Department of English
Introduction to English Linguistics (Group D)
Course Description
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics.
Faculty
Faculty of Languages, Literature, Culture
Institute
Department of English
Lecturer
Dr. Tobias Bernaisch
Study Period (dd/mm/yy)
14/10/2024 - 14/02/2025
Mode and Time
Asynchronous (recorded)
Class Format
Seminar
Online Tool for Teaching
BigBlueButton
Language of Instruction
English
Target Group
Bachelor, Master, Teacher Training
Prerequisites
Englisch C1
Examination Format
Take-home exam
ECTS
5
ECTS without Examination
2
History of the English Language (Group B)
Course Description
The study of the history of the English language offers highly relevant insights into how we ended up with the English language as it is structured and as it functions all around the world today. In this lecture, we will pay particular attention to the different periods in the history of the English language, i.e. Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Late Modern English and Present-day English, in order to follow the structural changes on the levels of phonology, lexis, syntax and semantics that have led to the English language as we use it today. We will also consider various areas of linguistic study that include a historical component, e.g. historical text linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, historical corpus linguistics, etc.
Faculty
Faculty of Languages, Literature, Culture
Institute
Department of English
Lecturer
Dr. Barbara Ann Güldenring
Study Period (dd/mm/yy)
14/10/2024 - 14/02/2025
Mode and Time
Synchronous start date: 15.10.2024 Tuesdays, 3-4 pm
Asynchronous (recorded)
Class Format
Lecture
Online Tool for Teaching
Stud.IP, ILIAS, BigBlueButton
Language of Instruction
English
Target Group
Bachelor, Master, Teacher Training
Prerequisites
English B2
Examination Format
Individual analytical paper (30% of score) –
to be submitted by January 12
ECTS
3
Introduction to English Linguistics (Group A)
Course Description
This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to English in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terms of core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics.
Faculty
Faculty of Languages, Literature, Culture
Institute
Department of English
Lecturer
Dr. Barbara Ann Güldenring
Study Period (dd/mm/yy)
14/10/2024 - 14/02/2025
Mode and Time
Synchronous start date: 14.10.2024
Mondays, 10 am - 12 pm
Asynchronous (recorded)
Class Format
Hybrid Seminar
Online Tool for Teaching
Stud.IP, ILIAS, BigBlueButton
Language of Instruction
English
Target Group
Bachelor, Master, Teacher Training
Prerequisites
Englisch B2
Examination Format
Group presenation of case study (20% of score) – during last seminar on January 29
ECTS
5
Introduction to Gender and Sexuality, Critical Race Theory and Anti-Racism, to Decolonial Thought, and Disability
Course Description
This interactive series of lectures seeks to introduce you to the concepts of and issues in gender, sexuality, and diversity studies. The aim is to make clear how gender, sexuality, LGBTQIA+ rights, race, class, nationhood, migration status, and ableism have to be thought in conjunction with each other in order to understand and to trouble existing social hierarchies. In each session, we will relate an issue such as racial politics or trans rights to the U.S. American and/or the German cultural political context, paying particular attention to contentious issues in this American election year. The goal is to heighten our sensibilities for how we think and talk about and react to social hierarchies based on categories of identity.
Faculty
Faculty of Languages, Literature, Culture
Institute
English Department
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Greta Olson
Study Period (dd/mm/yy)
14/10/2024 - 14/02/2025
Mode and Time
Asynchronous (recorded)
Class Format
Lecture
Online Tool for Teaching
ILIAS
Language of Instruction
English
Target Group
Bachelor
Open to students of the following field: Anglophone Cultures and everyone interested / interdisciplinary topic
Prerequisites
English B2
Examination Format
Exam
ECTS
3