Humanities subjects focus on several areas of particular relevance today. We investigate the way learning processes are influenced by multilingual and intercultural contexts as well as by new media, and reflect on the meaning of knowledge in knowledge-based societies. Scholarship in the humanities is highly self-reflective and based on sound methods such as source criticism, historical reasoning, conceptual analysis and interpretation, but at the same time open to social and other sciences as well as to the application of modern technology.