Intercultural Humanities (MA/PhD) Program at a Glance

The Intercultural Humanities Graduate Program is designed for an international student body and a faculty strongly committed to interdisciplinary studies. Students may opt for the 2-year MA program or the 3-year Research-Only PhD program. An MA degree is offered in Intercultural Humanities (disciplinary focus possible) and a PhD is offered in all the disciplines participating in the program. After the MA phase, students may apply to continue their studies in the PhD program.

What This Program Is About
Have you ever asked yourself …

• Why do authors write multilingual poems?
• Which traces of colonialism can be found
  in the life of an Indian student today?
• How are cultural conflicts reflected in aesthetics?
• When did globalization start in China?
• How does the global arts market affect the work
  of an artist in Cameroon?
• What cultures regard violence as being beautiful?
• How can cultural theories be applied to the intercultural interaction on the campus of an international university?

Intercultural and transcultural issues are becoming increasingly significant for political, cultural and everyday life on a macro and a micro level. This is due to processes related to internationalization and globalization and the cultural changes and conflicts caused by them. The program focuses on intercultural encounters, cross-cultural transfers and transcultural universals in the past and present and provides students with knowledge of the theories and methods used to investigate and describe them.

For a full listing of the Course Requirements of the MA Program please see the program handbook.

Ph.D. students are required to participate in the interdisciplinary research colloquium and write a thesis.

STYLE SHEET
Master’s Thesis (MA thesis Humanities)

Prof. Dr. Immacolata Amodeo
Professor of Literature

Prof. Dr. Marc Frey
Professor of History

Prof. Dr. Hans G. Kippenberg
Professor of Comparative Religious Studies

Prof. Dr. Peter Ludes
Professor of Mass Communication

Prof. Dr. Birgit Mersmann
Professor of Non-Western and European Art

Prof. Dr. Marion G. Müller
Professor of Mass Communication

Prof. Dr. Thomas Rommel
Professor of Literature

Prof. Dr. Margrit Schreier
Professor of Empirical Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Prof. Dr. Rainer Tetzlaff
Professor of African and Development Studies

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Trabant
Professor of European Plurilingualism

Prof. Dr. Isabel Wünsche
Professor of Art & Art History

Graduates who complete the 2 year MA program will be in an excellent position to seek careers in (inter-)cultural management, in academia, in traditional and new media, in museums and document centers, within public and private organizations, on a national and the international level.