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)

• 070015 VO Introductory Lecture - MA Contemporary History and Media
• 070016 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)

• 060007 VO ( REMOTE ) The Ideology of Jew-Hatred - Antisemitism Then and Now
• 080027 SE M310 Cultural Practices and Semiosis in Everyday Life: An Anthropology of Remittances: - Ethnographic Approaches to Transnational Migration
• 080030 VU M420 Knowledge and Materiality: Getting things moving - Body, Mobility, Materiality
• 170310 VO Lecture: The History of Film - What was (Post-)Cinema?
• 170311 VO Lecture on the History of Media - Queering Home: Postdigital Politics of Care
• 170320 VO Lecture: The History of Theatre, Film and Media - Fluxus and auteur film - art processes of the 60s
• 170701 VO Benjamin, Kluge, Godard & Co - Lecture with interactive elements
• 210089 VO M1a: Basics of Political Science
• 210090 VO [ en ] M1b: SpezialVO Basics of Political Science
• 210095 VO M3: Counter-institutions
• 210098 VO [ en ] M4:International Biodiversity Politics: Institutions, Actors, Power Relations
• 210103 VO M6: The transformation of social democracy: Austria in a comparative European perspective
• 210111 VO [ en ] M8: Social Theory for Politics: Class, Gender, Sexuality and Race
• 210114 VO [ en ] M9: Eastern Europe´s Great Transformations
• 220013 VO INSOWI A: VO SOFRA Current Societal Issues and Social Science Research
• 220029 VO VERTHE: VO JOURWA Journalism in Times of Media Change
• 220044 VO VERTHE: VO VERGLPO Political Communication and Media Governance in Comparative Perspective
• 230111 VO M1 Sociological Theories (Lecture)
• 230112 VO M1 Sociological Methodologies and Methods
• 230120 SE M3 Reading Seminar: Koko Jambo! "The Communicative Construction of Reality" - On the further development of "The Social Construction" through the social theory of communicative action
• 230121 SE M3 Reading Seminar: From ecological indifference to ecological sustainability? - Towards a Sociology of societal relations to nature
• 230122 SE M3 Reading Seminar: Conflict - Law - Society
• 230509 SE Reading Seminar: Foundations of Political Sociology - (Version 2014 - Auslaufender Studienplan)

Research Process and Methods (16 ECTS)

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

• 070009 UE Reading Course Contemporary History
• 070012 UE Workshop on Methodology - Biographical Methods
• 070027 UE Workshop on Methodology - Nazis on the run. Post-war careers after 1945
• 070172 UE [ en ] Workshop on Methodology - Digital Storytelling through Podcasting
• 070264 UE ( MIXED ) Introduction to the focus on Contemporary History (Reading Course) - Artistic Responses to Genocide and Crimes against humanity in the 20th century
• 070323 UE Course on Methodology

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

• 060022 SE Images of Horror - the presentation of the Shoah in international feature films
• 060027 VO From Caligari to Hitler - Propaganda as Entertainment
• 060046 SE The Golem in tradition and popular culture
• 080092 VU M220 Space - Time Configurations: Urban change in and through everyday photographic practice
• 080123 SE M110 Media, Discourse and Representation: - Zur Ästhetik des Alltäglichen und Populären.
• 080132 VU M520 Departmental Colloquium: Bodies
• 170601 SE ( MIXED ) MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Digital image violence
• 170602 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - In Catastrophic Times
• 170603 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Self, Performance, Other
• 170604 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Heldenplatz & Co. Antisemitism and National Socialism on Stage
• 170610 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Mask
• 170611 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Mediality of Disorder
• 170612 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - The intricacies of lightness: Filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver between New Hollywood and TV Movies
• 170613 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Iconoclash
• 210106 VO M7: Global crisis experience: extreme weather, health and politics
• 220048 VO VERTHE: VO STRAKO Strategic Communication - Current Approaches in Advertising, PR and Market Comm.
• 230019 VO PM1 PM1 Quantitative Empirical Research
• 230130 UE M4 Qualitative Methods: Interview and Participant Observation
• 230131 UE M4 Qualitative Methods: Interview and Participant Observation
• 230140 VO M5 Visual sociology: Gender order of film and filmmaking - Sociological Specialisation (Lecture)
• 230143 UE ( MIXED ) M5 Visual Sociology of Violence - Sociological Specialisation (Exercise)

Research Project and Presentation (20 ECTS)

PM3a Research Project and Presentation I (10 ECTS)

