(Chair of Business Education, Faculty 03 – Law and Economics)
Social Studies can be chosen as a major subject as part of the B. Sc. in Business Education. The relevant provisions and subject-specific appendices of the regulations for the examination in the subject of Social Studies of the teaching-related Bachelor’s degree program (Bachelor of Education, B. Ed.) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz dated July 9, 2010, apply to the study and examinations in the modules of the major subject Social Studies in the B. Sc. in Business Education.

Detailed information on the B.Ed. Social Studies can be found under the following link:

(Chair of Business Education, Faculty 03 – Law and Economics)
Study module for social studies/politics analogous to a non-artistic minor subject in the M. Ed. teaching degree at secondary schools: “Politics and the mediation of politics” (15 CP), consisting of:

• Lecture on Subject Didactics
• Seminar FRG
• Seminar Subject Didactics
• Module Examination: The module examination takes the form of an oral examination (15 minutes) and is linked to the didactics lecture.

Please note the regulation in the state ordinance according to which the Master’s thesis in the M.Ed. must be written in a different subject to the Bachelor’s thesis. This means: If you have written your Bachelor’s thesis in Economics, you must write your Master’s thesis in Social Studies in the M.Ed. program, which is not recommended due to the fact that you only complete one module with a total of 15 CP in Social Studies. If you have written your Bachelor’s thesis in Business Education, you must write your Master’s thesis in Economics in the M.Ed. program (PO §15 para. 2).

If you are nevertheless writing your Master’s thesis in your major subject – e.g. social studies – you must complete a further seminar in your second subject as an alternative to the business education Master’s seminar “Current topics in empirical vocational training research”. Ideally, the seminar will prepare you for your Master’s thesis. In the M.Ed. seminar, you then have to submit a written paper (exposé) and an oral examination in the form of a presentation with subsequent examination questions.

Technical note if you are writing your Master’s thesis in Social Studies: You cannot register for the additional M.Ed. seminar in Social Studies yourself via JOGU-StINe. You must therefore contact a lecturer at the Department of Political Science in good time and ask whether you can attend an M.Ed. seminar with them and then write your Master’s thesis. If the lecturer agrees, you must then inform the Political Science Office of Student Affairs as early as possible during the first course registration phase so that the technical implementation in JOGU-StINe can be initiated in good time.

In the M.Sc. degree program in Business Education, the social studies major corresponds to the social studies major of the M.Ed. degree program with social studies as a first or second subject.

Detailed information on the M.Ed. in Social Studies can be found under the following link: