Seminar: Storytelling in the Twenty-First-Century United States - Details

Seminar: Storytelling in the Twenty-First-Century United States - Details

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Course name Seminar: Storytelling in the Twenty-First-Century United States
Subtitle Vertiefungsmodul: Amerikanistik Literatur I und Amerikanistik Literatur II
Course number ANG.04629.02; ANG.04630.02
Semester WiSe 2025/26
Current number of participants 10
maximum number of participants 10
Entries on waiting list 2
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Preliminary discussion Wednesday, 15.10.2025 18:15 - 19:30, Room: Seminarraum 6 (R.E.62) [EA 26-27] Active Learning Space
Next date Wednesday, 14.01.2026 18:00 - 20:00, Room: Seminarraum 12 (R.2.40) [EA 26-27]
Pre-requisites Basismodul und Aufbaumodule Lit.wiss.
Performance record siehe Beschreibung (Hausarbeit)
Lehrsprache(n) Englisch
Studiengänge (für) LA Gym, Sek Englisch (2012+2015)
LA Förder (Sekundar) Englisch (2012+2015)
MA Engl. Spr. u Lit 45/75 LP (2015)
MA Angloam. Lit., Spr u Kult. 120 LP (2015)
ECTS points 5

Module assignments

Comment/Description

This course primarily targets teacher students who want to extend their knowledge in contemporary American literature and explore ways of teaching such contents in the EFL-classroom. This seminar has at its core a three-day lecture and workshop event in Lutherstadt Wittenberg. You will be joining a group of teachers from all over Germany. We will focus on the theme of “Storytelling in the Twenty-First-Century USA.” The event will feature talks on issues of storytelling in a wide array of literary contexts. We are going to explore genres, themes, and literary trends in contemporary US literature, discuss new and old canons, examine novel approaches of teaching literature in the EFL-classroom as well as practice creative text production.

All further information concerning the program is made available online: https://blogs.urz.uni-halle.de/julianitz/2025/07/wittenberg-teacher-academy-2025/

Schedule:
Block Session of 2.5 days at Leucorea in Lutherstadt-Wittenberg (Nov. 13-15, 2025)
meeting in preparation of the block session; consultation in January to discuss Prüfungsleistung

You will be staying in mixed rooms in a boarding house, Pension Central in Wittenberg: https://www.central-wittenberg.de/. Please arrange for your travel individually.

Costs: 30€; includes full program, coffee breaks, 2 nights + breakfast at Pension Central, 2x dinner

Prüfungsleistung:
Term paper dealing with one of the topics discussed during the block session.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: Storytelling in the Twenty-First-Century United States".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.