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• Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Qualifications

  You will be optimally prepared to start a career

  In the M.A. program North American Studies you will acquire a wide range of competencies such as:

  - Language and key skills

  - Cultural and social competencies

  - Interdisciplinary and networked thinking

  Linguistic Competence

  The academically competent use of language and literature at a high level opens up many possibilities for you. You are able to analyze complex texts and to grasp different levels of content and statements. In addition, you will increase your oral and written abilities to express yourself well and in an eloquent manner.

  On the one hand, this opens up a breadth of editorial professions to you, but on the other hand, you are also qualified to work in the field of research and teaching. Your dexterous use of language will additionally make you competitive in intercultural work environments. 

  Intercultural Competence

  The M.A. program focuses primarily on American and Canadian literature, history, and culture which will enable you to develop a critically informed understanding of the region. You will learn to consider, and critique, concepts such as nation, ethnicity, and gender in the North American context. Along the way, you will acquire a sensitive and more nuanced way of thinking and approaching the subject that you can apply to other regions and cross-cultural contexts.

  Interdisciplinarity

  The multifaceted range of courses, which are oriented to the latest research findings, enables you to learn about a subject area through the different approaches of the individual disciplines. You will gain the competence to link literature, history, culture and technology in a transatlantic context. At the same time, this interdisciplinary nature of the program offers you opportunities for specialization in currently cutting-edge research areas. 

  You may choose seminars in the following areas:

  - Literary Studies, Cultural Studies

  - Interdisciplinary Studies (British Literature and Culture, American Media, Language and Linguistics as well as historical courses),

  - Gender Studies,

  - Popular Cultures,

  - Technologies of Cultures.

• Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Occupational and Professional Fields

  With the Master's in North American Studies, you could work in mediation functions, editorial professions, administration, foreign service, or research. Specifically, the following fields of work are possible after graduation from this program:

  Intermediary functions in intercultural areas such as language and cultural mediation

  Language teachers (e.g. in business enterprises or the German armed forces)
  Translator
  Work in the book trade
  Tourism industry
  Libraries and museums

  Your key qualifications for this area:

  Intercultural competence
  Social competence
  Presentation techniques
  Didactic skills
   

  Editorial Professions

  Publishing houses (especially in school and specialist editorial offices)
  Editing
  Book calculations
  Web page design
  Media agencies
  Cultural management
  Literature and culture in the media (TV & radio)
  Journalism

  Your key skills for this area:

  Recognizing the diversity of linguistic expression
  Intercultural competence
  Ability to work in a team
  Presentation and editing techniques

  Professions in administrative services

  Foundations
  International organizations

  Your key skills for this area:

  Intercultural & social competence
  Ability to work in a team
  Ability to work independently

  Work in the foreign service

  EU, UN, UNO, Embassies
  International and political commissions
  Language consulting
  Language policy
  Press and cultural consulting

  Your key skills for this area:

  Intercultural and social competence
  Presentation and editing techniques
  Ability to work in a team

  Research and Teaching

  Your key skills for this area:

  Presentation and editing techniques
  Ability to work in a team
  Didactic skills

• Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Postgraduate Ph.D. Program

  Successful completion of the M.A. North American Studies will enable you to pursue a Ph.D. degree. The Ph.D. usually takes 3 years to complete and is open to those with an outstanding M.A. degree in North American Studies. For more details, see the department's doctoral regulations.

  Support services for young academics in the humanities

  University Didactics Network Central Hesse

  Here you can acquire the certificate "Competence for Professional University Teaching" as a member of the Philipps-Universität Marburg, the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and the Fachhochschule Gießen-Friedberg. 

  MARA

  The Marburg University Research Academy (MARA) offers funding opportunities, (financial) support and advice for PhD students and postdocs. 

  Scholarships for foreign doctoral students and postdocs

  Especially for foreign doctoral candidates and postdocs, Philipps-Universität regularly awards Research and Teaching Assistantships as well as Supervision Scholarships within the framework of the DAAD's STIBET program.

  Doctoral scholarships for Marburg Students

  Philipps-Universität Marburg has awarded doctoral scholarships annually since 2006, alternating between the humanities and social sciences and the natural sciences and medicine. Four outstanding dissertations are honoured annually with the Marburg University Doctoral Award. 

  Further information - including funding - can be found on the Philipps-Universität Marburg website.