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Face-to-face teaching in the course of studies will once again become the norm. This will be made possible by relaxing the strict spacing rules that have applied up to now for classroom teaching in the context of on-site infection control and health protection. Currently, we plan to occupy the lecture halls and seminar rooms with 50% of the available seats. The mask requirements will remain in effect. Digital and digitally supported formats will continue to be available to supplement face-to-face teaching.

To find out which model is used in the seminars you are interested in, please check our weekly overview, as well as your course on cmlife and on e-learning. Your teaching staff will provide all other necessary information concerning your course via E-Learning as well.

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Unfortunately, the restrictions to cope with COVID-19 have required us to limit the flexibility of your studies. It is still necessary that you register for your courses on the platform cmlife as room capacities are quite limited. If a seminar has already been fully booked when you want to enroll, you are automatically placed on a waiting list. Should other students decide to withdraw from their previously booked seminar spot, these open spaces will be filled with students from the waiting list. Therefore please deregister from your course until 20.10.21 if you decide to not take part in it, giving your fellow students the chance to move up. We rely on your cooperation and of course also try to cater for your needs in this situation.

All information concerning the content of your seminars is going to be released on e-learning. We work hard to make sure that you will have access to seminar plans and other details in the following weeks, to make it easier for you to structure your curriculum (and to choose the courses you want to register for). Please use this opportunity prior to the beginning of the new semster.

Questions concerning your studies:
Your programme advisors are happy to answer all content-related questions on your studies.

• BA Anthropology/"Ethnologie"/Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie/"Social and Cultural Anthropology": Katharina Schramm
  
• BA African Culture and Society/KuGeA: Andrea Behrends
• MA Cultural and Social Anthropology/KuS: Katharina Schramm
• MA African Culture and Society/KuGeA: Erdmute Alber

For structural questions and the organisation of your study programme please contact our study programme coordinator Barbara Polak. 

Technical advice concerning e-learning: Joshua Friedrich - contact details will be released soon.

Anti-discrimination: Diversity Service Point.

becks - Office of the Commissioner for Students with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses

International affairs: International Office 

EduCare - Responsibility for studies and quality of studies

Student life: Arbeitskreis Kultur und Gesellschaft Afrikas und Ethnologie (AK)

All results will be transferred to CampusOnline. Afterwards, you are able to see them on your transcript of records.

• Corona FAQs of the UBT - regularly updated general information (including exam-related information if influenced by COVID-19).

• Access to data bases, electronical media, newspapers and prints from outside the UBT network possible via VPN - information on VPN provided by our central university library.

• How do I install VPN? (sample browser Firefox) - you can use the following offers of the UBT to download ebooks and electronical magazines as well as to watch anthropological documentaries when VPN is installed and active.

• Ebooks: you can look for ebooks in our normal library catalogue. Please limit your search options to online resource.

• Other information of the UBT and links concerning further ebook offers.

• Electronical magazines – which am I allowed to access?

• Online Data bases of the UBT.

Particularly relevant for us:

Many specific data bases can be found under the "Ethnologie" section: http://dbis.uni-regensburg.de//dbliste.php?bib_id=ub_bt&colors=1023&ocolors=40&lett=f&gebiete=29

Selection of the most important:

• JSTOR is a search platform for electronical magazines in humanities and social sciences.

• OLC Ethnologie - Online Contents is a data base filled with selected magazines in special collection areas of anthropology and cultural and social anthropology (updated by Humboldt University Berlin).

• EVIFA is the virtual library of anthropology-related topics and gets updated frequently.

• Anthrosource is the online data base of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) hosting various professional journals. Most of them are accessible via the library.

• Web of Science - data base for more than 3.45 million papers in the fields of humanities and social sciences.

• Specific data bases for African studies can be found here.

Interesting for Hausarbeiten/essays or boring times at home:

Ethnographic Video I and II: cover mostly anthropological movies, cinematic reports of field research and global documentaries - mainly in English:
http://dbis.uni-regensburg.de//detail.php?bib_id=ub_bt&colors=&ocolors=&lett=f&tid=1&titel_id=12380

http://dbis.uni-regensburg.de//detail.php?bib_id=ub_bt&colors=&ocolors=&lett=f&tid=1&titel_id=100298