Profile of the FB 02
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Prof. Dr. Susanne Bach
Languages, everyday texts, literature, films and other media representations do not simply depict reality, they also shape it.
The Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies is a broad-based, diverse teaching, research and educational unit characterized by the richness of its subjects and subject cultures. It consists of the Institutes of English/American Studies, Romance Studies and German Studies with German as a Foreign and Second Language (DaFZ) as well as the Institutes of Protestant Theology, Catholic Theology and Philosophy.
The sciences belonging to the Faculty focus on the intellectual and cultural environment insofar as we encounter it as "text". We understand culture as being linked in a complex way to the medium of language, which is a central means of organizing human coexistence. The humanities and cultural studies stimulate the self-reflective potential of our living environment(s) in the past, present and future. They make an important contribution to the training of thinking, understanding and interpretation.
Interdisciplinarity is not only a top priority at the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, but is also practiced, for example in the doctoral program GeKKo, in interdisciplinary certificate programs and lecture series or in interdisciplinary teaching and research projects. Last but not least, the Faculty sees itself as a partner of the city of Kassel and the North Hesse region. The "Integrierte Studienwerkstatt Sprachen" or the professorship "Werk und Wirkung der Gebrüder Grimm" should be emphasized here.