Master (Interdisciplinary) Contemporary History and Media (665 [2] - Version 2019)

Introduction to the Key Aspects of Theories and History of Media (25 ECTS)

PM1a Introduction to the Key Aspects of Theories and History of Media I (10 ECTS)

• 070038 UE Reading Course in Contemporary History and Media
• 070189 UE Reading Course in Contemporary History and Media

PM1b Introduction to the Key Aspects of Theories and History of Media II (15 ECTS)

• 060010 VO Jewish History from the Modern to the Contemporary Period
• 080030 VU M320 Cultural Practices and Semiosis in Everyday Life: Stargazing - Exploring the Anthropology of Outer Space
• 080092 SE M210 Space-Time-Configurations: Beyond "third place": - history, present and future of multifunctional spaces
• 170310 VO Lecture: The History of Film - VR as a history of moving pictures
• 170311 VO Lecture on the History of Media - Climate Images
• 170320 VO Lecture: The History of Theatre, Film and Media - Queer-feminist film and media historiographies. Austria in an international context (part 1): The long 1990s
• 170321 VO ( REMOTE ) Lecture on the History of Theatre, Film and Media
• 170701 VO Benjamin, Kluge, Godard & Co - Lecture with interactive elements
• 170993 VO Image and Word Combinations in History and Theory - Forms of experience of photographic media using the example of film and cinema
• 170994 VO Development of Media and Forms of Communication
• 210094 VO M1b: Basics of Political Science
• 210112 VO [ en ] M8: Feminist theorizations of Social Reproduction
• 220017 VO VERTHE: VO JOURWA Journalism in Times of Media Change
• 220028 VO [ de en ] VERTHE: VO VERGLPO Political Communication and Media Governance in Comparative Perspective
• 220034 VO THEO: VO POLKO - Political Communication
• 220035 VO THEO: VO PSYCH - Media Psychology
• 220060 VO VERME: VO REP Repetition Course Theory and Methods

Research Process and Methods (16 ECTS)

PM2a Introduction to the Research Process and Methods I (10 ECTS)

• 070034 UE Workshop on Methodology - Biographical methods (Nazi persecution | Remembrance)
• 070042 UE Course on Methodology - Contemporary History and Media
• 070043 UE [ en ] Introductory Reading Course Contemporary History
• 070161 UE Methodological workshop - Environmental History
• 070184 UE Workshop on Methodology - To Read, to Write, to Know. The Epistemology of Historiography
• 070252 UE Workshop on Methodology - The history of gender studies: contexts, debates and strategies - Kontexte, Debatten und Materialien
• 070307 UE Workshop on Methodology - Conducting and analyzing interviews. An oral history workshop
• 070318 UE Workshop on Methodology

PM2b Introduction to the Research Process and Methods II (6 ECTS)

• 060001 VO What is jewish cinema? An introduction into jewish visual culture
• 060022 SE The uncanny in Jewish film: horror and religious symbolism
• 080123 VU M120 Media, Discourse and Representation: Unexpectedly Meaningful! - Chance, Serendipity and Contingency in Everyday Urban Life
• 080132 VU M520 Departmental Colloquium: Life in authoritarian times: - Cultural studies analysis and cultural interventions
• 170600 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Aesthetics of the In-Between: Sofia Coppola's Cinema
• 170601 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Festwochen-Campus
• 170602 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Reset & Refresh: Digital Media Theory of/for Renewal
• 170603 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Staging Affects
• 170610 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Breathing, Atmosphere, Air
• 170611 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - African American Filmhistory/-ies
• 170613 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Theories of Imagination
• 210108 VO M7: Weltweite Krisenerfahrungen: Extremwetter, Gesundheit und Politik
• 210115 VO ( REMOTE ) M10: Iconoclasm and the destruction of monuments
• 220063 VO VERTHE: VO STRAKO Strategic Communication - Current Approaches in Advertising, PR and Market Comm.
• 220079 VO VERBE: VO GEND Media and Gender

Research Project and Presentation (20 ECTS)

PM3a Research Project and Presentation I (10 ECTS)

• 070048 SE Research Seminar - Post-war justice. Dealing with Nazi crimes on the Eastern Front
• 070096 SE Research Seminar - Public History - Landscapes of Memory: The Wachau
• 070144 SE Research Seminar - History of Transformations
• 070169 SE Research Seminar - The League of Nations - A History of Networking and Organization
• 070188 SE Research Seminar Public History - Public History - War Memorials in Austria and Europe
• 220014 SE FOSE: SE FOSE B Advanced Research Seminar B

PM3b Research Project and Presentation II (10 ECTS)

• 070034 UE Workshop on Methodology - Biographical methods (Nazi persecution | Remembrance)
• 070161 UE Methodological workshop - Environmental History
• 070168 UE Proposal-Workshop
• 070184 UE Workshop on Methodology - To Read, to Write, to Know. The Epistemology of Historiography
• 070252 UE Workshop on Methodology - The history of gender studies: contexts, debates and strategies - Kontexte, Debatten und Materialien
• 070286 UE Proposal-Workshop
• 070289 UE Proposal-Workshop
• 070307 UE Workshop on Methodology - Conducting and analyzing interviews. An oral history workshop
• 070318 UE Workshop on Methodology
• 170620 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Digital Fascism
• 170621 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Cinema in the Anthropocene
• 170622 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Body/Knowledge
• 210099 SE [ en ] M3: Understanding conservatism
• 210100 SE M3: Radical Political Imagination
• 210116 SE M10: Visual culture and avant-garde

