The general goal of the program is to give relevant knowledge to students about the common universal human characteristics and values in their diverse and complex manifestations from the perspective of cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropology is based on critical and interpretative thinking and uses the approaches and methodology of social sciences. Cultural anthropology has an applied perspective, methodologies include interpretation and field research. Critical anthropological thinking and fieldwork experiences help the students understand the differences and difficulties of social interactions, cultural and intercultural communication and their significances in a sensitive and interpretative way. This program is recommended to applicants who wish to acquire professional competencies, as fieldwork experience, practicing anthropological skills, interpretive thinking, inter-cultural mediation. The students will be able to apply their knowledge and skills in decisions of the social and economic life, international relations and communication, as well as in their professional career. This program enables students to master: types and global characteristics of cultural diversity, theories and concepts related to complex and traditional cultures, history, theories and methods of cultural anthropology, basic professional anthropological directions, widely accepted, accepted professional-specific problem-solving techniques for their independently designed and implemented research or scientific work, ethical norms of cultural anthropology.
Applicants must have a BA/BBA degree in any of the following areas: Social Science, Communication and Media Science, International Studies, Political Studies, Social Work, Sociology, Social Pedagogy, Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, Community Coordination, Ethnography, Roma Studies. In case of other bachelor degrees: individual consideration.
Entrance examination:
Yes
Entrance type:
Oral
Minimum level of language proficiency (oral):
B2
Minimum level of language proficiency (written):
B2
Place of examination:
Online
Applicants with a full application package will be notified about the exact time and date of application interviews conducted via Skype. Applicants are responsible for having technically suitable conditions for the interview from their side. The Skype interviews will occur between 14 May and 15 June.Applicants are expected to be prepared taking questions regarding the compulsory admission materials (see: Required readings for the entrance exam) from the side of admission committee composed of a professor, a lecturer and a student representative.Applicants will be notified by e-mail about their acceptance or refusal within two weeks after the admission interviews. The successful applicants will be requested to pay the first year\\\\\\\'s tution fee in order to get an acceptance letter.The application interview via Skype will include a discussion on the following topics:The applicant should choose one of the well-known figures from the history of anthropology: Franz Boas, Clifford Geertz, Edmund Leach, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Bronislaw Malinowski, Margaret Mead – and review his/her works and achievements in the fields of anthropology.Recommended Readings:(You are also allowed to choose different reading from the authors.)Edmund Leach: Social anthropology (Oxford University Press, 1982)Claude Lévi-Strauss: Structural Anthropology (New York: Doubleday Anchor Books., 1963, 1967)Margaret Mead:Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) or Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935)Bronislaw Malinowski: Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An account of native enterprise and adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1922) or Baloma, the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands (1916)Clifford Geertz: The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (Basic Books, 1973) or Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology (Basic Books, 1983)