• 070024 SE Research Seminar - Transnational Women's Activism in the 20th Century
• 070126 SE Research Seminar Public History - Landscapes, Stories and Identity Constructions
• 070169 SE Research Seminar - Names and Numbers: Addressing Space & People
• 070205 SE Research Seminar - Austria's Nationalized Industry, 1946-2020
• 220019 SE FOSE: SE FOSE B Advanced Research Seminar B

PM3b Research Project and Presentation II (10 ECTS)

• 070012 UE Workshop on Methodology - Biographical Methods
• 070023 UE Proposal-Workshop
• 070027 UE Workshop on Methodology - Nazis on the run. Post-war careers after 1945
• 070045 UE Proposal-Workshop
• 070107 UE Proposal-Workshop - Writing workshop for the master's thesis - Schreibwerkstatt zur Masterarbeit
• 070172 UE [ en ] Workshop on Methodology - Digital Storytelling through Podcasting
• 170620 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Race and/as/after technology
• 170621 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Cinema in the Anthropocene
• 170622 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Footprints: Aesthetic Anatomy
• 170623 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Hybrid Agencies: Theory and narrative fictions
• 210117 SE [ en ] M10: Politics and Popular Culture
• 210135 SE M10: "The protocols", Plandemic and Taylor Swift as psyop. Conspiracy belief and democracy
• 230141 VO M5 Sociological Research on Health and Medicine - An Overview - Sociological Specialisation (Lecture)
• 230142 VO M5 Racism in contemporary society as social problem and research field - Sociological Specialisation (Lecture)

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

PM4a Seminar: Contemporary History and Media (8 ECTS)

• 060005 SE Again at Sinai: History of the Jewish Women’s Movement from its Beginnings to the Present Day
• 060022 SE Images of Horror - the presentation of the Shoah in international feature films
• 060029 SE ( REMOTE ) Jew-hatred - Palestine - Israel: Opportunities and Risks of Co-Existences
• 070020 SE Political polarization in the USA in history and present
• 070142 SE Seminar - Historical sources and critique - Anthropocene - a new period of human history? - Eine neue Epoche der Menschheitsgeschichte?
• 070261 SE ( MIXED ) Seminar Historical sources and critique - Visualizing the State: Architecture in Eastern Europe
• 070286 SE Seminar - Historical sources and critique - Migrations and mobilities in rural areas - 19th to 20th centuries
• 070297 SE Seminar - Historical sources and critique - Forms of solidarity of women* in (post)state-socialist Europe in a comparative perspective (Poland, GDR, Belarus, with a focus on Belarus).
• 070318 SE Seminar Historical sources and critique - Border and Nation - Ukraine in global perspective
• 143330 SE "Black Lives Matter" / "Palestinian Lives Matter" - Black - Palestinian Solidarities in Past and Present

