Courses Winter 2015/16
Below please find our new course catalog. We will update these pages throughout the break and the semester.
I. CONTACT INFORMATION The Institute for American Studies is located at the University's Humanities Building (Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum, GWZ), Beethovenstraße 15, on the 5th floor – house 3. For details on our programs and faculty, please visit the American Studies Leipzig (ASL) website at http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de Prof. Dr. Crister S. Garrett Prof. Dr. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez Prof. Dr. Carsten Junker Dr. Katja Schmieder Dr. Sebastian Herrmann Anja Eifert, MA Stefan Schubert, MA Heather Pruessing, MA 97 37 336 Anne Grob, MA Phone: + 49 341 973 7330 Regular office hours: At the Institute for American Studies, students can rely on a comprehensive network of advisors to assist them with the organization of their programs of study. Please visit the ASL website for contact information and office hours of our faculty and staff. General Advising Mentoring “Qualitätspakt Lehre- StiL” Julia Protze, Priska Fronemann, Miriam Speckmann Advice and services concerning transfer from another university or from another degree program; credit for study abroad: Questions relating to specific fields of study, including format of exams: IV. REGISTRATION FOR CLASSES Students are responsible for keeping track of updates on actual course dates (some are alternating). Addresses:
Name
Room
Phone
3505
97 37 335
3508
97 37 343
3507
97 37 331
3502
97 37 334
3503
97 37 337
3501
97 37 336
3502
97 37 334
3501
3504
97 37 332
II. SECRETARY´S OFFICE
Anne Keyselt
Room 3506
Monday - Thursday: 9:30 am - 2:30 pm
e-mail to:americanstudies@uni-leipzig.deIII. ADVISING
These faculty members are available for the following concerns:
Questions relating to program requirements; general guidance and advice on how to organize your studies:
General study advising offered by “Philologische Fakultät”
Room: 3314
Tel: 97 37 464
http://mentoren.philol.uni-leipzig.de
e-mail: philolment@uni-leipzig.de
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2-3 pm, and by appointment
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.
V. 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).
VI. 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.
VII. 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 (http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~angl).
Unless stated otherwise, classes start in the week of October 12, 2015.
GWZ (Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum), Beethovenstr. 15
NSG (Neues Seminargebäude), Universitätsstr. 5
HSG (Hörsaalgebäude), Universitätsstr. 7