North American Studies

["The two-year Master's programme in North American Studies is a consecutive degree programme taught exclusively in English. No German skills are required. North American Studies is offered by the American Studies division in the English department. It is designed for students with BA degrees in American Studies, English, and related fields of literary or cultural studies. The programme offers a broad variety of courses in North American Studies. It is concerned with the literary and cultural history of North America from the colonial period onward and with current developments in North America in a transnational context. Categories of difference and diversity (race, gender, sexuality, class, religion, and more) are taken into account systematically. The programme allows for a focus on media history and media theory, and it invites its students to acquaint themselves with new trends in television studies, popular culture studies, and the studies of digital cultures."]