Graduates of the Master’s programme in Middle Eastern Studies have C1-level skills in one of the languages of the region (Arabic, Persian, Turkish) or skills in independent work with sources in this language. They have a grounding in the history or the literatures and linguistic situation of the region, in the local religions, secondary literature and academic English.

Graduates have academic skills in history. In research and methodology, these skills rest on a project in economic history or social history. Moreover, graduates have a grounding in historiographical debates in the field of economic, social as well as cultural and political history.