Please choose one of the following 8 courses.
Gruppe 1 Dave Ball: Humour in British Culture
Using examples taken from television, literature, everyday discourse, stand-up comedy, and visual art, this course explores the use of humour in British culture. A defining characteristic of Britishness, instances of humour will be examined in a range of contexts, exploring theoretical models for its analysis, its social function and its potential for offensiveness. The course develops students’ ability to understand, describe, and analyse particular examples of humour, along with opportunities to practise their critical writing skills.
Gruppe 2 Vanessa Arnold: Written vs. Spoken Language
This course is designed to sharpen your language skills and deepen your understanding of the intricate relationship between written and spoken forms of language. Language register will be the main focus of this course and students will do in-class language analyses to determine the appropriate register based on the situation/environment. This course is also tailored for students who would like to refine their language proficiency for both academic and real-world communication. We will also explore the cultural aspects of language, such as idiomatic language, regional dialects and language attitudes.
Gruppe 3 Vanessa Arnold: Written vs. Spoken Language
This course is designed to sharpen your language skills and deepen your understanding of the intricate relationship between written and spoken forms of language. Language register will be the main focus of this course and students will do in-class language analyses to determine the appropriate register based on the situation/environment. This course is also tailored for students who would like to refine their language proficiency for both academic and real-world communication. We will also explore the cultural aspects of language, such as idiomatic language, regional dialects and language attitudes.
Gruppe 4 Zoë Ammendolia: Grammar in Context
This course gives students the opportunity to exercise improved grammatical discretion depending on context. Exercises demonstrating the links between form, meaning and use will be supplemented by discussions in which participants can create their own order of thinking through grammatical features such as tense, aspect and correlation, the passive voice, and finite and non-finite clauses. On completion of the course, students will be able to accurately ascertain and produce the grammar required for nuanced communication.
Gruppe 5 Eimear Kelly: Learning Language with Literature
Short stories by American, British, and Irish authors form the basis of this course. Each short story has its own particular linguistic features and can be deconstructed quite easily and effectively for the purpose of practical grammatical analysis and language acquisition. By examining authentic literary texts, students have the opportunity to see how different writers have their own unique way of using language, structure and form to create a particular style and can apply this to their class assignments and essays.
Gruppe 6 Zoë Ammendolia: Grammar in Context
This course gives students the opportunity to exercise improved grammatical discretion depending on context. Exercises demonstrating the links between form, meaning and use will be supplemented by discussions in which participants can create their own order of thinking through grammatical features such as tense, aspect and correlation, the passive voice, and finite and non-finite clauses. On completion of the course, students will be able to accurately ascertain and produce the grammar required for nuanced communication.
Gruppe 7 Elisabeth Gibbels: Basics of Academic Writing
The course will introduce features and strategies of academic writing and contrast them with everyday language use: formal register, structure and organisation, transitions, thesis statements and topic sentences. There will be plenty of opportunity for practice and feedback.
Gruppe 8 Elisabeth Gibbels: Literature and Linguistics
The course will introduce to first steps in writing in the humanities and provide ample opportunity for composing short pieces of academic prose. It will look at linguistic aspects of literary texts of various genres.
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