Course catalog

WiSe 13/14: North American Studies

M.A. in North American Studies (2005 study regulations)

024a_MA120

History of American Foreign Policy
024aA1.1
- 32407 Seminar
  Humanitarian Intervention (Jessica Gienow-Hecht)
  Schedule: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-14)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32408 Graduate Course
  Politics undressed: Intrigues, plots and covert actions in US history (Andrea Despot)
  Schedule: Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2013-10-16)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

The History of American Thought and Theories of American Culture
024aA2.1
- 32110 Lecture
  A Revolutionary Culture: Sources of America's Political Imaginary (Frank Kelleter)
  Schedule: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-14)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Cultural History of Individual Media and Aesthetic Forms of Presentation
024aA2.2
- 32113 Graduate Course
  Art and Radicalism in the United States, c. 1901-1929 (Andrew Hemingway)
  Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-30)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Regional, Ethnic, and Gender-Specific Subcultures
024aA2.3
- 32111 Lecture
  Reform, Diversity, and Cultural Nationalism in the Age of Romanticism (Frank Kelleter)
  Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-15)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32112 Graduate Course
  Expansion, Diversity, and the Rhetoric of National Self-Description, 1820-1865 (Frank Kelleter)
  Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-15)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32113 Graduate Course
  Art and Radicalism in the United States, c. 1901-1929 (Andrew Hemingway)
  Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-30)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

History of Literature
024aA3.1
- 32212 Lecture
  American Renaissance (Ulla Haselstein)
  Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-17)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32213 Graduate Course
  Muckraker, Fashionista, Cosmopolitan: Edith Wharton's Unconventional Life and Works (Katharina Motyl)
  Schedule: Do 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-17)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Theory of Literature
024aA3.2
- 32215 Graduate Course
  Strukturalismus (Ulla Haselstein)
  Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-17)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Literary Text Analysis
024aA3.3
- 32210 Seminar
  "We Who Are Dark": Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Sophia Frese)
  Schedule: Fr 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-18)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32211 Graduate Course
  Industry and Diligence: The Development of an American Work Ethic from the Colonies to the Gilded Age (Sophia Frese)
  Schedule: Fr 12:30-14:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-18)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Theories and Methods of Political Science (Import) or American Political Theory
024aA4.1
- 32512 Graduate Course
  Critical Social Theory (Boris Vormann)
  Schedule: Fr 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-18)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32513 Graduate Course
  Queer theory and politics (Benjamin James Trott)
  Schedule: Fr 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-18)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Institutions, Stakeholders, and Processes
024aA4.2
- 32514 Seminar
  Democracy in America (Christian Lammert)
  Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-17)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32515 Graduate Course
  American Urban Politics (Margarita Mayer)
  Schedule: Do 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-17)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Areas of Politics/Policy Research
024aA4.3
- 32510 Seminar
  Readings in US Politics and Policy (Christian Lammert)
  Schedule: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-16)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32511 Graduate Course
  U.S. Foreign Policy and Film (Thomas Greven)
  Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-15)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Sociological Theories of North America
024aA5.1
- 32610 Lecture
  Theories of Integration (Harald Wenzel)
  Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-14)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32512 Graduate Course
  Critical Social Theory (Boris Vormann)
  Schedule: Fr 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-18)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32611 Graduate Course Cancelled
  Late Modern Social Theory as Governmentality
  Schedule: -
  Location: keine Angabe

Exploration of Social Processes - Problem, Conflict, Crisis
024aA5.3
- 32612 Seminar Cancelled
  Managing Political Dissent: Social Movements, Political Violence and Social Control in the United States (N.N.)
  Schedule: -
  Location: keine Angabe
- 32613 Graduate Course
  Managing Family and Work in the US and Europe (Tobias Scholz)
  Schedule: Di 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-15)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

North American International Economic Policy
024aA6.3
- 32710 Seminar
  International Macroeconomics (Irwin Collier, Julia Püschel)
  Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-15)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32711 Seminar
  International Macroeconomics - Case Studies (Irwin Collier, Julia Püschel)
  Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2013-10-17)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Modules w/o courses in this semester
11 Modules
- The Societal and Cultural History of North America 024aA1.2
- Colonial History/History of the Atlantic Realm 024aA1.3
- Social Systems, Institutions, and Regulations - Meaning and Function 024aA5.2
- North American Economic Policies in a Historical Dimension 024aA6.1
- North American Domestic Economic Policy 024aA6.2
- Epochs 024aA7.1
- Theories and Methods 024aA7.2
- Culture and Society 024aA7.3
- Theoretic Linguistics 024aA8.1
- Languages in North America 024aA8.2
- Language Policies in North America 024aA8.3