Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften

Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie

FU Berlin

Habelschwerdter Allee 45
14195 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 838-54404 /-52889

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Basic information

Teaching staff in core subjects

Teaching staff at the department	31
Total number of students	680 *
Number of master degree students	200

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

8/14 points

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees	62.5 %
Graduations in appropriate time master's	45.4 %

International orientation

International orientation	3/9 points
International orientation master's	4/9 Points
Outgoing students	3.0 %

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support	2.3
Support in studies	2.5
Courses offered	2.5
Study organisation	2.7
Exams	2.4
Research orientation	2.5
Job market preparation	3.4
Support for stays abroad	2.5
Rooms	2.3
Library	1.7
IT-infrastructure	2.1
Overall study situation	2.5

Degree courses with details

Teacher qualification

Teacher qualification students	1,220
Teacher qualification programmes	teacher qualification (B.Ed./M.Ed.)
Teacher qualification centre	Link
Teacher Qualification Monitor (in German)	Link

Degree courses without details

Further degree courses of the department

yes, please see department website

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About the subject

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
A wide range of courses with numerous Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes and a variety of possible combinations; Full integration of key research areas into teaching (interdisciplinary, e.g. history of ideas, literary studies and art theory); Full participation in the introductory and orientation course EinS@FU to support students in their choice of subject; Promotion and support of student initiatives and projects in all teaching and learning processes. Subject-specific services for career entry preparation.
Further information about study entry phase
http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we04/institut/studienberatung/index.html
Special features regarding the international orientation
Strategic partnerships of the FU (e.g. Jerusalem, Berkeley, Vancouver) particularly relevant for department; Strengthening of international research partnerships and use of synergies with complementary partner universities; Joint promotion of young academics, especially through cooperation in the training of PhD students and based on the career path model of the FU Berlin; Cooperation promotion in teaching, such as for the design and implementation of joint degree courses.
Common partner universities for exchange
University of Cambridge, Vereinigtes Königreich; University of Warwick, Vereinigtes Königreich; University College London, Vereinigtes Königreich; Universiteit van Amsterdam, Niederlande; Université de la Réunion, Frankreich; Université de la Sorbonne (Paris 4), Frankreich; Universität Wien, Österreich; Uniwersytet Im. Adama Mickiewicza (Posen), Polen; Aarhus Univversitet (Dänemark)
Special features regarding the equipment
Library system with approx. 8 million printed media items, thereof approx. 750,000 in the Philological Library, 70,000 e-journals and 500,000 e-books; Theatre studies library with approx. 70.000 titles; Theatre history collections of the Institute of Theatre Studies (http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we07/institut/sammlungen/index.html)
Special features regarding research activities
Numerous interdisciplinary collaborative projects in which philosophy, the humanities, history, and cultural sciences conduct joint research from historical and systematic perspectives, e.g. in the Temporal Communities - Doing Literature in a Global Persp
Website with further information on research activities
http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/forschung/index.html
Other special features
Academics and institutions of the department and the FU Berlin are integrated into a large network of nationally and internationally renowned academics as well as artists and creative professionals, which offers students throughout Germany unique opportunities to get to know the relevant people in everyday university life, e.g. in lectures organised by the Dahlem Humanities Center, workshops (including with authors and artists) or lecture series in the "Open Lecture Hall", and to establish contacts.