The master’s degree programme Intercultural Communication and European Studies (ICEUS) qualifies students for an international career. It comprises course offers in the social sciences, politics, communication and law. Students attend classes in culture-reflexive meta communication, European politics, European law, globalisation, transnational governance (Model United Nations Conferences), culture and media.

Languages of instruction are German and English. Some courses offer hands-on experiences, some provide research opportunities.

Intercultural communication in daily study routines:

Each year, about 30 international and German students come together in this programme. Often, there are 10-15 different nationalities in one cohort of students. This provides excellent opportunities to study intercultural communication not only from the academic point of view: students also experience intercultural communication in daily study routines and work groups. Therefore, we place great value on getting to know each other and on teambuilding at the beginning of the programme in October.

The study programme comprises the following academic core areas: Intercultural Communication, European Studies and Organisations and Internationalisation. Students study modules of all areas.

• Intercultural Communication: Theories of intercultural communication, ethnography of communication, sensitivity and behavioural training, simulation games and simulation of intercultural encounters, culture and media, consolidation of second foreign language
• International Organisations: Globalisation, international frameworks of organisational actions, tasks and organisational structures of international organisations (public, private or intermediary), cross-border cooperation
• European Studies: European history of ideas and mentality, historic development of the European integration process, organs and legislative procedures in the EU, European policy fields, foundations of European and public international law, societal structures
• Social Sciences Methodology: Qualitative empirical social research, data gathering and data analysis in qualitative social research

Internship abroad and field trips:

An internship abroad and field trips to Bad Liebenzell / Straßbourg und Brussels are part of the programme. The students visit European Institutions and talk to experts on site. The internship abroad is prepared as part of the study programme.

International career paths:

As experts for intercultural communication and for Europe, ICEUS Alumni work for international organisations, European Institutions, Non-Governmental Organisations, multinational companies or in politics, media and administration. Others continue their academic career in a PhD programme, e.g. at the Fulda Graduate Centre of Social Sciences.