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

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Please consider that the effective regulations of each degree programme is bound to the curriculum. For the text of the curriculum and more information see: https://spl-geschichte.univie.ac.at/

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)

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

060017 VO Jew-Hatred - A History

060018 VO (REMOTE) Pogrom - An (Un)intellectual History of the Persecution of Judaism

080006 VU [de en] B420 Theories of Culture: Visual Culture and Gender

080009 VU (MIXED) M320 Cultural Practices and Semiosis in Everyday Life: - Human smuggling, sheperding, helping. Theory and Praxis of irregular migration facilitation

080071 VU [de en] B330 Specialised Methodology: Sounds of Technology: Listening to Everyday Companions

080074 VO (MIXED) B430 Special Theories: City and Photography - Historical and Contemporary Practices and Representations of Urban Societies

080075 VO (REMOTE) B230 Special Fields: - Fragestellungen - Methoden - Anwendungsgebiete

080087 PS (MIXED) B410 Theories of Culture

170310 VO (REMOTE) Lecture: The History of Film - Secrets of a Soul. Freud & Film

170320 VO Lecture: The History of Media - History and theory of Queer Computing

170400 VO Media and Ideology

170993 VO (REMOTE) Image and Word Combinations in History and Theory

170994 VO (REMOTE) Development of Media and Forms of Communication

210030 VO (REMOTE) BAK5: History of Theory and Debates on Theory

210062 VO (MIXED) BAK9: SpezialVO Political Theories and Research on Theories - What is Christian Democracy? Genealogy of a European ideology

210080 VO BAK13: SpezialVO State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Theories of Party Competition

210109 VO M1a: Introduction into Political Science

210110 VO M1b: Introduction into Political Science

210121 VO M5: SpezialVO EU and Europeanisation - The Europeanization of the Member States of the EU and its External Dimension

210132 VO M8: SpezialVO Gender and Politics - Feminist Democracy Theories

220017 VO VERTHE: VO JOURWA Journalism in Times of Media Change

220019 VO THEO: VO KSOZ - Sociology of Communication

220028 VO VERTHE: VO VERGLPO Political Communication and Media Governance in Comparative Perspective

220034 VO (MIXED) THEO: VO POLKO - Political Communication

220035 VO THEO: VO PSYCH - Media Psychology

230120 VO (REMOTE) Sociological Theories: Overview and current Developments

230121 SE Sociology of global inequality (with a focus on Anja Weiß)

230122 SE Sociology of Emotions

230123 SE (MIXED) Material turn: Basic principles of materialist theory and materialist Sociology

230124 SE (MIXED) Reading Seminar: Theories of social practices and societal change

230125 SE Reading Seminar: Sustainability and the Walfare State

230126 SE (MIXED) Reading Seminar: Peter L. Berger / Thomas Luckmann - The Social Construction of Reality

230127 SE Reading Seminar: Karl Polanyi - The Great Transformation - The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Societies and Economic Systems

230130 VO (MIXED) Sociological methodology and methods - Basics, critique, and new developments in empirical research

Research Process and Methods (16 ECTS)

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

070039 UE (MIXED) Workshop on Methodology - Children of War

070043 UE (REMOTE) Methodenkurs Contemporary History and Media

070064 UE Reading Course Contemporary History - Public debate on displacement, flight and refuge

070069 UE Methodological Workshop - Social, Cultural and Economic History of Pornography and Erotica

070157 UE Workshop on Methods: Research on three generations of a bourgeois family in ego documents - 19./20th century

070162 UE Methodological workshop - Space and Time

070305 UE Course on Methodology - Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in History

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

060022 VO Made in Austria - Jewish Austrian Film

060026 SE (REMOTE) Combatting Antisemitism

060030 SE [de en he] Zionism and Humanism in Israeli Cinema "before" Israel 1930-1947

060040 SE Modern Jewish Thought - An Introduction

080092 SE (MIXED) M210 Space:

170600 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - The element fire in the arts

170601 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Festwochen Campus

170602 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Media of Practice

170610 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Stand-up comedians and cabaret artists. Art figures, themes and the media

170611 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Film in film

170612 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Wellness, fitness, mindfulness. Technologies of the self and of media in late capitalism

170732 UE Media of History - Dialectical images and artistic research

170742 UE [en] (MIXED) ARTivism and Intersectionality in Film and Media

210013 VO (REMOTE) BAK4: Subject area Qualitative methods in the empirical social sciences

210085 VO (REMOTE) BAK14: Spezial VO Gender and Politics

210137 VO (REMOTE) M10: SpezialVO Culture and Politics - Image Politics: Political Iconology

220063 VO (REMOTE) VERTHE: VO STRAKO Strategic Communication - Current Approaches in Advertising, PR and Market Comm.

220079 VO (REMOTE) VERBE: VO GEND Media and Gender

230148 VO Professionalization and Expert Knowledge (also regarding the Corona Crisis)

230156 VO (MIXED) Visual Sociology: an Introduction with Focus on Images

230157 SE Pictures of organizations and teams in fictional movies

230174 VO Society as a medium from mass medias: Which reality is representative for us?

230175 UE (REMOTE) Digital Ethnography

230176 SE Vienna postcolonial? Decolonial investigations into a "global city"

Research Project and Presentation (20 ECTS)

