Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

(Major 90)

Studiengang: Master of Arts (RVO19)

Allgemeine Beschreibung

In an increasingly globalised world, it is important to understand Asian and Middle Eastern transformations and their relationships to each other and the West. This is exactly what the study program in «Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (MAMES)» is offering. Asia and the Middle East, from Morocco in the West to Japan in the East, covers two thirds of the global population and its cultural history. In recent decades, this is also the most dynamic part of the world that presents itself as a driving force of a new world order and challenges the history and structures of Western dominated modernisation processes. It includes not only advanced economies of high growth and rapid modernisation that have established stable democracies and are rising powers, but also countries and whole regions struggling with industrialisation and its accompanying socio-cultural transformations, often leading to political destabilisation and sometimes even to violent conflicts. «MAMES» takes you on an explorative journey across the regions and offers you the opportunity to analyse and understand social, political and cultural change and its institutionalisation in modern times. It enables you to critically reflect on contradictions and struggles of the modern world’s colonial and postcolonial development from new, Asian and Middle Eastern perspectives. The major «Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Studies» focusses on the social, cultural, and political dynamics of modernisation and globalisation processes across Asia and the Middle East from comparative and historical perspectives. It combines methods from the cultural and social sciences and introduces various theoretical approaches. Graduates have obtained foundational knowledge of colonial and postcolonial transformations and of the differences and commonalities between the regions. They have acquired in-depth knowledge as well as the analytical skills in order to understand the interconnection between social, political, economic, cultural and intellectual issues. They are trained to explore their complexity and relate them to larger theoretical discourses as well as to relevant research questions. In order to be able to read original language sources on a variety of topics and include them in the development of research questions, students obtain the necessary languages skills in one of Asian and Middle Eastern languages.

Zulassungsvoraussetzungen

Spezialisiertes Masterprogramm: Es gelten ggf. besondere Zulassungsvoraussetzungen. Siehe dazu die Studienordnung für das Programm (s.
Reglemente).

Berufsperspektiven

The «MAMES» offers not only new understanding of the world and, hence, makes you fit for are career in any field that has to do with Asia and the Middle East and beyond in this globalized world. The acquired core competencies and skills to critically analyze and understand the modern world and its contradictory development from non-Western perspectives can be applied in a large field of jobs from diplomacy to international organizations, from journalism to international business, and from cultural exchange to scientific research.

ECTS Credits

90 ECTS Credits

Abschluss

Master of Arts UZH

Teilzeitstudium

Das Mustercurriculum orientiert sich an einem Vollzeitstudium. Ein Teilzeitstudium ist möglich und geht mit einer Verlängerung der Studienzeit einher.

HF-/NF-Kombinationen

Der Masterstudiengang besteht aus einem Mono-Studienprogramm von 120 ECTS Credits oder aus der Kombination eines Major-Studienprogramms 90 ECTS Credits mit einem Minor-Studienprogramm von 30 ECTS Credits. Das Minor-Studienprogramm kann an der Philosophischen Fakultät der UZH, an einer anderen Fakultät der UZH oder an einer anderen universitären Hochschule absolviert werden. Für allfällige Kombinationsverbote ist der programmspezifische Anhang zur Studienordnung zu beachten (s. Reglemente).

Unterrichtssprache

Englisch, Deutsch