Institutes at the Faculty of Humanities

English and American Studies

(Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt)

• American Studies
• English and American Cultural Studies
• English Literature
• English Linguistics (including Hisorical Linguistics)
• EFL-Didactics
• Language Practice

Archaeological Sciences, Heritage Conservation, and Art History (IADK)

(Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Brassat)

• Archaeological Sciences
  • Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology
  • Prehistoric and Early Historic Archaeology
  • Archaeology of the Roman Provinces
  • Archaeological Prospection
• Heritage Conservation
  • Heritage Conservation
  • Digital Heritage Technologies
  • Building Archaeology and Architectural History
  • Conservation Science
  • Forensic Conservation Science of Organic Polymers
  • Preventive Conservation of Architectural Heritage
  • Spatial Heritage Conservation
  • Laboratory for Denrdochnonology and Wood Structure Analysis
• Art History
  • Art History (especially Medieval Art History)
  • Art History (especially Early Modern and Modern Art History)
  • Art History with a Focus on Artistic Techniques

Protestant Theology

(formerly Human Sciences and Education)

• Systematic Theology and Contemporary Theological Issues
• Didactics

Geography

(Prof. Dr. Daniel Göler)

• Geography I (Cultural Geography)
• Geography II (Physical Geography)
• Historical Geography
• Migration and Transformation Studies
• Didactics

German Studies

(Prof. Dr. Norbert Kössinger)

• German Linguistics (Schäfer)
• German Linguistics / German as a Foreign Language (Reitbrecht)
• German Linguistics with a Focus on Grammar (Noel)
• Modern German Literature (Marx)
• Modern German Literature and Literary Mediation (Jürgensen)
• Modern German Literature (Bartl)
• Modern German Literature (Hermann)
• Older German Literature
• Didactics
• Literature and Media

History and European Ethnology

(Prof. Dr. Werner Scheltjens)

• Ancient History
• Didactics
• Digital History
• Franconian Regional History (in cooperation with the University of Bayreuth; based in Thurnau)
• Historical Auxiliary Sciences
• History and Culture of Late Antiquity
• Medieval History (including Regional History)
• Early Modern History (including Regional History)
• Modern and Contemporary History (including Regional History)
• Economic and Social History with a Focus on Labor and Education
• European Ethnology

Catholic Theology

(Prof. Dr. Kostantin Lindner)

• Old Testament Studies
• New Testament Studies
• Church History and Patristics
• Fundamental Theology and Dogmatics
• Religious Education and Didactics
• Theological Ethics

• Classical Philology (Latin Studies)
• Classical Philology (Greek Studies)
• Philosophy I (Schäfer)
• Philosophy II (Illies)
• Didactics for Philosophy/Ethics
• Junior Professorship in Philosophy (Jonas)

Communication Studies

(Prof. Dr. Carsten Wünsch)

• Communication Studies (Rothenberger)
• Communication Studies, especially Organizational Communication and Public Relations (Hoffjann)
• Empirical Research on Communicators (Behmer)
• Communication Studies with a Focus on Reception and Media Effects Research (Wünsch)

Oriental Studies

(Prof. Dr. Patrick Franke)

• General Linguistics
• Arabic Studies
• Iranian Studies
• Islamic Art History and Archaeology
• Islamic Studies
• Jewish Studies
• Turkish Studies

Romance Studies

(Prof. Dr. Enrique Rodrigues-Moura)

• Romance Literary Studies (De Rentiis)
• Romance Literary and Cultural Studies (Nonnenmacher)
• Romance Literary Studies / Hispanic Studies (Rodrigues-Moura)
• Romance Linguistics (Haase)
• Ibero-Romance Linguistics (Radatz)
• Didactics for Romance Languages and Literatures
• Language Practice

• Slavic Art and Cultural Studies
• Slavic Literature
• Slavic Linguistics
• Language Practice