Moodle UDE

Das Forschungskolloquium bietet die Möglichkeit eines Austauschs über laufende oder anvisierte Forschungsprojekte (Bachelor, Master, Promotion). Eingeladen sind daher sämtliche Studierende, die über eine Abschlussarbeit oder auch weitergehende Projekte aus dem Bereich der französischen Sprachwissenschaft nachdenken. Ein wichtiger Schwerpunkt des Kolloquiums wird die Frage sein, in welchem Rahmen die Linguistik politisch ist oder politisch sein kann. Tragen sprachwissenschaftliche Diskussionen etwa zur Diskussion um das Gendern bei? Wie ist das Verhältnis zwischen deskriptiver Linguistik und den Debatten um Sprachnormen in der Gesellschaft? Steht das politische Engagement einzelner Linguisten - man denke an Noam Chomsky - in irgend einem Zusammenhang mit deren sprachwissenschaftlichen Theorien?

This seminar is about the interconnectedness of language and social identity, looking at how human beings use language in order to construct, manage, and project parts of their identity within a group. Our focus will be on Communities of Practice (CoP), a concept originally taken from anthropology and learning theory, which has been defined in linguistics as “an aggregate of people who come together around mutual engagement in an endeavor” (Eckert & McConnell-Ginet 1992: 464). Through frequent interaction within the same group, e.g. for a shared hobby, people develop a sense of community. One important part of that is that they start sharing linguistic norms and ideals. We will study how exactly this happens and how such processes can be studied within the framework of Sociolinguistics. Throughout the term, we will read some seminal publications in the field and investigate different types CoPs, encompassing different social backgrounds and including social networks found online. We will explore models used to describe language use and methods of data collection. Students choosing this course should be avid readers and should share an interest in variational linguistics and identity-related language use. The course is open to all students who have successfully completed Modules Ling1 and Ling2 and have obtained their Bachelor’s degree or have started to work on their Bachelor’s thesis (please check your study programme guidelines).

Preparatory readings

Meyerhoff, Miriam, and Anna Strycharz (2013) “Communities of Practice.” In: J.K. Chambers and Natalie Schilling (eds), The Handbook of Language Variation and Change. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. 428–447. (book downloadable via university library)

Also note any current lectures on language variation and change in the Humanities faculty.

The objective of the module is to familiarise students with community-research partnerships and their application to a practical socioeconomic problem. Students will be facilitated in leading their own learning and how to develop a proposal consistent with the principles, politics and practices of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR).

CBPR aims for mutually-beneficial collaboration between researchers and community members in designing and implementing research projects to meet local needs. The approach emphasises the value of experiential learning and critically exploring the epistemological reasoning for and typical assumptions about doing social research, how humans and social structures can be best studied, and who should control the process of how knowledge is produced. Students will gain both an introduction to CBPR approaches and their implementation, responding to the research needs of local community partners and the socioeconomic issues surrounding migrant workers in the hidden economy of Marxloh.

Informal, "hidden" or "shadow" economic activity and the socioeconomic marginalisation of migrant workers within the European Union (EU) have become major topics of academic, policy and public interest in recent years. Germany and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia especially has recently attracted attention given outbreaks of the Covid-19 virus in communities of Roma, Bulgarian and Romanian workers, bringing previously hidden pictures of poor living and working conditions, as well as accusations of "systemic exploitation" and "modern slavery" into public view. Mobile migrant workers in Marxloh, some of which have limited legal rights and social welfare protection within the EU, are living and working within a socioeconomic context that is generally detached and obscured from the mainstream economy and society.

Critical reflection and active engagement form a key expectation of the course. Students prepare in the week before the class by reading, reflecting, answering questions and formulating key points on given texts to be provided on Moodle one week before class. Students are also expected to prepare a research proposal for the community partner’s tender call, while their understanding upon completion of the course will be assessed through an oral exam. The course will be conducted in-person (with appropriate measures, Covid-19 restrictions permitting) and in both English and German.

How can we understand European integration and its regional development from a global perspective? 

How can we understand European integration and its regional development from a global perspective? 

Die „virtuelle Optimierung" mit Hilfe eines Computers ist sehr viel kostengünstiger und effizienter als das traditionelle Vorgehen mittels Bau und Prüfung von Prototypen-Reihen.

Die möglichen Einsatzbereiche finden sich in vielen Sparten der modernen Elektrotechnik: z.B. Wirbelstromprobleme bei elektrischen Maschinen, Mikrowellen-Schaltungen und -Antennen, optische Komponenten, Radarsysteme, Streuungsprobleme und die elektromagnetische Kompatibilität.

Der CEM-1 Kurs hat zwei wesentliche Ziele:

• Die Vermittlung von Grundkenntnissen über die drei wichtigsten Methoden zur numerischen Lösung von Elektromagnetik-Problemen, namentlich die Finite-Differenzen Methode (FDM, auch FDTD = Finite-Difference Time-Domain), die Finite-Elemente Methode (FEM) und die Momenten-Methode (MoM, auch BEM = Boundary Element Method).
  
  
• Die "sichere" und effiziente Benutzung von (kommerziellen) Simulations-Werkzeugen auf Basis der o.g. numerischen Methoden, namentlich EMPIRE XPU™ von der IMST GmbH, das open-source FDTD Programm OpenEMS, der FEM-solver COMSOL Multiphysics™ und das MoM-basierte tool FEKO™ von Altair Engineering. Die entsprechenden Kenntnisse werden durch das Durcharbeiten von sog. Tutorials (Übungen am PC) vertieft.