Practice in small groups (28hours):

1. Mon 10-12 B3110 (COOPER) starting 6.9.
2. Tue 14-16 B3108 (METSÄ-KETELÄ) starting 7.9.

NettiOpsu

Small group practice for exchange students.

Groups:

1. Tue 9-10 B4116 (COOPER) starting 7.9.
2. Tue 17-18 B3111 (GURNEY) starting 7.9.
3. Wed 14-15 C5 (GURNEY) starting 15.9.

NettiOpsu

Tutorials (starting 6.9.2009):

1. Mon 12-14 B4125 (COOPER)
2. Tue 8-10 B4125 (GURNEY)
3. Tue 10-12 B4125 (GURNEY)
4. Wed 14-16 B4125 (COOPER) Note: 8.9: Wed 12-14!
5. Wed 16-18 B4125 (GURNEY)
6. Thu 10-12 B4125 (COOPER)

NettiOpsu

Lectures (starting 6.9.2010):

• Mon 16-17  B1097 (ROBERTSON, PIIPPONEN).

Tutorials (starting 7.9.2010):

1. Tue 10-11 B3112 (ROBERTSON)
2. Tue 11-12 B3112 (PIIPPONEN)
3. Tue 16-17 A3098 (PIIPPONEN)
4. Wed 15-16 B0039 (PIIPPONEN)
5. Wed 16-17 B4118 (PIIPPONEN)
6. Thu 12-13 B3030 (ROBERTSON)
7. Thu 13-14 B3030 (ROBERTSON)

NettiOpsu

Lectures (starting Sept 2nd):

• Thu 14-15 Paavo Koli auditorium (GURNEY) 

Tutorials (starting Sept 7th)

1. Tue 10-11 C3 (NORRI)
2. Tue 11-12 C3 (NORRI)
3. Tue 16-17 B3108 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
4. Wed  10-11 B4118 (GURNEY)
5. Wed 11-12 B4118 (GURNEY)
6. Thu 12-13 B5078 (COOPER)
7. Thu 13-14 B5078 (COOPER)

NettiOpsu

Lectures (starting 6.9.2010):

• Mon 15-16 B1097 (ROBERTSON, SALMELA)

Tutorials (starting 7.9.2010):

1. Tue 10-11 B4119 (SALMELA)
2. Tue 11-12 B4119 (SALMELA)
3. Wed 9-10 A3098 (SALMELA)
4. Wed 10-11 A3098 (SALMELA)
5. Wed 11-12 A3098 (ROBERTSON)
6. Wed 16-17  B4117 (ROBERTSON)
7. Wed 16-17  B3030 (SALMELA)

NettiOpsu

2 hours (lecture + tutorial) for ten weeks, starting 6.9.2010

Lectures:

• Mon 14-15  B1097 (SAVOLAINEN)

Tutorials

1. Tue 14-15 A3098 (PIIPPONEN)
2. Tue 15-16 A3098 (PIIPPONEN)
3. Wed 17-18 B4118 (PIIPPONEN)
4. Thu 10-11 C3 (SALMELA)
5. Thu 11-12 C3 (SALMELA)
6. Thu 14-15 A21 (PIIPPONEN)

NettiOpsu

The course is aimed at exchange students and held in parallel with the ENGFA2D New Literatures course. Students are required to attend the ENGFA2D New Literatures lectures and the ENGFA2DX New Literatures tutorial. Some study materials differ from ENGFA2D. Evaluation is based on class participation and a short written assignment.

1. Mon 10-11 B4118 (NORRI) starting Sept 6th
2. Mon 11-12 B4118 (NORRI) starting Sept 6th
3. Wed 10-11 B3112 (COOPER) starting Sept 1st
4. Wed 11-12 B3112 (COOPER) starting Sept 1st
5. Wed 16-17 B3113 (METSÄ-KETELÄ) starting Sept 8th
6. Wed 17-18 B3113 (METSÄ-KETELÄ) starting Sept 8th
7. Thu 10-11 B4118 (GURNEY) starting Sept 2nd
8. Thu 11-12 B4118 (GURNEY) starting Sept 2nd

NettiOpsu

Tutorials:

1. Mon 10-11 A2093 (METSÄ-KETELÄ) starting Sept 6th
2. Mon 11-12 A2093 (METSÄ-KETELÄ) starting Sept 6th
3. Mon 12-13 A2093 (METSÄ-KETELÄ) starting Sept 6th
4. Mon 16-17 B4118 (NORRI) starting Sept 6th
5. Mon 17-18 B4118 (NORRI) starting Sept 6th
6. Thu 14-15 B4114 (NORRI) starting Sept 9th
7. Thu 15-16 B4114 (NORRI) starting Sept 9th

NettiOpsu

Tutorials (starting 6.9.2010):

1. Mon 12-14 A3098 (RUDANKO)
2. Tue 14-16 B3112 (COOPER)
3. Tue 14-16 B5077 (SALMELA)
4. Wed 14-16 B5077 (ROBERTSON)

Groups formed on the basis of applications in spring 2010.

Lectures (starting 7.9.2010):

• Tue 16-18 B4113 (ROBERTSON)

NettiOpsu

Fortnightly lectures (starting 7.9.2010):

• Tue 10-12  B3118 (SAVOLAINEN)

Tutorials (intervening weeks): 

1.  Mon 12-14 C1 (TOIKKANEN)
2.  Tue 10-12 B3118 (SAVOLAINEN)

The course will consist of seven lectures (for all participants), starting with a lecture on September 7th, plus six tutorials (2 groups) in the intervening weeks.

The aim is to learn to read theoretical texts, discover their line of argumentation, become aware of their omissions and see that the authors have produced their texts in a certain situation with particular goals in mind.

The course will consist of seven units:

1. Theory, Method, Ideology and New Criticism
2. Structuralism and Semiotics
3. Poststructuralism and Deconstruction
4. Marxism and New Historicism
5. Feminism, Gender and Sexuality
6. Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
7. Cultural Studies  

Each student is expected to purchase Peter Barry?s Beginning Theory, An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (2002; available at the university bookstore), which will provide preliminary reading for each lecture. In addition, theoretical texts will be provided for students as photocopies for the tutorials at the first lecture.

Assessment: Active participation, a presentation in the tutorials, plus a lecture diary.

Enrolment is restricted to 28 (2x14). Anyone not given a place but urgently needing one should contact Jarkko Toikkanen or Matti Savolainen directly to see what can be done.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

   Thu 12-14 A3098 (SAVOLAINEN) starting Sept 9th

The course provides a survey of Canadian Literature in English from the early years of settlement to the contemporary scene, at the same time acknowledging the importance of French and the multicultural dimension of the country. In the course we will read Hugh MacLennan?s novel Two Solitudes (1945) and short texts by Susanna Moodie, Martha Ostenso, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Robert Kroetsch and Douglas Cardinal & Jeannette Armstrong (distributed as photocopies). In addition, we will watch Atom Egoyan?s film Exotica (1994). The reading materials of the course will be provided in photocopies except MacLennan?s novel of which you are expected to purchase your own copy available at the university bookstore. For further information, contact M. Savolainen (English Philology B 5046 or email matti.savolainen@uta.fi).

Assessment: group giscussion, introduction to an assigned topic in class, lecture diary.

Enrolment is restricted to fourteen (10 students of English philology & four of the NAM program).

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

•    Mon 12-14 B5078 (Piipponen)

In this course, we will firstly examine the stereotypes and representations of the Chinese and Chinese Americans in the United States. These stereotypes of the Chinese -- and Asian Americans in general -- range from the figure of the Yellow Peril to the Dragon Lady and the model minority. Secondly, we will read texts by Chinese American writers and analyze how they perceive such issues as ethnic origin, assimilation, cultural heritage, gender, and so on. These texts include, for instance, stories by Sui Sin Far, Jade Snow Wong, Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, David Wong Louie, Gish Jen and David Henry Hwang as well as early Angel Island poems by Chinese immigrants.

Assessment: essay and class contribution

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

•     Thu 12-14 A21 (PIIPPONEN) starting Sept 9th

In this course we will examine the question of murder and representation, with a special focus on gender issues. We will concentrate on one type of murder, serial murder, as a cultural narrative from the end of the 19th century to the present. During this course we will analyze the cultural imagery and social contexts of serial killing in Britain and the United States. In particular, we will try to answer this question: how are gender and "normalcy" constructed through murder narratives, deviation, and crime? We will start with the case of Jack the Ripper - the first "modern" serial killer - and his victims and move on to representations of male and female psychopaths and lesbian serial killing. We will explore such different genres as films and documentary programmes as well as texts written by FBI agents, serial killers and psychiatrists. We will also read three novels: Robert Bloch's Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho, and Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend.

Assessment: essay and class contribution.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

   Thu 14-16 B5077 (ROBERTSON) starting Sept 9th

The Historical Novel is arguably the most popular genre among ordinary readers in the English-speaking world. It is mostly ignored by academics, partly because there is a huge amount of very second-rate writing in the bookshops. But not all Historical Fiction is made up of either ?bodice rippers? or ?sword and sorcery?. Many highly respected writers have either written at least one novel that might be regarded as Historical Fiction, or have made a whole career out of (Thomas Hardy, for example). The genre boundaries are flexible, but a text may be regarded as Historical Fiction if it is set in a time before the author?s birth, and attempts to recreate the life conditions and ways of thinking of people in the past.

In this course we will be reading mostly short texts by British authors. We will start with Sir Walter Scott, as his Waverley novels are generally agreed to be the beginning of the genre. We will be reading at least one novel, and watching at least one film. We will also be discussing a range of theoretical matters concerning history and textuality. The aim of the course is to provide students with some tools to examine Historical Fiction, enabling them to write an MA thesis within this area of interest.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

•    Wed 10-12  B3030 (KLEMOLA), starting Sept 8th.

This course starts with a discussion of the nature of variationist approaches to language. The methods of Labovian sociolinguistics, which form the backbone of most variationist approaches, will be discussed in some detail during the course. During the course we will also examine in detail the methods applied in some classic sociolinguistic, dialectological and historical studies. The course includes a discussion of the statistical methods used in variationist linguistics.

A reading list will be provided at the beginning of the course.

Course work includes weekly sessions, background reading, oral presentation in the class, and a final essay.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Fri 12-14 A3098 (RUDANKO), starting Sept 10th

The course explores selected clausal argument structure constructions in English, and the idea that they carry particular meanings as constructions. Constructions are viewed as ?form-meaning correspondences that exist independently of particular verbs? and in this framework ?constructions themselves carry meaning? (Adele Goldberg, 1995, Constructions, p. 1). The course begins with an introduction to basic assumptions and principles in the study of sentential complementation, including the postulation of understood subjects. It then turns to the discussion of selected constructions in English involving sentential complements, with a focus on their syntactic and semantic properties. These include to infinitives and -ing complements, including the transitive into -ing construction, as for instance in I talked him into playing one more game (COCA), and the transitive out of -ing construction, as in ... no one could talk Glenn Turner out of marrying her (COCA). Authentic data from large corpora, among them the BNC and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), are made use of in the course. The course is also meant to help participants with thesis projects in the area of the course.

The course is largely a lecture course, with a small number of homework assignments and readings. Course work includes regular attendance, class participation, a brief essay presented in class on an approved topic in the area of the course in the second half of the term, and a final exam.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Tue 14-16 B4118 (NORRI)

This option will present students with an extensive coverage of the different ways in which new words are formed in English. The course will begin by a survey of the basic concepts relating to word-formation and morphology (affix, derivation, root, base, lexeme, opaqueness, transparency etc.). We shall then move on to examine the many different processes by which new words are formed in English (e.g. derivation, compounding, blending, clipping, sound-symbolism). The course ends with two relatively recent ways of putting together new words (cut-down puns and knock-knock words).

Course work includes regular attendance of the weekly sessions, homework assignments (theory handouts and practical exercises relating to various aspects of word-formation), and an end-of-term examination.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Fri 10-12 B4118 (NORRI), starting Sept 10th

(Note: This course is not available to those who have done the Lexicology option offered in recent years)

The aim of the course is to give the participants an overall picture of the principles of the study of words. We shall begin by looking at the varieties of English (e.g. geographical, dialectal, social, formal, informal, slang, technical, pejorative) and how these are reflected on the level of vocabulary. The labelling of the different types of variety in dictionaries will also be discussed. After this, the course moves on to examine the main sources of English vocabulary (techniques of word-formation, foreign adoptions). Next, aspects of meaning will be addressed, including the ways in which the meanings of words change along dimensions such as gender (e.g. guy, certain articles of clothing) and pejoration (e.g. idiot, imbecile, moron). We shall finally discuss larger structures pertaining to the lexicon. These may be either paradigmatic relations (e.g. synonymy, polysemy, antonymy, lexical fields, lexical sets) or syntagmatic ones (e.g. collocations).

Course work includes regular attendance of the weekly sessions, homework assignments (practical exercises relating to various aspects of vocabulary), and an essay on a specific topic relating to the study of words.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

•   Tue 14-16 B3030 (KLEMOLA)

This course will focus on the social aspects of language variation. The first half of the course will be devoted to a detailed discussion of some of the central issues in so-called Labovian sociolinguistics/microsociolinguistics. During the second half of the course the focus will be on a number of sociolinguistic topics including language and ethnicity, language, sex, and gender, language contact and language change.

