Study abroad in Berlin, Germany: Most popular universities for History.

Are you thinking of studying History, abroad? Below you can find the most popular universities and programmes to study History in Berlin, Germany. This list is based on visitors on the Studyportals websites, listing more than 150,000 English-taught Bachelor's and Master's programmes world-wide.



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Humboldt University Berlin

2010 marked the 200th anniversary of the Humboldt-Universität. Numerous events from October 2009 to December 2010 honoured the ideas of its founding fathers. In dialogue with the city of Berlin, the alma mater celebrated science, research and teaching, and the relevance of Humboldt’s founding principles for the present day.
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TU Berlin

The internationally renowned Technische Universität Berlin is located in Germany’s capital city at the heart of Europe. Our academic activities are focused on achieving sharply-defined goals: building a distinctive profile for our university, ensuring exceptional performance in research and teaching, providing our graduates with excellent qualifications.
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Institute for Cultural Diplomacy

Over the past decade the ICD has grown to become one of Europe's largest independent cultural exchange organizations, hosting programs that facilitate interaction among individuals of all cultural, academic, and professional backgrounds, from across the world.
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Most popular History programmes for international students in Berlin

These are the most popular programmes among international students who are looking for a History degree in Berlin.

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Political Science with Concentration in Cultural Diplomacy

Institute for Cultural Diplomacy

The Political Science with Concentration in Cultural Diplomacy program at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy consists of a total of 6 semesters. The first semester of the program takes place in Berlin at the Academy for Cultural Diplomacy and the remaining 5 semesters take place in Bucharest at the University of Bucharest. 
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Metropolitan Studies

Humboldt University Berlin

With the participation of professors, researchers, and activists in social, political, urban, and economic fields, the course will study the intertwined visions of Berlin's urban challenges, examining different concepts of urban development.
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German in the City

Humboldt University Berlin

In this course, the entire city of Berlin is the classroom. Participants are divided into groups based on the results of a placement test at the beginning of the course.
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The Stories that Make Berlin: Everyday Life in Berlin During and After the Age of the Berlin Wall

Humboldt University Berlin

The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 as well as its fall in 1989 marked major turning points in the Cold War - the former made explicit the boundaries of the Cold War, the latter marked the end of the Cold War. After a short introduction to the history of the Berlin Wall in the "world" historical context of the Cold War, we will focus on the local, everyday implications of these "world" historical evetns: what did the building of the Wall mean for Berliners (East and West)?
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Asylum Policy - a Matter of European Cooperation?

Humboldt University Berlin

This course will deal with the quest for a common asylum policy within the European Union by simulating European decision-making. Asylum policy is one of the most important topics of European policy. After an introduction into how European policy is made and how the European institutions interact, the course will examine the topic of asylum and migration policy in detail. Participants will take up the roles of European policy-makers in a simulation.
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European Literatures

Humboldt University Berlin

The master’s programme European Literatures is an interdepartmental master’s degree course, which imparts knowledge in the field of European literature in its historic dimension and its national diversity. The focus on the historic aspect is complemented by a systematical theoretical component, by which the view on literature is expanded beyond textual expressions to other fields of media and arts. Thus the students acquire a broad and differentiated notion of the literatures of Europe from their beginnings till the very present.
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Boundaries in Cities: Social, Symbolic, and Spatial Dimensions

Humboldt University Berlin

This course aims to exemplify these central features of boundaries by focusing on selected cases in which social and symbolic boundaries in cities have been paralleled by spatial boundaries of different forms: regulations of movements of persons, visual markers, or simply invisible demarcation lines separating the territories of different groups from each other.
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Global Cities as Centers of Knowledge Production

Humboldt University Berlin

The course will introduce students to the theory, development and realities of global cities as centres of knowledge production.
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About History

History degrees analyse events of the world’s civilizations. History students learn about the political and socio-economical causes that led to important past major events, as well as look at history as a fluid process influenced by many complex factors, to better understand our present. History degrees lead to careers in Heritage Management, Teaching, Politics, or International Relations.

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