MA in American Studies
Pécs, Hungary
DURATION
4 Semesters
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
EUR 2,500 / per semester *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for non-EU students / EUR 1900 per semester for EU students / application fee: EUR 140
Introduction
Our program in American Studies offers a comprehensive overview of the field at the graduate level. Students are required to take core courses in the different subfields of American Studies and in related areas such as cultural studies and cultural history, the social sciences and research methodologies, historical linguistics, popular and visual culture, etc. All these pave the way for the individual research students are required to undertake for their thesis in North American literature and literary studies in an interdisciplinary manner. The thesis supervised by our colleagues at the Institute of English Studies is to be handed in in the fourth semester and defended in order to earn an MA in American Studies.
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Curriculum
Examples of Subjects During the Studies
1st semester
- Advanced Studies in American Literature
- Advanced Studies in American History
- Major Issues in American Studies
- Cultural Studies in the US
2nd semester
- Theory and Practice of American Studies
- Aspects of US Culture and Society
- US Politics & Culture
- Literature & Identity Politics
- Historical Fiction in North American Literary Contexts
3rd semester
- American Literary History & Literary Theory
- Research Methodology
- American Political Institutions
- American Literary Institutions
- American Literature & Popular Culture
4th semester
- The History of American English
- Media & New American Literature
- The Social Sciences in North American Studies
- American Literatures in International Context