Kurse im Sommersemester 2016:

BA (Bachelor of Arts) Courses:

• Undergraduate Course: Understanding North America B (Christian Lammert)
• Tutorial: Understanding North America B Tutorial
• Seminar: Theorizing Culture (Martin Lüthe)
• Seminar: Introduction to Literary Studies II (Florian Sedlmeier)
• Advanced Seminar: Uran Interventions: Art and the City (Edward Birzin, Joscha Spoellmink)
• Advanced Seminar: American Alienation: Discontent and Disappointment in U.S. Culture (Julian Henneberg)
• Advanced Seminar: "Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem": African-American Literature in the Post-Reconstruction Period (Sabine Engwer)
• Advanced Seminar: Furiously Funny: Contemporary Racial Satire (Johannes Kohrs)
• Advanced Seminar: Writing the Early Republic: Death, Seduction, Wandering (Mary Ann Snyder-Körber)
• Advanced Seminar: Writing, Picturing, Performing the Great Depression (Birte Wege)
• Seminar: Introduction to American Slavery (1619-1865) (Sebastian Jobs)
• Advanced Seminar: Feminist Movements in American History (Maria-Michaela Hampf)
• Advanced Seminar: Money, Resources and Influence in the American Global Age (1970-1980) (Valeria Benko)
• Advanced Seminar: "Revolution Girl Style Now!" Gender and Punk in the US (1970s-2000s) (Annette Karpp)
• Seminar: Urban Theory (Boris Vormann)
• Advanced Seminar: Publics and Transnational Information Networks (Curd Benjamin Knüpfer)
• Advanced Seminar: The Entrepreneurial State (Boris Vormann)
• Advanced Seminar: Canadian Federalism in Comparative Perspective (Jean Remi Carbonneau)
• Seminar: The Sociology of Emotions: Theory and Practice (N.N. (JP2))
• Advanced Seminar: Psychoanalysis and Sociology in the 50s & 60s (Marius Dahmen)
• Advanced Seminar: Theories of Consumption (Branko Woischwill)
• Advanced Seminar: Work Portraits (Harald Wenzel)
• Seminar: Statistical Reasoning (Anna Almosova)
• Advanced Seminar: Wall Street and Finance in the US (Khalid ElFayoumi)

MA (Master of Arts) Courses:

• Lecture: Discourses and Practices of Colonization and Settlement (Frank Kelleter)
• Graduate Course: American Ecologies (Alexander Starre)
• Lecture: American (Media) Culture after WW II (Frank Kelleter)
• Graduate Course: 20th-Century American Drama (Birte Wege)
• Seminar: New Media Writing: Copying, Appropriating, and Materialization in the 21st Century (Mary Ann Snyder-Körber)
• Graduate Course: Addicted to Plot: Genre Fiction After the Literary/Genre Divide (James Dorson)
• Graduate Course: Theory (After Theory?) (Mary Ann Snyder-Körber)
• Seminar: The Making of Americans: The Literary Imagination and the Working Hand (Nathalia King)
• Graduate Course: Post-Crisis Poetics (Sean Bonney)
• Reading Group: Enlightenment Trajectories: Continuities and Ruptures (Christian Lammert, Florian Sedlmeier)
• Advanced Graduate Seminar: Enlightenment Trajectories: Continuities and Ruptures (Christian Lammert, Florian Sedlmeier)
• Verschiedenes: Literary Theory (Mary Ann Snyder-Körber)
• Reading Group: Approaches to Structural Racism (reading group) (Jasper Verlinden)
• Graduate Course: History of Manhood in America (Sebastian Jobs)
• Seminar: Turnpikes, Steamboats, and Railroads: The Transportation Revolution of the 19th Century (Maria-Michaela Hampf)
• Graduate Course: Jacksonian Democracy (Maria-Michaela Hampf)
• Seminar: North American History since 1865 - U.S. Foreign Relations since the Civil War (Jessica Gienow-Hecht)
• Graduate Course: North American History since 1865 - Human Rights and Humanitarism in North American since the 1860s (Jessica Gienow-Hecht)
• Graduate Course: The state and globalization (Boris Vormann)
• Seminar: War as metaphor in Modern America (Thomas Greven)
• Seminar: Planetary Urbanization (Boris Vormann)
• Graduate Course: Global Challenges and Institutions (Curd Benjamin Knüpfer)
• Seminar: Minorities vs Majorities: Identity Conflicts and Power Relationships Between Canadian National Groups (Jean Remi Carbonneau)
• Graduate Course: From Sorting to Polarization – What's the Matter with Politics in the US Today? (Michael Oswald)
• Verschiedenes: Advanced Theories and Methods (Christian Lammert)
• Seminar: Religion Returns Home (N.N.)
• Graduate Course: U.S.-politicians on the internet. A sociological perspective on campaigns and strategies (Branko Woischwill)
• Graduate Course: Community and Individual in American Society (N.N.)
• Verschiedenes: Advanced Theory and Ethics of Sociological Research (N.N. (JP2))
• Advanced Seminar: Introduction to Inequality in American Economic History (Julia Püschel)
• Reading Group: Utopian Visions (Irwin Collier, Thomas Rommel)
• Advanced Graduate Seminar: Utopian Visions and Progressive Policies in Late 19th/Early 20th Century (Irwin Collier, Thomas Rommel)