MA Program in Contemporary Germany Studies: Politics, Society and Culture - Course List

 

 

Contemporary Germany Studies: Politics, Society and Culture 2024-2025

 

The information in the Shnaton – the university’s course catalogue shall prevail.

 

Compulsory Classes

 

2 c.p.

Research Methods

 

 

Dr. Daniel Wajner

 

 

Fall term | Wednesday | 16:30-18:00

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

 

1 c.p.

European Forum’s Colloquium A

 

 

Prof. Gisela Dachs

 

 

Fall term | Wednesday | 18:30-20:00

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

30.10.2024

 

01.01.2025

 

 

 

 

13.11.2024

 

15.01.2025

 

 

 

 

27.11.2024

 

29.01.2025

 

 

 

 

11.12.2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 c.p.

European Forum’s Colloquium B

 

 

Prof. Gisela Dachs

 

 

Spring term | Wednesday | 18:30-20:00

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

26.03.2025

 

28.05.2025

 

 

 

 

09.04.2025

 

11.06.2025

 

 

 

 

07.05.2025

 

25.06.2025

 

 

 

 

14.05.2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simulation Workshops

 

54671

1 c.p.

Simulation Workshop: EU’s Energy Dependency and Sustainability

 

 

Mr. Louis Bernard

 

 

Preparatory meeting:

 

 

Wednesday | 04.12.2024 | 18:30-22:00

 

 

Simulation:

 

 

Thursday | 05.12.2024 | 08:30-18:00

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

 

 

 

 

54672

1 c.p.

Simulation Workshop: NATO: Defense and Deterrence in 2025

 

 

Mr. Tamir Sinai

 

 

Preparatory meetings:

 

 

Thursday | 10.04.2025 | 16:30-20:15 (online)

 

 

Wednesday| 16.04.2025 | 18:30-20:15

 

 

Simulation:

 

 

Thursday | 17.04.2025 | 08:30-16:15

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic Courses

 

2 c.p.

Introduction to German Law

 

 

Dr. Katya Assaf

 

 

Fall term | Wednesday | 08:30-10:00

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

 

2 c.p.

Still an Economic Superpower? - The Political Economy of Germany from a Comparative Perspective

 

 

Dr. Ina Kubbe

 

 

Fall term | Wednesday | 10:30-12:00

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

 

2 c.p.

Media and Society in Germany – Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

 

 

Prof. Gisela Dachs

 

 

Fall term | Wednesday | 14:30-16:00

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

 

2 c.p.

Elections and Political Institutions in Contemporary Germany

 

 

Dr. Tristan Klingelhöfer

 

 

Spring term | Wednesday | 10:30-12:00

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

 

2 c.p.

Visual History of the GDR (online-hybrid course)

 

 

Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann

 

 

Spring term | Wednesday | 14:30-16:00

 

 

 

2 c.p.

Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution. Youth in German Modernist Literature

 

 

Prof. Vivian Liska

 

 

Spring term | Tuesday | 10:30-12:00

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elective Compulsory Courses

 

2 c.p.

Massacre and Genocide in the 19th and 20th Century

 

 

Dr. Oded Steinberg

 

 

Fall term | Wednesday | 12:30-14:00

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

 

2 c.p.

European Football and Nationalism

 

 

Dr. Oded Steinberg

 

 

Spring term | Wednesday | 14:30-16:00

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

 

54675

2 c.p.

European Memory Cultures (online-asynchronous course)

 

 

Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann

 

 

Fall term | Wednesday | 12:30-14:00

 

 

 

54676

2 c.p.

German Culture, Arts and Media (online-hybrid course)

 

 

Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann

 

 

Spring term | Wednesday | 12:30-14:00

 

 

 

2 c.p.

Germany in Legal Terms: Education, Politics, and Human Rights

 

 

Dr. Katya Assaf

 

 

Spring term | Wednesday | 08:30-10:00

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

 

2 c.p.