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

• 010057 SE The Catholic Church during the Third Reich
• 010119 SE Artificial intelligence and democracy - ethical perspectives
• 030349 VO Climate law in intra- and interdisciplinary dialog
• 060005 SE Again at Sinai: History of the Jewish Women’s Movement from its Beginnings to the Present Day
• 060007 VO ( REMOTE ) The Ideology of Jew-Hatred - Antisemitism Then and Now
• 060022 SE Images of Horror - the presentation of the Shoah in international feature films
• 060026 SE ( REMOTE ) The Antisemitism of Christianity in Antiquity and Late Antiquity and its Contemporary Impact
• 060027 VO From Caligari to Hitler - Propaganda as Entertainment
• 060029 SE ( REMOTE ) Jew-hatred - Palestine - Israel: Opportunities and Risks of Co-Existences
• 060046 SE The Golem in tradition and popular culture
• 070010 VO Introduction to Contemporary History
• 070019 VO Political education in times of political polarization
• 070020 SE Political polarization in the USA in history and present
• 070142 SE Seminar - Historical sources and critique - Anthropocene - a new period of human history? - Eine neue Epoche der Menschheitsgeschichte?
• 070261 SE ( MIXED ) Seminar Historical sources and critique - Visualizing the State: Architecture in Eastern Europe
• 070286 SE Seminar - Historical sources and critique - Migrations and mobilities in rural areas - 19th to 20th centuries
• 070296 VO Lecture - "What holds us together": Mutual autonomy/alternonomy, inclusive solidarity, care
• 070297 SE Seminar - Historical sources and critique - Forms of solidarity of women* in (post)state-socialist Europe in a comparative perspective (Poland, GDR, Belarus, with a focus on Belarus).
• 070318 SE Seminar Historical sources and critique - Border and Nation - Ukraine in global perspective
• 080027 SE M310 Cultural Practices and Semiosis in Everyday Life: An Anthropology of Remittances: - Ethnographic Approaches to Transnational Migration
• 080030 VU M420 Knowledge and Materiality: Getting things moving - Body, Mobility, Materiality
• 080092 VU M220 Space - Time Configurations: Urban change in and through everyday photographic practice
• 080123 SE M110 Media, Discourse and Representation: - Zur Ästhetik des Alltäglichen und Populären.
• 080132 VU M520 Departmental Colloquium: Bodies
• 141030 VO Political History, History of Ideas and Culture of the Arab-Islamic Near East - The Middle East and North Africa since 1800: a historical overview
• 143330 SE "Black Lives Matter" / "Palestinian Lives Matter" - Black - Palestinian Solidarities in Past and Present
• 160136 PS 60 years of the Austrian-Turkish labor recruitment agreement - interdisciplinary perspectives
• 170310 VO Lecture: The History of Film - What was (Post-)Cinema?
• 170311 VO Lecture on the History of Media - Queering Home: Postdigital Politics of Care
• 170320 VO Lecture: The History of Theatre, Film and Media - Fluxus and auteur film - art processes of the 60s
• 170601 SE ( MIXED ) MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Digital image violence
• 170602 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - In Catastrophic Times
• 170603 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Self, Performance, Other
• 170604 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Heldenplatz & Co. Antisemitism and National Socialism on Stage
• 170610 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Mask
• 170611 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Mediality of Disorder
• 170612 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - The intricacies of lightness: Filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver between New Hollywood and TV Movies
• 170613 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Iconoclash
• 170700 VO Benjamin, Kluge, Godard & Co - Lecture
• 170701 VO Benjamin, Kluge, Godard & Co - Lecture with interactive elements
• 210089 VO M1a: Basics of Political Science
• 210090 VO [ en ] M1b: SpezialVO Basics of Political Science
• 210095 VO M3: Counter-institutions
• 210098 VO [ en ] M4:International Biodiversity Politics: Institutions, Actors, Power Relations
• 210103 VO M6: The transformation of social democracy: Austria in a comparative European perspective
• 210106 VO M7: Global crisis experience: extreme weather, health and politics
• 210111 VO [ en ] M8: Social Theory for Politics: Class, Gender, Sexuality and Race
• 210114 VO [ en ] M9: Eastern Europe´s Great Transformations
• 220013 VO INSOWI A: VO SOFRA Current Societal Issues and Social Science Research
• 220029 VO VERTHE: VO JOURWA Journalism in Times of Media Change
• 220044 VO VERTHE: VO VERGLPO Political Communication and Media Governance in Comparative Perspective
• 220048 VO VERTHE: VO STRAKO Strategic Communication - Current Approaches in Advertising, PR and Market Comm.
• 230111 VO M1 Sociological Theories (Lecture)
• 230112 VO M1 Sociological Methodologies and Methods
• 230120 SE M3 Reading Seminar: Koko Jambo! "The Communicative Construction of Reality" - On the further development of "The Social Construction" through the social theory of communicative action
• 230121 SE M3 Reading Seminar: From ecological indifference to ecological sustainability? - Towards a Sociology of societal relations to nature
• 230122 SE M3 Reading Seminar: Conflict - Law - Society
• 230130 UE M4 Qualitative Methods: Interview and Participant Observation
• 230131 UE M4 Qualitative Methods: Interview and Participant Observation
• 230140 VO M5 Visual sociology: Gender order of film and filmmaking - Sociological Specialisation (Lecture)
• 230143 UE ( MIXED ) M5 Visual Sociology of Violence - Sociological Specialisation (Exercise)
• 230509 SE Reading Seminar: Foundations of Political Sociology - (Version 2014 - Auslaufender Studienplan)

Master's Module (5 ECTS)

PM5 Master’s Module (5 ECTS)

• 070018 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070087 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070179 SE Master's Thesis Seminar - geeignet für Arbeiten in den Fachwissenschaften und der Fachdidaktik
• 070207 SE Master's Thesis Seminar - Seminar for the preparation of a final thesis in History of Medicine, - the Sciences and Health Care.
• 070208 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070276 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070293 SE Master's Thesis Seminar

Additional Courses

• 070294 UE Coaching: Finding my Topic - Preparing a MA Thesis in History - Extracurriculares Angebot