The Gerd Bucerius-Scholarship will cover the tuition fee and living expenses for a student from Eastern Europe to study for the MA in American Studies (MAS) at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies.

The deadline for the applications for the scholarship and the admission to the MAS is: March 31, 2005. Application forms for both can be downloaded on www.hca.uni-heidelerg.de

The start of the MAS is: Oct 4, 2005

The MAS is a one-year degree in English language that provides exemplary and interdisciplinary teaching of cultural knowledge about the United States of America in subjects such as American literature, economics, geography, history, history of art, law, musicology, political science, philosophy, sociology, and theology/religious studies

Graduates of recognized academic institutions outside Germany should have successfully completed degree programs of a minimum of four years of study.

Please see the class of 2005 section on www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de for further details.