A reading list will be provided at the beginning of the course.

Course work includes weekly sessions, background reading, oral presentation in the class, and a final essay.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

•    Thu 12-14 C1 (PAHTA) CANCELLED

This course will not be held this academic year.

•    Thu 12-16 C1 (PAHTA), starting Sept 9th

Note that class sessions for this course will all be held in September.

The course considers the challenges that language variation poses for language teaching. It is specially designed for future professionals in language learning and teaching, and offers suggestions and support for pro gradu research in this area, but it is useful for any students interested in language variation. The course reviews some of the many dimensions along which a language can vary, such as mode and register (spoken and written language, formal and informal styles), domain (special languages), social class, gender (men's and women's language) and geographical region (Englishes), and the ways in which these dimensions are and can be taken into account in the classroom. .The course includes lectures and discussions of different dimensions of language variation, background reading, and a small-scale project and its written report.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

Periods I-IV, every other week.

1. Mon 18-20, starting 6.9 B5077 (ROBERTSON) literature: Early Modern, 18th century, 19th century British, Romantic and Victorian.
2. Tue 18-20, starting 7.9 A2093 (RUDANKO), corpus-based approaches to the study of British and American English
3. Wed 16-18, starting 1.9 B5077 (KLEMOLA), linguistics, esp. language variation and change
4. Wed 16-18, starting 8.9 B5077 (PAHTA), analyzing language in context, text and discourse studies, applied linguistics, language teaching
5. Wed 16-18, starting 8.9 B4119 (SAVOLAINEN) literature:  esp.19th century American, 20th century British and American

Please enrol by contacting the teacher concerned before the course begins. For further information, see the English Department pages.

Small group practice for exchange students.

The course is aimed at exchange students and held in parallel with the ENGFA2D New Literatures course. Students are required to attend the ENGFA2D New Literatures lectures and the ENGFA2DX New Literatures tutorial. Some study materials differ from ENGFA2D. Evaluation is based on class participation and a short written assignment.

Practice in small groups (28hours):

1. Mon 10-12 B3110 (COOPER) starting 6.9.
2. Tue 14-16 B3108 (METSÄ-KETELÄ) starting 7.9.

NettiOpsu

Small group practice for exchange students.

Groups:

1. Tue 9-10 B4116 (COOPER) starting 7.9.
2. Tue 17-18 B3111 (GURNEY) starting 7.9.
3. Wed 14-15 C5 (GURNEY) starting 15.9.

NettiOpsu

Tutorials (starting 6.9.2009):

1. Mon 12-14 B4125 (COOPER)
2. Tue 8-10 B4125 (GURNEY)
3. Tue 10-12 B4125 (GURNEY)
4. Wed 14-16 B4125 (COOPER) Note: 8.9: Wed 12-14!
5. Wed 16-18 B4125 (GURNEY)
6. Thu 10-12 B4125 (COOPER)

NettiOpsu

Lectures (starting 6.9.2010):

• Mon 16-17  B1097 (ROBERTSON, PIIPPONEN).

Tutorials (starting 7.9.2010):

1. Tue 10-11 B3112 (ROBERTSON)
2. Tue 11-12 B3112 (PIIPPONEN)
3. Tue 16-17 A3098 (PIIPPONEN)
4. Wed 15-16 B0039 (PIIPPONEN)
5. Wed 16-17 B4118 (PIIPPONEN)
6. Thu 12-13 B3030 (ROBERTSON)
7. Thu 13-14 B3030 (ROBERTSON)

NettiOpsu

Lectures (starting Sept 2nd):

• Thu 14-15 Paavo Koli auditorium (GURNEY) 

Tutorials (starting Sept 7th)

1. Tue 10-11 C3 (NORRI)
2. Tue 11-12 C3 (NORRI)
3. Tue 16-17 B3108 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
4. Wed  10-11 B4118 (GURNEY)
5. Wed 11-12 B4118 (GURNEY)
6. Thu 12-13 B5078 (COOPER)
7. Thu 13-14 B5078 (COOPER)

NettiOpsu

Lectures (starting 6.9.2010):

• Mon 15-16 B1097 (ROBERTSON, SALMELA)

Tutorials (starting 7.9.2010):

1. Tue 10-11 B4119 (SALMELA)
2. Tue 11-12 B4119 (SALMELA)
3. Wed 9-10 A3098 (SALMELA)
4. Wed 10-11 A3098 (SALMELA)
5. Wed 11-12 A3098 (ROBERTSON)
6. Wed 16-17  B4117 (ROBERTSON)
7. Wed 16-17  B3030 (SALMELA)

NettiOpsu

2 hours (lecture + tutorial) for ten weeks, starting 6.9.2010

Lectures:

• Mon 14-15  B1097 (SAVOLAINEN)

Tutorials

1. Tue 14-15 A3098 (PIIPPONEN)
2. Tue 15-16 A3098 (PIIPPONEN)
3. Wed 17-18 B4118 (PIIPPONEN)
4. Thu 10-11 C3 (SALMELA)
5. Thu 11-12 C3 (SALMELA)
6. Thu 14-15 A21 (PIIPPONEN)

NettiOpsu

The course is aimed at exchange students and held in parallel with the ENGFA2D New Literatures course. Students are required to attend the ENGFA2D New Literatures lectures and the ENGFA2DX New Literatures tutorial. Some study materials differ from ENGFA2D. Evaluation is based on class participation and a short written assignment.

1. Mon 10-11 B4118 (NORRI) starting Sept 6th
2. Mon 11-12 B4118 (NORRI) starting Sept 6th
3. Wed 10-11 B3112 (COOPER) starting Sept 1st
4. Wed 11-12 B3112 (COOPER) starting Sept 1st
5. Wed 16-17 B3113 (METSÄ-KETELÄ) starting Sept 8th
6. Wed 17-18 B3113 (METSÄ-KETELÄ) starting Sept 8th
7. Thu 10-11 B4118 (GURNEY) starting Sept 2nd
8. Thu 11-12 B4118 (GURNEY) starting Sept 2nd

NettiOpsu

Tutorials:

1. Mon 10-11 A2093 (METSÄ-KETELÄ) starting Sept 6th
2. Mon 11-12 A2093 (METSÄ-KETELÄ) starting Sept 6th
3. Mon 12-13 A2093 (METSÄ-KETELÄ) starting Sept 6th
4. Mon 16-17 B4118 (NORRI) starting Sept 6th
5. Mon 17-18 B4118 (NORRI) starting Sept 6th
6. Thu 14-15 B4114 (NORRI) starting Sept 9th
7. Thu 15-16 B4114 (NORRI) starting Sept 9th

NettiOpsu

Tutorials (starting 6.9.2010):

1. Mon 12-14 A3098 (RUDANKO)
2. Tue 14-16 B3112 (COOPER)
3. Tue 14-16 B5077 (SALMELA)
4. Wed 14-16 B5077 (ROBERTSON)

Groups formed on the basis of applications in spring 2010.

