Political Science,
Department
Hochschule für Politik München (HfP) an der TUM at the TU München
- Richard-Wagner-Straße 1
- 80333 München
- Phone: +49 89 907793-040




Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses
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Further information provided by the department
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Special features regarding teachingPartnerships with renowned universities around the world and student & staff exchange (research- & non-research) via the TUM’s own exchange programme "TUMExchange", department’s own Erasmus & inter-departmental exchange partnerships; More than half of newly appointed professors do not have German citizenship or have extensive international experience; All have excellent links with the international research community; Institutional membership in ECPR, APSA & ISA; Mobility fund for PhD candidates; Series of courses with international lecturers; Internship exchange with international partners/companies
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Special features regarding the international orientationPartnerships with renowned universities around the world and student & staff exchange (research- & non-research) via the TUM’s own exchange programme "TUMExchange", department’s own Erasmus & inter-departmental exchange partnerships; More than half of newly appointed professors do not have German citizenship or have extensive international experience; All have excellent links with the international research community; Institutional membership in ECPR, APSA & ISA; Mobility fund for PhD candidates; Series of courses with international lecturers; Internship exchange with international partners/companies
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Exchange universities for stay abroadsGeorgia Institute of Technology, USA; Sciences Po Paris, Frankreich; PUC-Rio, Brasilien; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA; Tsinghua University, China; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; University of Geneva, Schweiz; University of Oslo, Norwegen; University of New South Wales, Australien
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Support for foundersPossibility to attend and gain credits for seminars, workshops, lectures and courses for skills building (e.g. in the areas of market evaluation, entrepreneurial thinking and approach, technology evaluation, business model and business plan development) in the interdisciplinary part of degree programmes; it is possible to take leave from a degree programme to start a business; series of events including discussions with practitioners; access to the extensive advisory and support services of the TUM (https://www.tum.de/wirtschaft/entrepreneurship/gruendungsberatung/)
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Characteristics of assistance to differently abled personsImplementation of the TUM Diversity Code of Conduct: https://www.chancengleichheit.tum.de/inklusion/tum-diversity-code-of-conduct/) auf Fak.ebene; individual guidance and support; monitoring/early warning systems for suboptimal progression; high degree of flexibility possible for individually organising studies, especially with part-time study model and possibility of changing between study formats according to personal circumstances; involvement of a disability officer (->institutionalisation) in the application process; implementing accessible infrastructure
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Characteristics of diversity advancementEnforcement of the Bavarian Gender Equality Act: monitoring of gender and diversity equality in personnel development, recruitment and application processes; intensifying Gender in research and teaching (professorship for Gender Studies in Engineering in the corresponding faculty); support with combining family and professional commitments, e.g part-time programmes and corresponding working time models; institutionalisation: Election of a (professorial) women’s officer and her (professorial) representative during the constitutional faculty meeting of 25.10.17; internationalisation through the 100% English-speaking Master’s programme
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Other special featuresContent and structural reorientation of the university including creation of a corresponding faculty at the interface of politics/society/technology/business; Innovative, and nationally and internationally unique, new approach in the definition of political science; The courses of study and the research of the HfP are future-oriented, transdisciplinary and application-related; Close cooperation with the faculties of the Technical University of Munich in research and cooperation in the field of teaching
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Further information on research activitieswww.hfp.tum.de/studium/
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Further information about study entry phasehttps://www.schueler.tum.de/studieninteressierte/




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