- Epistemological foundations of forming theories on human-animal studies and music/sound, including music as a social process, relationships between music/sound, culture and society in a cross-species scope, biomusicology, animal ethics issues, gender studies
- Foundations of the history and theory of the disciplines involved as well as interdisciplinary influences up to the development of own theories and approaches to current topics
- Teacher: Thilo Stute
- Teacher: Martin Ullrich