Master's Programme Secondary 
School Teacher Training (General Education) Subject: History, Social Studies and Political Education  

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Programme Coordination LFU Innsbruck
Faculty of Philosophy and History
Faculty of Teacher Education
Duration / ECTS-Credits 4 semesters / 120 ECTS-Credits
(combination of two subjects or one subject and one specialisation)
Academic Degree
Master of Education (MEd)
Qualification Level
Master (Second Cycle)
ISCED-11: Level 7, EQF/NQF: Level 7
ISCED-F 0114 Teacher Training with Subject Specialisation
Mode of Study
Full-Time
Study Code
UC 199 561 xxx | UC 199 xxx 561
Curriculum Information on the Curriculum (2018W)*
Language of Instruction German
Admission Requirements
Relevant bachelor's degree
(at least 240 ECTS-Credits) or equivalent and Language Certificates
Application

 

*Information on the Curriculum (2018W)

The complete version of the curriculum reflects the currently valid version of the curriculum. It is for informational purposes only and is not legally binding. The legally binding version of the curriculum, including any amendments, may be found in the University of Innsbruck Bulletins.

In order to determine which version of the curriculum is applicable in your case, see the Catalogue of Studies,
  available at: https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/lfuonline_meinestudien.studienblatt
  Section: Current Curriculum version.

University of Innsbruck Bulletins » (Click to open all University of Innsbruck Bulletins)  

Requirements

Relevant bachelor's degrees at the University of Innsbruck:

Proof of general university entrance qualification:

The general university entrance qualification for admission to a master's programme must be proven by the completion of a subject-related bachelor's programme, another subject-related programme of at least the same higher education level at a recognised domestic or foreign post-secondary educational institution, or a program defined in the curriculum of the master's programme. To compensate for significant differences in subject matter, supplementary examinations (maximum 30 ECTS credits) may be prescribed, which must be taken by the end of the master's programme.

The rectorate may determine which of these supplementary examinations are prerequisites for taking examinations provided for in the curriculum of the master's programme.

In the course of the proof of the general university entrance qualification, the completion of the following core areas within the framework of the completed bachelor's degree programme shall be examined in any case:

  • At least 95 ECTS-Credits in subject-didactics and subject-didactics for History, Social Studies and Politcial Education
  • At least 40 ECTS-Credits in Educational Studies

Recommended Course Sequence

The exemplary course sequence given below is recommended for full-time students beginning their study programme in the winter semester. The table shows one possible course sequence for the bachelor's programme and is not compulsory. Delays resulting from repeated examinations are not taken into account.

The standard duration of the study programme is 4 semesters or 120 ECTS-Credits, whereby according to the Universities Act of 2002, a workload of 1,500 (real) hours per academic year must be fulfilled, corresponding to 60 ECTS-Credits (one ECTS-Credit is equivalent to a workload of 25 hours). 

Recommendations for the First Semester »

5,0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: SE out of the six historic core areas or Political Education

Education Studies

2.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: VO School Development and Professional Community
3.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: A course must be selected from the following subject areas: Learning Research, Teacher Education &
                                           Professionalisation, School Research, Leadership and School Development Research

Recommendations for the Second Semester »

5,0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: SE out of the six historic core areas or Political Education
5,0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: SE Topic-Specific Seminar in Subject-Specific Didactics/Science

Education Studies

7.5 ECTS-Credits, 3 h: PR Research in the field of Formal Education and Teaching Practice IV

Recommendations for the Third Semester »

Advanced Specialization in History
(Two courses from Advanced Specialisation in History must be passed) 

5,0 ECTS-Credits, 4 h: VO/VU Advanced Specialication in History 
 
 A: In case the master's thesis is written in the subject History/Didactics History:
 History as Academic Discipline and Discourse    
 
5,0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: SE Applied Methods and Theories

 B: In case the master's thesis is NOT written in the subject History/Didactics History:
 History of Historiography and Gender Studies 
    
5,0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: VU Reading Classics or VO Gender Concepts – Gender Theories  

Education Studies

3.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: SE Education Laboratory – Reflection and Development in a Pedagogical Context
2.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: Courses for advanced study issues, problems and topical areas in education science from the
                                           correspondingly marked course programme  

Recommendations for the First to the Third Semester (Education Studies) »

2.5 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: One advanced course corresponding to 2.5 ECTS-Credits is to be freely chosen from the following topical
                                           areas: Gender Sensitivity in the School and Education Sytem II, Inclusion and Heterogeneity in the School
                                           and Education System II, Everyday-Life-Related Multilingualism and Interculturality in the School and
                                           Education System II, Plurality of Worldviews II

Recommendations for the Fourth Semester »

27.5 ECTS-Credits: Master's Thesis
2.5 ECTS-Credits: Master's Thesis Defence

During the Master’s Programme courses amounting to 20 ECTS-Credits must be passed in elective subjects.