PM3a Research Project and Presentation I (10 ECTS)

070036 SE Research Seminar - Intersectionality concretely - Race, class, gender in debates of political movements in the 20th century

070042 SE Research Seminar Contemporary History and Media

070058 SE Research Seminar - Translating Feminisms. Transnational Dynamics of Historical Movements.

070068 SE Research Seminar - Social, Cultural and Economic History of Pornography and Erotica

070156 SE Research Seminar - Research on three generations of a bourgeois family in ego documents - 19./20th centuries

070185 SE Research Seminar

220014 SE FOSE: SE FOSE B Advanced Research Seminar B

PM3b Research Project and Presentation II (10 ECTS)

070039 UE (MIXED) Workshop on Methodology - Children of War

070057 UE Proposal-Workshop

070069 UE Methodological Workshop - Social, Cultural and Economic History of Pornography and Erotica

070157 UE Workshop on Methods: Research on three generations of a bourgeois family in ego documents - 19./20th century

070162 UE Methodological workshop - Space and Time

070200 UE Proposalworkshop - Master Thesis Workshop

170620 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - AnthropoCenema: Cinema in the Anthropocene

170621 SE (REMOTE) MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - The Thicket is not a Sacred Grove. Reading Adorno, Barthes,...Zizek.

170622 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Memory/Media: Trauma, Resistance, History

210138 SE M10: Culture and Politics - Images of terror

210139 SE [en] M10: Culture and Politics - Conspiracy Theories

210178 SE (REMOTE) M10: Culture and Politics - Political landscape

230143 SE (REMOTE) Sustainable Consumption

230144 SE (REMOTE) The impact of digitalisation on society

230145 SE [en] Global mobilities and local challenges - Sustainability of travel & tourism in the 21st century

230152 SE Conveying research findings to the media - Science communication

230158 VO+SE (REMOTE) Ethnographic film/ social science film - Audio-visual material in research, analysis and communication

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

PM4a Seminar: Contemporary History and Media (8 ECTS)

060026 SE (REMOTE) Combatting Antisemitism

060030 SE [de en he] Zionism and Humanism in Israeli Cinema "before" Israel 1930-1947

060040 SE Modern Jewish Thought - An Introduction

070015 SE Seminar on History - Church and State in Austria 1848-1938

070038 SE Seminar - Biographical research on Rotarians persecuted by National Socialism in Europe

070076 SE Seminar - Expulsion, Flight, Refuge in Austrian Media 1945 to the Present Day

070152 SE Seminar - "No neutral men?" - Internationale Beamt*innen als historische Akteur*innen

070175 SE (REMOTE) Seminar - Media as source of Contemporary History

070211 SE Seminar - Delusion and suspicion? Enemy images and conspiracy theories

070298 SE [en] Past meets Present - National Socialism, Colonialism, and Identity in Four Viennese Historical Museums

070314 SE (MIXED) Seminar - Conspiracy theories in history and the present

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

010066 VO (MIXED) Ethics II - Political Ethics and Social Ethics

010086 SE (REMOTE) Religion in Austria Under National Socialist Rule 1938-1945

010099 FS Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere? Social ethical perspectives

010119 SE Ecological crisis - socio-ethical perspectives

060001 VO From Lilith to Golem: Introduction to Visual Jewish Cultural History - Film and Media

060010 VO Jewish History from the Modern to the Contemporary Period

060017 VO Jew-Hatred - A History

060018 VO (REMOTE) Pogrom - An (Un)intellectual History of the Persecution of Judaism

060022 VO Made in Austria - Jewish Austrian Film

060026 SE (REMOTE) Combatting Antisemitism

060030 SE [de en he] Zionism and Humanism in Israeli Cinema "before" Israel 1930-1947

060040 SE Modern Jewish Thought - An Introduction

070015 SE Seminar on History - Church and State in Austria 1848-1938

070026 UE (MIXED) Readings in the History of Historiography

070038 SE Seminar - Biographical research on Rotarians persecuted by National Socialism in Europe

070045 UE Monitoring Class for Practical Training

070046 UE Readings in the History of Historiography

070076 SE Seminar - Expulsion, Flight, Refuge in Austrian Media 1945 to the Present Day

070175 SE (REMOTE) Seminar - Media as source of Contemporary History

070211 SE Seminar - Delusion and suspicion? Enemy images and conspiracy theories

070248 UE (MIXED) Readings in the History of Historiography

070261 VO (REMOTE) Introduction to Audiovisual Sources for Historians

070293 VO Lecture - Public History - Public History und interdisziplinäre Geschichtsvermittlung unter Berücksichtigung ausgewählter Themen

