BEd Ernährungslehre, Lehramt GyGe (Nutrition Science teaching) at Paderborn University

Subject linking scientific content with social-science debates, taking up current questions such as designing sustainable nutrition in lessons, including its health requirements and its ecological and social consequences. Bachelor of Education teaching degree for grammar schools and comprehensive schools (Gymnasium und Gesamtschule).

Faculty: Natural sciences; teacher education (Lehramt)  |  Duration: 6 semesters (3 years); 72 of 180 ECTS in the degree  |  Study mode: full-time; German-taught  |  Intake: Winter semester  |  Location: Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

What you will study

Content includes scientific, medical, biological, nutrition-science and food-science foundations, applied nutrition, nutrition and food science lab courses and subject didactics. The 180-credit degree comprises subject content and didactics in this teaching subject (72 credits); subject content and didactics in a second teaching subject (72 credits); educational sciences (18 credits); German for pupils with a migration background (6 credits); bachelor's thesis (12 credits). Practical elements are an orientation and aptitude placement of 25 days and a work-field placement of at least four weeks.

Career pathways

The B.Ed. is followed by the M.Ed., which completes the first phase of teacher training and leads into school service; a non-school career is also possible, often after gaining out-of-school experience or a subject-specific master's.

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