Program Overview

Program Overview

The Eastern European and East-Central European Studies program is an interdisciplinary approach to examining the culture and history of the Slavic countries. Students will be taught a solid language training with fundamental knowledge and skills in the areas of language, literature, history, and cultural studies.

Facts and Formalities

• Degree: Bachelor of Arts
• Type of programme: Undergraduate
• Start of programme: Winter and summer semester
• Standard period of study: 6 semesters
• Language(s) of instruction: German, occasionally Slavic languages
• Fees and contributions: 161.10 € / Semester
• Application procedure: Subjects with no admission restrictions
• Application deadlines: Information about deadlines can be obtained after you have put together a degree program
• Part-time option: Yes

Course Content

The degree programme combines solid language training with fundamental knowledge and skills in the areas of language, literature, history, and cultural studies. Over the course of their studies, students will participate in an interdisciplinary examination of the interrelationships between Eastern and East-Central Europe, including the Russian-, Polish-, Czech-, Serbo-Croatian- and Bulgarian-speaking regions. Along with providing in-depth knowledge of a Slavic language, the degree programme also provides students an overview of the entire gamut of the Slavic countries in their historical and cultural development, from their inception through to the Eastern and East-Central European societies of today, in the wake of the 1989 political upheaval as well as the easterly expansion of the EU.

Course Structure

The degree programme is dual in nature and consists of theoretical modules (history and cultural studies) as well as language acquisition modules. These are complemented by modules for cross-disciplinary competencies.

• Theoretical modules consist of courses that provide an introduction to the fundamentals and methodology of History and Cultural Studies
• Language acquisition modules provide intensive language training in Russian, Polish, or Czech
• Modules for cross-disciplinary competencies

Additional Degrees

• Bachelor 50%
• Bachelor 75%
• Bachelor 100%