BA Syllabus For Fall 2010

General
Academic Writing
Gen, sem, 2-3, BAEN, BAAM,ENG, US
Bocsor Péter, Kovács Ágnes Zsófia, Péter Róbert, P. Balogh Andrea
Academic writing
The course aims to instruct students in the development and practice of writing
skills necessary for a successful completion of their academic papers and theses.
Students will be provided with samples of academic writing following the topics of
the course.
The lecture component of each class session will target the various aspects and
elements of the writing process as well as the structural organization of various
parts of papers. In the discussion component of each class students will analyze
and critique each other's work, while in the end of the class all students will
report on and summarize the main points of their discussions.
Throughout the term, students will be required to write and rewrite various short
texts, with the main assignment of the course being the rewriting of a term paper
according to the aspects of writing discussed in the course.
Language Courses
English Foundation 1
Lang, 1, sem, BAEN, BAAM, BAENmin, BAAMmin
Bajnóczi Beatrix, Curleyné Rónay Zsuzsanna, Curleyné Rónay Zsuzsanna, Doró
Katalin, Gombosné Haavisto Kirsi, Pálos Ildikó, Pálos Ildikó, Pálos Ildikó, Pálos
Ildikó, Szabó-Gilinger Eszter, Szabó-Gilinger Eszter
BAEN, BAAM, BAENmin, BAAMmin (English Foundation)
The aim of this two-term course is to give an overview of English grammar with
an emphasis on practical application. The course material covers word classes,
phrase structures, as well as sentence structures and functions. Topics discussed
include sentence types, simple, compound and complex sentences, the functions
and structures of phrases, as well as discourse functions sentences. By the end of
the course, the students are expected to know the basic grammar rules and to be
able to apply them in practice. The assessment is based on weekly quizzes,
midterm and final tests, and classroom participation.
Communication Skills
Doró Katalin, Jeremy Parrott, Jeremy Parrott, Thomas Williams, Thomas Williams,
BAEN, BAAM, BAENmin, BAAMmin (Language Class)
In this class, focus is laid on developing fluency and communicative skills to help
the students to become active participants in conversation and discussion in
English. Practice is given in the various ways in which a particular communicative
function can be realised to assist in making choices as to what one says and in
thinking about the appropriateness of how one says it. Personal experiences and
points of view are exchanged and topics are discussed. Structured
communication exercises may include extended situational responses, eliciting of
information, problem solving and short talks on prepared topics. Emphasis is laid
upon practising stress and intonation patterns, which are more directly related to
communicative functions than grammatical forms. Attention is also drawn to the
differences between spoken and written English. To be effective, the workshop
requires full participation of course members. Students will be expected to work
individually or in small groups in sharing their ideas during informal discussion or
in preparing various topics, which they will then present to the group as whole.
Communication Skills, British Culture

Lang, 1, sem, BAEN, BAENmin
Curleyné Rónay Zsuzsanna
BAEN, BAENmin (Language Class)
This Communication Skills class has a British Culture content. The aim of this
course is to acquaint the students with British institutions along with political and
social issues of the UK today. The students will present and discuss these topics
while voicing their own opinions and, if they wish, contrast them with the
Hungarian experience. They will also have the chance to practise their listening
and reading skills. Assessment will be based on the students` presentations, their
test results and class participation.
Reading Skills
Bajnóczi Beatrix, Bajnóczi Beatrix, Bajnóczi Beatrix, Gombosné Haavisto Kirsi,
Gombosné Haavisto Kirsi, Tápainé Balla Ágnes, Tápainé Balla Ágnes
The main aim of this course is to help the students to read more effectively by
developing the skills (extracting main ideas, reading for specific information,
understanding text organisation, linking ideas, skimming, scanning etc.) needed
for successful reading comprehension in an academic environment.
Use of English 1
Bajnóczi Beatrix, Curleyné Rónay Zsuzsanna, Pálos Ildikó, Jeremy Parrott, Jeremy
Parrott, Tápainé Balla Ágnes, Molnár Timea
The aim of this course is to provide practice in various fields of the English
language; to practise grammar phenomena especially difficult for a Hungarian
speaker; to practise the areas of language competence needed in the academic
environment; to help the students perform better at language competence tests;
to familiarise the students with the various types of tests and tasks used for the
assessment of English competence; to initialise and/or enhance systematic
vocabulary building; to make the students aware of different options made
possible by the economy of the language.
Writing Skills
Don Peckham, Szabó-Gilinger Eszter, Szabó-Gilinger Eszter, Thomas Williams,
Thomas Williams, Patrick Alexander
BAEN, BAAM, BAENmin, BAAMmin (Langauge Class)
This course will introduce students to the types of academic writing that they
may need to produce in their first and second years at the university. While
working on different genres and text types (description, report, exposition and
argumentation), the course will also focus on questions of usage, grammar and
basic organisational patterns. Students will be encouraged to take a process
approach to writing.
Academic Reading
Lang, 2-3, sem, BAEN, BAAM, ENG, US
Gombosné Haavisto Kirsi
BAEN, BAAM (Language Class/Any Course Seminar), ENG, US (Kiegészítő
törzsképzés)
The aim of this course is to help the students to develop techniques for dealing
with extended texts with particular reference to academic prose. Emphasis is
given to recognising aspects of text structure, to understanding lexis common to
academic prose, aspects of textual cohesion and coherence, and other linguistic
features typical of academic texts.
Essay Writing
Lang, 2-3, sem, BAAN, BAAM, ENG, US
Bukta Katalin, Patrick Alexander
törzsképzés)
The aim of the course is to help students improve their argumentative writing
skills. The course involves a lot of writing practice, assignments, vocabulary
building, and dictionary work with focus on structural questions, vocabulary use
and grammar. It also involves in-class writing assignments and tests.
Proficiency Practice
Lang, 2-3, sem, BAAN, BAAM, ENG, US
Curleyné Rónay Zsuzsanna, Thomas Williams
törzsképzés)
The aim of this course is to provide practice in various fields of the English
language at an advanced level; to practise the areas of language competence
needed in the academic environment; to help the students perform better at
different kinds of advanced level language; and to make the students aware of
different options made possible by the economy of the language.
Translation
Lang, 2–5, sem, ENG, US, BAEN, BAAM
Dudits András
ENG (kiegészítő törzsképzés/kiegészítő szakképzés, sem), US (kiegészítő
törzsképzés/kiegészítő szakképzés, sem), BAEN (any course, sem), BAAM (any
course, sem)
The purpose of the seminar is to develop the basic skills required for source text
comprehension and target text production within the framework of written
translation from English into Hungarian and Hungarian into English. Class
discussions will focus on the grammatical, lexical and pragmatic difficulties and
problems translators may encounter in translating between the two languages.
Students will be expected to translate texts of a general nature (i.e. non-technical
and non-literary) at home, with their work evaluated by the instructor and
analyzed in class. Grading will be based on the formative assessment of
translation assignments and class participation.
Interpreting 1 (Beginners)
Lang, 2–5, sem, ENG, US, BAEN, BAAM
Dudits András
ENG (kiegészítő törzsképzés /kiegészítő szakképzés, sem), US (kiegészítő
törzsképzés/ kiegészítő szakképzés, sem), BAEN (any course, sem), BAAM (any
course, sem)
The purpose of the seminar is to provide a general introduction to the principles

and practice of interpreting, focusing on the relevant cognitive operations and
practical techniques related to attention, source language comprehension,
interlingual transfer and target language expression. The development and
enhancement of the basic cognitive and presentation skills required for oral
mediation will be facilitated by the performance of simple tasks in consecutive,
liaison and simultaneous interpreting. Assessment will be formative in nature,
with grading based on class participation.
Presentation Techniques
Lang, 2-3, sem, BAEN, BAAM, ENG, US
Patrick Alexander
törzsképzés)
The aim of this course is to prepare students for the oral part of Academic English
2, where they will expected to present an argument and elaborate on it.
Therefore we shall examine the way we think about experiences and the way we
organise them for discourse, planned or unplanned, i.e. memorised speeches,
manuscript speeches and extemporaneous speeches. We shall look into the
structure of informative and argumentative discourse: the point, the pattern and
the detail and how to shape them to inform and motivate an audience, how to
achieve coherence and clarity.
Students will be expected to work actively in class and to prepare home

assignments. Based on work done in class, they will have to analyse discourse,
prepare their own delivery on different topics, perform in front of others, analyse
their own performance and that of others and be ready to improve on it. Grading
will be based on class participation and the quality of oral presentation.
Linguistics
Lectures
Introduction to Linguistics
Ling, lect, 1, BAEN, BAAM, BAENmin, BAAMmin, BAENlev, BAENminlev
Fenyvesi Anna
The course offers a general introduction to all major areas of theoretical and
applied linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, first
and second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and
psycholinguistics. The purpose of the course is to provide the student with a
basic knowledge of the fundamental principles and notions of linguistics, as well
as to introduce the most important methods of linguistic analysis.
Descriptive Grammar and the Syntax of English
Ling, lect, 2-3, BAEN, BAAM, BAENmin, BAAMmin, BAENlevv, BAENminlev,
Kenesei István
The course gives a survey of the major fields in the grammar of English: word
classes, syntactic constituents, construction types, clauses, as well as the
principles and conditions underlying syntactic operations. Topics include
descriptive analyses of the tense and auxiliary systems, determiners, finite and
nonfinite clause structures, and generative syntactic approaches to thematic
roles, arguments and adjuncts, and movement operations. On the basis of the
results of descriptive and generative linguistics, the course offers sound
foundations for any further study in English linguistics. Grading: written exam
Morphohonology of English
Ling, lect, survey, 2-3, BAEN, BAAM, BAENmin, BAAMmin, ENG, US
Polgárdi Krisztina
BAEN (linguistics survey, any course lecture), BAAM (linguistics survey, any
course lecture), BAENmin (linguistics survey, any course lecture), BAAMmin
(linguistics survey, any course lecture)
This course introduces students to the morphophonology of English, the area of

grammar where phonology and morphology interact. Phonological processes like
vowel shift or stress assignment will be examined in detail, where different types
of affixes show different behaviour. In the course of this, the main developments
of generative phonology (autosegmental, metrical and lexical phonology) will also
be introduced. Evaluation will be based on a written final exam.
Prerequisite: English Phonetics and Phonology lecture or Phonology and
Morphology lecture
Introduction to Historical Linguistics

Suszczyńska Małgorzata
BAEN, BAAM, BAENmin, BAAMmin, ENG, US (survey)
The course is designed to cover (1) historical linguistics with its scope, principles
and methods, including such topics as sound change and its types, analogy,
comparative method, comparative and internal reconstruction, and semantic
change, and (2) the history of the English language, with the focus on Old
English, Middle English Early Modern English and their grammatical systems, on
most important sound changes in English like vowel lengthenings and
shortenings, Great Vowel Shift and some consonantal changes and on the
development of grammatical categories. The course ends in a final written exam.
Introduction to Applied Linguistics

