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WiSe 24/25: North American Studies

B.A. in North American Studies (30 cp module offering, 2018 study regulations)

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(OM) History
0574aA2.1
- 32400 Seminar
  Gendering American History
  Schedule: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-14)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

(OM) Culture
0574aA2.2
- 32100 Proseminar
  Rhetorics of Continuity and Change: A Survey of American Cultural History (Hannah Spahn)
  Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-15)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

(OM) Literature
0574aA2.3
- 32200 Proseminar
  Introduction to Literary Studies I (James Dorson)
  Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-17)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

(OM) Politics
0574aA2.4
- 32500 Proseminar
  Introduction to Political Science: How to write a research paper (Christian Lammert)
  Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-16)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

(OM) Sociology
0574aA2.5
- 32600 Proseminar
  Capitalism and Democracy: Classical Perspectives from Economic Sociology and Political Economy (Jonas von Ciriacy-Wantrup)
  Schedule: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-16)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

(OM) Economy
0574aA2.6
- 32700 Proseminar
  Economic Reasoning
  Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-15)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

(Adv) History A - History of North America before 1865
0574aB1.1
- 32401 Advanced Seminar
  Canada before Confederation
  Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-15)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32402 Advanced Seminar
  Other-than-Human Ecologies on Turtle Island
  Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-14)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

(Adv) Economics A - Growth, Distribution, and Economic Cycles in North America
0574aB1.11
- 32701 Seminar
  Topics in Macroeconomics
  Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-14)
  Location: 2 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 5)
- 32702 Advanced Seminar
  Macroeconomic Theory and Applications
  Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-17)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

(Adv) History B - History of North America since 1865
0574aB1.2
- 32403 Advanced Seminar
  US American Wartime Nursing post-1865: Realities vs Perceptions
  Schedule: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-14)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

(Adv) Culture A - History of Ideas and Cultural History of Individual Media
0574aB1.3
- 32103 Advanced Seminar
  Investigating Noir: Classic, Neo, Eco (Max McKenna)
  Schedule: Do 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-17)
  Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32104 Advanced Seminar
  The Culture of the (Long) Civil Rights Movement: From Jean Toomer’s Cane to Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter (Martin Lüthe)
  Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-16)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32101 Advanced Seminar
  Latinx Art (Alexis Salas)
  Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-11-06)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32102 Advanced Seminar
  Exploring Digital Culture in North America & Beyond (Maya Blumenfeld)
  Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-15)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

(Adv) Culture B - Theories of American Culture and the History of Ethnic, Regional, and Gender-Specific Cultures
0574aB1.4
- 32101 Advanced Seminar
  Latinx Art (Alexis Salas)
  Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-11-06)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

(Adv) Literature A - Literary Periods
0574aB1.5
- 32202 Advanced Seminar
  Other Lives: Making Selves in Minor Modernism (Sonja Pyykkö)
  Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-15)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

(Adv) Politics A – Policies and Politics
0574aB1.7
- 32502 Seminar
  Armaments and International Relations
  Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-17)
  Location: 203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32503 Seminar
  tbc
  Schedule: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-14)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32501 Advanced Seminar
  Canadian and US Immigration Policies (David Bosold)
  Schedule: Di 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-15)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32504 Advanced Seminar
  tbc
  Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-15)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

(Adv) Sociology A - Social Structures
0574aB1.9
- 32601 Advanced Seminar
  The public sphere in democratic capitalism: Between asymmetries, control and deliberation (Clara Heinrich)
  Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-15)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32602 Advanced Seminar
  TBA (Markus Kienscherf)
  Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-17)
  Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32603 Advanced Seminar
  Methods in Quantitative Text Analysis: Exploring North American Novels (Osman Demirbag)
  Schedule: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-14)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
- 32604 Advanced Seminar
  Introductory Statistics with R analyzing State and Local Public Finance Data in the US. (Ria Wilken)
  Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2024-10-15)
  Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Modules w/o courses in this semester
6 Modules
- (P) Understanding North America A2 0176eA1.1
- (P) Understanding North America B2 0176eA1.2
- (Adv) Sociology B - Social Processes 0574aB1.10
- (Adv) Economics B - Economic History and Financial Markets 0574aB1.12
- (Adv) Module: Literature B - Literary Genres 0574aB1.6
- (Adv) Politics B - State and Civil Society 0574aB1.8