Students have the opportunity to hone and consolidate their subject-specific knowledge in one of the offered specialization areas. The subject-specific contributions of the disciplines form the specialization areas depending on a given problem of the respective area. At the beginning of the first semester and after having attended an obligatory consultation with an authorized examiner, students decide on a specialization area of the profile area in which they desire to write their Master’s thesis.

Specialization Area A: Representation and Entanglement

• Module A1: Methods and Theories of Representation and Entanglement

• Module A2: Literary-cultural Representations and Entanglements

• Module A3: Latin America in Global History

• Module A4: Social and Cultural Anthropology of Latin America

Specialization Area B: Transformation and Development

• Module B1: Developmental Theories and Strategies

• Module B2: Current Crises and Conflicts in Latin America

• Module B3: Latin America as a Laboratory of Modernity

Specialization Area C: Brazil in a Global Context: Literature, Culture and Society 

• Module C1: students choose either A1, B1 or D1 according to their personal emphasis

• Module C2: Formation of Brazil

• Module C3: Brazil’s Representation und Entanglement

• Module C4: Brazil’s Transformation and Development

Specialization Area D: Gender Relations, Ways of life, Transformations

• Module D1: Interdisciplinary Theories and Methods of Gender Studies

• Module D2: Gender Relations and Processes of Transformation

• Module D3: Interculturality, Transculturality and Gender Relations

 Competence aims and learning content of all the modules of the Master's Program