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CHE University Ranking

Sociology / Social Sciences, Department

Fachbereich 05: Gesellschaftswissenschaften

Universität Kassel

Fachbereich 05: Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Fachgruppe Soziologie
Nora-Platiel-Str. 5
D-34109 Kassel
https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni
Uni Kassel
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

840

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

80

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

13/16 points

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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Courses offered
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Introduction to scientific work
Offers for career orientation

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Practical orientation in teaching

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Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

21

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

Wide range of topics:; Highly career-oriented; Qualitative and quantitative methods are not taught separately, but comparatively in the orientation course; The introductory data evaluation event is tied to software application and blended learning; Sociological symposium, which is planned and organised throughout the year and together with the teaching staff, and on which students present the results of courses to the public

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Wide range of topics, very career-oriented, advanced methodological and theoretical training, in the module (international) research & practice the findings are tested in practice; sociological specialist day, which is planned and designed throughout the year and together with the teaching staff, and on which students present the results of courses to the public

Special features regarding the international orientation

UNI has an International Office and a Welcome Centre; The department staff is heavily involved at the INCHER – International Centre for Higher Education Research (2 of the 4 board members are from the Sociology department), at the International Centre for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), at the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Université Paris Nanterre, Paris, Frankreich; University of Valencia, Valencia, Spanien; School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, Frankreich; Bar-Ilan-Universität, Tel Aviv, Israel; University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Südafrika

Special features regarding the equipment

Computer pool with laptops, loan equipment

Special features regarding research activities

Strong university research through INCHER and joint professorship with DZHW (Hannover) strong, e.g. DFG research group on multiple competition in the university system; DFG research training group "Privacy and Trust for Mobile Users"; Accompanying research to the BMBF sponsorship programme "Transfer Spaces for the Future of Regions"; German Research Foundation (DFG) project "Animals as Companions"; Focus on sustainability/SDGs; Projects on protection concepts in child and youth work, on structural discrimination in legal and counselling practice; on "fair digital services"; "Democracy Development and AI" etc.

Other special features

The profile of the University of Kassel is characterised by a combination of topics from nature, technology, culture and society; Professor of Sociology of Diversity; The department and university are strongly involved in diversity and equality issues in research, practice, teaching; The university is certified in the programmes Shaping Diversity (Stifterverband) and Family and University, and has signed the Diversity Charter. The department is involved in the Interdisciplinary Working Group on Women and Gender Studies (IAG FG), and offers an interdisciplinary degree programme in Women and Gender Studies.

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Information on access restrictions

https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/studium/alle-studiengaenge/bachelor-studiengaenge

Website of the Student Council

online-application

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Last Update 2024: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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