The Faculty of Arts and Humanities

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities offers a diverse range of research-based, innovative degree programs and broadly diversified humanities and cultural studies research in nine departments.

News from our faculty

The most important news from Faculty I

All news from Faculty I

Gruppenbild WBK Online Leistungskurs Englisch mit Prof. Stein

16.07.2025

Language and everyday racism - Prof. Dr. Stein as a guest in the English advanced course

As part of the University of Siegen's Rent-A-Prof event series, the Abitur online English course at the Weiterbildungskolleg Siegen hosted Prof. Dr. Stein.

Campus Unteres Schloss und Hörsaalzentrum, Universität Siegen

Baumaßnahmen

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15.07.2025

University realigns two-location strategy

A clear course under new conditions: The University of Siegen adjusts its structural strategy, relinquishes the Karstadt property and resolutely presses ahead with further development.

Knapp 100 Wissenschaftler*innen besuchten die RESAW-Konferenz 2025 an der Universität Siegen.

Research

20.06.2025

RESAW Conference 2025: Siegen at the center of digital research

The RESAW Conference 2025 brought together around 100 international researchers at the University of Siegen. The conference entitled "The datafied Web" was organized by the Siegen Collaborative Research Centre "Media of Cooperation".

05.06.2025

Registration for summer semester 2025 ongoing

13.05.2025

Science prize for Siegen media theorist

Erhard Schüttpelz, Professor of Media Theory at the University of Siegen, is this year's science prize winner of the Hamburg Aby Warburg Foundation. The prize is awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the fields of art, culture and the humanities.

Study

13.05.2025

Call for entries 2025 for this year's edition of the debating competition "Utopia Europe"

Participation and engagement: giving young people in Europe a voice

Research

13.05.2025

Teaching research project on digitally supported primary care

How is digitally supported primary care accepted by patients? Students on the bachelor's degree course in Digital Public Health are conducting research as part of a teaching practice project at the Digital Specialist and Health Center in Olpe.

International

13.05.2025

First MAX-Mentoring-Treffen

A Warm Welcome to the New Semester

Professor Stein am Clara Schumann Gymnasium (Rent-a-Prof)

General Public

13.05.2025

Focus on the US elections: Prof. Dr. Daniel Stein inspires students at the Clara Schumann Comprehensive School

Lecture and discussion as part of "Rent-a-Prof"

Seminars of the Faculty of Philosophy

Germanistisches Seminar

Historisches Seminar

Medienwissenschaftliches Seminar

Philosophisches Seminar

Romanisches Seminar

Seminar für Anglistik

Seminar für Evangelische Theologie

Seminar für Katholische Theologie

Seminar für Sozialwissenschaften

Dates & Events

All dates of Faculty I

Konferenzraum der Philosophischen Fakultät

Faculty I - Faculty Council

Campus Adolf-Reichwein-Straße (AR) - Main Campus

03.09.2025, 14:00 - 18:00 oclock

Schools I Faculty Council

Campus Adolf-Reichwein-Straße (AR) - Main Campus

08.10.2025, 14:00 - 18:00 oclock

Politics of Melancholia

07.10.2025 - 10.10.2025

Schools I Faculty Council

05.11.2025, 14:00 - 18:00 oclock

Schools I Faculty Council

03.12.2025, 14:00 - 18:00 oclock

Schools I Faculty Council

07.01.2026, 14:00 - 18:00 oclock

Schools I Faculty Council

04.02.2026, 14:00 - 18:00 oclock

Your studies

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities offers a wide range of Bachelor's and Master's degree programs as well as a selection of subjects for teacher training.

Study models and combination options

Bachelor programs

In the Bachelor's degree course at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, various core and supplementary subjects can be combined with each other in a variety of ways to create an individual study program.

Discover Bachelor's degree programs

Zwei Studentinnen sitzen in der AR Biliothek und lesen

Master programs

With a Master's degree from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, you can build on a Bachelor's degree completed in Siegen or at another university. Various subjects can be combined.

Discover Master's programs

Studierende sitzen in einem Seminarraum an Tischen

Teacher training program

The Faculty of Philosophy offers opportunities to study for a Bachelor's and Master's degree to become a teacher in 9 different subjects.

Discover teacher training

Available Services of the Faculty

These services support you regarding all aspects of your studies.

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More Support

Discover additional offers and further support for your studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

Student Councils AStA MAX - Mentoring in International Academic Exchange Mailinglists / Newsletters of the faculty and the departments

Research

Research and young scientists

Science prize for Erhard Schüttpelz

Erhard Schüttpelz, Professor of Media Theory, is this year's science prize winner of the Hamburg Aby Warburg Foundation.

Political education in fields of action of youth work.

Publication at the end of the project "Learning from and with each other"

CultureNature Literacy MOOC online

Massive Open Online Course for self-study

Flexible Authoritarianism

Anna Schwenck wins Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture (American Sociological Association)

The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832

English translation published

Prof. Dr. N.K. Kumaresan Raja as a guest

In addition to guest lectures, strategic discussions also took place on the further development of the partnership with Pondicherry University.

Collaborative Research Centers

The Faculty's Collaborative Research Centers enable long-term, interdisciplinary collaboration between scientists in research projects.

SFB 1187 Media of Cooperation

SFB 1472 Transformation of the Popular

Third-party funded projects

Numerous and diverse externally funded projects are being carried out at Faculty I at all times.

List of third-party funded projects

Doctorate & Habilitation

Doctorates and habilitations are possible in all subjects of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

Information on doctorate & habilitation

Visiting scientists

The faculty supports international academic contacts and also regularly invites visiting academics to work together in Siegen.

Our guest researchers

Further offers

Rent A Prof - Professor im Klassenzimmer

Rent-a-Prof: The university comes into the classroom

Do you teach at a school near the University of Siegen and would like to integrate a lecture by a lecturer from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities into your lessons?

Learn more

phil: Info

phil: Info stands for a semester-accompanying series of events with important information about your studies and an overview of all information channels of the faculty

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Organization of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Dean's office and management

Here you will find the central contact persons of the Dean's Office, the Dean's Administration and the Management.

Dean's office and management

Organizational chart

The organizational chart shows the administrative structure of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

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Quality management

Faculty I relies on the discursive involvement of those involved in studying and teaching in the curricular and organizational-administrative areas as well as the students in quality assurance.

Quality management

Faculty Council

The Faculty Council is the central body of the faculty and meets regularly to discuss matters relating to research, teaching and academic self-administration.

To the Faculty Council

Contact the dean's office

Postal address

University of Siegen
Faculty of Humanities
Dean's Office
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2
57068 Siegen

Visitor address

University of Siegen
Faculty of Philosophy
AR-IF Level 0
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2
57076 Siegen

Secretariat

dekanat@phil.uni-siegen.de

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