Lectures (starting 7.9.2010):

• Tue 16-18 B4113 (ROBERTSON)

NettiOpsu

Fortnightly lectures (starting 7.9.2010):

• Tue 10-12  B3118 (SAVOLAINEN)

Tutorials (intervening weeks): 

1.  Mon 12-14 C1 (TOIKKANEN)
2.  Tue 10-12 B3118 (SAVOLAINEN)

The course will consist of seven lectures (for all participants), starting with a lecture on September 7th, plus six tutorials (2 groups) in the intervening weeks.

The aim is to learn to read theoretical texts, discover their line of argumentation, become aware of their omissions and see that the authors have produced their texts in a certain situation with particular goals in mind.

The course will consist of seven units:

1. Theory, Method, Ideology and New Criticism
2. Structuralism and Semiotics
3. Poststructuralism and Deconstruction
4. Marxism and New Historicism
5. Feminism, Gender and Sexuality
6. Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
7. Cultural Studies  

Each student is expected to purchase Peter Barry?s Beginning Theory, An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (2002; available at the university bookstore), which will provide preliminary reading for each lecture. In addition, theoretical texts will be provided for students as photocopies for the tutorials at the first lecture.

Assessment: Active participation, a presentation in the tutorials, plus a lecture diary.

Enrolment is restricted to 28 (2x14). Anyone not given a place but urgently needing one should contact Jarkko Toikkanen or Matti Savolainen directly to see what can be done.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

   Thu 12-14 A3098 (SAVOLAINEN) starting Sept 9th

The course provides a survey of Canadian Literature in English from the early years of settlement to the contemporary scene, at the same time acknowledging the importance of French and the multicultural dimension of the country. In the course we will read Hugh MacLennan?s novel Two Solitudes (1945) and short texts by Susanna Moodie, Martha Ostenso, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Robert Kroetsch and Douglas Cardinal & Jeannette Armstrong (distributed as photocopies). In addition, we will watch Atom Egoyan?s film Exotica (1994). The reading materials of the course will be provided in photocopies except MacLennan?s novel of which you are expected to purchase your own copy available at the university bookstore. For further information, contact M. Savolainen (English Philology B 5046 or email matti.savolainen@uta.fi).

Assessment: group giscussion, introduction to an assigned topic in class, lecture diary.

Enrolment is restricted to fourteen (10 students of English philology & four of the NAM program).

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

•    Mon 12-14 B5078 (Piipponen)

In this course, we will firstly examine the stereotypes and representations of the Chinese and Chinese Americans in the United States. These stereotypes of the Chinese -- and Asian Americans in general -- range from the figure of the Yellow Peril to the Dragon Lady and the model minority. Secondly, we will read texts by Chinese American writers and analyze how they perceive such issues as ethnic origin, assimilation, cultural heritage, gender, and so on. These texts include, for instance, stories by Sui Sin Far, Jade Snow Wong, Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, David Wong Louie, Gish Jen and David Henry Hwang as well as early Angel Island poems by Chinese immigrants.

Assessment: essay and class contribution

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

•     Thu 12-14 A21 (PIIPPONEN) starting Sept 9th

In this course we will examine the question of murder and representation, with a special focus on gender issues. We will concentrate on one type of murder, serial murder, as a cultural narrative from the end of the 19th century to the present. During this course we will analyze the cultural imagery and social contexts of serial killing in Britain and the United States. In particular, we will try to answer this question: how are gender and "normalcy" constructed through murder narratives, deviation, and crime? We will start with the case of Jack the Ripper - the first "modern" serial killer - and his victims and move on to representations of male and female psychopaths and lesbian serial killing. We will explore such different genres as films and documentary programmes as well as texts written by FBI agents, serial killers and psychiatrists. We will also read three novels: Robert Bloch's Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho, and Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend.

Assessment: essay and class contribution.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

   Thu 14-16 B5077 (ROBERTSON) starting Sept 9th

The Historical Novel is arguably the most popular genre among ordinary readers in the English-speaking world. It is mostly ignored by academics, partly because there is a huge amount of very second-rate writing in the bookshops. But not all Historical Fiction is made up of either ?bodice rippers? or ?sword and sorcery?. Many highly respected writers have either written at least one novel that might be regarded as Historical Fiction, or have made a whole career out of (Thomas Hardy, for example). The genre boundaries are flexible, but a text may be regarded as Historical Fiction if it is set in a time before the author?s birth, and attempts to recreate the life conditions and ways of thinking of people in the past.

In this course we will be reading mostly short texts by British authors. We will start with Sir Walter Scott, as his Waverley novels are generally agreed to be the beginning of the genre. We will be reading at least one novel, and watching at least one film. We will also be discussing a range of theoretical matters concerning history and textuality. The aim of the course is to provide students with some tools to examine Historical Fiction, enabling them to write an MA thesis within this area of interest.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

•    Wed 10-12  B3030 (KLEMOLA), starting Sept 8th.

This course starts with a discussion of the nature of variationist approaches to language. The methods of Labovian sociolinguistics, which form the backbone of most variationist approaches, will be discussed in some detail during the course. During the course we will also examine in detail the methods applied in some classic sociolinguistic, dialectological and historical studies. The course includes a discussion of the statistical methods used in variationist linguistics.

A reading list will be provided at the beginning of the course.

Course work includes weekly sessions, background reading, oral presentation in the class, and a final essay.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Fri 12-14 A3098 (RUDANKO), starting Sept 10th

The course explores selected clausal argument structure constructions in English, and the idea that they carry particular meanings as constructions. Constructions are viewed as ?form-meaning correspondences that exist independently of particular verbs? and in this framework ?constructions themselves carry meaning? (Adele Goldberg, 1995, Constructions, p. 1). The course begins with an introduction to basic assumptions and principles in the study of sentential complementation, including the postulation of understood subjects. It then turns to the discussion of selected constructions in English involving sentential complements, with a focus on their syntactic and semantic properties. These include to infinitives and -ing complements, including the transitive into -ing construction, as for instance in I talked him into playing one more game (COCA), and the transitive out of -ing construction, as in ... no one could talk Glenn Turner out of marrying her (COCA). Authentic data from large corpora, among them the BNC and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), are made use of in the course. The course is also meant to help participants with thesis projects in the area of the course.

