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• The Bachelor of Arts programme African Verbal and Visual Arts (AVVA) offers insights into the scholarly fields of African languages, African literatures, African arts, and media in Africa.
• The curriculum provides students with a multifaceted knowledge of African cultural matters, which are at the same time global matters.
• It also reacts to the developments in the global job market by providing its graduates with a unique intercultural expertise.
• Africa is a continent with a thousand and one facets. We offer this innovative, multidisciplinary and market-oriented bachelor’s programme as a solid starting point towards understanding the intricacies of the African continent and building expertise in African studies.
• Our curriculum enables students to acquire knowledge in four key branches of African studies: Languages; Literatures (in African languages as well as Anglophone and Francophone African literatures); Media; and Arts (both modern and contemporary).
• We offer theoretical, methodological and practical tools for study, which prepare the student to critically engage with the perspectives needed to deal with African cultural milieus, ideas and forms of expressions.

Structure

• The programme is organized into modules reflecting the multiplicity of African cultural affairs.Compulsory course modules introduce methods of art studies, media studies, literary studies and linguistics.
• A practice-oriented project, an overview of the linguistic landscape in Africa and an interdisciplinary module provide students with both academic and practical skills.
• Elective compulsory course modules cover different fields of specialization and advanced seminars.
• The students will choose one of the disciplines in which they envisage writing their BA thesis. In addition,they will have to take at least one advanced seminar from one of the other disciplines.
  
   

• Winter semester begins in October. • International students must apply for Visa in time to join the course.

The bachelor’s programme is open to students with a keen interest in intercultural awareness, curiosity about the cultural richness of the African continent and a passion for critical and creative interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities. You will write your B.A. thesis in a field of specialization of your choice, i.e., we emphasize your personal development and provide enough room for your creativity to flourish.

• Module overview (PDF)
• Module handbook (PDF)
• Prüfungsordnung (Examination Regulations)
• Examination Regulations (English Version PDF)
• For enrolled students, further information is provided via e-learning.

A-level

• English proficiency (level B2 European Framework of References for Languages)
• German basic knowledge (A1, must be acquired by the second semester)

• Application form
• Curriculum Vitae
• Educational Documents (transcripts/Mark sheets)
• Motivation letter
• Language proficiency certificate
• Work experience letter
• APS certificate for Chinese & Vietnamese applicants etc.
  Note: List of documents may change from time to time, please check on Course Website.

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• Today it clear how very farsighted it was in 1975 to found a university that advances interdisciplinary research and teaching on the basis of excellence in academic disciplines.
• Our globalised society is constantly faced with new and ever more complex questions.
• The right answers are found where there is close and above all interdisciplinary cooperation - like at the University of Bayreuth.
• Today, we are one of the most successful young universities in Germany.
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• Interdisciplinary research and teaching is the main feature of our more than 160 degree programmes offered at seven faculties in the natural sciences, food sciences, engineering, law and economics, as well as language, literature and cultural studies.
• The University of Bayreuth has about 13,300 students, 1,650 academic staff (260 of them professors) and about 1020 non-academic employees on the campus in Bayreuth and at satellite campus in Kulmbach. This makes it one of the largest employers in the region. 
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