Fachbereich 05: Sprache, Literatur, Kultur - Anglistik - Bachelor of Arts (Studienbeginn bis Wintersemester 2019/20)

Bigamy, madness, hidden identities, and crimes behind closed doors…Victorian sensation fiction had it all. This seminar explores the rise of sensation fiction and its ongoing influence on popular culture through Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret. Combining discussions with close readings, we examine how scandal, secrecy, and domestic crime reshaped the nineteenth-century novel. Students will learn to identify the key features and contexts of sensation fiction, practice close reading, and analyze how narrative form produces emotional and sensory effects.
Required Text: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (any edition)

Bigamy, madness, hidden identities, and crimes behind closed doors…Victorian sensation fiction had it all. This seminar explores the rise of sensation fiction and its ongoing influence on popular culture through Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret. Combining discussions with close readings, we examine how scandal, secrecy, and domestic crime reshaped the nineteenth-century novel. Students will learn to identify the key features and contexts of sensation fiction, practice close reading, and analyze how narrative form produces emotional and sensory effects.
Required Text: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (any edition)

This course aims to develop students' communicative competence in reading and writing for academic purposes at the C1 level of the CEFR. Through engagement with discipline-specific topics, students will practice decoding primary and secondary sources and articulating their ideas in academic prose that is both formally and functionally appropriate for term papers. Special attention will be given to refining mediation skills (adapting and conveying complex information to suit a specific audience’s needs) and metacognitive skills (monitoring one’s own writing process).

This course aims to develop students’ communicative competence in reading and writing for academic purposes at the C1 level of the CEFR. Through engagement with discipline-specific topics, students will practice decoding primary and secondary sources and articulating their ideas in academic prose that is both formally and functionally appropriate for term papers. Special attention will be given to refining mediation skills (adapting and conveying complex information to suit a specific audience’s needs) and metacognitive skills (monitoring one’s own writing process).

This course aims to develop students’ communicative competence in reading and writing for academic purposes at the C1 level of the CEFR. Through engagement with discipline-specific topics, students will practice decoding primary and secondary sources and articulating their ideas in academic prose that is both formally and functionally appropriate for term papers. Special attention will be given to refining mediation skills (adapting and conveying complex information to suit a specific audience’s needs) and metacognitive skills (monitoring one’s own writing process).

Building on Speaking and Listening I, this course aims to develop students’ communicative competence in speaking and listening for academic purposes at the C1 level of the CEFR. Engaging with discipline-specific topics in cultural studies, literary criticism, education, and/or linguistics, students will continue to practice decoding aural input and effectively communicating ideas orally in an academic setting.

This advanced-level course focuses on orally mediating information from complex academic sources—both spoken and written—with a strong emphasis on audience orientation. To achieve this, special attention will be given to features of complex oral texts that facilitate aural comprehension, including register and style, coherence and cohesion, introductions, and the explication of textual support.

Building on Speaking and Listening I, this course aims to develop students’ communicative competence in speaking and listening for academic purposes at the C1 level of the CEFR. Engaging with discipline-specific topics in cultural studies, literary criticism, education, and/or linguistics, students will continue to practice decoding aural input and effectively communicating ideas orally in an academic setting.

This advanced-level course focuses on orally mediating information from complex academic sources—both spoken and written—with a strong emphasis on audience orientation. To achieve this, special attention will be given to features of complex oral texts that facilitate aural comprehension, including register and style, coherence and cohesion, introductions, and the explication of textual support.

Building on Speaking and Listening I, this course aims to develop students’ communicative competence in speaking and listening for academic purposes at the C1 level of the CEFR. Engaging with discipline-specific topics in cultural studies, literary criticism, education, and/or linguistics, students will continue to practice decoding aural input and effectively communicating ideas orally in an academic setting.

This advanced-level course focuses on orally mediating information from complex academic sources—both spoken and written—with a strong emphasis on audience orientation. To achieve this, special attention will be given to features of complex oral texts that facilitate aural comprehension, including register and style, coherence and cohesion, introductions, and the explication of textual support.

This course aims to develop students' communicative competence in reading and writing for academic purposes at the C1 level of the CEFR. Through engagement with discipline-specific topics, students will practice decoding primary and secondary sources and articulating their ideas in academic prose that is both formally and functionally appropriate for term papers. Special attention will be given to refining mediation skills (adapting and conveying complex information to suit a specific audience’s needs) and metacognitive skills (monitoring one’s own writing process).

This course aims to develop students’ communicative competence in reading and writing for academic purposes at the C1 level of the CEFR. Through engagement with discipline-specific topics, students will practice decoding primary and secondary sources and articulating their ideas in academic prose that is both formally and functionally appropriate for term papers. Special attention will be given to refining mediation skills (adapting and conveying complex information to suit a specific audience’s needs) and metacognitive skills (monitoring one’s own writing process).

