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Teaching and Examining

A. Teaching Qualifications/Awards

B. Undergraduate Teaching

C. Postgraduate Teaching

D. Invited lectures / workshops

E. Examining

 

A. Teaching Qualifications/Awards :

  • 1989, completion of Spielleiterausbildung (three semester training course in drama and theatre pedagogy) at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg;
  • since 1989 numerous in-service courses at institutions in Germany, Ireland and Great Britain.
  • 2002: UCC President's Award for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching and Learning.

B. Undergraduate Teaching in 2005/2006

See Book of Modules for detailed course descriptions.

1. departmental courses

Course Materials 2005/2006
details available on Blackboard at http://barra.ucc.ie




C. Postgraduate Teaching

1. MA Programme in Drama and Theatre Studies

I have taught on this inter-departmental programme since 1998.
My contribution in previous years included the following modules:

DR5002 Theory and Practice of Theatre
DR5004 Research Skills
DR5006 Research Dissertation

(note: no teaching on this programme in 05/06 due to leave of absence):

2. MA Programme in Applied Linguistics


Since 1998 I have taught on this inter-departmental programme,
from 2001 to 2005: Programme Director
My contribution in previous years included the following modules:

  • AL 6001 Aspects of Applied Linguistics (Teaching Period 1)
  • AL 6003 Areas of Specialisation in Applied Linguistics (Teaching Period 2)
  • AL 6000 Research Dissertation

    (note: no teaching on this programme in 05/06 due to leave of absence):


D. Invited lectures / workshops

planned for 2006 (September):

Invitations in 2004/05 included:

  • DAAD London/University of Oxford (September 05)
  • Goethe Institute Llubljana (April 05)
  • University of Florence (February 04)
  • Goethe Institute Berlin (June 04)
  • Taras Sevchenko National University Kiev (September 04)
  • German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn (September 04)


    List of institutions
    from which i
    nvitations to give lectures and workshops have been received, including more extensive teaching projects in co-operation with some of these institutions:

1. Universities :

  • Germany: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; Universität Hamburg (Zentrales Fremdspracheninstitut), Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Zentrum für Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung; Zentrum für Pädagogische Berufspraxis; Oldenburger Fortbildungszentrum; IBKM); Universität Jena; Universität Hannover; Universität Dresden
  • Austria: University of Vienna; University of Graz;
  • Greece: Aristoteles University Thessaloniki;
  • Italy: University of Bologna; University of Florence
  • Great Britain: University of Durham/GB; University of London, King?s College; University of Central England, Birmingham; University of Essex
  • United States: University of Missouri, St. Louis;
  • New Zealand: University of Christchurch,
  • Ukraine: Taras Sevchenko National University Kiev.

2. German Academic Exchange Service /
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst

DAAD Paris; DAAD London; DAAD Bonn

3. Goethe Institutes / German Institutes:

Bremen; Göttingen; Schwäbisch Hall; Frankfurt; Düsseldorf; Munich, Berlin; Amsterdam; Athens; Thessaloniki; Budapest; Lisbon; Brussels; Dublin; Manchester; Lille; Milan; Trieste; Montreal; Ottawa; Toronto; Chicago; Boston; St. Louis; Houston; Kiev.

4. Austria-Institutes:
Vienna and Bratislava.

5. Theatres:

Weimar: Nationaltheater; Berlin: Berliner Ensemble, Schiller-Theater, Gorki Theater, Grips Theater, Deutsches Theater, Volksbühne

 

E. Examining

I have acted as External Examiner for the following institutions: