English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media (Master)Universität Bremen

The MA "English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media" is a programme for students with a background in English Studies, North American Studies, English Linguistics, Comparative Studies (with a focus on English Linguistics or Literatures and Cultures in English). Students can extend their previous studies within a highly flexible and research-based teaching programme and can specialize in one of the three profile areas: 1) British, North American and Postcolonial Literatures; 2) Linguistics: Varieties, Medialities and Applications (including language innovation, contact linguistics, multimodal linguistics, trans-, multi- and intermediality studies, language teaching and assessment); 3) British, North American and Postcolonial Cultural History. Students also develop specific competences in advanced communication by focusing on the use of English in the professional world, refining their investigation, presentation, and negotiation skills.

The Master’s programme consists of three thematic profile areas. During the course of the studies, students concentrate on one profile area, in which they will write their Master’s thesis. Additionally, there is a language practice component that strengthens the competent use of English as well as effective presentation and negotiations skills.

The Master’s programme will enable students to deal with literary, cultural history and linguistic positions and dynamics in a research-based mode, to follow innovative developments in the research of English and language teaching and learning, to submit English-language texts and media to a critical scientific study and to look critically at knowledge and text production from within Eurocentric and postcolonial contexts.

The Master’s Degree qualifies for a scientific career in the areas of “cultural history”, linguistics or literature and film studies. It also qualifies for occupation at universities and universities of applied sciences, in adult language teaching, in test centers or teacher training facilities, in cultural organizations, in national and international organizations, in politics or in the diplomatic service. Further potential areas of employment are the media, publishing houses, journalism, creative fiction writing, libraries, translation as well as international operating commercial enterprises.