Don Peckham
BAEN (Linguistics Survey Course), BAAM (Linguistics Survey Course), BAENmin
(Linguistics Survey Course), BAAMmin (Linguistics Survey Course)
This lecture course introduces and surveys some of the basic issues and areas
which fall under the broad heading of "applied linguistics". Topics to be covered
include: foreign language learning and teaching, bilingual education,
sociolinguistics, world Englishes, language and the law, testing and research
methods. The course will look at applied linguistics not only from the “linguistics
applied” point of view, but will also present applied linguistics as a distinct
branch of linguistics.
Cross-cultural Pragmatics
Ling, lect, 2-5, BAEN, BAAM, ENG, US, BASpecTr, BASpecBus
BAEN (any course, lecture), BAAM (any course, lecture), ENG (Kiegészítő
törzsképzés, Kiegészítő nem nyelvi képzés, Kiegészítő szakképzés), US
(Kiegészítő törzsképzés, Kiegészítő nem nyelvi képzés, Kiegészítő szakképzés)
The course focuses on cross-cultural pragmatics, which deals with differences in

verbal behavior across languages and cultures, and on intercultural pragmatics,
which examines communication between speakers of different languages and
cultures. The course presents empirical research in both areas, reviews different
explanatory frameworks used to account for the observed differences, addresses
methodological issues and gives insight into applications of cross-cultural studies
in business communication. Grading will be based on participation, one in-class
presentation and a mid-term quiz. At the end of the course 2-3 year students will
be given a written home assignment while 4-5 year students will write a short
research paper.
Seminars
English in Europe (NEW)

Ling, sem, 2-3, BAEN, BAAM, ENG, US
Kalocsai Karolina
BAEN (any course, seminar), BAAM (any course, seminar)
In this course, the present status of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in Europe,
and the theoretical and practical consequences of its changing role will be
explored. After a general overview of the spread of English, and of some of the
tensions underneath the different views concerning its global spread, the focus
will be narrowed down to ELF, which is the majority English today. In the
exploration of the field, the following issues will be addressed: how the fact that
the majority of the interactions in English are between the non-native speakers
of the language impacts on our understanding of language, language variation
and change; ‘English or Englishes?’, ‘Whose English(es)?’, ‘What norms of
speaking?’, ‘Learner error or innovation?’ and ‘What norms for teaching?’ In the
practical component of the course, a fair amount of class time will be devoted to
the empirical analysis of naturally occurring ELF data collected by the
participants of the course, providing a chance to address and resolve some of the
problems that ELF researchers are challenged with when working on ‘real-life’
data. The overall aim of the course, therefore, is to develop an awareness of the
changing role of English, and to prepare the students interested in ‘Englishes’, or,
in ELF, for asking appropriate research questions set against an appropriate
theoretical background, and for making an insightful empirical investigation on
their own. Prerequisite: Introduction to sociolinguistics.
Topics:
Week 1 Introduction
Week 2 The spread of English in Europe: ENL, ESL, EFL, ELF
Week 3 The globalization of English: Different perspectives
Week 4 Early developments in ELF: The ‘interlanguage’ perspective
Week 5 ‘Current perspectives’ on ELF: Theoretical literature
Week 6 ‘Current perspectives’ on ELF: Research literature
Week 7 Latest developments in ELF: The communities-of-practice approach
Week 8 Implications for teaching
Week 9 Synthesis
Week 10 Workshop 1
Week 11 Workshop 2
Week 12 Presentation of individual projects
Grading
Classroom participation: 30%, Individual projects: 30%, Research paper: 40%
Classroom participation measures how prepared the students arrive for the class.
For maximum scores, they need to read the obligatory readings before each class
and be actively involved in the discussion of the papers in the class. The
requirement for the individual project is to come out with a meaningful research
question, apply it to any one data set collected by the participants of the course,
and present an initial data analysis. Finally, the requirement for the research
paper is to develop the initial data analyses into well-grounded research papers
based on empirical data.
Reading list
Ehrenreich, S. 2009. English as a lingua franca in multinational corporations –
Exploring business communities of practice. In: A. Mauranen and E. Ranta (eds.),
English as a lingua franca: Studies and findings. Newcastle upon Tyne:
Cambridge Scholars Press, 126–151.
House, J. 2003. English as a lingua franca: A threat to multilingualism? Journal of
Sociolinguistics, 7/4, 556─578.
Hülmbauer, C. 2007. ‘You moved, aren’t?’ − The relationship between
lexicogrammatical correctness and communicative effectiveness in English as a
lingua franca. Vienna English Working Papers 16/2, 3–35. Also available at:
http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/Views_0702.pdf.
Hülmbauer, C., H. Böhringer and B. Seidlhofer. 2008. Introducing English as a
lingua franca (ELF): Precursor and partner in international communication.
Synergies Europe 3, 25─36.
Jenkins, J. 2006. Current Perspectives on Teaching World Englishes and English as
a Lingua Franca. Tesol Quarterly 40/1, 157−181.
Jenkins, J. 2009. Who speaks English today? In: J. Jenkins. World Englishes: A
resource book for students. (2nd edition). London: Routledge, 15-24.
Kalocsai, K. 2009. Erasmus exchange students: A behind-the-scenes view into an
ELF community of practice. Apples – Journal of Applied Language Studies, 3/1, 24-
48.
Mauranen, A. 2006. Signalling and preventing misunderstanding in ELF
communication. International Journal of Sociology of Language, 177, 123−150.
Meierkord, C. 2002. ‘Language stripped bare’ or ‘linguistic masala’? Culture in
lingua franca conversation. In: K. Knapp and C. Meierkord (eds.) Lingua Franca
Communication. Frankfurst-am-Main: Peter Lang, 109–133.
Peckham, D., K. Kalocsai, E. Kovács and T. Sherman. Forthcoming. English and
Multilingualism, or English only in a Multilingual Europe? Mouton de Gruyter.
Phillipson, R. 2008. Lingua franca or lingua frankensteinia? English in European
integration and globalisation. World Englishes, 27/2, 250-284.
Seidlhofer, B. 2004. Research perspectives on teaching English as a lingua
franca. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 24, 209−239.
Seidlhofer, B. 2007. English as a lingua franca and communities of practice. In: S.
Volk-Birke and L. Julia (eds.) Anglistentag 2006 Halle Proceedings. Trier:
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. 307-318.
Trudgill, P. and J. Hannah. 2008. Standard English in the world In: P. Trudgill and
J. Hannah. International English (5th edition). London: Arnold, 1-14.
Doing sociolinguistics
Nagy Judit
BAEN (any course, seminar), BAAM (any course, seminar)
Doing sociolinguistics is a course which aims at giving both a practical and a

theoretical insight into the field of sociolinguistics. The course is designed for
those students who are considering sociolinguistics as a possible field for their
B.A. thesis. Therefore, drawing on the survey lecture course “Introduction to
sociolinguistics,” the course will focus on issues of current relevance and earlier
research as well. The course will not be the “classic” complementary seminar for
the lecture course, as the two will take two separate, though connected, paths
into sociolinguistics.
The course aims to develop a solid understanding of sociolinguistic notions
in context; to develop skills in reading articles in sociolinguistics; to enable
students to make independent sociolinguistic analysis and to encourage
reflection and individual research using quantitative and qualitative research
methodology.
In order to give students a more thorough theoretical background and a
chance to familiarize them with the basic questions that can be studied within
the scope of a B.A. thesis, five issues are selected from the course contents of
“Introduction to sociolinguistics,” and will be explored in detail, using various
resources and methodologies.
Accents of English
Polgárdi Krisztina
BAEN (any course, seminar), BAAM (any course, seminar), ENG (Kiegészítő
Which sequences rhyme and which puns work in a given accent and not in
another? Questions like these can be answered by investigating differences in
pronunciation between varieties (i.e. accents) of English. In this course the
phonetic and phonological aspects of both geographical and social variation will
be explored. We will study differences in vowel systems (the number and identity
of vowels, the significance of length vs. tenseness, the influence of /r/), the
distribution of /r/ (rhotic vs. non-rhotic accents, linking [r], intrusive [r]), lenition
of /t/, vocalisation of /l/, the distribution of the velar nasal. We will concentrate on
the following accents: Received Pronunciation (RP), General American, Scottish
English, Irish English and Cockney. Requirements: classroom test and home
paper, 4-5 year: longer home paper.
Prerequisite: English Phonetics and Phonology lecture or Phonology and
Morphology lecture
Conversation Analysis
Conversation analysis is a sub-field of pragmatics that focuses on the analysis of

recordings of spontaneous, face-to-face verbal interaction. The basis assumption
of CA is that ordinary talk produced in everyday situations of human interaction is
a highly organized, ordered phenomenon. The objective of CA is to illuminate the
nature of this orderliness by describing the tools social member use to sustain,
(re)create or alter interpersonal relationships and social order.
Grading will be based on participation, one in-class presentation and a
mid-term quiz. At the end of the course 2-3 year students will be given a written
home assignment while 4-5 year students will write a short research paper.
Speech act research across languages and discourses (NEW)

The course aims at presenting empirical research on speech acts, which has been
carried out in a number of fields, such as first and second language acquisition,
cross-cultural pragmatics, workplace discourse, public discourse and the analysis
of historical texts and records. The course offers an introduction to the basic
concepts of speech act theory and reviews various research methods that have
been applied in speech act research. The course requirements include regular
attendance, active participation in classroom discussions based on reading
assignments, and one in-class presentation. As the final course assignment the
students will write a short research paper on a topic related to the course
readings.
Topics:
1. Speech acts: basic concepts
2. Speech acts: research methods
3. Speech act research: compliments
4. Speech act research: refusals
5. Speech act research: requests
6. Speech act research: apologies
7. Speech acts acquisition by children
8. Speech acts and second language acquisition
9. Teaching speech acts
10.Face threatening acts in a workplace
11.Political discourse: public apologetic speech
12. Diachronic perspective: speech acts in witchcraft trial records
Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition
Don Peckham
This course will draw on the large amount of research which has been done in the
past few years on the acquisition of second language vocabulary. After looking
into current models of memory and the description of lexical knowledge, students
will investigate various topics including: the development of the bilingual lexicon,
psycholinguistic factors in vocabulary learning, case studies and empirical
research concerning acquisition of vocabulary, and pedagogical implications of
recent research. Note that although there are pedagogical implications to the
material and although second language learners are the subjects of the empirical
research, this is not a methodology course; a more theoretical approach will be
maintained throughout the course.
Introduction to Old English

