Transcultural Studies / Cultural Anthropology

The master’s degree program Transcultural Studies / Cultural Anthropology focuses on local and transnational cultural processes in Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. Students expand knowledge gained from the empirical cultural analysis of day-to-day life in globalized societies and learn to apply ethnographical and historical methods on the basis of insights from cultural theory. Students learn to independently explore and research geographic regions with their complex local systems and cultural diversity against the backdrop of supraregional, translocal and global networks. Moreover, they learn to resolve questions concerning processes and performances in the culture of everyday life in an analytical and interdisciplinary manner as well as to adequately prepare their research results for a broader audience.

Key characteristics of this degree program are its practical approach (e.g. close collaboration with regional museums, student research project) and students’ freedom to develop their own specialized profiles.

Possible lines of work:

Exhibitions, (curator work, guided tours, lending operations), museums/preservation of monuments and historic buildings/art dealing (galleries, auction houses), culture (administrative specialist e.g. in cultural institutions or municipal cultural affairs offices, internationally active organizations and companies (foundations, public authorities, non-governmental organizations, tourism industry), development collaboration, public relations, adult education, academia (research management, teaching/research at universities, research institutions, etc.), media/publishing