Here you will deepen your knowledge of the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany, its central institutions, processes and political actors.

You will also expand your knowledge of subject didactics. To this end, there is a lecture on subject didactics designed exclusively for the M.Ed. in Social Studies as well as a range of subject-specific didactically oriented seminars.

Here you can find out more about specific topics from other areas of political science that are of particular interest to you as future teachers, such as the relationship between politics, society and the economy or the political system of the EU.

Here, problems are dealt with that raise cross-cutting issues in sub-areas of political science (domestic politics, analysis and comparison of political systems, international relations, political theory, economics and society, subject didactics) or that affect neighboring disciplines.

You can choose this seminar from the regular range of seminars offered by the Department of Political Science. English-language seminars are offered regularly. The seminar can also be credited to your regular degree program as part of another module. If you write a term paper in English for this seminar as a module examination in your degree course, this can also be credited as a module examination as part of the additional bilingual training. The coursework must be completed in an English-language seminar. (An oral examination in English following an English-language political science lecture can also be credited as a BiLi module examination). Coursework and examinations from the Department of English and Linguistics at JGU, e.g. on regional studies, cannot be credited. Coursework and examinations from political science departments at other universities that have been recognized for your regular studies can also be credited for the BiLi module. If you have not completed or do not wish to complete a political science module examination in English as part of your degree course, you must also complete a graded examination in English to a lesser extent for the additional bilingual course, which you must discuss with the respective lecturer. This can be an essay, a graded presentation or a short oral examination, for example.

Since the winter semester 2014/2015, a bilingual subject didactics course for social studies has been offered every semester; registration is possible via Jogustine (under Courses in Political Science – Bilingual Additional Training). The courses must be taken during the course of study. After graduation, they can only be attended as part of a second degree course for which a fee is charged, but alternatively there are also courses offered at the study seminars and, for teachers who already teach at school, at teacher training institutes.

As part of the two subject-specific didactic seminars on bilingual teaching in social studies, subject didactics and methodological skills for designing bilingual lessons are developed. Participants develop their own bilingual lesson plans and implement these in the form of a lesson at a school. The module examination consists of one such lesson design.

We recommend that you only attend the seminars on bilingual political education after attending the courses in Module 5 of the B.Ed., as you will learn the basics of lesson planning that you will need for the seminar on bilingual subject didactics. You should have completed at least the lecture Subject Didactics I and the seminar Subject Didactics II.

The course is taught on an internally differentiated basis each semester, so that you are free to choose the two semesters in which you attend the two didactic seminars.

The seminar consists of four blocks, the first three of which take place on a Saturday in the semester, the fourth by arrangement at a school.

1. Theory (only compulsory if attending a political didactics BiLi seminar for the first time),
2. Lesson planning in the seminar,
3. Presentation and simulation of the planning in the seminar,
4. Implementation of the planning at a school (only compulsory for the second attendance of a political didactics BiLi seminar).

Registration for the module examinations in the two didactics seminars is not done via Jogustine, but with the lecturer of the seminar.

No, the degree program is currently not subject to admission restrictions.

No, this is generally not possible, as in the B.Ed. you have to study two subjects of equal status with a didactic component and educational sciences and complete school internships, but not in the B.A..

• to the M.A. Empirical Democracy Research? Yes, provided you have earned 6 CP in the B.Ed. by participating in courses and successfully passing the module examination in “Statistics and Methods”. However, you must then also pass the “Statistics II” exam in the first two Master’s semesters, for which it is advisable to attend the corresponding lecture in the winter semester.

• to the M.A. Political Economy and International Relations? Yes, if you have earned 6 CP in the B.Ed. by participating in courses and successfully passing the module examination in “Statistics and Methods”. .

With the M.Ed. you will also obtain the 1st state examination for the teaching profession at grammar schools, i.e. you will acquire a necessary prerequisite for starting a traineeship as a social studies teacher in another federal state in which the teacher training course ends with the degree “Staatsexamen” and not “M.Ed.”. is completed. It is advisable to have the degree additionally recognized by the office of the State Examination Office in Koblenz.

