Master of Arts in East European Studies Postgraduate Programme By Universität Hamburg |TopUniversities
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Programme overview

Main Subject

Area Studies

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

East European Studies is a research-oriented, interdisciplinary master’s course that imparts regional knowledge related to East Central Europe, Southeast Europe, the Baltic Sea region, as well as Russia and other successor states of the USSR. The content of the course includes culture (particularly language, literature, music and ethnology) as well as history, politics and law. The interdisciplinarity enables the students to get to know the scientific working methods of the disciplines involved and to expand their methodological skills. In this way, you acquire skills that expand the professional and scientific qualifications of the bachelor's degree.


With their studies at the University of Hamburg and during the one-semester stay abroad in the target region in the form of a study visit, an internship or similar, the students acquire in-depth knowledge of Eastern Europe and research on the region and expand their language skills in languages ​​of the target region (e.g. Bosnian -Serbian-Croatian, Finnish, Polish, Russian, Czech, Hungarian).


The course is based on the cooperation of several institutes and departments of the University of Hamburg, the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces and two independent research institutions: the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSP) and the Northeast Institute Lüneburg (IKGN). registered association).

Programme overview

Main Subject

Area Studies

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

East European Studies is a research-oriented, interdisciplinary master’s course that imparts regional knowledge related to East Central Europe, Southeast Europe, the Baltic Sea region, as well as Russia and other successor states of the USSR. The content of the course includes culture (particularly language, literature, music and ethnology) as well as history, politics and law. The interdisciplinarity enables the students to get to know the scientific working methods of the disciplines involved and to expand their methodological skills. In this way, you acquire skills that expand the professional and scientific qualifications of the bachelor's degree.


With their studies at the University of Hamburg and during the one-semester stay abroad in the target region in the form of a study visit, an internship or similar, the students acquire in-depth knowledge of Eastern Europe and research on the region and expand their language skills in languages ​​of the target region (e.g. Bosnian -Serbian-Croatian, Finnish, Polish, Russian, Czech, Hungarian).


The course is based on the cooperation of several institutes and departments of the University of Hamburg, the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces and two independent research institutions: the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSP) and the Northeast Institute Lüneburg (IKGN). registered association).

Admission Requirements

  • A degree in a subject related to the course or a related course
  • Language skills in a language of the target region
  • knowledge of English

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