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Political Science / Social Sciences, Department

Fakultät für Sozial- und Verhaltenswissenschaften

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Fakultät für Sozial- und Verhaltenswissenschaften
Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Carl-Zeiss-Straße 3
D-07737 Jena
Telephone: +49 3641 94-5430
https://www.uni-jena.de

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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

800

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

100

Teaching in core subjects

  • Germany: 13.8%
  • EU: 17.2%
  • International relations: 25%
  • Comparison of political systems: 9.5%
  • Methods/statistics: 8.6%
  • Theory/intellectual history: 16.4%
  • Other fields/didactics: 9.5%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

12/14 points

Research

Third party funds per academic

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Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

57

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

In addition to the repeated basic seminars, a constantly changing broad spectrum of seminar topics is offered. The forms of teaching include simulations (e.g. World Model United Nations, negotiations of Kosovo final status), excursions (above all Brussels, Strasbourg, Ukraine), teaching research seminars, lecture courses, international video conferences and combination of seminars with conference events. Each Semester, at least six English-speaking courses are offered. Assistant professors from the field of Politics regularly enhance the range of courses offered.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgien; Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Rennes, Frankreich; Université de Lille II, Frankreich; Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universite, Norwegen; Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej, Polen; Universität Banska Bystrica, Slowakei; Universidad Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spanien; Okan Universitesi Istanbul, Türkei; Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem, Ungarn; Universität Kiew, Ukraine

Special features regarding research activities

Peace and conflict research (especially secession, intervention, responsibility to protect); relations between international organisations; United Nations; EU (enlargement and institutional order); globalisation and global governance; theories of international relations; democratic theory/democracy research; political theory and history of ideas since the 17th century; law and politics; philosophy of science; politics and political system FRG and USA; party research; comparative federalism research; internet and democracy; qualitative teaching research.

Other special features

2014 university teaching award for Prof. Fröhlich and in 2019 Dr. Morgan was nominated; institute sponsorship association with organisation of events and alumni work; annual day of Political Science with a conference and table of events as well as the honouring of the cohort's best grades and final theses; currently, the module catalogue in the Bachelor's degree core subject is being revised for reasons of improvement and to strengthen the learning of methodology

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