Distributive requirement/ Fachergänzung: North American Studies
The interdisciplinary distributive requirement/ Fachergänzung North American Studies offers Bachelor students of all subjects the possibility to increase the scope and their knowledge of North American issues in the US and Canada. Bachelor students of English or American Studies can consolidate their interest in the North American continent by crossing subject boundaries and by taking courses in disciplines such as history, Romance Studies, political sciences or geography.
The distributive requirement program consists of two modules: Module A includes specific disciplines and their perspective on The US and Canada, whereas module B is concerned with practical language skills. Each of the two modules can be studied seperately and credit points can be acquired for each of the two courses independently from one another.
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Module A (specific disciplines) splits up into two parts which both have to be successfully completed in order to get the credit points. Every semester the ZNAS presents a list of possible courses. Students then choose one seminar and one lecture series (or another seminar). In the first seminar they have to participate actively (left to the lecturer's discretion) and additionally have to write a term paper which is 10-15 pages long. This seminar is worth 5 credit points. In the lecture series (or the second seminar) students need to participate actively (left to the lecturer's discretion) in order to get 2 credit points. Both courses are needed to acquire the total of 7 credit points and to successfully complete the module.
- Module B (practical language skills) encompasses the seminar "Communicative Skills" which helps to improve the students' communicative competence of the English language in professional and academic surroundings. This seminar is worth 3 credit points.
Students who combine and successfully complete both modules, obtain a public document, the "compact course of North American Studies", which is worth 10 credit points.
Bachelor students willing to study the distributive requirement program should be aware that some of the courses offered are held in English and that the requirements might exceed those of other Bachelor courses. All students are therefore strongly advised to contact the lecturers of the potential course in order to get information about the contents and the difficulties and in order to find out which assigments will be expected from students doing the distributive requirement North American Studies.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions:
Dr. Petra Rüdiger
Englisches Seminar
Raum 224
Tel.: 880-2253