"As a graduate of the [Cultural Analyses] degree programme, you will have proven abstraction, methodological and transfer skills, project competence and a sharpened eye for interrelationships and interactions." (Institute of Material Culture, 2025)

Aha. Good, and what exactly does that mean?

Basically, the degree programme prepares you for employment and freelance work in a wide range of professional fields and institutions. Here are just a few examples:

• Research and teaching
• Cultural, social and educational institutions
• Publishing houses, media, journalism and editing
• Cultural mediation, cultural policy and socioculture
• Public relations and cultural management

As you can set many of your own specialisations on the Master's in Cultural Analysis, your options are of course much broader. In the past, there have been students who have focussed on the following topics during their studies, for example, which are not directly included in the curriculum:

• Gender Studies
• Disability Studies
• Social sciences

These specialisations are made possible by placing emphasis on the modules kul270 (15 CP) and kul251 (12 CP) or through individual agreements with the lecturers in the other modules. In most cases, it is possible to expand the thesis or seminar paper within the given topic into individual areas of interest.

Good to know:

The question "And what do I do with it now?" is not untypical for us humanities students. That's why there are several websites that can help you find potential jobs and vacancies:

• KULTweet(job market for humanities, cultural and social scientists)
• H-Soz-Kult (focus on historians, but also occasionally social and cultural sciences)
• Academics (job advertisements for academics)
• Hochschul-Job (filter: cultural studies)
• Jobforum Kultur (cultural and social sciences)

Curriculum Cultural Analyses M.A.

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Cultural Analysis M.A. Website

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