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Master of Arts (M.A.)


The Global Studies Programme (M.A. Social Sciences) is an interdisciplinary programme comprised of sociology, political science, anthropology and cultural geography. Additional courses include environmental sciences, economics and data management. During the two year programme, students engage with these various disciplines at prestigious institutions on at least three continents. The groups themselves are composed of students from all corners of the globe. This intercultural, interdisciplinary and intercontinental experience makes the students experts in the current face of globalisation and their study.

The aim of the Global Studies Programme is to provide students with the theoretical knowledge, methodological and practical skills for comparative analysis of the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of globalisation processes in a research-led institutional framework.
Language of instruction:

English

Academic calendar:

Summer Semester

Standard Period of Study:

4 semesters required for the full degree programme

Scope of services:

120 ECTS-Points for the full degree programme

Admission: First semester:

restrictive admissions (University) (42 places)
The admissions restrictions are determined by the admissions regulations for the individual field. For more detailed information, please visit your departmental academic advisor.

Higher semesters:

free admission

Please note: University admission requirements may change up to the start of the application period.

Application period: First semester: 15 September - 30 November
Higher semesters: Winter Semester: 1 June - 30 September, Summer Semester: 15 September - 31 March
Important information regarding required application materials for higher semesters.
Application: Please check out the programme website before you apply.
Application for this subject is only possible during the application period and is done online.
Faculty affiliation: Faculty of Humanities

The GSP builds its curriculum upon two dimensions which both widen and deepen the academic training of the students. On one level, students reflect upon globalization processes, their meaning, causes and consequences through four modules. Each module sheds light on different theoretical and empirical aspects of globalisation, stemming from different fields of the Social Sciences. This contributes to the systematic analysis of globalisation within a rich, cross-disciplinary framework.

On another level, these four modules are integrated with the different approaches and views on globalisation from five campuses: Albert-Ludwigs-University (Freiburg), Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok), FLACSO Argentina (Buenos Aires), Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) and University of Cape Town (Cape Town). The programme thereby creates space for comparative and dialogical forms of scientific inquiry and academic cooperation. In this way, the GSP deals not only with the current social science research agenda worldwide, but also bridges the gap between academic inquiry and the contemporary real world by sending the students abroad.

Consequently, the transdisciplinary coherence of the Global Studies Programme does not arise from a misunderstood interdisciplinary dialogue between different social scientific subjects. On the contrary, unlike a neokantian understanding of the social sciences would suppose, it rather comes from a realist understanding of the selected real objects of research which are the conflictual cultural and societal experiences of globalisation processes in different world regions:

  1. Processes of globalisation which appear in different conceptual maps seen from the North, the South and the East (module 1: Globalisation)
  2. Structures and institutions of a hierarchical world-system whose macrodynamics generate the scope for decentralised actors and structures of action (module 2: Global Governance)
  3. Scientific and everyday world views and identities in which violent ethnic, political and religious answers to cultural or economic homogenisation and geographical distribution are mirrored, as well as the search for a fair world order (module 3: Cultural Change)
  4. Interdisciplinary mixed methods of inquiry which are required to decode these processes (4: Methodology)

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The greatest care has been taken in writing these versions. Nevertheless, it cannot be entirely ruled out that errors may have occurred. Consequently, it is solely the officially announced statutes and statute amendments that are legally binding, i.e. as published in the Amtlichen Bekanntmachungen der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau [de] or, up to the year 2000, in the official gazette of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts.

Central Academic Advising Office

The University's Service Centre Studies - Central Student Advisory Service (ZSB) provides information and advice on all questions that may arise prior to, at the beginning of, and during a course of study. If you are seeking subject-specific advice in addition to this, you can also contact the respective subject academic advisor.

Departmental Academic Advising

Caroline Janz
Institut für Soziologie, Global Studies Programme
Rempartstr. 15
79098 Freiburg
Tel.: +49 761 203-9391

gspinfo@mail.uni-freiburg.de


Examination Office

Werthmannstr.8/Rückgebäude, 79098 Freiburg
http://www.geko.uni-freiburg.de

Bachelor- und Masterstudiengang, Lehramtsstudiengang gemäß GymPO I
Dr. Tobie Walther
Tel. 203-3221
tobie.walther@geko.uni-freiburg.de
Raum 02 010/2. OG
Sprechstunde: Dienstag 10.15-12.30 Uhr, Donnerstag 14.00-16.00 Uhr

Magister- und Promotionsstudiengang, Lehramtsstudiengang gemäß WPO
Annette Ehinger
Tel. 203-2011
annette.ehinger@geko.uni-freiburg.de
Raum 03 011/3. OG
Sprechstunde: Dienstag 10.15-12.30 Uhr, Donnerstag 14.00-16.00 Uhr

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