Nagy Gergely
Knowing modern English, one could with relative ease read Shakespeare, Malory,
or even Chaucer; but one could not possibly read Beowulf or any text from the
earliest phase of the English language. This course aims to introduce students to
this earliest variety, taking as its basis (as is customary in learning Old English) a
9th-century West Saxon dialect, the language of King Alfred the Great and the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Situating English in the Germanic family, we will study
how Old English is spelled and pronounced, how its morphology and syntax are
different from either Middle or Modern English, and survey the system of Old
English verbs and their conjugations. The system of language that we learn will
be put to use in reading actual Old English texts: short and simplified at first, but
eventually getting to read shorter pieces of actual Anglo-Saxon poetry, thus
seeing some interesting peculiarities of the specifically poetic language.
Evaluation is based on homework assignments and class participation (20
%), a midterm (40 %) and a final test (40 %).
Language Attitude Research

Balogh Erzsébet
The course gives an overview of the theory and practice of language attitude
research focusing on attitudes towards English and Hungarian dialect and accent
varieties. In particular, the course contributes to the better understanding of the
concept of language attitude, and it encourages students to apply various
language attitude measurement techniques to carry out their own attitude
research. Assessment will be based on participation, weekly assignments, a mid-
term exam, and a final research paper (5-10 pages for 2-3 year students, 10-15
pages for 4-5 students). Prerequisite: Introduction to sociolinguistics.
The age factor in language acquisition

Doró Katalin
BAEN (any course, seminar), BAAM (any course, seminar), ENG (Kiegészítő nem
nyelvi képzés, Kiegészítő szakképzés), US (Kiegészítő nem nyelvi képzés,
Kiegészítő szakképzés)
The course examines the evidence relative to the idea of an age factor in first
and second language acquisition. It explores the various explanations that have
been advanced to account for such evidence. We will discuss speech milestones
in L1, L1 and L2-related evidence appertaining the Critical Period Hypothesis,
evidence for an optimum age for language learning, educational issues that are
linked to the age factor, and, finally, the L1 and L2 development for the middle-
aged and the elderly. Assessment is based on classroom participation, class
assignments and a written final exam. Previous knowledge in second and/or first
language acquisition and related thesis topics are an advantage in the selection
of students on a possible waiting list for the course.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Applied linguistics or Introduction to Second
Language Acquisition or Introduction to Psycholinguistics
Literature
Lectures
Introduction to Literature and Culture I.

Lit, lect, 1, BAEN, BAENmin, BAENlev, BAENminlev
Kiss Attila
The study of literature involves the student in a complex activity of reading and
interpretation. This process combines methods of understanding how meaning is
produced on different levels of society; how meaning-making activities reflect the
dominant discourses of our social and historical position; how the status of the
literary work of art becomes problematic when investigated in an interactive
model between text and interpreter. This introductory course aims at providing
students with a set of tools to examine the above problems as represented in
various literary works, together with a survey of the technical skills indispensable
to the experience of reading. Special emphasis will be laid on students'
understanding of terminology. Grading: final examination in writing.
Introduction to American Literature and Culture 1

Lit, lect, 1 BAAM, BAAMmin
Kovács Ágnes Zsófia
AMEBA21
What are the basic theoretical and historical issues for studying American
literature and culture today? The first objective of the course is to make us
realize that the very terms literature and culture shift their meaning according to
context and to explore current understandings of them. Secondly, we are to
survey the most important historical periods in American intellectual history like
Puritanism, Enlightenment, Transcendentalism, Realism, Modernism, etc. in order
to secure a sense of the past and present in US culture. Moreover, stress will be
laid on pinpointing characteristic interactions of past and present in US culture
that you might not notice without a background knowledge, for example how the
Pocahontas narrative figures for its diverse readers in diverse centuries (and
many more case studies). At the same time, the lecture provides examples for
characteristic American cultural genres in which this intertextuality of discourses
takes place (romance, autobiography, jeremiad, detective story, film noir,
cyberpunk, etc.).
Restoration Through 18th Century English Literature (English Literature
Survey from Milton to Sterne)
Lit, lect, survey, 2-3, BAEN, BAAM, BAENmin
Szőnyi György Endre
Literature Survey Course 1
The course – in the form of lecture-conversations – aims at giving a survey of

literary trends in the period beginning with the Restoration and ending with 18th-
century New Sensibility. The covered material ranges from Milton to Sterne, and
focuses on literary forms which include elements of fiction (epic, drama, novel).
The topics include questions of cultural history, poetics, and the career of the
period's major artists. Special emphases fall on questions of the sociology of
literature and gender issues, especially in connection with the emergence of the
novel. Major authors discussed: Milton, Dryden, Pope, Defoe, Swift, Fielding,
Richardson, Sterne.
American Modernism
Lit, lect, survey, 2-3, BAAM, BAEN, BAAMmin
Cristian Réka M.
ANGBA33, AMEBA31 Literature survey course (American 1.)
American Modernism discusses modernist tendencies in American literature and

culture. The context is that of the various modernisms within and outside the
U.S.A., the terrain is that of its cultural construction in American literature. The
course is a reader into various cultural texts dating from the end of the
nineteenth century until the period after WWII combined with pertinent issues of
modern literary and cultural theories,. Discussions will be based on the works of
W.E.B. DuBois, E. Wharton, Robert Frost, Robinson Jeffers, Wallace Stevens,
Gertrude Stein, Henry James, William Carlos Williams, Walt Whitman, Anzia
Yezierska, e. e. cummings, Eugene O´Neill, Kate, Chopin, Djuna Barnes, H. D.
(Hilda Doolittle), F. S. Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes,
William Faulkner, Hart Crane, Mourning Dove, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ernest
Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, José Martí, Edward Albee, Arthur Miller, Sylvia
Plath, Gertrude Bonnin, Anne Sexton. The course ends with an exam. The source
for the primary texts is The Heath Anthology of American Literature (2006) vol. C,
D, E. gen. ed. Paul Lauter.
Gothic Fiction: from the Beginnings to the Postmodern

Lit, lect, 2-3 BAEN, BAAM, BAENmin, US, ENG
Reschné Marinovich Sarolta
Any course lecture
The objective of this lecture course is an attempt to answer the question 'What is
Gothic fiction?'. This gloomy, mysterious, marvellous and transgressive genre,
which for over two centuries has endured and reappeared both in high and popular
literature. Why has it been always so popular and why has it been marginalized in
the canon of literature? The course follows the transformations of the genre
through its history by charting key texts over two centuries from the early Gothic
novel in the late 18th century (Horace Walpole, Mrs Radcliffe), its continuing
tradition in the 19th century (early American Gothic: E.A.Poe, N. Hawthorne; the
Victorian Gothic: Stevenson, Oscar Wilde), the Modern Gothic (Henry James, Carson
McCullers) up to the Postmodern Gothic (Angela Carter, Fay Weldon, Muriel Spark),
and looks at both the historical and cultural location of Gothic images and texts.
Reading the Grotesque Body. Risk, Excess, Alterity

Lit, lect, survey, 2-3, BAEN, BAAM, ENG, US,
Kérchy Anna
Literature Survey Course
The course proposes to examine the grotesque from the perspective of engendering
and embodiment through a wide array of theoretical, literary, visual, autobiographical
and performance texts. We shall explore the grotesque as a process, a strategy
through which genders, bodies and identities are (de)constructed in disciplinary or in
subversive transformative manners. Drawing upon theoreticians of the grotesque as
Bakhtin, Kayser, Clayborough, Russo, Garland-Thomson and prominent thinkers as
Burke, Bergson, Freud, Merleau-Ponty, Kristeva, Butler and Braidotti we will trace the
salient connection between the carnivalesque, the uncanny, the abject, the burlesque,
the sublime material and the (feminized) grotesque. The aim is to re-examine the
symbolically disabling, cultural coding-process whereby anatomical difference is
(dis)located as a marginalized yet contained “constitutive outside” against which the
(post)modernist subject—circumscribing ‘his’ identity conforming to the “logic of
negativity and domination”—can define its self as normal, ‘readable.’ We reveal how
we displace onto this in-between ‘meat-space’ of grotesque otherness anxieties and
desires related to the loss of identity, meaning and order, coincident with the potential
re-emergence of the repressed corporeal reality troubling conventional re-presentation.
On the one hand we study how bodies identified/excluded as culturally ‘grotesque’
either become “more fully body” or fade into “disembodiment”, on the other we trace
how an identity emphatically grounded in an empowering experience of alterity may
enable the emergence of revolutionary counter-narratives. Special attention is to be
paid to manifestations of the ambigous logic of the grotesque throughout the different
kinds of laughter provoked (ie. communal carnivalesque celebration, tendentious joke’s
derisive mockery, compensatory giggle of terror, neurotic laughing fit, infantile joie de
vivre, or sisterly burlesque, etc.). The ambiguous logic of the grotesque will be
illustrated by a variety of subversive fictional texts –literary, visual, musical and
architectural alike– Jonathan Swift, EA Poe, Mary Shelley, Lewis Carroll, Katherine
Mansfield, Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath, Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Jeanatte Winterson,
Sarah Kane, Chuck Palahniuk, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Cindy Sherman, Orlan,
Diamanda Galas among others).
Seminars
Modern Poetry in English
Lit, sem, 2-3 BAEN, BAAM, US, ENG
Bocsor Péter
Any course seminar ANGBA81; AMEBA81, ANAMBA81
The seminar will provide students with the possibility to participate in the close
reading of poems that allow a wide range of approaches to modernism along with
its struggle for poetic renewal and increasing social and psychological
consciousness. The discussion of the readings will be an essential part of the
seminar (20% of the final grade) but students will have to complete the tasks of a
guided interpretation (2-4 pages, mid-term, 20%) and another essay based on –
previously agreed – home-made questions (7-8 pages, end-term, 60%).
Readings: Walt Whitman: Respondez!; Lewis Carrol: The White Knight’s Song; W.
B. Yeats: The Circus Animal’s Desertion; D.H. Lawrence: Love on the Farm; W.
Owen: Strange Meeting; E.E. Cummings: [my father moved through dooms of
love]; Langston Hughes: Theme for English B; W.H. Auden: In Memory of
Sigmund Freud; Gwendolyn Brooks: A song in the Front Yard; Keith Douglas:
Simplify Me When I’m Dead; Richard Wilbur: Pangloss’s Song; Philip Larkin:
Church Going, This Be the Verse.
Modern American Short Fiction

