Bachelor's Programme European Ethnology

Are you interested in diversity in society and would you like to understand the historical and current challenges of European everyday life?

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The students of the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in European Ethnology acquire basic knowledge to analyse day-to-day experiences and customs of European societies and historical and current issues of societies.
Students acquire not only knowledge about cultural theories but also methodological skills and practical competencies for work in culture and media.

Please note: the language of instruction for this programme is German.

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UC 033 623

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Why is it worth studying European Ethnology?

Graduates are able to elaborate, evaluate and implement scientific issues in the fields of cultural studies and to apply the skills required in interdisciplinary contexts. They possess scientifically well-founded theoretical and methodical problem-solving skills and multidisciplinary competences such as presentation skills, information and self-management.

What are the main topics of the study programme?

The Bachelor’s Programme European Ethnology is grouped among the humanities.Graduates have the competence to ethnographically observe and describe cultural processes and their effects in order to analyse them with cultural science theories and models.

Students thus acquire abstraction abilities and learn to think in terms of comprehensive connections. In this context, they develop awareness of the questions of social constructions such as historicity, modernization, identity politics, globalization, gender etc., and they learn to relativize their own point of view. With its comparative and cultural-relativistic perspective, the Bachelor’s Programme in European Ethnology also promotes constructivist thinking and enables students to critically reflect their own assumptions and categories of perception.

Until the completion of the study programme, students develop critical reflection skills which enable them to apply European-ethnological knowledge to cultural problems by formulating and substantiating scientific arguments.

What career opportunities do I have with this degree?

The Bachelor’s Programme European Ethnology prepares graduates for a wide range of occupational fields, such as in documentation, collecting, museums and exhibitions, libraries and publishing, public relations, cultural journalism, adult education, developmental work, cultural policy and administration, tourism as well as intercultural social work and cultural management.

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