Learning Outcomes
Familiarization of students with the new currents of research methodology in German Studies/improvement of the students critical thought, ability to locate and overcome errors and difficulties/development of strategies for the optimal structuring of the research material and its presentation/familiarization with forms of established academic practice (organization of congresses, editing of academic journals etc.).
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course is concerned with the research methodology in German studies on an advanced level. The students present their own research projects and composition as well as methodological problems is being discussed in class and solutions and alternatives are being proposed. On the basis of the “forgotten” discipline of rhetoric not only presentation of scientific issues will be trained, but also the structuring of the material. Furthermore the course deals with forms of established academic practice, such as the organization of congresses and the related text types of call for papers and abstract. Through regularly writing of research papers, exposés and the preparation of bibliographies and excerpts the participants should be enabled to work autonomously, to conceive and to carry out successfully their own inquiry. Last but not least they should develop skills of pointed and compact expression of their theses –so that their final paper can meet the requirements for publications in academic journals.
Additional bibliography for study
Elisabeth Décultot (Hrsg.), Lesen, Kopieren, Schreiben. Lese- und Exzerpierkunst in der europäischen Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts. Ripperger & Kremers, Berlin 2014.
Konrad Ehlich, Zur Analyse der Textart „Exzerpt“. In: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 13 (1981), S. 379–401.
Helga Esselborn-Krumbiegel, Von der Idee zum Text. Eine Anleitung zum wissenschaftlichen Schreiben im Studium. Schöningh, Paderborn–München / Wien / Zürich 2002.
Karl-Heinz Göttert, Einführung in die Rhetorik. 4. Auflage, München 2009.
Bernd Heesen, Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten: Vorlagen und Techniken für das Bachelor-, Master- und Promotionsstudium. 3. Auflage. Springer-Gabler Verlag, Heidelberg 2014.
Renate Lachmann, Riccardo Nicolosi, Susanne Strätling (Hrsg.), Rhetorik als kulturelle Praxis. Fink, München 2008.
Heinrich Lausberg, Handbuch der literarischen Rhetorik. Eine Grundlegung der Literaturwissenschaft. 4. Auflage. Steiner, Stuttgart 2008.
Berit Sandberg, Wissenschaftlich Arbeiten von Abbildung bis Zitat. Ein Lehr- und Übungsbuch für Bachelor, Master und Promotion. Oldenbourg, München 2012.
Rouven Soudry (Hrsg.), Rhetorik – eine interdisziplinäre Einführung, Heidelberg 2006