Research in the library:
the range of subjects covered by the faculty is as varied as its research.

With some 6000 students, more than 60 professors and over 150 teaching staff, Humanities is one of the largest faculties at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Its open approach and varied study options attract young people from every continent to study German and the culture of the Rhine-Ruhr region at the UDE. In the process, they gain not only linguistic but also intercultural skills.

The main focus in German and Anglophone Studies is on teacher training, making them the most popular disciplines in the Faculty. The other main options include German as a Second Language and German as a Foreign Language, History, Romance Studies, Modern Japan, Communication Science, Art and Art History, Philosophy, Protestant and Catholic Theology, Turkish Studies, and combined Business and Cultural Studies. The Faculty prepares students for a career in teaching or public relations, corporate communications, the media, charities, museums and cultural fields. Its own internal placements and careers office provides professional advice to students and helps them to find work with companies in the region and beyond. Cooperation with selected schools enables trainee teachers to learn more about their chosen profession and experience it at first hand early in their studies.

After completing a Bachelor's degree, graduates can go on to take their Master's in one or two subjects. Specialisations include American Studies, Literature and Media Practice, French Language and Culture, and Protestant Theology.

The German Studies team has its own special way of encouraging its students to acquire professional skills. Every semester, a Germanlanguage author is invited as "poet in residence" to hold a workshop in which students can practise their literary writing skills.

Research at the Faculty is as varied as the range of subjects on offer. Themes include the relationship of secular female rulers to the pope in the Middle Ages, investigation of the benefits of video conferences for isol-ated child cancer patients, Southern African Studies, and the interfaculty Urban Studies project. These are just four of many possible research interests.

The Faculty has connections with a number of research institutions, including its own Institute for Lower Rhine Cultural History and Regional Development, (InKuR). Faculty members from German as a Second/Foreign Language play an active role in the Institute for Migration Research, Teaching of Foreigners and German as a Second Language (IMAZ), from Turkish Studies in the Center for Studies on Turkey and Integration Research (ZfT), and from Theology in the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute.