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The Institute of Political Science offers Bachelor's and Master's degree programs as well as relevant teacher training programs. With the sub-subjects "Political Theory and History of Ideas", "Political Systems and System Comparison", "International Politics" and "Methods of Empirical Social Research", students receive a fully-fledged and well-structured political science education here. The subject "Didactics of Political Education" rounds off the Institute's offer for teacher training students. Further information on the degree programs...

The training in all these sub-areas guarantees a broad and systematic knowledge of political science and political didactics and enables students to master diverse and complex tasks in a goal-oriented manner after a short familiarization period and to present the solutions found convincingly. The guiding principles for students...

The History of Political Theory and the History of Ideas examines the history of political thought - from Plato and Aristotle to Kant, Marx and modern political science theories. The sub-subject Political Systems and System Comparison focuses on specific political systems, the states of this world, their institutions, their history and their societies - and in particular, of course, the Federal Republic of Germany. The subject of International Relations focuses on the relationships between states, societies and economies, the institutions of the international system and international regimes. Methods of empirical social research
are those instruments with which information about the nature of political reality is first collected (document analysis, survey, observation, experiment, simulation) and then evaluated (hermeneutics, statistics, Ragin approach). In the subject Didactics of Political Education, student teachers also deal with the question of how politics should be communicated socially and structured in learning processes. Click here for the courses offered by the Institute...