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Learning Outcome: Students are able to explain and describe main political processes, institutions, structures and political fields and corresponding issues. They identify and critically reflect integral parts of scientific work, research literature and discuss the state of research and formulate research issues and arguments.

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Learning Outcome: Students acquire the ability to deal with current empirical studies and to apply the first steps of a research process (formulation of a research issue, data collection, method reflection) autonomously in terms of quality and/or quantity or method.

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Learning Outcome: Students are able to comprehend the logic of common statistical procedures and approaches in empirical research in the social sciences and understand their application in the context of empirical research. They are able to critically receive statistical statements and independently carry out simple data analyses.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory module 1

Learning Outcome: Students acquire the ability to explain and describe the process of European integration and how the European Union works. They are able to analyse and independently answer the questions concerning the institutions, decision-making processes and policy fields in the political system of the EU and its member states.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory module 1

Learning Outcome: Students know the functions and structures or relevant institutions and processes of the political system and selected policy fields. Moreover, they illustrate the most important aspects of political history of the First and Second Republic.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory module 1

Learning Outcome: Students acquire the ability to name different analytical approaches of political science comparison and to present and explain selected concepts of comparative government. Moreover, they are able to analyse and evaluate institutional structures and the functionality of the different structures of democratic governmental systems.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory module 1

Learning Outcome: Students understand the principles and connections of international relations and national foreign policy, and they are able to analyse them under supervision. Students know the basic elements of classical international law and are able to reproduce them. Moreover, they acquire the ability to present the main historical developments in the state system of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of compulsory module 1.

Learning Outcome: Students acquire the ability to demonstrate and explain the behaviour of voters, political parties and the media in democracies theory-driven and with empirical findings. They know how to explain the function of political communication and the logics of media-centred democracy

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 as well 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 basic theoretical presuppositions of political theory and can contextualise key political concepts. They link historical and theoretical perspectives with current political questions and topics and are able to work on questions about them as well as explain processes of assigning political meaning.

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

Learning Outcome: Students are able to independently develop and implement a research design to answer a scientific question. The research design includes both data collection and data analysis. Students learn to apply valid and replicable research.

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

Learning Outcome: The students know the central concepts and topics of gender studies in political science. They have a multidimensional understanding of the connection between gender and politics and the importance of gender for the analysis of political processes. They are thus able to conduct empirical analyses of political processes and policy fields from a gender perspective.