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Literary Studies

Linguistics

Core Texts | Master of Arts

Master of Education | Modulabschlussprüfung

Literary Studies

Candidates for the final exam of the module English in Schools are to provide their examiners with a reading list of ten titles. This list should include at least one Shakespearean drama and one additional modern drama (20th/21st century), four poems (one per century: 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th), as well as three novels covering the timespan from the 18th century to the present. The reading list can include at most one film or other non-literary work of art.

Linguistics

Candidates for the final exam of the module English in Schools are to provide their examiners with a reading list that includes one introductory text for linguistics (e.g. Kortmann 2020 or Mair 2022) and one further introductory text for modern English (e.g. Leisi/Mair 1998, Das heutige Englisch or Crystal 2003, English as a Global Language). The latter text may also be replaced by a selection of chapters (totalling the length of a monograph) from Crystal 2018, Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language and/or König/Gast 2014, Understanding English-German Contrasts.

Staatsexamen

Literary Studies

  • Spring 2017
Modernism
  • Spring 2016
Modern American Poetry
  • Fall 2015
The American Short Story of the 20th Century
  • Spring 2015
American Drama
  • Fall 2014
British Fiction after 1945
  • Fall 2013
American Modernism
  • Spring 2013
American Poetry
  • Spring 2012   
Twentieth-Century British Drama

 

Linguistics

  • Fall 2010     
Second Language Acquisition/Contrastive Linguistics