SoSe 15: North American Studies

M.A. in North American Studies (2012 study regulations)

024c_MA120

History (B) Social and Cultural History of North America
024cA1.2
- 32408 Graduate Course
  Photography and Visual Culture in 19th and 20th Century America (Maria-Michaela Hampf)
  Schedule: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-13)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32409 S/HS (Seminar/Graduate Seminar)
  U.S. History, 1776-1900 (Jessica Gienow-Hecht)
  Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

History (C) Colonial History / History of the Atlantic Rim
024cA1.3
- 32514 Graduate Course
  Liberal Nationalism and American Empire (Boris Vormann)
  Schedule: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-13)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 14639 Seminar
  The Black-Jewish Alliance in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s (David Jünger)
  Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-16)
  Location: Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, Sophienstraße 22a, 10178 Berlin; Raum 1.01

Culture (A) History of American Ideas and Theories of American Culture
024cA2.1
- 32110 Lecture
  A Revolutionary Culture: Sources of America's Political Imaginary (Frank Kelleter)
  Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-13)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32111 Graduate Course
  The American Enlightenment: Discourses, Politics, Narratives (Frank Kelleter)
  Schedule: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-13)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32112 Graduate Course
  All New! Functions of Novelty in American Cultural Theory and Practice (Alexander Starre)
  Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32113 Graduate Course
  Neoliberal Culture (Simon Schleusener)
  Schedule: Do 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-16)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Culture (B) Cultural History of Individual Media and Aesthetic Presentation Forms
024cA2.2
- 32112 Graduate Course
  All New! Functions of Novelty in American Cultural Theory and Practice (Alexander Starre)
  Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32113 Graduate Course
  Neoliberal Culture (Simon Schleusener)
  Schedule: Do 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-16)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32115 Graduate Course
  From Public Sculpture to Public Art (Michele Bogart (Terra Gastprofessur))
  Schedule: Mi 14:00-17:00 (Class starts on: 2015-05-20)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32116 Graduate Course
  Beyond The Black Atlantic: African Americans and US Popular Culture (Martin Lüthe)
  Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Culture (C ) Regional, Ethnic and Gender-specific Subcultures
024cA2.3
- 32114 Lecture
  Reform, Diversity, and Cultural Nationalism in the Age of Romanticism (Frank Kelleter)
  Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32115 Graduate Course
  From Public Sculpture to Public Art (Michele Bogart (Terra Gastprofessur))
  Schedule: Mi 14:00-17:00 (Class starts on: 2015-05-20)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32116 Graduate Course
  Beyond The Black Atlantic: African Americans and US Popular Culture (Martin Lüthe)
  Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Literature A - History of Literature
024cA3.1
- 32210 Graduate Course
  The Puritans and American Studies (Florian Sedlmeier)
  Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Literature B - Theory of Literature
024cA3.2
- 32216 Graduate Course
  Phototexts (Mary Ann Snyder-Körber)
  Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-16)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Literature C - Analysis of literary Texts
024cA3.3
- 32212 Graduate Course
  Jameses: Rewriting Themes of International Modernity (Mary Ann Snyder-Körber)
  Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-16)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32215 Seminar
  Queer Transnational Writing and the Work of Christopher Isherwood (Ben Robbins)
  Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Politics (B) - Institutions, Actors and Processes
024cA4.2
- 32510 Graduate Course
  The American Worker, the US Labor Movement, and Film (Thomas Greven)
  Schedule: Do 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-16)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32511 Seminar
  The politics of the U.S. Supreme Court (Pawel Laidler)
  Schedule: Di 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32515 Graduate Course
  Clash of Law and Politics in the U.S. (Pawel Laidler)
  Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
  Location: 2 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 5)

Politics (C ) - Policy Fields / Policy Research
024cA4.3
- 32511 Seminar
  The politics of the U.S. Supreme Court (Pawel Laidler)
  Schedule: Di 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32512 Seminar
  Inequality and Political Participation (Christian Lammert)
  Schedule: Fr 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-17)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32513 Seminar
  Cyberpolitics, Online Publics and the Power of the Net (Curd Benjamin Knüpfer)
  Schedule: Fr 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-17)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32514 Graduate Course
  Liberal Nationalism and American Empire (Boris Vormann)
  Schedule: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-13)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32515 Graduate Course
  Clash of Law and Politics in the U.S. (Pawel Laidler)
  Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
  Location: 2 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 5)

