Transcultural Communication (Bachelor)
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The bachelor’s programme in Transcultural Communication strives to impart basic academic knowledge and methods as well as practical skills, preparing students for a profession in the area of transcultural communication. Students acquire a high level of language and cultural competence as well as contrastive (subject-specific) text competence in the chosen working languages – German in combination with one or two additional working languages. Therefore, the bachelor’s programme develops students’ basic translation competences.
Students can choose from the following languages: German, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, English, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian.
Bachelor of Arts
Degree Programme Code: 032 xxx xxx
6 semesters / 180 ECTS credits (including 45 ECTS credits of extension curricula for students with two working languages )
Language: German & one or two further languages (available options: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, English, French, Italien, Polish, Portuguse, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian)
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Data updated on: 20.07.2023
Attention
Instruction Language German
Please note that the instruction language of this programme is German. To start the degree programme, you need to hold a certificate of German proficiency on C1 level.
Admission Procedure
Study programme
The bachelor’s programme consists of different modules. The combination of the modules depends on whether you choose two or three languages. The selected languages can be reduced or extended once by one language. The possibility of a change relates exclusively to the number of working languages. so the primarily selected languages remain in the new (reduced or extended) combination.Detailed information about the choice of language and the module structure can be found in the curriculum. The link to the Curriculum can be found at the very top of this site.
Five concepts
which you will deal with during your studies:
- Language, text and culture
- Transculturality
- Specialised communication
- Multilingualism
- Discourse analysis
... and many more.
Overview of the programme structure & topics
Here you find the current offer of courses for this programme to gain better insight into the topics and structure. For more information please click on the respective level.
After Graduation
Graduates of the bachelor’s programme are qualified to communicate contents in a range of different communication situations and for a variety of target groups and cultures in their working languages. This enables them to pursue a career in a variety of occupational fields in the business sector or public administration, as well as with public, private and cultural institutions and companies that cooperate with partners around the world and have an international clientele.
Graduates' Perspective on the Degree Programme
Graduates ...
- say that this degree programme receives the grade: 2.8 (satisfactory)
- rate the level of difficulty as: 3.4 (appropriate)
→ These results are basd on feedback from 242 graduates.
*You can find further assessments of the degree programme from its graduates’ perspective in the graduate survey of the bachelor’s programme in Transcultural Communication graduation survey (in German).
Graduates ...
- find employment within 3 months after graduation on average.
*You can find further information on career entry and career paths in the tracking of graduates "BA Transcultural Communication".