Impossible Worlds, Unspeakable Sentences: Exploring Postclassical Narratologies

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA Religionen verstehen / Religious Literacy: Schlüsseltexte in einer wissenschaftlichen Fremdsprache: Mastermodul / Reading English Academic Key Texts: Master Module (MA RelLit 3a): Seminar (5 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

open for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2021, 10:00 - 25.04.2021, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Why do readers empathise with fictional characters? To what effect do narratives break with real-world frames and feature dead or unborn narrators? How can a story be told by a dog? How can poems, movies, paintings, videogames or cartoons be accommodated into narratological models? And how is storytelling enmeshed with ideology? Do the gender, sexual and ethnic identities of a narrator make a difference? – These are only some of the questions that have been dealt with by postclassical narratologists over the past three decades.

Since its structuralist beginnings in the mid-1960s and a first ‘classical phase’ (– early 1980s), the field of narratology has seen methodological and thematic extensions as well as (more radical) revisions, contestations and diversifications, to the point when Ansgar Nünning – as early as 2003 – questioned the usefulness of keeping ‘narratology’ as an overarching term for the ever-proliferating number of ‘postclassical narratologies’. Ever since its first coinage in David Herman’s seminal study Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis (1999), the label ‘postclassical narratology’ has come to denominate a set of interdisciplinary, pragmatic, context- and reader-oriented narratologies which, in opposition to classical models striving to develop ‘universal’ categories, “consider the circumstances that make every act of reading different” (Herman/Vervaeck 2005).

After a revision of the classical narratologies of especially Tvetan Todorov, Franz Stanzel and Gérard Genette and Seymour Chatman, we will dedicate each session to the theory as well as methodology and application of a distinctive postclassical narratological approach. Students will be asked to read theoretical texts in preparation for each meeting as well as (excerpts from) fictional and non-fictional texts.

Among the postclassical narratologies we will cover are: transgeneric and transmedial narratology, rhetorical narratology, cognitive, natural and unnatural narratology, feminist, queer and postcolonial narratology, ideology and narrative, narratology beyond the human.

Please note: for students participating in this seminar, the online Master Class held by narratologist Prof. Dr. Jan Alber (RWTH Aachen) on 17 and 18 December is mandatory. Please check the following website for details: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/news-englische-literaturwissenschaft/artikel/master-class-with-prof-dr-jan-alber/

Empfohlene Literatur:

Weekly reading assignments of theoretical texts will be made available on the Virtual Campus. A list of primary texts will be published here soon.

Masterclass: Adopting Revolution

Dozent/in:

Judith Thompson

Angaben:

Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 19.11.2021, 14:00 - 17:00, Raum n.V.
Einzeltermin am 20.11.2021, Einzeltermin am 21.11.2021, 14:00 - 21:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 15.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59 exchange students: please contact kerstin-anja.muenderlein@uni-bamberg.de

Inhalt:

This seminar plunges us into revolutionary romantic era through the work of its leading activist, “Citizen John” Thelwall, radical orator and writer, voice of the people, pioneer of free speech and a linchpin figure who unites literature and politics, “the worlds of Wordsworth and Coleridge, and the Spitalfields weavers” (E.P. Thompson).

We will enter this diverse and dynamic era through Thelwall’s 1801 novel The Daughter of Adoption. This witty, multitextured and accessible adventure captures ideas of its own time that remain compelling, even urgent, in ours, including human rights, feminism, capitalist imperialism, abolitionism and the Black Atlantic, education, colonial medicine, and the techniques and traditions of the “romance” novel (bildungsroman, gothic, sentimental, jacobin) that Thelwall adopts and adapts for political purposes. Students will explore these and other themes and contexts through individual presentations, to which the whole class (including the professor) will respond in animated online synchronous discussion.

The final paper growing out of your presentation offers an opportunity to do truly pioneering work in a relatively new and rapidly growing field. You will be expected to read what specific criticism there is on the novel, and Thelwall’s polymathic work, but also to insert Thelwall into the history of romantic studies from which he has been missing until recently, and to bring your own diverse perspectives and experiences to bear on the novel. Although your professor, Judith Thompson, is the world’s leading expert on Thelwall, and one of the editors of The Daughter of Adoption, she is still surprised and delighted by her students’ original insights; just last month, an MA student drew attention to something she had completely missed in multiple readings of the novel, and like Thelwall, she looks forward to hearing everyone’s voice.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:
John Thelwall. The Daughter of Adoption. A Tale of Modern Times. 1801. Edited by Michael Scrivener, Yasmin Solomonescu, Judith Thompson. Broadview Press, 2013.

