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Ethnologie (Cultural and Social Anthropology)

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) – 2 field degree program - Minor Field

Note

The previous Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology (minor) will be offered from 1 October 2025 under the name Bachelor of Arts in Social and Cultural Anthropology (minor).

How do people organize and understand their day-to-day lives in different societies and different places around the world? For example, how are globalization and economic practice connected in Namibia? How are relationships defined between people, the environment and religion in Indonesia? How is knowledge passed on in Ecuador? How does the law work in Argentina? What youth cultures are there in Kyrgyzstan? And what trends are shaping intercultural and transcultural encounters, for instance in the framework of migration or seeking refuge?

Staff at the Institute of Ethnology go into such questions in their current research projects and also incorporate them in their teaching. If you like dealing with issues like this and would like to engage with the worldwide diversity of human cultures as well as past and present coexistence, socio-political relationships and economic interrelationships, then studying ethnology is for you.

The subject of ethnology is a descriptive and comparative science of cultures and societies, with the aim of studying processes, activities and worldviews above all from the perspective of stakeholders and in the framework of socio-cultural contexts, examining them critically and making them comprehensible. Socially-engaged ethnology aims to reveal unequal relationships and contribute to communication and cooperation projects.

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Language of instruction

German

Academic calendar

Winter Semester

Standard Period of Study

6 semesters required for the full degree programme

Scope of services

180 ECTS-Points for the full degree programme

Admission

Language requirements: Deutsch C1

First semester: No more admission in the first semester possible

Higher semesters: No more admission possible

Application period

First semester: An application is no longer possible

Higher semesters: An application is no longer possible

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