and how English differs from other languages.
Texts: :
Andrew Radford English Syntax: An Introduction. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Requirements: regular attendance and participation, assignments, final exam
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Stu Watts, BA, MA; Adv.Dip.Ed.
Di 14-16 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 12. 4. 2005
"Meaning is Use." Wittgenstein.
"When I use a word ...... it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." Humpty Dumpty.
After a brief introductory phase dealing with some of the (philosophical) origins of modern Pragmatics, we will move on to thoroughly investigate the two major themes explored by this subject - how
we mean and understand more than is explicitly communicated, and how we actually 'do' things with language. At the end of the course, by means of brain-storming and mind-mapping, we will attempt to
find the common ground created by the different ideas and theories we have examined.
This seminar will mainly consist of classroom presentations by students, which should lead to a lively and extensive discussion of the topics at hand. If you feel you're curious, opinionated,
loquacious and self-reliant, well, come on in, the water's great!
Please purchase and read Yule, G (1998) Pragmatics before the course begins.
Requirements: Regular attendance and active participation; classroom presentation, exercises and a handout; final exam.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
PD Dr. Susanne Winkler
Mo 12-14 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 18. 4. 2005
This seminar offers an introduction to recent developments in English syntax, usually referred to as the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995). Students will have the opportunity to acquire the
theoretical concepts used in generative approaches and to apply them in the syntactic analysis of English sentences. Topics to be discussed include the structure of phrases and sentences, different
complementation patterns, questions, passive sentences and various other syntactic phenomena. The major aim is not only to formulate rigorous syntactic rules, but to develop an explanatory account. In
doing this, we will search for an explanation of why certain constructions are ungrammatical in Present Day English, and how this variety differs from earlier varieties and other languages.
Radford, A. (2004) English Syntax: An Introduction. Cambridge: CUP.
Requirements: Oral report, exercises, Zwischenprüfungsklausur.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Prof. Dr. Eckhard Auberlen
Di 8.30-10 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 12. 4. 2005
The aim of this proseminar is to introduce students in the Grundstudium to techniques and critical terms useful for the analysis of poetry. The poems for discussion will be selected from various
periods of English and American poetry. Special attention will also be paid to practical things like the presentation of oral reports and the writing of term papers.
Requirements: The minutes (Protokoll) of one session, oral report, mid-term Klausur, term paper (5-6 pages)
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
A lecture ("Grundlagen des literaturwissenschaftlichen Arbeitens", Di 18-20, R. 03) in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Participation in
both the seminar and the lecture is obligatory.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer
Mi 18-20 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 13. 4. 2005
This course aims at the introduction of basic critical concepts as well as the analysis and interpretation of a selection of literary texts from poetry, drama and fiction. Attention will be paid to the historical development of English literature.
Texts:
William Shakespeare. The Tempest. Ed. Virginia Mason Vaughan. The Arden Shakespeare. California: The Arden Shakespeare, 1999. ISBN 1903436087
Mary Shelley. Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: OUP, 1998. ISBN 0192833669
Poems (not only from English but also from American and Anglophone literatures) will be provided.
Requirements: Regular attendance and participation, mid-term written test, oral presentation, two 3-4 page essays (or one 6-7 page essay).
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
A lecture ("Grundlagen des literaturwissenschaftlichen Arbeitens", Di 18-20, R. 03) in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Participation in
both the seminar and the lecture is obligatory.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer
Di 18-19 (14-tg.) · Raum 119 · Beginn: 19. 4. 2005
This is a joint tutorial for all my courses in English literature. Questions to be answered include: how to prepare an oral report, chair a session, structure a discussion, take minutes, tackle the
reading list, read scholarly work, write a term paper, prepare for ZP or other exams . . . . These topics will not be discussed in the abstract but by addressing the specific needs of students concerned with specific subjects.
Lars Eckstein
Mi 10-12 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 13. 4. 2005
This seminar is intended for first year students. We will explore several concepts and methods of the analysis and interpretation of literary texts. This will involve careful readings of poems,
prose texts and plays from several epochs and centuries.
Texts: All texts will be taken from The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2 (7th edition, 2000).
Please buy and read Michael Meyer, English and American Literatures, Tübingen/Basel, Francke ((TB), 2004.
Requirements: Regular active attendance, oral presentation(s), short mid-term exam and essay, term paper
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
A lecture ("Grundlagen des literaturwissenschaftlichen Arbeitens", Di 18-20, R. 03) in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Participation in
both the seminar and the lecture is obligatory.
Prof. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Ph.D.
Di 16-18 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 19. 4. 2005
This class is intended for first-year students and will be especially dedicated to training and enhancing the analytical and scholarly skills required for the interpretation of poetry. In the
process, we will also gain insights into some of the formal and thematic developments of English and American poetry through the centuries. The poems under discussion will be made available in a reader at the beginning of term.
Qualifikation: aktive Teilnahme, Referat, Klausur, Hausarbeit
Anmeldung: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren (Computeranmeldung)
A lecture ("Grundlagen des literaturwissenschaftlichen Arbeitens", Di 18-20, R. 03) in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Participation in
both the seminar and the lecture is obligatory.
Dr. Günter Leypoldt
Di 9-11 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 12. 4. 2005
This beginner's course will serve as an introduction to basic categories and tools relevant to the analysis and interpretation of literary texts. Covering all genres, we will explore questions of
narrative, poetic, and dramatic form as well as cultural and historical context.
Texts: Please buy the following books: Michael Meyer, English and American Literatures (ISBN 3-8252-2526-7); Peter Shaffer, Amadeus (Penguin ISBN 0-
1404-8160-5); and Henry James, Daisy Miller (Penguin ISBN 0-1404 3262-0).
The remaining material will be supplied in a reader.
Requirements: Regular attendance at class and propädeutikum, presentation, mid-term exam, term paper.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
A lecture ("Grundlagen des literaturwissenschaftlichen Arbeitens", Di 18-20, R. 03) in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Participation in
both the seminar and the lecture is obligatory.
Annika Requardt, M.A.
Mi 9-11 · Raum 406 · Beginn: 13. 4. 2005
A Propädeutikum, in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Details will be announced at the beginning of the semester. Participation
in both the seminar and the Propädeutikum is obligatory.
This course is intended for first year students. It will introduce you to the study of American Literature and provide you with the critical vocabulary and skills with which to understand not only
what a literary text means, but also how it shapes meaning. We will look at a selection of poetic, narrative and dramatic texts and take them as starting points for the introduction of technical terms
and basic concepts of literary interpretation and analysis.
Texts: Please buy the following text:
Michael Meyer, English and American Literatures. Tübingen: Francke, 2004.
A reader with additional texts will be supplied at the beginning of the semester.
Requirements: Regular attendance, active class participation, oral presentation, written exam, essay.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
A lecture ("Grundlagen des literaturwissenschaftlichen Arbeitens", Di 18-20, R. 03) in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Participation in
both the seminar and the lecture is obligatory.
Jan Stievermann, M.A.
Mo 11-13 · Raum 406 · Beginn: 11. 4. 2005
This beginners' course is designed to introduce basic critical concepts and interpretative approaches relevant for the analysis of literary texts. These theoretical tools will be applied to a
representative selection of American writings (fiction, drama, poetry) from the colonial period to the present which will give participants a general overview of the historical development of literature in the U.S.
Texts: Please buy the following books:
Michael Meyer English and American Literatures. Tübingen, Francke, 2004
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire And Other Plays. London: Penguin Classics, 2000.
The remaining material will be supplied in a reader.
Requirements: Regular attendance at class, examination, two short essays.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
A lecture ("Grundlagen des literaturwissenschaftlichen Arbeitens", Di 18-20, R. 03) in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Participation in
both the seminar and the lecture is obligatory.
Dr. Francesca Broggi-Wüthrich
Fr 12-14 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 15. 4. 2005
This proseminar will introduce specific forms and notions of culturally gendered expression. Close-readings and discussions of the key texts (prose and verse) between the Romantic Age and the 20 th
century will occupy centre stage. The selection of authors will focus on (wo)men writers in English e.g. Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, Christina Rossetti, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf,
Sylvia Plath. We will trace how idea(l)s have transgressed 'borders' between the 'male' and the 'female' and become re-contextualized - if at all - according to issues of (gendered) identity.
Texts:
(1) Abrams, M. H. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2. New York, London: Norton, 1999 (7 th edition)
(2) All other texts will be collected in a reader which will be available at the beginning of term.
Requirements: Regular attendance, active class participation, oral report, term paper.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Lars Eckstein
Mi 16-18 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 13. 4. 2005
The Crusoe-theme sells: Tom Hanks, German soap stars and other equally gifted actors infest our TV screens as "castaways". In fact, it has always sold. The castaway has been a recurring motive in
popular as well as "high" culture ever since Daniel Defoe published his Robinson Crusoe in 1719, often regarded as the first "novel" written in English. However, Defoe's Crusoe is a much more
difficult text than our TV screens would suggest. It is many things at the same time: a moralising spiritual autobiography, a purportedly factual documentary, and an engaging adventure tale. While
most readings of the novel focus on its hero, Crusoe, as a survivor and self-made man, it is also a tale about the slave trade and the cultural conflict between colonisers and colonised. In this
seminar, we will closely investigate the central motives and narrative strategies of Defoe's Crusoe, before we turn to later rewritings of the tale to see how these strategies and motives are
transformed, radicalised, questioned or dispersed in intertextual dialogues: This will involve texts as diverse as R.M. Ballantyne's nineteenth-century novel The Coral Island, several
poems by the Caribbean writer Derek Walcott, and finally J.M. Coetzee's complex and challenging novel Foe (1986).
