From arguments on climate modification and social tensions to full-blown wars– different conflicts are having an impact on the political landscape both in Germany and worldwide. “To allow trainees to take a look at these complicated interconnections clinically and analyze political procedures from a multidimensional approach, we have united four sub-disciplines in one degree program,” states Teacher Christoph Schuck from the Institute of Approach and Political Science.
Together with the theoretical and methodological concepts of Comparative Politics, International Politics and Political Theory, trainees also end up being familiarized with the solution-oriented elements of Dispute Researches. To date, the sub-discipline has only been offered at a few German universities as a small subject or an expertise within a Master’s degree program. In Dortmund, it is an integral element of a Bachelor’s degree program for the first time. Teacher Matthias Kortmann, co-director of the brand-new degree program together with Schuck, adds: “Building on this multidisciplinary basis, students learn to determine and evaluate disputes as well as day-to-day and worldwide politics with the help of quantitative and qualitative approaches.”
International career prospects
To contextualize the factors influencing dispute, the six-semester program likewise includes perspectives from expert practice and from other academic fields, such as the liberal arts and faith. “In this way, trainees acquire a practice-based understanding of how politics is formed and looked into,” says Kortmann.
Targeted at potential students from both Germany and abroad, Political Dispute Studies is the first Bachelor’s degree program at TU Dortmund University taught entirely in English. It is flanked by networking opportunities for trainees at numerous phases of their studies as well as language courses that make it possible for students to enhance either their German or their foreign language abilities. Schuck states: “This global focus prepares students in the best possible way for a Master’s degree or for transitioning to a career, for example in political consulting, public relations, or political education.”
Program start in the forthcoming winter season term
Admission to the brand-new Bachelor’s degree program remains in the winter term each year. Potential students with a college entryway certification obtained in Germany can enlist through the Campusportal up till 9 October. International candidates who are residents of or have actually obtained a higher education entryway certification in an EU/EEA member state need to submit their files to the International Workplace, likewise by 9 October. The application due date for potential students who are non-EU nationals and hold a higher education entryway certification from a non-EU country was 15 May. For the program starting in the 2027/2028 winter semester, these applications might be sent again from spring onward via uni-assist, the service point for international trainee applications.
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