• The students acquire knowledge of methods of academic work in the field of history.
• The students have knowledge that enables them to access written and audiovisual sources in a source-critical manner.

• The students identify topics, questions and thesis formulation.
• The students understand the annotation for academic writing and apply citation rules (keyword: quotation in the text, paraphrase, footnotes).
• The students use annotation and can recognize/write short academic texts (abstract, review, etc.).
• The students read and document specialist literature.
• The students understand the structure of an academic paper.
• The students know about the scope of literature research in libraries, research institutions, but also in digital archives.
• The students work actively with historical sources and generate 'new knowledge' based on questions of historical and cultural studies research.

They can deal critically with texts, audio sources and audiovisual sources. They know about the methods and theories of history and their position and importance within the framework of cultural studies, as well as about practical problems of history in the sense of an understanding of history as the prehistory of current problems.