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- Duration: 6 semesters
- Degree Award: Bachelor of Arts
- Language: German
- admission free
- Special admission requirements
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Application deadline 30 September for entrance examination for Material Culture: Textiles (in German).
Material Culture: Textiles - Dual-Subject Bachelor's Programme
Within the scope of the Dual-subject Bachelor, you can take Material Culture
- as a Major (90 ECTS credits) combined with a Minor
- as a primary or secondary dual subject (60 ECTS credits) or
- as a Minor (30 ECTS credits) combined with a Major
Material Culture can be studied either in connection with a non-teaching career goal or as a professional teaching qualification. If you want to become a teacher, you must follow the combinations of subjects for each teaching position.
Orientation and Goals
Material Culture: Textiles" is a cultural studies degree programme. Using different perspectives, it focuses on everyday objects, their composition and design, their history, current uses, and diverse meanings . Approaches from empirical cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, and cultural mediation are enriched by artistic, scientific and technical approaches.. Students learn to analyse, convey and co-shape cultural orders and dynamics of modern societies through their objects, their "materialization”. One focus of the degree programme in Oldenburg is on textiles and clothing in particular, in the context of material culture, the body, media, design and sustainability.
Foreign Language Skills
In order to study this course at the University of Oldenburg as a student from outside of Germany, you need an adequate knowledge of German.
German Language Proficiency
You can proof your German language proficiency with the following language certificates:
- DSH: Deutsche Sprachprüfung für den Hochschulzugang (Level 2)
- TestDaF: Test – Deutsch als Fremdsprache (with level 4 in all four areas)
The proof of language proficiency must be presented for the enrolment. For other proof possiblities see: Language requirements
Careers and Areas of Employment
The goal of this bachelor's programme is to qualify graduates to work in areas relating to cultural studies. Opportunities depend a great deal on the specific subject combinations that students choose, as well as their choice of internships and voluntary placements, but this degree is nonetheless an important qualification for work in the cultural field, in museums, in culture and fashion journalism, in the arts and media, in culture management, consumer advice, NGOs, and in education (outside of a school context).
The Bachelor’s degree forms a basis for the consecutive, interdisciplinary Master's programmes of EMMIR (European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations), "Cultural Analysis" (with practical research elements) or "Museum and Exhibition" (with elements relating to practical museum work).
This bachelor's programme Material Culture: Textiles can also lead to a teaching career. It can be connected to a Master of Education in the school subject 'Designing Textiles'. This is offered with qualification options for the Grundschule, Hauptschule, Realschule, and for Special Needs Education (Sonderpädagogik), and it qualifies graduates for the Referendariat.
Target Group/Admission Requirements
International applicants who received their prior education abroad should apply online through uni-assist. For further details see: Application for international students
Entrance examination for Material Culture: Textiles
Applicants must pass an entrance examination.
Material Culture: Textiles - Entrance examination - application deadline 30th September.
Please note also the special admission requirements of the admission regulations.
Application/Admission Procedures
This is an open admissions degree course, and application is only possible in the winter semester.
The application deadline for the winter semester is 15 October.
In addition, there is an entrance qualification procedure which ends on 30 September of the year of admission. For this purpose, please fill out the form (only in German available).
The application deadline may depend on the second subject if admission is restricted.
Overview application deadlines Dual-Subject Bachelor's programmes
Further Information
General questions: Coordinator for Academics and Teaching: studienkoordination.fk3@uol.de