American Studies / British Studies / Εnglish Linguistics

Course Overview

Students in this master's program acquire a broad range of key academic and cultural skills. Graduates from the program are in an excellent position to engage in and contribute to national and international academic discourse. Description Students can choose to study one of the subject areas 'British Literary and Cultural Studies', 'English Linguistics' or 'North American Literary and Cultural Studies' for their single-subject master's degree or as their main (major) subject if they are enrolled for a dual-subject degree program. Further specialization within any of the main three subject areas is expressly encouraged. The program offers students a wide variety of options for planning study abroad periods that are tailored to their individual preferences or career goals and the department assists students in establishing contacts with foreign universities and research groups. Students not only gain a detailed understanding of their chosen specialist discipline based on current research activity in the field, but they also acquire the skills needed to be able to produce sound and reasoned analyses of the linguistic, literary, and cultural relationships of a topic through the application of the relevant theoretical and methodological tools. They also acquire a high level of proficiency in analyzing and interpreting a diverse range of text types drawn from English-speaking cultures, including film and digital texts.