Lit, sem, 2-3, BAEN, BAAM, US, ENG
Bocsor Péter
Any course seminar ANGBA81; AMEBA81, ANAMBA81
This seminar offers an overview of some of the representative authors and trends
in modern American fiction. During the course, we will evaluate works in both
their social and artistic context, paying attention to a range of themes: violence
and the American Dream; materialism and spiritualism; American individualism
and identity development; the American landscape and expatriation; and
American attitudes towards race, class, and gender. The reading list consists of
narrative texts by Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Flannery O’Connor, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, and Ralph
Ellison. Grading: mid-term (20%), end-term (50%), team-work (30%).
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Fairy Tales for Adults (NEW)
Lit, sem, 2-3, BAEN, BAAM, ENG, US
Kérchy Anna
Any Course Seminar
Although the fairy tale is conventionally regarded as one of the most influential
socio-cultural formative (ie. didactic, moralizing, disciplinary) factors on children’s
developing psyches, folklore research has revealed that the genre originally
intended for an audience of adults as well as children, is indeed an „art of
subversion,” „a powerful discourse”(Zipes) apt to destabilize normative scenarios
and to release repressed desires’ and anxieties’ energies. No wonder the fairy
tale becomes a key influence on postmodernist fiction preoccupied with adding
an adult, meta-touch to well-known infantile themes. The aim of the course is to
study rewritten, contemporary bedtime stories for grown-ups, which use fantastic
creatures – like faeries, mermaids, werevolves, headless horsemen, vampires,
and oysterboys – to embody postmodern dilemmas ranging from the reliability of
urban legends, traumatic memories, meaningful nonsense, and impossible/ queer
desires to issues of ecocriticism, psychogeography , affective narratology and
image-text dynamics. Magic resides in the very act of storytelling, emotional ties,
and self-reflective insights. Readings include short-stories by Garcia Marquez,
Angela Carter, Robert Coover, AS Byatt, Jeanette Winterson, Oscar Wilde, Neil
Gaiman, Salman Rushdie. We shall start out from classics like Washington
Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and move towards immediately
contemporary marvels like Tim Burton’s poems, the graphic novel Fables, and
recent blockbuster movies as Stardust, Avatar or Twilight.
Grading policy: participation, presentation (30%), homework booklogs (30%),
final essay/test (40%)
1.Introduction
2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”
3. Angela Carter. “The Werewolf,” “The Company of Wolves,” “Wolf Alice,” “Peter
and the Wolf” from The Bloody Chamber, Anne Sexton “Transformations”
4. Robert Coover. “The Gingerbread House”
5. Jeanette Winterson. “Twelve Dancing Princesses”, Oscar Wilde “The Happy
Prince”
6. Neil Gaiman. “Snow, Glass, Apple”, extract: Stephanie Meyer. Twilight, Angela
Carter
7. Neil Gaiman. Stardust
8. A.S. Byatt. “The Thing in the Forest”
9. Tim Burton. “The Melancholy Death of Oysterboy and Other Stories”, Lewis
Carroll. “The Hunting of the Snark”
10. Washington Irving. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
11. extract: Alan Moore. Lost Girls, Bill Willingham: Fables. Legends in Exile
12. James Cameron. Avatar, extract: Gregory Maguire. Wicked
13. Salman Rushdie: “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers”, Neil Gaiman. “Locks”
Making Both Love and War in Middle English Romance

Lit, sem, 2-3 BAEN, BAAM, ENG, US
Nagy Gergely
Cult/hist course seminar, Any course seminar
The genre or literary mode of ‘romance’ is inextricably linked with the double
themes of love/sexuality and violence, but also with the historical institution of
knighthood. The course aims at introducing students to a selection of the corpus
of medieval English romances, with a necessary outlook on continental (mainly
French) romance. From early Continental precursors (such as The Song of
Roland) through Chrétien de Troyes’s great courtly love-and-blood pieces (like
Lancelot), in the course we will read a relatively small selection of romances
(King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Sir Orfeo, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
Stanzaic and Alliterative Morte Arthur) to study the cultural and ideological
frameworks within which these texts functioned as the locus of both love and
hate, refined courtly love and bloody wars and duels. The cultural historical
background of the institution of knighthood will provide a useful screen through
which to see the individual figures of the texts. Women’s roles will also be
examined as the changing social context and conventions/ideological formations
appear in the works from different periods. Stock romance elements, situations,
characters and stories proved to be of very great influence on subsequent literary
works: the aim of the course is to survey some important representatives of the
genre, and see how the tensions between the ‘romantic’ and the ‘warlike’ play
out in the ideological context of knighthood.
The Lord of the Rings in Its Real and Fantastic Contexts

Lit, sem, 2-3, BAEN, BAAM, ENG, US
Nagy Gergely
Any course seminar
J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is can be read in a variety of different

contexts and frameworks from a more traditional literary historical one (with
antique/medieval parallels) to a more modern and contemporary one (modern
novel, fantastic fiction). Not only can it be seen as a ‘founding text’ of a very
popular and productive ‘genre’ (that of ‘fantasy’), it can also be seen as one of
the strongest theoretical statements on the functions and uses of fiction in this
specifically 20th-century mode of writing. The course is intended to take a look at
these contexts from the historical to the theoretical, and introduce students to
the variety of approaches and major themes of inquiry which have been brought
to bear on Tolkien’s book. Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of Tolkien’s text will
often be referred to by way of comparison. This is not a reading course: the
schedule will be structured to include frameworks and interpretive
considerations, and major themes, the traditions that can be found operating in
The Lord of the Rings and their central concepts.
Evaluation will be based mainly on participation in class discussions, a mid-term
test, and a seminar paper (6-8 pages). In addition, students will also be required
to do a presentation on a topic of their choice from the schedule, based on some
secondary works concerning the topic in question. Everyone is required to write
and send by email a one-page mini-essay, reflecting on the upcoming week’s
topic every week.
The Jazz Age 1

Kovács Ágnes Zsófia
Any course sem: ANAMBA81, ANGBA81
The course offers an introduction to the US literary production of the 1920s

traditionally called the Jazz Age. The Jazz Age is an umbrella term for diverse
sorts of intellectual and/or artistic productions between the end of WW1 and the
Great Depression: as its name indicates, it is connected to new trends in popular
music, but 'jazz' on a more abstract level is present in fine arts and, most
importantly for us, in literature as well. In our readings, we are to trace texts
related to both Fizgerald's "Jazz age" and to Locke's "New Negro Movement."
Simulataneously, we are to have a glimpse at the broader intellectual context of
the age: intellectual history, social history, arts and music. Readings include texts
by W. Faulkner, E. Hemingway, F. S. Fitzgerald, A.Yezierska, W. Cather, L.
Hughes, N. Larsen, and Z. N. Hurston. Requirements and evaluation: weekly
journals = 40%, activity = 20%, final paper = 40%. Maximum two absences are
allowed.
Migrants, Immigrants and Strangers in Contemporary Fiction (NEW)

P. Balogh Andrea
Any course, seminar
This course is engaged in reading four contemporary fictions, Salman Rushdie’s

The Ground Beneath Her Feet (a rock ‘n’ roll novel which stretches across
continents), The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (an Indian anti-
globalization/alter-globalization activist), Marina Lewycka’s Two Caravans (a
romantic love story about the adventures of two Ukrainian seasonal agricultural
workers travelling from the South of England to the North while being chased by
underworld Eastern European men-traffickers), and Glenn Patterson’s Number 5
(a (hi)story of an urban protestant neighbourhood in Belfast, including the story
of the integration of a Hungarian ’56 immigrant and a Chinese family into the
Irish community). The goal is to explore the ways in which these contemporary
fiction writers introduce different perspectives on cross-cultural and inter-cultural
relations and, more importantly, on the embodied experience of encountering
cultural difference; welcoming and/or repudiating migrants, immigrants, and the
‘strangerness’ of other cultures and social behaviours in communal and local
terms. This focus implies that we will be concerned with such current issues as
the notion of nation in Western multicultural societies, the exoticization and
integration of geographically and/or politically distant cultures, and the
fascination with and anxiety about racial and geo-cultural differences as well as
‘ethnicity.’ Whereas these issues have frequently been examined in relation to
post-coloniality, the fictions we are reading also address these points regarding
the social location of Eastern European (including Hungarian) migrants and
immigrants in contemporary Western multicultural societies. Indeed, the ultimate
question is under what conditions one feels at home or homeless within and
across nations and continents. Grading policy: Activity 20%, Assignments 40%,
Report on a research project related to the theme of the course (1500 words), 40
%.
1. Introduction: multicultural Western nations, globalization, transnationalism and
forms of migration: political and economic immigration, exile, global migrants of
artists and intellectuals, internationally mobile people
2. Introduction: Western multiculturalism, exoticization of cultural difference,
fetishization of otherness, strangerness, expelling and welcoming strangers, and
the Western literary production of migrant and immigrant fictions.
3. Salman Rusdie’ s The Ground Beneath Her Feet: Postcolonial literature;
Rushdie, the political immigrant/exile and his reception and career in the West;
the position of The Ground Beneath Her Feet in Rushdie’s oeuvre; the synopsis of
the novel
4. Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet: plot, characters, and the figure of the
ground in Rushdie’s narrative; globalization and transnationalization of popular
music, cultural emcounters, consuming the exotic, migrant artists and the issue
of uprooting re-grounding.
5. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: The perspective of the post/colonial
subject. Anti-globalization/alter-globalization position, nationalism and
transnationalism; the synopsis of the novel (plot, structure, characters, point of
view, language, style).
6. Roy’s The God of Small Things: The Western reception of the novel; the
exoticism of the East in the postcolonial context, reading the geographically
distant and the culturally different, encounters between British and Indian
cultures and people in India and in Britain.
7. Revision: discussions of the issues and controversies raised by students’ home-
projects (set questions for home). A comparative discussion of Rushdie’s and
Roy’s positions on postcoloniality and Western multiculturalism
8. Glenn Patterson’s Number 5: synopsis of the novel; construction of Belfast as a
multicultural society; Patterson’s literary revision of Northern Irish society;
integrating ‘strangers’ into communal memory and communal history.
9. Patterson’s Number 5: Growing up as a Chinese in Belfast, possibilities of
becoming Chinese and Irish, conflicts of cultural traditions, estrangement, Irish
nationalism, multicultural in/tolerance, and the discourse of stranger-danger.
10. Patterson’s Number 5: the Irish community and the Hungarian political
immigrant. Eastern Europe in the Western cultural imagination from the Cold-War
to the Post-Cold War. Cultural Encounters between the Irish ‘native’ and the
Hungarian ‘immigrant;’ the experience of political exile; Eastern Europe as a
metaphor for constructing Irish communal identities.
11. Marina Lewicka’s Two Caravans: Fall of the Iron Curtain, European
integration, and Eastern European labour migration. The synopsis of the novel.
12. Lewicka’s Two Caravans: The British media coverage of labour migrants and
Lewicka’s politics of representing labour migrants (from Eastern Europe, Africa
and China). Encounters between Western exoticization of Eastern Europe and
Eastern European exoticization of the West.
13. Revision and Evaluation: Students’ presentations of their research-based
essays on a chosen theme related to the course, reviews and discussion.
Gentlemen, Gentlewomen and the English Novel (18th century)