Texts: The following texts have to be read before the beginning of term. Make sure you only buy the full (Penguin) texts, and no abridged versions (Puffin etc.) of Defoe and
Ballantyne. Should the Ballantyne text be out of print, a master copy will be provided at the beginning of term, together with a collection of Derek Walcott's poetry.
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (Penguin)
R.M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island (Penguin)
J.M. Coetzee, Foe (Penguin)
Requirements: Regular active attendance, oral presentation(s), term paper
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler
Do 16-18 · Raum 406 · Beginn: 14. 4. 2005
This course will focus on the development of American poetry since the 1920s. In addition to a close reading of representative texts by contemporary poets we will deal with recent trends in poetic
theory and their 'origins' in early 20th-century modernist poetics. The course will cover most of the more prominent poetic movements/schools of 20th-century American poetry - from the imagists and
symbolists, to the objectivists, the Beat poets and the representatives of the various modes of 'post-modern' poetry.
Texts: A reader will be supplied in class.
Requirements: Oral report and term paper or written exam.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Prof. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Ph.D.
Mo 16-18 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 18. 4. 2005
In 1660, Charles II, who had been exiled following the years after the English Revolution, was invited back to England to assume the English throne. With him came many other expatriated aristocrats
as well as their distinctly non-Puritan tastes in entertainment and sexual mores. The theatres were re-opened (with the addition of women actors!) to cater to the tastes and interests of their more or
less illustrious patrons, their entourages, and those who sought to live off them. The period also sees, especially in Aphra Behn, the first professional women playwrights, in English history. The
Restoration theatre is justly famed for its sexual license, irreverent mayhem and general cynicism in matters both political and sexual. This course will focus on and analyse various questions
surrounding gender, erotic desire and (sexual) politics in some of the key texts of the period: William Wycherley, The Country Wife, George Etherege, The Man of Mode, William
Congreve, The Way of the World, Aphra Behn, The Rover and The Feigned Courtesans. Any edition or anthology can be used but the ones given here will contain all texts.
Literatur:
Robert Lawrence, ed. Everyman Restoration Plays
Aphra Behn The Rover and Other Plays
Qualifikation: Aktive Teilnahme, Referat, Hausarbeit
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Dr. Günter Leypoldt
Mo 14-16 · Raum 406 · Beginn: 11. 4. 2005
In this seminar we will explore how the discourses of ethnicity and nationality shape the writing of so-called 'hyphenated Americans.' Our focus will be on the fiction of Bharati Mukherjee and
Jhumpa Lahiri, whose protagonists negotiate the cultural space between South Asia and the United States. We will also cover some of the foundational theories of transnationality and ethnic identity
proposed by early twentieth-century intellectuals (such as Randolph Bourne, Horace M. Kallen, and W.E.B. Dubois).
Texts: Please buy the following books: Bharati Mukherjee, The Middleman (Grove ISBN 0-8021-3650-8); Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies (Mariner/Houghton
Mifflin ISBN 0-395-92720-X). The remaining material will be supplied in a reader.
Requirements: Regular attendance at class, presentation, term paper.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Prof. Dr. Christoph Reinfandt
Do 14-16 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 14. 4. 2005
While everyday usage of the adjective "romantic" usually carries strong undertones of sentimental triviality things are not as clear-cut if one approaches the term historically: Romanticism has at
times been described as morbid and healthy, revolutionary and escapist, aestheticist and political, to give just a few examples, and the only aspect of Romanticism that has never been seriously
contested is its being part and parcel of processes of modernisation. In this course we will try to unwrap this parcel by analysing a selection of poems indicative of the wide range of Romantic
writing, covering both the traditional canon (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron) and the long neglected alternative Romanticism of female writers documented in recent anthologies.
Texts: A reader will be available at the beginning of term.
Requirements: regular attendance, oral presentation, term paper.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Jan Stievermann, M.A.
Mo 16-18 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 11. 4. 2005
Autobiography is a form of imaginative discourse that from the very beginning of American literary history has been widely appreciated and much practiced. This course will survey major texts in the
evolution of American autobiography from 1600-1900, and examine its different cultural functions. On the one hand, it always severed to forge normative models of American identity by creating
exemplary lives of piety or citizenship (Winthrop, Franklin). On the other hand, writers turned to autobiography because the cultural group to which they belonged had been marginalized. Hence, the
genre provided a possibility to make 'invisible Americans visible', to express religious or political dissent (Thoreau, Adams), as well as to address issues of race and gender (Jacobs).
Texts: Please buy and read:
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography and Other Writings (Bentam Classics)
Harriet A. Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Signet Classics)
Henry D. Thoreau, Walden (Signet Classics)
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (Dover Publications, Economy Editions).
Requirements: Regular attendance and participation; oral presentation, term-paper.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Stilz
Fr 10-12 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 15. 4. 2005
This proseminar will offer an introduction to Australian literature. For basic information, we will rely on a combination of survey lectures and papers illustrating the geographical, historical and
social framework of contemporary Australian issues. Our seminar activities will then concentrate on the reading and analysis of literary texts (mainly poems and prose) made available in a seminar anthology.
Texts: Seminar Anthology
Requirements: oral report, term paper (10-12 pages), regular attendance.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Prerequisites: pass credits in "Language and Use" and a "Proseminar I" in English Literature. At the end of semester participants will be offered the oral exam required for their intermediate examination (Zwischenprüfung).
Kathy-Ann Tan, M.Litt.
Di 14-16 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 12. 4. 2005
The aim of this course is to introduce students to a range of poetry written in Britain and Ireland since 1945. It will relate the work of the poets studied to recent literary theory, in particular
to issues of historical, political and cultural identity. Issues discussed will also include: the idea of the poem as artefact; 'popular' or 'accessible' forms versus the 'avant-garde'; estrangement
and otherness; gender and identity. These issues will be focused through an examination of the ways in which post-war poetry has been centrally engaged with defining and contesting concepts of
Englishness. Writers we will look at will include: Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Mebdh McGuckian, Wendy Mulford, Denise Riley, J. H. Prynne, Grace Nichols,
Carol Ann Duffy, Tony Harrison, Tom Paulin, Paul Muldoon and Craig Raine, and others.
Texts:
Keith Tuma, Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (Oxford University Press, 1991)
Jon Cook, Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000 (Blackwell, 2004).
Additional material will be given in the form of hand-outs.
Requirements: regular attendance and active participation, oral presentation(s), term paper.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Horst Trossbach
Dieses Seminar entfällt.
Angelika Zirker
Mi 14-16 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 13. 04. 2005
Since the Middle Ages the dream has been popular as a framework of allegorical narratives. Well-known examples in English Literature are Langland's Piers Plowman or Bunyan's The
Pilgrim's Progress. But the dream is also used in many other ways: as a metaphor of the fictional world or the world of the stage, as a synonym of fancy and imagination, as a metaphor of life,
as a contrast to reality or a true image of the soul, etc. etc. Apart from Langland (selections) and Bunyan, we will read Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lewis Carroll's
Alice books and a selection of poems from the Renaissance to the present day in order to explore the range of the dream in English Literature and reflect upon the different functions of literature made manifest by this motif.
Texts:
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (Arden, Oxford or Cambridge edition)
John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress Ed. Roger Sharrock. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.
Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland Oxford: OUP, 1998.
Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass Oxford: OUP, 1998.
Excerpts from Langland and various poems will be provided in a folder.
Requirements: Regular attendance and participation, oral presentation and term paper
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Christine Baatz, M.A.
Mi 10-13 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 13. 4. 2005
The course will be divided into two main parts. The first part aims to provide a historical introduction to 'Cultural Studies' and its key thinkers, e.g. the theorists of the Birmingham
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, the Frankfurt school, Aby Warburg and his concept of Kulturwissenschaft, etc. By reading and discussing some of the 'classical' texts,
students will become familiar with basic concepts of cultural studies, such as power, identity, ideology, and representation. In the second part, students will employ these concepts in working on
individual projects related to medieval English culture. These may include topics such as the 'outsiders' in medieval English society; customs and folklore; artifacts of popular culture (e.g. pilgrim
badges) and 'high' culture; reflections on power; and ways of reconstructing the past (e.g. constructions of the medieval past in Victorian times).
Texts: A bibliography and reader will be available from my office (467) from April 1, 2005.
Requirements: Regular attendance and active participation. Participants are expected to give two presentations. The first (20^%) will be on one of the 'primary' or theoretical texts to
be discussed, the second will be on their individual project (20^%). The final paper (10-12 pages) will count for 60^% of the final grade.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Im Rahmen dieses Seminars kann die mündliche Zwischenprüfung in Literaturwissenschaft abgelegt werden.
Prof. Christopher Harvie
Mi 14-16 · Raum 108 · Beginn: 20. 4. 2005
The format of this seminar will depend on one uncertain factor: the date of the British general election. If, as expected, the election takes place in May or June of 2005, then the work of
participants will be centred on analysing the campaign, which will be well under way, through policy documents, polls, videos, news reports, etc. Groups of students will 'shadow' the parties, or
concentrate on representative constituencies and politicians. If it takes place earlier, materials from the elections of 1997 and 2001 will also provide a major part of class activities, but the
seminar will have more of an historical content. (A file of newspaper material on the contest of 2001 is available in Rm. 359).
