Master’s Degree Programme in European Ethnology
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European cultures in theory and practice
The master’s degree programme teaches specialised knowledge on historical and contemporary everyday culture. A focus is placed on social practices and cultural lifestyles that constitute our living environment and analysing these with historical and/or empirical methods.
Your studies will be interdisciplinary and based around research and practice. In this way, you’ll learn the necessary tools that you can put into use in an individual and independent master’s thesis.
| The European Ethnology programme at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Final Examination | Master’s Examination (throughout the programme) |
| Title | Master of Arts |
| ECTS Points | 120 |
| Standard Programme Duration | 4 semesters |
| Programme Start | Winter or summer semester |
| Type of Studies | Full-time and part-time possible |
| Admissions | Admission with mark of 2.5 or better from the fields of the humanities, social sciences and cultural studies |
Programme objectives
You consolidate both subject-specific and wider cultural studies skills by
- independently engaging with current discourses in European ethnology
- independently applying the disciplinary approaches of cultural anthropology
- critically engaging with the relevant literature – even from other disciplines
- drawing on diverse sources for analysis and research purposes
- writing your own systematic and methodologically reflective paper, supported by theory.