Within the scope of the Dual-subject Bachelor, you can take Material Culture
as a Major (90 ECTS) combined with a Minor
as a primary or secondary dual subject (60 ECTS) or
as a Minor (30 ECTS) combined with a Major
Material Culture can be studied either in connection with a non-teaching career goal or as a professional teaching qualification. If you want to become a teacher, you must follow the combinations of subjects for each teaching position.
The course programme Material Culture: Textiles is related to cultural studies. It examines every day things, their appearance, workmanship, and composition, their history, current uses and diverse meanings from a variety of perspectives. This programme in Oldenburg is distinguished by its use of approaches from ethnology, cultural anthropology, and cultural representation through artistic-scientific as well as scientific-technical approaches. The goal is to learn to analyse, represent, and participate in the cultural rules and dynamics of modern societies through their material culture. One of the programme's focal points is textiles, especially clothing, in a broad context including material culture, body, media, design, and sustainability. The curriculum is designed to allow students to choose their own modules freely after the first year, making a number of individual specialisations possible.
Major thematic areas include:
Theory and History of Material Culture
Contemporary Strategies and Problems in Conveying Material Culture
Aesthetics: Clothing, Body, Fashion
Textiles and Sustainability
Basic course requirements include:
A high degree of motivation to work in a branch of cultural studies
An interest in theoretical and explorative-practical debates in material culture
An interest in working with textiles and clothing
A willingness to experiment and attentiveness to aesthetic and cultural developments
Happiness with developing one's own analytical approaches and questions, as well as self-organised, project based team work
Readiness and self initiative
A good knowledge of English (reading technical literature)
International applicants who received their prior education abroad should apply online through uni-assist. For further details see: Application for international students
Entrance examination for Material Culture: Textiles
Applicants must pass an entrance examination. The entrance examination consists of a personal interview. Material Culture: Textiles - Entrance examination - application deadline 30th September.
Please note also the special admission requirements of the admission regulations.
This is an open admissions degree course, and application is only possible in the winter semester.
The application deadline for the winter semester is 15 October.
If applicable, the application deadline depends on the first subject, if it is admission restricted.
The goal of this bachelor's programme is to qualify graduates to work in areas relating to cultural studies. Opportunities depend a great deal on the specific subject combinations that students choose, as well as their choice of internships and voluntary placements, but this degree is nonetheless an important qualification for work in the cultural field, in museums, in culture and fashion journalism, in the arts and media, in culture management, consumer advice, NGOs, and in education (outside of a school context).
The Bachelor’s degree forms a basis for the consecutive, interdisciplinary Master's programmes of EMMIR (European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations), "Cultural Analysis" (with practical research elements) or "Museum and Exhibition" (with elements relating to practical museum work).
This bachelor's programme Material Culture: Textiles can also lead to a teaching career. It can be connected to a Master of Education in the school subject 'Designing Textiles'. This is offered with qualification options for the Grundschule, Hauptschule, Realschule, and for Special Needs Education (Sonderpädagogik), and it qualifies graduates for the Referendariat.
