In the course of an MA work in American Studies you will develop skills and abilities that will not only make you an expert on the United States but also give you other more general skills that many companies and institutions will value.
You will
- be able to acquire new knowledge and put it to use in pursuit of new goals
- be able to survey a wide field of information and extract its essence
- be able to work across more than one discipline
- be accustomed to expressing yourself in American English both in writing and orally not merely competently but at an academic level.
- be comfortable with reading academic texts in American English
- be accustomed to working in groups, and be able to learn from and to give constructive criticism
- be familiar with the research process, and know how to define a problem and carry out an analysis, base don the relevant material, which necessarily includes being able to offer colleagues useful criticism and suggestions for change.
- know how to delve deeply into a selected problem or question
- know how to interpret and critically analyze new information
- know how to plan and prioritize your work independently