“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." 

(L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953)

 

North American Studies Course Catalog (Winter Semester 2019/20)

Courses at the History Department: Winter Semester 2019/20

Bachelor Program

Orientation Module

The Age of Revolution: Historical Sources of the American Early Republic, Sebastian Jobs, Mondays, 10:00-12:00

Contemporary Environmental History: Europe and the United States since 1945, Sönke Kunkel, Tuesdays, 10:00-12:00

Module A: History - History of North America to 1865

US Foreign Policy, 1776-1815, Marius Kleinknecht, Mondays, 12:00-14:00

History of Humanitarian Aid, Sönke Kunkel, Mondays, 18:00-20:00

Module B: History of North America since 1865

History of Humanitarian Aid, Sönke Kunkel, Mondays, 18:00-20:00

Black/White - Top/Bottom: Race and Class in American Culture around 1900, Alexander Starre, Tuesdays, 16:00-18:00

Master Program

MA History Colloquium, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Mondays, 14:00-16:00

Module A - North America in the world

U.S. Foreign Relations in the Twentieth-Century History, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Tuesdays, 8:00-10:00

AI Technology and U.S. Foreign Relations, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Tuesdays, 10:00-12:00

Sigmund Freud in the U.S., Norbert Finzsch, Fridays, 10:00-12:00

 Human Rights and Humanitarianism in International Relations since the 19^thCentury, Sönke Kunkel, 08:00-10:00

Module C - North American History since 1865

Human Rights and Humanitarianism in International Relations since the 19^thCentury, Sönke Kunkel, Tuesdays, 08:00-10:00

Current topics and research fields in North American Studies 1

Global Inequalities: Historical and Economic Perspectives, Sönke Kunkel, Wolfgang Strehl, Mondays, 10:00-12:00 

 

In the context of the Bachelor’s Program in North American Studies, the Department offers the following modules:

• Modul A: North American history, to 1865
• Modul B: North American history, since 1865

Watch an informational video on history at the John-F.-Kennedy Institute here.

All B.A. Students are required to take Understanding North America (UNA) as part of their studies. UNA is offered as follows:

Semester	Course
Winter	UNA A (History, Culture, Literature)
Summer	UNA B (Politics, Economics, Sociology)

B.A. Students who study North American Studies may choose history as their major focus 1 (Schwerpunktdisziplin 1/Hauptstudienschwerpunkt) or major focus 2.

Semester	Modul
Winter	Vertiefungsmodul A	Seminar	North American History to 1865
Winter	Orientierungsmodul	Proseminar
Summer	Orientierungsmodul	Seminar
Summer	Vertiefungsmodul B	Seminar	North American History since 1865

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In the context of the Master’s Program North American Studies, the Department offers the following modules:

• Modul A: North American History in the World
• Modul B: North American History to 1865
• Modul C: North American History since 1865

Semester	Modul A North American History in the World	Modul B North American History to 1865	Modul C North American History since 1865
Winter	Hauptseminar + Seminar
Summer		Hauptseminar + Seminar	Hauptseminar + Seminar
Winter	Hauptseminar + Seminar
Summer		Hauptseminar + Seminar	Hauptseminar + Seminar

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In the context of the Ph. D. program of the Graduate School of North American Studies, the department offers the following courses:

Semester	Course A	Course B
Winter	Disciplinary Methods in the Study of History
Summer		Advanced Disciplinary Theory and Methods in the Study of History