One of the admission requirements for the for the master's program is a German university degree or an equivalent overseas qualification, with at least 60 credit points (LP/ ECTS) completed in one of the following subjects:

• Ancient American Studies,
• Brazilian Studies,
• History,
• Caribbean Studies,
• Latin American Studies,
• Political Science,
• Social and Cultural Anthropology,
• Social Sciences,
• Sociology,
• Economics,
• Literary Studies or
• Cultural Studies.

If these credit points are distributed across several of the aforementioned subjects, there must be a study component of at least 40 credit points (CP/ECTS) in one of the aforementioned subjects.