Courses
Go to the superordinate section
Compulsory Module 1: Introduction to Scientific Working and to Qur' an Studies (5 ECTS-Credits, 3 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates are able to objectively assess their study choice. They are able to describe the formal structure and formation process of a scientific work. They know the basic concepts, main topics and contemporary issues of Qur¿an science, and they are able to present scientific-methodical concepts in a modern context.
Compulsory Module 2: Introduction to Qur´an Studies (10 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates are able to correctly use Arabic basic concepts (vocabulary orally and in writing) with regard to the Qur¿an. They are able to classify terms and main topics of the Qur¿an.
Compulsory Module 3: Islamic Theology (10 ECTS-Credits, 6 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates are capable of explaining the origins, the history and the methodology of the Islamic jurisprudence. Moreover, they are able to analyse and identify the methodology of the Islamic jurisprudence, "fiqh" science, taking into consideration different directions of Islam in history and the present. Further, graduates know the history of "fiqh" science, its ideas and starting points as well as its new shaping in the modern age. They are able to understand Islamic theology based on social conditions and to establish the relation to the pupils¿ living environment.
Compulsory Module 4: Islamic Principles of Faith (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates are able to present Islamic Religion, its origin and development. They are able to reproduce classic-Islamic academic discipline as well as its methodological and theoretical fundamental questions.
Compulsory Module 5: Prophetic Tradition (10 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates are capable of describing the origins and development of Hadith studies, and they are able to explain Hadith studies as well as critically discuss the Sunnah tradition.
Compulsory Module 6: Qur´an Studies (10 ECTS-Credits, 6 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates are able to reflect and interpret written sources of Islam methodically. Furthermore, they are capable of deducing practice support from the sources for the Muslim pupils in relation to present challenges.
Compulsory Module 7: Islamic Culture and History (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates are able to professionally discuss the genesis and development of Islamic mysticism. They can describe the basic topics of metaphysics as an aspect of understanding the Islamic philosophy. They are able to identify the main parts of Islamic history of arts and culture as well as describe Islamic art forms. Graduates know the different epochs of Islamic history and understand the socio-economic and political backgrounds of different theological problems.
Compulsory Module 8: Schools of Law and Islamic Ethics (10 ECTS-Credits, 6 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates are able to describe the historical origin and content-related development of the different confessions in Islam and to explain their meaning for everyday life. They are competent to recognize the significance of Islamic ethics for the present for the intercultural and interreligious dialogue. The graduates are competent to recognize and implement their ethical responsibility in the present world. They are able to describe the development and importance of philosophy in the Islamic cultural circle and the contribution to the history of philosophy and to represent their importance for the present time.
Compulsory Module 9: Islamic Religious Education (5 ECTS-Credits, 2 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates are able to critically analyse and interpret current trends in religious education. Furthermore, they can critically analyse social science theories, methods, perspectives and assessments correlating those with Muslim daily life. Moreover, they know how to apply their understanding of qualitative empirical research in the theological-religious educational context.
Compulsory Module 10: Foundations of Teaching Inter-Religious Studies (5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates are able to distinguish and explain concepts, criteria and reasons for the complex and gender-sensitive occurrence of religious and interreligious teaching and learning in the context of schools, adult education and communities. They are able to properly use the Innsbruck model of religion didactics as a basis of religious-didactic action in different fields.
Compulsory Module 11: Subject Didactics (5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates know the frameworks of religious education at the relevant school types (also with regard to disability, cultural aspects, gender, social inequality, interreligiosity). They have subject-didactical competences in competence-oriented planning, guidance and evaluation of school-related teaching and learning processes.
Compulsory Module 12: Teaching Inter-Religious Studies (5 ECTS-Credits, 3 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates have basic competences in dealing with topics from a didactic and subject-specific as well as interreligious perspective. They are able to understand and present the fundamentals of religious and subject-didactic concepts.
Compulsory Module 13: Subject Related Practical Course (5 ECTS-Credits, 1 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of Compulsory Module 10
Learning Outcome: Graduates are able to plan and implement subject-specific teaching observations under supervision. They are able to operationalize and reflect the competences acquired in order to plan, implement and evaluate teaching and learning processes in practical teaching.
Compulsory Module 14: Bachelor's Thesis (5 ECTS-Credits, 1 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of Compulsory Module 1
Learning Outcome: Graduates are able to deal with the topic of the Bachelor's Thesis in methodical and content-related terms and to present the result orally and in writing in a comprehensible manner.
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).