Texts:
Harvie, Christopher Mending Scotland: Essays in Regional Economics (Argyll, 2004)
Morgan, Kenneth O. The Oxford History of Britain (1983; many subsequent editions)
Requirements: You will be expected to take part in referats, and to write a final Klausur or a Hausarbeit of 2500 words (LPS) or 3500 words (LHS).
Registration: For Proseminar: central (Computeranmeldung); for Hauptseminar, either in Prof. Harvie's Sprechstunde, or by e-mail to christopher.harvie^@uni-tuebingen.de, though
students are warned that 30 participants is an operating ceiling.
Prof. Christopher Harvie
Di 14-16 · Raum 108 · Beginn: 19. 4. 2005
Many, not least in Germany, have seen the British attachment to World War I and 'the Dunkirk spirit' as bordering on the obsessive, leading to an ultra-sceptical view of Europe and a nostalgia for a past in which 'we were all in it together'.
This course will discuss the impact of war on British society and the arts, principally in the contemporary period, from 1914, but also reaching back to themes from the middle ages, the ballads and
the theatre of Shakespeare. The public patriotism of World War I will be contrasted with the witness of the 'trench poets', and the 'home front' of 1939-45 with the country's attempt to survive in a world of superpowers.
It will also interrogate the assumption of a unity binding all of Britain together, by focusing on the deeply complex national and ethnic make-up of the British Isles, with a range of different conflicts and their histories.
Morgan, Kenneth O. The Oxford History of Britain (1983; many subsequent editions)
Requirements: You will be expected to take part in referats, and to write a final Klausur, or a Hausarbeit of 2500 words (LPS) or 3500 words (LHS).
Registration: For Proseminar: central (Computeranmeldung); for Hauptseminar, either in Prof. Harvie's Sprechstunde, or by e-mail to christopher.harvie^@uni-tuebingen.de, though
students are warned that 30 participants is an operating ceiling.
Christine Baatz, M.A.
Mi 16-18 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 13. 4. 2005
Ziel dieses Proseminars ist es, grundlegende Kenntnisse für die Lektüre altenglischer (vornehmlich westsächsischer) Prosatexte zu vermitteln. Ein Basiswissen über Syntax, Phonologie, Morphologie
des Altenglischen ist dazu unerlässlich. Darüber hinaus sollen auch kulturgeschichtliche Aspekte (z.B. anhand der Ausgrabungen in Sutton Hoo) beleuchtet werden.
Folgende Anthologien von Übersetzungen wichtiger altenglischer Texte sind zur vorbereitenden und begleitenden Lektüre empfohlen: Anglo-Saxon Poetry, hrsg. und übers. von S. A. J.
Bradley, London: Dent, 1982 und Anglo-Saxon Prose, hrsg. und übers. von Michael Swanton, London: Dent, 1993 (beide als Taschenbücher in Everyman's Library).
Literatur:
J. O. Fichte/F. Kemmler, Alt- und mittelenglische Literatur: Eine Einführung. 2. Auflage; Literaturwissenschaft im Grundstudium, 6 (Tübingen: Narr, 1994).
Qualifikation: Regelmässige und aktive Teilnahme, 2 Klausuren.
Anmeldung: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren (Computeranmeldung)
Prof. Dr. J. O. Fichte
Mo 10-12 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 11. 4. 2005
Aufgabe des Proseminars "Einführung in die altenglische Sprache und Literatur" ist es, die Studenten mit westsächsischer Phonologie, Morphologie, Flexionslehre und Syntax vertraut zu machen. Dabei
wird die Betrachtungsweise vorwiegend synchronisch sein, enthält aber auch im Rahmen einer historischen Festlegung des Altenglischen diachronische Hinweise auf das Indo- und Urgermanische.
Literatur: Joerg O. Fichte / Fritz Kemmler. Alt- und mittelenglische Literatur. Eine Einführung. (Literaturwissenschaft im Grundstudium 6). Tübingen, 1994.
Qualifikation: Scheinerwerb durch Klausur
Anmeldung: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren (Computeranmeldung)
Prof. Dr. J. O. Fichte
Mo 16-18 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 11. 4. 2005
Das Proseminar "Einführung in die mittelenglische Sprache und Literatur" setzt sich zwei Ziele: Erstens sollen Studenten mit den sprachlichen Entwicklungen bekanntgemacht werden, die Englisch von
einer synthetischen zu einer analytischen Sprache werden liessen, was auch Hinweise auf phonologische, morphologische und syntaktische Veränderungen einschliesst. Zweitens sollen dialektale Eigenarten
(Kentish, Southern, London Standard, East und West Midlands, Northern) anhand von ausgewählten Texten dargestellt und erläutert werden.
Literatur: Joerg O. Fichte / Fritz Kemmler. Alt- und mittelenglische Literatur. Eine Einführung. (Literaturwissenschaft im Grundstudium 6). Tübingen, 1994.
Qualifikation: Scheinerwerb durch Klausur
Anmeldung: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren (Computeranmeldung)
Prof. Dr. J. O. Fichte
Do 12-14 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 14. 4. 2005
Das Proseminar "Einführung in die mittelenglische Sprache und Literatur" setzt sich zwei Ziele: Erstens sollen Studenten mit den sprachlichen Entwicklungen bekanntgemacht werden, die Englisch von
einer synthetischen zu einer analytischen Sprache werden liessen, was auch Hinweise auf phonologische, morphologische und syntaktische Veränderungen einschliesst. Zweitens sollen dialektale Eigenarten
(Kentish, Southern, London Standard, East und West Midlands, Northern) anhand von ausgewählten Texten dargestellt und erläutert werden.
Literatur: Joerg O. Fichte / Fritz Kemmler. Alt- und mittelenglische Literatur. Eine Einführung. (Literaturwissenschaft im Grundstudium 6). Tübingen, 1994.
Qualifikation: Scheinerwerb durch Klausur
Anmeldung: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren (Computeranmeldung)
Dr. Fritz Kemmler
Mi 14-16 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 13. 4. 2005
Dieses einführende Proseminar soll die Studierenden mit den phonologischen, morphologischen und syntaktischen Merkmalen des Altenglischen (vornehmlich des Westsächsischen) vertraut machen und zur Lektüre von westsächsischen Prosatexten befähigen.
Literatur: J. O. Fichte / F. Kemmler, Alt- und mittelenglische Literatur: Eine Einführung, 3. Auflage; Narr Studienbücher (Tübingen: Narr, 2005).
Qualifikation: regelmässige und aktive Teilnahme, 6 Tests.
Anmeldung: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren (Computeranmeldung)
Dr. Fritz Kemmler
Di 14-16 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 12. 4. 2005
Dieses einführende Proseminar soll die Studierenden mit den phonologischen, morphologischen und syntaktischen Merkmalen der mittelenglischen Dialekte vertraut machen und zur Lektüre von mittelenglischen Texten in Vers und Prosa befähigen.
Literatur: J. O. Fichte / F. Kemmler, Alt- und mittelenglische Literatur: Eine Einführung, 3. Auflage; Narr Studienbücher (Tübingen: Narr, 2005).
Qualifikation: regelmässige und aktive Teilnahme, 6 Tests.
Anmeldung: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren (Computeranmeldung)
Christine Baatz, M.A.
Mi 10-13 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 13. 4. 2005
The course will be divided into two main parts. The first part aims to provide a historical introduction to 'Cultural Studies' and its key thinkers, e.g. the theorists of the Birmingham
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, the Frankfurt school, Aby Warburg and his concept of Kulturwissenschaft, etc. By reading and discussing some of the 'classical' texts,
students will become familiar with basic concepts of cultural studies, such as power, identity, ideology, and representation. In the second part, students will employ these concepts in working on
individual projects related to medieval English culture. These may include topics such as the 'outsiders' in medieval English society; customs and folklore; artifacts of popular culture (e.g. pilgrim
badges) and 'high' culture; reflections on power; and ways of reconstructing the past (e.g. constructions of the medieval past in Victorian times).
Texts: A bibliography and reader will be available from my office (467) from April 1, 2005.
Requirements: Regular attendance and active participation. Participants are expected to give two presentations. The first (20^%) will be on one of the 'primary' or theoretical texts to
be discussed, the second will be on their individual project (20^%). The final paper (10-12 pages) will count for 60^% of the final grade.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Im Rahmen dieses Seminars kann die mündliche Zwischenprüfung in Literaturwissenschaft abgelegt werden.
Dr. Fritz Kemmler
Mo 14-16 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 11. 4. 2005
In this advanced course we shall read a selection of texts taken from the major genres of Middle English literature. We shall analyse and interpret these texts with reference to their historical
context. Students wishing to participate must have attended the PS I Einführung ins Mittelenglische.
Literatur: Texts will be available towards the beginning of October.
Requirements: regular attendance, active participation, short presentation in class, term paper (Hausarbeit).
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Im Rahmen dieses Seminares kann die mündliche Zwischenprüfung in Literaturwissenschaft abgelegt werden.
Anmeldung für Oral Communication II und Written Communication II: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren.
Anmeldung für Phonetics, Translation II und Interpretation and Essay: persönliche Anmeldung.
Die Kurse beginnen in der ersten Semesterwoche!
Oral Communication II
Voraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung (ZP-Zeugnis bitte in die erste Sitzung mitbringen!)
E10: Lethbridge Di 18-20 · Raum 206
E11: Martin Mo 10-12 · Raum 206
E12: Watts Mo 10-12 · Raum 108
Written Communication II
Voraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung (ZP-Zeugnis bitte in die erste Sitzung mitbringen!)
