Skip to main content

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

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

Our Profile

Ausblick auf Universitaet Siegen

News from our Schools

The most important news from Faculty I

All messages
Study

School I: New courses and free places

Here you will find information on new events and events that still have places available. The list is updated regularly.

Christoph Strünck

Prof. Dr. Christoph Strünck is the new Chairman of the German Political Science Association

At this year's DGfP annual conference in Freiburg, Christoph Strünck was elected as the new chairman.

Uni Siegen und Orleans

M.A. Linguistics: Digital, Applied, Structural as a German-French double degree program

From the winter semester 2025/26, the Master LiDAS can also be studied as a German-French double degree program.

© Adobe Stock
Ein Gorilla nutzt einen Stock als Werkzeug.

ZOOGESTURES: Technological evolution between humans and animals

The University of Siegen is part of the ZOOGESTURES project, which is investigating cross-species learning of technology between humans and animals for the first time. The pioneering project will receive 1.3 million euros in funding from the Volkswagen Foundation from 2026.

Laudatorin Jessica Kuhlmann, M.A., BA-Preisträgerin Franziska Brandt, MA-Preisträgerin Rutu Gole und Seminarsprecher Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bergem

Summer Festival of Social Sciences 2025 with presentation of the Tim Spier Study Prizes

The social scientists of the University of Siegen came together on July 9, 2025 for their summer party and awarded the Tim Spier Social Sciences Study Prize to the best Bachelor's and Master's thesis of the past year.

© WBK Siegen
Gruppenbild WBK Online Leistungskurs Englisch mit Prof. Stein

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.

© Universität Siegen
Campus Unteres Schloss und Hörsaalzentrum, Universität Siegen
Baumaßnahmen
+ 1 more

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

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".

Studierende schreiben eine Klausur

Registration for summer semester 2025 ongoing

Register your services between Monday, 02.06.25 and Thursday, 03.07.25 in unison!

Dates & Events

All dates of Faculty I
Strichzeichnung Kant, Logo des Kant-Zentrums

The Formulae of the Moral Law and Predispositions

Online event
24.09.2025, 18:00 - 19:30 oclock

Politics of Melancholia

Lower Castle Campus (US)
07.10.2025 - 10.10.2025
Schools I Faculty Council
15.10.2025, 14:00 - 19:00 oclock
Schools I Faculty Council
05.11.2025, 14:00 - 19:00 oclock
Hans-Jonas-Konferenz 2025
06.11.2025 - 08.11.2025
Poetry@Rubens - Lena Schätte reads from her novel "The black on my father's hands"
11.11.2025, 19:00 - 20:30 oclock
Publishing and publishing policy from 1965-1975: A conversation with the Hamburg lawyer and publisher Kurt Groenewold
13.11.2025, 18:00 - 19:30 oclock
Schools I Faculty Council
03.12.2025, 14:00 - 19:00 oclock

Your studies

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

Study models and combination options
© Universität Siegen
Studentin
Icon Abschlusskappe

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.

Discover Bachelor's degree programs
Zwei Studentinnen sitzen in der AR Biliothek und lesen
Icon Abschlusskappe

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
Icon Abschlusskappe

Teacher training program

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

Discover teacher training

Services and support

Gute Betreuung der Studierenden
Icon Handschlag

Services offered by the Schools

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

phil: Student counselingphil: Examination Officephil: Internship officephil: unisonophil: International AffairsDownload portal
Ask a question
© Universität Siegen
Studierende in der Stadt
Icon Netzwerk

Further offers

Discover further additional offers and contact points for your studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

phil: Study coordinationStudent councilsAStA MAX - Mentoring in International Academic ExchangeMailing lists / newsletters of the Schools and the seminarsOpportunities, internships and financial support (Moodle)

Research

Research and young scientists
Erhard Schüttpelz

Science prize for Erhard Schüttpelz

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

More
cover vomile

Political education in fields of action of youth work.

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

More
Steinkreis (Motiv zu CNL MOOC)

CultureNature Literacy MOOC online

Massive Open Online Course for self-study

More
Flexible Authoritarianism Cover

Flexible Authoritarianism

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

More
Symbolbild Connectivity

The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832

English translation published

More
N.K. Kumaresan Raja

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.

More
Icon Haus

Collaborative Research Centers

The Schools'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

Icon Handschlag

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
Icon Abschlusskappe

Doctorate & Habilitation

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

Information on doctorate & habilitation
Icon Nutzer

Visiting scientists

The Schools 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
Ausblick auf Universitaet Siegen

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 Schools

Learn more

Organization of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Icon Nutzer

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
Icon Mikroskop

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 students in quality assurance.

Quality management
Icon Haus

Faculty Council

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

To the Faculty Council
Icon Netzwerk

Organizational chart

The organization chart provides an overview of the Schools and its facilities.

To the organization chart

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

Secretariat

dekanat@phil.uni-siegen.de

To all contact information