The Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology focuses its research and teaching on everyday culture in its global context. Cultural studies perspectives are combined with approaches from historical anthropology. Current specialisations at the institute are popular knowledge, museums, material culture, family and kinship, public anthropology and education, history of knowledge and science. Students can take the Bachelor's degree programme “Cultural and Social Anthropology” (in cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology) and the Master's degree programme “Cultural Anthropology”.