5 Master's degrees in American and Australasian studies in Netherlands

Are Transatlantic relations in a crisis? Which values and interests connect or divide us? This interdisciplinary program pursues such questions, combining the historical and contemporary, the political and cultural, and the theoretical and practical.

The master's programme in North American Studies at Leiden University takes an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to the study of the United States. The programme offers a diverse and international learning environment.

Latin America is an increasingly important player on the world stage: culturally, politically, and economically. In Latin American Studies, you develop into an expert on this strategic region: from global food supply (thanks to the region's large agricultural exports) to the energy transition (driven by its vast reserves of lithium and copper).

In the American Studies (History) programme of the University of Amsterdam, we study the United States – from inside and out – historically and with an eye toward the present. We explore politics and foreign policy, but also the culture that has influenced and reflected the world.

In the Latin American Studies programme of the University of Amsterdam, you will study social transformations in Latin America from geographic, historical, economic, cultural, social, political and ecological perspectives. You will design your own research plan, do field research in this exciting region and become a critical academic.