The Interwar Period in British Literature

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

open for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

The interwar period denotes the time between the end of the Great War (1914-1918) and the beginning of the Second World War (1939-1945). During this time, (not only) Europe struggled with the effects of the war on civil society, international diplomacy, and national and individual fates. With national traumas and the loss of the “lost Generation”, a term coined by Gertrude Stein, on the one hand and the fundamental social changes in British class structures and gender roles on the other hand, the interwar period was one of the most suspenseful and varied times in modern history. From the “Roaring Twenties” and their celebration of the loss of old boundaries to the Great Depression and the rise of Fascism on the Continent in the thirties, the period provides a constant up and down and threw the people from one World War into the next.

From the perspective of literary studies, the interwar period proved to be highly fruitful. Besides the continuation of literary modernism, which had started around the beginning of the century and would deeply affect all forms of literature – narrative, poetry, and drama –, the interwar period boasts of an enormous diversification of genres and literary styles. This course aims at showcasing this literary diversity in all three Aristotelian genres (narrative, poetry, and drama) by exemplarily examining texts from such different perspectives as T.S. Eliot’s and Edith Sitwell’s modern poetry, Noel Coward’s comedies, Virginia Woolf’s and Katherine Mansfield’s short fiction, Agatha Christie’s Golden Age crime novels, Aldous Huxley’s dystopian fiction, or J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy. The focus of this course will be on narrative texts.

This course will begin by giving an overview of the interwar years before it moves into non-fiction and theoretical texts, poetry, drama and narrative (with a focus on the latter). Over the course of the semester, we will read and discuss the obligatory reading (see below) alongside theoretical texts, which will be made available on the VC. As this course will be discussion-intensive, participants are kindly asked to be visible on MS Teams even when not speaking to create a familiar and inviting atmosphere, which allows for higher-quality discussions.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading throughout the semester:
Poetry:
T.S. Eliot. “The Waste Land.” 1922.
Poems by Edith Sitwell, W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas and W.H. Auden
All poems will be made available on the VC

Drama:
Noel Coward. Hay Fever. 1924.

Narrative:
Katherine Mansfield. “The Garden-Party.” 1922. (short story; available via Project Gutenberg Australia and on the VC)
Virginia Woolf. “The Shooting Party.” 1938. (short story; available via Project Gutenberg Australia and on the VC)
William Somerset Maugham. The Painted Veil. 1925. (novel)
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World. 1932. (novel)
J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit. 1937. (novel)
Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. 1939. (novel)

‘Writing back?’ Legacies of Empire in Postwar Britain

Dozent/in:

Robert Craig

Angaben:

Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 23.07.2021 (10:00 Uhr) bis 22.10.2021 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 13.12.2021 (10:00 Uhr) bis 24.01.2022 (23:59 Uhr)

Termine:

Mo, 11:30 - 13:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation

B.A / LA GY Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
B.A / LA GY Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft

Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability

I. Literaturwissenschaft:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

Open for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar); NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul.

Please note that you can find this 'Literaturwissenschaft' seminar listed under the rubric of 'LS Britische Kultur' in FlexNow.

II. Kulturwissenschaft:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar (6 ECTS)
M.A. English and American Studies: Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer M.A.: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
M.A. Literatur und Medien: Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie, Erweiterung Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie
LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies
Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies

The Vertiefungsmodule and Mastermodule will be examined by a term paper (3,500-4,500 and 4,500-6,000 words respectively); the Consolidation Modules will be assessed by an oral examination. Further information on the examinations can be obtained from this address: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/studium/ .

Inhalt:

“My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost. I am often considered to be a funny kind of Englishman, a new breed as it were, having emerged from two old histories.” Thus begins Hanif Kureishi’s picaresque novel of identities lost and identities re-forged, The Buddha of Suburbia: a state-of-the-nation snapshot of 1970s Britain, certainly, but also a wry portrait of the myriad challenges of location and adaptation faced by first- and second-generation migrants in a ‘mother country’ that was by turns indifferent and hostile. In 2021, a tolerant and multicultural Britain may be a mixture of fantasy and reality – but even the ‘reality’, as we have recently seen, has surprisingly shallow historical roots.

One the basis of the theoretical framework supplied by Edward Said, Stuart Hall, and Homi K. Bhabha, we will be reading some of the finest literary work to have emerged from the problematic legacy of Empire. We start with Sam Selvon’s classic novel, The Lonely Londoners (1956), an exploration of the struggles of belonging and discrimination faced by the first generation of immigrants from the West Indies. Andrea Levy’s epic bestseller, Small Island (2004) intertwines multiple stories and perspectives in a tale of love, loss, new homes, and new identities. The Buddha of Suburbia traces out Karim’s attempts, as the mixed-race son of an Indian immigrant, to find his own path. Finally, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) crosses cultures, generations, and much else besides in a multi-stranded account of Britain’s complex attitude towards its Commonwealth.

