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

S: Introduction to Cultural Studies (nur IAS)

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
S: Film Noir	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
S: Health, Illness and Society	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
S: The 2024 Presidential Elections	Dr. Thomas Gijswijt
S: U.S. Foreign Policy II: Key Texts and Theories	Dr. Thomas Gijswijt