Angol Nyelv és Kultúra Intézeti Tanszék

Szakdolgozati témajavaslatok

(3. éves BA és 5. éves osztatlan tanárszakosok számára)

 

Dr. Ajtay-Horváth Magda

  1. The Figure of Pocahontas in History, Arts and Collective Imagination
  2. The Theme of the Railroad in American Literature
  3. The Motif of Wilderness (Woods) in Colonial and 19th Century American Literature
  4. The River Mississippi in Literature
  5. Civil Disobedience  -  from the ideas of Thoreau  to an Ideology  Shaping Modern History
  6. The Metaphors expressing Time in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry
  7. Loneliness in Cormac McCarthy’s novels
  8. The motif of  journey in American Literature ( from Captain John Smith to Cormac McCarthy)
  9. Ancient Mythology Reinterpreted in Madeline Miller’s novels (Circe, Song of Achilles)
  10. The Vietnam war in the novels of Tim O'Brian (The Thing they Carried, Going After Cacciato)
  11. The Satirical Image of America in Tim O'Brian's Fantastica
  12. Social Criticism of America in Don deLillo's Falling Man 

 

Dr. Bárány Béla

  1. Gender and heroism in the military world of James Jones’s “From Here to Eternity”

  2. War trauma, disillusionment, and the lost generation in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”

  3. Identity, youth, and beauty in Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”: parallels with contemporary social media culture

  4.  Childhood and social pressure in Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre” and Charles Dickens’s “Oliver Twist”

     

    Kiss Sándor

    • The Role of the Environment in American Culture.
    • The Hetch Hetchy Debate and Its Importance.
    • The Image of Nature in William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses.
    • The Green New Deal and the Future of American Economy.
    • The Counterculture and the Environmental movement in the US.
    • The US Involvement in Climate Agreements (Montréal, Rio, Kyoto, Paris)
    • The Political Narratives of Climate Change in the US.
    • Any topic the student believes to be worthy of discussion, previously agreed on with the consultant.

     

    László Regina

    1. The Representation of the British Royal Family in Television
    2. The Changing Public Image of the British Royal Family
    3. National Identity and Cultural Representation in Britain 
    4. Transformation from Empire to Commonwealth 

     

    Dr. Lukács Béla

    1. Australian Icons on the Screen
    2. Anglicisms on the Hungarian Net
    3. Aboriginal Creation Stories: the Dreaming
    4. The Representation of the 'Dusty Outback' in 'Banjo' Paterson's and Harry Lawson's works
    5. The Asians through Australian Eyes: 1850s - early 2020s
    6. The Eureka Stockade and the Klondike: The Similarities and Differences of Two Major Gold Rushes in the 19th Century
    7. The Gallipoli Campaign (1915-1916), as Experienced by the Soldiers in the Trenches

     

    Dr. Somfalvi Zita

    1.  The benefits and drawbacks of communicative language teaching
    2. Students' foreign language knowledge in higher education
    3.  Gamification in foreign language learning
    4. Foreign language learning strategies of school leavers in primary education
    5. Accounting for differences among foreign language learners
    6. The effect of social capital on foreign language learning
    7. "Digital natives" and foreign language learning
    8. Priority of language learning in Europe and Hungary
    9. The effect of the 1989 change of regime on language education
    10. Culture and language education in the 20th century (postmaterialism and individualism - basic trends of change of the values)

     

    Dr. Szőke Dávid

    1. Postwar British and American Film
    2. Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century British Literature
    3. Literature, Exile, and Migration
    4. Identity and Representation in Contemporary Literature and Film

     

    Dr. Tukacs Tamás

    (NB: the topics below are very broad themes which will have to be significantly narrowed down after consultation with the supervisor)

    1. Family dynamics in some 19th-century British novels
    2. Colonial encounters in 18th-century British novels
    3. Film adaptation of famous English-language literary works (novels or plays)
    4. Hungarian Translations of Shakespeare's Hamlet
    5. Money in 19th or 20th century English-language fiction
    6. Sensation, sensibility, sensitivity and sensuality in Gothic novels
    7. Any other literary, historical or cultural topic the student is interested in and thinks is worth discussing in a thesis (consult supervisor)

     

    Dr. Vesszős Balázs

    1. Intercultural communication (in general, in international companies, in language learning and teaching)
    2. Intercultural communicative competence (in education, in business organisations)
    3. Intercultural encounters at the University of Nyíregyháza
    4. Cultural values (in higher education, in intercultural business organisations)
    5. Dimensions (time, space, human nature, human activity, personal relationships) of intercultural communication
    6. The analysis of speech acts in intercultural communication (general and specific discourse)
    7. Forms of politeness in intercultural interactions
    8. Discourse analysis of classroom interaction
    9. Business English as a Lingua Franca (BELF) communication
    10. English for Specific Purposes (ESP)

    Weboldal kezelője: Dr. Tukacs Tamás