Lehr-Moodle der Universität Duisburg-Essen

The aim of this course is to offer students an understanding of the philosophical, intellectual, and cultural history of the New Criticism. The course ranges roughly from around 1930 until today. Broadly defined, the New Criticism is a formalist movement in literary theory. It underlines interpreting a text in isolation, concentrating solely on the text’s language, structure, and form instead of external context, such as authorial intent or historical, political, and biographical backgrounds. In this course, we will read intellectual and cultural historians’ works on the New Criticism as well as selections from important figures of New Criticism. Particular attention will be given to historical links between New Criticism, democratic engagement, and the history of higher education. A secondary aim of this course is the transformation of the class into an editorial team that collectively discusses and writes on the history of New Criticism. In a class session, all students are acquired to: (1) submit two short texts (8,000 characters each); (2) comment on texts of their peers.

This course will give an introduction to the diversity of American literature. Reading and analyzing texts from pre-colonial times to the present, we will try to get an overview of important movements and authors. In our discussions of writings taken from all main literary genres we will attempt to determine some of the characteristics of American literature in general and of individual periods and writers in particular. Short introductory lectures on the various periods of American literature will provide the literary and cultural contexts for our discussion of exemplary texts.

Students should purchase the following text:

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0199537808.

The seminar will focus on literary and cultural key texts from the various epochs of English literature from the middle ages to the present day. The seminar thus provides a helpful frame of reference for all following seminars in literary or cultural studies. It is also a prerequisite for the Lit2 module exam. 

Please always feel free to contact me with any questions you may have: stefanie.caeners@uni-due.de

This course introduces the sound structures of human language and the fundamentals of phonetic and phonological theory and analysis. Phonetics is defined as the systematic study of speech sounds. In this unit, we will explore how speech is produced (articulation), how speech waves behave in the physical world (acoustics), and how speech is understood (audition/perception). Phonology is the study of sound systems of particular languages. In this unit, we will examine segmental (i.e. phones) and suprasegmental (e.g. intonation, stress patterns) components of language, and how they function together to form the sound system of a given language. Students will learn both descriptive and analytical skills, including acoustic and auditory methods in phonetics, phonemic analysis, phonological processes, and rule ordering.

Willkommen zum Moodle-Kurs Abfallwirtschaft 2 - vorsorgende Abfallwirtschaft. Im Rahmen von Vorlesungen und Seminaren werden vertiefte Kenntnisse zum Thema Abfall und Möglichkeiten zur Behandlung und Verwertung vermittelt. Das Passwort für diesen Moodle-Kurs wird in der 1. Vorlesung am 29.10.2025 ab 8:30 Uhr im Raum V15 R03 H93 bekanntgegeben.