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European Ethnology

Bachelor minor

  1.  University of bamberg
  2. Faculties
  3. Humanities
  4. Institutes
  5. History and European Ethnology
  6. European Ethnology
  7. Studies
  8. Bachelor minor
  9. Structure and Curriculum

Structure and Curriculum

Possible topics

  • Building and housing | Urban and spatial research
  • Customs and festive culture | Religion and spirituality
  • Tales and narratives | Visual anthropology | Popular entertainment
  • Material culture and museums | Non-material culture
  • Europeanisation/globalisation | Migration and identity
  • Body and health | Food and gastronomic culture
  • Clothing, fashion and traditional dress
  • Gender and diversity
  • Digitalisation of everyday life

This bachelor’s degree minor subject offers foundation modules on the history of European Ethnology and on current disciplinary discourses, as well as base modules on sources and approaches and on techniques of cultural analysis with regard to the past and the present. You’ll expand on your knowledge in the advanced modules.

To do so, you attend lectures where you acquire broad knowledge on cultural phenomena. In seminars, you learn how to reflect on and discuss topics from a cultural studies perspective. In practical training courses, you get a hands-on insight into research in the field of cultural studies as well as into potential professional fields for graduates of the programme in European Ethnology. It is also possible to discuss seminar topics in their actual surroundings on cultural studies field trips.

 

Module tables for European Ethnology as a bachelor’s degree minor subject (30 or 45 ECTS points)

Module overview of the bachelor’s minor subject with 30 ECTS credits (click to enlarge)
Module overview of the bachelor’s minor subject with 45 ECTS credits (click to enlarge)

Important note: in order to be admitted to the module examination for Base Modules III and IV and Advanced Modules I to III, you must have passed Foundation Modules I and II.

Example programme structure for the bachelor’s degree minor

Below, you can find an example of how the programme could be structured if you start your studies in the winter semester. This is a recommendation for full-time students and shows a possible programme structure. Any potential repeated examination attempts, periods abroad or semesters on leave are not taken into account in this overview.

  • For the minor in European Ethnology (30 or 45 ECTS credits), the following modules must be completed:

1st semester of study (winter): 7.5 ECTS

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  • Seminar and practical training (Foundation Module I: Academic Working Methods)
  • Lecture on the history of European Ethnology and tutorial (Foundation Module II: Disciplinary History and Discourses)

2nd semester of study (summer): 7.5 ECTS

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  • Lecture series on current discourses (Foundation Module II: Subject History & Discourses)
  • Lecture series and reading seminar (Base Module I: Everyday Culture [Fundamentals])

 

3rd semester of study (winter): 7.5 ECTS

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  • Seminar (Base Module III: Analysing Culture [Past])
  • Practical training (Base Module II: Applied Subject Knowledge)

4th semester of study (summer): 7.5 ECTS

  • Practical training (Base Module II: Applied Subject Knowledge)
  • Seminar (Base Module IV: Analysing Culture [Contemporary])

  • Students taking European Ethnology as a minor subject with 45 ECTS credits also complete the following modules:

5th semester of study (winter): 10 ECTS

  • Lecture series and reading seminar (Advanced Module I: Everyday Culture [Specialisation])
  • Seminar (Advanced Module II: Analysing Culture [Specialisation])

6th semester of study (summer): 5 ECTS

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  • Seminar and five field trip days (Advanced Module III: Cultural Studies Field Trip)

European Ethnology in the General Studies component

In the General Studies (Studium Generale) component, you are free to take additional courses in European Ethnology in order to gain further transferable skills. You can see which of our courses are available for the General Studies component in the overview of the courses offered. If you wish to attend additional or alternative courses, please get in touch with the subject advisor.

Required electives from other bachelor’s degree programmes

If the examination regulations of other bachelor’s degree programmes provide for a required elective component including course credit gained within European Ethnology, you can complete the Foundation Modules I and II and the Base Modules I to IV from the bachelor’s minor subject. You can find information on these modules in the corresponding descriptions. In all cases, the following applies: in order to be admitted to the module examination for the Base Modules III and IV, you must have passed Foundation Modules I and II.