Empfohlene Literatur:

I. Primärliteratur:

Please buy and read all the novels in the exact editions stated here. If you buy Kindle versions, or the like, you need to make sure that they include the exact (corresponding) page numbers.

Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 2004).

Stuart Hall, ‘Culture, Community, Nation’ (1993), and ‘Cultural Identity and Diaspora’ (1990).

Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (London: Faber & Faber, 1999).

Andrea Levy, Small Island (London: Tinder Press, 2004); John Alexander (dir.), Small Island (2015).

Edward Said, Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2003).

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2006).

Zadie Smith, White Teeth (London: Penguin, 2000).

Hall’s essays, as well as extracts from Bhabha and Said, will be made available on the VC.

II. Sekundärliteratur:

A list of useful secondary literature, together with a TB4 Semesterapparat, will be made available in the first few weeks of the semester.

Please note that you alone are responsible for knowing and keeping track of information made available to you in printed documents and on the Virtual Campus. Needless to say that your active and regular participation is expected. Absences will be excused when they result from circumstances beyond students’ control (illness, family emergency, religious holiday).

"Jump at de Sun": Women of the Harlem Renaissance

Dozent/in:

Christine Gerhardt

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 25.10.2021, Einzeltermin am 15.11.2021, Einzeltermin am 29.11.2021, Einzeltermin am 13.12.2021, Einzeltermin am 10.1.2022, Einzeltermin am 17.1.2022, Einzeltermin am 24.1.2022, Einzeltermin am 31.1.2022, Einzeltermin am 7.2.2022, 18:00 - 21:00, U5/00.24
Biweekly sessions: Oct 18, Oct 25, Nov 15, Nov 29, Dec 13, Jan 10, Jan 24, Feb 07 (flexible dates: Jan 17 + 31)

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Hauptseminar) for literary studies or cultural studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• LA GY (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• MA English and American Studies (Seminar 4, 5, 6, or 8 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies (Seminar 8 ECTS) (and equivalents in other subjects)
• Erasmus and other visiting students (Seminar 6 or 8 ECTS)

>> Open for Consolidation Module literary studies and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the advanced level (Aufbaumodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Consolidation module: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/)

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: September 1st November 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: January 1st February 1st, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.

Inhalt:

The Harlem Renaissance marks one of the most significant moments in the history of American literature: Between the end of World War I and the Great Depression of the 1930s, writers in this movement connected with the African American cultural tradition and participated in creating American modernism. The Harlem Renaissance was a social, political, and aesthetic movement as well as an artistic revolution, and is inseparable from the social context of Harlem in the 1920s which included high-brow literary saloons, rent parties, Jazz clubs, ball rooms, theaters, journals, and book stores.

In this seminar, we will talk about the literature of this movement in the context of its music and art, and with special emphasis on the women who shaped it. We will read Georgia Douglas Johnson s play Plumes (1927), Nella Larsen s Quicksand (1928), Zora Neale Hurston s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and some of her short stories, as well as poetry by Angelina Weld Grimké, Anne Spencer, and Gwendolyn Bennet, in relation to texts, songs, and art by other players of this movement (including W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Bessy Smith, Josephine Baker, Paul Robeson, Alaine Locke, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer). More information and readings will be available on the Virtual Campus soon.

This class will be taught in a blended format, combining asynchronous assignments with in-class-room meetings (on Zoom or, COVID permitting, in the lecture hall). The first meet-ing will take place on Zoom.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please purchase:

1. Nella Larsen s Quicksand (1928), ideally the Norton critical edition with footnotes, ed. by Carla Kaplan
2. Zora Neale Hurston s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

You should get and start reading both novels immediately. The overall reading load in this seminar is heavy, so to get a head start, read the novels during the semester break.

Further readings will be made available via the VC.

Home

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Mo, 12:00 - 14:00, Raum n.V.
Class starts in the second week of term!

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Hauptseminar) for literary studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• LA GY (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• MA English and American Studies (Seminar 4, 5, 6, or 8 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies (Seminar 8 ECTS) (and equivalents in other subjects)
• Erasmus and other visiting students (Seminar 6 or 8 ECTS)

>> Open for Consolidation Module literary studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the advanced level (Aufbaumodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Consolidation module: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/)

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: September 1st – November 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: January 1st – February 1st, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.

Inhalt:

What exactly is a hometown? Why is small town life either desired or despised? Why do people call places “home” which are not their places of birth or even places where their families live? How – if at all – have definitions of “home” changed over time? What is the relevance of “home” for American politics? What role does real estate play? How strong is nostalgia in the projection of “home”?

