International Language and Cultural Area Studies

This internationally oriented programme combines a didactic-pedagogical study with a study of Romance languages and cultures and another language. In addition to the didactic-pedagogical part, students choose between French or Spanish and French/Spanish, English or German. Thus, students not only acquire subject-specific skills (linguistics, literature, cultural studies and regional studies) but also learn how to communicate them. For all students, the study programme includes a stay abroad at a university in the French- or Spanish-speaking cultural area. For those with French as a compulsory subject, there is the additional option to apply for the Bachelor's degree programme in "CultureA". This option offers you a binational study programme sponsored by the German-French University (DFH). The partnerships enable students to have an intensive exchange with students of the same year from Angers, support for a one-year stay abroad, and, after successful completion of the studies, the awarding of three degrees and a certificate from the DFH as well as access to DFH-organised job fairs, financial support for a one-year stay at the partner university in Angers, France and the DFH's extensive graduate network. The degree programme is intended for students who can imagine a professional future in the teaching field without limiting themselves to the teaching profession as well as for students who want to work internationally in cultural institutions, NGOs and educational institutions. To provide career orientation, the study programme is strongly practice-focused, and thus, it offers insight into the broad profile of knowledge transfer. The Bachelor's degree enables students to enter the profession directly and to continue their studies either as a teacher or in a related Master's degree programme. In addition, graduates of the degree programme can work both nationally and internationally; thanks to their complete international and intercultural education, they are excellently prepared for further studies at all domestic and foreign universities or on the domestic and foreign job market: In the education sector: adult education, e.g. education officer, language teaching at adult education centres and language schools, language courses in companies, in-house continuing education, education and science management In science and university management: preferably in the areas of internationalisation In the cultural sector: cultural institutions in an international context, e.g. scientific conception and supervision of exhibitions, events, projects, e.g. in museums or cultural memorials In international organisations: e.g. institutions of the European Union, NGOs, and Goethe Institutes  In the communications industry: advertising industry, trade fairs