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Prerequisites for registration: (1) The Minor "Classics" covering 30 ECTS-Credits may be selected by regular degree students of bachelor's programmes at the University of Innsbruck if the respective curriculum provides the possibility to pass a Minor. (2) The individual modules and courses of the Minor "Classics" may be studied, providing the availability of places. (3) Students of the Bachelor's Programme Classica et Orientalia may not pass the Minor "Classics".

Learning Outcome: Graduates of the Minor "Classics" have acquired a broad overview of the literature and culture of classical antiquity in its historical context. They have also gained an insight in either the philosophy or the art of antiquity. They are competent in dealing with significant texts, myths, ideas and events from antiquity and are aware of the reception processes through which these are present in the cultural memory of posterity up to the present day.

Learning Outcome: Graduates of the minor "Society and Politics" know the basic theories of political science and sociological theories, know about the influence of social and political structures and systems on human behaviour and social processes and are able to apply this knowledge to the solution of relevant problems from their field in science.

Learning Outcome: Graduates of the Minor "Communicative Skills for the Profession" can plan written and oral communication processes in a goal-oriented manner, carry them out appropriately and evaluate them critically as well as classify, analyse and assess writing products and rhetorical genres. They possess the competence to critically analyse oral and written communication, especially from professional practice and the media, with regard to the argumentative, stylistic and multimodal techniques observed in each case. They can assess the respective special characteristics and requirements of oral and written communication and take them into account appropriately in their own communication behaviour.

Learning Outcome: Graduates of the Minor "Comparative Literature: Literature - Culture - Media" have a first insight into the entire breadth of the subject of Comparative Literature (General and Comparative Literary Studies). They have - from the general point of view of the transgression of disciplinary, medial and linguistic-cultural boundaries in view of the international or globalised production, distribution, reception and communication of artistic and cultural phenomena - a knowledge of current positions in literary studies and are competent in dealing with texts of world literary significance, with literature and art in the areas of inter-/transculturality and intermediality as well as with theories of literature, culture and media.

Learning Outcome: Graduates are able to understand and apply basic theories and practices of management and organisation in the field of arts and culture, to combine and systematically reflect on theory and insights into organisational practices of organisations in the arts and culture sector, as well as to critically reflect and reappraise concrete organisational practices and to build up an intellectually critical as well as practically relevant repertoire in thinking and acting.

Learning Outcome: (1) Graduates of the minor "Media and Communication" know fundamental theories and methods of media and communication research. They are able to analyse and reflect on media and communication processes in individual, social and international environments. They are able of applying their knowledge to work on relevant problems in their area of science.
(2) Graduates of the minor "Media and Communication" are able
- to understand and apply theories and models in media and communication research, - to model, analyse and reflect on media and communication processes,
- to establish media references in the context of their own field of study,
- to classify technologically and ideologically abridged views of media and communications dynamics.

Prerequisites for registration: (1) The Minor "Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis" covering 30 ECTS-Credits may be selected by regular degree students of bachelor's programmes at the University of Innsbruck, if the respective curriculum provides the possibility to pass a Minor. (2) The individual modules and courses of the Minor "Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis" may be studied, provided the availability of places. (3) Students of the Bachelor's Programme German Philology may not select the Minor "Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis".

Learning Outcome: (1) Graduates of the Minor "Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis" are familiar with a broad spectrum of methods for the collection, processing and evaluation of language date (including methods of text analysis, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, especially variation linguistics, qualitative and quantitative methods, digital methods). They are able to apply different methods and tools for the analysis of language data, to assess the suitability of methods for specific questions and types of language data (spoken and written language data, multimedia/multimodal data, historical language data) and to use the acquired knowledge for questions from their own disciplines.
(2) Graduates of the Minor "Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis" are able to reflect on the specific (e.g. medial) characteristics of different types of linguistic data, to apply different methods and tools of linguistic data analysis to questions and problems in the profession and science, to critically deal with the social relevance of linguistic data and the methods of their analysis.

