Program Overview

Program Overview

The Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences offers a Bachelor's degree program in Political Science, which primarily focuses on the organisation and functioning of political institutions, the agencies and processes operating between state and society, the complexion of governance as a function of state policy, and international relations.

Facts and Formalities

• Degree: Bachelor of Arts
• Type of program: Undergraduate
• Start of program: Winter semester only
• Standard period of study: 6 semesters
• Language(s) of instruction: German and English
• Fees and contributions: 161.10 € / Semester
• Application procedure: Subjects with local admission restriction
• Application deadlines: Information about deadlines can be obtained after you have put together a degree program.
• Teaching degree option: Yes

Course Content

Political science is the study of the organisation and functioning of political institutions, the agencies and processes operating between state and society, the complexion of governance as a function of state policy, and international relations. To this extent, Political Science is the designation for scholarly analysis of the “striving for a share of power or for influence on the distribution of power” (Max Weber) and the binding settlement of societal conflicts over desired values and goods in domestic policy, foreign policy, and international relations.

Course Structure

The Bachelor’s degree program consists of a variety of modules, typically made up of two courses and their associated examinations, for which students normally earn ten credits. The B.A. degree program as a major (B.A. 75% and B.A. 50%) is divided into two sections. In the first three to four semesters, students in the B.A. 50% program will complete modules POL_P1 and POL_P7, as well as three of the remaining five modules, which may be individually selected:

• POL_P1: Introduction to Political Science
• POL_P2: Fundamentals of Political Theory
• POL_P3: Fundamentals of the Political Systems in Germany and the EU
• POL_P4: Fundamentals of International Relations
• POL_P5: Fundamentals of the Comparative Analysis of Political Systems
• POL_P6: Fundamentals of Policy Research
• POL_P7: Empirical Methods 1 (Economics and Social Statistics)

In the second part of the program, students will build upon the fundamental knowledge acquired in the courses already taken and will determine their own individual areas of specialisation, with a broad, and generally free, selection of advanced courses from the elective modules.

Additional Degrees

• Bachelor 25%
• Bachelor 75%
• Master, consecutive
• Master of Education (M.Ed.)