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Elective Module 1: Catechetics/Pedagogics (5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: The ability to reflect on previous learning experiences: insights in various forms of teaching and learning and taking on conceptual perspectives; reflection on one's own religious development and that of others from a theological-cairological perspective.
Elective Module 2: Basics of Didactics of Religion (5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Taking critical note of and the practical ability to differentiate between the concepts, criteria and reasons for the complex and gender-sensitive reality of teaching and learning in the contexts of school, adult education and community; discussion of the "Innsbruck Model" of religious education as the basis of religious-didactical action in various fields.
Elective Module 3: Developmental Psychology (5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Basic knowledge on the development and social-psychology of children and young people.
Elective Module 4: Methodological Foundations for Philosophizing and Theologizing (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 10 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Initial familiarity with the specifics of philosophical-theological thinking and working and the beginnings of the development of the integration potential of Biblical Church teaching, philosophical-theological personal experience and scientific reflection on the daily human existence and behaviour, the ability to deal with the technologies and methods of the individual philosophical/theological discipline and grasp the integrational connections of the individual subjects and subject groups; the development of an awareness of philosophical/theological problem issues and the ability to apply suitable scientific methods to the initial reflection on these challenges in an appropriate sociological context; the ability to integrate such questions in the totality of present-day views of the world and its phenomena.
Elective Module 5: Philosophical and Theological Excursion (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 8 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: A better and more lively understanding of the specific content through an expertly-led and prepared viewing on the spot of materials and phenomena not otherwise so easy to appreciate authentically.
Elective Module 6: The People of God in the World Today - Practical Ecclesiology (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Enhanced insights into ecclesiastical issues focused on current demands in view of global connections.
Elective Module 7: The Identity of the Church in History and Present Times (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 5 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Reflection on the dichotomy between "my being" and "other beings" of Christian identity, diachronically and synchronically developed self-confidence in conflict with "the other" both in the inner-Christian space and various other Churches and towards the outside, especially towards Judaism and Islam.
Elective Module 8: Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Knowledge of the concepts, methods, problem issues areas of aesthetics and the philosophy of art, the ability to analyse these contents, to join them together to question independently and to develop further.
Elective Module 9: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students acquire a basic knowledge of current women's and gender research as well as an overview of the fundamental findings of critical gender research.
Elective Module 10: Cultural and Social Philosophy I (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Basic knowledge of the concepts, methods and problems issues and theories of culture and social philosophy, in-depth knowledge of selected problem issues and theories together with the ability to present these in comprehensible form both orally and in writing. A training in philosophical problem awareness.
Elective Module 11: Interdisciplinary Skills (7.5 ECTS-Credits)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students acquire the competence to play a constructive part in interdisciplinary debates.
According to the availability of free places, this module makes possible the completion of teaching units in the following faculties: Education Sciences, Mathematics, Informatics and Physics, Political Science and Sociology, Psychology and Sport Science, Philological and Cultural Sciences, Philosophical Historical Faculty, Legal Faculty.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).