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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.