At the University of Pécs, you may study American Studies at the MA level. The Institute of English Studies teaches the newly registered program providing students with a comprehensive knowledge of American society, history, politics, and culture with a special study track in North American literatures and literary studies.

As defined by the curriculum, studies for the MA in American Studies consist of two years of core courses and electives, and the public defense of a thesis demonstrating the student’s original research in a selected field of American Studies.

Overview:

Our program in American Studies offers a comprehensive overview of the field at the graduate level. Students are required to take core courses in the different subfields of American Studies and in related areas such as cultural studies and cultural history, the social sciences and research methodologies, historical linguistics, popular and visual culture, etc.

All these pave the way for the individual research students are required to undertake for their thesis in North American literature and literary studies in an interdisciplinary manner. The thesis supervised by our colleagues at the Institute of English Studies is to be handed in in the fourth semester and defended in order to earn an MA in American Studies.