F10: Donnellan Mo 20-22 · Raum 108
F11: Lethbridge Mi 12-14 · Raum 119
F12: Lethbridge Do 14-16 · Raum 108
F13: Matley Mo 12-14 · Raum 108
Phonetics Voraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung
Watts Mo 14-16 · Raum 05
Watts Di 10-12 · Raum 306
Interpretation and Essay for Candidates
Voraussetzung: Meldung zur Lehramtsprüfung
Auberlen Mo 14-16 · Raum 306
Translation II Bitte beachten: der Kurs "Translation II" ist nur für den Studiengang Staatsexamen vorgesehen.
Voraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung
Geppert-Jolly Mi 10-12 · Raum 108
Matley Mo 16-18 · Raum 108
Watts Mi 12-14 · Raum 108
Matley Mo 10-12 · Raum 306
Siehe auch:
- Fachdidaktik Englisch
- Interpretation and Essay (Hauptstudium)
- Lektürekurs Mediävistik ("Mediävistik am Donnerstag")
Prof. Dr. Eckhard Auberlen
Mo 14-16 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 11. 4. 2005
This class is intended for students near the end of their Hauptstudium who wish to review their critical tools of analysis and practise 'close reading' on an advanced level which also includes the
study of texts in their social and literary context. The course also deals with selected aspects of theory as well as problems and strategies of essay writing.
Texts:
S. Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction (Routledge)
Manfred Pfister, Das Drama (UTB)
Christoph Bode, Einführung in die Lyrikanalyse (WVT)
Requirements: two interpretations (mock exams)
Registration: Mon 16-17, Tue 18 in 361
Dr. Fritz Kemmler
Do 12-13 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 14. 4. 2005
Dieser Kurs wendet sich an alle an der (englischen) Mediävistik interessierten Studierenden. Der Schwerpunkt dieses Kurses liegt auf der intensiven Lektüre
(kürzerer) alt- und mittelenglischer Texte aus ganz unterschiedlichen literarischen Gattungen. Zusätzlich soll auch der literatur- und sozialgeschichtliche Kontext der Texte erarbeitet werden.
Schwerpunktthema im Sommersemester 2005: "Historical"
Anmeldung: nicht erforderlich.
Stu Watts, BA, MA; Adv.Dip.Ed.
Mo 14-16 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 11. 4. 2005
This course is designed both for students who wish to revise for their coming 'Lehramt' oral exam, as well as for students who wish to gain more experience/knowledge in the subject area for the
first time. It will be an examination of the two main standard varieties of spoken English: BBC English or Received Pronunciation (RP), i.e. British English (BE); and General American, i.e. American
English (AE). The sound system of these two varieties (i.e. their individual vowels and consonants, and how they interact) will be studied. Learning how to transcribe these sounds will be another
important aim of this course. Where appropriate, English and German will also be compared/contrasted with each other, in order to highlight teaching difficulties (and possible solutions to them).
Requirements: Regular attendance and weekly exercises; a course-final exam must be taken and passed in order to receive the 'Schein'.
Registration: Add your name to the appropriate class list, which will be hanging next to my office door from the beginning of the ,vorlesungsfreie Zeit^'.
Stu Watts, BA, MA; Adv.Dip.Ed.
Di 10-12 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 12. 4. 2005
See above description.
Requirements: Regular attendance and weekly exercises; a course-final exam must be taken and passed in order to receive the 'Schein'.
Registration: Add your name to the appropriate class list, which will be hanging next to my office door from the beginning of the ,vorlesungsfreie Zeit^'.
Stu Watts, BA, MA; Adv.Dip.Ed.
Mo 10-12 · Raum 108 · Beginn: 11. 4. 2005
The aim of this class is to improve your academic presentation skills (so it would make best sense to take the course if you are also attending a HS in the English Department). After a brief
introductory phase in which we will examine comportment (stance in the classroom, body language, use of voice, etc.) and the purpose and structure of presentations and handouts, the remainder of the
course will consist of oral reports given by students. These reports generally fall into one of the following four categories: 'Dry-runs'; 'Presentations about Presentations'; Presentations on
Teaching/Learning; and Formal Debates. Every report will be subject to peer criticism: its positive and negative aspects will be illuminated upon in a short discussion, allowing students to benefit from the insight of the class.
Requirements: Regular attendance; participation in all discussions; one presentation.
Anmeldung: central (Computeranmeldung)
Ellen Butzko, StR'in
Di 18-20 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 19. 4. 2005
What is intercultural learning in theory? What does it mean in practice? How can high school students arrive at a more profound understanding of the mythical Wild West? The seminar will look at the
current methodology of teaching English at an advanced level: how does the teacher deal with different texts and genres, e.g. stories and historical texts, paintings and films.
Requirements: Regular attendance, active class participation, an oral report and a final exam (Klausur).
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Für Studierende des Lehramts gehört das Seminar nach der neuen Prüfungsordnung zu den Pflichtveranstaltungen.
Inge Strass-Latzko, SDin
Do 18-20 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 14. 4. 2005
In this seminar students will gain insight into two of Shakespeare's tragedies (Romeo and Juliet and Othello) and how these texts can be used at German schools (upper
level). We will try out a wide range of classroom activities which "help to turn the script into drama" (Rex Gibson) and discuss the value of an active approach when studying Shakespeare at school.
The seminar will also provide a general introduction to the teaching of English at schools (advanced level). It is intended for students who have finished their Praxissemester.
Please get a copy of the Cambridge School Shakespeare and read at least one of the plays in advance.
Texts: Cambridge School Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet and Othello
Rex Gibson, Teaching Shakespeare, CUP 1999
Requirements: regular attendance, active class participation, portfolio, a lesson plan.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Harald Weisshaar, StD
Mo 18-20 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 18. 04. 2005
This seminar is intended for students who have just started or finished their Praxissemester. It is designed to introduce a number of methods to transfer University knowledge to the language
classroom. The seminar will concentrate on the role of the course-book: how is it made? what elements are there? How can we successfully use it in class? Some of the topics touched upon will be
motivation, communicative competence, literature, vocabulary, grammar, cultural studies, listening comprehension and creative writing. Students will get a chance to practice and evaluate their presentation skills.
Texts: A reader will be made available at the beginning of the semester.
Requirements: Regular attendance, active class participation, an oral report. Instead of a final exam or Hausarbeit, students will be required to keep a Learning Portfolio throughout
the term. More detailed information will be made available at the first session.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Für Studierende des Lehramts gehört das Seminar nach der neuen Prüfungsordnung zu den Pflichtveranstaltungen.
Prof. Dr. Kurt Kohn / Sabine Braun
Do 16-18 · Raum 027 · Beginn: 14. 04. 2005
Recent discussions in second-language pedagogy focus on constructivist learning theories and their demand for authentic learning materials and autonomy of learners and teachers. Many traditional
textbooks, however, still rely on invented examples and support learning activities that do not always reflect real language use. Moreover, they take a deductive approach (i.e. language facts are
stated and then exemplified) which does not leave much scope for autonomous exploration.
In this seminar we will take a look at whether and how language corpora (i.e. large collections of authentic text) and corpus-linguistic methods can be used to meet the demands for authenticity and
autonomy and thus to enrich and enhance the language learning process.
We will focus on three questions: What kind of corpora are appropriate in the learning and teaching context? How can corpora be used to create teaching materials. How can corpora be exploited by
the learners themselves (in explorative learning scenarios)? Our discussion of the theoretical and methodological implications of corpus analysis will be complemented by practical workgroup projects.
Texts:
Mukherjee, Joybrato Korpuslinguistik und Englischunterricht. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002.
Wichmann, Anne; Fligelstone, Steven; McEnery, Tony & Knowles, Gerry (eds) Teaching and Language Corpora. London: Longman, 1997.
selected papers and articles
Requirements: regular attendance, participation in class activities, term paper (Hausarbeit) or set paper (Klausur) at the end of term
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Prof. Dr. Kurt Kohn
Mi 14-16 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 13. 4. 2005
This seminar addresses theoretical and empirical questions of how we understand utterances from a cognitive and constructivist perspective. Sperber & Wilson's Relevance Theory provides a
theoretical and methodological foundation for our study of the strategic principles and processes involved. Empirical explorations will also include literary texts.
Texts:
Blakemore, Diana (1992): Understanding utterances. An introduction to pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell;
Brown, Gillian & Yule, George (1983): Discourse analysis. Cambridge: CUP;
Sperber, Dan & Wilson, Deirdre. (1995): Relevance. Communication and cognition. Oxford: Blackwell.
Requirements: Regular attendance and participation in class activities, participation in a work group; term paper.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Prof. Dr. Kurt Kohn
Do 10-12 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 14. 4. 2005
Recent developments in the fields of multimedia and internet offer an interesting potential for self-organized learning and flexible tutoring. The secret to success, however, lies in integrating
old and new ways of learning - e.g. classroom activities, self-study, eLearning - within a comprehensive approach of 'blended learning'. The seminar addresses theoretical and empirical questions of
second language learning and teaching in this context. Special attention will be given to communicative and post-communicative approaches, learner autonomy and authenticity. Empirical studies will be
carried out to develop a deeper understanding of the scope and challenges of 'blended language learning'.
