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INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department of English

University of Aarhus

Nobelparken

Building 1463

Jens Chr. Skous Vej 5

DK- 8000 Aarhus C

Phone: +45 8942 6501

Fax : +45 8942 6540

E-mail: englvk@remove-this.hum.au.dk

Web-site: www.engelsk.au.dk/

Board of Studies: studienaevn.slk@remove-this.hum.au.dk

Student Guidance : studievejleder.slk@remove-this.hum.au.dk

The Department of English, Institute of Language, Literature and Culture, will offer the following courses taught in English during the Spring 2010 semester. Details of ECTS credits and exam forms are given below.

Exchange students may enrol for courses that form part of the obligatory programme for Danish students and for elective courses. Full details about obligatory courses are given below; details of elective courses at Bachelor and Master’s degree levels can be found at

http://www.engelsk.au.dk/en/studies/teaching/course_descriptions from mid-November 2009.

Please note that all these courses form part of degree programmes in English Studies either at Bachelor or Master’s degree level. Students therefore need an appropriate level of English language proficiency to be able to follow the courses and pass the exams. Students who are studying subjects other than English at their home university may be asked to provide evidence of their proficiency in English before being allowed to enrol for these courses. (see http://www.engelsk.au.dk/en/for/incoming/language_requirements )

Staff picture gallery and staff e-mail addresses are also available on the English Department website.

For further information about courses, application deadlines etc, kindly contact Ann Carroll Bøgh,

engacb@remove-this.hum.au.dk

For course registration, please contact Jane Lücke Didriksen, engljd@remove-this.hum.au.dk

SPRING SEMESTER 2010

Teaching starts Monday February 1, 2010

CORE COURSES:

MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX 2

This course aims to provide a basic introduction to two central topics in the study of the English language: word structure (morphology) and sentence structure (syntax). Descriptive and data-driven, it nevertheless draws upon a range of contemporary theoretical notions and techniques. The large number of examples helps students develop a hands-on approach towards syntactic and morphological analysis.

Students considering this course should be aware that, while it is introductory, Morphology and Syntax 2 builds on concepts and theories outlined in the preceding Morphology and Syntax 1 course. Students who have not taken Morphology and Syntax 1 should therefore be aware that Morphology and Syntax 2 assumes prior knowledge of its subjects and thus requires a solid foundation in the study of English morphology and syntax.

Level : BA
Lecturer : Sten Vikner, e-mail: engsv@hum.au.dk
Course credits : 5 ECTS
Assessment: A 3-hour written exam
Course start: Week 5
Time and place:

Lecture (all groups)	Sten Vikner	Monday	10-11	Aud. 1, building 1441
Group A	Sten Vikner	Thursday	11-12	building 1453 room 223
Group B	Johanna Wood	Wednesday	10-11	building 1453 room 227
Group C	Johanna Wood	Wednesday	11-12	building 1453 room 229
Group D	Ken Ramshøj Christensen	Thursday	10-11	building 1453 room 227

SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS

The primary purpose of language is to communicate our ideas and beliefs about the world to each other. Linguistic communication succeeds, in part, because we understand both the fundamental meanings of linguistic expressions as well as the rules and principles which govern how people use linguistic expressions to express these meanings in conversation. But what exactly is the meaning of a linguistic expression like The boat sank , this tree , blue , don't , or always ? What kinds of meaning can be expressed in a language like English? What principles apply when we try to communicate to each other using English? This course reviews central topics in linguistic semantics and pragmatics, including the meaning of lexical items, tense, aspect, and negation, and how literal and implied meanings are communicated in conversation to convey information.

Level : BA
Lecturer : Peter Slomanson, e-mail: engps@hum.au.dk
Course credits : 5 ECTS
Assessment: Active participation in class or a 3-hour written exam
Course start: Week 5
Time and place :

Lecture (all groups)	Peter Slomanson	Monday	11-12	Aud. 1, building 1441
Group A	Peter Slomanson	Thursday	10-11	building 1453 room 223
Group B	Marie Møller Jensen	Wednesday	11-12	building 1453 room 227
Group C	Marie Møller Jensen	Wednesday	10-11	building 1453 room 229
Group D	Peter Slomanson	Thursday	11-12	building 1453 room 227

LITERATURES IN ENGLISH 1800-1950

This course is the second part of the Department's three-part Literatures in English programme. The course makes reference to British and American Literatures as well as to writing emanating from colonial and postcolonial contexts. It seeks to highlight the ways in which different literatures in English, at the same time as constituting distinct traditions, have nevertheless intersected with and influenced each other. Like the other parts of the programme, this course balances the need to establish cultural/national/historical characteristics in the literatures of different English-speaking countries with the need to recognise the global dimension of the English language imagination. The course focuses on literatures in English from the 19th through the first half of the 20th centuries, paying particular attention to movements such as Romanticism and Modernism; to topics such as African-American and colonial writing; and to individual writers including Wordsworth, Charlotte Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe and Chinua Achebe.

Level : BA
Lecturers : Various members of the English Department Staff
Course credits : 10 ECTS
Assessment: Oral exam
Course start: Week 5
Time and place :

Lecture (all groups)		Tuesday	12-14	Aud. 1. building 1441
Group A	Tabish Khair	Friday	8-10	building 1453 room 125
Group B	Tabish Khair	Thursday	12-14	building 1463 room 416
Group C	Maria Beville	Thursday	8-10	building 1453 room 227
Group D	Matthias Stephan	Friday	12-14	building 1453 room 223

AMERICAN HISTORY AND SOCIETY

This course introduces both the history and contemporary society of the United States of America as an independent field of study, in the process locating the Department's linguistic and literary studies within a social, cultural and historical context. The objective of the course is to enable students to work independently on political, social and general cultural materials and problems, both historically and specifically. The course addresses both domestic and foreign policies, including such historical topics as the creation, physical expansion, peopling, and rise to world power of the United States; the development of the American welfare state, and the question of racial and ethnic relations, past and present.