Sociology (B) - Social Systems, Institutions and Orders - Meaning and Function
024cA5.2
- 32610 Basic Course / Seminar
  Autonomy, Control and Bodily practices: A Sociology of the Body (Markus Kienscherf)
  Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32611 Graduate Course
  What's love got to do with it? Theorizing Capitalist Crisis as Crises of Social Reproduction: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives (Jana Gerlach)
  Schedule: Mi 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-22)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Sociology (C ) - Researching the Social Process - Problems, Conflicts, Crises
024cA5.3
- 14639 Seminar
  The Black-Jewish Alliance in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s (David Jünger)
  Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-16)
  Location: Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, Sophienstraße 22a, 10178 Berlin; Raum 1.01

Economy (C ) US Foreign Economic Policy
024cA6.3
- 32710 Seminar
  International Macroeconomics (Irwin Collier)
  Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32711 Graduate Course
  International Macroeconomics - Case Studies (Irwin Collier)
  Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-16)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Interdisciplinary Study A
024cA7.1
- 32214 Advanced graduate seminar
  Literature and Economics in the Two Gilded Ages (James Dorson, Julia Püschel)
  Schedule: Mi 16:00-17:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32214L Advanced graduate seminar
  Literature and Economics Lektürekurs (James Dorson Julia Püschel)
  Schedule: Mi 17:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32516 Advanced graduate seminar
  The US in the Middle East (Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Lora Viola)
  Schedule: Di 14:00-15:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32516L Reading Course
  The US in the Middle East (Jessica Gienow-Hecht)
  Schedule: Di 15:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Interdisciplinary Study B
024cA7.2
- 32214 Advanced graduate seminar
  Literature and Economics in the Two Gilded Ages (James Dorson, Julia Püschel)
  Schedule: Mi 16:00-17:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32214L Advanced graduate seminar
  Literature and Economics Lektürekurs (James Dorson Julia Püschel)
  Schedule: Mi 17:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32516 Advanced graduate seminar
  The US in the Middle East (Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Lora Viola)
  Schedule: Di 14:00-15:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32516L Reading Course
  The US in the Middle East (Jessica Gienow-Hecht)
  Schedule: Di 15:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Colloquium
024cA8.1
- 32213 Colloquium
  Mastercolloquium Literatur/Kultur (MaryAnn Snyder-Körber)
  Schedule: Fr 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-17)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32220 Colloquium
  Forschungscolloquium der Abt Literatur und Kultur (Frank Kelleter; MaryAnn Snyder-Körber)
  Schedule: Mi 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32410 Colloquium
  Forschungs- und Examenscolloquium Geschichte (Jessica Gienow-Hecht)
  Schedule: Mo 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-13)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32530 Colloquium
  Masterkolloquium Nordamerikastudien (Christian Lammert)
  Schedule: Mi 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32612 Colloquium
  Masterkolloquium Soziologie (Harald Wenzel)
  Schedule: Mi 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-22)
  Location: 305 Konferenzraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32713 Colloquium
  Masterkolloquium Wirtschaft (Irwin Collier)
  Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-16)
  Location: keine Angabe

Modules w/o courses in this semester
6 Modules
- History (A) of American Foreign Policy 024cA1.1
- Politics (A) - Theories and Methods of Political Science or American Political Theory 024cA4.1
- Sociology (A) - Sociology Theories of North America 024cA5.1
- Economy (A) North American Economic Policy in its Historical Dimensions 024cA6.1
- Economy (B) US Domestic Economic Policy 024cA6.2
- Interdisciplinary Study C 024cA7.3

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SoSe 15: North American Studies

M.A. in North American Studies (2012 study regulations)

History (B) Social and Cultural History of North America

History (C) Colonial History / History of the Atlantic Rim

Culture (A) History of American Ideas and Theories of American Culture

Culture (B) Cultural History of Individual Media and Aesthetic Presentation Forms

Culture (C ) Regional, Ethnic and Gender-specific Subcultures

Literature A - History of Literature

Literature B - Theory of Literature

Literature C - Analysis of literary Texts

Politics (B) - Institutions, Actors and Processes

Politics (C ) - Policy Fields / Policy Research

Sociology (B) - Social Systems, Institutions and Orders - Meaning and Function

Sociology (C ) - Researching the Social Process - Problems, Conflicts, Crises

Economy (C ) US Foreign Economic Policy

Interdisciplinary Study A

Interdisciplinary Study B

Colloquium

Modules w/o courses in this semester

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