The faculty's BA programmes provide students with a broad range of subjects and offer extensive elective and specialisation opportunities in later semesters, while also providing very practical elements (for example, the BA in social sciences includes extensive coverage of methods).

Some of the MA courses are single-subject specialisation courses that are specifically intended to improve research skills in the subject area. There are also more general, transdisciplinary degree courses (e.g. political science, sociology) that attract a broad range of students from the social sciences (including anthropology, ethnology, social work, etc.).

The department maintains its own international office, which supports students and researchers/lecturers in carrying out international study, teaching and research stays, and also acts as a point of contact for incoming students. Numerous lecturers participate in JLU's Virtual International Programme, in which mostly English-language courses are made available to the students of all partner universities of the JLU in digital or hybrid format. In addition, there are several country-specific international tandem teaching projects, some of which are funded by the DAAD.

Macquarie University, Australien; Universidad de Antioquia, Kolumbien; Sichuan University, VR China; National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine; National-Dong-Hwa-University, Taiwan; Loughborough University, Vereinigtes Königreich; Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgien; North-West University, Südafrika; Panteion Panepistimio Kinonikon Kai Politikon Epistimon, Griechenland; Univerzita Hradec Králové, Tschechien

Overall, the technical equipment is state-of-the-art. All seminar rooms and lecture halls are equipped with multimedia technology and digital connectivity.

Faculty 03 is involved in interdisciplinary research projects that go beyond JLU, such as the "Migration and Human Rights" research group and the "Dynamics of Security" collaborative research centre (CRC). There are numerous ministerial, DFG and EU-funded projects (partly beyond the Giessen site) in the field of social and educational sciences.

The department is currently focusing on sustainability in the form of an international network project funded by the DAAD ("SDG Plus") as well as a professorship for social science sustainability research, which is currently occupied. The topic of diversity is promoted in research and teaching in a variety of ways, for example through research and teaching on inclusion/ableism, gender studies and racism.

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