Social Sciences in Euroре

The one-year master’s degree program offers bachelor’s graduates with extensive prior knowledge in the field of social science-oriented European studies the opportunity for further qualification, which is geared towards independent and advanced analyses of social issues and problem situations.

The M.A. Social Sciences in Europe provides research-oriented, theory-driven, and interdisciplinary knowledge based on the current state of international research in the social sciences. The focus is on conveying factual and methodological elements and principles to be able to develop independent social science analyses and suitable solutions. The degree program focuses on the diversity of social and political realities and the complex, often transnational transformation processes of the present.

Special attention is paid to this research-oriented study model to the close connection between research and teaching. The focus of the one-year program is the development and implementation of the student’s own final project. The Master’s thesis should be located in the thematic field of Europe, transnationalization, or globalization, or take an international comparative perspective.

The research-oriented degree program provides students with the necessary knowledge, skills, and methods to work in an academic field with a sense of responsibility. Possible employers and fields of activity for graduates include internationally operating companies, international governmental and non-governmental organizations (e.g. institutions of the European Union), agencies and media of international and intercultural communication, advisory boards and general secretariats of foundations and other private-law organizations, private-sector research and consulting agencies, political parties, associations, and national non-governmental organizations, public administration with the special tasks of analyzing and planning social and cultural structures of public services as well as the field of education and further education in science and research.