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Course Catalog Winter Semester 2019/20
The course catalog for the winter semester 2019/20 is available now.
Please be aware that these pages will be updated throughout the break and the semester.
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Creative Writing
BA Professional Skills Module
“Creative Writing: Imagining America” (04-001-1019)
(5 Credits)
Overall module responsibility: Dr. Schubert
Module organization & coordination: Dr. Schubert
Wednesday, 11.15 am-12.45 pm, GWZ 3.5.15
Morgan Jerkins (Picador Guest Professor)
Lehramt Courses
Modul *-2401: "American Literatures, American Societies"
Overall module responsibility: Prof. Kanzler, PD Dr. Stieglitz
Module organization & coordination: E. Ravizza
MA Courses
Methods and Theories in American Studies (04-038-2001)
Overall module responsibility: Prof. Kanzler
Module organization & coordination: Dr. Schubert
This module provides students with an overview of key methods and theories employed in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. It is meant to prepare students for the program's advanced modules.
[==The module consists of two seminars==
Wiederholungsklausur 04-001-1003 Introduction to Linguistics for American Studies
Repeat Lecture Exam
NSG 122
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BA Courses
Literature and Culture I (04-001-1001)
Overall module responsibility: Prof. Kanzler
Module organization & coordination: Dr. Spieler
This module acquaints students with the basic issues and techniques of American literary studies. It provides a survey of United States literary history as well as an introduction to the methods and theories employed in literary and cultural analysis.
[==The module consists of one lecture, one seminar, and one tutorial==
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CONTACT INFORMATION
The Institute for American Studies is located at the University's Humanities Building (Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum, GWZ), Beethovenstraße 15, on the 5th floor, in house 3, which is opposite the elevators/stairs.
Contact information on individual faculty members can be found on the faculty page.
REGISTRATION FOR CLASSES
Courses Winter 2019/20
Below please find our course catalog. We will update these pages throughout the break and the semester. Unless stated otherwise, classes start in the week of October 14, 2019.
Students are responsible for keeping track of updates on actual course dates (some are alternating).
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CONTACT INFORMATION
The Institute for American Studies is located at the University's Humanities Building (Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum, GWZ), Beethovenstraße 15, on the 5th floor, in house 3, which is opposite the elevators/stairs.
Contact information on individual faculty members can be found on the faculty page.
REGISTRATION FOR CLASSES
Most classes require prior registration. To learn more about registration procedures for students in different ASL programs (Magister, BA, MA; service for Lehramt), please have a look at the Registration Information Sheet available in the respective news item. As access to some classes is quite competitive, please take the procedures and deadlines for registration seriously.
AMERICAN STUDIES MODULES
Modules in the BA and MA programs are designed to achieve specific learning goals, they entail a specific amount and specific types of coursework and examinations, and they may have prerequisites. To learn more about these, we strongly encourage you to have a look at our program's Module Catalog (BA; MA) and at the appendix to our Conditions of Study (BA; MA).
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
International Students are very welcome in the courses offered by the Institute for American Studies. To learn more about places available in individual courses, please contact the instructor, and describe your situation briefly (i.e., exchange student, international guest student, participating in an international degree program). We will do our very best to include you in our courses.
COURSES
Course catalogs of past semesters can be found in the Downloads and Resources Area.
For course offerings in Linguistics, please consult the British Studies course catalog, available at the website of the Institute for British Studies (anglistik.philol.uni-leipzig.de).
Unless stated otherwise, classes start in the week of October 14, 2019. Students are responsible for keeping track of updates on actual course dates (some are alternating).
Addresses:
GWZ (Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum), Beethovenstr. 15
NSG (Neues Seminargebäude), Universitätsstr. 5
HSG (Hörsaalgebäude), Universitätsstr. 7
Reading with Picador Professor Morgan Jerkins
Please join us for Picador Professor Morgan Jerkins's reading on Saturday, October 26, 7.30pm! It will take place at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 9-11, 'Auditorium').
Morgan Jerkins will read from her work This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America and engage in a discussion moderated by Senthuran Varatharajah.
Next Picador Professor Morgan Jerkins
American Studies Leipzig is proud to announce Morgan Jerkins as our next Picador Guest Professor for Literature. She will hold the professorship in the winter term of 2019/20.
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