This course aims to develop students’ communicative competence in reading and writing for academic purposes at the C1 level of the CEFR. Through engagement with discipline-specific topics, students will practice decoding primary and secondary sources and articulating their ideas in academic prose that is both formally and functionally appropriate for term papers. Special attention will be given to refining mediation skills (adapting and conveying complex information to suit a specific audience’s needs) and metacognitive skills (monitoring one’s own writing process).

Building on Speaking and Listening I, this course aims to develop students’ communicative competence in speaking and listening for academic purposes at the C1 level of the CEFR. Engaging with discipline-specific topics in cultural studies, literary criticism, education, and/or linguistics, students will continue to practice decoding aural input and effectively communicating ideas orally in an academic setting.

This advanced-level course focuses on orally mediating information from complex academic sources—both spoken and written—with a strong emphasis on audience orientation. To achieve this, special attention will be given to features of complex oral texts that facilitate aural comprehension, including register and style, coherence and cohesion, introductions, and the explication of textual support.

Building on Speaking and Listening I, this course aims to develop students’ communicative competence in speaking and listening for academic purposes at the C1 level of the CEFR. Engaging with discipline-specific topics in cultural studies, literary criticism, education, and/or linguistics, students will continue to practice decoding aural input and effectively communicating ideas orally in an academic setting.

This advanced-level course focuses on orally mediating information from complex academic sources—both spoken and written—with a strong emphasis on audience orientation. To achieve this, special attention will be given to features of complex oral texts that facilitate aural comprehension, including register and style, coherence and cohesion, introductions, and the explication of textual support.

Building on Speaking and Listening I, this course aims to develop students’ communicative competence in speaking and listening for academic purposes at the C1 level of the CEFR. Engaging with discipline-specific topics in cultural studies, literary criticism, education, and/or linguistics, students will continue to practice decoding aural input and effectively communicating ideas orally in an academic setting.

This advanced-level course focuses on orally mediating information from complex academic sources—both spoken and written—with a strong emphasis on audience orientation. To achieve this, special attention will be given to features of complex oral texts that facilitate aural comprehension, including register and style, coherence and cohesion, introductions, and the explication of textual support.

Bigamy, madness, hidden identities, and crimes behind closed doors…Victorian sensation fiction had it all. This seminar explores the rise of sensation fiction and its ongoing influence on popular culture through Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret. Combining discussions with close readings, we examine how scandal, secrecy, and domestic crime reshaped the nineteenth-century novel. Students will learn to identify the key features and contexts of sensation fiction, practice close reading, and analyze how narrative form produces emotional and sensory effects.
Required Text: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (any edition)

Bigamy, madness, hidden identities, and crimes behind closed doors…Victorian sensation fiction had it all. This seminar explores the rise of sensation fiction and its ongoing influence on popular culture through Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret. Combining discussions with close readings, we examine how scandal, secrecy, and domestic crime reshaped the nineteenth-century novel. Students will learn to identify the key features and contexts of sensation fiction, practice close reading, and analyze how narrative form produces emotional and sensory effects.
Required Text: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (any edition)

Bigamy, madness, hidden identities, and crimes behind closed doors…Victorian sensation fiction had it all. This seminar explores the rise of sensation fiction and its ongoing influence on popular culture through Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret. Combining discussions with close readings, we examine how scandal, secrecy, and domestic crime reshaped the nineteenth-century novel. Students will learn to identify the key features and contexts of sensation fiction, practice close reading, and analyze how narrative form produces emotional and sensory effects.
Required Text: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (any edition)

Bigamy, madness, hidden identities, and crimes behind closed doors…Victorian sensation fiction had it all. This seminar explores the rise of sensation fiction and its ongoing influence on popular culture through Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret. Combining discussions with close readings, we examine how scandal, secrecy, and domestic crime reshaped the nineteenth-century novel. Students will learn to identify the key features and contexts of sensation fiction, practice close reading, and analyze how narrative form produces emotional and sensory effects.
Required Text: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (any edition)

Bigamy, madness, hidden identities, and crimes behind closed doors…Victorian sensation fiction had it all. This seminar explores the rise of sensation fiction and its ongoing influence on popular culture through Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret. Combining discussions with close readings, we examine how scandal, secrecy, and domestic crime reshaped the nineteenth-century novel. Students will learn to identify the key features and contexts of sensation fiction, practice close reading, and analyze how narrative form produces emotional and sensory effects.
Required Text: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (any edition)

Bigamy, madness, hidden identities, and crimes behind closed doors…Victorian sensation fiction had it all. This seminar explores the rise of sensation fiction and its ongoing influence on popular culture through Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret. Combining discussions with close readings, we examine how scandal, secrecy, and domestic crime reshaped the nineteenth-century novel. Students will learn to identify the key features and contexts of sensation fiction, practice close reading, and analyze how narrative form produces emotional and sensory effects.
Required Text: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (any edition)