Texts:
Benson, Phil (2001): Autonomy in language learning. Harlow: Pearson Education;
Kohn, Kurt (2004): "Sprachenlernen mit Multimedia gestalten." In Hohenstein, Andreas & Wilbers, Karl: Handbuch E-Learning. Köln: Wolter Kluwer;
Rüschoff, Bernd & Wolff, Dieter (1999): Fremdsprachenlernen in der Wissensgesellschaft. Zum Einsatz der neuen Technologien in Schule und Unterricht. München: Hueber.
Requirements: Regular attendance and participation in class activities, participation in a work group; term paper.
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
PD Dr. Susanne Winkler / Jens Maier, MA
Do 10-12 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 14. 4. 2005
Praktikum: Do 12-13, Raum t.b.a.
The aim of this seminar is an interdisciplinary one: we will investigate so-called grammatically "deviant" constructions in English, such as those given in (1)-(4):
1) We don't need no education. (negative concord in BE)
2) I thought they should'a bín did that. (Green 2002: 96; AAE)
3) Sounds like a mistake my grandmother might would make. (Brown 1991; Scottish English)
4) "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." (G.W. Bush); (Emonds 1986: prestige usage of pronouns)
First, we'll address the dichotomy between standard and nonstandard English and search for the relevant data (internet, corpora, literature, film, ex-slave recordings, etc.). Second, we'll analyze
the different varieties within the theory of generative grammar (Chomsky 1995, Radford 2004). In cases where generative grammar falls short of explaining the variation, we will try to find
explanations for the emergence of a particular phenomenon by adopting a diachronic and sociocultural perspective. The seminar starts out by concentrating on the linguistic characterization of African
American English (Green 2002) and the historical and sociolinguistic theories of its origin (Poplack 2000, Wardhaugh 2002). Then, we will investigate different syntactic and phonological phenomena in
other varieties ofEnglish, including the international varieties of English spoken by non-native speakers.
Texts:
Green, L. J. (2002) African American English: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge: CUP.
Poplack, S. (ed.) (2000) The English History of African American English. New York: Blackwell.
Wardhaugh, R. (1998/2002) An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.
Requirements: oral report, empirical project, term paper/Klausur.
Registration: 17.02.05, 18 Uhr, Raum 464. Reading List: A reading list and a topic list will be made available at registration.
Prof. Dr. Eckhard Auberlen
Di 12-14 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 12. 4. 2005
The Restoration theatre was an important meeting place of the town gallants. In the comedy of manners they cultivated their ideals of wit, elegance and ease, but they also laughed at their own
follies. Some of the stock figures and conventions of Restoration comedies survived the demise of the Stuart court after the Glorious Revolution for more than a decade, but these conventions were
modified until they were replaced by those of eighteenth century Sentimental drama. Not everyone was pleased with the new 'weeping comedy', which responded to some concerns of the bourgeoisie. Richard
Sheridan revived some of the features of the Restoration comedies while retaining some elements of Sentimental Comedy. The plays studied will be: George Etherege, The Man of Mode; William
Wycherley, The Country Wife; William Congreve, The Way of the World; George Farquhar, The Beaux's Stratagem; Richard Steele, The Conscious Lovers;
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal. Recommended further reading: Aphra Behn, The Rover.
Texts:
Scott McMillin, ed. Restoration and Eighteenth Century Comedy (Norton Critical Edition ISDN0393963349)
George Farquhar, The Beaux' Stratagem (New Mermaid)
Requirements: oral or written report, term paper (15-18 pages), regular attendance.
Registration: Mon 16-17. There will be a preliminary meeting at my office (room 361) on February 15 at 6 p.m.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer
Di 16-18 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 12. 4. 2005
Tutorium Di 18-19; mind the special announcement
In this course, the enormous range of Dickens' fiction will be explored by focussing on his allegorical novel, The Old Curiosity Shop (1840/41), on his masterpiece in the genre of
fictional autobiography, David Copperfield (1849/50), and on his fictional transformation of history, A Tale of Two Cities (1859). Each of these novels will be read within
the contexts of the (sub)genres and literary traditions to which they belong. They will be compared by considering the representation of different kinds of reality, their changing styles, and the
different ways of representing individuals and social relationships.
Prospective participants should start reading the three novels at once.
Texts:
Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop. Ed. Norman Page. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2001. ISBN 0140437428
Charles Dickens David Copperfield.Oxford: OUP, 1999. ISBN 0192835785 oder: Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997. ISBN 0140434941
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities.Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0141439602
Requirements: regular attendance, oral presentation/session chair, term papers; oral (BA) and written (Magister) exams can be taken.
Registration: Please send a message to m.bauer1 ^@uni-tuebingen.de.
N.B. There will be an
Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer
Do 09-11 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 14. 4. 2005
Tutorium Di 18-19; mind the special announcement
This course attempts at combining theory and critical practise. On the one hand, "play" is frequently used as a kind of general expression for the production, nature and reception of literary
texts; the term denotes a concept which has been debated since the age of Plato. Language itself has been regarded as a form of play. On the other hand, literary texts in very specific ways abound
with elements of play: on the level of rhetoric (e.g. wordplay), of genre (e.g. the riddle), of outer form (e.g. pattern poetry), of structure (e.g. play as a principle of organization), of theme
(e.g. life as play) etc. We will try and link general notions with particular examples and, hopefully, enjoy the procedure. Emphasis will be given to poetry but other genres will be included when relevant.
Since several theoretical texts and many poems will be read during the semester, all participants should be familiar with the texts indicated below by the beginning of the term.
Texts:
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Oxford: OUP, 1998.
Further Texts will be provided in a reader.
Lear, Edward. The Book of Nonsense and Nonsense Songs. Penguin Popular Poetry. London: Godfrey Cave, 1996. ISBN 0140622268 Further Texts will be provided in a reader.
Requirements: regular attendance, oral presentation/session chair, term papers; oral (BA) and written (Magister) exams can be taken.
Registration: Please send a message to m.bauer^@uni-tuebingen.de.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer
Di 18-19 (14-tg.) · Raum 119 · Beginn: 19. 4. 2005
This is a joint tutorial for all my courses in English literature. Questions to be answered include: how to prepare an oral report, chair a session, structure a discussion, take minutes, tackle the
reading list, read scholarly work, write a term paper, prepare for ZP or other exams . . . . These topics will not be discussed in the abstract but by addressing the specific needs of students concerned with specific subjects.
Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler
Di 17-20 · Raum 406 · Beginn: 12. 4. 2005
With the movement towards national independence the American colonies were swept with a new kind of political rhetoric which expressed the growing dissent but also the slowly evolving sense of a
separate national identity. The course will analyse both literary and historical documents of the Revolutionary period (Declaration of Independence; famous public speeches and orations; Paine's Common
Sense; literary representations of the concept of "The Rising Glory of America" and various patriotic songs) and of the young Republic through the 1840s and 50s. The seminar will trace the new (and
old) ideologies on which the new nation was built. This course will be research oriented, and participants should be willing to develop and pursue independent projects.
Texts: A seminar reader will be available by the end of March at the Amerikanistik office.
Requirements: Oral report and term paper or written exam.
Registration: At the Amerikanistik office beginning February 14, 2005.
Prof. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Ph.D. / Christian Wallraven
Mi 16-18 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 20. 4. 2005
Science fiction and no end in sight: if science is the master discourse of the 20th and 21st centuries, the fictions in which it finds itself tested, imagined, fantasized, and appropriated
constitute an ever expanding body of works which range from the pretty crummy to the downright literary. Cyber-Consciousnesses, Other-Genderednesses, Socio-Apocalypses, Human-(Re)-engineerings and
Bio-Hazards of all kinds: these power the imaginations of science fiction writers as they feed on and re-fuel the sciences which elaborate and often enough shape the conditions of the human and the
material world. With the help of Christian Wallraven, who joins us from the Max-Planck-Institute of Biological Cybernetics, this course will investigate the interaction between the scientific
hypotheses which inspire science fiction and the fictions which spring from them. Texts will be read in the order listed here. In addition, there will be a reader containing related articles from scientific journals.
Literatur:
William Gibson Neuromancer
Jeff Noon Vurt
Ursula Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness
Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake
China Miéville Perdido Street Station
Qualifikation: Referat, Hausarbeit oder Klausur
Anmeldung: In meiner Sprechstunde oder per e-mail
Prof. Dr. Christoph Reinfandt
Do 16-18 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 14. 4. 2005
William Blake, who remained largely unknown as poet, printer, painter and prophet in his own lifetime, did indeed manage to catch the attention of the "Children of the future Age" he came to regard
as his audience. With currently even a German edition of his works in print, his standing as one of the great eccentrics of literary history is secure and his influence pervasive. This course will
focus on Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789/94), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1792, and selected passages from his later prophetic writings. Finally we will have a look at recent instances of Blake's influence.
Requirements: Regular attendance, oral report/project work, term paper, Klausur/oral exam optional.
Registration: At the secretarie's office (room 370) beginning Thursday, February 10, 2005.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Reinfandt
Mi 14-16 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 13. 4. 2005
At first glance Philip Pullman's novels Northern Lights (1995, published in the US as The Golden Compass), The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber
Spyglass (2000) are 'mere' children's books in the at present spectacularly successful genre of fantasy fiction. A closer look, however, reveals a truly epic inquiry into central aspects of
cultural modernity such as, for example, conceptions of childhood, the role of scientific exploration and discovery, and, last but by no means least, the disappearance of God. In this seminar we will
examine the novels' complex negotiation of fantastic and realistic modes of writing - Pullman himself has repeatedly insisted that the trilogy is "as realistic as I could make it" - and their complex
relationship with earlier literary texts such as Milton's Paradise Lost, Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience and Kleist's Über das Marionettentheater.