The course is largely a lecture course, with a small number of homework assignments and readings. Course work includes regular attendance, class participation, a brief essay presented in class on an approved topic in the area of the course in the second half of the term, and a final exam.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Tue 14-16 B4118 (NORRI)

This option will present students with an extensive coverage of the different ways in which new words are formed in English. The course will begin by a survey of the basic concepts relating to word-formation and morphology (affix, derivation, root, base, lexeme, opaqueness, transparency etc.). We shall then move on to examine the many different processes by which new words are formed in English (e.g. derivation, compounding, blending, clipping, sound-symbolism). The course ends with two relatively recent ways of putting together new words (cut-down puns and knock-knock words).

Course work includes regular attendance of the weekly sessions, homework assignments (theory handouts and practical exercises relating to various aspects of word-formation), and an end-of-term examination.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Fri 10-12 B4118 (NORRI), starting Sept 10th

(Note: This course is not available to those who have done the Lexicology option offered in recent years)

The aim of the course is to give the participants an overall picture of the principles of the study of words. We shall begin by looking at the varieties of English (e.g. geographical, dialectal, social, formal, informal, slang, technical, pejorative) and how these are reflected on the level of vocabulary. The labelling of the different types of variety in dictionaries will also be discussed. After this, the course moves on to examine the main sources of English vocabulary (techniques of word-formation, foreign adoptions). Next, aspects of meaning will be addressed, including the ways in which the meanings of words change along dimensions such as gender (e.g. guy, certain articles of clothing) and pejoration (e.g. idiot, imbecile, moron). We shall finally discuss larger structures pertaining to the lexicon. These may be either paradigmatic relations (e.g. synonymy, polysemy, antonymy, lexical fields, lexical sets) or syntagmatic ones (e.g. collocations).

Course work includes regular attendance of the weekly sessions, homework assignments (practical exercises relating to various aspects of vocabulary), and an essay on a specific topic relating to the study of words.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

•   Tue 14-16 B3030 (KLEMOLA)

This course will focus on the social aspects of language variation. The first half of the course will be devoted to a detailed discussion of some of the central issues in so-called Labovian sociolinguistics/microsociolinguistics. During the second half of the course the focus will be on a number of sociolinguistic topics including language and ethnicity, language, sex, and gender, language contact and language change.

A reading list will be provided at the beginning of the course.

Course work includes weekly sessions, background reading, oral presentation in the class, and a final essay.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

•    Thu 12-14 C1 (PAHTA) CANCELLED

This course will not be held this academic year.

•    Thu 12-16 C1 (PAHTA), starting Sept 9th

Note that class sessions for this course will all be held in September.

The course considers the challenges that language variation poses for language teaching. It is specially designed for future professionals in language learning and teaching, and offers suggestions and support for pro gradu research in this area, but it is useful for any students interested in language variation. The course reviews some of the many dimensions along which a language can vary, such as mode and register (spoken and written language, formal and informal styles), domain (special languages), social class, gender (men's and women's language) and geographical region (Englishes), and the ways in which these dimensions are and can be taken into account in the classroom. .The course includes lectures and discussions of different dimensions of language variation, background reading, and a small-scale project and its written report.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

Periods I-IV, every other week.

1. Mon 18-20, starting 6.9 B5077 (ROBERTSON) literature: Early Modern, 18th century, 19th century British, Romantic and Victorian.
2. Tue 18-20, starting 7.9 A2093 (RUDANKO), corpus-based approaches to the study of British and American English
3. Wed 16-18, starting 1.9 B5077 (KLEMOLA), linguistics, esp. language variation and change
4. Wed 16-18, starting 8.9 B5077 (PAHTA), analyzing language in context, text and discourse studies, applied linguistics, language teaching
5. Wed 16-18, starting 8.9 B4119 (SAVOLAINEN) literature:  esp.19th century American, 20th century British and American

Please enrol by contacting the teacher concerned before the course begins. For further information, see the English Department pages.

Small group practice for exchange students.

The course is aimed at exchange students and held in parallel with the ENGFA2D New Literatures course. Students are required to attend the ENGFA2D New Literatures lectures and the ENGFA2DX New Literatures tutorial. Some study materials differ from ENGFA2D. Evaluation is based on class participation and a short written assignment.

This course is organised into 4-5 modules, practising different areas. See the  notice board outside B5040 for details at the beginning of the spring term.

1. Tue 14-15 B3108 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
2. Tue 15-16 B3108 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)

Notice board outside B5040

Lectures (starting 10.1.2011):

• Mon 16-17 B1097 (ROBERTSON)

Tutorials

1. Tue 10-11 B3112 (ROBERTSON)
2. Tue 11-12 B3112 (ROBERTSON)
3. Tue 16-17 A3098 (ROBERTSON)
4. Wed 15-16 B0039 (ROBERTSON)
5. Wed 16-17 B4118 (ROBERTSON)
6. Thu 12-13 B3030 (ROBERTSON)
7. Thu 13-14 B3030 (ROBERTSON)

No separate enrolment. Groups formed in the autumn term for P2a American Literature I continue in the spring term. Students changing groups, or joining a group for the first time, please contact the teachers concerned directly.

Lectures (starting 13.1.2011):

• Thu 14-15 Paavo Koli auditorium (GURNEY) 

Tutorials (starting 11.1.2011):

1. Tue 10-11 C3 (NORRI)
2. Tue 10-11 C3 (NORRI)
3. Tue 16-17  B3108 (GURNEY)
4. Wed 10-11 B4118 (GURNEY)
5. Wed 11-12  B4118 (GURNEY)
6. Thu 12-13  B5078 (COOPER)
7. Thu 13-14  B5078 (COOPER)

No separate enrolment. Groups formed in the autumn term for P3a Structure of English I will continue in the spring. Students changing groups, or joining a group for the first time, should contact the teachers concerned directly.

Tutorials (starting 10.1.2011):

1. Mon 10-11  A2093 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
2. Mon 11-12  A2093 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
3. Mon 12-13  A2093 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
4. Thu 10-11  B3113 (NORRI)
5. Thu 11-12  B3113 (NORRI)
6. Fri 10-11 B4118 (NORRI)
7. Fri 11-12 B4118 (NORRI)

NettiOpsu

1. (F-E translation) Tue 9-10 B4116 (COOPER)
2. (F-E translation) Tue 17-18 B3111 (GURNEY)
3. (F-E translation) Wed 14-15 C5 (GURNEY)

Alternative course of writing assignments not offered spring 2011

NettiOpsu

Language laboratory exercises (28 hours):

1. Mon 12-14 B4125 (COOPER)
2. Tue 8-10 B4125 (GURNEY)
3. Tue 10-12 B4125 (GURNEY)
4. Wed 14-16 B4125 (COOPER)
5. Wed 16-18 B4125 (GURNEY)
6. Thu 10-12 B4125 (COOPER)

No separate enrolment. Groups formed in the autumn term for P1b Phonetics and Pronunciation will continue in the spring term. Students changing groups, or joining the group for the first time, should contact the teachers concerned directly.