The seminar will attempt to answer these and related questions by looking closely at a broad variety of North American texts (novels, short stories, paintings, photographs, film).

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please buy and read: Toni Morrison, Home (2012); Dionne Brand, What We All Long For (2005); Gabrielle Zevin, The Hole We’re In (2010), Alison Bechdel, Fun Home (2006).

S: From Poetry to Song Lyrics: Analysing and Teaching Verse

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Theresa Summer, Lorena Bickert, Susan Brähler, Pascal Fischer, Manfred Krug, Mareike Spychala, Lina Strempel

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Kultur und Bildung, Please note: Students will also be asked to participate in some additional sessions (e.g. lectures).

Termine:

Mi, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/00.04
ab 3.11.2021

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Information für Studierende der Fachdidaktik Englisch:

1. Modules: (ECTS: 4)
Lehramt GS, MS, RS, GY: Vertiefungsmodul
Lehramt RS: Zusatzmodul
BEd Berufliche Bildung: Vertiefungsmodul
MEd Berufliche Bildung: Zusatzmodul
Bachelor BWL/Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Aufbaumodul-Bachelor
Master Wirtschaftspädagogik/Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Aufbaumodul-Master
Master Wirtschaftspädagogik/Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Vertiefungsmodul

2. Teilnahmevoraussetzungen:
abgeschlossenes englischdidaktisches Basismodul

3. Anmeldung:
über FlexNow
vom 27.09.2021, 12:00 Uhr bis 15.10.2021, 11:59 Uhr

4. Leistungsnachweis:
schriftliche Hausarbeit

Further information: Students will also be asked to participate in a symposium (Friday, 04/02/2022 - Saturday, 05/02/2022).

Information for students of English Linguistics:

1. Modules:
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

2. Registration and Deregistration:
Registration via FlexNow from 27 September 2021, 10:00h, to 21 October 2021, 23:59h.
Deregistration via FlexNow from 27 September 2021, 10:00h, to 30 October 2021, 23:59h.

3. Requirements for successful completion of the course:
8 ECTS: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + seminar paper of 4500-6000 words

4. Combination with "Methods and Theories in Linguistics":
In the early weeks of term, all students are expected to take part in a special introduction to research methods entitled "Methods and Theories in Linguistics": https://univis.uni-bamberg.de/form?dsc=anew/lecture_view&lvs=guk/angl/engls/method&anonymous=1&founds=guk/angl/engls/method&sem=2021w&codeset=utf8 (unless they have already participated in this course in an earlier semester). Thus, these participants are required to reserve the following times and dates: Friday, 29 October 2021, 8-10 am, Thursday, 11 November 2021, 8-10 am, and Friday, 12 November 2021, 8-11 am. To enable pre-planning, please register for the course in FlexNow and in the Virtual Campus course by 27 October at the latest: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/enrol/index.php?id=49429

Information for students of American Studies:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for literary studies or cultural studies:
Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar 6 ECTS)

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
1. completion of the basic module (Basismodul)
2. active participation (individual tasks and group work)
3. term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)

3. FlexNow-Registration:
1. Course (de)enrollment: 01.09.2021 - 01.11.2021
2. ECTS (de)registration: 01.01.2022 - 01.02.2022

Information for students of English Literature:

1. Modules:
Lehramt GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

2. FlexNow - Registration:
Class Registration: 06.09.2021 bis 31.10.2021
Exam Registration: 10.01.2022 bis 06.02.2022
Term Paper Deadline: 27.03.2022

Information for students of English and American Cultural Studies:

1. Modules:
Vertiefungsmodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft Lehramt GY (8 ECTS)
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft Lehramt GY (5 ECTS)
Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft WIPÄD (6 ECTS)

2. Registration:
October 4 until October 22, 2021
via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft"

Inhalt:

Lyrical texts such as poems and songs are particularly suitable for illustrating the characteristics of literariness to students: different levels of communication, stylistic devices and aesthetic effects are distinct in this genre with its tendency towards condensation and structural rigour. At the same time, poems and songs can offer readers and listeners an engaging insight into a great variety of social, cultural, and environmental issues. For English language education, lyrical texts have several benefits and, primarily due to their brevity and density of subject matter, they provide opportunities for flexible use and the development of various competences as well as critical literacy. In this interdisciplinary seminar, we will explore lyrical texts ranging from traditional poems to popular songs from different academic perspectives. These include literary-cultural, linguistic, and educational as well as methodological perspectives to identify how verse can be analysed and integrated into English language education. In opening up the canon of lyrical texts and including popular and learner-centred texts such as rhymes, tongue twisters, and pop songs, English language education can encourage learners to discover specific features of lyrical texts, identify layers of meaning, and explore various transcultural perspectives as well as issues of social (in)justice relevant in our society today.