• History studies the past with scientific methods and models. The focus is on people as social beings and the consequences of their actions in the context of various forms of society and historical epochs.
  • The priorities of the subject history lie in the in-depth study of text, image, sound and material sources in the transmission of the epochs from antiquity to the present. 
  • In addition, there is a critical examination of different research approaches and an intensive reflection on basic categories of historical science such as time, space and gender in political, legal, social, economic and cultural contexts.