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Starting Teaching

The Teaching Centre supports you in your first teaching experiences through the co-teaching program or in the organization of a workshop series. The reflection of your experiences and approaches is encouraged through individual portfolio work.

Co-Teaching

Co-Teaching

Gaining Teaching Experience - Realising Teaching Ideas: The Teaching Centre's Co-Teaching-Programme

The basic idea is that you work closely with a lecturer and conduct a small teaching unit in one course (e.g. one or two sessions). This will enable you to gain teaching experience at university with the help of an experienced mentor, and to realise your own teaching ideas. Conversely, you will bring innovative research approaches and topics of the study of culture to undergraduate courses.

If you are interested in participating in the Co-Teaching-Programme, please contact the Teaching Centre by March 05 / September 05 and send us the following information:

  • your department
  • your dissertation project
  • your supervisor
  • a topic or field of research in which you would like to gain teaching experience
  • your teaching language(s)
  • 2-3 suggestions (or more) for concrete courses in which you would like to participate in a Co-Teaching

To do so, please look at the Vorlesungsverzeichnis, which will be available from March/September 1 onwards.

The Teaching Centre will take care of the 'matching' and establish the contact with the lecturer.

If you have already organized your own matching for a co-teaching in the upcoming term, you are also very welcome to register for the programme to provide an official framework for your experience and to receive a certificate in the end. To register, please send us the following information: working title of your dissertation; title, date and time of the seminar; name of the lecturer and department.

Co-Teaching Certificate: Successful participation in the Co-Teaching-Programme can be recognized with a certificate. To receive your certificate, please hand in a short report (approximately two pages) after the end of term by filling out the blank spaces and by answering the questions in the following document: Template Co-Teaching Report.

 

Please name your report as follows: Surname_First name_Co-Teaching Report_Semester.

 

Please note: Please only apply if you can make sure that you will be present preferably the whole semester. Please note that participation in co-teaching is only possible up to two times.

 

There will be two basic seminars at the GCSC, whose participation is recommended but voluntary:

  • Wednesday, 23.04.2025, 2 pm - 6 pm, with apl. Prof. Dr. Michael Basseler: Designing a Course Syllabus
  • Monday, 12.05.2025, 9 am - 1 pm, with Prof. Dr. Claudia Hattendorff: Designing a Course Session

We are looking forward to seeing you!


Contact: teaching.centre@gcsc.uni-giessen.de

 

IPP Workshop Series

IPP Workshop Series

The IPP Workshop Series offers IPP and GCSC members the opportunity to lead a workshop on current concepts and methods in the Study of culture.

The aim of the workshop series is to create an interactive discussion group for doctoral candidates and students. The topics can range from general introductions to various "schools" of literary and cultural theory to concepts, methods and topics of literary and cultural theory.

The workshops always take place in the winter semester. They are coordinated by the IPP, whose mailing list is also used for the announcement. Participants receive feedback on their planning from the IPP team and take part in a preparatory workshop on didactic principles. 

Further Information and the current dates

For further questions please write an e-mail to ipp

Teaching Portfolio

Teaching Portfolio

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In your GCSC teaching portfolio, you will collect all proofs of teaching activities, credentials and certificates from higher education teacher training and further education, as well as a subjective component consisting of your reflections on your own teaching principles and what you wish to see in education. In your applications here and beyond the purview of the university – on the job market, for instance – the portfolio will serve as proof of your rigorous qualifications in all areas of teaching and imparting knowledge.

The tradition, begun in the Anglo-American diaspora, of providing documentation of pedagogical qualifications when applying for employment, is now increasingly common in Germany. The quality of your teaching portfolio will be ensured by a final certification from the Teaching Centre itself.

Do you have questions about the GCSC teaching portfolios? Drop us a line: ! You'll also find select literature on putting together a teaching portfolio under the category for documentation of teacher competency/teaching portfolios in our tertiary teaching-training bibliography.

For download:


Example: René Dietrich's Teaching Portfolio

Doctoral Student Lectures

Doctoral Student Lectures

These talks by researchers provided students with a concise, practical overview of the main areas of each field that can be taken to the classroom or the exam, allowing the students to benefit from the scholarly activities in the study of culture at the GCSC. At the same time, the lecture itself gave doctoral candidates the chance to garner an essential higher-education qualification, an initial foray into preparing and delivering a substantial speech.
Alongside specialized mentorship from higher-education instructors from each subject area, the GCSC's Teaching Centre gave doctoral students coaching on presentation and speech strategies, and supported all aspects of a successful talk.

 

Review:

 

(Post-)Doctoral Student Lectures Summer Term 2018

Anglistik: "How to do Literary and Cultural Studies: Methods of Analysis"
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet und Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning

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(Post-)Doctoral Student Lectures Summer Term 2016

Germanistik: "Komparatistik und Kulturwissenschaften"
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Kirsten von Hagen und Prof. Dr. Annette Simonis

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(Post-)Doktorand_innenvorlesung im SoSe 2016

Anglistik: "How to do Literary and Cultural Studies: Methods of Analysis"
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet und Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning

>> Lecture Program

Doctoral Student Lectures Winter Term 2015

Geschichte: "Weg von der Meistererzählung: Neue Perspektiven der Kulturgeschichte"
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Stefan Rohdewald

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Doctoral Student Lectures Summer Term 2013

Anglistik: „Schlüsselthemen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik / Key Topics in English Studies and American Studies“
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet und Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning

 

Doctoral Student Lectures Summer Term 2012

Anglistik: „Schlüsselthemen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik / Key Topics in English Studies and American Studies“
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet und Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning

 

Doctoral Student Lectures Summer Term 2011

Anglistik: „Schlüsselthemen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik / Key Topics in English Studies and American Studies“
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet und Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning

 

Doctoral Student Lectures Summer Term 2010

Anglistik: „Schlüsselthemen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik / Key Topics in English and American Studies“
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet und Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning

Germanistik: "Vom Pergament zum Internet: Medien und Schriftkultur"
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Annette Simonis

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Doctoral Student Lectures Summer Term 2009

Anglistik: „Schlüsselthemen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik / Key Topics in English and American Studies“
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet und Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning

 

Doctoral Student Lectures Winter Term 2008/09

Germanistik: „Intertextualität und Intermedialität“
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Cora Dietl

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Geschichte / Kunstgeschichte: „Neuere Konzepte und Fragestellungen in den Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften“
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Horst Carl und Prof. Dr. Silke Tammen

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Doctoral Student Lectures Summer Term 2008

Anglistik: „Schlüsselthemen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik / Key Topics in English and American Studies“
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet und Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning