Choose either a Language Awareness course or an Oral Skills course.
Gruppe 1 Zoë Ammendolia: Language Awareness: Academic Vocabulary in Use
This course aims to help students understand and use general and discipline-specific vocabulary at university level, combining class activities and guided independent study. It provides opportunities to encounter the selected vocabulary in authentic academic texts and to practise deploying it in various written exercises. On completion of the course, students will be able to make efficient use of strategies of their own devising for text production.
Gruppe 2 Zoë Ammendolia: Language Awareness: Academic Vocabulary in Use
This course aims to help students understand and use general and discipline-specific vocabulary at university level, combining class activities and guided independent study. It provides opportunities to encounter the selected vocabulary in authentic academic texts and to practise deploying it in various written exercises. On completion of the course, students will be able to make efficient use of strategies of their own devising for text production.
Gruppe 3 Dave Ball: Language Awareness: Humour in British Culture (2)
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 4 Dave Ball: Oral Skills: Talking about the News
This course takes a closer look at the news, both in terms of its content and as a media phenomenon. Focussing on news stories as they are reported in the English-speaking world, students will develop their ability to speak critically about politics, society, culture, the environment, local and world news, economics, or celebrity gossip. In addition to stories currently appearing in the news, themes such as journalistic neutrality and bias, the news cycle, and legacy versus new media will also be explored, leading to a more nuanced and critical understanding of English-language news media. Students will also develop their presentation skills, by researching and speaking about their own particular interests.
Gruppe 5 Elisabeth Gibbels: Language Awareness: Language and Literary Studies
The course will practice writing academic papers in the field of literary studies by introducing key concepts in literary studies and using short literary texts to apply the theories.
Gruppe 6 Elisabeth Gibbels: Language Awareness: Language and Cultural Studies
The course uses everyday texts, excerpts from text books and passages from academic papers to discuss and write about issues in Cultural Studies. It will practice composing academic papers, focussing on conventions of academic writing in the humanities.
Gruppe 7 Audrey Fausser: Oral Skills:Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Discussions
This course provides students the opportunity to explore topics and discussions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The course focuses on the development of academic vocabulary, linguistic complexity, and employing strategies for more effective oral communication as well as argumentation. Course discussions will be a hybrid of dialogue and academic discourse. This course can be taken in either category two or three. Course requirements: regular attendance in accordance with university attendance policy, active participation in class sessions, researching course discussion topics (determined by course participants and groups), completing weekly homework and in-class assignments as indicated on the Moodle course page, and participating in group discussions – one of which students will receive instructor feedback on. Students will also practice MLA style by submitting works cited lists. The MAP will be a small group hybrid discussion on a DEI topic to be determined by the group. Each student’s contribution to the MAP discussion will be approximately fifteen minutes.
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