"Gender Studies": The Gender Studies sub-degree programme in the double Master's degree in Culture and Society deals with the fact that the cultural, social and political dimensions of social life are permeated by (historically grown and shaped) gender orders. It thus opens up ways of understanding the conditions of democratic societies, social labour and power relations, evaluation and exclusion practices or socialisation and media influences on individuals.

Gender relations and orders are among the most strongly structuring categorical aspects of every society. Knowledge of the gender-related effects of standardisation, stereotyping and prejudice formation can be extremely helpful as a basis for understanding other social standardisation and stereotyping processes.

The Gender Studies programme prepares students for careers that require "gender competence", i.e. the knowledge- and reflection-based handling of gender issues and social gender relations, or for activities in the field of research on gender issues. The subject is interdisciplinary insofar as it combines elements of different disciplines through a cross-cutting interest in knowledge. In this way, it stimulates both the exchange of ideas within disciplines, the encounter of knowledge and disciplinary cultures and the development of questions critical of science.

The aim of the subject is to gain knowledge of the historical, cultural and political conditions of the emergence of gender systems as well as their modes of action and ways of transmission. Students acquire the necessary skills for critical analysis, independent academic work and academic reflection, as well as insights into the possibility of shaping social forms of organisation and processes in a gender-conscious manner and communicating these in public work contexts.