Intercultural Studies, B.A.

With a model curriculum for intercultural studies, the University of Bayreuth, in coordination with suitable partner universities, has developed the concept of an international double degree. The concept forms the strengths of two partner institutions into a range of courses that cannot be realized by one partner alone, but only through synergy in the international higher education area, i.e. in a contractual alliance. Students at each of the participating universities benefit from complementary profile fields of the partner institution, i.e. from study modules that are not offered at the university where the study started or only with a relatively low thematic development.

Overall goal: The intercultural studies / intercultural studies impart skills in dealing with relationships between cultures and their members. Cultural overlapping situations, in which the foreign and the own culture or even several foreign cultures meet, form essential content. The structure includes thematically different subject combinations. It is more complex than a one-subject partnership because it gives students more diverse opportunities.

The experiences with graduates provide information about the professional fields of activity for outgoing students. Through cooperation with the Association of Bavarian Businesses when the internationalized joint degree program came into being, perspectives for the employment fields have become visible. The acquired skills enable a large part of the graduates to start their careers in the communication areas of companies (e.g. public relations, customer care, marketing), in internationally oriented cultural institutions, in the editorial sectors of conventional, audiovisual and partly. digital media and journalism. Intercultural mediation and advice is equally important, both in the public sector and in the context of cross-cultural workforces of larger companies. Teaching outside the German general education system is a third characteristic area of ​​application. After a phase of initial professional experience, or in some cases immediately, the successful application for an MA course is often followed, provided the quality of the degree is appropriate. The courses mentioned above are in demand, but there are also MA courses elsewhere in Germany or abroad (often European Studies, International Studies). Business administration in Anglophone abroad is added when combined with economics.