Lectures (starting 10.1.2011):

• Mon 15-16 B1097 (PIIPPONEN, SALMELA)

Tutorials (starting 11.1.2010):

1. Tue 10-11 B4119 (PIIPPONEN) Ryhmä peruttu!
2. Tue 11-12 B4119 (PIIPPONEN)
3. Wed 9-10 B5077 (SALMELA)
4. Wed 10-11 B5077 (SALMELA)
5. Wed 11-12 B5077 (SALMELA)
6. Wed 16-17 B4117 (PIIPPONEN)
7. Wed 16-17  B3030 (SALMELA)

No separate enrolment. Groups formed in the autumn term for A2a British Literature II continue in the spring term. Students changing groups, or joining a group for the first time, please contact the teachers concerned directly.

2 hours per week, lecture plus tutorial.

Lectures (starting 10.1.2011):

• Mon 14-15  B1097 (SALMELA, PIIPPONEN)

Tutorials (starting 12.1.2011):

1. Wed 14-15 B3113 (SALMELA)
2. Wed 15-16 B3113 (PIIPPONEN)
3. Wed 17-18 B4118 (PIIPPONEN)
4. Thu 10-11 B4119 (SALMELA)
5. Thu 11-12 B4119 (SALMELA)
6. Thu 12-13  B4119 (PIIPPONEN)
7. Thu 13-14 A21 (PIIPPONEN)

NettiOpsu

Tutorials:

1. Mon 10-11 B4118 (NORRI)
2. Mon 11-12 B4118 (NORRI)
3. Wed 10-11 B3112 (COOPER)
4. Wed 11-12 B3112 (COOPER)
5. Wed 16-17 B3113 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
6. Wed 17-18 B3113 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
7. Thu 10-11 B4118 (GURNEY)
8. Thu 11-12 B4118 (GURNEY)

No separate enrolment. Groups formed in the autumn term for A3a Structure of English III continue in the spring term. Students changing groups, or joining a group for the first time: please contact the teachers concerned directly.

Periods III-IV, 1 hour per week

Tutorials:

1. Mon 16-17 B4118 (NORRI)
2. Mon 17-18 B4118 (NORRI)
3. Mon 17-18 B5077 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
4. Wed 14-15 A3098 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
5. Thu 10-11 B3112 (KLEMOLA)
6. Thu 11-12 B3112 (KLEMOLA))
7. Thu 14-15 B4114 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)

NettiOpsu

Periods III-IV.  2 hours per week

5. Tue 14-16 A3098 (PIIPPONEN)

6. Wed 14-16 B3112 (PAHTA)

(Groups 1-4 held in autumn 2010.)

Groups formed on the basis of applications in spring 2009.

Periods III-IV. Lectures,  3 hours per week

Tue 16-18 A1081 and Thu 15-16 B1096 (NORRI)

NettiOpsu

• Tue 10-12 B5077 (SAVOLAINEN) 

The course will expand and sharpen our understanding of Anglo-American Modernism with some points of contact to Continental developments of the period. Also the question of non-Western aspects of Modernism will be broached. We will be reading theoretical and fictional texts by T.S.Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, Djuna Barnes, Jean Toomer, William Faulkner, D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. We will listen to the music of Igor Stravinsky and Benjamin Britten and watch two films: Sally Potter's Orlando (1992) and Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949). The longer texts to be analysed in class are Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Djuna Barnes' Nightwood, and William Faulkner's Pylon (each student should purchase copies of these books; to be available at the university bookstore). The emphasis will be on prose, with a few sidesteps to The War Poets.

Enrolment is restricted to twelve.

Assessment: group participation, presentation in class, essay of 10-12 pages.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Thu 12-14 A3098 (SAVOLAINEN)

The course provides a survey of Anglo-American science fiction within the framework of the general development of the genre since Mary Shelley, Jules Verne and H. G. Wells to the Cyberpunk of the 1980s and beyond. The topics to be introduced include the idea of estrangement, the relationship between utopias/dystopias and science fiction, and the interconnections of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream literature. We will be reading short texts by C. L. Moore, Aisaac Asimov, Ursula Le Guin, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson, among others. In addition we will watch Fritz Lang?s Metropolis (1926) and Ridley Scott?s Blade Runner (1982).

Assessment: group participation, presentation in class, essay of 10-12 pages.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Tue 14-16  B5077 (SALMELA)

This course concentrates on the significance of settings in fiction, and on how descriptions of landscape (or cityscape) influence the thematic structure of texts. We will be considering the aesthetics of different kinds of landscapes, analyzing their social and psychological effects through their literary depictions. We will also be touching on various theoretical approaches, including ecocriticism, and using some concepts from spatial theory and cultural geography to make sense of categories such as travel writing and urban fiction. The texts will cover a wide range of historical circumstances and geographical locations. The course aims at suggesting, among other things, that descriptions of setting can be just as important in literature as the events narrated.

Assessment: course diary and class contribution

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Mon 12-14 B5078 (PIIPPONEN)

In this course we will trace the development of detective fiction from the end of the 19th century to the present. We will specifically examine how detective fiction represents and constructs gender, class and ethnicity. For example, we will analyse how Arthur Conan Doyle?s detective Sherlock Holmes protects the empire against foreign influence, and how African-American writers (e.g. Pauline Hopkins, Barbara Neely, Walter Mosley) discuss race and crime in their fictions. Further, we will examine how the feminist movement has influenced the field of crime writing -- how it introduced new themes into the genre, such as child abuse, sexism, and racism.

Assessment: essay and class contribution.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Thu 16-18 B5077 (ROBERTSON)

Children's literature is not simple or simplified. It is not easier to examine than adult literature. The first part of this course will be an introduction to the theory of children's literature, illustrated from various works of children's literature, both classics and less familiar ones. Questions we will be asking include: what is a child? What is childhood? How does this text contribute to the development of the child? Is a child reader different from an adult reader? What is a good children's book? Is it different from a good adult's book? What part does intertextuality play in children's literature?

In the second part of the course, students may choose a work of children's literature written in English, and give a short presentation on it, discussing one or more aspects of the work with the help of a theoretical model.

Assessment will be on the basis of the presentation or a 10+ page paper, and class contribution.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Fri 8-11 (8.30-10.50) A3098 (RUDANKO)

The course starts with a discussion of how to motivate the postulation of grammatical constituents. The construction of linguistic hypotheses and generalizations to account for observed data is discussed and illustrated, using concrete examples from relatively recent work, including the X-bar level in English grammar. Electronic corpora are introduced and some of their possibilities explored. The course also includes a discussion of linguistic metatheory and the nature of data in linguistics. Throughout the course the focus is on the grammar of current English.

