Teaching Degree (Lehramt, Staatsexamen): Social Studies (teaching degree) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

Elementary school, middle school, secondary school, grammar school In the Politics and Society teacher training program, you will learn subject-specific fundamentals such as political processes and social development, and in subject didactics you will deal with the question of how open issues can become a topic for children and young people. With your knowledge, you will build bridges between different contexts of life and show connections.

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology  |  Duration: 7 bzw. 9 semesters  |  Study mode: full-time; German-taught; Staatsexamen (teaching degree)  |  Intake: Winter semester  |  Location: Erlangen, Bayern, Germany

What you will study

During your degree program, you will learn about the foundations of both Political Science and Sociology. In Political Science, the focus is on the academic examination of the foundations and processes of politics in modern societies as well as in international relations. It is the responsibility of politics to make binding decisions and to enforce them by means of power in order to shape human coexistence.

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