Electives - Special Topics: Contemporary History and Media (29 ECTS)

PM4a Seminar: Contemporary History and Media (8 ECTS)

• 060022 SE The uncanny in Jewish film: horror and religious symbolism
• 070044 SE [ en ] Seminar Historical sources and critique - Sources and Archives of Women's and Gender History
• 070097 SE Seminar Historical sources and critique - Living as if: Authenticity and Ambiguity in History
• 070237 SE Seminar on History (Master) - How we got here - doing history on social media
• 070277 SE Seminar on History (Master) - The Middle Ages on the Screen. Medievalism in Audiovisual Media - Mittelalterrezeption in audiovisuellen Medien
• 070303 SE Lived complexities in times of political polarization - Sir-Peter-Ustinov Visting Professorship - Seminar
• 070319 SE [ en ] Seminar on History (Master)

PM4b Electives - Special Topics: Contemporary History and Media (21 ECTS)

• 060001 VO What is jewish cinema? An introduction into jewish visual culture
• 060004 SE Racial Antisemitism: Origins, Evolution, and Contemporary Relevance
• 060005 SE In the Garden of Stories: Adam, Eve, and the Cultural Legacy of Creation
• 060010 VO Jewish History from the Modern to the Contemporary Period
• 060022 SE The uncanny in Jewish film: horror and religious symbolism
• 060026 SE ( REMOTE ) Combatting Antisemitism
• 060050 VO ( REMOTE ) Pogrom - An (Un)intellectual History of the Persecution of Judaism
• 070044 SE [ en ] Seminar Historical sources and critique - Sources and Archives of Women's and Gender History
• 070046 UE Monitoring Class for Practical Training
• 070083 EX Field Trip - Mauthausen/Gusen-Linz-Hartheim-Steyr - Memorials and exhibitions on National Socialism in Upper Austria
• 070097 SE Seminar Historical sources and critique - Living as if: Authenticity and Ambiguity in History
• 070201 VO Introduction to Audiovisual Sources for Historians
• 070237 SE Seminar on History (Master) - How we got here - doing history on social media
• 070277 SE Seminar on History (Master) - The Middle Ages on the Screen. Medievalism in Audiovisual Media - Mittelalterrezeption in audiovisuellen Medien
• 070301 VO Political polarization in times of multiple crises: societal and pedagogical challenges - Sir-Peter-Ustinov Visting Professorship - Lecture
• 070303 SE Lived complexities in times of political polarization - Sir-Peter-Ustinov Visting Professorship - Seminar
• 070319 SE [ en ] Seminar on History (Master)
• 080030 VU M320 Cultural Practices and Semiosis in Everyday Life: Stargazing - Exploring the Anthropology of Outer Space
• 080092 SE M210 Space-Time-Configurations: Beyond "third place": - history, present and future of multifunctional spaces
• 080123 VU M120 Media, Discourse and Representation: Unexpectedly Meaningful! - Chance, Serendipity and Contingency in Everyday Urban Life
• 080132 VU M520 Departmental Colloquium: Life in authoritarian times: - Cultural studies analysis and cultural interventions
• 170310 VO Lecture: The History of Film - VR as a history of moving pictures
• 170311 VO Lecture on the History of Media - Climate Images
• 170320 VO Lecture: The History of Theatre, Film and Media - Queer-feminist film and media historiographies. Austria in an international context (part 1): The long 1990s
• 170321 VO ( REMOTE ) Lecture on the History of Theatre, Film and Media
• 170600 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Aesthetics of the In-Between: Sofia Coppola's Cinema
• 170601 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Festwochen-Campus
• 170602 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Reset & Refresh: Digital Media Theory of/for Renewal
• 170603 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Staging Affects
• 170610 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Breathing, Atmosphere, Air
• 170611 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - African American Filmhistory/-ies
• 170613 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Theories of Imagination
• 170701 VO Benjamin, Kluge, Godard & Co - Lecture with interactive elements
• 170993 VO Image and Word Combinations in History and Theory - Forms of experience of photographic media using the example of film and cinema
• 170994 VO Development of Media and Forms of Communication
• 180171 VO [ en ] The Story of Economic Ideas (Part II) - Economic Theories and Methodological Positions, the 20th Century
• 210094 VO M1b: Basics of Political Science
• 210103 VO M5: European Union and Europeanisation
• 210108 VO M7: Weltweite Krisenerfahrungen: Extremwetter, Gesundheit und Politik
• 210112 VO [ en ] M8: Feminist theorizations of Social Reproduction
• 210115 VO ( REMOTE ) M10: Iconoclasm and the destruction of monuments
• 220017 VO VERTHE: VO JOURWA Journalism in Times of Media Change
• 220028 VO [ de en ] VERTHE: VO VERGLPO Political Communication and Media Governance in Comparative Perspective
• 220034 VO THEO: VO POLKO - Political Communication
• 220035 VO THEO: VO PSYCH - Media Psychology
• 220060 VO VERME: VO REP Repetition Course Theory and Methods
• 220063 VO VERTHE: VO STRAKO Strategic Communication - Current Approaches in Advertising, PR and Market Comm.
• 220079 VO VERBE: VO GEND Media and Gender

Master's Module (5 ECTS)

• 070015 SE Master's Thesis Seminar

PM5 Master’s Module (5 ECTS)

• 070036 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070041 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070049 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070087 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070176 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070334 SE Master's Thesis Seminar

Additional Courses

• 070265 UE Coaching: Finding my Topic - Preparing a MA Thesis in History - Extracurriculares Angebot