Social Studies: Crises, Culture, Critique European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Study Type

graduate

Admission semester

Summer and Winter Semester

Focus

Social Sciences, Cultural and Social Research, Migration, Flight and Borders, Climate Crisis, Critical Theory, Gender Norms, Capitalism and Social Inequality, Gender and Queer Studies, Nationalism and Authoritarianism, Transformation

Target group

Graduates with a Bachelor’s degree relating to social sciences or cultural studies who want to explore, understand and critically examine the social and cultural challenges of our societies.

Annotation

Migration and flight, racism and authoritarianism, social inequality, economic and ecological crises, cultural struggles over gender norms – all of these are developments that pose pressing challenges for our societies and lead to conflict-ridden crises. But how do these crisis phenomena arise, what are their social and cultural fundamentals, what consequences do they have and how can we address them constructively?

In the Master’s degree programme "Social Studies: Crises, Culture, Critique", you will gain theoretical fundamentals, in-depth expertise and practical skills to explore, understand and critically question the social and cultural challenges facing our societies. The degree programme combines social science theories and methods of empirical social research with perspectives on social and cultural philosophy as well as critical art, media and historiography.

In your studies, you can specialise on topics such as migration and borders, capitalism and social inequality, gender and queer studies, ecological crises or racism, nationalism and authoritarianism. You will explore these topics in seminars and practice-oriented research and teaching projects. There, you will learn theoretical approaches and the empirical and methodological tools of the social sciences. A teaching research project offers you exciting opportunities for in-depth study and application.

As a graduate of the degree course "Social Studies: Crises, Culture, Critique", you can explore societal challenges, crises and conflicts and develop solutions for living together based on a critique of power, democracy, human rights, social justice and ecological responsibility.

Admission modus

Without admission restriction

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Admission requirements

The Master’s degree programme "Social Studies: Crises, Culture, Critique" requires a first professionally certificate of academic degree worth at least 180 ECTS credits, in which applicants have demonstrated relevant study and examination achievements worth at least 30 ECTS credits in subjects related to social or cultural studies (e.g. Social and Cultural Anthropology, Economic and Social Geography, Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy). All students are required to demonstrate English language proficiency at level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

Tuition fees

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Main language

English

Further languages

German