Current courses are set in bold.
AN1000BA Skills Development - Reading and Speaking (first year - BA)
This seminar course is designed for first-year students with the aim to help them develop reading and speaking skills in English. At the end of the course students are expected to possess advanced reading skills, a proficiency essential for the pursuit of university studies in a foreign language. Apart from purpose-designed comprehension activities, authentic texts from a variety of sources will be used in order to help develop the following reading skills: reading for gist as well as for specific information; extracting main ideas from supporting details, distinguishing arguments for and against specific statements/points of views, inferring meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary items from context, understanding the structure of texts (discourse markers) and distinguishing facts from opinion.
AN12000BA British Civilization (first year - BA)
The course is designed to introduce students to certain important aspects of British civilization, that is, basic cultural phenomena including the political, legal, economic and welfare systems of Great Britain, its rich linguistic, ethnic and religious variety, its media institutions and links to the international community. At the same time, it aims to improve the students' language skills. The course book for the seminar is James O’Driscoll’s Britain.
AN22006BA – ANL22006BA - History of the British Isles (first year BA, part-time students)
The course offers a broad historical survey of the British Isles from prehistory to World War II. The examined millennia witnessed extraordinary alliance, tensions and transformations both among the people populating the Isles and in its relationship with continental Europe and the wider world. The course aims to address the social and political developments that resulted from population movements (Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans), religious transformation (Reformation, Puritanism), wars (threat of Spanish and French absolutism and later Napoleon; Germany and allies in the 20th century), the rise of the empire and the industrial revolution. The two main attainment targets of the course are (1) knowledge and understanding of British history, (2) interpretations of British history. The coursebook for the seminar is David McDowall The Illustrated History of Britain
AN20103BA Translating ESP II ( BA translation specialization – second year)
The course will address the central issues of translation studies including language and culture, decoding and recoding, problems of equivalence, loss and gain and the question of untranslatability through scripts of Hungarian feature films, popular television series and documentaries from the classical period to the present day.
AN32007BA 08 Topics in British Film History (third year - BA, British Studies track)
The primary goal of this course is to give an overview of the history of British cinema from the earliest attempts to the mid-50’s. Key areas include silent cinema, the institutional framework of production, distribution and exhibition, the American dominance, film acts, cinema in the service of the war effort, genuine British genres and their major representative. By the end of the course students are expected to relate critically to the films of the period examined and to analyse the relationship between cinema, entertainment, ideology and history. Films screened during the course include The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Thief of Bagdad, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and The Ladykillers.
AN32008BA06 - Topics in British Film History II (third year - BA, British Studies track)
This course continues to offer an overview and historical analysis of British cinema from the late-1950s to the present. Key areas include the British new wave, genre cinema (Hammer horror, war epics and historical films), cult films (depicting themes of youth culture and deviance), auterist (post)modernity and heritage cinema in the 1980s, the emergence of local and ethnic cinema. By the end of the course students are expected to relate critically to the films of the period examined and to analyse the relationship between cinema, entertainment, ideology and history. Films screened during the course include The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Get Carter, Made in Britain, Chariots of Fire, and Bhaji on the Beach.
AN37010BA – Verbal and Visual Communication (Business English specialization)
The aim of this course is to offer a comprehensive understanding how viewers construct a mental model of the fictional world on the basis of interpreting verbal and visual signifiers and their relationship. At the same time it aims to direct the students’ attention to the specific ways cinema makes use of verbal language, exemplified by (1) adaptation and the discursive transformations involved, (2) the study of film dialogue and monologue as a popular tool of characterisation, (3) the influence of generic conventions on language-use in cinema.
AN1160MA Teaching Literature (British Literature Post-1945) (second year - MA English Teacher Training programme)
The primary goal of this course is to offer students, as future teachers of English, selected topics in post-1945 British literature (short-story, novel and poetry) with special attention to topics secondary school students can relate to. The classes also introduce possible techniques of interpreting literary works and types of activities relevant to this objective. Works explored during the course include Animal Farm, Lord of Flies, Look Back in Anger.
AN2106MA 06 Parallel Lines and Cultural Studies Approaches in British and Hungarian Cinema (first/second year English Studies MA)
The course offers comparative readings into British and Hungarian cinema concentrating on topics around three fields of study – memory, space and identity – and using cultural studies as a tool of investigation. Classic and more recent films of the two cinemas will not only be used in the classes to explore simply the poetic qualities and narrative strategies of individual works but to engage in discussion with the realities, problems and agendas they address. In the classes we will discuss 18 films ()9 British and 9 Hungarian), amongst them are the following titles: The Golden Age, Snatch, Chariots of Fire, Kes, Dirty, Pretty Things, Az állampolgár, Iska’s Journey, ldren of Glory, Argo, The Bridge Man.