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Postcolonial Studies Teaching Program

The Postcolonial Studies group offers courses across teaching programs at the FB 10. Introductory courses are offered within the teaching programs of Linguistics and English-Speaking Cultures and MA level courses in a number of programs. See the course offer below:

Continual course offer:

Postcolonial Language Studies:		Postcolonial Cultural and Literary Studies:
- Introduction to Postcolonial Language Studies (Lecture, BA) - Applied Perspectives to Postcolonial Languages (Seminar A - Analyzing contact situations, BA) - Applied Perspectives to Postcolonial Languages (Seminar B - Discourse analysis, BA)		- Postcolonial Studies - Histories, Theories, Concepts (BA Seminar) - The Postcolonial World in Literature and Film (BA Seminar, changing area foci) - Textual and Media Dimensions of Transculturality (MA Seminar) - Postcolonial Movie Nights (changing area foci)

Winter semester 2017/18

Postcolonial Language Studies:		Postcolonial Cultural and Literary Studies:
- Introduction to Postcolonial Language Studies (Maria Mazzoli) - Ecolinguistics: Ecological Approaches to Language Studies (Joanna Chojnicka)		- Studying and Working with Indigenous Documentary Films in North America (Kerstin Knopf) - The Postcolonial World in Literature and Film: New Zealand (Kerstin Knopf) - The Postcolonial World in Literature and Film: the Carribean (Janelle Rodriques) - Textual and Media Dimensions of transculturality (Kerstin Knopf) - Research Colloquium for Post-Docs, Doctoral Students and Advanced Students (Kerstin Knopf)

Summer semester 2017

Postcolonial Language Studies:		Postcolonial Cultural and Literary Studies:
- Applied perspectives to Postcolonial Languages (Seminar A - Analyzing contact situations) (Eeva Sippola) - Applied perspectives to Postcolonial Languages (Seminar B - Discourse analysis) (Joanna Chojnicka) - Changing ecologies: language, culture and the environment (Ringvorlesung, Eeva Sippola, Joanna Chojnicka) - Sociolinguistic data collection: interviews and surveys (Eeva Sippola) - Linguistisches Kolloquium: "Mixed Languages" (Eeva Sippola, Maria Mazzoli) - Linguistisches Kolloquium: "Hispanization" (Eeva Sippola and others) - Linguisticher Debattierklub (Eeva Sippola and others)		- Key Topics in Literature: West African Female Writers (Olorunshola Adenekan) - The Empire Writes Back: Colonial and Postcolonial Subjects in Black British Literature (Olorunshola Adenekan) - Postcolonial (Literary) Theory (Janelle Rodriques)

Winter semester 2016/2017

Postcolonial Language Studies:		Postcolonial Cultural and Literary Studies:
- Introduction to Postcolonial Language Studies (Eeva Sippola) - Forensic Linguistics (Eeva Sippola) - Spelling and Society (Eeva Sippola) - Linguistisches Kolloquium: New Varieties in the Americas (Eeva Sippola) - Themes in Critical Discourse Analysis (Joanna Chojnicka)		- The Postcolonial World in Literature and Film: Canada (Kerstin Knopf) - The Postcolonial World in Literature and Film: Africa (Olorunshola Adenekan) - Canada in the EFL-Classroom (Kerstin Knopf) - Textual and Media Dimensions of Transculturality (Kerstin Knopf)

Theme of the Semester: America

Summer semester 2016

Postcolonial Language Studies:		Postcolonial Cultural and Literary Studies:
- Linguistic Diversity in Papua New Guinea (Eeva Sippola, Craig Volker) - Language and Music in Transnational Contexts (Eeva Sippola) - Linguistic Fieldwork (Eeva Sippola) - Koloniallinguistik als Bremer Forschungsfeld unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Ozeaniens (Ringvorlesung, Eeva Sippola)		- Postcolonial Studies – Histories, Theories and Concepts (Kerstin Knopf) - The Postcolonial World in Literature and Film: Australia (Kerstin Knopf) - The Postcolonial World in Literature and Film: Sri Lanka and India (Birte Heidemann-Malreddy) - German Colonialism in Papua New Guinea: Studying and Translating German Colonial Texts into English (Kerstin Knopf)

Theme of the Semester: Oceania

Winter semester 2015/16

Postcolonial Language Studies:		Postcolonial Cultural and Literary Studies:
- Language Dynamics and Phylogenetic Methods (Eeva Sippola and others) - Contact Languages in Postcolonial Settings (Eeva Sippola) - Perceptual Dialectology (Eeva Sippola, Marivic Lesho) - Phonetic analysis with Praat (block seminar, Marivic Lesho) - Grammatical relations and differential case marking (block seminar, Lidia Federica Mazzitelli)		- Imaginary Homelands: (Forced) Migration and Diaspora in Postcolonial Cultures, Literatures and Languages (Kerstin Knopf) - Studying and Working with Indigenous Documentary Films in North America (Kerstin Knopf)

Summer semester 2015

Postcolonial Language Studies:		Postcolonial Cultural and Literary Studies:
- Introduction to Postcolonial Linguistics (Eeva Sippola) - Phonetics and Phonology in Language Contact Situations (Marivic Lesho) - Language, Sex, and Gender (Marivic Lesho)		- Postcolonial Studies – Histories, Theories and Concepts (Kerstin Knopf) - Indigenous Literatures in Canada, the Caribbean, and the US (Kerstin Knopf)