Sport is highly relevant both for social integration and as an important field for the (re-)production of social heterogeneity and inequalities in society as a whole. Sport engagement as well as health and psychomotor development continue to depend on socio-cultural determinants and the diverse manifestations of organised, commercial and informal sport always have exclusionary as well as inclusive effects.

The subject of the Master's degree programme, which focuses on "Talent in Sport" and "Social Heterogeneity in Sport", is intended to enable students to critically reflect on these relationships in a theoretically sound and empirically informed manner. The aim is to open up possibilities for reducing social inequalities and divisions through sports models that are adequate in terms of organisation and content and to impart the competence to develop and evaluate, for example, milieu- and gender-sensitive sports, exercise and health offers. To this end, it takes a critical, humanities-, social-, cultural- and natural science-informed look at organisational forms, institutional framework conditions as well as (scientific) discourses and practices of popular and competitive sport. With regard to competitive sport, the focus is primarily on discourses and practices of talent construction, talent diagnostics, talent selection, talent transfer and talent development. Particularly in children's and youth sport, both in competitive sport and in school sport, the focus is on a scientifically sound and constantly evolving analysis and synthesis of models, instruments and measures for sporting talent and athletic talent.

The contents of the subject Master's programme are understood as scientific contributions to the (self-)enlightenment of (competitive) sport, both in terms of its own premises and its intended and unintended effects. The degree programme is thus a building block towards an autonomous, association-independent and reflexive sports science, which can ultimately also benefit sports development that sets itself the task of doing justice to as many people as possible in the differentiated and heterogeneous society of the modern age.