Course-work includes class participation, homework assignments, a brief paper presented in class, and a final exam.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Thu 12-14 B3112 (PAHTA)

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Fri 13-16 (13.15-15.35) A3098* (RUDANKO)

This course traces features of change and continuity in the core grammar of English from the eighteenth century to the present, with data drawn primarily from synchronic and diachronic computer corpora of English. The course focuses on complementation, but there are no formal prerequisites for attending.The option will offer suggestions on how to use computer corpora to write a pro gradu thesis on complementation.

Course-work includes class participation, homework assignments, a brief paper to be presented in class on complementation or another approved aspect of English grammar, and a final exam.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Tue 14-16 B3030 (KLEMOLA)

Most people in the world speak two or more languages. Language contact is thus a ubiquitous phenomenon which entails a wide range of social, political and linguistic consequences. This course provides a survey of language contact phenomena, focusing on contact-induced changes in varieties of English. Topics to be discussed during the course include Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Code-Switching, Contact-Induced Language Change, Second Language Acquisition and Language Shift, Language Death, Pidgins and Creoles.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

Periods I-IV, every other week.

1. Mon 18-20, starting 6.9 B5077 (ROBERTSON) literature: Early Modern, 18th century, 19th century British, Romantic and Victorian.
2. Tue 18-20, starting 7.9 A2093 (RUDANKO), corpus-based approaches to the study of British and American English
3. Wed 16-18, starting 1.9 B5077 (KLEMOLA), linguistics, esp. language variation and change
4. Wed 16-18, starting 8.9 B5077 (PAHTA), analyzing language in context, text and discourse studies, applied linguistics, language teaching
5. Wed 16-18, starting 8.9 B4119 (SAVOLAINEN) literature:  esp.19th century American, 20th century British and American

Please enrol by contacting the teacher concerned before the course begins. For further information, see the English Department pages.

This course is organised into 4-5 modules, practising different areas. See the  notice board outside B5040 for details at the beginning of the spring term.

1. Tue 14-15 B3108 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
2. Tue 15-16 B3108 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)

Notice board outside B5040

Lectures (starting 10.1.2011):

• Mon 16-17 B1097 (ROBERTSON)

Tutorials

1. Tue 10-11 B3112 (ROBERTSON)
2. Tue 11-12 B3112 (ROBERTSON)
3. Tue 16-17 A3098 (ROBERTSON)
4. Wed 15-16 B0039 (ROBERTSON)
5. Wed 16-17 B4118 (ROBERTSON)
6. Thu 12-13 B3030 (ROBERTSON)
7. Thu 13-14 B3030 (ROBERTSON)

No separate enrolment. Groups formed in the autumn term for P2a American Literature I continue in the spring term. Students changing groups, or joining a group for the first time, please contact the teachers concerned directly.

Lectures (starting 13.1.2011):

• Thu 14-15 Paavo Koli auditorium (GURNEY) 

Tutorials (starting 11.1.2011):

1. Tue 10-11 C3 (NORRI)
2. Tue 10-11 C3 (NORRI)
3. Tue 16-17  B3108 (GURNEY)
4. Wed 10-11 B4118 (GURNEY)
5. Wed 11-12  B4118 (GURNEY)
6. Thu 12-13  B5078 (COOPER)
7. Thu 13-14  B5078 (COOPER)

No separate enrolment. Groups formed in the autumn term for P3a Structure of English I will continue in the spring. Students changing groups, or joining a group for the first time, should contact the teachers concerned directly.

Tutorials (starting 10.1.2011):

1. Mon 10-11  A2093 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
2. Mon 11-12  A2093 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
3. Mon 12-13  A2093 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
4. Thu 10-11  B3113 (NORRI)
5. Thu 11-12  B3113 (NORRI)
6. Fri 10-11 B4118 (NORRI)
7. Fri 11-12 B4118 (NORRI)

NettiOpsu

1. (F-E translation) Tue 9-10 B4116 (COOPER)
2. (F-E translation) Tue 17-18 B3111 (GURNEY)
3. (F-E translation) Wed 14-15 C5 (GURNEY)

Alternative course of writing assignments not offered spring 2011

NettiOpsu

Language laboratory exercises (28 hours):

1. Mon 12-14 B4125 (COOPER)
2. Tue 8-10 B4125 (GURNEY)
3. Tue 10-12 B4125 (GURNEY)
4. Wed 14-16 B4125 (COOPER)
5. Wed 16-18 B4125 (GURNEY)
6. Thu 10-12 B4125 (COOPER)

No separate enrolment. Groups formed in the autumn term for P1b Phonetics and Pronunciation will continue in the spring term. Students changing groups, or joining the group for the first time, should contact the teachers concerned directly.

Lectures (starting 10.1.2011):

• Mon 15-16 B1097 (PIIPPONEN, SALMELA)

Tutorials (starting 11.1.2010):

1. Tue 10-11 B4119 (PIIPPONEN) Ryhmä peruttu!
2. Tue 11-12 B4119 (PIIPPONEN)
3. Wed 9-10 B5077 (SALMELA)
4. Wed 10-11 B5077 (SALMELA)
5. Wed 11-12 B5077 (SALMELA)
6. Wed 16-17 B4117 (PIIPPONEN)
7. Wed 16-17  B3030 (SALMELA)

No separate enrolment. Groups formed in the autumn term for A2a British Literature II continue in the spring term. Students changing groups, or joining a group for the first time, please contact the teachers concerned directly.

2 hours per week, lecture plus tutorial.

Lectures (starting 10.1.2011):

• Mon 14-15  B1097 (SALMELA, PIIPPONEN)

Tutorials (starting 12.1.2011):

1. Wed 14-15 B3113 (SALMELA)
2. Wed 15-16 B3113 (PIIPPONEN)
3. Wed 17-18 B4118 (PIIPPONEN)
4. Thu 10-11 B4119 (SALMELA)
5. Thu 11-12 B4119 (SALMELA)
6. Thu 12-13  B4119 (PIIPPONEN)
7. Thu 13-14 A21 (PIIPPONEN)

NettiOpsu

Tutorials:

1. Mon 10-11 B4118 (NORRI)
2. Mon 11-12 B4118 (NORRI)
3. Wed 10-11 B3112 (COOPER)
4. Wed 11-12 B3112 (COOPER)
5. Wed 16-17 B3113 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
6. Wed 17-18 B3113 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
7. Thu 10-11 B4118 (GURNEY)
8. Thu 11-12 B4118 (GURNEY)

No separate enrolment. Groups formed in the autumn term for A3a Structure of English III continue in the spring term. Students changing groups, or joining a group for the first time: please contact the teachers concerned directly.

