BA Teacher Training Program: English
Program Information ♦ Exam Dates: Introduction to American Literary Studies; VO American Literature and Culture ♦ BA Thesis Guidelines
Program Information
Students of the BA Teacher Training Program: English obtain all necessary competencies to teach English at a Secondary School. It covers training in general education science, a pedagogical-practical training and a subject-specific and subject-didactic education in the the context of English and American Studies. For general information about the BA Teacher Training Program: English, please click here: BA Teacher Training Program
One important aspect of the BA Degree is the newly implemented Buddy-/Mentoring-Program. More information can be found here: Buddy-/Mentoring-Program
Exam Dates
VO Introduction to American Literary Studies
Dr. Matthias Klestil (WS 2024/2025)
Exam type: written exam (without materials), 90 min., on campus. Please register for the exam via LFU:online. More information will be provided in class, via email and in OLAT.
1st exam date
Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 3.30-5 p.m., HS 7
Registration: January 10-24, 2025 (via LFU:online)
2nd exam date
Thursday, March 6, 2025, time & room tba
Registration: February 17-March 3, 2025 (via LFU:online)
3rd exam date
Thursday, May 22, 2025, time & room tba
Registration: May 5-19, 2025 (via LFU:online)
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VO American Literature and Culture
A central part of this lecture is this reading list.
VO "American Literature and Culture: Survey of American Literature after 1900"
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mag. Christian Quendler (WS 2024/2025)
1st exam date (WS 2024/2025): 31st January 2025
Please register for the exam by submitting the form below by e-mail to amerikastudien@uibk.ac.at and cc to christian.quendler@uibk.ac.at along with your reading list, specifying which optional texts you choose.
Send your registration e-mail between January, 22nd , 2025 to January 29th, 2025 till 12 o'clock am.
2nd exam date (WS 2024/2025) March 7th, 2025
Please register for the exam by submitting the form below by e-mail to amerikastudien@uibk.ac.at and cc to christian.quendler@uibk.ac.at along with your reading list, specifying which optional texts you choose.
Send your registration e-mail between February 28th, 2025 to March 5th, 2025 till 12 o'clock am.
3rd exam date (WS 2024/2025): May 23rd, 2025
Please register for the exam by submitting the form below by e-mail to amerikastudien@uibk.ac.at and cc to christian.quendler@uibk.ac.at along with your reading list, specifying which optional texts you choose.
Send your registration e-mail between May 14th, 2025 and May 21st, 2025 till 12 o'clock am.
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VO "American Literature and Culture: "What Was American Literature?"
Michael Docherty, PhD, (SS 2024)
Further informations about the registration will be published in the lecture, by email and in OLAT.
1st exam date: June 26 and 27, 2024
Registration: June 5 until 19, 2024 (via LFU:online)
The second and third exam dates will be taken over by Cornelia Klecker.
Please sign up via LFU:online. You will be assigned a timeslot, which will be communicated to you by email after the deadline. If you have another exam that day, please provide the title of the course, the exact time, and the room of this exam in the comments section when you sign up. If possible, this will be taken into account when assigning the timeslot. Exam collisions communicated after the fact will not be considered.
2nd exam date: October 2, 2024
Registration: September 17–24, 2024
3rd exam date: November 20, 2024
Registration: November 5–12, 2024
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BA Thesis Guidelines
To complete the BA of the Teacher Training program, a bachelor's thesis must be written in each teaching subject and/or specialization. This means that, if one of your subjects is English, you need to write one BA thesis in English. This thesis is written as part of a course but nonetheless in addition to all the other course work and the course instructor is also your thesis supervisor.
Please note: It is important to ask the course instructors whether they can supervise your thesis. Ideally you should do this via email before the semester starts or, at the latest, during the first course session.
Courses
You can choose to write your BA thesis in one the following courses:
- PS American Literature
- PS Critical Area Studies: American Cultures
- PS Cultural Studies: American Cultures
- PS British and/or Postcolonial Literature
- PS Critical Area Studies: British and Anglophone Cultures
- PS Cultural Studies: British and Anglophone Cultures
- PS The Acquisition of English in a Multilingual Context
- PS Systemic and/or Applied English Linguistics
- PS Learning/Teaching Languages
- SE Learning/Teaching Languages
- VU Introduction to Testing and Assessing in Teaching Foreign Languages
- UE Language-Specific Course for Testing and Assessing English
- VU Selected Aspects for Advanced Study of the Introduction to Testing and Assessing in Foreign Language Teaching
Guidelines
A BA thesis is 20 to 27 pages (double-spaced, from "Introduction" to "Conclusion") in length and is equivalent to 5 ECTS-credits. Theses must be written in English and include the "Declaration of Academic Integrity" ("Eidesstattliche Erklärung)."
The thesis supervisor will assess your thesis according to the official criteria and submit a combined grade for your thesis and the course. Make sure to send the completed form "Proof of BA thesis" ("Nachweis über die BA-Arbeit") along with your thesis, which your thesis supervisor will submit to the 'Prüfungsreferat.'
The thesis has to have a cover page that includes the following information: student name, student registration number, name of the course instructor, course title, semester of course attendance, and date of submission.
For information regarding citation style, formatting, submission deadlines, and the like, contact your thesis supervisor and follow their instructions precisely.
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