Emil-Figge-Str. 50
44227 Dortmund
Phone: + 49 (0) 231-755 2911
Fax: + 49 (0) 231-755 5450
Anprechpartner:
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kramer
If what you expect to find in your ideal English department are grey-suited professors, dusty tomes stacked floor to ceiling, and seminars that instantly put you to sleep, don't come to Dortmund. After major restructurings in the mid-1990s and the implementation of innovative teaching programmes focused on British, Irish and American cultures, staff and students at Dortmund have adapted to the challenges of the new millennium.
Recent innovations include a timely and much needed programme in bilingual education, the opening-up of courses for future primary school teachers and a new Lehramtsprüfungsordnung for all future teachers.
Faculty-wide BA and MA programmes in cultural studies and applied linguistics are currently paving the way for a restructuring of the teacher-training system, which will soon be modelled on the BA/MA structures.
The long-standing inter-departmental cooperation between linguistics, didactics, cultural and literary studies is currently being broadened at faculty level into an interdisciplinary dialogue with colleagues in German, History and Journalism. All our students spend time abroad, either for study or teaching purposes, making sure that theory and practice never drift very far apart.
A flourishing video library, exchange programmes with Britain and the US and regular weekend seminars for intensive language training are just some of the varied activities on offer to students (who are, incidentally, reputed to celebrate the best parties in town).
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