Seminar: Jane Austen - Vertiefungsmodul - Details

Seminar: Jane Austen - Vertiefungsmodul - Details

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Course name Seminar: Jane Austen - Vertiefungsmodul
Course number ANG.05293.02
Semester SoSe 2026
Current number of participants 33
maximum number of participants 30
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date Monday, 06.07.2026 14:15 - 15:45, Room: Seminarraum 3 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)
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)
SWS 2

Module assignments

Comment/Description

One of the most well-known and popular English writers of the long eighteenth century, Jane Austen (1775-1817), has attracted readers for over 200 years. Her novels seemingly portray the manners of the middle classes and the gentry, the institution of marriage, and the development of romantic relationships, while also probing into questions such as social order, women’s education, human experience, and the contrast between emotions and reason. The seminar will discuss three of her novels, Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Sense and Sensibility (1811), and draw particular attention to their engagement with major Enlightenment thinkers, for example John Locke, Adam Smith, David Hume, and Mary Wollstonecraft as well as to contemporary social and political contexts.
Students will need to have read the three primary texts at the beginning of the semester. Selected secondary sources will be announced at the beginning of the term and have to be prepared for individual sessions. There will be short assignments during the semester, and an oral presentation. Further requirements for credit points will be discussed in the first session.

Please note that prior registration (deadline: 7 April 2026) for the course via StudIP is mandatory.
This course can be attended in general preparation of the Staatsexamensklausur “Arbeit unter Aufsicht” in Autumn 2026.

Studienleistungen:
• Regular and active attendance, oral presentation in a group, small written tasks in the sessions.

Prüfungsleistung:
• Written Exam (date: 13 July 2026)

Primary texts (to be purchased by students):
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. With an Introduction and Notes by Fiona Stafford. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Print. ISBN 978-0198826736.
Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Penguin Classics. London: 2003, ed. Kathryn Sutherland, with an Introduction by Tony Tanner. Print. ISBN 0-141-43980-7
Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Edited with an introduction by John Mullan. 3rd Edition. Oxford World’s Classics: Oxford University Press, 2019. Print. ISBN 978-0198793359

Secondary texts:
Secondary literature will be made available via Stud.IP at the beginning of the teaching term.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: Englische Literatur und Kultur".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • The enrolment is possible from 23.03.2026, 00:00 to 08.04.2026, 23:59.
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.

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