070298 SE [en] Past meets Present - National Socialism, Colonialism, and Identity in Four Viennese Historical Museums

070299 VO Lecture - Conceptions of Man, conceptions of the Enemy - Political representations of the self and the other

070314 SE (MIXED) Seminar - Conspiracy theories in history and the present

080006 VU [de en] B420 Theories of Culture: Visual Culture and Gender

080009 VU (MIXED) M320 Cultural Practices and Semiosis in Everyday Life: - Human smuggling, sheperding, helping. Theory and Praxis of irregular migration facilitation

080071 VU [de en] B330 Specialised Methodology: Sounds of Technology: Listening to Everyday Companions

080074 VO (MIXED) B430 Special Theories: City and Photography - Historical and Contemporary Practices and Representations of Urban Societies

080075 VO (REMOTE) B230 Special Fields: - Fragestellungen - Methoden - Anwendungsgebiete

080087 PS (MIXED) B410 Theories of Culture

080092 SE (MIXED) M210 Space:

143181 KU Virtual 3D Modelling of Ethnographic Objects for Cultural Heritage Engagement

143221 KU Racism on the Bookshelf. - Libraries as Places of Anti-Racist and Critical Debate in the Field of Tension between the Processing of Knowledge and the Reproduction of Stereotypical Images of Africa.

143255 KU Of Monkeys, Human Beings, the "Holy Spirit Mobile Forces" - and some bits about African Photography - Heike Behrend's Autobiography of her Discipline

170310 VO (REMOTE) Lecture: The History of Film - Secrets of a Soul. Freud & Film

170320 VO Lecture: The History of Media - History and theory of Queer Computing

170400 VO Media and Ideology

170600 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - The element fire in the arts

170601 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Festwochen Campus

170602 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Media of Practice

170610 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Stand-up comedians and cabaret artists. Art figures, themes and the media

170611 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Film in film

170612 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Wellness, fitness, mindfulness. Technologies of the self and of media in late capitalism

170732 UE Media of History - Dialectical images and artistic research

170742 UE [en] (MIXED) ARTivism and Intersectionality in Film and Media

170993 VO (REMOTE) Image and Word Combinations in History and Theory

170994 VO (REMOTE) Development of Media and Forms of Communication

210013 VO (REMOTE) BAK4: Subject area Qualitative methods in the empirical social sciences

210030 VO (REMOTE) BAK5: History of Theory and Debates on Theory

210062 VO (MIXED) BAK9: SpezialVO Political Theories and Research on Theories - What is Christian Democracy? Genealogy of a European ideology

210080 VO BAK13: SpezialVO State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Theories of Party Competition

210085 VO (REMOTE) BAK14: Spezial VO Gender and Politics

210109 VO M1a: Introduction into Political Science

210110 VO M1b: Introduction into Political Science

210121 VO M5: SpezialVO EU and Europeanisation - The Europeanization of the Member States of the EU and its External Dimension

210132 VO M8: SpezialVO Gender and Politics - Feminist Democracy Theories

210137 VO (REMOTE) M10: SpezialVO Culture and Politics - Image Politics: Political Iconology

210182 VO (REMOTE) Health. A society in crisis?

220017 VO VERTHE: VO JOURWA Journalism in Times of Media Change

220019 VO THEO: VO KSOZ - Sociology of Communication

220028 VO VERTHE: VO VERGLPO Political Communication and Media Governance in Comparative Perspective

220034 VO (MIXED) THEO: VO POLKO - Political Communication

220035 VO THEO: VO PSYCH - Media Psychology

220063 VO (REMOTE) VERTHE: VO STRAKO Strategic Communication - Current Approaches in Advertising, PR and Market Comm.

220079 VO (REMOTE) VERBE: VO GEND Media and Gender

230120 VO (REMOTE) Sociological Theories: Overview and current Developments

230121 SE Sociology of global inequality (with a focus on Anja Weiß)

230122 SE Sociology of Emotions

230123 SE (MIXED) Material turn: Basic principles of materialist theory and materialist Sociology

230124 SE (MIXED) Reading Seminar: Theories of social practices and societal change

230125 SE Reading Seminar: Sustainability and the Walfare State

230126 SE (MIXED) Reading Seminar: Peter L. Berger / Thomas Luckmann - The Social Construction of Reality

230127 SE Reading Seminar: Karl Polanyi - The Great Transformation - The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Societies and Economic Systems

230130 VO (MIXED) Sociological methodology and methods - Basics, critique, and new developments in empirical research

230148 VO Professionalization and Expert Knowledge (also regarding the Corona Crisis)

230156 VO (MIXED) Visual Sociology: an Introduction with Focus on Images

230157 SE Pictures of organizations and teams in fictional movies

230174 VO Society as a medium from mass medias: Which reality is representative for us?

230175 UE (REMOTE) Digital Ethnography

230176 SE Vienna postcolonial? Decolonial investigations into a "global city"

Master's Module (5 ECTS)

PM5 Master’s Module (5 ECTS)

070013 SE (MIXED) Master's Thesis Seminar

070037 SE Master's Thesis Seminar

070040 SE (MIXED) Master's Thesis Seminar