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

Orientation Course

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)

• 070069 VO Introductory Lecture MA Contemporary History and Media
• 070073 UE Reading Course in Contemporary History and Media
• 070076 UE Reading Course in Contemporary History and Media
• 070082 UE [ en ] 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
• 170310 VO Lecture: The History of Film - Affect, Empathy, Narrative Perspective. Gender and/in Media
• 170311 VO Lecture on the History of Media - Queering Home: Postdigital Politics of Care
• 170320 VO Lecture: The History of Theatre, Film and Media - Queer Film and Media Historiography in Austria and in the world: Beginnings, viewed from the end (Part 2)
• 170321 VO Lecture on the History of Theatre, Film and Media - Spaces of Thought and Image in Film and Media Art
• 170993 VO Image and Word Combinations in History and Theory - Forms of experience of photographic media using the example of film and cinema
• 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
• 210105 VO M6: Political parties between state and society
• 210113 VO [ en ] M8: Gender, neoliberalism
• 210116 VO [ en ] M9: Eastern Europe´s Great Transformations
• 220013 VO INSOWI A: VO SOFRA Current Societal Issues and Social Science Research

Research Process and Methods (16 ECTS)

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

• 070059 UE Workshop on Methodology - Shoa-victims of the University of Vienna
• 070065 UE Workshop on Methodology - How do I conduct a narrative interview? - An Oral History Workshop

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

• 060022 SE The "Neo-Ufa" - Jewish lifeworlds in contemporary German feature films
• 060028 VO Comedy on the brink - Holocaust, humor and cinematic border crossings
• 060046 SE Of well-poisoners and world-destroyers: images of Jews under the sign of the monster
• 170600 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Time and Temporality in the work of Jim Jarmusch
• 170601 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Close Reading: THE THIRD MAN (UK 1949)
• 170602 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Assembly
• 170603 SE MA 1.1. "Forms of Staging and Aesthetic Perception" - Affect and Sound: tfm
• 170610 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality"
• 170611 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Mediality of Disorder
• 170613 SE MA 1.2. "Processes of Theatricality and Mediality" - Wellness, fitness, mindfulness. Self and media technologies in late capitalism
• 210108 VO [ en ] M7: Public Opinion and Political Behaviour
• 220048 VO VERTHE: VO STRAKO Strategic Communication - Current Approaches in Advertising, PR and Market Comm.
• 230019 VO PM1 PM1 Quantitative Empirical Research

Research Project and Presentation (20 ECTS)

PM3a Research Project and Presentation I (10 ECTS)

• 070064 SE Research Seminar

PM3b Research Project and Presentation II (10 ECTS)

• 070059 UE Workshop on Methodology - Shoa-victims of the University of Vienna
• 070065 UE Workshop on Methodology - How do I conduct a narrative interview? - An Oral History Workshop
• 070086 UE Proposal-Workshop
• 170620 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Digital Witnessing
• 170621 SE MA 1.3. "Discourses and Methods" - Understanding, Thinking and Experiencing Comics
• 210119 SE M10: Trust No One - Disinformation and conspiracy narratives as a threat to democracy?
• 210120 SE M10: The visual (re)presentation of protest

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

PM4a Seminar: Contemporary History and Media (8 ECTS)

• 060022 SE The "Neo-Ufa" - Jewish lifeworlds in contemporary German feature films
• 060032 SE ( REMOTE ) Images of Antisemitism
• 070083 SE [ en ] Seminar Historical sources and critique
• 070128 SE Seminar - tba
• 070130 SE Seminar - Historical sources and critique - Public History - Landscapes, Memory and Identity in the Travel Literature

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

• 060007 VO ( REMOTE ) The Ideology of Jew-Hatred - Antisemitism Then and Now
• 060026 SE ( REMOTE ) Antisemitism from the Left - Not Only a Recent Way of Jew-hatred
• 060032 SE ( REMOTE ) Images of Antisemitism
• 070062 VO Introductory Lecture Contemporary History
• 070083 SE [ en ] Seminar Historical sources and critique
• 070130 SE Seminar - Historical sources and critique - Public History - Landscapes, Memory and Identity in the Travel Literature

Seminar from the Field of Contemporary History

• 070128 SE Seminar - tba

Seminar from the other fields

Master's Module (5 ECTS)

• 070003 SE Master's Thesis Seminar

PM5 Master’s Module (5 ECTS)

• 070063 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070067 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070087 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070208 SE Master's Thesis Seminar

Additional Courses