[18W] Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Master of Arts (MA)

English

No

The Master‘s programme in English and American Studies teaches theoretical and practical skills in the English language as well as in a range of specialist and general professionally relevant subjects. Depending on the selected specialisation, students deepen their knowledge in the spheres of Applied Linguistics or in Literary and Culture Studies.

Upon completion of their studies, M.A. degree holders are not only endowed with subject-specific knowledge and skills, which serve as a basis for a career as researcher, but they are also equipped with the cultural, methodological, and factual knowledge required to perform responsible activities in economics, politics, in the arts and in the cultural sphere.

The degree programme paves the way to a broad range of professional activities. Intercultural skills qualify graduates to pursue international careers. 

In addition to a wide range of subject-specific competences, this degree programme equips students with valuable cultural, methodical, and factual knowledge.

The campus in Klagenfurt offers excellent supervision arrangements, small seminar groups and manageable working groups. It is quick and easy to find friends and establish connections here!

The Master’s programme conveys practical language skills. Students  learn subtle text comprehension and master the production of situation-adequate verbal and written texts. Thus, they acquire complex knowledge of the English language. The in-depth methodological skills include the knowledge of theory formation, the ability to think analytically and to grasp complex relationships. Students are taught to confidently argue in a subject-specific manner and creatively transfer the acquired knowledge to new fields of activity.

In addition to teaching the skills required to reflect on the language, with which students gain in-depth insights into the function, performance and structure of the language and experience regional and historical conditions, the degree also trains the cultural science skills: Here, students learn the differentiated and independent handling of literary and other types of texts, cultural artefacts and films, as well as gaining the skills to situate, analyse and critique them.

In addition, the degree qualifies students to deal with current cultural, social, and political problems of anglophone cultures in a differentiated and problem-conscious way.

This degree enables graduates to work in a variety of established and alternative occupational fields. Although these occupational fields feature highly diverse job profiles, they all have in common that in addition to the ability to deal with language (mother tongue and foreign language) consciously and in a differentiated way, they require a high level of cultural and scientific-analytical competence. These professional fields include:

• publishing editor
• cultural and administrative affairs
• international co-operation in education and science
• extra-mural and operational training and continuing education
• translator
• mass communication activities (press, radio, television, film, digital media, and video games)
• advertising industry
• leisure and tourism sector
• linguistically oriented occupations (development of encyclopedias, textbooks, etc.)
• archives and libraries

It’s particularly easy to learn English when spending time in English-speaking countries. The Master’s programme in English and American Studies allows you to develop your language skills in many English-speaking countries: As a student at King’s College in London, you can stroll through the colourful streets of the metropolis between lectures, or why not spend a semester exploring the University of Mississippi in Oxford, which counts John Grisham among its students? The world is your own – and it starts while you are still at university: Spend a semester abroad at one of Klagenfurt University’s approximately 250 partner universities. We have plenty of scholarships on offer to help you finance your semester abroad, so there’s no need to worry about funding.

Doctoral degree programme

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• Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies or a degree programme of equivalent academic value at another post-secondary educational institution
  Information on Bachelor’s degree programmes that are relevant for admission (PDF)
• English Language Level C1]

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