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Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory modules 1, 2, 3 and 5.

Learning Outcome: Students are able to explain the functionality and differentiation of the political system of the EU. They discuss and answer questions illustrated by individual organs and institutions of internal and institutional decision-making processes and the characteristics of individual political fields.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory modules 1, 2, 3 and 6.

Learning Outcome: Students are able to illustrate individual sections of the Austrian political system. They acquire in-depth knowledge in these sections and are able to individually work in other sections.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory modules 1, 2, 3 and 7.

Learning Outcome: Students acquire the ability to illustrate and explain the structure and function profiles of different democratic governmental systems. Moreover, they are able to individually analyse and evaluate complex phenomena from the field of comparative government based on relevant theoretical-conceptual approaches.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory modules 1, 2, 3 and 8.

Learning Outcome: Students are able to analyse individual section of international relations and to critically reflect their theories and methods. Thus, they know how to individually elaborate comparative theories and methods of this section.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory modules 1, 2, 3 and 9.

Learning Outcome: Students acquire the ability to list different approaches to electoral analysis and party research aswell as political communication and media research. Moreover, they know how to analyse the influence of public opinion to politics.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory modules 1 to 4.

Learning Outcome: Students understand the classic and modern concepts of political theory. They recognize meta-theoretical premises of political theory by scientific contextualization of key concepts. They can link historic and theoretical perspectives and are because of their dealing with theories on citizenship and human rights, social movements and publics, justice, peace and democracy, migration and globalization, political subjectiveness and power of action, injustice and representation as well as state and government able to work on and explain processes of political significance.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory module 1.

Learning Outcome: Students complete a practical internship with a total of 240 hours per week (in institutions like parliaments, governmental institutions or administrative bodies, international organizations, the media, etc.) in order to get insights into an area of practice of their choice, and they write a report about their internship. In the following seminar, these experiences are reflected in written and oral reports in the context of institutional frameworks of the corresponding internship, and the different fields of activity are discussed and compared. The Director of Studies has to give permission before starting the internship. Duration, scope and content of the activity performed are to be certified by the respective institution, where the internship is completed.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory modules 1 to 3.

Learning Outcome: Students advance their knowledge in political science by specialising in different areas of the field