International Relations

When we are met by friendly faces and the smell of coffee in the morning in Karls Café, when professors and students have light-hearted conversations - perhaps we start off just talking about our plans for the day, or even just about the weather. But it doesn’t take long for us to start talking about the big questions – we just can’t help it: Peace, prosperity, environmental protection, justice and human rights; these are the topics that drive us and keep us awake at night.

In the International Relations course of study, we engage precisely where others have long since switched off. We build bridges, we understand the world, we break down borders.

The course of study for all those, who

• want to connect cultures  
• see themselves as citizens of the world    
• want to work in an international environment

We believe in diplomacy as a driving force on a world stage which is full of conflict. And it is precisely on this stage that we want to make a contribution, so that people no longer have to fight with each other or exercise their economic power, but can instead negotiate using knowledge, words, and values. These three things, knowledge, words, and values are what we get used to using at Karls. Tomorrow, they will be our tools, when we take leading roles in establishing international relations – e.g. in the Foreign Office, at a big company, or with an NGO.

Let’s get active, and let’s be curious about other cultures and ways of thinking. Let us embrace the world. Let’s tear down borders, let’s understand the “other” and let’s travel along new paths. Let us live International Relations.

This course of study starts every winter semester in September.

Factsheet on the study program