If you have a Bachelor’s degree from Johannes Gutenberg University or another German university, it is possible to be enrolled on a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree course at the same time for one semester. This regulation is intended to enable students to start their Master’s degree course even though they have not yet completed all of their Bachelor’s coursework and therefore do not yet have their Bachelor’s certificate. However, it is not intended that you will then complete substantial work in the Bachelor’s program during the first Master’s semester. This is because the Master’s degree program is a full degree program. This means that you will need sufficient time to fulfill all Master’s requirements. There will therefore hardly be any time to write your Bachelor’s thesis “on the fly”.

Please also note that you must submit your Bachelor’s certificate to the Registrar’s Office by the end of the first semester of the Master’s degree program without being asked to do so. Otherwise your admission to the Master’s degree program will expire.

Applicants from abroad must have a Bachelor’s degree certificate (or proof of an equivalent first university degree) at the time of application.

If you are enrolled in both the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs in your first Master’s semester, you must submit your Bachelor’s certificate to the Registrar’s Office at Johannes Gutenberg University by the end of your first semester, i.e. by 31 March (if you start in the winter semester) or 30 September (if you start in the summer semester) at the latest. If you do not do this, you will be de-registered. You will then have to reapply for a place on the Master’s degree program.

Please note: As a rule, it is not sufficient to apply for the certificate to be issued; the certificate should be physically available. Caution: There may be several weeks between the application and the issuing of the certificate by the University Examination Office!

The three modules in the M.Ed. “Social Studies” must be completed with a total of two assignments and an oral examination. It is up to you which modules you complete with an assignment and which with an oral examination. However, the oral examination can only be taken after a lecture, whereas the term papers can only be written after a seminar.

You must then submit a medical certificate to the Student Office (contact person Ms. Dagmar McCaslin) in order to obtain an extension of the deadline. You can download the form in the Download Center.

One of the three modules in the M.Ed. “Social Studies” must be completed with an oral examination. The oral examination relates to the content of the lecture in this module and should generally be taken directly after the lecture with the lecturer who gave the lecture. In justified exceptions, however, it is possible – after consultation with the lecturer – to take an oral examination at a later date. Please note that only the subject matter of the current lecture or last year’s lecture can be examined (not the content of an earlier lecture). You must register for the oral module examination in good time via Jogustine and also arrange an examination date with the examiner.

Please note: The oral examinations are not taken after the seminars. Here you write term papers as final module examinations.

To answer this question, just take a look at the annotated course catalog in JOGU-StINe: For all courses, not just the lectures, it is indicated for which module they are designated.

This is probably because you did not pay attention to the module structure when you registered: Let’s assume that a module consists of a lecture and two seminars. They form the three “module components” of this module (lecture, seminar 1 and seminar 2 = module). Although you can register for more than one course per module component, you will only ever be admitted to one course per module component! This means that if you specify several seminars when registering for module component 1 in module x, you will only be admitted to one of these seminars, regardless of the fact that there are still places available in the other seminars. If you would like to attend additional seminars within a module component, you can do so in the following semester, provided that the module has not already been successfully completed by then by attending courses in all 3 module components and passing the examination.

No. According to the module description, at least two sub-areas of political science should be covered by the three courses in this module. You can choose from the sub-areas ACPS, IR, Economy and Society and Political Theory.

“The prerequisite for enrolment is that the student has completed the fourth semester in at least one subject of the teaching-related Bachelor’s degree program or has successfully passed the Bachelor’s examination. Enrolment ends no later than four semesters after successfully passing the last examination in the teaching-related Master’s degree program. If enrolment takes place after successfully completing a Master’s degree course, it is limited to four semesters” (Center for Teacher Education).

You must attend the modules “Fundamentals of Political Science and its neighboring disciplines” and “Subject Didactics” from the B.Ed. in Social Studies and successfully complete each with a written examination.

You must also attend two further modules from the B.Ed. “Social Studies”, namely the module “Democracy and Society in Germany” and either “Analysis and Comparison of Political Systems” or “Political Theory”, and successfully complete each with a term paper.

Furthermore, you must attend the modules “Politics and Policy Mediation” and “Cross-sectional Problems in the Political Context” from the M.Ed. “Social Studies” and successfully complete each with a term paper.

No. This module is about politics AND the teaching of politics, i.e. acquiring knowledge of the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany on the one hand and subject didactics on the other. Two courses in Module 10 are dedicated to didactics: the lecture and one of the two seminars.