P. Balogh Andrea
Any course, seminar
This course explores the ways in which the novel as an emerging new genre in
18th century Britain is engaged in formulating the notions of the gentleman and
the gentlewoman in terms of the emerging middle class’s vision of the English
nation. We approach the novels as cultural narratives in which the figures of the
gentleman and gentlewoman are endowed with meanings through accentuating
the importance of education and associating ‘Englishness’ with the notions of the
‘civilized’ and ‘cultured.’ We will look at the role of the discourses of liberal
humanism, imperialism, and colonialization in shaping the ideas of the English
gentleman and gentlewoman in narratives such as Daniel Defoe’s Robinson
Crusoe and Moll Flanders, Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Henry Fielding’s Tom
Jones. We will also consider how the 18th century notion of ‘English
gentlemanliness’ legitimates racial and sexual oppression and discrimination.
Grading policy: activity 20%, short assignments 40%, take-home papers (2
essays) 40%.
Narrative Strategies in Contemporary American Fiction

Lit, sem, 2-3 BAAM, BAEN, ENG, US
Dragon Zoltán
Any course (excluding language) seminar, AMEBA81, ANGBA81
The objective of the course is to explore aspects of narratives in contemporary

American fiction. The primary concerns of the course are issues relating to
narrative techniques and strategies employed by the selected authors, and
questions such as: how does contemporary America narrate itself?; what role
does the novel play in an age of global communication? With emphasis upon the
range of fictional voices and identities, focalization and ocularization versus
narration, characters and characterization, images and visions, experiments with
genre, style and form, we will read Don DeLillo’s White Noise, Kurt Vonnegut’s
Slaughterhouse Five, Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy and Chuck Palahniuk’s
Fight Club in the light of theories of the narrative and cultural studies.
History/Culture
Lectures
Introduction to English Studies

Cult/hist, lect, survey, 1, BAENmin, BAENlev, BAENminlev
Matuska Ágnes
ANGBA11-1, ANGBAL11-1, ANGLMIN11-1, ANGMIN11-1
The aim of the course is to help students who are majoring or minoring in English to
understand the characteristics of the English Studies degree program, and provide a structured
introduction both to the field of English studies as a scholarly discipline of the humanities, as
well as to the dynamism of the changes within this specific academic field. By the end of the
course students will be familiar with the basic terminology, themes and approaches that
characterize the diversity within the discipline.
Introduction to American Studies

Hist/cult, lect, survey, 1 BAAM, BAAMmin
Novák György
AMEBA11
The course offers an introduction to the discipline, discussing the various definitions,
approaches, and methods of American studies. In the course, you will be presented some of
the current and older ("traditional") major fields, methodologies, themes, and topics of the
discipline with a view on the wide array of other disciplines (anthropology, cultural studies,
literary studies, history, sociology, etc.) that American studies have relied on, borrowed from,
or appropriated. Hopefully, students will be familiarized with with options, available in the
American Studies program to organize their own BA study program. Grading will be based
on 1) a Term Paper (5,000 to 6,500 characters) on a topic given by the instructor to be
submitted by the end of the term; 2) oral test including a) topics covered in class b) a range of
essays some compulsory, some optional on various aspects of American Studies.
American History III. The 20th-21st Centuries

Hist/cult, lect, survey, 2-3 BAEN, BAAM, BAAMmin, ENG, US
Novák György
AMEBA51, ANGBA51
The course is a lecture series on the history of the United States in the last hundred years or
so. The most important political, economic, military and cultural events will be discussed, and
relevant contemporary "documents", not necessarily textual, considered. Topics will include:
The rise of the US as a world power; World War I; Depression and New Deal; World War II;
Cold War and after; radicalism, civil rights movements; multiculturalism; immigration,
Hungarian Americans. The course will be concluded with an oral examination.
Contemporary American Culture and Society

Hist/Cult, lect, survey, 2-3, BAAM, BAAMmin, BASpecTr, BASpecB
Annus Irén
AMEBA42 (Cult Survey3), BASpecTr, BASpecB (Regional and Cultural Studies)
The purpose of this lecture is to familiarize students with the American people, culture and
government along with various areas most influential in framing the essential notions and
manners of operation particular to the US, thus to deepen the students’ understanding of this
country and its people. The course opens with the introduction of the country and its inhabitants.
Then it discusses the development and present structure of the American federal government, its
policies and field of operation. It also surveys the various areas, such as religion or the media,
supposedly independent of the government but still a major force in defining American culture
and identity.
Approaches to Popular Culture

Hist/cult, lect, 2-3 BAEN, BAAM, BAENmin, BAAMmin
Vajda Zoltán
AMEBA7, ANGBA7, ANGMIN111 (Any course, lecture)
This lecture is designed to introduce participating students to scholarly approaches to the
study of popular culture. Covering themes such as British mass culture theory, Marxist
political economy, the Frankfurt school, semiology and structuralism, youth cultures,
audience research, feminism or the Bakhtinian carnivalesque, it offers students the
opportunity to familiarize themselves with concepts that can be applied in the study of
popular media texts. These will include Americanization; the culture industry; production,
exchange and consumption; bricolage; ideology; hegemony; pleasure; dialogism; or the
carnivalesque.
Theorizing Literature and Culture from the Perspective of the Social (NEW)
Cult/hist, lect, survey, 2-3, BAEN BAENmin, BAENlev, BAENminlev
P. Balogh Andrea
Survey lecture
This course covers various conceptions of culture from the nineteenth century to the present.
We will look at the meanings and functions of literature and culture in the narratives of
modernism, cultural nationalism, cultural materialism, postmodernism, postcolonialism,
multiculturalism, social theories and feminist and queer critical theories. In other words, we
will approach literature and culture as issues of social practices structured through power
relations, social agency, and institutionalization along class, race and gender interests.
Grading Policy: take-home mid-term: 40% written examination: 60%
1. Introduction: positions, objectives, key-categories and key-concepts
2. Mathew Arnold’s idea of literature and culture from the perspective of the social
Culture and Anarchy; On the Study of Celtic Literature
3. T. S. Eliot
“Notes Towards a Definition of Culture;” “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
4. W. B. Yeats’ Irish cultural nationalism: revision of Celticism; aesthetics and politics, Yeats
and the Irish masses.
5. Raymond Williams’ Cultural Materialism
“Analysis of Culture;” “Towards a Sociology of Culture;” The Politics of Modernism.
6. Alan Sinfield and Cultural Materialism
Post-War British Literature, Culture and Politics, culture of dissidence.
7. Materialist Feminism: Rosemary Hennessy
8. Jürgen Habermas’ approach to the modern history of British culture; critiques of
Habermas’s theory of the literary-public sphere
9. Pierre Boudieu’s social theory of the literary field and the feminist re-readings of Bourdieu
10. Roland Barthes’ ‘demystification’ of culture
11. Homi Bhabha’s postcolonial critique of postmodern theory
12. Sara Ahmed’s critical re-readings of the narratives of postmodernism and multiculturalism
13. Judith Butler’s gender theory from the perspective of the social
14. Concluding remarks and questions for further considerations
Theories of Culture
Hist/cult, lect, survey, 2-3, BAEN, BAENmin, BAENlev, BAENlevmin
Bocsor Péter
ANGBA41; ANGBAL91; ANGMIN81; ANGLMIN81; ANG-MA-2011; ANGT-MA-B2;

ANGTL-MA-B2; ANGB2-51
This series of lectures offers an overview of various conceptualizations of culture from the
beginning of the 20th Century up to the present. We examine how culture emerges as a
concept in the course of theorizing it from a multiplicity of viewpoints. The approach of
semiotics will serve as a basis for discussing means of subjectivity and meaning production
within systems of ideologies. It takes us to more recent critical formulations addressing the
political and the social. We shall explore the interests of feminism, post-colonialism, and anti-
consumerism in culture as an issue. Evaluations will be based upon a comprehensive exam.
Cultural Theories and American Studies

Hist/cult, lect, survey, 2-3, BAAM, BAAMmin, US, ENG
Cristián Réka M.
AMB2-51, ANG2-62
This course is a survey of the making of American Studies as an institutionalized academic

discipline. The development of American Studies has had its shifts of paradigms with the
changing framework of cultural theories and cultural studies, starting from the Myth and
Symbol School synthesis of literature and history to New Americanists, post-national and
transnational American studies, all within the interdisciplinary in area of cultural and cross-
cultural studies. We will discuss the relationship of theory and practice and will focus on the
cultural production, re-construction and deconstruction of identities, gender, class, race,
ethnicity, sexuality, etc. Students will be familiarized with theories and methods for the study
of the field, and with strategies and tools of the trade through diverse models of practicing
American Studies as cultural studies. The course ends with an oral examination.
Early Modern Britain

Hist/cult, lect, survey, 2-3, BAEN, BAAM, BAENmin
Péter Róbert
This survey course explores the cultural, social, religious and political history of Britain from
the Reformation to the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The Tudor-Stuart period witnessed the
establishment of the Church of England, ‘the varieties of religious experience’, the rise of the
modern science, the growth of literacy, witchcraft trials, the Civil War as well as the first
conflicts between the Whigs and Tories. It was not only the age of Henry VIII and Oliver
Cromwell but also of William Shakespeare, John Milton, John Locke, Isaac Newton and
Christopher Wren. It pays attention to the daily life of people and the way they understood
the world around them, as much as to the fundamental historical processes, events and the
shifts in mental attitudes. The main themes to be considered during this lecture include the
Reformation and the creation of the Church of England; religious contest and identities in
Elizabethan England; the early Stuarts and the three kingdoms; civil war and revolution;
Restoration and religion; the commons and the aristocracy; households, families and gender;
witchcraft, magic and the occult; the Scientific Revolution; education and the culture of print;
what is the best form of government?; the Glorious Revolution; Britain, Empire and the
World.
Schedule of lectures
1. The Reformation and the creation of the Church of England
2. Religious contest and identities in Elizabethan England
3. The Early Stuarts and the three kingdoms
4. Civil war and revolution
5. Religion and Restoration
6. The commons and the aristocracy
7. Households, families, and gender
8. Witchcraft, magic and the occult
9. The Scientific Revolution
10. Education and the culture of print
11. What is the best form of government?
12. Glorious Revolution?
13. Britain, Empire and the world
Seminars
Racial and Ethnic Groups in the US: A History

