{"id":6,"date":"2016-05-12T05:51:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T05:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-06-05T09:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:40:16","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I teach descriptive grammar, linguistics and the history of English at the Department of English and am also active in the MA-level\u00a0 Language Specialist Degree Programme (&#8216;KIAS&#8217;) at the School of Languages and Translation Studies.<\/p>\n<p>In the autumn term, my programme at the English Department normally includes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grammar 1<\/li>\n<li>English Language and Linguistics (guest lecture\/s)<\/li>\n<li>Linguistics Proseminar<\/li>\n<li>Texts and Contexts I (team-taught)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the spring term, I ordinarily teach<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grammar 2<\/li>\n<li>The Story of English<\/li>\n<li>Linguistics Proseminar<\/li>\n<li>Texts and Contexts II (team-taught methodology course)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please check the Study Guide for details.<\/p>\n<p>I also offer a number of independent courses\/electives, with more information in the Study Guide:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Old English<\/li>\n<li>Middle English<\/li>\n<li>Structures of English<\/li>\n<li>English Lexis<\/li>\n<li>Language Contact<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also supervise theses on the BA, MA and PhD levels.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the Department&#8217;s Academic Advisors, I give both freshers and older students &#8211; including English minors &#8211; help and advice with studies and personal study plans.<\/p>\n<p>Office hours: bookable by email or at asio.utu.fi; excluding Reading Weeks and holidays.<\/p>\n<p>For more, please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utu.fi\/en\/university\/faculty-of-humanities\/english\">English Department pages<\/a> or the University of Turku intranet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I teach descriptive grammar, linguistics and the history of English at the Department of English and am also active in the MA-level\u00a0 Language Specialist Degree Programme (&#8216;KIAS&#8217;) at the School of Languages and Translation Studies. In the autumn term, my programme at the English Department normally includes Grammar 1 English Language and Linguistics (guest lecture\/s) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":78,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/skaffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}