WiSe 19/20: North American Studies

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

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History (A) of American Foreign Policy
0024cA1.1
- 32411 Seminar
  U.S. Foreign Relations in the 20th-Century History (Jessica Gienow-Hecht)
  Schedule: Di 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-15)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32414 Seminar
  Sigmund Freud in the U.S. (Norbert Finzsch)
  Schedule: Fr 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-18)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32412 Graduate Course
  AI Technology and U.S. Foreign Relations (Jessica Gienow-Hecht)
  Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-15)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32413 Graduate Course
  Human Rights and Humanitarianism in International Relations since the 19th Century (Sönke Kunkel)
  Schedule: Di 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-15)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

History (C) Colonial History / History of the Atlantic Rim
0024cA1.3
- 32413 Graduate Course
  Human Rights and Humanitarianism in International Relations since the 19th Century (Sönke Kunkel)
  Schedule: Di 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-15)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Culture (A) History of American Ideas and Theories of American Culture
0024cA2.1
- 32110 Lecture
  A Revolutionary Culture: Sources of America’s Political Imaginary (Frank Kelleter)
  Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-15)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32111 Graduate Course
  Post Classical Theory (Frank Kelleter)
  Schedule: Di 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-22)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32112 Graduate Course
  American Exceptionalism (Winfried Fluck)
  Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-16)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32113 Graduate Course
  Critical Approaches to Digital Culture(s) (Sören Schoppmeier)
  Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-17)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Culture (B) Cultural History of Individual Media and Aesthetic Presentation Forms
0024cA2.2
- 32111 Graduate Course
  Post Classical Theory (Frank Kelleter)
  Schedule: Di 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-22)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32113 Graduate Course
  Critical Approaches to Digital Culture(s) (Sören Schoppmeier)
  Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-17)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32115 Graduate Course
  The Future is a Rectangle: American Modernist Architecture in its Global Context (Joshua Shannon)
  Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2019-11-06)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Culture (C ) Regional, Ethnic and Gender-specific Subcultures
0024cA2.3
- 32114 Lecture
  Reform, Diversity, and Cultural Nationalism in the Age of Romanticism (Christina Meyer)
  Schedule: Do 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-17)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32112 Graduate Course
  American Exceptionalism (Winfried Fluck)
  Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-16)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32115 Graduate Course
  The Future is a Rectangle: American Modernist Architecture in its Global Context (Joshua Shannon)
  Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2019-11-06)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32116 Graduate Course
  Formations of Blackness: The Cultures of Slaves & Free Blacks in Eighteenth-Century America (Herman Bennett)
  Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-15)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Literature A - History of Literature
0024cA3.1
- 32211 Seminar
  Frontera Fictions: Literature and the US-Mexico Border (Tobias Jochum)
  Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-17)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32210 Graduate Course
  This is awkward: of Misfits and Miscommunications (Sonja Schillings)
  Schedule: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-14)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Literature B - Theory of Literature
0024cA3.2
- 32213 Seminar
  Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies (Thomas Dikant)
  Schedule: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-14)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Literature C - Analysis of literary Texts
0024cA3.3
- 32211 Seminar
  Frontera Fictions: Literature and the US-Mexico Border (Tobias Jochum)
  Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-17)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Politics (A) - Theories and Methods of Political Science or American Political Theory
0024cA4.1
- 32510 Graduate Course
  Political Science in the U.S. (Christian Lammert)
  Schedule: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-16)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32511 Seminar
  Research Design and Methods for Political Science (Lora Anne Viola)
  Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-22)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Politics (B) - Institutions, Actors and Processes
0024cA4.2
- 32512 Seminar
  Tax and Transfer Systems in the U.S. (Christian Lammert)
  Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-16)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32513 Graduate Course Cancelled
  Rising Powers in World Politics (Lora Anne Viola)
  Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-22)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32516 Seminar
  Political Polarization in the United States: Causes and Consequences (Michael Oswald)
  Schedule: Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2019-10-14)
  Location: 2 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 5)

Politics (C ) - Policy Fields / Policy Research
0024cA4.3
- 32515 Graduate Course
  The Modern Canadian State: Governance, Identity, and Contemporary Policy Challenges (Julie Sunday)
  Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-16)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32413 Graduate Course
  Human Rights and Humanitarianism in International Relations since the 19th Century (Sönke Kunkel)
  Schedule: Di 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-15)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32510 Graduate Course
  Political Science in the U.S. (Christian Lammert)
  Schedule: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-16)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32512 Seminar
  Tax and Transfer Systems in the U.S. (Christian Lammert)
  Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-16)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Sociology (A) - Sociology Theories of North America
0024cA5.1
- 32610 Seminar
  Theories of Integration (Harald Wenzel)
  Schedule: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-14)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32611 Graduate Course
  Reassembling Functionalism (Harald Wenzel)
  Schedule: Do 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-17)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Sociology (C ) - Researching the Social Process - Problems, Conflicts, Crises
0024cA5.3
- 32612 Basic Course
  Race and Class in US Society (Markus Kienscherf)
  Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-16)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32613 Graduate Course
  Modalities of Power: Risk, Security and Control (Markus Kienscherf)
  Schedule: Fr 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-18)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32614 Graduate Course
  Becoming American: National Identity, Citizenship and Race (Min Kyung Yoo)
  Schedule: Fr 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-18)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Interdisciplinary Study A
0024cA7.1
- 32616 Seminar
  American Anarchy (Markus Kienscherf, Birte Wege)
  Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-17)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32616L Reading Course
  Lecture Course for 32616 (Markus Kienscherf, Birte Wege)
  Schedule: Do 24.10. 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-24)
  Location: 305 Konferenzraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Interdisciplinary Study B
0024cA7.2
- 32616 Seminar
  American Anarchy (Markus Kienscherf, Birte Wege)
  Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-17)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32616L Reading Course
  Lecture Course for 32616 (Markus Kienscherf, Birte Wege)
  Schedule: Do 24.10. 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-24)
  Location: 305 Konferenzraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Interdisciplinary Study C
0024cA7.3
- 32000 Lecture
  Popular Culture, Media, and Politics in the US (Curd Benjamin Knüpfer, Christina Meyer)
  Schedule: Mi 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-16)
  Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Colloquium
0024cA8.1
- 32117 Colloquium
  MA-Kolloquium Kultur/Literatur (Christina Meyer)
  Schedule: Do 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-17)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32410 Colloquium
  Forschungs- und Examenskolloquium Geschichte (Jessica Gienow-Hecht)
  Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-14)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32514 Colloquium
  Mastercolloquium Political Science (Lora Anne Viola)
  Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-22)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32615 Colloquium
  MA Colloquium Sociology (Harald Wenzel)
  Schedule: Mo 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2019-10-14)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Modules w/o courses in this semester
5 Modules
- History (B) Social and Cultural History of North America 0024cA1.2
- Sociology (B) - Social Systems, Institutions and Orders - Meaning and Function 0024cA5.2
- Economy (A) North American Economic Policy in its Historical Dimensions 0024cA6.1
- Economy (B) US Domestic Economic Policy 0024cA6.2
- Economy (C ) US Foreign Economic Policy 0024cA6.3

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WiSe 19/20: North American Studies

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

History (A) of American Foreign Policy

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 (A) - Theories and Methods of Political Science or American Political Theory

Politics (B) - Institutions, Actors and Processes

Politics (C ) - Policy Fields / Policy Research

Sociology (A) - Sociology Theories of North America

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

Interdisciplinary Study A

Interdisciplinary Study B

Interdisciplinary Study C

Colloquium

Modules w/o courses in this semester

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