Kolloquium "English Language and Culture"

Content:
This course introduces students to linguistic research mehtodologies and prepares them for possible BA disserations. We will have a mixture of presentations and discussions of linguistic topics in the broadest sense. Student suggestions are very welcome.

Objectives: By the end of the course, students

have a basic idea about research processes,

have heard presentations by older students how they went about their Magisterarbeit,

have a broad survey of research methodologies (for literature, on the WWW and with the help of questionnaires and interviews),

have a clear idea about academic writing and related problems,

try hteir own hands at writing small research texts (abstracts, proposals, reviews), etc.

Requirements: All participants have to submit 2 pieces of writing and join in the discussions contributing their own comments, ideas or problems, etc.
Since you have to do a review of an academic book, you can select/read an academic book of your own choice (in English) before term.