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Compulsory Module 1: Scientific Core Competences (12 ECTS-Credits, 6 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: After the successful completion of this module, students have excellent knowledge of scientific work methods and legal theory as well as legal ethics and comparative law, under special consideration of foreign legal languages.
Compulsory Module 2: Professional Key Qualifications (12 ECTS-Credits, 6 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: After the successful completion of this module, students have excellent knowledge and additional qualifications for legal practice; they can explain legal issues and efficiently inform clients and counsel them in legal questions.
Compulsory Module 3: Generic Competences (5 ECTS-Credits)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: After the successful completion of this module, students command advanced theoretical and practical knowledge, skills and competencies in selected disciplines as well as methods and general skills which enable them to pursue independent scientific work and help them succeed in their future careers.
Teaching units, as defined in the thesis agreement, equal to 5 ECTS-Credits have to be completed. One course has to be chosen from the field of "Equality and Gender". Additionally, courses are offered which develop didactic skills and competences for subsequent knowledge transfer of the subject. Suitable options are marked in the course catalogue.
Compulsory Module 4: Scientific Basics/Core Skills of the Thesis Topic (16 ECTS-Credits)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: After the successful completion of this module, students possess the high level of interdisciplinary knowledge necessary for working on the dissertation and excellent scientific and occupational qualifications in the area of the dissertation. These competences enable the students to independently write scientific publications and submit them to specialist journals and to practically employ the knowledge acquired in their professional careers.
Students have completed four teaching units, amounting to 16 ECTS-Credits in accordance with what was decided in their thesis agreement; at least two of these must be VO 2 and one SE 2, which are allocated to the topic of the dissertation.
Compulsory Module 5: In-Depth-Study in a PhD related Law Area (16 ECTS-Credits, 8 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: After the successful completion of this module, students possess a high level of interdisciplinary knowledge and excellent scientific and occupational qualifications. These competences enable the students to independently write scientific publications and submit them to specialist journals and to practically employ the knowledge acquired in their professional careers.
Compulsory Module 6: Doctoral Thesis Defense (5 ECTS-Credits)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of all other modules and positive completion of the dissertation
Learning Outcome: Presentation, reflection on, and analysis of the dissertation results in the overall context of the doctoral programme; the focus is on summarizing and explaining results of the research project, on presenting the increase in knowledge for the discipline, on demonstrating evaluation and method competences, as well as on presenting the results.
Final oral dissertation defense before an examination board. Notes:
- There may still be changes in the courses offered as well as room allocation and course dates.
- The course descriptions found in the English version of the course catalogue are for informational purposes only. Authoritative information can be found in the "Vorlesungsverzeichnis" (German version of the course catalogue).