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Department of English Department of English

Mag. Dr. Ulrich Pallua Mag. Dr. Ulrich Pallua, +43 512 507 41408, +43 512 507 34421

609200

Mandatory Module Foundation: Studying Languages, Literatures, Cultures

VU 1

2,5

weekly

each semester

English

After this course you will have become familiar with the fields of English and American studies and you will have learned how to search for, find, evaluate, organise and integrate relevant information efficiently into your own academic work.

This course introduces you to the fields of English and American Studies – and to the respective Departments at Innsbruck University – and is designed to run parallel to the lecture “VO Grundlagen des philologisch-kulturwissenschaftlichen Studiums”. You will enter the academic world of research and get a first-hand experience of a conference held at Innsbruck University; furthermore, you will train your research skills by doing academic research on a topic of your choice; while working on your topic, you will be keeping a research journal. You will practise using libraries, databases and the Internet and the format and style of academic research papers (the MLA style in particular).

Lecture inputs, discussion groups, pair-work, research journal

Active class participation and participation in discussion groups, assignments, written exam

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th edition. The Modern Language Association of America. New York: 2009.