PhD:
Engelbrecht, Natasha (2021) (PhD) Establishing Principles for the Re-Conceptualising of Teaching Materials for German Foreign Language Courses in Higher Education in Southern Africa: Transforming Teaching and Learning Practices. (Supervisor: Prof. U.S. Weber)
Ortner, Gwyndolen J. (2020) (PhD): Using Blended Learning and Corpora as Tools to aid the Transformation of Teaching and Learning of German as a Foreign Language: Action Research Conducted at Rhodes University. (Supervisor: Dr. U.S. Weber)
Weber, Undine S. (2014/15) (PhD) Wolfgang Koeppens Auseinandersetzung mit der Tradition: Aspekte der Intertextualität in der so genannten Nachkriegs-Trilogie. (Supervisors: T. Martin & G. Pakendorf)
MA:
Neilson, Christopher (2024) (MA) Moral Disgust in Klaus Mann’s Mephisto and Goethe’s Faust. (Supervisors: Prof. U.S. Weber & Dr. N. Engelbrecht)
Schafli, Sasha-Lee (2020) (MA): Pedagogic Videos as a Foreign Language Learning Resource in Textbooks used in the German Studies Section of a South African University: A Digital Multimodal Discourse Perspective. (Supervisors: Dr. I. Siebörger & Dr. U.S. Weber)
Collins, Morgan G. (2016-2017) (MA, distinction): Developing internal intercultural communication skills in the German Studies classroom at Rhodes University: an action research approach. (Supervisors: Dr. U.S. Weber & J. Reynolds)
Ortner, Gwyndolen J. (2014-2015) (MA, distinction): A Corpus-Based Approach to Writing in German as a Foreign Language in the South African Tertiary Context. (Supervisors: U.S. Weber & S. Jaworska)
Thabane, Mathaabe D. (2013-2015) (MA, distinction): Kafka in Translation: A Comparative Analysis of Selected German-English Translations of Franz Kafka’s Das Urteil (The Judgment) and Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis). (Supervisors: R.S.C. Domingo & U.S. Weber)
Zipp, Gisela L. (2011-2013) (MA, distinction): A History of German Settlers in the Eastern Cape 1857 - 1919. (Supervisor: U.S. Weber)
Diploma:
Engelbrecht, Natasha (2016-2017) (Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education, distinction): My Curriculum – My Madagascar. (Supervisor: M. Skead, CHERTL)
BA (Hons):
Gerber, Chloé (2022) (BAH): Political and cultural influences on the diplomatic translation process and product of German-translated documents at the United Nations. (Supervisor: N. Engelbrecht)
Neilson, Christopher John (2021) (BAH): The Mask Comes Off: a Close Reading of Two Passages from Klaus Mann’s Mephisto. How is theatre used to both cultivate and devalue ‘Germanness’? (Supervisor: U.S. Weber)
Fourie, Emma (2020) (BAH): Teaching Modal Particles to intermediate German Foreign Language Learners at a South African University. (Supervisor: N. Engelbrecht)
Damji, Amira (2019) (BAH): Under the Lens of Photography: Holocaust Memories in the making. (Supervisor: N. Engelbrecht)
Schafli, Sasha-Lee (2018) (BAH, distinction): The Use of Stereotypes within South African Television Car Advertising using the German Language: A Social Semiotic Approach (Supervisor: Dr U.S. Weber)
Narshai, Kirani (2016) (BAH): The Translator’s task in the Domestication and Foreignisation of Poems by Yang Lian and Paul Celan. (Supervisor: N. Engelbrecht)
Moses, Sharon R. (2016) (BAH): Interlingual Subtitling and Equivalence in Audio-Visual Media: Translating Culture and Humour in Bora Dagtekin’s Fack ju Göhte and Wolfgang Becker’s Good Bye, Lenin! (Supervisor: N. Engelbrecht)
Thompson, Kelsey (2015) (BAH): Socio-historical Influences in Translations and Re-Workings of the Brothers’ Grimm Fairy Tales. (Supervisor: N. Engelbrecht)
Collins, Morgan G. (2014) (BAH, distinction): Teaching Intercultural Competency and the Importance of Context: the Business Example. (Supervisor: R.S.C. Domingo)
Stretch, Stephanie (2014) (BAH, distinction): From Dürrenmatt to Neuhaus: What draws the German (speaking) audiences to crime stories? A socio-historical analysis. (Supervisor: U.S. Weber)
Ortner, Gwyndolen J. (2013) (BAH, distinction): A pilot study for the proposed Masters Dissertation, 2014. Examining the formal writing skills of German Studies 3 students, using corpus linguistics, to uncover common lexical and morphosyntactic errors in student writing. (Supervisor: U.S. Weber)
Thabane, Mathaabe D. (2012) (BAH, distinction): The History and Development of Translation Studies: A study of the emergent sub-fields of Commercial Translation, Machine Translation, Human-Aided Machine Translation, and their impact on Human Translation. (Supervisor: R.S.C. Domingo)
Nel, Nicole (2011) (BAH, distinction): Guilt, Shame and Forgiveness after World War II: Reflections on Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser and Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower. (Supervisor: U.S. Weber)
Siegelaar, Carmen (2010) (BAH): The Jewish Diaspora in Berlin: how Jewish identity and culture has been influenced by constructs of the memory of the Holocaust („Shoa Gedenken”) in and around Berlin in recent times. (Supervisor: U.S. Weber)
Zipp, Gisela L. (2010) (BAH, distinction): Linguistic and Cultural Challenges Inherent to German-to-English Literary Translation. (Supervisor: R.S.C. Domingo)
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