Hist/cult, sem, 2-3 BAAM, BAEN, ENG, US
Annus Irén
AMEBA61, AMEBA 81 (any course), ANGBA81 (any course), ANAMBA81,
This course offers a history of more prominent racial/ethnic groups in the US. It is designed to
familiarize students with key approaches to race and ethnicity as well as the various ways
these were used and manipulated throughout American history. The course discusses the
history of major racial/ethnic communities, including Native American, Afro-American,
White, Hispanic, Jewish and Asian, from their arrival up till today. Special attention is given
to the history of immigration, pull and push factors, cultural variety, issues of accommodation
and assimilation, as well as their contemporary status and location within the ethnic map of
the US. Equally significant is the exploration of all series of cultural and political clashes:
changing American approaches to concepts of race and ethnicity along with the politicization
of these categories, as well as the self-organization of these groups, eventually gaining power
and public voice through identity politics.
US Society and Culture from 1800 to the Civil War

Hist/cult, sem, 2-3 BAEN, BAAM, ENG, US
Vajda Zoltán
AMEBA81, ANGBA81 (Any course … seminar), AMEBA61, ANAMBA81
The first 30-40 years of the 19th century transformed the economic, social and cultural
landscape of the United States. Characterized by the rapid development of free market
capitalism, the triumph of egalitarian ideas in the political sphere or the intensifying sectional
conflict, the period brought about fundamental changes in the Americans' perception of their
world/s. The aim of this seminar course is to examine the significance of these changes and
discuss the responses that they evoked from contemporary Americans. Topics include: the
industrial revolution in the United States; social changes in the early 19th century; westward
expansion and its consequences; nationalism; children in the republic; the democratic ideal;
domesticity and sentimentalism; social evils and their remedies.
Symbols Lost? A Dan Brown reader ( NEW)

Hist/cult, lit, sem, 2-3 BAAM, BAEN, ENG, US
Péter Róbert
AMEBA81 (any course, seminar), ANGBA81(any course, seminar)
The objective of this seminar is to deconstruct Dan Brown's thrillers, in particular The Lost
Symbol, from historical, sociological, anthropological and religious studies perspectives.
Relying on a partially-factual history, Brown's novels have had a major impact on the public
perception of (professional) historiography. It is clear that millions are unable to distinguish
academic history from its alternative popular versions. The Lost Symbol, released on 15
September, 2009, is said to be the fastest selling adult novel in history. Like the Da Vinci
Code Brown´s new thriller again starts with "facts." This course seeks to place both the
themes and the reception of this novel in context. Using this fiction as a tool, we shall discuss
the history of the Invisible College, its connection with the Royal Society, Newton's interest
in alchemy, the myths and rituals of freemasons and their alleged impact on the foundation of
the United States. We shall also explore why such books are so popular these days in the
context of the American civil religion and recent sociological surveys indicating increasing
public interest in the spiritual and the occult, which can be interpreted as a manifestation of a
general shift from organized religion to `unchurched´ spirituality. We shall investigate what
has been left out from the thriller, which would have reinforced Brown´s `thesis.´
As a basic requirement, students have to be familiar with the novel by the second week of the
course. Students have to make a 15-minute presentation upon a chosen topic and submit a
research paper of 3000 words at the penultimate week of the term.
1. Introduction
2. Boundaries between fiction and history - from the positivists to Hayden White
3. The Da Vinci Code in context
4. What is plagiarism? Dan Brown vs. Michael Baigent´s case (2007)
5. The Lost Symbol - six years of expectations and the sources
6. The setting, the architecture of Washington D.C. and the plot
7. The Invisible College, the Royal Society and Isaac Newton
8. Perceptions of freemasonry in the thriller
9. Secret rites of passage
10. Freemasons and the birth of the American nation
11. American civil religion and its representation in the novel
12. A shift from organized religion to 'unchurched' spirituality in the light of recent
sociological surveys
13. Final essays due
America Onscreen
Cult/hist, sem, 2-3 BAAM, BAEN, ENG, US
Dragon Zoltán
AMEBA81, ANGBA 81Any course (excluding language) seminar, ANAMBA81
The course intends to explore, on the one hand, the representations and renderings of America
in various films; on the other hand, how America has helped to transform film itself,
including the documentary form. Films of the past decades will be discussed during the
seminars that occasionally provide powerful link to classic films of earlier generations of
directors and actors, such as John Ford and John Wayne, Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart – to
name just a few. The course also aims to investigate how direct and immediate continuities
obtain between classic and contemporary films regarding central issues of American culture
and character, especially pertaining to race, ethnicity and gender. Films to be discussed –
among others - are: Crash (2005), Malcolm X (1992), Raging Bull (1980), Monster’s Ball
(2001).
British and American Cinema – Histories and Industries

Cult/hist, sem, 2-3 BAAM, BAEN, ENG, US
Dragon Zoltán
AMEBA81, ANGBA 81 Any course (excluding language) seminar), AMANBA81
The course offers a look at British and American film histories from the 1890s until today, but
it does not explore these histories in a purely chronological way. Rather, it proposes a cultural
history, which focuses more on topics and issues than on what happened when. Defining
cinema as a cultural interface, the course discusses issues relating to classical Hollywood
cinema as a unique economic, industrial, aesthetic, and cultural institution, while also
considering the experience of moviegoing, the nature of Hollywood story-telling, and – just as
importantly – the roles played by the studio system, the star system, and film genres in the
creation of a body of work that functions not only as entertainment but as a portrayal of the
relationship between an American national identity and an industrialized mass culture that has
slowly evolved over the past century. The course also investigates a parallel history of the
British film industry with a consideration of its specific generic inventions and evolving
trends from the birth of cinema through the British new wave until recent revival of films
offering a redefining of “Britishness”.
British Classicism: Literature and Arts in 18th century Britain

Cora Zoltán
Any Course Seminar
The seminar offers a survey of British Classicism in culture in the eighteenth

century. ’Culture’ is here understood and interpreted as a unity of historical,
philosophical, literary, aesthetic as well as artistic trends and discourses. By
interpreting selected primary sources – mainly literary works of art, paintings and
architecture, as well as a few philosophical and aesthetical texts – and secondary
literature, we will make an attempt to understand trends, themes, ideas, and
qualities of eighteenth century British Classicism. Such various authors and their
works of art will be examined as, for example, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson,
Thomas Gray, William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Colin Campbell or William
Kent. Assessment: students’ participation in discussions and debates of the
classes (30%), presentation and the quality of the handout (20%), end term test
(50%).
The History of the British Isles in the Age of Nations (NEW)

Cora Zoltán
Culture/History Course Seminar, Any Course Seminar
This seminar surveys the history of Britain through the ’long nineteenth-century’
(1789-1914). After its birth in the 17-18th century, the history the British Empire
will be discussed mainly from the perspective of political history, nevertheless, an
emphasis will be laid upon social, economic and cultural trends and questions as
well. The seminar seeks to familiarise students with the essential historical issues
and themes in the period. This will include the influence of the French Revolution
on England, the relationship of Britain and European powers during the
Napoleonic Wars and later in connection with the „Sacred Alliance”. We shall also
look at major questions of British foreign policy and internal affairs in the 19 th
century. Of course, parallel to problems of political history, the course will
investigate important political and social ideas that became current and stressed
in this century, such as conservativism, liberalism, socialism, radicalism,
nationalism, Marxism, anarchism, positivism, romanticism and realism. Besides
these, we will briefly tackle with social, economic and cultural phenomena of this
period, such as the agrarian and industrial revolution, religion and social reforms,
social emancipation in Victorian England, the economic development or the
colonial challenge. During this historical study, students will also familiarise with
such influential political and cultural „icons” and their major ideas as, for
example, Palmerston, Gladstone, Disraeli, Carlyle, Dickens, Tennyson, or Mill.
Assessment: students’ participation in discussions and debates of the classes
(20%), presentation and the quality of the handout (20%), mid term test (30%),
end term test (30%).
SCHEDULED TOPICS:
1. Introduction: (lecture)
2. Europe in turmoil (1789-1815)
3. Britain and the ”Sacred Alliance” – foreign politics from 1815 to 1848
4. Imperialism, colonialism and foreign policy after the revolutions of 1848 (1848-
1900) I
5. Imperialism, colonialism and foreign policy after the revolutions of 1848 (1848-
1900) II:
6-7. Internal affairs I: politics and ideas (1815-1900):
8. Internal affairs II: economy in the ’long nineteenth–century’ – If progress, how?:
9-10. Internal affairs III: British society – are there really classes in Victorian
society?:
11. Internal affairs IV: Religion, science, culture – a new trajectory of identities?:
12. Turn of the century:
13. End Term Test
The First Action Heroes: Violence and the Narratives of the English Middle Ages (NEW)
Nagy Gergely
History/culture course seminar, Any course seminar
The course will examine how conceptions of the hero in Medieval literature have related to
the idea of violence. Both ‘popular’ and more ‘learned’ medieval narratives often valorize and
celebrate violence much like contemporary action movies, and even if it is not the world that
needs to be saved in every case, the violent heroes of medieval literature show a great variety
in their relation to what they (need to) do and how they do it. The conflicts that characterize
the world of Old and Middle English texts reveal much about the culture and expectations of
these periods (as well as of the audiences), and also show a marked difference between
Germanic concepts and those imported from the continent; native frameworks and the
international ones of romance clearly indicate the differences. The heroic society of Beowulf
shows a relation to violence nearly entire at variance with Chaucer’s Knight or Malory’s
Round Table (where several different points of view can be seen). The ‘meaning’ of violence
in each text is thus seen in a number of contexts, and can be as various as in contemporary
popular culture. Texts for discussion will be (1) Beowulf, (2) The Battle of Maldon, (3)
Genesis B and The Dream of the Rood, (4) Elene, (5) Layamon’s Brut (selections), (6) Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight, (7) Havelok the Dane, (8-10) the Alliterative Morthe Arthure,
Stanzaic Morte Arthur, and Malory’s Morte Darthur (selections), (11) Chaucer’s Canterbury
Tales (selections). Evaluation is based on participation in class discussions (20 %), weekly
mini-essays on the readings (20 %), and a seminar paper (8-10 pp. for 2-3 ys, 12-15 pp. for 4-
5 ys; 60 %).
Sport as Performance (NEW)