Level : BA
Lecturer : Dale Carter, e-mail: engdc@hum.au.dk
Course credits : 5 ECTS
Assessment: Active participation in class plus a 6-page essay on a topic of the candidate's own choice or a 4-hour written exam
Course start: Week 5
Time and place :

Lecture (all groups)	Dale Carter	Tuesday	10-11	Aud. 1, building 1441
Group A	Dale Carter	Friday	12-14	building 1453 room 125
Group B	Michael Madsen	Thursday	8-10	building 1463 room 416
Group C	Michael Madsen	Thursday	12-14	building 1453 room 227
Group D	Mark Eaton	Friday	8-10	building 1453 room 223

NATION, STATE AND GLOBALISATION 2

This course is designed to introduce major themes, institutions, structures, processes and events that have characterized the development of Anglo-American global influence, particularly in the modern era. It reviews social and economic dimensions of globalisation in relation to the English-speaking world, and enables students to explain, interpret and evaluate the process within a variety of interpretive frameworks. Students are introduced to such subjects as global governance, the British Empire and Commonwealth (including Canada), settlement and migration, economic integration, global media and the growth of English as a world language, as well as to critiques of globalisation.

Level: BA
Lecturers : Various members of the English Department Staff
Course credits : 5 ECTS
Assessment: Active participation in class or a 3-hour written exam
Course start: Week 5
Time and place :

Lecture (all groups)

Monday

13-14

Aud. 1, building 1441

MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES

This subject introduces students to the study of English language media. It concentrates especially on audio-visual media such as film, television, and IT-based media, including a broad introduction to the technological and cultural developments within these media. The goal of this course is to provide the student with both a theoretical and a practical methodology for analyzing and interpreting various forms of audio-visual communication in the English-speaking world.

Level : BA
Course credits : 10 ECTS
Assessment: A 10-page essay on a topic of the candidate’s own choice
Course start: Week 5
Time and place :

Group B	Mark Le Fanu	Friday	11-14	building 1453 room 227
Group C	Jody Pennington	Monday	11-14	building 1453 room 227

THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

This course studies the development of present-day English through its internal and external history. It builds on the knowledge and skills acquired in linguistics in the first year, and applies those skills to the study of language variation and change. The module also draws on the knowledge that students acquire in the first year courses in history and society. The course involves an introduction to linguistic variation and change in English on the phonetic, phonological, syntactic, morphological, lexical, and semantic levels; describes how the English language varies over time, space, and in society and explains the language internal and external (socio-cultural) forces that have shapes this variation.

Level : BA
Lecturer : Johanna Wood, e-mail: engjw@hum.au.dk
Course credits : 10 ECTS
Assessment: A 3-hour written exam
Course start: Week 5
Time and place :

Lecture (all groups)	Johanna Wood	Tuesday	11-12	Aud. 1, building 1441
Group B	Johanna Wood	Thursday	10-12	building 1463 room 416
Group C	Peter Slomasnon	Friday	12-14	building 1463 room 416

WRITTEN ACADEMIC ENGLISH

This course is aimed at improving students’ familiarity with and use of the particular language register that typifies academic English. In part there is a focus on improving students’ linguistic proficiency in relation to written academic English by means of relevant exercises, but the course also works with skills necessary for producing academic papers such as structuring papers, summarizing, citing references, etc. In particular, it is intended to assist students in completing their Bachelor project in English. In addition, it is expected that there will be time in class to work with other related academic skills such as researching sources, oral presentations, intercultural communication, and general language proficiency, according to the needs of the course participants in relation to their course in International Communication in English.

Level : BA
Course credits : 5 ECTS
Assessment: A portfolio of brief written assignments
Course start: Week 5
Time and place :

Peter Slomanson

Monday

14-16

building 1463 room 416

COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA

This course develops students’ awareness of ways in which sender, receiver, medium, and purpose of communication affect the content of messages in various ways. It provides information about the characteristics and history of, and current trends in, selected mass media formats in the United States and Great Britain, including newspapers, magazines, television as well as industries that utilize the mass media such as advertising and public relations. It also closely examines the role of language in the communication process.

Level: KA
Course credits: 10 ECTS
Assessment: Active participation in class or a 5-hour written exam
Course start: Week 5
Time and place:

Peter Slomanson/Jody Pennington

Wednesday 8-10

building 1453 room 227

ELECTIVE COURSES:

LOWER LEVEL ELECTIVES (5/10 ECTS)

2^nd and 3^rd year BA courses

Assessment:

A 10-page essay (10 ECTS).
Or active participation in class (5 ECTS).
OR an oral exam (5 ECTS). NB: oral proficiency is also assessed in connection with the oral exam (5 ECTS).

The literature of the city
Maria Beville	Tuesday 14-16	building 1453 room 223

English phonetics beyond the basics
Ocke Bohn	Thursday 12-14	building 1453 room 223

Star-spangled planet?: Globalization as americanization
Dale Carter	Tuesday 12-14	building 1453 room 223

Novel women
Matthias Stephan	Friday 8-10	building 1463 room 416

UPPER LEVEL ELECTIVES (10/15 ECTS)

MA-level courses

Please note that these courses are at an advanced level, and students need a higher level of English proficiency and background knowledge in English Studies in order to complete them successfully.