Bachelor Courses
Module “Society, History, and Politics I” (04-001-1002)
Lecture: Constructing North American History I: From Colonial Times to the Civil War (Prof. Dr. Olaf Stieglitz)
- written exam: July 1, 2024, 5 – 7 pm, HS 8
Analytical Seminar (a and b) (Heather Prüßing)
- presentations: May 30, June 6, June 13, June 27, 2024
Analytical Seminar (c) (Parker Billinghurst)
- presentations: June 13, June 20, June 27, July 4, 2024
Tutorial (Heather Prüssing)
- papers due: August 16, 2024
Module “Literature and Culture II” (04-001-1007)
Lecture: US-American Popular Culture: History, Media, Methods (Dr. Stefan Schubert)
- exam: July 2, 2024, 9 – 11 am, HS 8
Seminar: : Multiple Selves: Family, Community, and Identity in US Fiction (Dr. Stefan Schubert)
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Seminar: “The plural of anecdotes is not data”: Medicine in US-American Fictions (Dr. Katja Schmieder)
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Seminar: Conspiracism in US Literature and Culture (Dr. habil. Sebastian Herrmann)
- presentations due: July 7, 2024
- final essays due: August 18, 2024
Module “Society, History and Politics III” (04-001-1010)
Seminar: Cultural History of the American War in Vietnam (Prof. Dr. Olaf Stieglitz)
- term papers due: September 01, 2024
Seminar: Terror in American History and Culture (Peter Hintz, Prof. Dr. Olaf Stieglitz)
- presentations: June 28 and 29, 2024
Module “Literature and Culture III” (04-001-1011)
Seminar: Reading Poetry in a Distracted Age (Annika Schadewaldt)
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Seminar: Building Radical Worlds (Rita Bullwinkel, Picador Guest Professor)
- oral exams: July 5, 2024 - held in GWZ room 3 5.15
- deadline portfolio submissions 04-AME-1701: July 19, 2024
Module “Ethnicity and Diversity in US-Culture II: Multicultural and Multilingual America” (04-001-1012)
Seminar: Seminar: Race & Consumption (Dr. Steffen Wöll)
- paper deadline: September 1, 2024
Master Courses
Module “Political Cultures in a Transatlantic Context” (04-038-2005)
Seminar: Eugenics - Body - Politics, 1890 to the Present (Prof. Dr. Olaf Stieglitz)
- portfolio due: July 21, 2024
- term papers due: September 1, 2024
Seminar: Contemporary Utopian Fiction (Prof. Dr. Katja Kanzler)
- portfolio due: July 21, 2024
- term papers due: September 1, 2024
Module “Media and Society in a Transatlantic Context” (04-038-2006)
Seminar: Visualizing Reform – Photography, Reform, and Social Movements in the 20th Century (Prof. Dr. Olaf Stieglitz)
- portfolio due: July 21, 2024
- term papers due: September 1, 2024
Seminar: Cinematic Cityscapes: Exploring the American Urban Imaginary on Screen (Dr. Eleonora Ravizza)
- portfolio due: July 7, 2024
- term papers due: September 1, 2024
Module “Trans-/National Spaces, Bodies, Cultures“ (04-038-2016)
Seminar: Staging Bodies, Imagining Spaces: Games and Play in US Culture (Dr. Stefan Schubert)
- portfolio due: July 21, 2024
- term papers due: September 1, 2024
Seminar: 'The American Home': Domestic Spaces and Practices in United States Literature and Culture (Prof. Dr. Katja Kanzler)
- portfolio due: July 21, 2024
- term papers due: September 1, 2024
Lehramt Courses
Module “Literatures and Cultures of the USA” (04-AME-1402)
Lecture: US-American Literature: Beginnings to Present (Prof. Dr. Katja Kanzler)
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Seminars 1402-2a/b/c The (Death of the) American Dream: Questioning Narratives of Power, Wealth, and Individualism (Dr. Eleonora Ravizza)
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Seminars 1402-2d/e/f Nation and Imagination? US Cultural History and the Myths of ‘America’ (Dr. Sebastian Herrmann)
- written lecture exam: July 10, 2024, 11 am – 1 pm, Großer Hörsaal im Haus 1 am Campus Jahnallee
Module “US Popular Culture and American Literature” (04-AME-1701)
Seminar: Reading Poetry in a Distracted Age (Annika Schadewaldt)
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Seminar: Building Radical Worlds (Rita Bullwinkel – Picador Guest Professor)
- portfolio submissions due: July 19, 2024
Module “Creative Writing: Envisioning America” (04-001-1020)
Generative Fiction Seminar (Rita Bullwinkel – Picador Guest Professor)
- portfolio due: July 19, 2024