Extensive and wide range of courses, tutorials for first-year students; Franco-German degree programmes; The courses provide an opportunity to interact with exchange students; Option to study abroad at partner universities, as part of the Erasmus programme, and around the world through direct exchanges.

Extensive and wide range of courses, research practice module (4 semester periods per week, individual research project)

Franco-German degree programmes; Exchange students here in the department and also direct exchange with many partner universities aside from the Erasmus programmes.

Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, Frankreich; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; University of British Columbia, Kanada; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexiko; Staatliche Universität Sankt Petersburg, Russland; Columbia University, USA; University of California, USA; University of Chicago, USA; Yale University (FOX Fellowship), USA; Princeton University, USA

Together with the university library, the faculty library offers access to one of the most extensive online media collections at German universities, including over 500 political and social science databases. Access is also possible for university members from home. The Citavi and Endnote literature management programmes are provided free of charge for students and teaching staff, as is MAXQDA, a software programmes for qualitative data and text analysis. In addition to the PC offered at the FU Central Library, the department has additional classrooms with statistics software.

Research Centre for Sustainability (FFN); Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS (Contestations of the Liberal Script); Participation in collaborative research centre 1171 "Affective Societies: Dynamics of Living Together in Moving Worlds", participation in INTERACT (Centre for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research).

The Diversity Working Group of the Department of Political and Social Sciences is part of the Diversity Network of the Free University of Berlin. As a decentralised AG, it develops measures for an organisational culture in the department that is open and inclusive. It understands diversity as a call to action, which means recognizing not just differences but also differences in social positioning within the department, and identifying and reducing exclusion mechanisms. All status groups and members of the institutes are represented in the AG.

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