Teaching basic and in-depth expertise in political science, sociology, empirical social research methods, statistics, statistics software; High value is placed on teaching skills for theory-based and problem-oriented empirical research, application-focused learning; In addition to lectures, numerous interactive seminars and exercises, with some seminars being thematic options within modules; Inclusion of a compulsory internship of at least six weeks, including reflection on the seminar and a practical social sciences module.

Deepening and focusing skills in theory-based and problem-oriented empirical research; Modules from the field of computational social science as well as qualitative and quantitative methods, research-based learning in particular in the compulsory project seminar (either in sociology or political science), combination of theory and empirical research in all modules; The ability to choose among modules allows students to have an individual focus; Practical approach through a compulsory internship of at least four weeks, including reflection in the seminar

The Institute of Social Sciences, together with Sciences Po Bordeaux, has been offering the German-French BA/MA degree course in social sciences for over 20 years, which is completed with a double master's degree from both universities. Students spend two to three of their five academic years in Bordeaux, the others in Stuttgart. The Institute of Social Sciences maintains various Erasmus+ cooperations with universities in northern, southern and eastern Europe. Most study achievements gained abroad are recognized.

Sciences Po Bordeaux, Frankreich; Sciences Po Lille, Frankreich; Università degli studi Firenze, Italien; University of Latvia, Riga, Lettland; NTNU, Trondheim, Norwegen; Uniwersytet Warszawski, Polen; Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Rumänien; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spanien

Computerised teaching (e.g. using R or MAXQDA) in CIP clusters or using students' own devices: Text analysis, data generation, data storage, data processing, big data analytics; Students can also use CIP clusters outside of courses; Online learning platform Ilias (for making learning materials available, communication, and working groups); Provision of various lecture recordings via Ilias

ERC Advanced Grant: Designing Democracy on Mars and Earth / DFG Projects on lobbying / evaluation of the implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Baden-Württemberg / Baden-Württemberg Youth Study 2024 / cluster of excellence Integrative Computer-Based Planning and Building for Architecture (IntCDC) / Discursive Transformation of Energy Systems (DiTEnS) / corpus-linguistic methods of text analysis / connection of computational Methods (e.g. machine learning) with established social science methods, projects, e.g. for measuring populism, on the question of how (and by whom) science is communicated in the media.

Sustainability is regularly the subject of various courses, which deal, for example, with climate protection and climate policy, sustainable environmental policy, the relationship between societies and nature, the transformation to sustainable cities and their social conditions or climate adaptation in energy and mobility infrastructures.

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