Program Overview

University Program Information

The University of Hamburg offers a Master's program in Higher Education, which is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the field.

Program Overview

The program is offered by the Hamburg Center for Universitõres Teaching and Learning (HUL) and is aimed at students who wish to pursue a career in higher education. The program consists of several modules, including:

• Module: Didactics
• Module: Project
• Module: Teaching-learning research
• Module: Media education research
• Module: University research
• Module: Scientific Research
• Module: Master's thesis

Modules: Didactics

The Module: Didactics is a compulsory module in the Master Higher Education program. The module is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of didactics as a practice, science, and research field.

Module Characteristics

The module has the following characteristics:

• Workload: 5 credit points (4 SWS)
• Usability: Compulsory module in the Master Higher Education
• Frequency: every semester
• Duration: 1 semester
• Participation requirement: none

Qualification Goals

The qualification goals of the module are:

• Students reflect on their teaching and learning experiences, can explain them and relate them to their studies.
• Students know and understand selected theories, models, concepts and terms from university and media didactics and can organize and compare them.
• Students apply knowledge of theories, models, concepts and terms of university and media didactics to their own professional context, describe their results and share them discursively with others.
• Students know the most important sub-disciplines of university and media didactics as well as their current research fields and approaches.

Contents

The module covers the following topics:

• Didactics as practice: own teaching and learning experiences; self-reflection and explication of background knowledge; Current topics on teaching, learning and education as well as digitization and digitality at universities
• Didactics as a science: history of media and university didactics; Theories, models, concepts and terms in media and university didactics
• Didactics as a research field: University and media didactics at the intersection of teaching-learning research, university research, media education research and scientific research

Teaching and Learning Forms and Examination

The module consists of:

• an introductory week with several synchronous dates in which, in addition to the students, all teachers of the course take part,
• a blocked online event on university didactics (approx. 4 weeks) and
• a blocked online event on media didactics (approx. 4 weeks) with synchronous and asynchronous parts as well as different task types.
• The (ungraded) essay (coursework) must be completed by the end of the semester. The FSB regulates further details on the test; Current information will be provided at the start of the module.