Media, Market and Law – Germany and the USA in a Comparative Perspective

 

 

Dr. Katya Assaf

 

 

Spring term | Wednesday | 10:30-12:00

 

 

Room 23301 | Faculty of Social Sciences

 

 

 

54679

2 c.p.

Workshop in Applied Strategy: The Ambassadors' Club of the European Forum

 

 

Dr. Daniel Aschheim

 

 

Spring term | Monday | 10:30-12:00

 

 

Room 24205 | Faculty of Social Sciences

 

 

 

2 c.p.

European Politics

 

 

Dr. Tristan Klingelhöfer

 

 

Fall term | Monday | 17:00-18:30

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

 

2 c.p.

Study Excursion: Governing in the German Multi-Level System: A Field Trip to Berlin and Mecklenburg-West Pomerania

 

 

Dr. Tristan Klingelhöfer

 

 

09.-15.06.2025 (tentative)

 

 

Prerequisite: basic course 54642.

 

 

 

2 c.p.

Out of the Imperial Ruins: Central-East in the Modern Age (in Hebrew)

 

 

Dr. Samuel Barnai

 

 

Spring term | Monday | 19:00-20:30

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

 

2 c.p.

Study Excursion: The Imperial Past in the Nation State: The Baltic Case (in Hebrew)

 

 

Dr. Samuel Barnai

 

 

11-18.05.2024

 

 

Prerequisite: course 54663.

 

 

 

4 c.p.

Study Excursion: Europe in China: To the Former European Colonies Hong Kong and Macau and the Pearl River Delta (in Hebrew)

 

 

Prof. Noam Shoval & Dr. Dror Kochan

 

 

09-18.03.2024

 

 

 

2 c.p.

German Media between Printed Press and Digital Networks

 

 

Prof. Gisela Dachs

 

 

Spring term | Wednesday | 12:30-14:00

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

 

2 c.p.

Europe from the In- and Outside: What You See from Here You Don’t See from There

 

 

Prof. Gisela Dachs

 

 

Spring term | Wednesday | 16:30-18:00

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

 

2 c.p.

Internship for Students of the European Forum

 

 

Dr. Maya Sion-Tzidkiyahu

 

 

Annual | Wednesday | 18:30-20:00

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

 

2 c.p.

Introduction to the European Union: A Unique Supranational Beast (in Hebrew)

 

 

Dr. Maya Sion-Tzidkiyahu

 

 

Fall term | Monday | 08:30-10:00

 

 

Room 42605 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

 

54682

4 c.p.

Breaking the Silos: Identifying the Win-Win Opportunities in the Energy, Security and Climate Nexus

 

 

Prof. Lior Herman

 

 

Tuesday | 29.10.2024 | 11:30-13:15 | online

 

 

Fall term | Wednesday | 11:30-14:15 | online

 

 

Workshop in Brussels: 26.11-01.12.2024 (Tentative)

 

 

The number of participants is limited. Deadline for application: 19.10.2024. Application form

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elective Courses

 

2 c.p.

Global Holocaust Memory and Popular Cinema (online course)

 

 

Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann

 

 

Fall term | Monday | 08:30-10:00

 

 

 

2 c.p.

The European Titans: Anglo-German Relations 1815-2022 (in Hebrew)

 

 

Dr. Oded Steinberg

 

 

Spring term | Monday | 13:00-14:30

 

 

Room 23209 | Faculty of Social Sciences

 

 

 

2 c.p.

The Compensation Project: Reparations for Historical Wrongs in Europe after 1945 (in Hebrew)

 

 

Dr. Iris Nachum

 

 

Fall term | Tuesday | 12:30-14:00

 

 

 

56886

4 c.p.

Fundamental Issues in Political Theory: Freedom (in Hebrew)

 

 

Dr. Yiftah Elazar

 

 

Annual | Monday | 15:00-16:30

 

 

Room 22301 | Faculty of Social Sciences

 

 

 

2 c.p.

Graduate Seminar in German-Jewish Thought and Culture

 

 

Prof. Benjamin Pollock

 

 

Annual | Monday | 10:30-12:00