Courses



Elective Modules (50 ECTS-Credits)
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Elective Module 1: Social and Inclusive Education (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are able to explain the history and theory of social inequality; they are able to argue in a theory-based manner how exclusion and inclusion processes develop. They assess how self-determination, participation and inclusion are made possible.
Elective Module 2: Body Relations in Education and Culture (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are able to explain the historicity of body and experience and to deduct and assess the relevant parameters of changing body images and practices. They acquire critical-reflective knowledge for evaluating the use of current body policies in the contexts of education. The contribution of human sciences (medicine, psychiatry, special/curative/home education) and their institutions to the normality pressure is historically determined and estimated for the present
Elective Module 3: Unconscious Processes in Education and Culture (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are able to apply psychoanalytic theories, practices and methods on questions in educational sciences. They know and reflect on the influence of unconscious determinants on education and culture. Moreover, they develop forms of action and intervention targeted towards problem solution.
Elective Module 4: Migration and Education (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: The students apply the acquired differentiated specialised knowledge about migration and education and compare historical and current normative claims of migration education. They develop a critical-reflexive knowledge of migration relations in the globalised world and acquire the competence to assess conditions, forms and consequences of subjectification processes in the (post)migration society and to apply them to educational contexts.
Elective Module 4.2: Methods: Migration and Education (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of Elective Module 4
Learning Outcome: Students deal with concepts and methods of research in migration, diversity and difference and are able to locate research results. Inquisitive learning enables the students to get a critical-reflective attitude towards their knowledge and practice and to evaluate difference and power relations. Migration-related issues are assessed in terms of their significance for everyday life and applied within the framework of empirical research projects.
Elective Module 5: Intergenerational Relations and Learning in the Life Course (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: The students deal with the theoretical concepts and empirical findings on the relations of generations and education as well as the individual and society from a life-span perspective. They develop an awareness for the historic, institutional and social conditionality of individual education curricula. They can identify specific processes in learning contexts such as family, nursery, kindergarten and school and reflect on and assess the emergence of social inequality.
Elective Module 6: Conflict, Trauma and Violence in Education (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are able to identify and compare theoretical approaches to conflict, violence and trauma. They are able to apply central terms and concepts scientifically and to reflect on their relevance.
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For Individual Specialisation modules corresponding to a maximum of 20 ECTS-Credits can be freely chosen from the Master¿s Programmes offered at the University of Innsbruck acc. to § 54, par. 1 of the Universities Act or from a Minor (Supplementary Subject Area) for master programmes. Recommend is for example the passing of modules from the School Teacher Training Master¿s Programme (Secondary Schools), Specialisation: Media Education or the interfaculty Master¿s Programme ¿Gender, Culture and Social Change¿. Minors are fixed modules from other disciplines covering a total of 30 ECTS-Credits. They are announced in the University of Innsbruck bulletin.
Elective Module 7: Individual Choice of Specialisation (20 ECTS-Credits)

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).