Periods III-IV, 1 hour per week

Tutorials:

1. Mon 16-17 B4118 (NORRI)
2. Mon 17-18 B4118 (NORRI)
3. Mon 17-18 B5077 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
4. Wed 14-15 A3098 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)
5. Thu 10-11 B3112 (KLEMOLA)
6. Thu 11-12 B3112 (KLEMOLA))
7. Thu 14-15 B4114 (METSÄ-KETELÄ)

NettiOpsu

Periods III-IV.  2 hours per week

5. Tue 14-16 A3098 (PIIPPONEN)

6. Wed 14-16 B3112 (PAHTA)

(Groups 1-4 held in autumn 2010.)

Groups formed on the basis of applications in spring 2009.

Periods III-IV. Lectures,  3 hours per week

Tue 16-18 A1081 and Thu 15-16 B1096 (NORRI)

NettiOpsu

• Tue 10-12 B5077 (SAVOLAINEN) 

The course will expand and sharpen our understanding of Anglo-American Modernism with some points of contact to Continental developments of the period. Also the question of non-Western aspects of Modernism will be broached. We will be reading theoretical and fictional texts by T.S.Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, Djuna Barnes, Jean Toomer, William Faulkner, D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. We will listen to the music of Igor Stravinsky and Benjamin Britten and watch two films: Sally Potter's Orlando (1992) and Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949). The longer texts to be analysed in class are Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Djuna Barnes' Nightwood, and William Faulkner's Pylon (each student should purchase copies of these books; to be available at the university bookstore). The emphasis will be on prose, with a few sidesteps to The War Poets.

Enrolment is restricted to twelve.

Assessment: group participation, presentation in class, essay of 10-12 pages.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Thu 12-14 A3098 (SAVOLAINEN)

The course provides a survey of Anglo-American science fiction within the framework of the general development of the genre since Mary Shelley, Jules Verne and H. G. Wells to the Cyberpunk of the 1980s and beyond. The topics to be introduced include the idea of estrangement, the relationship between utopias/dystopias and science fiction, and the interconnections of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream literature. We will be reading short texts by C. L. Moore, Aisaac Asimov, Ursula Le Guin, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson, among others. In addition we will watch Fritz Lang?s Metropolis (1926) and Ridley Scott?s Blade Runner (1982).

Assessment: group participation, presentation in class, essay of 10-12 pages.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Tue 14-16  B5077 (SALMELA)

This course concentrates on the significance of settings in fiction, and on how descriptions of landscape (or cityscape) influence the thematic structure of texts. We will be considering the aesthetics of different kinds of landscapes, analyzing their social and psychological effects through their literary depictions. We will also be touching on various theoretical approaches, including ecocriticism, and using some concepts from spatial theory and cultural geography to make sense of categories such as travel writing and urban fiction. The texts will cover a wide range of historical circumstances and geographical locations. The course aims at suggesting, among other things, that descriptions of setting can be just as important in literature as the events narrated.

Assessment: course diary and class contribution

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Mon 12-14 B5078 (PIIPPONEN)

In this course we will trace the development of detective fiction from the end of the 19th century to the present. We will specifically examine how detective fiction represents and constructs gender, class and ethnicity. For example, we will analyse how Arthur Conan Doyle?s detective Sherlock Holmes protects the empire against foreign influence, and how African-American writers (e.g. Pauline Hopkins, Barbara Neely, Walter Mosley) discuss race and crime in their fictions. Further, we will examine how the feminist movement has influenced the field of crime writing -- how it introduced new themes into the genre, such as child abuse, sexism, and racism.

Assessment: essay and class contribution.

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kielet/engf/studies/options/index.html

• Thu 16-18 B5077 (ROBERTSON)

Children's literature is not simple or simplified. It is not easier to examine than adult literature. The first part of this course will be an introduction to the theory of children's literature, illustrated from various works of children's literature, both classics and less familiar ones. Questions we will be asking include: what is a child? What is childhood? How does this text contribute to the development of the child? Is a child reader different from an adult reader? What is a good children's book? Is it different from a good adult's book? What part does intertextuality play in children's literature?

In the second part of the course, students may choose a work of children's literature written in English, and give a short presentation on it, discussing one or more aspects of the work with the help of a theoretical model.

Assessment will be on the basis of the presentation or a 10+ page paper, and class contribution.

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• Fri 8-11 (8.30-10.50) A3098 (RUDANKO)

The course starts with a discussion of how to motivate the postulation of grammatical constituents. The construction of linguistic hypotheses and generalizations to account for observed data is discussed and illustrated, using concrete examples from relatively recent work, including the X-bar level in English grammar. Electronic corpora are introduced and some of their possibilities explored. The course also includes a discussion of linguistic metatheory and the nature of data in linguistics. Throughout the course the focus is on the grammar of current English.

Course-work includes class participation, homework assignments, a brief paper presented in class, and a final exam.

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• Thu 12-14 B3112 (PAHTA)

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• Fri 13-16 (13.15-15.35) A3098* (RUDANKO)

This course traces features of change and continuity in the core grammar of English from the eighteenth century to the present, with data drawn primarily from synchronic and diachronic computer corpora of English. The course focuses on complementation, but there are no formal prerequisites for attending.The option will offer suggestions on how to use computer corpora to write a pro gradu thesis on complementation.

Course-work includes class participation, homework assignments, a brief paper to be presented in class on complementation or another approved aspect of English grammar, and a final exam.

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• Tue 14-16 B3030 (KLEMOLA)

Most people in the world speak two or more languages. Language contact is thus a ubiquitous phenomenon which entails a wide range of social, political and linguistic consequences. This course provides a survey of language contact phenomena, focusing on contact-induced changes in varieties of English. Topics to be discussed during the course include Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Code-Switching, Contact-Induced Language Change, Second Language Acquisition and Language Shift, Language Death, Pidgins and Creoles.

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Periods I-IV, every other week.

1. Mon 18-20, starting 6.9 B5077 (ROBERTSON) literature: Early Modern, 18th century, 19th century British, Romantic and Victorian.
2. Tue 18-20, starting 7.9 A2093 (RUDANKO), corpus-based approaches to the study of British and American English
3. Wed 16-18, starting 1.9 B5077 (KLEMOLA), linguistics, esp. language variation and change
4. Wed 16-18, starting 8.9 B5077 (PAHTA), analyzing language in context, text and discourse studies, applied linguistics, language teaching
5. Wed 16-18, starting 8.9 B4119 (SAVOLAINEN) literature:  esp.19th century American, 20th century British and American

Please enrol by contacting the teacher concerned before the course begins. For further information, see the English Department pages.