Seminar: Aufbaumodul Sprachwissenschaft III: Entwicklung der engl. Sprache - The Story of English - Details

General information

Course name	Seminar: Aufbaumodul Sprachwissenschaft III: Entwicklung der engl. Sprache - The Story of English
Subtitle	The Story of English
Course number	ANG.05276.02, ANG.03228.01
Semester	SS 2016
Current number of participants	17
Home institute	Anglistik / Sprachwissenschaft
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date	Wednesday, 06.04.2016 10:00 - 12:00
Studiengänge (für)	BA Anglistik und Amerikanistik 90 LP LAS, LAG, LAF
SWS	2
Miscellanea	Registration: Via stud.IP and Löwenportal

Lehrende

• Prof. Dr. Ulrich Busse

Rooms and times

No room preference

Wednesday: 10:00 - 12:00, weekly(15x)

Fields of study

• Philosophische Fakultät II - Philologien, Kommunikations- und Musikwissenschaften > Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik > Anglistik/Sprachwissenschaft
• Philosophische Fakultät II - Philologien, Kommunikations- und Musikwissenschaften > Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Comment/Description

The general idea of this course is to provide (beginning) students of English with a survey on the history of English ranging from the very beginnings of the language in the 5th century AD to the present.
The “story” involving history, diversity and change as the main “protagonists” will be built loosely around the British educational TV mini-series “The Adventure of English” (broadcast originally in 2003 on ITV). It consists of 8 episodes (each about 50 minutes long). This will provide the basic “storyline”, which will be supplemented by selected introductory texts on the history and variation of English.