This colloquium-style seminar, which is also open to advanced BA students as well as doctoral students, is directed mainly at MA students who are currently writing or intending to write a thesis in British literary and/or cultural studies. The class has a two-fold aim. First and foremost, we will discuss foundational research paradigms in the study of (literary) history and cultural memory in our discipline. For this purpose, we will read foundational theoretical texts engaging with the question of how to conceptualise and engage with the past and its influence on the present in our own research on literature and culture. In addition, however, we will also address more practical issues of doing academic research. We will discuss how to plan and organize a research project, how to select material and research papers, and how to overcome the obstacles that typically occur in the process of academic writing.
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| 23-ANG-M-HM2 Hauptmodul 2: British Literature and the Processes of Culture | HM 2.2 Research Paradigms and Research Projects in British Studies | Study requirement
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| - | Graded examination | Student information | |
| 23-LIT-M-LitAM3 Aufbau-Modul II: Fachphilologische Vertiefung Anglistik | Lehrveranstaltung 1 | Study requirement
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| Lehrveranstaltung 2 | Study requirement
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| Lehrveranstaltung 3 | Graded examination
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| 23-LIT-M-LitINT Intensivierung | Aufbaumodul Lehrveranstaltung 1 | Study requirement
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| Aufbaumodul Lehrveranstaltung 2 | Study requirement
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| Aufbaumodul Lehrveranstaltung 3 | 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.