Project work within the seminar could include the BBC radio dramatization which was aired in January 2003, the stage adaptation of the books which enjoyed a spectacularly successful run at the
National Theatre in 2004, and (if already available) the film version currently planned by the New Line production company (of Lord of the Rings fame).
Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials. Available in various paperback editions and as boxset, for suggested editions please watch out a note on my door.
Requirements: Regular attendance, oral report/project work, term paper, Klausur/oral report optional.
Registration: At the secretary's office (room 370) beginning Thursday, February 10, 2005.
Prof. Brian Richardson
Di, Do 10-12 · Raum 108 · Beginn: 2. 6. 2005
We will begin this compact course with a brief review of structuralist narrative theory and then go on to examine a variety of recent positions and approaches. These include feminist narrative
theory, recent Chicago School theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, postcolonial approaches to narrative, some cognitivist narratology, and nonmimetic theories that attempt to do justice to
postmodern fiction. Topics to be covered include narrative time, beginnings and endings, plot and other forms of narrative progression, causality, narrative frames, unusual forms of narration
(including "you" and "we" forms, character theory, the status of the implied author, and the role of the reader.
Texts:
David Herman, ed. Narratologies
Brian Richardson, ed. Narrative Dynamics
Suzanne Keen, Narrative Form.
Requirements: Oral report and term paper or written exam.
Registration: At the Amerikanistik office beginning February 14, 2005.
Prof. Brian Richardson
Di, Do 14-16 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 2. 6. 2005
This compact class will read the major fiction of both Woolf and Beckett in a chronological order that will trace the development of both writers through their most impressive achievements. Our
thematic center will be on the changing dialectic of order and disorder present in the work of each. In addition, we will follow out a number of other concerns, including narration, metafiction,
gender, narrative sequencing, the trope of reading, and the figure of the other. This study will also allow us to speculate usefully on the development of first modernism and then postmodernism in the history of narrative fiction.
Texts:
Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves.
Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Nohow On
Requirements: Oral report and term paper or written exam.
Registration: At the Amerikanistik office beginning February 14, 2005.
Judy Schaaf, Ph.D.
Mo, Mi, 14-16 · Raum 120 · Beginn: 1. 6. 2005
American Utopias: When Thomas More wrote Utopia in the early sixteenth century, he sparked a revolution in political and social philosophy, as well as a literary tradition. It would be
more than a century before utopian ideas escaped literature and began to be practiced in social reforms in Europe and, later, in the radical social experiments of the developing American nation. This
compact course examines the literature, art, history, and cultural history of social reform movements in America, focusing on their literary expressions of the idea of utopia. We will
begin with an introduction to the utopian tradition in European literature and then focus upon American examples from the 19th century. Core readings, indicated below, will be supplemented by briefer, web-based materials.
Texts: Please buy and read:
Three Early Modern Utopias, Oxford World's Classics, 2000; ISBN 0-192-83885-7
Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings, Bantam Classics, 1994; ISBN 0-553-21246-X Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance, Oxford University Press, 1999; ISBN 0-192-83697-8
William Dean Howells, A Traveler from Altruria, The Bedford Series in History and Culture, 1996; ISBN 0-312-11799-X.
Requirements: Oral report and term paper or written exam.
Registration: At the Amerikanistik office beginning February 14, 2005.
Prof. Pamela Schirmeister
Mo, Mi, 10-13 · Raum 120 · Beginn: 6. 6. 2005
This compact course will examine some of the canonical texts of the American Renaissance (1835-1860), as well as a later strain in American thought that grows directly from these texts. Starting
with Emerson's essays, we will map some of the central preoccupations of this period, with particular attention to the centrality of literature itself as the privileged place of expression for a host
of crises surrounding the construction of individual identities, the understanding of history, social and cultural formation, and democracy. We will also consider how the performativity of these texts
invites the reader to engage these various crises in the act of reading itself: how, for example, the texts attempt to naturalize their readers in the dynamics of liberal democracy, even as they call
into question the validity of such democracy. We will also look at the way in which the reader's role is thematized in the text, specifically in those moments where the text itself "reads" its
literary predecessors. Lastly, we will look at several essays from William James' Pragmatism, America's first self-conscious attempt at philosophy, to speculate about pragmatism's debt to the
rhetorical strategies of the literature we have read rather than to any philosophical school or history.
Texts:
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The American Scholar", "History", "Self-Reliance", "Experience",
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville: "Bartleby, The Scrivener"
Walt Whitman: selections from Leaves of Grass
William James: selected chapters from Pragmatism
Richard Rorty: selected essays from Contingency, Irony and Solidarity
Requirements: Oral report and term paper or written exam.
Registration: At the Amerikanistik office beginning February 14, 2005.
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Stilz
Do 10-13 Uhr · Raum 120 · Beginn: 14. 4. 2005
More than fifty years after his death, James Joyce is still regarded as one of the most daring, fascinating and elusive authors in English. This Hauptseminar will approach his narrative art by
using short stories from the Dubliners and passages from A Portrait of the Artist and Stephen Hero as an introductory reading. We will then concentrate, for most
of the semester, on Ulysses and finally taste some of the intricacies of Finnegans Wake. On 16 June 2005, Seminar members will participate in the annual Tübingen Bloomsday reading of Ulysses.
Texts:
All participants will need their own copies of these books. For Ulysses the recommended text is the Student Edition ed. by Hans Walter Gabler. For basic reading on
James Joyce, students should first consult Richard Ellmann's biography (rev. ed. 1982).
James Joyce, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist, Stephen Hero, Ulysses Gabler Edition: (Vintage Books), Finnegans Wake.
Requirements: Regular active attendance, oral presentation(s), term paper, Klausur
Registration: Up to 20 participants can register for this class by mid-February. Five more can join at the beginning of summer semester.
Prof. Dr. Horst Tonn
Di 15-17 · Raum 406 · Beginn: 12. 4. 2005
The aim of this course is to introduce students to a major period in U.S. literary history. The decade of the 1930s begins with the crash of the stock market in the fall of 1929 and it essentially
ends with the beginning of World War II in 1939. During this decade American literature responds to social and economic crisis in new and original ways. We will read some of the major novels of this
period and look at them in relation to their cultural and socio-historical contexts.
Texts:
Tillie Olson, Yonnondio: From the Thirties (1974)
John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath (1939)
James Agee/Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
William Faulkner, Light in August (1932).
Requirements: Work group presentation, short presentations, term paper or essay exam.
Registration: At the Amerikanistik office beginning February 14, 2005.
Prof. Christopher Harvie
Do 16-18 · Raum 108 · Beginn: 14. 4. 2005
This course will focus on social conditions and criticism in Britain since 1930, taking its angle of approach from Scotland and trying to compare the British experience with that of Europe and of
Germany in particular. Among the themes to be covered will be urban conditions and government (London in particular), tourism, entertainment and the arts; the continuing constitutional and social
problems of Sotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; the value of literature, film, drama, music and TV as means of conveying social protest. Among the writers to be discussed will be George Orwell, J B Priestley, Paul Theroux and Beatrix Campbell.
Texts:
Harvie, Christopher Mending Scotland: Essays in Regional Economics (Argyll, 2004)
Morgan, Kenneth O. The Oxford History of Britain (1983; many subsequent editions)
Requirements: You will be expected to take part in referats, and to write a final Klausur or a Hausarbeit of 3500 words.
Registration: Either in Prof. Harvie's Sprechstunde, or by e-mail to
christopher.harvie^@uni-tuebingen.de, though students are warned that 30 participants is an operating ceiling.
Prof. Dr. Horst Tonn
Do 9-12 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 14. 4. 2005
In this seminar we will explore the role of the print media in the mediation of public discourses about the democratic process. Our focus will be on reporting about the recent presidential election
in the United States. We will read and analyze selected reporting from major news magazines (Time, Newsweek, The Nation, New Republic, Esquire, Rolling Stone, etc.). Based on the
constructivist assumption that the media produce and stabilize dominant constructions of reality we will raise the following questions: Which processes of selection and composition can be identified
in a given text? Which genre conventions and professional norms have an influence on journalism? How do institutional circumstances affect the kind of reporting we read in our press? Which rhetorical
strategies do journalists use to convey a particular interpretation of a given phenomenon?
Texts: A reader will be available at the Amerikanistik office after February 15.
K. Merten/S.J. Schmidt/S. Weischenberg, Hgg. Die Wirklichkeit der Medien (1994).
Requirements: Work group presentation, short presentations, term paper or essay exam.
Registration: At the Amerikanistik office beginning February 14, 2005.
Prof. Dr. J. O. Fichte
Di 16-18 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 19. 4. 2005
Malory's Morte Darthur can justifiedly be seen as a late medieval summa of Arthurian literature. Written about 1470, it is the only English prose cycle that treats the
entire life of King Arthur from his conception and birth to his death. In order to construct his Arthuriad, Malory drew on various French sources, especially the Vulgate Cycle and the Prose Tristan.
The adaptation of these sources will be one topic discussed in the proposed seminar. Others will be the structure of the work - a unified cycle or a number of individual tales loosely assembled in
cyclical form - the identity/personality of the author and his position in fifteenth-century England, Malory's concept of chivalry and of late medieval feudal society (blood relationship vs. the
fellowship of the Round Table), and his treatment of the major figures of Arthurian literature, especially of Arthur and Lancelot.
Texts:
Sir Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, or, The hoole book of Kyng Arthur and of his noble knyghtes of the Rounde Table: authoritative text, sources and backgrounds,
criticism. Ed. by Stephen H. A. Shepherd. New York: Norton, 2004. (A Norton Critical Edition.) ISBN 0-393-97464-2.
Requirements: Depending on the topics of the papers or final exams (Klausuren), Scheine can be acquired in either historical linguistics or in literature.
Registration: during office hours in rooms 408 and 409.
Dr. Fritz Kemmler
Mo 10-12 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 11. 4. 2005
Tutorium: Di 9-11, R. 136
Based on a representative corpus of Old English prose texts we shall study the major areas of historical grammar: sounds, accidence, and syntax. Students wishing to participate in this course should have attended the 'Proseminar I: Altenglisch'.
Texts: A course-reader will be available in the first meeting.
Requirements: active participation; 'Hausarbeit' (or 'Klausur').
Registration: Monday, February 14, 2005, 12-13.30, R. 407.
Dieses Hauptseminar eignet sich für Studierende im Lehramtsstudiengang, die beabsichtigen, im Staatsexamen die sprachhistorische Klausur zu bearbeiten, wie auch für Studierende im
Magisterstudiengang Linguistik des Englischen (HF und NF), die sich einen Schwerpunkt in der historischen Linguistik erarbeiten möchten.
Prof. Dr. Kurt Kohn
Di 20-22 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 12. 4. 2005
In this course we will explore and discuss linguistic topics relevant for the final exams (Staatsexamen, Magister).
Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)
Prof. Dr. Kurt Kohn
Mi 18-20 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 13. 4. 2005
In close connection with on-going projects, this course will focus on research topics from different areas of Applied English Linguistics.
Registration: By invitation only.
PD Dr. Susanne Winkler / Remus Gergel
Mo 14-16 · Raum 464 · Beginn: 18. 4. 2005
This seminar investigates how the human computational system generates sentences and focuses on the theoretical possibilities of the interaction of different components with the result of causing
silence in the phonological output of the sentence. First, we'll concentrate on the great variety of elliptical constructions found in coordinate and embedded structures in Present Day English. The
results will be compared to those types found in Old English (and Middle English) Corpora, such as the VP-ellipsis in forðy is betere þæt feoh þætte næfre losian ne mæg ðonne
þætte mæg 7 sceal (Warner 1992: 182). The goal of this comparison is to find answers to more intricate questions, such as why VP-ellipsis could serve as evidence for the often disputed presence of modals in Old English.
Registration: via email to susanne.winkler^@t-online.de by 30.03.05.
PD Dr. Susanne Winkler
Do 14-16 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 21. 4. 2005
This colloquium is offered to students who have signed up for the 2005/06 exam period. We will concentrate on the preparation and presentation of exam topics, and on grammatical issues that may be
addressed in the general part of the oral exam. Students who are planning to write their Staatsexamensarbeit or Magisterarbeit in the area of linguistics are also invited to sign up for this course.
Registration: via email to susanne.winkler^@t-online.de by 30.03.05.
Prof. Dr. Eckhard Auberlen
Mo 12-14 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 11. 4. 2005
This Oberseminar is open to students who have already attended a Hauptseminar. It starts with an introduction to the theory of adaptations. The study of each adaptation is preceded by one session
which focuses on the Shakespearean 'original'. The first adaptation, singled out for discussion, is Davenant's and Dryden's The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island (1678); in this operatic
version, Shakespeare's Tempest is turned into a satire on political experiments of the Commonwealth period while the Miranda-Ferdinand plot reappears as a libertinist sex comedy. Henry
Purcell's opera, The Fairy Queen (1692), reconceives Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in the spirit of the Enlightenment. Granville's The Jew of Venice
(1701), an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, will be studied in the context of the eighteenth century debate on economic morality and the rise of Sentimentalism. Arnold
Wesker's The Merchant (1978) is a radical post-holocaust inversion of the Shakespearean plot. The course concludes with Kenneth Branagh's well-known film version of Much Ado about
Nothing, which has received considerable scholarly attention. Texts of all adaptations are available in the faculty library and will be listed on a handout distributed during the preliminary meeting.
Texts:
Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Arden)
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Arden)
Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing (Arden)
Shakespeare, The Tempest (Arden)
Arnold Wesker, The Merchant (Methuen Student Editions)
Requirements: oral or written report, term paper (15-18 pages), regular attendance.
Registration: Mon 16-17. There will be a preliminary meeting at my office (room 361) on February 14 at 6 p.m.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer
Di 18-19 (14-tg.) · Raum 119 · Beginn: 12. 4. 2005
The colloquium is for advanced students, exam or PhD candidates who wish to discuss their work in progress and/or examination topics. The suggested general topic will be "textual surprises".
Anmeldung: Please send a message to m.bauer^@uni-tuebingen.de.
Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler / Prof. Dr. Horst Tonn
Mi 18-22 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 20. 4. 2005
This course is designed for advanced students and exam candidates (Magister & Staatsexamen) who, in the face of the plethora of special topics they need for their finals, plan to speed up their
studies and to fill in some 'gaps' without going through the motions of attending one more time-consuming "Hauptseminar" - or even two. The purpose of this course is to help candidates (and those who
plan to take their finals within the next few semesters) find and prepare suitable topics, and get a comprehensive overview of topics that have been particularly attractive to exam candidates in recent years.
The course will consist of two teaching units: one will deal with "American Naturalism" (Prof. Tonn), the other with "Contemporary American Short Fiction" (Prof. Engler). Each unit will consist of
four sessions in which relevant texts of the respective topic will be introduced and contextualized. As the course will cover a large number of texts, you should be prepared to do some extensive
reading before the course starts and during the "reading weeks" between the teaching units.
Registration: At the Amerikanistik office beginning February 14, 2005.
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Stilz / Prof. Sangeeta Ray, Ph.D. (Univ. of Maryland), Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler / Prof. Dr. Christoph Reinfandt / Prof. Dr. Horst Tonn
Do 18-20 · Raum 406 · Beginn: 21. 4. 2005
There will be additional compact sessions (t.b. a).
This seminar constitutes the Tübingen branch of a transatlantic graduate research project to be staged between the University of Tübingen and the University of Maryland (U.S. A).
Thematically, the joint project focusses on the conflictual interplay of territorial concepts and claims as prefigured, proposed discussed and reflected in literary texts. The seminar invites
considerations of individual space such as "home", communal space such as "our country" and cosmopolitan space such as "metropolis".
The project faces a deep-rooted but disquieting collusion of "culture" on the one hand (with its still vaguely positive connotations) and "colony" on the other (with its problematic claims of
monocultural dominance). It probes into the fundamental(ist) issue of legitimating terror by claims or threats to territoriality, and it reflects upon the sites and discourses from which non-colonial "global" negotiations may be conducted.
During the initial phase of the seminar, up to 10 Tübingen contributions to the project can be outlined and briefly discussed. In a second phase (planned for early June),
the University of Mayland contributors will visit the Tübingen group in order to clarify the theoretical framework as well as the methodological principles and procedures and to assess the outlines of
the individual contributors. This joint compact seminar (which will extend over 4-5 days) will preferably be held in one of the University of Tübingen's outposts (Blaubeuren, Freudenstadt or
Oberjoch). In a third phase (planned for mid-September), the Tübingen group will pay a reciprocal visit to the University of Maryland for a final discussion of the individual
contributions that will be included in a joint transatlantic publication.
Texts: A bibliography and a reader are being prepared.
Requirements: Regular participation with an individual research project.
Registration: Doctaral students and postdocs who wish to contribute to this project are invited to submit a brief exposé (up to 3 pp) of their intended contribution to one of the co-ordinators of this seminar by 14 March 2005.
FilmClub shows films approximately every two weeks during the semester. Films are usually in English; they are always in their original language version. For specific details of the current
programme and any other 'special' events, please check the posters all about the 'Brecht-Bau' or visit our website:
http://www.geocities.com/filmclub_tuebingen
Es gibt am Brechtbau schon seit Jahren verschiedenste Theatergruppen, die sich jedes Semester zu mindestens einer Produktion pro Gruppe - meist hier im Brechtbau-Foyer, im Theater - zusammenfinden.
Auch kommen jedes Semester neue Leute dazu, nicht nur SchauspielerInnen, sondern auch Technik-Interessierte, Bühnenbau-Neugierige oder Kostümbilden-Wollende, und auch viele ganz theaterunerfahrene
Interessierte, die einfach nur mal gucken wollen. Leute brauchen wir alle immer!
Jede/r kann einfach mal bei den Proben auftauchen - Kontaktadresse siehe unten - oder mal einen Blick auf das "Theaterbrett" - direkt vorm Theater, unten im Foyer - werfen.
Jeden Mittwoch 13 c.t. Uhr ist im Theater ein Jour Fixe aller Hausgruppen. Wer mit einem neuen Projekt hier einsteigen möchte oder einfach nur mal reinschauen will, ist hier richtig!
Kontaktadressen der Theatergruppen
- Tina Steiner (Theaterbeauftragte)
Tel.: 07071-2972910
e-mail: tiburon1^@web.de
Die Anmeldung für die mündliche Prüfung im Staatsexamen bei den einzelnen Prüferinnen und Prüfern erfolgt frühestens etwa ein Jahr im voraus in den beiden letzten Vorlesungswochen eines Semesters.
