Starting in the fourth semester, BA students can choose from among 40-50 specialisation seminars per study semester (max. 20 participants). This ensures that students are able to develop their profiles during their bachelor's degree studies. A large number of seminars are offered in English. The BA programme includes numerous research seminars. In addition to the seminars, there is also a comprehensive range of courses and counselling services in connection with methodology. Guest lecturers from international partner universities. Continuing education and improvement of teaching through guided roundtables with lecturers and a "Day of Teaching".

Courses in the MA programme are taught almost exclusively in English. There is an extensive range of courses on offer. The examination regulations provide a great deal of flexibility in terms of profile development. In addition to a comprehensive range of seminars, students can also complete courses at a partner university. The principle of "teaching based on research" is bolstered through very close cooperation with the cluster "The Politics of Inequality". In addition to teaching, many students work as research assistants on (cluster) research projects.

BA programme: Obligatory international mobility: External work placement or study exchange: Quasi mobility window with simple recognition of credits, over 90 Erasmus partner universities. Increasing proportion of courses taught in English during the course of the study programme. The full-time Master's degree programme: Internationality as a trademark: High proportion of teaching in English, very international student group, high proportion of students (approx. 80%) spend one or two semesters abroad (8 double degree partners, 40 Erasmus partners). Exchange at the doctoral level with renowned North American universities.

Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Prag), Tschechien; Universtitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), Spanien; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA; Institut d'Études Politiques de Grenoble, Frankreich; Institut d'Études Politiques de Bordeaux, Frankreich; University of Antwerpen, Belgien; Göteborg University, Schweden; University of Warwick, Großbritannien; Stockholm University, Schweden; Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spanien; Queen's University Belfast, Nord-Irland

The department's students have access to 479 free and licensed subject-specific databases. The university library licenses 7 subject-specific databases specifically for the department. Including Political Science Database, Oxford Scholarship Online, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. Online work placement exchange with internship offers that are only available to students of the department, digital work placement report archive, the department's own CIP (computer investment programme) cluster and numerous computer workstations, which are available to the department through the library.

The department is closely integrated with the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality", both in research and in teaching. Numerous members of the department are involved through projects and fellowships at central locations and research projects of the Cluster of Excellence. Examples: Political elites and inequality: Information, Heuristics and Policy, "Ethnic Policies" – Remedy for Between-Group Inequalities?, Integration at Work. The department is very successful in attracting third-party funding.

Diversity: Regular courses with diversity-related topics, such as: "Female Leadership". Teaching day on the topic of "Diversity" for winter semester 22/23, transparent course descriptions in the course catalogue, information on accessibility, contact persons for special needs, students with children as well as special family obligations, and a transparent application process for compensation for disadvantages. Sustainability: A comprehensive university-wide range of courses bundled in the course catalogue, including a sustainability certificate. Establishment of the Sustainability Office and the student Green Office

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