What is the degree program about?

Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures (SDAC) is an interdisciplinary degree program that allows students to acquire in-depth academic and methodological skills and additional key skills on decision-making processes in East and South Asia. A Bachelor’s degree in a variety of disciplines is a requirement for the Master’s degree program. Students can choose their specialization from the courses offered at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and organize their own semester abroad.

Students acquire in-depth knowledge of topics and methods as well as additional key skills in decision-making processes in East and South Asia. During their degree program, students gain major insights into decision-making processes, for example in entrepreneurial, political and cultural situations. They develop a new cross-cultural perspective on decision-making processes, apply their knowledge in an interdisciplinary context,and learn to approach research questions from an academic perspective and to cultivate their own independent thinking. These qualities enable them to take a sensitive approach to intracultural and intercultural decision-making processes.

The acquired knowledge from the areas of Chinese studies, history, philosophy, religious studies, economics, social and cultural anthropology and the history of science enable graduates to think in a communicative and critical way and to work independently in a solution-oriented, critical, analytical and application-oriented manner in various professional contexts that require expertise in the humanities, area studies and social sciences. The specific subject knowledge provides openings for graduates in professions in the cultural, political and economic sectors as well as in intercultural working environments in which the named sectors overlap. Graduates are capable of taking a critical and culturally sensitive stance when taking part in real decision-making processes, both in an international context and in the specific Asian-European context. Their skills and knowledge about acting in an international context qualify them for leadership positions.