MA Transcultural Studies / Cultural Anthropology at University of Bonn

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.

Duration: 4 semesters (2 years)  |  Study mode: full-time; German and English-taught  |  Intake: Wintersemester (winter semester) and Sommersemester (summer semester)  |  Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

What you will study

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.

Career pathways

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)

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