The University of Göttingen offers a variety of BA Programs that are closely linked to CeMEAS, its research agenda and our partners on campus and beyond:
Department of East Asian Studies
BA Modern Sinology
The BA in Modern Sinology is a so-called “Mono-BA”, i.e. a single-subject BA (as opposed to a two-subject BA, or double major). It is aimed at those students who wish to study China in all its linguistic and cultural facets. This study program requires very high levels of motivation and resilience, as students are required to learn the modern Chinese language in both its spoken and written forms, master the basics of classical Chinese and complete both introductory and advanced seminars on topics relating to modern China.
BA Modern China Studies (2-subjects-BA)
In addition to imparting sufficient basic knowledge of modern spoken Chinese for everyday communication in China, the program offers a range of courses on Chinese history, economy, society, intellectual history, law and politics. Graduates of this program work primarily with English-language texts, but acquire strong analytical skills with a view to modern and contemporary China that set them apart from other scholars and experts.
BA Chinese as a Foreign Language (2-subjects-BA)
This program offers an intensive language training in Chinese. As a general two-subject BA (without the teaching credential), any other subject offered as a 2-subjects-BA program can be combined with this program. If your motivation for Chinese studies is fascination for the language and its characters, the degree course of Chinese as a foreign language is open to you. It is possible to study this course as a general two-subject BA program (in combination with a second language, a social science or some other subject) or as a teacher training program (combined with a second teaching subject and courses in education).
BA Chinese as a foreign language (2-subjects/teaching profession)
If your motivation for Chinese studies is fascination for the language and its characters, the degree course of Chinese as a foreign language is open to you. It is possible to study this course as a general two-subject BA program (in combination with a second language, a social science or some other subject) or as a teacher training program (combined with a second teaching subject and courses in education).
Faculty of Business and Economics
Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sustainable Development Studies
Sustainable Development Studies are primarily concerned with global poverty, inequality and other challenges in the “Global South”, i.e. in the so-called developing and emerging countries. This refers to all countries whose economic development, e.g. measured by their per capita income, degree of industrialisation or average life expectancy, does not yet correspond to that of Germany or other industrialised nations of the “Global North”.