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121 Master's degrees in Humanities in Germany

Religion and Global Futures
This Religion and Global Futures programme from University of Bayreuth will equip you with knowledge and skills that enable you to understand contemporary and emerging forms of religion, both from a global perspective and in relation to questions of global futures.

Roads to Democracies - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Politics and Culture
The Roads to Democracies - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Politics and Culture master programme at the University of Siegen is an international, interdisciplinary, and research-oriented Master of Arts programme integrating the subjects of history, political science, and sociology.
National and Transnational Studies - Literature, Culture, Language
The focus of the National and Transnational Studies - Literature, Culture, Language from University of Münster is on anglophone literatures and cultures and on varieties of English, students will mainly be based in the English Department.
Philosophy
The Philosophy programme of Saarland University is open to students of all disciplines.
American Studies
The objective of the degree programme American Studies from Heidelberg University is to convey further knowledge of history, culture and society in the US.
Modern Indian Studies
Modern Indian Studies from University of Göttingen unites perspectives from the humanities, the social sciences and economics.
Philosophy of Religion
The Philosophy of Religion program offered by Goethe University Frankfurt is designed for graduates with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, Protestant and Catholic theology, religious studies, or other professionally qualifying degree programs (provided they have prior knowledge of philosophy) who wish to pursue academic specialization in the branch of Philosophy of Religion.
Islamic Studies
Islamic Studies from Freie Universität Berlin will enable graduate students to use academic methodologies and obtain the skills necessary to pursue independent scholarship in Islamic studies.
English Studies - Literature, Language, Culture
English Studies - Literature, Language, Culture from Freie Universität Berlin moves beyond the traditional disciplinary segregation within English studies and seeks to combine literature, linguistics, and cultural studies of the English-speaking world except North America.
Computational Linguistics
At the University of Stuttgart, students of the M.Sc. Computational Linguistics programme receive a highly research-oriented education.
Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia
The Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia MA course from University of Hamburg focuses on the languages, cultures, history, and societies of an important, culturally diverse region currently undergoing rapid development.
Politics, Economics, Philosophy
The Politics, Economics, Philosophy MSc course from University of Hamburg focuses on the analysis of individual and collective decision-making from the perspective of the three disciplines.
Linguistics
In contrast to the study of specific languages and literature, the Linguistics programme offered by Leipzig University does not focus on an individual language, instead looking at the functions and structures of all human languages, including their differences and commonalities.
Linguistics
The Linguistics program offered by Goethe University Frankfurt is a program in theoretical linguistics with English as the language of instruction.
English and American (Literary and Cultural) Studies
The English and American (Literary and Cultural) Studies MA course offered at the University of Paderborn explores the literature and cultures of English-speaking regions and is combined with language training and job-related education as well as mandatory practical experiences.
East Asian Studies - Modern Sinology
East Asian Studies - Modern Sinology from University of Göttingen conceived for 4 semesters in Göttingen, offers students a wide range of specialisation themes about modern China, with "modern China" being defined as including the period from the 18th century to the present.
Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies
Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies from Freie Universität Berlin links problem-oriented training in the disciplines of Social and Cultural Anthropology, History, Literature and Cultural Studies, Brazilian Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology, Political Science and Economics with subject specialisation and the development of region-specific competences.
Archaeology of the Ancient World
Archaeology of the Ancient World (MAAAW as abbreviation for Master Archaeology of the Ancient World) is a two-year, full-time master’s program taught in English. This program is offered at Freie Universität Berlin.
Italy in Contact - Literature, Arts, Languages, Cultures
This Italy in Contact - Literature, Arts, Languages, Cultures programme from Heidelberg University mainly focuses on those core areas of Italian literature and culture studies as well as linguistics that share a connection with transcultural contact phenomena in the field of Italian-Romance cultures.
Computational Linguistics
The Computational Linguistics programme from Heidelberg University explores how computers might be used to automatically process and interpret human language. Research in this area considers the mathematical and logical characteristics of natural language, and develops algorithms and statistical processes for automatic language processing.