English

This course explores the basic principles of writing prose fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction using a mixture of reading, writing, peer appraisal, and group project work. Students learn to critique, review, and appraise written work, from creative and critical analysis perspectives, applied in both individual and group-focused settings. They gain greater proficiency and abilities in intensive, in-depth, and extensive creative writing and reading, and they extend their capacity for creative and critical self-reflection. Students develop abilities in independent analysis, judgment, critical evaluation, and thought, in conjunction with progressing redrafting, revision, research, and note-taking skills. They also develop technical writing skills, basic publishing and design skills, and facilitate greater understanding and knowledge of editorial and publishing processes, in particular proof-reading, copy-editing, and various aspects of typesetting, design, and layout.

This course is a study of the complexity of our body, and it provides students with an introduction to the key concepts and issues that are central to modern developmental biology. 

The course consists of an in-depth investigation of a topical area of scientific interest and activity within linguistics. A new and up-to-date theme is decided upon each time the course is run. Possible themes include the geometry of meaning, based on Gärdenfors' book by the same name; the phylogenetic analysis of language; grammaticalization; and color semantics. 

The course is given as an optional module within Linguistics C but may also be taken independently.

Islam has become the subject of public debates and discourses in the Western World as well as a core research topic within various disciplines in the social sciences. This course takes a closer look at Muslims and Islam in Europe and tries to analyze and discuss the present condition of Muslims living in Europe from a socio-anthropological perspective. In order to do so, Islam is first introduced from a general perspective; students also visit a representative mosque in Berlin. The first sessions of the course provide an overview of theories of cultural difference and secularism. Having this theoretical lens in mind, the following sessions look at various public discourses regarding Islam and Muslims in Europe. Here issues such as Muslim-state relations, gender, policies, and religious practices of Muslims in Europe are examined and accompanied by a critical analysis of certain public controversies concerning Islam.

This is an introductory course to business and business management and examines the logic behind how businesses currently respond to challenges in the environment. THIS IS THE SAME COURSE AS BUS A 46 BUT TAUGHT IN ENGLISH.

Fashion and textiles operate at the intersection of persons and society, and are the primary cultural signifiers of what sorts of people, individuals consider themselves to be. Fashion goods are the primary points of debates about unfolding values, aspirations, hierarchies, objections, new technologies, and ways of socializing. The course in equips students to understand the societal impact of emerging new technologies and new materials in the production and retailing of textile and fashion with an emphasis on modelling societal take-up via the unique method of anthropology, which provides a depth of focus on the human life cycle and unfolding biographical relations across many cultures.

This course takes a closer look at some of the historical developments that have shaped North American literature and culture, and have been shaped by them in turn. The course also addresses the question of how an understanding of history is informed by one's standpoint as well as social hierarchies more generally. Some of the topics the course discusses include the ongoing significance of settler colonialism; slavery and its afterlives; the American Revolution; the constitution of the United States; abolitionism; feminism; U.S. imperialism; the Civil Rights Movement, Indigenous rights movements; the Black Lives Matter movement; and the historical roots of the Trump presidency. The course foregrounds an understanding of ongoing historiographical debates and methods of interpreting primary sources.