• minor subject: open admission

• minor subject: open admission

General qualification for university entrance or specific higher education entrance qualification (e.g. Abitur, Einstufungsprüfung).

Applications from abroad

https://uol.de/materiellekultur/studiengaenge/bachelor-materielle-kultur-textil/bewerbungsverfahren-1

Program-specific requirements

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.

Please find the module handbooks in stud.IP.

Die Modulbeschreibungen finden Sie in stud.IP.

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)

• Studienverlaufsplan BA Materielle Kultur: Textil [pdf] (283.3 KB)

• of 23.06.2021: DigiPruefO-UB-06-21 [pdf] (68.6 KB)
• of 19.03.2024: AT-BPO-01-22_Lesefassung_berichtigt_automVerz.pdf [pdf] (445.6 KB)

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 consecutive interdisciplinary masters programmes Cultural Analysis: Representation, Performativity, Gender (with a research component) and Museum and Exhibition (with a practical component in a museum) build upon this bachelor's degree programme. Students can move on to the doctoral programme in Cultural and Gender Studies after completing their master's degrees. In addition to the degrees offered at the University of Oldenburg, students may pursue master's degree programmes in the fields of cultural studies and European ethnology or cultural anthropology at other universities.