For the Faculty, internationalisation means creating, through an inward- and outward-looking strategy, the best possible framework conditions for global knowledge production and global learning. This process involves all status groups and units.

The Faculty is characterised by the comprehensive interlinking of different disciplines. These range from Education, Ethnology, and Gender Studies to Modern Indian Studies, Political Science, Sociology, and Sports Science. The Faculty also includes an interdisciplinary institute for methods and methodological foundations of the social sciences.

The broad range of quantitative and qualitative methods in the social sciences, together with interdisciplinary cooperation with other subjects and institutions, further facilitates the internationalisation of research. In teaching, the Faculty offers a wide variety of English-language courses, and their number is to be increased further. Not least through the integration of global content, teaching is continuously adapted in the context of ongoing “Internationalisation at home”.

With the joint master’s programme Euroculture – Society, Politics and Culture in a Global Context and the master’s programme Modern Indian Studies, the Faculty offers two degree programmes taught entirely in English.

The Faculty also includes the Ethnological Collection, one of the most significant teaching and research collections in the German-speaking world. Its beginnings date back to the Enlightenment. In research projects, the objects preserved here are explored from a wide variety of perspectives.

For its students, the Faculty offers numerous opportunities to study abroad. International exchange students will find a wide range of English-language courses at the Faculty.

Teaching staff and researchers receive support in planning stays abroad and developing international cooperation.

A central element of internationalisation work is the university alliance ENIGHT with its ten partner universities. In addition, the Faculty of Social Sciences has its own cooperation agreements with 18 universities worldwide. Through the Euroculture programme, there are cooperation agreements with eight European and four non-European universities.