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The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology has several degree programmes in which the students are introduced to the discipline by the department's professors and other staff, as well as by selected external lecturers. These counsel and supervise the students until graduation. The training is research- and practice-oriented. 

Currently the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology offers the following degree programmes (Please scroll down for short descriptions in English. The links in brackets lead you to the German websites.):

• BA Social and Cultural Anthropology ()
• MA Social and Cultural Anthropology ()
• MA Social and Cultural Anthropology and its German-French Perspectives () 
• PhD at the Department ()

In addition, the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology is involved (by means of classes taught) in the degree programmes  (BA) and  (MA). 1.448 students are currently enrolled in the department's various degree programmes.

Besides higher education entrance qualification, prospective students of social and cultural anthropology are required to have good command of the German language, English language skills, as well as skills in another – preferably modern – foreign language. Admission to MA studies is in the winter semester only. For information on the degree programmes, application, and specific requirements for admission see the pages of the  (Portal for Prospective Students, German only) and the 's webpage.

You want to enrol for one of the BA or MA programmes at our department? At the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology we welcome all prospective students, and we delight in having a heterogeneous crowd of students.

The department's gives you a first overview and thus a basis of decision-making if you consider enrolling in the Bachelor's programme in social and cultural anthropology (German only). OSA helps you to learn more about the subject specifics of the discipline, about the qualifications and interests you ought to bring with you as a student, and the job perspectives open to you after graduation. At the same time, various video sequences give you the opportunity to catch a first glimpse of the teachers and students at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology in Frankfurt.

If you have acquired your university entrance qualification in a foreign country or at an international school in Germany, please turn to the to ascertain the specific requirements for your university admission in Germany.

With few exceptions, German is both the language of instruction at the department and the language used in administration. The courses offered in English language can be found here. In order for your academic training to be successful, it is thus essential that you either have German language skills (Level C1) or are willing to acquire these during the first phase of your studies. For German language requirements, please see /67109673/German_language_requirements.

• If you have any further questions, our departmental student counsellors will be glad to help you.
• For general information for all prospective students intending to enrol at the ¿´Æ¬Èí¼þ, please visit the .

Erasmus

If you are a student at an ERASMUS partner university and coming to our department in the context of an ERASMUS exchange, please get in touch with our programme coordinator Judit Tavakoli. Student contact persons are available as well: the members of the student council are looking forward to your visit in the council room.

The International Office provides (e.g. ERASMUS).

The six-semester degree programme “BA Ethnologie" provides profound training in a broad range of topics and enables students to choose individual fields of specialization. In the basic courses, the students familiarize themselves with the essentials of the discipline: they look into the basic concepts and into the history of social and cultural anthropology, become acquainted with general scientific as well as specifically anthropological methodologies and techniques, and get an overview of the most important fields of research in the discipline. The teachers use their expertise to impart students with selected, regionally specific basic knowledge and to give them an introduction to key topics and theories of the discipline's systematic branches.

In advanced classes, students use that basis for more profound approaches to selected branches of social and cultural anthropology. In addition, that phase of studies includes training in the practice-oriented use of quantitative methods of research. Supervised by their teachers, the students develop projects of their own, and conduct these as part of their training. In particular, the courses in that phase are intended to qualify students for various professional fields (e.g., development cooperation, museums and exhibitions, the media, migration and integration, conflict management, and adult education). The teachers of these classes include anthropologists who are active in these fields.

The four-semester MA programme in social and cultural anthropology is research-oriented, with a focus on current occupational fields in social and cultural anthropology, as well as on debates that are indispensable for a critical interpretation both of the forms and diversity of human actions and of the institutions emerging from these. In that context, the students develop research questions of their own and carry out respective researhc projects. They look into concepts of ethnographic and anthropological research, and test their methodological skills in the empirical, qualitative collection and evaluation of data.

Due to the diversity of regional, methodological, and theoretical focuses represented at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, students in the MA programme are able to choose from a broad range of topics. In addition, we regularly suggest guiding themes for research; students can join these projects and work in small groups, with particularly intensive support and in close dialogue with researchers at the department.

The research-oriented MA programme in social and cultural anthropology prepares students both for subsequent dissertation projects and for science-related occupations.

Our department and various affiliated, third-party funded research projects provide a setting in which many PhD candidates meet before, between, and after intensive fieldwork trips in order to network, exchange ideas, and jointly advance their projects.

Would you like to conduct your dissertation project at our department? Please select and contact the professor whom you want to supervise your PhD project. There is no central application or admissions for doctoral students. The decision to accept doctoral students is made solely by the accepting academic department, with the academic supervisor playing a key role.

• For general information on taking your doctoral degree at our department, please contact our PhD student counsellor, Markus Lindner.
• For general information on doing your doctorate at the ¿´Æ¬Èí¼þ, please visit the respective  and the respective pages of the faculty.

• International cooperations: Baktygul Shabdan
• Erasmus+ departmental coordinator: Judit Tavakoli
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