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Faculty of Arts and Humanities

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

Profile of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

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Elections to the Faculty Council

Election of student members

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Delegation bei der Unterzeichnung von MOU an der Georgia State University.

Siegen meets Atlanta: New opportunities for study and exchange

The University of Siegen is further expanding its international network. A new cooperation with Georgia State University offers students and researchers a wide range of opportunities for exchange, practice and global learning experiences.

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Niels Penke receives funding in the Heisenberg program

The German scholar PD Dr. Niels Penke from the University of Siegen has been accepted into the renowned Heisenberg Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG). In the coming years, he would like to focus on popularization processes.

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Teaching Award of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities presented to Bo Flemming Loxtermann

His event "Non-classical logic" was honored

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The university announces young talent awards 2026

Apply now: This year, the University of Siegen is once again recognizing outstanding academic achievements by its graduates. Applications are now open and can be submitted until June 1.

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Research

Uni Siegen involved in new DFG research group

The University of Siegen is participating in a new research group of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Under the title "Feasibilities of the Self", an interdisciplinary team is investigating how processes of self-formation have changed from antiquity to the present day.

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Ulrich Riegel elected Vice President of the International Society of Empirical Research in Theology

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Prof. Dr. Dockweiler as an expert for the ARD production "Quarks Daily"

Seite aus dem Buch "Bin Mensch nicht auch ich?"

How comics retell the stories of people's fates under the nazis

Five fates from Siegen are the focus of the graphic novel "Bin Mensch nicht auch ich?". The pictures tell stories of persecution under National Socialism. Created from local memories and with academic support, the book opens up new approaches to the past, especially for young people.

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Information event on the Bachelor thesis

Information about the Bachelor's thesis in the core subject of Media Studies

Reading with the author Andreas Martin Widmann from his new novel "Eddi"
Linguistics and language didactics colloquium
Forum Siegen & SFB - Health in times of 'smart' living
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Information event on the German-French M.A. in Linguistics (LiDAS-SDL)
Forum Siegen - The sugar code: The secret language of sugar
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Bachelor programs

In the Bachelor's degree program of 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.

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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.

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Teacher training program

The Faculty of Philosophy offers opportunities to study for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in 9 different Schools.

Services and support

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Services offered by the Schools

These facilities of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities will support you in all matters relating to your studies

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Science prize for Erhard Schüttpelz

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

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Political education in fields of action of youth work.

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

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CultureNature Literacy MOOC online

Massive Open Online Course for self-study

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Flexible Authoritarianism

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

International

  • Advice and information about studying abroad (outgoings)
  • Advice and information on international studies (incomings, international students)
  • International study programs and study programs abroad
  • International activities at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

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Further offers

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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?

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More about your studies

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 Schools

Contact the dean's office

Postal address

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

Visitor address

University of Siegen
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
AR-IF Level 0
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2
57076 Siegen