Program Overview

Program Overview

The Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology/Cultural History is a multi-subject bachelor's program that focuses on the empirical study of people's ways of life, primarily in their own culture. The program combines cultural studies of an empirical nature with cultural studies of a historical nature, focusing on European cultural history.

Key Facts

• Degree: Bachelor of Arts
• Supplement to degree: major in a multi-subject bachelor's programme
• Admission restriction: without admission restriction (without NC)
• Duration: 6 Semesters
• Credits/ECTS: 120
• Teaching language: German
• Tuition fee: None
• Semester contribution: € 305,05
• Start of studies: Winter semester
• Part-time possible: Yes
• Institutions: Faculty of Arts, Institute of Studies in Arts and Culture (section: Cultural Anthropology/Cultural History)

Programme Content

The subject consists of the sub-subjects Cultural Anthropology and Cultural History.

• Cultural Anthropology is a cultural studies discipline that focuses on people's ways of life, primarily in their own culture. It is an empirical subject with primarily qualitative approaches and hermeneutic-interpretative working methods. The focus of interest is on popular and everyday culture in its oral and written traditions, its images, symbols, and signs, particularly the categories of society, history, and sex/gender. One focus is on visual anthropology, analyzing communication in everyday life and revealing the production and use of media using qualitative, ethnographic methods.
• Cultural History deals with the relationships between culture and society in Europe and global modernity. It starts historically with individual social actors, groups, or societies and is interested in their cultural forms, horizons of interpretation, values, experiences, and perceptions, practices - and their representations. Cultural history gains its insights from sources, including texts and material culture, such as media and objects.

Structure

The Bachelor's degree is the first professional qualification, with a standard period of study of six semesters. The program offers various forms of courses, including seminars, lectures, and tutorials, for the individual modules. A multi-subject Bachelor's degree consists of a major subject with 120 credit points and a supplementary subject with 60 credit points.

Why Study in Jena?

• Unique combination in German: The program offers a unique combination of cultural studies of an empirical nature and cultural studies of a historical nature, focusing on German culture, local and regional cultures, and European cultural history.
• Unlimited possibilities: The University attracts students and academics from all over the world, providing ideal requirements for prospective international students.
• Adventures abroad: The university has a worldwide network of partner universities, making it easy to fulfill the dream of a semester abroad.

Career Opportunities

The degree program lays a broad foundation for career orientations in the subject areas of cultural work, museums, journalism, and science. Graduates will have communicative skills to present science to the public and subject-specific academic skills.

Postgraduate Master's Programs

The university offers several postgraduate master's programs, including:

• Education ‐ Culture ‐ Anthropology Master of Arts
• Literature - Art - Culture Master of Arts
• Modern History Master of Arts
• Cultural Anthropology/Cultural History Master of Arts

Admission Requirements

• University entrance qualification, such as a general secondary school leaving certificate, is required for admission onto the study program.
• Basic knowledge of History
• Interest in understanding complex political, social, and cultural problems of the past
• Curiosity about cultural processes in the present

What Can You Do After Your Studies?

Graduates will have a broad foundation for career orientations in cultural work, museums, journalism, and science, with subject-specific academic skills and communicative skills to present science to the public.