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 Friday evenings from 16.30 to 18.15 or on Tuesday evenings from 17.15 to 19.00, beginning on Friday 11th November 2011 and Tuesday 15th November 2011, respectively. The course will be held on 24 evenings between November 2011 and June 2012.
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 ‘Heroines of English Literature'.
- Emma by Jane Austen
- South Riding by Winifried Holtby
- The Middle-Age of Mrs Elliot by Angus Wilson
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- Georgy Girl by Margaret Forster
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- The course will be held on 24 evenings between November 2011 and June 2012. It is also possible to join the course once it has started. Please contact us for further details.
- 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: € 530,- (late starters pay proportionally less)
- Set of books: € 60,-
- Maximum of 12 participants per group


