If your level of English is equivalent to the Cambridge Advanced (CAE) or Proficiency examinations (CPE) – Common European Framework Levels C1/C2 - you are invited to attend a Literature and Translation Course on Tuesday evenings, from 17.15 to 19.00 or on Friday evenings from 16.30 to 18.15, beginning on Tuesday 24th and Friday 27th November 2009 respectively.
The course covers aspects of English not dealt with in our normal evening classes. It provides weekly practice in the skill of translating both fictional and non-fictional texts from German into English, and an opportunity for students to become familiar with, discuss and write essays on the novels, stories and plays of a variety of writers. The literary theme for the course commencing this autumn is entitled ‘The House in English Literature’.
Course-participants are asked to read as preparation the following novels – available as a set at our reception as from 30th June - to be discussed in the order given below:
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate
- The New House by Lettice Cooper
- House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier
- A House in the Country by Jocelyn Playfair
- The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
Registration Form 2009/2010 - The course will be held on 22 evenings between November 2009 and July 2010. It is also possible to join the course once it has started. Please contact us for further details.
- Three or four course-evenings will be devoted to each of the above titles.
- It will be assumed that the course participant will have read each of the books by the first of the respective course evenings.
- Philip Moore will again be your course-leader.
- Course fee: € 460,- (late starters pay proportionally less)
- Set of books: € 74,-
