“If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.”
(John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University, 1852)
"Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays..." (Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles, 2010)
Gaudy Night (dir. M. Simpson, BBC, 1987; based on Dorothy L. Sayers' 1935 novel of the same name. An extract from the novel will be provided.)
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945) (extracts)
Amanda Cross, Poetic Justice (1977)
Willy Russell, Educating Rita (1980 + film version, 1983)
David Lodge, Nice Work (1988)
David Mamet, Oleanna (1993): download at https://curve.coventry.ac.uk/cu/file/11663dcb.../oleanna.pdf
(more to be announced)
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23-ANG-AngPM2 Profilmodul 2: British Studies | 2.3 British Literature and Media | Study requirement
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23-ANG-AngPM2.1_a Profilmodul 2.1: British Studies | 2.1.3 Literature and Culture | Study requirement
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23-ANG-AngPM2_a Profilmodul 2: British Studies | 2.3 Literature and Culture | Study requirement
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The binding module descriptions contain further information, including specifications on the "types of assignments" students need to complete. In cases where a module description mentions more than one kind of assignment, the respective member of the teaching staff will decide which task(s) they assign the students.
Degree programme/academic programme | Validity | Variant | Subdivision | Status | Semester | LP | |
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Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education | (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM4 |
Two short essays on three different novels, which will be peer-reviewed by other students.
A corresponding course offer for this course already exists in the e-learning system. Teaching staff can store materials relating to teaching courses there: