Master’s Programme Cultural Anthropology with focus on Ethnography
Would you like to understand how people experience and shape their everyday lives through certain practices, and what meanings, relationships and power dynamics become apparent in that specific context?
The Master’s programme Cultural Anthropology with focus on Ethnography equips students with the skills to analyse lifestyles, everyday practices, and complex sociocultural processes from a cultural perspective. The programme places particular emphasis on ethnographic methods and on the application and communication of research findings.
Please note: the language of instruction for this programme is German.
Master of Arts
Duration/ECTS-Credits
4 semesters/120 ECTS-Credits
Mode of Study
Full-time
Language
German
Requirements
Relevant bachelor's degree/equivalent
and Language Certificates
Faculty
Faculty of Philosophy and History
Level of qualification
Master (Second Cycle)
ISCED-11: Level 7, EQF/NQF: Level 7
ISCED-F
0314 Sociology and cultural studies
Study Code
UC 066 823
Dates and Deadlines for admission
Masterstudium Kulturanthropologie mit Schwerpunkt Ethnographie
FAQ
Cultural Anthropology with focus on Ethnography helps you gain an in-depth understanding of everyday cultures and social change. You will learn qualitative methods such as participant observation and interviewing, as well as reflective writing and analysis. These skills are in demand in many fields, including research, NGOs, cultural work, market research, media, urban development, and user experience (UX) and design research. You will also acquire skills such as academic research techniques, critical evaluation of sources, and the presentation of different research perspectives and your own independently developed research findings.
The Master’s programme in Cultural Anthropology with focus on Ethnography examines social and cultural change, including the role of modernisation, cultural contacts and conflicts, human–environment relations, identity politics, migration, globalisation, and gender.
The Master’s programme prepares students for careers in research, culture-related adult and professional education, documentation, museum and exhibition work, archives and libraries, public relations, cultural journalism and publishing, cultural tourism, and cultural policy and administration (with further vocational training, also mediation, intercultural social work, and cultural management).
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History, Archaeology & Cultures
Anyone wishing to study history or archaeology and with an interest in antiquity, regional history, Classical Studies or European Ethnology will find several suitable degree programmes at the University of Innsbruck.
The historical and archaeological subjects are grouped within the Research Area: Cultural Encounters – Cultural Conflicts, one of the University of Innsbruck’s eight Research Areas; there are also links to the Research Area: Mountain Regions and the Digital Science Center.
For digital methods in historical disciplines, the Extension Programme Computer Science is a useful complementary option.
