Kunst- und Musikpädagogik / Kulturvermittlung
Culture – Media – Society
Information for international students
The interrelationships between culture, media, and society are extremely complex. They concern both the question of how current social phenomena are dealt with in the arts and media, and how culture and media shape today's societies. From a normative perspective, we can also ask how cultural mediation can contribute to social change and the resolution of social conflicts, and what role media-related aspects, which have become indispensable in the post-digital age, play in this process.
The following 3 modules comprise only a small, specially curated selection of courses taught in English, which are drawn from the master’s programmes Mediating Culture and Interdisciplinary Media Studies. Visiting students are of course also free to attend other seminars offered by the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies according to their individual interests. For every semester, the seminars offered are published shortly before the end of the previous lecture period.
Module 1: Cultural and Media Studies
Cultural and media studies provide the theoretical framework for an interdisciplinary and multi-perspective examination of the diverse interrelationships between culture, media, and society. Selected readings and the discussion of exemplary cultural phenomena help the students sharpen their awareness of the central importance of the media in cultural mediation, the creation of identities, and the dissolution (or stabilisation) of boundaries in modern societies, their cultural identities and self-images. The seminars in this module aim to develop skills for analysing the dissemination and functions of different modern and conventional media in a variety of social and historical contexts.
Module 2: Cultural Practices in a Postdigital World
This module focuses on practical skills and abilities in the application and design of various media as well as artistic practice. Media literacy, as it is understood in this module, implies autonomous and planned handling of analogue and digital media and aims at the acquisition of technical and procedural skills and knowledge in the handling of different kinds of media as well as the systematic, critical and responsible reflection of the respective contents and services, including possible social, pedagogical etc. implications. In addition, students are given the opportunity to engage in a variety of artistic practices, whether in the field of music, theater, film, or visual arts.
Module 3: Experiencing and Mediating Culture
The seminars in this module deal with ways of mediating arts and culture to different dialogue groups, covering aspects of cultural education, educational science, and media studies. Numerous partnerships with local cultural institutions enable students to experience a variety of cultural and artistic practices as well as relate questions of cultural mediation to specific professional contexts and discuss them with experienced experts from the field. The specific contexts are wide-ranging and include both mediation projects of classical cultural institutions and community-based approaches.
Please note:
10 ECTS credits can be earned per module. It is possible to take a graded or ungraded examination in each of the modules (written assignment, oral exam or portfolio).