Degree Goals

Academic Comepetency

Graduates have acquired in-depth knowledge in one spezialisation area (history, religion, language and literature, art and archaelogy or linguistics) of social transformation processes and entaglements of middle eastern cultures. You are avble to put your knowldge in relation to subjects and issues of neighboring disciplinces (e.g. islamic scienes) and to reflect and to compare parallel or counter-cyclical developements.
In the inter-disciplinary course „Theories and Methods“ graduates have acquired and developed research issues and you are able to choose the appropriate theoretical and methodological approach.
In the basic area graduates have acquired a general overview of various orientalistic disciplines and expanded your knowledge of your BA program.. You are able to classify previously unfamiliar sources self-reliantly (e.g. autobiographies, audio files, documents, historiographies or stucco elements) and to evaluate them appropraitely in the historical and cultural context.
Working extensively with document mateials graduates are able to analyze texts in your main language (Arabic, Persian, Turkish or Hebrew).
With their master thesis graduates have conducted their first research work on their own. They develop their own line of arguments and present new results. In the academic field they are able to present your arguments convincingly in oral or written form.

In classes and lectures graduates received you acquired the ability to do search for information in at least one oft he four languages.
By means of the module „Theories and Methods“ graduates received the ability to organize conferences and work-shops. The practical experience include the developement oft he academic concept, public relations, budgeting and support of our guest speakers.
In the course of two internships in an academic field (e.g. Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Orient Institut Beirut/Istanbul, Louvre, Institute du Monde Arabe, Bibliotheken, Federal Agency for Civil Education.) they have made your first professional contacts, gained experience in academic day-to-day life and applied your expertise in a vocational context. For instance you are able to analyze an article on a current topic in the cultural departement of a German embassy.
Familiarizing yourself with methodological and theoretical approaches, they have taken an early step for your future academic carreer. As they have shown in their master’s thesis they are able to develop research issues and discuss their limitations and potentials critically.

Critically questioning one's own perspective is inherent to this degree course. In our courses jointly offeredby various chairs and disciplines, graduates have repeatedly practiced "thinking outside the box". In academic discussions, they have strengthened their ability to critically question their own and other perspectives and to understand them as historically and culturally shaped. They can represent their own point of view objectively and argumentatively and reflect on other points of view.
By independently organizing an international workshop, they have taken on representative tasks at our institute, developed their own ideas and shown that they can constructively develop common goals and possible solutions in a team.
They can develop lines of argument and present them convincingly in various formats, as they have demonstrated in discussion papers, term papers and their Master's thesis.
They have developed a comprehensive and reflective academic self-image as a cultural scientist, gained concrete ideas for their professional development and can deepen their knowledge independently and in a problem-oriented manner.