Winter Semester 2024/25
The Info Session for new IAS students will take place on Tuesday, October 8, at 14.15 in room 406. Please contact Dr. Thomas Gijswijt for Zoom participation.
In the 2024/25 winter semester, the Department of American Studies offers a wide range of courses. Also, a number of courses offered by other departments are open to American Studies students. For comprehensive information on all study courses, please see the course catalogue on alma.
Please note that this list is updated continuously; any information given here is subject to change.
Information on dates and deadlines can be found here.
Basic Module Courses
| S: Introduction to Literary Studies | Dr. Isabell Klaiber Dr. Carsten Schinko |
| L: Introduction to Cultural Studies | PD Dr. Birte Christ |
| PD Dr. Birte Christ |
These courses are accompanied by a tutorial (tbd).
Advanced Module Courses
| S: Menstruation in American Literature and Culture (post-1900) | Janine Schwarz |
| S: Staging the Nation in Early American Drama | Marina Pingler |
| S: The Beatles and America (Post-1900) | Dr. Thomas Gijswijt |
| S: The Cultural Cold War | Dr. Thomas Gijswijt |
| S: Dickson/Whitman | Dr. Carsten Schinko |
S: "Of Monsters and Men?": The Female Gothic from the 19th to the 21st Century | Dr. Davina Höll |
| S: Being Poor in America | Dr. Debarchana Baruah |
| S: Immigrant Women in American Literature and Culture | Dr. Debarchana Baruah |
| S: Up From Slavery: 19th Century African American Memoirs | Dr. Anthony Obute |
| S: American Minstrelsy and its Legacies (pre- and post-1900) | Dr. Johanna Roering |
Focus and Master Module Courses (and/or Final Exam Preparation)
| S: Christmas Movies | PD Dr. Birte Christ |
| S: Concepts, Methods, Theories (MA AMS) | Prof. Dr. Astrid Franke |
| S: Democratic Vistas | Prof. Dr. Astrid Franke |
| S: Radical Environmentalism | Dr. Anthony Obute |
| PD Dr. Carsten Schinko | |
| S: Internet/Literature/Film | PD Dr. Carsten Schinko |
| S: Decolonizing the Screen: Contemporary Indigenous Film in North America | Dr. Isabell Klaiber |
| Dr. Debarchana Baruah | |
| S: U.S.-Mexican Border Culture | Prof. Dr. Horst Tonn |
| S: Authorship, autonomy and authenticity: The singer-songwriter in American culture | Dr. Risto Lenz |
Advanced as well as Focus Module Courses
| L: American Poverties | PD. Dr. Carsten Schinko |
| L: Issues in American Literary & Cultural History IV: From World War II to the Present | Prof. Dr. Astrid Franke |
Elective Curriculum
| S: Songwriting | Dr. Thomas Gijswijt |
| Dr. Thomas Gijswijt | |
| Dr. Thomas Gijswijt |