Cultural Studies – Culture, Arts and Media, M.A.
Continuing a well-established tradition of cultural sciences in Lüneburg, Leuphana's Masters programme in Culture, Arts and Media engages the disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences in an interdisciplinary dialogue. Investigating research questions within their historical context and in all their disciplinary complexity, students are given the opportunity to come up with new answers and innovative approaches while interacting with a number of different perspectives.
Programme facts
| Degree | Master of Arts (M.A.) |
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| Duration | 4 semesters, 120 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 01.06 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €352.89 per semester |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
The programme has an admission restriction: the average grade of your certificate, converted to the German scale, decides. The cut-off changes every year — last year's value shows the order of magnitude, not a promise.
How the selection works and how strong the competition is — we go through it against your certificate when we select programmes for you.
Programme selection →About the programme
The Masters programme in Cultural Sciences – Culture, Arts and Media combines overlapping issues from cultural sciences and cultural theory with an extensive orientation and specialisation in various disciplines and subject areas relevant to cultural sciences.
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Students and teachers with different disciplinary background work together in an interdisciplinary environment characterised by intensive research on issues which are introductory, theoretically advanced, forward-looking and historical, relevant to everyday life as well as very fundamental: How can the digital change be understood, and how can its challenges be encountered? Which logical, rhetorical and aesthetic features distinguish texts, and which orders of "knowledge" do they imply? Which specific "knowledge" is (re-)produced by visual arts and cultural fields characterised by visuality? How can cultural-historical accesses to present and past be understood in the context of cultural upheavals? What are the disciplinary backgrounds for cultural research?
The study programme enables an individual professional orientation and specialisation through the choice of an area of concentration and a minor. The Cultural Sciences Area of Integration provides a common foundation for cultural sciences. With the teaching research project you realise an independent research-related project under professional guidance. The cross-disciplinary complementary studies programme supplements and expands subject-specific contents with a perspective reflecting on academics and practical application. The various elective and combination opportunities in the Masters programme in Cultural Sciences – Culture, Arts and Media enable an interest-driven course of studies and contribute towards a deepened understanding of socially relevant topics. Upon completion of studies you earn the Master of Arts (M.A.) degree.
What you study
AREAS OF CONCENTRATION
In each of the chosen areas of concentration, cultural sciences issues will be focussed and supplemented by dealing with subject-specific discourses and through the treatment of subject-specific research problems. The following areas of concentration can be selected:
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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The Masters programme in Cultural Sciences – Culture, Arts and Media is suitable for students who would like to pursue an academic career as well as for those who would like to take on responsible activities in the cultural and creative industry, in the art field, in the media or in the public cultural sector or in foundations.
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Qualified students in the Masters programme who are particularly interested in research have the opportunity from as early as the first semester of their Masters degree course to simultaneously obtain the accreditation of the doctorate and to register for doctoral studies with the doctoral track. As a result, students are involved in the scientific research at an early stage, and can plan the Masters degree and doctorate in succession.
The research training group "Cultures of Criticism. Forms, Media, Effects" sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) is being established for the winter semester 16/17 at the faculty of cultural science. Members of the research training group will examine the possibilities, effects and conditions of critical manners of representation and procedures in an interdisciplinary manner. Twelve doctoral candidates and nine other up-and-coming young scientists will be sponsored.
The programme is targeted at graduates with a Bachelors or any equivalent degree in a programme of study focusing on cultural, human or social sciences, who either wish to further sharpen their profile in cultural sciences or who want to complement their Bachelors degree with courses in cultural sciences. All graduates from related disciplines are welcome to the Masters programme. General requirements for admission include, among others, sufficient English language proficiency.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Lower Saxony), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €352.89 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | The consecutive master program Cultural Studies - Culture, Arts and Media is aimed at graduates (bachelor or equivalent) of a degree program with a cultural, human or social science orientation, which further sharpen their cultural science profile or a disciplinary bachelor through a study of cultural studies want to complete. |
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| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 01.06 |
The procedure and the set of documents depend on your certificate. We check the university's requirements against your documents and give you a list: what to submit, how to certify and translate it, where and when to apply.
Check the requirementsHow to get into this programme
- 1Check your certificate and its recognitionDirect admission, a year at a university at home, or Studienkolleg first — this decides the whole plan.
- 2Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 3Application directly to the university until 01.06Send the documents well before the deadline — an incomplete application cannot be completed after it.
- 4Admission, visa, movingPlan 2–3 months for the visa and the blocked account in parallel.
How to apply
You can submit the application yourself or with our help — the university decides on admission in both cases.
Applications go through the university's portal or uni-assist. Typical mistakes:
- ×incorrectly made certified copies and translations
- ×a wrong set of documents
- ×the application submitted the wrong way
- ×errors or gaps in the application form
- ×the application submitted at the wrong time — too early or too late
An incomplete or incorrectly prepared application is excluded from the selection — it can no longer be corrected after the deadline.
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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 01.06.2027 (230 days left). Language, translations and the document check take months, not weeks. In 30 minutes we will build a plan backwards from the deadline and tell you honestly whether you can make it.