Learning Outcome: (1) Graduates of the minor "Methods in Empirical Social Research" know the characteristics of qualitative and quantitative social research, are aware of the special features of data collection and data evaluation and are capable of understanding basic social-scientific methods (such as questionnaires, interviews, analysis of content, discourse, text and network) and statistical procedures (hypothesis tests and regression analyses) and apply them to the solution of pertinent problems from their field of research.
(2) The graduates are able
- to develop social science research designs and implement them in the context of their own field of study,
- to select and apply methods in social science in the context of their own field of study
- to collect and evaluate data independently.

Prerequisites for registration: The Minor "Medieval Studies" covering 30 ECTS-Credits may be selected by regular degree students of bachelor's programmes at the University of Innsbruck if the respective curriculum provides the possibility to pass a Minor. The individual modules and courses of the Minor "Medieval Studies" may be studied, providing the availability of places.

Learning Outcome: Graduates of the Minor "Medieval Studies" know fundamental theories, methods and contents of medieval studies. They are able to grasp these from different perspectives, reflect on them and relate them to their own subject. Thanks to their thematic focus on this field, they also have an overview of medieval studies through the interdisciplinary breadth, the multi-perspective approach to different areas of medieval studies and the transdisciplinary way of thinking and working on medieval objects and questions.

Learning Outcome: (1) The minor "Sustainability" at the University of Innsbruck is aimed at students who wish to place specialist knowledge acquired in their studies in the context of ecologically, socially and economically sustainable development.
(2) The minor "Sustainability" is based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2015. The SDGs are understood as a global plan of action for people, planet and prosperity, whose explicit goal is to counteract inequalities and "leave no one behind". The diversity of the topics addressed and to be deal with, between which there are numerous tensions, is at the same time the strength and weakness of Agenda 2030. This variety is reflected in the minor.
(3) Graduates of the minor "Sustainability"
- have an understanding for systemically networked thinking,
- have the ability to handle multidimensional and complex decision situations, which have economic, ecological and social restrictions, to analyse them and name the conditions for participatory and fair decision-making,
- have developed an understanding of power structures that sustain the exploitation of human and non-human beings,
- have basic knowledge of the phenomenon of climate change,
- have knowledge of sustainable use of resources in different areas,
- understand how education systems contribute to maintaining or overcoming unsustainable structures,
- are aware of the challenges of sustainable development in a wide range of practical fields and have relevant knowledge in selected specialist areas that complement the field of their Bachelor's programme,
- have an advanced ability to think and act in a transdisciplinary way and have the ability to consider the sustainability perspective in different professional fields as well as to promote its implementation.

Prerequisites for registration: (1) The Minor "Eastern European" covering 30 ECTS-Credits may be selected by regular degree students of bachelor's programmes at the University of Innsbruck if the respective curriculum provides the possibility to pass a Minor. (2) The individual modules and courses of the Minor "Eastern European Studies" may be studied, providing the availability of places.

Learning Outcome: Graduates of the Minor "Eastern European Studies" have language skills in Russian or Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian or Polish at level A1/A2. They have an overview knowledge of the Slavic languages and cultures of Eastern, East-Central and South-Eastern Europe as well as specialised knowledge of the history, society, art or politics of this region.

Learning Outcome: Graduates of the Minor "Language - Space - Society" know the basic theories and methods of sociolinguistics, human geography, European ethnology, history or sociology. They understand language as a social phenomenon and can recognise, reflect and analyse processes of social transformation in the context of their socio-spatial anchoring. They know about the importance of social and regional spaces for the development of social relations and cultural conflicts. They are able to describe and critically question the mutual relationship between language, space and society on the basis of scientific methods and theories. They can relate the knowledge they have acquired to their own field of study and thus expand their ability to reflect on social processes.

Learning Outcome: Graduates of the Minor "Translation: Translating and Interpreting" know the differences and special features of the various forms, modes and settings of translation and have developed an awareness of the necessity of professional translation. They have gained a first insight into the activity of professional translation and interpreting as well as into translation studies.