History Degrees Online

Course: American Literary History (Magister Artium)
Degree: Magister Artium
Final Grade: MA
Fachtyp: Major
Form of study: Standalone basic studies with the first academic degree
Study Start Date: The study can be in winter and summer semester.
Standard period of study: 9 Subject Term
Minimum period of study: none
Faculty: Faculty of Languages and Literatures
Group of subjects: Language and Cultural Studies
Tuition fees: The University collects a study fee of 500 euros, which it earmarked for improving the study conditions. In addition to the tuition fee is the basic contribution (formerly Student Contribution, 42 euros) will be charged.
(For more information on fees and contributions)

Application and Admission Hochschulzugang: Admission requirement is the General Hochschulreife
Admission Mode
1. Semester: No admission restrictions
Admission Mode
higher semester: No admission restrictions
Aptitude
Adoption -
procedures: An aptitude test is not necessary.
Link to Subject: http://www.amerikanistik.uni-muenchen.de

Description of studies

For the winter semester 2009/2010, the LMU, a switch to the master’s programs at the consecutive Bachelor and Master degrees. At the editorial deadline was not yet clear what form the study contents into new courses are integrated. Once the information is available, they www.lmu.de / study onset updated. For further information please contact the Central Advising.

In the center of study of American literary history is the critical discussion of American literature from colonial times to the present, including lyrical, dramatic and cinematic texts. Literary history and literary theory are to the historical, social and cultural conditions of their production and reception related. Particular attention is paid to the history and theory of gender-specific, national and ethnic identities, as the central aspects of American culture and society. Priorities in teaching and research are the American literature of the 19th, 20th and 21 Century, such as the American Renaissance, naturalism and realism, modernism and postmodernism, and ethnic and postcolonial literatures. This is a special research interest in the interactions of literature and culture as well as to become increasingly important areas of visual culture (painting, photography, film, TV and New Media) and the discourses on technology, architecture and space.

Course: American Cultural History (Magister Artium)
Degree: Magister Artium
Final Grade: MA
Fachtyp: Major
Form of study: Standalone basic studies with the first academic degree
Study Start Date: The study can be in winter and summer semester.
Standard period of study: 9 Subject Term
Minimum period of study: none
Faculty: Faculty of Languages and Literatures
Group of subjects: Language and Cultural Studies
Tuition fees: The University collects a study fee of 500 euros, which it earmarked for improving the study conditions. In addition to the tuition fee is the basic contribution (formerly Student Contribution, 42 euros) will be charged.
(For more information on fees and contributions)

Application and Admission Hochschulzugang: Admission requirement is the General Hochschulreife
Admission Mode
1. Semester: No admission restrictions
Admission Mode
higher semester: No admission restrictions
Aptitude
Adoption -
procedures: An aptitude test is not necessary.

Description of studies

For the winter semester 2009/2010, the LMU, a switch to the master’s programs at the consecutive Bachelor and Master degrees. At the editorial deadline was not yet clear what form the study contents into new courses are integrated. Once the information is available, they www.lmu.de / study onset updated. For further information please contact the Central Advising.

The Institute offers America in the field of North American history, a unique curriculum, the entire period of colonial history to the present day covers. In the center of the program, the history of minorities (African-Americans, immigrants, Native Americans), the environmental history, gender history, the history of American religious history and politics. Special attention is also given to cultural currents (music, media, architecture, city culture, popular culture), the European-American and compared to America’s role in the world. The introduction to the study of American cultural history through a basic of the major themes of American history presented through an exercise to the historical research and scientific work as well as a methods course, the various theories and approaches of the historiography discussed. In addition to survey research and events are also practice-oriented courses (such as journalists) are offered. Overall, the discussion of historical issues so that they contribute significantly to understanding the present contribution.
Conditions and requirements
Language Testing and Placement Test
From the winter semester 08/09, all students of the subjects “American Cultural History” and “American Literary History” the so-called. “C-Test” to make. It is a computerized, scientifically internationally recognized language test with a high prognostic value. The test lasts 25 minutes. It consists of authentic texts, whose words systematically “damaged” by the test person to reconstruct, which presupposes that the person testing the language, with its vocabulary, rules, and their cultural background dominates. Details about the test (registration, dates, frequently asked questions) can be found on the homepage of the
Language skills
For the study of American cultural history and American literary history, in addition to the language test necessary language skills, and knowledge of another foreign language, not the mother tongue may be, other than English (eg Latin, French, Spanish, etc.) The knowledge must be the level correspond, in a rising three-year, at least “sufficient” completed schooling achieved. Evidence in the application for interim.
Teaching languages
German and English
Desired Profile
Students of American history should be an intense interest in culture, politics, society and history of North America to bring. It is a historical and social scientific studies, one in which the relationship between the past and social developments made, and also focus on contemporary politics and popular culture is made. The interdisciplinary degree course allows students already studying in the Master’s own perspectives on North America to develop. Students should have an interest in stereotypes and to question them in their historical and social terms to understand.