
English-Speaking Cultures [Μinοr]
(Starting: Both Semesters)
- Starting
- Both Semesters
- Mode of Admission:
- no admission restriction, but ability test (demonstration of proficiency in the relevant field required)
- Application:
- directly at university
- Study Mode:
- On campus
Course Description
The JMU Master of Arts in English-Speaking Cultures is devoted to the systematic study of Anglophone literatures, language phenomena, and cultural formations across the globe. While participants can specialize in American Studies, English Studies, or Linguistics, courses and collaborations within English-Speaking Cultures aim to cross the boundaries between the three subdisciplines. How, for example, might a Shakespearean sonnet have sounded when pronounced by an Early Modern speaker? What is at stake when British pop stars affect American accents? Can one speak of a single globalized English-speaking culture or has globalization rather fostered a range of distinct cultural formations, literatures, and Englishes? How do literature and culture respond to ecological and environmental challenges in past and present times? Our approach thus combines interest in the notably different cultures of the British Isles as well as the rich variety of US and North American cultures with the decentralizing pull of English as a 'world language' that unfolds in tremendously significant linguistic, cultural, and medial variations in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and indeed almost every world locality.
Requirements
Qualification Requirements
- a) a degree in a Bachelor's degree program (acquisition of 180 ECTS credits) at JMU or at another German or foreign university or an equivalent German or foreign degree (e.g. state examination) and
- b) proof of an above-average Bachelor's degree (subject grade is decisive). In cases of doubt, the examination board will decide.
- c) As well as proof of competencies and modules amounting to at least 60 ECTS in the field of English/American Studies according to the ECTS credit points scheme used at JMU for the Bachelor's degree program in English/American Studies (usually acquired as part of the first degree program mentioned in letter a)) or a comparable degree program. Of the 60 ECTS credits, at least 30 ECTS credits must be earned in the linguistics and/or literary studies and/or cultural studies. In addition, 30 ECTS must cover the ability to English language at least at level C1 (advanced level of competence) of the "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages". for Languages" must be demonstrated. The required competencies are acquired, for example, as part of the major subject and the Bachelor's major in English/American Studies with the Bachelor of Arts degree (acquisition of 120 ECTS credits) as well as in the as part of the Bachelor's major and minor in English/American Studies (acquisition of 60 or 75 or 85 ECTS credits) at the JMU.
- d) As well as proof of the ability to use another foreign language at elementary level at least at level A2 of the "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages".
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Language Requirements
The following certificates are recognized as proof of your language proficiency.
Specification: minimum grade required: Listening: 490, Reading: 455, Speaking: 180 and Writing: 180
Specification: minimum grade required: Listening: 67, Reading: 67, Speaking: 67 and Writing: 67
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