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Sports Sciences, Department

Fachbereich 06: Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Fachbereich 06: Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft
Institut für Sportwissenschaft
Kugelberg 62
D-35394 Gießen
Telephone: +49 641 99-25200
https://www.uni-giessen.de

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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

1,560

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

170

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

5.0%

Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

10.0%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

9/14 points

Research

Publications per professor

28.6

Third party funds per academic

20,500 €

Doctorates per professor

0.3

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

50

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

A wide range of teaching and learning forms are used in all degree courses: For imparting basic knowledge a combination of lecture/seminar. Seminar parts are deepened by lecture contents (e.g. by simulation tasks, practical exercises). Conducting exercises/teaching/learning situations). Likewise, project/problem-based forms of teaching/learning; blended/e-learning are used. Cooperations with rehabilitation clinics make it possible in the M.Sc. KSS practical-oriented seminars with patient contact in clinic premises with participation of clinic staff.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Universität Wien, Österreich; FHNW Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Schweiz; University of Belgrade, Serbien; Universidad de Málaga, Spanien

Special features regarding the equipment

The institute has its own swimming pool, a games, sports and gymnastics hall and extensive outdoor facilities (track and field athletics, beach and tennis facilities, artificial pitch). All sports facilities are located in the immediate vicinity of the classrooms in our own connected campus. In the multi-functional building there is a motor laboratory and a power room, in the main building there is a campus lecture hall and a PC room with 25 workstations. Furthermore, there is a performance physiology laboratory and a biomedical laboratory unit with molecular analysis and cell culture.

Sport facilities

The Justus Liebig University is a partner university of the ADH (Allgemeiner Deutscher Hochschulsportverband).

Special features regarding research activities

Research topics cover the spectrum from competitive sports to school/teaching-related and health-related topics, using a variety of research methods that are tested in the course of training. One focus is the cognitive, bio- and neuroscientific orientation with a natural science experimental research approach. Significant involvement in two major projects with psychology. Research projects in cooperation with associations (e.g. DLV), institutions (e.g. Olympiastützpunkt Westfalen) and clinics (e.g. UKGM).

Support for founders

The MSc Clinical Sports Physiology and Sports Therapy, the module "Entrepreneurship" teaches, among other things, the basics and processes of setting up a business, the structure and content of business plans.

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Last Update 2021: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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