Das heisst: im Februar für mündliche Prüfungen im April des jeweils folgenden Jahres, im Juli für mündliche Prüfungen im Oktober des jeweils folgenden Jahres.
Die für die Zwischenprüfung relevanten Prüfungsleistungen (ob mündlich oder schriftlich) sind unmittelbar im Anschluss an die jeweiligen Veranstaltungen zu erbringen.
Seminar- und Übungsscheine bitte grundsätzlich beim Dozenten bzw. dem Lehrstuhlsekretariat abholen.
- Lehramt/Staatsexamen: Oberschulamt
- Magister: Dekanat
- B.A. und Master: siehe
www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/nes/studiengaenge.html
Die Fachschaft Anglistik/Amerikanistik besteht aus einer Gruppe von Studierenden, die sich für Eure Interessen, Sorgen und Belange anderer Art einsetzen. In den Sitzungen der Fachschaft, die jeden
Donnerstag von 18-19 Uhr in Raum 139 stattfinden und zu denen Ihr herzlich eingeladen seid, werden fachspezifische Probleme und Lösungsvorschläge diskutiert.
Ihr könnt bei uns alte Klausuren und Examensprotokolle einsehen, mit allen Fragen, die das Studium betreffen, zu uns kommen und/oder einfach vorbeischauen und mitmachen.
Allgemeinere hochschulpolitische Fragen werden zusammen mit den anderen Fachschaften der Neuphilologie im Brecht-Bau-Plenum besprochen, das sich jeden Donnerstag um 19 Uhr in Raum 137 trifft. Auch hier seid Ihr jederzeit herzlich willkommen.
Studienberatung der Fachschaft Anglistik/Amerikanistik für Erstsemester im Foyer des Brecht-Baus:
- in der Woche vor Semesterbeginn:
- Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstag: 10-12 Uhr
AnglistInnen-Erstsemesterfrühstück der Fachschaft:
- siehe Fachschaftszettel
1. Studienleistungen und Scheine, die im Ausland erworben worden sind, können auf der Grundlage einer individuellen Äquivalenzprüfung auf die Anforderungen der Prüfungsordnungen für das Lehramt und für den Magister angerechnet werden.
2. Die Anrechnung erfolgt nach einer individuellen Äquivalenzprüfung durch Beauftragte des Englischen Seminars und der Abteilung für Amerikanistik.
3. Bei diesem Verfahren wird zu ermitteln versucht, welchem Tübinger Veranstaltungstyp (PS I, PS II, PS III, HS) die im Ausland absolvierten Lehrveranstaltungen aufgrund der Themenstellung, der
Lernziele, der Arbeitsanforderungen und der erbrachten schriftlichen Leistungen entsprechen. Wenn die Äquivalenz auf der Grundlage dieser Kriterien gegeben ist, kann die Anrechnung erfolgen.
4. Zur Feststellung der Äquivalenz sind folgende Unterlagen vorzulegen:
- das "Transkript" der auswärtigen Universität, in dem die besuchten Lehrveranstaltungen mit den Noten aufgelistet sind;
- Angaben über die gewählten Lehrveranstaltungen (z.B. Ankündigungen, Kursbeschreibungen, Lektürelisten etc.);
- alle schriftlichen Arbeiten mit Beurteilung und Note;
- Notenskala der ausländischen Universität.
5. Von besonderem Interesse ist die Frage, inwieweit auswärtige Leistungen als Hauptseminare anerkannt werden können. In diesem Falle sollten die angefertigten schriftlichen Arbeiten folgende Kriterien erfüllen:
- komplexe Themenstellung, die aus dem Titel der Arbeit ersichtlich ist;
- Auseinandersetzung mit der einschlägigen wissenschaftlichen Literatur;
- linguistische Arbeiten sollten eine empirische Komponente beinhalten (Corpusanalyse, Beispielauswertung, Informantenbefragung oder ähnliches);
- Umfang von 15-18 Seiten; statt einer Arbeit können zwei kürzere Arbeiten von mindestens jeweils 8 Seiten vorgelegt werden;
- basiert der ausländische Schein auf einer Klausur, so sollten Sie zusätzlich zu Ihrem "Transkript" eine Kopie der Klausuraufgaben und eine Kopie Ihrer Klausur vorlegen;
- die Arbeit muss auf englisch abgefasst sein.
In der Regel werden im amerikanischen Universitätssystem die Studienleistungen in Veranstaltungen mit der Kursziffer 400 aufwärts ("senior courses" bzw. "graduate courses") diesen Anforderungen gerecht.
Besondere Hinweise:
- Es ist möglich, im Ausland erworbene Leistungen auch als literaturwissenschaftliche, linguistische und mediävistische Proseminare II anrechnen zu lassen. Beachten Sie aber bitte, dass Sie im
Falle des literaturwissenschaftlichen Proseminars die für die Zwischenprüfung erforderliche mündliche Prüfung in Tübingen ablegen müssen. Auch in der Linguistik wird für die ZP eine zusätzliche Leistung erbracht werden müssen.
Im Hinblick auf die Staatsexamensprüfung und die Magisterprüfung (neue Prüfungsordnung vom 1. 1. 2002) gilt, dass ein im Ausland erworbener Hauptseminarschein
in Linguistik, Literaturwissenschaft oder Mediävistik auf die Zahl der erforderlichen Scheine angerechnet werden kann.
Vorlesung: Introduction to English Linguistics
Vorlesung: Romanticism
VL: Englische Literaturen im Überblick
Vorlesung: Twentieth Century American Culture Through Film
Vorlesung: English Phonetics and Phonology
Kurse ab dem 1. Semester
Kurse ab dem 2. Semester
Lektürekurs: Mediävistik am Donnerstag
J10 Proseminar English Pragmatics
J11 Proseminar Cohesion and Coherence
J12 Proseminar Semantics
J13 Proseminar English Syntax
J14 Proseminar Pragmatics
J15 Proseminar English Syntax
N10 Introduction to Poetry
N11 PS I: Introduction to Literary Studies
Tutorium
N12 PS I: Introduction to Literary Studies
N13 PS I: Introduction to Poetry
N14 PS I: Introduction to Literary Studies
N15 PS I: Introduction to Literary Studies (American Literature)
N16 PS I: Introduction to Literary Studies (American Literature)
Literaturwissenschaft: Proseminare II
Bitte
O11 PS II: Robinson Crusoe and its Transformations
O12 PS II: 20th-Century American Poetry and Poetics
O13 PS II: Restoration Comedies and their Gender Troubles
O14 PS II: Ethnicity - Imaginary Community
O15 Romantic Poetry
O16 PS II: Early American Biography
O17 PS II: Australian Literature: An Introduction
O18 PS II: Post-war Poetry in Britain and Ireland
O19 PS II: Literary Satire
O20 PS II: The Dream in English Literature: from Langland to Lewis Carroll
Bitte
S10 PS II/LPS: Cultural Studies - Medieval England
H10 LPS/LHS: People and Politics in the United Kingdom
H11 LPS/LHS: War and Culture in Britain
R10 PS I: Einführung in die altenglische Sprache und Literatur
R11 PS I: Einführung in die altenglische Sprache und Literatur
R12 PS I: Einführung in die mittelenglische Sprache und Literatur
R13 PS I: Einführung in die mittelenglische Sprache und Literatur
R14 PS I: Einführung in die altenglische Sprache und Literatur
R15 PS I: Einführung in die mittelenglische Sprache und Literatur
Bitte
S10 PS II/LPS: Cultural Studies - Medieval England
S11 PS II: Readings in Middle English Literature
Siehe auch das Angebot zusätzlicher Kurse im Grundstudium.
Interpretation and Essay (Hauptstudium)
Lektürekurs: Mediävistik am Donnerstag
British and American Phonetics (1)
British and American Phonetics (2)
Oral Communication II
Z10 Intercultural Learning: America's Wild West and Manifest Destiny
Z11 Fachdidaktik: Teaching Shakespeare
Z12 Introduction to Fachdidaktik Englisch
HS/OS: Corpora and Language Learning
HS: Understanding Utterances
HS: Blended Language Learning
HS: Standard vs. Nonstandard English: Empirical and Theoretical Investigations
Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama
HS: Charles Dickens
HS/OS: The Notion of Play
Tutorium
HS: Political Rhetoric in 18th and 19th-Century America
HS/OS: Science Fiction(s)
HS: William Blake
HS: Between Fantasy and Reality: Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials-Trilogy
HS: Narrative Theory after Poststructuralism
HS: The Dialectic of Order and Chaos: The Major Fiction of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett
HS: American Utopias
HS: American Renaissance
HS: James Joyce
HS: American Literature of the 1930s
LHS: 'The Condition of the British': Social Problems and Social Criticism
LHS: Mediating Democracy: The U.S. Presidential Elections in the Press
HS: Malory's Morte Darthur
HS: Historical Grammar: A Survey
OS: Topics for Candidates
OS: Topics in Applied English Linguistics
OS: Ellipsis from a Synchronic and a Diachronic Perspective
Examenskolloquium
Adaptations of Shakespearean Comedies
Kandidatenkolloquium
Topics for Candidates
OS/ Postgraduate Seminar: Territorial Terrors: Colonial Spaces and Postcolonial Revisions
FilmClub
Theater am Brechtbau
Anmeldefristen für das Staatsexamen
Hinweis zur Zwischenprüfung
Scheine
Prüfungsordnungen
Fachschaft Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Studienberatung
Richtlinien für die Anerkennung von Studienleistungen an ausländischen Universitäten