Updated | Exam Dates Winter Semester 2018/19 

- Last Update: 21 January, 2019 -

Bachelor Courses

Literature and Culture I (04-001-1001)

Lecture: American Literature: Beginnings to Present (Prof. Katja Kanzler):

• February 11, 2019: 11:15 am - 12:45 pm
• written exam, 90 minutes
• location: HS 1 (HSG) 

Seminars (Dr. Sophie Spieler, Dr. Sebastian Herrmann, Carlo Becker) and Tutorials (Heather Prüßing):

• take-home essay due on: February 18, 2019 (11:00 am)

iTASK (international, interdisciplinary, integrated: Technical, Academic, Soft, and Career Skills) (04-001-1004)

Professional Seminar & Praxis Seminar (Heather Prüßing):

• final presentations:
  • January 08, 2019 (9-11 am) and
  • January 15, 2019 (9-11 am) and
  • January 22, 2019 (9-11 am) and
  • January 22, 2019 (11 am-1 pm) and
  • January 29, 2019 (9-11 am)

Society, History, and Politics II (04-001-1006)

Lecture (Prof. Crister S. Garrett):

• February 11, 2019: 11:15 am - 12:45 pm
• written exam, 90 minutes
• location: HS 11 (HSG)

Seminar #1A: Sources of Wealth and Roots of Power - United States Economic and Social History in an International Context (Tobias Schlobach):

• essay due on: March 20, 2019

Seminar #1B: America Through European Eyes: From Hegel to Adorno (Eric Fraunholz):

• essay due on: March 20, 2019

Seminar #2A: Key Documents in Contemporary American History, Politics, and Society (Heather Prüßing):

• January 14, 2019 (9-11 am),
• January 21, 2019 (9-11 am),
• January 28, 2019 (9-11 am)

Seminar #2B: Key Documents in Contemporary American History, Politics, and Society (Heather Prüßing):

• January 16, 2019 (11 am - 1 pm),
• January 23, 2019 (11 am - 1 pm),
• January 30, 2019 (11 am - 1 pm)

Project Module (04-001-1009)

Project Colloquium 1 (Prof. Katja Kanzler):

• paper due on: March 18, 2019

Project Colloquium 2 (Prof. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez):

• paper due on: February 28, 2019

Project Colloquium 3 (Prof. Crister S. Garrett):

• paper due on: March 29, 2019

Ethnicity and Diversity in US Culture (04-001-1018)

Lecture (Prof. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez):

• February 8, 2019: 11:15 am - 12:45 pm
• written exam, 90 minutes
• location: HS 2 (HSG)

Seminar: When Harlem Was in Vogue: Reading the Harlem Renaissance (Annika Schadewaldt) & Tutorial (Übung): Spoken Academic Discourse (Peter Tosic):

• Presentations:
  • December 17, 2018
  • January 7, 2019
  • January 14 2019
  • January 21, 2019
  • January 28, 2019
  • February 4, 2019

Master Courses

Methods and Theories in American Studies (04-038-2001)

Seminar: Methods and Theories II (Dr. Sebastian Herrmann):

• paper due on: March 19, 2019

Graduate Colloquium in American Studies (04-038-2002)

Seminar: Deviance and Difference in American Culture (Prof. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez):

• paper due on: March 31, 2019

Seminar: The Internationalization, Transnationalization, and Globalization of Society, Politics, and History: The Case of the United States (Prof. Crister S. Garrett):

• paper due on: March 29, 2019

iCAN: international, interdisciplinary and integrated Career and Academic Knowledge (04-038-2003)

Applied Seminar (aspeers) (Dr. Stefan Schubert and Dr. Sophie Spieler):

• February 8, 2019

Consumption, Culture and Identity (04-038-2011)

Seminar: Food, Identity, and Textuality in North American Literature and Film (Prof. Katja Kanzler):

• paper due on: March 18, 2019

Seminar: “We hold these truths to be self-evident“: Offering Rhetorics - Consuming Morals (Dr. Katja Schmieder):

• paper due on: March 25, 2019

Immigration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship (04-038-2012)

Seminar 1: Fictions of (Un)belonging: Citizenship in US literature (Prof. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez):

• paper due on: March 31, 2019

Seminar 2: Contemporary Poetries That Sing from U.S. Histories and Ahistories (Prof. Sasha Pimentel):

• paper due on: March 31, 2019

Transatlantic Space (04-038-2010)

Seminar 1: The 21st-Century Political Novel: Late Globalization and Transatlantic Space (Prof. Katja Kanzler):

• paper due on: March 21, 2019

Seminar 2: The Emerging Transatlantic Space (Prof. Crister S. Garrett):

• paper due on: March 29, 2019

Lehramt Courses

Modul *-2401: "American Literatures, American Societies"

Seminar "Teaching America: Literature, Media, and Culture" (Eleonora Ravizza):

• paper due on: March 3, 2019

Creative Writing

BA Professional Skills Module “Creative Writing: Imagining America” (04-001-1019)

Seminar & Tutorial Advanced Poetry Writing: Poetry Workshop (Prof. Sasha Pimentel):

• March 31, 2019