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  • Master of Arts

    Master
    Degree

  • 2 semesters

    Standard period of study (amount)

  • Frankfurt am Main

    Location

  • August 2024 (Germans and inhabitants)

    August 2024 (Non-EU)

Overview and admission

Study Type

graduate

Admission semester

Summer and Winter Semester

Area of study

History

Focus

Central and Western Europe, Theory and Methods of Historical Research, Heuristics, Methodology and Conception of the Historical Object, History of Pre-Modern Cultures to the 21st Century, Palaeography, Sphragistics or Diplomatics, History, Critical Assessment of Sources and Methodology

Annotation

Application deadline: 01.05. - 15.08. for the winter semester 01.12. - 15.01. for the summer semester

Admission modus

open admission

Admission requirements

Admission to the Master's course is granted to applicants with a completed 8-semester Bachelor's course with History as a major subject at the Goethe University, or an equivalent degree course of at least 8 semesters at another research university in Germany. Language requirements: Latin (Latinum, Latin language examination), English (B2) and another foreign language relevant to the course of study (B1). Command of French is strongly recommended if the applicant wishes to specialise in the Ancient History of Ancient Greek.

Lecture period
  • 11.04.2023 - 14.07.2023
  • 16.10.2023 - 09.02.2024

Application deadlines

Winter semester (2023/2024)
  • Enrollment deadline for Germans and foreign students

    as per letter of acceptance

  • Deadlines for international students from countries that are not members of the European Union

    01.06.2024 - 31.08.2024 (Universitywide deadline)

  • Application deadline for Germans and inhabitants

    01.05.2024 - 15.08.2024

Summer semester (2023)
Deadlines for international students from countries that are not members of the European Union

Expired (Universitywide deadline)

Languages of instruction

Main language

German

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