Program Overview

American History, Culture and Society

Master of Arts (main subject)

Contact and Advisory Partners

• Contact person at the examination office: Fabian Widerna, M.A.
• Course coordination: Dr. Julia Rössler
• Subject-specific study advice: -Dr. Anna Flügge
  • apl. Prof. Dr. Charlotte Lerg
• Examination committee: -Dr. phil. Marcel Schellong (Chairman)
  • Prof. Dr. Claudia Wiener (Deputy Chairwoman)
  • Prof. Dr. Michael Hochgeschwender -Dr. phil. Franziska Günther
  • Prof. Dr. Christine Haug

Decisions of the Examination Committee

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Dates of the current semester

Date overviews can be found here (PStO 2012) and here (PStO 2019).

Information on the Final Thesis

The final thesis should be written in the 4th semester. Please note the following hints:

• Please contact your supervisor early.
• A return of the topic is only possible once within two weeks after the start of the processing time.
• The form for registering the final thesis can be found here. Please use only the form intended for your study program. If there is no separate form for your study program, please use the form labeled "general".
• Please fill in the information about your person and have the topic entered by your supervisor.
• The form will be submitted directly by your supervisor or collected by the coordinator to the examination office and recorded by the responsible examiner two to four weeks after the start of the processing time.
• After recording your final thesis by the examination office, your registration will appear in your LSF account statement, as well as under "Info on registered exams". There you can also check the recording of your work title. Any typing errors should be reported to your examiner so that they can be corrected.
• The start of the work is the beginning of the registration period for all students. The processing time is exactly 20 weeks.
• Please note: The registration can be made during the entire registration period. The start of the work remains the beginning of the registration period for all students.

The master's thesis (2 copies) can be submitted:

• on the day of submission during office hours to Mr. Fabian Widerna in room D 205 (Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich),
• via the house mailbox (main entrance, right), or
• by post (by registered mail - the postmark counts as the submission date) to
  • Examination Office for Humanities and Social Sciences
  • c/o Fabian Widerna
  • Sibling Scholl 1st place
  • 80539 Munich

In the bound work (glue or spiral binding), a personally signed certificate should be bound in as the last page, confirming that you have written the work independently and have not used any other aids than those specified.

For the disputation, please arrange a date with your examiner that is after the submission of the master's thesis.

More information can be found on the homepage of the America Institute.

Examination and Study Regulations

• Examination and study regulations of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for the master's degree program American History, Culture and Society (2019) from January 21, 2020 (PDF, 141 KB)
• Examination and study regulations of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for the master's degree program American History, Culture and Society (2012) from March 18, 2016 (PDF, 220 KB)

Further Important Pages

• Appointments
• Examination committees
• Forms
• Link to subject