Course Sequence (incl. Education Studies)

Qualification Profile and Skills

The Secondary School Teacher Training Programme (General Education) qualifies its graduates as teachers in the selected subjects of general education / specialisations for all secondary schools (Neue Mittelschule, Polytechnische Schule, Academic Secondary Schools,  Intermediate and Higher Technical and Vocational Schools). This study programme also meets the requirements for teaching in intermediate and higher schools in the South Tyrol *. In the Master’s programme the knowledge and skills acquired in the Bachelor’s programme is broadened and deepened. Graduates are able to solve problems of teaching in secondary schools in an innovative and creative way. They are able to independently deal with scientific or artistic topics resp. with regards to contents and by using appropriate methods. They are able to participate in expert discourse and to independently acquire more specialist, subject-didactical and pedagogical knowledge and to implement it in their teaching.

Graduates of the Master’s Programme Secondary School  Teacher Training (General Education) in the subject of History, Social Studies and Political Education acquire a historically founded understanding allowing a reflected, factual-analytical approach to the problems of a pluralistic society. They excel in logic-analytical, networked and problem-solution-oriented thinking.

The imparting of action and orientation knowledge as basic historic and political competences is a necessity for individual and social positioning. Lessons in History, Social Studies and Political Education are committed to knowledge about the past as an important precondition for a better understanding of the present and to the promoting of a critical awareness of perceptions of history, constructions and instrumentalisations of the past. Teachers are able to adjust their teaching to the individual needs of the learners, to assess and critically questions the effectiveness of their teaching.

* South Tyrolean teacher education students have to fulfil specific prerequisites, if they want to teach in South Tyrol. For information contact the Office for South Tyrolean Affairs https://www.uibk.ac.at/suedtirolagenden.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates have a sound subject-specific knowledge and methodological competences and are able to communicate historic developments and contexts with all their political, social, economic and cultural aspects in school and professional fields outside of school. Moreover, they are able to express themselves in a scientifically correct way and to substantiate argumentations and to demonstrate their expertise by finding innovative solutions to problems in the fields of historical studies, political education and subject didactics. They are experts for promoting personal development processes, for arranging learning situations, for accompanying learning processes and for evaluating learning outcomes.

Future Prospects: Occupational Profiles and Career Opportunities

The Master’s Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (General Education) qualifies for teaching at secondary schools. Based on the Bachelor’s Programme, the graduates acquire the competences needed for teaching in a way to meet the educational requirements of a developing school and society. 

With the qualifications acquired during the Master’s Programme, further job opportunities in the fields of the respective study programme and in the field of education, such as social and youth work or adult education, open up.

Postgraduate and further Studies at the University of Innsbruck

Information about examination regulations, assessment and grading

Examination regulations

The examination regulation is an integral part of the curriculum, detailed information can be found under the paragraph examination regulations.

Description of the applied grading system (including the grade distribution table) »

The grade distribution table is a statistical representation of the distribution of all successfully completed examinations in a given programme of study or subject (based on all registered students for the programme or subject). The grade distribution table is updated in regular intervals.

Austrian grading
scheme		 Definition
%-age
   
1 EXCELLENT:
Outstanding performance
45.9
 TAB = 100 %

2

 GOOD:
Generally good, but with some errors
34
3 SATISFACTORY:
Generally sound work with a number of substantial errors
15.2
4 SUFFICIENT:
Performance meets the minimum criteria
4.9
5 INSUFFICIENT:
Substantial improvement necessary; requirement of further work
     
December 2021

Overall classification of the qualification

Not applicable
Explanation: An overall classification (mit Auszeichnung bestanden/pass with distinction, bestanden/pass, nicht bestanden/fail) – is awarded only for examinations that conclude a programme of study and consist of more than one subject (an examination of this type is not specified in the curriculum of this programme of study).

Information about the Programme

Recognitions

Recognition of exams AND Supplementary Sheet

Basics of Educational Science
Recognition of exams AND Supplementary Sheet

Interdisciplinary Competences and Individual Choice of Specialisation
Recognition of exams AND Supplementary Sheet | Contact wahlmodule-master-la@uibk.ac.at

Forms (in German only)

Contact and Information

Examination Office
Standort Innrain 52d Piktogramm barrierefreier Zugang

Authorised representative for subject training and didactics
 ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Julia Hörmann-Thurn-U-Taxis

Dean of Studies
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martina Kraml  

Information for Students with disabilities 

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