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Jacobs University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
MA Modern Global History - Against the background of continuing globalization processes, the MA program "Modern Global History" seeks to make students familiar with the academic analysis of the history of different world regions and their entanglement since 1850. Central global developments, processes of change and experiences will be considered by way of problem-oriented questions. The program focuses on the space which developed through the processes of globalization and multiform modernization – and which is still developing as a world community beyond the nation state or via advanced organizational patterns as seen in Europe.
MA Intercultural Humanities - The Graduate Program Intercultural Humanities provides students with insights into the theories and methods used to investigate and describe inter- and transcultural processes and phenomena. Students become acquainted with the particularities of research in History, History and Theory of Art, and Literature as well as with interdisciplinary approaches applied in intercultural studies in the humanities. By studying exemplary cases of intercultural encounters, cross-cultural transfers and transcultural universals students learn how these theories and methods are applied in each of the fields and, in a second step, across the fields. In particular, they acquire an understanding of the historical dimension of the relevant processes and phenomena and an awareness of the specific problems involved in interactions between Western and Non-Western cultures, cultural and aesthetic products and societies.
MA Global Visual Communication - This Master’s program provides students with the competencies necessary to understand both the complex structures of contemporary media and communication systems, and the fundamental changes that they are currently undergoing.
PhD in Integrated Social Sciences - The PhD-Program in Integrated Social Sciences is a Research-Only-PhD Program. While favouring an interdisciplinary orientation, the program is open to research projects with a primary focus on one of the following disciplines: sociology, political science, mass communication, economics. Ideally the research projects combine two or more of the above mentioned disciplinary perspectives.
University of Bremen, Social Sciences
BIGSSS - Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences The Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) is a provider for excellent international doctoral education. We aim at integrating outstanding areas of graduate education and research at the University of Bremen and at Jacobs University. BIGSSS is founded upon the core disciplines of political science, sociology and psychology, and supported by a solid foundation in social-science methods. It also integrates neighboring disciplines such as law, economics, public health and mass communication.
InIIS - Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (Institute for Intercultural and International Studies) at the University of Bremen The InIIS is an interdisciplinary research institute where processes of social and cultural change affecting modern societies, and related problems of integration, are examined from the perspective of the social and political sciences and political philosophy. Research at the institute has three foci: first, changes in collective identities and other elements of public culture, cultural differentiation, and the persistence or emergence of multiple cultures and group identities with related conflict at the national and international level; second, the causes, forms, and consequences of processes of globalization and denationalization; and third, the relationships between these two processes.
Other Institutes
SFB 597 - Collaborative Research Center 597 “Transformations of the State” This research center, set up in January 2003, is supported by the University of Bremen, the Jacobs University Bremen, and the Bremen University of Applied Sciences. The center’s 15 subprojects, and two associated projects, are examining whether the modern state that developed in the core countries of the OECD world over the second half of the last century has experienced a generally observable and uniform trend of change. A second research phase will ask where pressures for change have come from, and whether processes of change have had a transformative effect. A third research phase will clarify the effect of processes of change on the availability of the normative goods of modern statehood (security, welfare, legitimation).
