The bachelor's program in Sinology as a minor provides the following fundamental knowledge and skills:
- Knowledge of modern Chinese standard language;
- Understanding of the political, social, economic, and cultural structures of modern China, along with their historical foundations;
- Basic knowledge of intercultural communication;
- Familiarity with the fundamentals of academic work, including skills in the procurement, analysis, evaluation, preparation, and presentation of China-related information;
- Knowledge of the history of Sinology as a discipline and the ability to critically and reflectively engage with China-related data, sources, texts, and methods.
It also teaches specific techniques and methods:
- Addressing concrete cultural and social issues from China's history and present;
- Chinese communication and language culture, as well as methods in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, and the theory and practice of inter- and transcultural communication.