WiSe 22/23: North American Studies

B.A. in North American Studies (30 cp module offering, 2015 study regulations)

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Specialization Module A - History: History of North America to 1865
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- 32403 Advanced Seminar
  Abolitionism and Anti-Slavery Movements in North America (Maria-Michaela Hampf)
  Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-18)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32402 Advanced Seminar
  Indigenous Identity and Settler Colonialism in Canada (Lea Kröner, Anne van der Pas)
  Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-18)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Specialization Module B - History: Historiography of North American History
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- 32404 Advanced Seminar
  The United States and Japan from the Mid-19th Century to the Cold War (Maximilian Klose)
  Schedule: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-17)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Specialization Module A - Culture: Ideas and Cultural History of Specific Media
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- 32101 Advanced Seminar
  US-American Cultures of Childhood (Mahshid Mayar)
  Schedule: Fr 10:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-20)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32102 Advanced Seminar
  Evolution and Late-Nineteenth-Century Culture (Heinrich-David Baumgart)
  Schedule: Fr 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-21)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32103 Advanced Seminar
  U.S. (Un)Popular Culture in the 20th Century (Lüthe, Martin)
  Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-19)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Specialization Module B - Culture: Theories of American Culture and History of Ethnic, Regional, and Gender-Specific Cultures
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- 32103 Advanced Seminar
  U.S. (Un)Popular Culture in the 20th Century (Lüthe, Martin)
  Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-19)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Specialization Module A - Literature: Literary Periods
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- 32210 Lecture
  Freud and Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature and Culture (Ulla Haselstein)
  Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-19)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32202 Advanced Seminar
  Pandemic as Parabel: Contagion in the Literary Imagination (Tobias Alexander Annamalay Jochum)
  Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-19)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Specialization Module B - Literature: Literary Genres
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- 32201 Advanced Seminar
  Essays by women writers after WW II. Forms, cultural practices, ethics (Sophia Johanna Lohmann)
  Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-18)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32202 Advanced Seminar
  Pandemic as Parabel: Contagion in the Literary Imagination (Tobias Alexander Annamalay Jochum)
  Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-19)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32203 Advanced Seminar
  Captivity Narrative (Ulla Haselstein)
  Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-18)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Specialization Module A - Politics: Policies and Politics
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- 32501 Advanced Seminar
  Democracy, Disinformation, and Deception (Curd Benjamin Knüpfer)
  Schedule: Fr 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-21)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32503 Advanced Seminar
  Canadian Federalism (David Bosold)
  Schedule: Di 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-18)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32504 Advanced Seminar
  Armaments and International Relations (Lucas Hellemeier)
  Schedule: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-17)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32505 Advanced Seminar Cancelled
  Democratic Backsliding in the United States? (Robert Benson)
  Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-19)
  Location: 2 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 5)
- 28554a Seminar
  Comparing Media Systems (Matthias Künzler)
  Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-19)
  Location: Ihnestr.21/F Seminarraum (Ihnestr. 21)
- 32502 Seminar
  Partisan Polarization in the US (Christian Lammert)
  Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-18)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Specialization Module B - Politics: The State and Civil Society
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- 32502 Seminar
  Partisan Polarization in the US (Christian Lammert)
  Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-18)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32501 Advanced Seminar
  Democracy, Disinformation, and Deception (Curd Benjamin Knüpfer)
  Schedule: Fr 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-21)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32503 Advanced Seminar
  Canadian Federalism (David Bosold)
  Schedule: Di 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-18)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Specialization Module A - Sociology: Social Structures
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- 32604 Advanced Seminar
  The Service Sector in the USA: A Sociological Perspective (Branko Woischwill)
  Schedule: Do 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-20)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32601 Advanced Seminar
  The Political Economy of the USA in comparison (Clara Heinrich)
  Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-18)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32602 Advanced Seminar
  Identity politics: histories and theories (Andrei Belibou)
  Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-19)
  Location: 2 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 5)
- 32603 Advanced Seminar
  The political economy of the US-American welfare state: a comparative perspective (Jonas von Ciriacy-Wantrup)
  Schedule: Do 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-20)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Specialization Module B - Sociology: Social Processes
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- 32602 Advanced Seminar
  Identity politics: histories and theories (Andrei Belibou)
  Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-19)
  Location: 2 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 5)
- 32603 Advanced Seminar
  The political economy of the US-American welfare state: a comparative perspective (Jonas von Ciriacy-Wantrup)
  Schedule: Do 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-20)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32604 Advanced Seminar
  The Service Sector in the USA: A Sociological Perspective (Branko Woischwill)
  Schedule: Do 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-20)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32601 Advanced Seminar
  The Political Economy of the USA in comparison (Clara Heinrich)
  Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-18)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Specialisation Module A - Economy: Growth, Distribution, and the Economic Situation in North America
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- 32702 Seminar
  Introduction to US Economic Inequality I (Julia Püschel)
  Schedule: Do 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-20)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32703 Advanced Seminar
  Introduction to US Economic Inequality II (Julia Püschel)
  Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-20)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Specialization Module B - Economics: Economic History and Financial Markets
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- 32701 Seminar
  Topics on the History of Money and Banking in the U.S. (Wolfgang Strehl)
  Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-19)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

(R) Academic Work and Research
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- 32507 Colloquium
  B.A. Colloquium, Political Science,Sociology, Economics, History (David Bosold)
  Schedule: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-17)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Understanding North America - Module A2
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- 32001 Basic Course
  Understanding North America A (Ulla Haselstein, Sönke Kunkel, Martin Lüthe)
  Schedule: Fr 10:00-12:00, Fr 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-21)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Orientation Module: History
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- 32400 Seminar
  Migration in North American History, 1865-1990s (Sönke Kunkel)
  Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-17)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32401 Proseminar
  Doing Gender in US History: Concepts, Debates, and Developments (Maximilian Klose)
  Schedule: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-17)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Orientation Module: Culture
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- 32100 Proseminar
  Rhetoric of Continuity and Change: A Survey of American Cultural History (Hannah Spahn)
  Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-19)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Orientation Module: Literature
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- 32200 Proseminar
  Introduction to Literary Studies I (Birte Wege)
  Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-18)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Orientation Module: Politics
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- 32500 Proseminar
  US Foreign Policy: System, State, and Public (Lora Anne Viola)
  Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-18)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Orientation Module: Sociology
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- 32600 Proseminar
  Decolonizing Sociology (Markus Kienscherf)
  Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2022-10-20)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Orientation Module: Economics
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- 32700 Proseminar
  Economic Reasoning (Christopher Prömel)
  Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2022-10-19)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

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WiSe 22/23: North American Studies

B.A. in North American Studies (30 cp module offering, 2015 study regulations)

Specialization Module A - History: History of North America to 1865

Specialization Module B - History: Historiography of North American History

Specialization Module A - Culture: Ideas and Cultural History of Specific Media

Specialization Module B - Culture: Theories of American Culture and History of Ethnic, Regional, and Gender-Specific Cultures

Specialization Module A - Literature: Literary Periods

Specialization Module B - Literature: Literary Genres

Specialization Module A - Politics: Policies and Politics

Specialization Module B - Politics: The State and Civil Society

Specialization Module A - Sociology: Social Structures

Specialization Module B - Sociology: Social Processes

Specialisation Module A - Economy: Growth, Distribution, and the Economic Situation in North America

Specialization Module B - Economics: Economic History and Financial Markets

(R) Academic Work and Research

Understanding North America - Module A2

Orientation Module: History

Orientation Module: Culture

Orientation Module: Literature

Orientation Module: Politics

Orientation Module: Sociology

Orientation Module: Economics

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