Important information concerning the courses of the School of Humanities
Please note:
The list of courses and lectures below is only intended for students at the School of Humanities. Students from other schools can only register for courses from the University-wide electives.
To start the registration procedure please click on 'Details' behind the course title.
For further questions regarding all the courses offered by the School of Humanities,
please contact the departmental exchange coordinator:
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This introductory lecture is also open for interested master’s students participating in the ENGAGE.EU Online Exchange Initiative. Please note that you can only obtain 5 ECTS for this course.
W. Shaw: Business Ethics. 8. Auflage. Boston: Wadsworth 2013.
K. Homann/
Die Vorlesung führt ein in die wichtigsten Konzepte der Normativen Ethik (Utilitarismus;
Kontraktualismus; Kantianismus) und der Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik (Libertäre Ethik; Egalitarismus [Rawls]; Ökonomische Ethik [Homann]). Anhand einschlägiger
Fallstudien werden die Ansätze erprobt und kritisch diskutiert. Vertieft werden u. a.
folgende Themen: Markt und Wettbewerb; Shareholder vs. Stakeholder Value; kollektives Handeln und individuelle Verantwortung; Klimawandel; Downsizing; Sweatshops; manipulative Werbung.
This introductory lecture is also open for interested master’s students participating in the ENGAGE.EU Online Exchange Initiative. Please note that you can only obtain 5 ECTS for this course.
Term paper
The overarching aim of the course, therefore, is to develop skills and competences which facilitate an openness towards and understanding of other cultures in local as well as foreign contexts.
Please note: This course approaches the concept of Intercultural Communication from a Cultural Studies rather than a Business Studies perspective and is, therefore, not a class on Business Communication.You will revise and deepen your knowledge of linguistic core concepts at all levels of the linguistic hierarchy.
You will develop an understanding of the anatomical and neurocognitive basis of language comprehension in the brain.
You will get acquainted with paradigms and methods used by neurolinguists to measure language processing.
You will practice your skills in critical thinking, academic reading, writing, presenting and teamwork.
How does our brain make sense of language? Do we really use only the left hemisphere for language processing? And what happens if parts of the brain get damaged?
This course provides you with an introduction to neurolinguistics, the study of language in the brain. We will explore how we understand language from a neurocognitive perspective, discuss how our brain is prepared to process language at different levels of the linguistic hierarchy, and touch the question how language processing interacts with other cognitive domains.
You will revise and deepen your knowledge of linguistic core concepts in the area of sounds, words and sentences.
You will develop a basic understanding of the mechanisms and processes of language comprehension.
You will become familiar with a variety of experimental paradigms used by psycholinguists to study language perception.
You will gain experience with the different steps of experimental research.
You will practice your skills in critical thinking, academic reading, writing, presenting and teamwork.
How do we understand speech? What does it take to recognize a word? How do we process and interpret sentences? What is needed to process discourse?
This course provides you with an overview of the basic mechanisms of language comprehension. We will look at speech processing from sound to discourse level and investigate how processing is influenced by what we perceive, what we know and what we expect.
You will revise and deepen your knowledge of linguistic core concepts.
You will develop a basic understanding of the mechanisms and processes of second language acquisition, and how language learning may be supported by different types of input.
You will become familiar with a variety of empirical tools used by psycholinguists to study language acquisition.
You will practice the application of theoretical knowledge in project-based learning.
You will refine your skills in critical thinking, academic reading, writing, presenting and teamwork.
What does it take to learn a second language? Is there a best age for second language learning? How do first and second language acquisition differ?
This course provides you with an overview of the key topics in second language acquisition research. We will discuss how previous linguistic knowledge and the learning context shape language learning. We will learn how languages are organized in the multilingual mind, whether there is a sensitive period for language acquisition and how different teaching methods influence learning.