P. Balogh Andrea
Any course, seminar, Hist course sem
This course explores sport from the perspective of cultural studies with a focus on the roles of
sports in British popular and consumer cultures. We take performance as an analytical
concept which enables us to understand the complexity of sport as a cultural phenomenon
becoming meaningful through social ideologies and political interests, and closely linked to
the issue of identity along the categories of nation, class, race, and gender. This focus implies
that we will be interested in sports as both forms of entertainment and physical activities,
contributing to the formation of various communities and social groups along the promotion
of the ‘healthy body’ and the ‘beautiful body.’ Accordingly, we will be concerned with the
(re)presentation of sports in the mass media and the electronic media, including
advertisements, life-style magazines and life-style reality shows. Grading Policy: activity
20%, research reports: 40% paper presentation 40%
1. Introduction 1: watching sports (Goffman’s metaphor of theatre for analizing sport
events
2. Introduction 2: the phenomelogical approach to embodiment and movement
3. Sports in the making of national identities in the 20th century (The British Empire and
decolonization)
4. Transnationalism (the politics of the modern olympic games)
5. Race and racism
6. Gendering sports
7. sports and the cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity
8. Sports, sexuality, and sexual identities
9. Sports and the Media
10. Mediated sport-related subcultures (internet)
11. Sports in consumer cultures
12. Athletic bodies, healthy bodies, beautiful bodies and fashionable bodies
13. Paper presentations
14. Paper presentations
Suggested Reading:
Atkinson, Michael and Young, Kevin (eds). Tribal Play: Subcultural Journeys Through
Sport, Bingley: JAI Press, 2008.
Cahn, Susan K.. Coming on Strong. Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women’s
Sport. New York: The Free Press, 1994.
Goffman, Erving “The Theatrical Frame” in Frame Analysis. An Essay on the Organization
of Experience. New York: Harper and Row, 1974, 123-55.
Harris, John and Parker, Andrew (eds.). Sport and Social Identities. Palgrave MacMillan,
2009.
Hill, Jeff and Williams, Jack (eds.) Sport and Identity in the North of England. Keele: Keele
UP.
Ihde, Don. “The Tall and the Short of It. Male Sports Bodies.” Nancy Tuana et. al. (eds.)
Revealing Male Bodies. Bloomigton and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002,
231-46.
Journal of Lesbian Studies Special Issue: In/Visible Bodies: Lesbian Sexualities and Sporting
Spaces, 13(3), 2009.
MacAloon, John J.. “Olympic Games and the Theory of Spectacle in Modern Societies.” John
J. MacAloon (ed.). Rite, Drama, Festival, Spectacle. Philapdelphia: Institute for the
Study of Human Issues, 1984, 241-80.
McDevitt, Patrick. May the Best Man Win. Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Great
Britain and the Empire, 1880.1935. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Parker, Andrew. “Sporting masculinities: gender relations and the body.” Máirtín Mac An
Ghaill ed. Understanding Masculinities. Social Relations and Cultural Arenas.
Buckingham, Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1996, 126-38.
Schneider, Angela J.. “On the definition of ‘woman’ in the sport context.” Torbjörn Tännsjö
and Claudio Tamburrini eds. Values in Sport. Elitism, nationalism, gender equality and
the scientific manufacture of winners. London: E &FN Spon, 2000, 123-38.
Raney, Arthur A. and Bryent Jennings (eds.) Hand Book of Sports and Media, Mahwah (New
Jersay): Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd., 2006.
Young, Iris Marion. “Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body
Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality.” Young, Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays
in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana
University Press, 1990, 141-59.
Politics and Cultural Media in Interwar Britain (1918-1939) (NEW)

hist/cult, 2-3, sem; BAEN, ENG
Cora Zoltán
Any Course Seminar
The seminar provides a survey of the political, social and cultural history of
Great-Britain in the interwar period (1919-1939) with a view to the European
context as well.We will discuss various topics, including the rise of democracy,
nationalism, fascism and socialism in Europe, or, for example, the post-Victorian
cultural milieu. An emphasis will also be laid on questions of social and economic
changes in Britain before and after the Great Economic Depression (1929-1933).
During this historical study, participants of the course will have a chance closely
examine the ideas of such influential politicians, philosophers, and writers as, for
example, David Lloyd George, Bertrand Russell, Winston S. Churchill, George
Orwell, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce or Virginia Woolf. While discussing various topics,
an emphasis will be laid on the question of different forms of British cultural
media, such as newspapers, or new broadcasting technologies and institutions
(cinema, radio, or the BBC). II. The course seeks to familiarise students with
major historical problems throughout the period by interpreting relevant primary
(literary texts, diaries, newspapers, legal texts, and speeches) and secondary
(literature) sources. Assessment: students’ participation in discussions and
debates of the classes (20%), mid term test (40%), end term test (40%).
SCHEDULED TOPICS:
1. Introduction: The Turn of the Century
Core reading: Heyck (Vol. I.), 435-441. p.
2. The “Great War” (1914-1918): Pacifism versus Imperialism?
Core reading: Heyck, 109-131. p.
3-4. Europe and Britain in the Interwar period (1919-1939) I: building–up
Core reading: Heyck, 171-183. p.
5-6. Europe and Britain in the Interwar period (1919-1939) II: “The
economy dwindles, the society thrives? The role of the Cultural Media
(cinema, radio, BBC)
Core reading:Heyck, 149-169. p.
7. Mid-term Test
8-9. Answers to challenges: political ideas in interwar Europe and Britain
Core reading: Heyck, 183-193. p., Perry, 764-768, 771-773. p.
10. Thought and Culture in an Era of World of Wars: Disorientation, Doubt
and Commitment
Core reading: Perry, 745-762, 768-771. p.
11. Going to War Again: British political and cultural milieu in the first years
of World War II
Core reading: Heyck, 193-212. p. (British), Perry, 773-789. p. (European)
12. Reserve Class
13. End Term Test
Introduction to British Aesthetics (NEW)

hist/cult, 2-3, sem, BAEN, ENG
Cora Zoltán
Any Course Seminar
The course surveys and discusses key texts of British aesthetics while trying to
introduce students to the most important aesthetic problems and concepts. The
seminar concentrates on 18th and 19th century British, as well as early 20th
century authors. The study of aesthetics itself conveys an interdisciplinary critical
attitude: it is a mode of critical judgement and a mode of analysing personal
creativity, openness, taste and ethics. Besides Beauty, Artistic Creation, or
Nature, aestheticism calls attention to other fields of sensation as well. During
the course, students will familiarise, on the one hand, with original themes
(mimesis, beauty, nature, sublime) of aesthetics by chosen treatises from Plato
and Aristotle, with different receptions of them through reading texts of, for
example, Joseph Addison, David Hume, Edmund Burke, S.T. Coleridge, John
Ruskin, William Morris (also the aesthetics ideas of the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood and the Arts and Crafts Movement). On the other hand, the
course will deal with issues of early 20 th century aesthetics and receptions of
earlier ideas, mainly by reading excerpts from expressivist aestheticians, such as
the Italian philosopher, Benedetto Croce or the Oxford archeologist-historian
Robin G. Collingwood. Assessment: participation in classes (30%), presentation
and the quality of the handout (20%), home paper (5-10 pages) (50%).
SCHEDULED TOPICS:
1. What and how is aesthetics? – introductory discussion
Core reading: Danto, Arthur C.: “A Future for Aesthetics” The Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 51. évfolyam, 2. szám (1993), 271-277.
2-3. Founders: Plato and Aristotle
Core reading: Routledge Companion, 1-27. p.
4. Joseph Addison and “the pleasures of imagination”
Core reading: Sanders, 292-298. p., Lovejoy, 69-77.p.
5. David Hume and “the standard of taste”
Core reading: Routledge Companion, 41-54. p.
6. Burke’s Enquiry: Beauty and Sublime
Core reading: Monk, 84-100. p.
7. Romanticism – How is Aesthetics shaped?
Core reading: Sanders, 340-351. p.
8. The Gothic Vision – Neo-Gothic England?
Core reading: Brooks, 154-176. p.
9. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and The Arts and Crafts Movement – A
Turn Towards Medievalism? Core reading and sources: Selected poems and
artworks by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, selected writings
by William Morris (Rossetti: Poems; Morris: Selected Writings, 13-21, 84-
107, 139-145. p.; Hunt: Pre-Raphaelite Illustrations, 1-30. p.
10. Beauty and Taste: formation of theories
Core reading: Routledge Companion, 307-317. p., Lorand, Ruth: “Beauty
and Its Opposites”, in: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 52:4 (Fall
1994), 399-406.
11. Expressivism, formalism and pragmatism: contesting grounds of the
early 20th century
Core reading and sources: Routledge Companion, 109-145. p.
12. Discussions of Home Paper proposals
13. Submission of Home Paper
Specialisations
Lectures
Contemporary British Culture and Society

Hist/cult, lect, 2-3, BASpecTr, BASpecB
Nagy Gergely
BASpecB, BASpecTr (Regional and Cultural Studies)
This lecture is meant to introduce students to the basic facts, institutions and
fields of contemporary British culture. In this, it complements the historical and
the thematic survey courses, and offers a contemporary cross-section with some
historical perspective where necessary. The British political and legal system is
based on very old traditions, and the institutions and social questions of British
culture cannot be complete with an outlook to the colonial past and the
commonwealth; however, as these give place to the EU-integrated United
Kingdom, a multi-cultural and post-colonial society, they will only be touched
upon in the course of the lectures. The course aims to concentrate on cultural
(rather than political) issues, including subcultures and their study (e.g. the
Birmingham school), the theoretical approaches to such a complex society (post-
colonial theories, feminism and women’s movements, etc.), the British system of
education and collection (the famous London museums and the picture of
contemporary relations to art that they sketch out), the various branches of the
arts as they appear in contemporary Britain (film and theatre, the fine arts, music
and popular culture). The British media and its flagship, the BBC and its role in
popular culture will also be a separate facet of our examinations. Students will be
expected to use their lecture notes as well as the coursebook when they prepare
for the written exam at the end of the semester.
Contemporary American Culture and Society

Hist/Cult, lect, 2-3, BAAM, BASpecTr, BASpecB
Annus Irén
BAAM 17. sor (Cult Survey3), BASpecTr, BASpecB (Regional and Cultural Studies)
The purpose of this lecture is to familiarize students with the American people,
culture and government along with various areas most influential in framing the
essential notions and manners of operation particular to the US, thus to deepen the
students’ understanding of this country and its people. The course opens with the
introduction of the country and its inhabitants. Then it discusses the development
and present structure of the American federal government, its policies and field of
operation. It also surveys the various areas, such as religion or the media,
supposedly independent of the government but still a major force in defining
American culture and identity.
Introduction to Translation and Interpreting Theory

Spec, lect, 2–3, BASpecTr
Dudits András
BAspecTr (Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation and Interpreting,
lect)
The purpose of this survey course is to provide a general overview of the theory
of translation and interpreting, with a focus on translation and interpreting
typology, the theoretical models of translation and interpreting, cognitive
processing in interlingual mediation, translation and interpreting skills as well as
the evolution of translation and interpreting studies. Grading will be based on a
final assignment.
British and American Culture of Business World: Marketing, Promotion,

and PR
Spec, lect, survey, 2-3, BASpecB
Bajnóczi Beatrix
BASpecB (Business World Survey course)
This course serves as an introduction to the field of business studies, with an

emphasis on issues which are of special interest to students who would like to
understand the basic business and economic concepts. The class covers a wide
range of business-related topics, focusing on marketing, promotion, and PR. By
the end of the term the students will be familiar with the language and concepts
found in authentic business materials, newspaper and magazine articles as well
as the theory and terminology that is necessary in the business world.
Major topics include Marketing management process; Marketing communication
mix; The role of promotion and promotional tools; PR; Advertising; The role of the
media.
Cross-cultural Pragmatics
Ling, lect, 2-5, BAEN, BAAM, ENG, US, BASpecTr, BASpecB
BAEN, BAAM, ENG, US (any course lecture), BASpecTr, BASpecB (Regional and
Cultural Studies)
The course focuses on cross-cultural pragmatics, which deals with differences in

verbal behavior across languages and cultures, and on intercultural pragmatics,
which examines communication between speakers of different languages and
cultures. The course presents empirical research in both areas, reviews different
explanatory frameworks used to account for the observed differences, addresses
methodological issues and gives insight into applications of cross-cultural studies
in business communication. Grading will be based on participation, one in-class
presentation and a mid-term quiz. At the end of the course 2-3 year students will
be given a written home assignment while 4-5 year students will write a short
research paper.
Seminars
Introduction to Translation
Spec, sem, 2–3, BASpecTr
Dudits András
BAspecTr (Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation and Interpreting)
Designed to cover translation-specific concepts such as equivalence, explicitation

and compensation, along with a wide range of lexical and grammatical transfer
operations, the seminar focuses on the practical aspects of interlingual mediation
to facilitate the acquisition of relevant translation skills and techniques. Students
will be expected to translate texts of a general nature (i.e. non-technical and non-
literary) at home, with their work evaluated by the instructor and analyzed in
class. Grading will be based on the formative assessment of translation
assignments and class participation
Translation Techniques
Spec, sem, 2–3, BASpecTr
Dudits András/Novák György
BAspecTr (Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation and Interpreting)
Designed to cover translation-specific concepts such as equivalence, explicitation

and compensation, along with a wide range of lexical and grammatical transfer
operations, the seminar focuses on the practical aspects of interlingual mediation
to facilitate the enhancement of translation skills and techniques related to
source text comprehension, interlingual/intercultural transfer and target text
production. In addition to completing actual translation assignments and various
exercises, students will learn practical strategies for 1) establishing and
maintaining intra-textual and inter-textual coherence, 2) text-type recognition
and register analysis, 3) correct usage and 4) using software tools. Assessment
will be formative in nature, based on students’ translations and class
participation.
Introduction to Interpreting
Spec, sem, 2-3, BAspecTr
Matuska Ágnes, Matuska Ágnes
BAENspecTr (Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation and
Interpreting)
The aim of this course is to provide a general view of the nature of interpreting
with a focus on the processes and management of interpreting. Emphasis is laid
on presentation, the grouping of information and logical analysis, and extending
students’ vocabulary. Practice is provided through shorter units in different types
of oral mediation: liaison, community and conference interpreting. Topics range
from current affairs to social studies. Grading: Preparation and class input: 30%;
Mid-term test: 30%; End-term test: 40%.
Business Communication: Techniques and Applications

Spec, sem, 2, BASpecB
Bajnóczi Beatrix
BASpecB (Business Communication Seminar)
The aim of this course is to acquaint the students with the main themes of
business as well as the various situations that people communicate in in the
world of business. The course is based on a coursebook, and besides focusing on
acquiring the special vocabulary, emphasis is laid primarily on oral and listening
activities. Students are required to actively and creatively participate in the
course, and do individual and group assignments. Assessment will be based on
the students’ class participation and their test results.
Business Writing: In-company Correspondence

BASpecB (Business Writing Seminar)
Part of the Business English spezialization of the IEAS, this course is designed to
develop the writing skills the students need in business life, through improving
their general writing skills and familiarising them with different fields, styles and
conventions of business writing. Business Writing 2 focuses on in-company-to
correspondence, including memorandums, reports, and notes, as well as social
correspondence like appointments, invitations and good-will letters. The course
also deals with correspondence related to employment, such as job
advertisements, job applications, letters of recommendation, and personal
reference. Throughout the course, emphasis is laid on both the formal and the
language aspects of business correspondence, layout, style, vocabulary,
correctness, conciseness and courtesy.
Business Writing: Company-to-company Correspondence

BASpecB (Business Writing Seminar)
Part of the Business English specialization of the IEAS, this course is designed to
introduce the students to writing skills needed in business life, both developing
their general writing skills and familiarizing them with different fields of business
writing. Business Writing 1 focuses on company-to company correspondence,
including letters, inquiries, orders, complaints, adjustments, payment, banking,
and transportation. In-company correspondence is dealt with only to the extent
necessary in business life, that is, preliminary and follow-up memorandums and
reports are discussed. Throughout the course, emphasis is laid on both the formal
and the language aspects of business correspondence, layout, style, vocabulary,
correctness, conciseness and courtesy.
Business Skills 2: Business Reading
BASpecB (Business Skills Seminar)
Part of the Business English specialization of the IEAS, this course is designed
to help interested students to improve their business English reading skills as
well as to familiarize them with the ways in which English is used in the
contexts of career and workplace, including time management, negotiations,
meetings, reports, and ethical, cultural and legal issues, as well as travel, and
promotion and advertising, as well as other related material. In addition to the
reading techniques of scanning and skimming, the development of skills such
as understanding text organization and important information in the text will
be practiced. The readings consist of authentic material taken from
newspapers, books, magazines, textbooks and manuals, covering a wide
range of topics and language styles from the colloquial to the formal.
BAENGLev
BAENGLev I.
Introduction to Literature and Culture

Kiss Attila
ANGBAL21
Fenyvesi Anna
ANGBAL31

Matuska Ágnes
ANGBAL11
English Foundation 1.
Bajnóczi Beatrix
ANGBAL51
Use of English
Rónay Zsuzsanna
ANGBAL61 (1/3)
BAENGLev II.
Theories of Culture
Bocsor Péter
Lecture, ANGBAL91
Descriptive Grammar and Syntax of English
Kenesei István
ANGBAL121

Linguistics survey course ANGBAL122 (1/3)
Marketing
Bajnóczi Beatrix
Business lecture ANGBAL-BUS21
Theorizing Literature and Culture from the Perspective of the Social

P. Balogh Andrea
Any course lecture (exc. lang.) ANGBAL141 (2/2) ANGLMIN111
Politics and Cultural Media inInterwar Britain

Cora Zoltán
Culture/History Course Seminar ANGBAL11
Business Communication: Problem Solving

Bajnóczi Beatrix
ANGBAL-BUS21
Business Skills: Reading

Haavisto Kirsi
ANGBAL-BUS21,
BAENGLev III.
Academic Reading
Haavisto Kirsi
Any Course Seminar ANGBAL15 (1/2)

Linguistics survey course ANGBAL122 (1/3)
Marketing
Bajnóczi Beatrix
Business lecture ANGBAL-BUS21

P. Balogh Andrea
Academic Writing
Bocsor Péter
ANGBAL131
Business Communication: Problem Solving
Bajnóczi Beatrix
ANGBAL-BUS21
Business Skills: Reading

Haavisto Kirsi
ANGBAL-BUS21
BAENGLevMin
Theories of Culture
Bocsor Péter
Lecture, ANGLMIN81
Introduction to Literature and Culture

Kiss Attila
ANGLMIN 1
Fenyvesi Anna
ANGLMIN 2

Matuska Ágnes
ANGLMIN3

P. Balogh Andrea
Descriptive Grammar and Syntax of English

Szécsényi Krisztina
ANGLMIN101
Use of English
Rónay Zsuzsanna
ANGLMIN61
English Foundation I.
Bajnóczi B.
ANGLMIN51
Reading skills
Haavisto K.
Language class ANGLMIN62

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General

Communication Skills, British Culture

The purpose of the seminar is to provide a general introduction to the principles

Students will be expected to work actively in class and to prepare home

This course introduces students to the morphophonology of English, the area of

Introduction to Historical Linguistics

Introduction to Applied Linguistics

The course focuses on cross-cultural pragmatics, which deals with differences in

English in Europe (NEW)

Doing sociolinguistics is a course which aims at giving both a practical and a

Conversation analysis is a sub-field of pragmatics that focuses on the analysis of

Speech act research across languages and discourses (NEW)

Introduction to Old English

Language Attitude Research

The age factor in language acquisition

Introduction to Literature and Culture I.

Introduction to American Literature and Culture 1

The course – in the form of lecture-conversations – aims at giving a survey of

American Modernism discusses modernist tendencies in American literature and

Gothic Fiction: from the Beginnings to the Postmodern

Reading the Grotesque Body. Risk, Excess, Alterity

Modern American Short Fiction

Making Both Love and War in Middle English Romance

The Lord of the Rings in Its Real and Fantastic Contexts

J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is can be read in a variety of different

The Jazz Age 1

The course offers an introduction to the US literary production of the 1920s

Migrants, Immigrants and Strangers in Contemporary Fiction (NEW)

This course is engaged in reading four contemporary fictions, Salman Rushdie’s

Gentlemen, Gentlewomen and the English Novel (18th century)

Narrative Strategies in Contemporary American Fiction

The objective of the course is to explore aspects of narratives in contemporary

Introduction to English Studies

Introduction to American Studies

American History III. The 20th-21st Centuries

Contemporary American Culture and Society

Approaches to Popular Culture

ANGBA41; ANGBAL91; ANGMIN81; ANGLMIN81; ANG-MA-2011; ANGT-MA-B2;

Cultural Theories and American Studies

This course is a survey of the making of American Studies as an institutionalized academic

Early Modern Britain

Racial and Ethnic Groups in the US: A History

US Society and Culture from 1800 to the Civil War

Symbols Lost? A Dan Brown reader ( NEW)

British and American Cinema – Histories and Industries

British Classicism: Literature and Arts in 18th century Britain

The seminar offers a survey of British Classicism in culture in the eighteenth

The History of the British Isles in the Age of Nations (NEW)

Sport as Performance (NEW)

Politics and Cultural Media in Interwar Britain (1918-1939) (NEW)

Introduction to British Aesthetics (NEW)

Contemporary British Culture and Society

Contemporary American Culture and Society

Introduction to Translation and Interpreting Theory

British and American Culture of Business World: Marketing, Promotion,

This course serves as an introduction to the field of business studies, with an

The course focuses on cross-cultural pragmatics, which deals with differences in

Designed to cover translation-specific concepts such as equivalence, explicitation

Designed to cover translation-specific concepts such as equivalence, explicitation

Business Communication: Techniques and Applications

Business Writing: In-company Correspondence

Business Writing: Company-to-company Correspondence