Directorate of Studies 21 - Political Science

21.01. Bachelor Degree Programme Political Science (624)

BAK1 STEOP - Orientation Period

• EXAM Basics of Methodology in Social Sciences
• EXAM BA 1.2 Foundations of Social Methods
• 230001 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: VO Basics of Methodology in Social Sciences
• 210002 VO BAK 1.2: VO STEOP Propeadeuticum Political Science
• 210001 VO ( STEOP ) BAK 1.2: VO STEOP Political Science. An introduction

BAK2 Basic of Social Sciences

• 240003 VO Basics of Social Theory
• 230005 VO Social Sciences and Social Change
• 210003 VO BAK2.2: VO Social sciences and social change
• 210004 VO BAK2.3: VO Historical basis for politics
• 210005 VO BAK2.4: VO Policy and Economy
• 210006 VO BAK2.5: VO Law and Politics

BAK 3 Introduction to Scientific Work

• 210007 PS BAK3: PS Introduction to scientific work
• 210008 PS BAK3: PS Introduction to scientific work
• 210009 PS BAK3: PS Introduction to scientific work
• 210010 PS [ en ] BAK3: PS Introduction to scientific work - Introduction to scientific work (engl.)
• 210011 PS BAK3: PS Introduction to scientific work
• 210012 PS BAK3: PS Introduction to scientific work
• 210013 PS BAK3: PS Introduction to scientific work
• 210014 PS BAK3: PS Introduction to scientific work

BAK4 Methods

• 210015 VO BAK4.1: VO Qualitative methods in the empirical social sciences
• 210016 UE BAK4.1: UE Empirical research using qualitative methods
• 210017 UE BAK4.1: UE Empirical research using qualitative methods
• 210018 UE BAK4.1: UE Empirical research using qualitative methods
• 210019 UE BAK4.1: UE Empirical research using qualitative methods
• 210020 UE BAK4.1: UE Empirical research using qualitative methods
• 210021 UE BAK4.1: UE Empirical research using qualitative methods
• 210022 UE BAK4.1: UE Empirical research using qualitative methods
• 210023 UE BAK4.1: UE Empirical research using qualitative methods
• 210024 UE BAK4.1: UE Empirical research using qualitative methods
• 210025 UE BAK4.1: UE Empirical research using qualitative methods
• 210026 UE BAK4.1: UE Empirical research using qualitative methods
• 210027 UE BAK4.1: UE Empirical research using qualitative methods
• 210028 UE BAK4.1: UE Empirical research using qualitative methods
• 210029 UE BAK4.1: UE Empirical research using qualitative methods

Required Modules

BAK5 - Core Area of Political Science: History of Theory and Debates on Theory

• 210030 VO BAK5: VO History of Theory and Debates on Theory
• 210031 LK BAK5: LK History of Theory and Debates on Theory
• 210032 LK BAK5: LK History of Theory and Debates on Theory - Theories of political power
• 210033 LK BAK5: LK History of Theory and Debates on Theory
• 210034 LK BAK5: LK History of Theory and Debates on Theory - Emanzipation(en)"
• 210035 LK BAK5: LK History of Theory and Debates on Theory
• 210036 LK BAK5: LK History of Theory and Debates on Theory - Political theory on migration

BAK6 - Core Area of Political Science: The Austrian Political System and the EU

• 210037 VO BAK6: VO The Austrian Political System and the EU
• 210038 LK BAK6: LK The Austrian Political System and the EU
• 210039 LK BAK6: LK The Austrian Political System and the EU
• 210040 LK BAK6: LK The Austrian Political System and the EU
• 210041 LK BAK6: LK The Austrian Political System and the EU
• 210042 LK BAK6: LK The Austrian Political System and the EU
• 210043 LK BAK6: LK The Austrian Political System and the EU

BAK7 - Core Area of Political Science: Comparative Analysis of Politics

• 210044 VO BAK7: VO Comparative Politics
• 210045 LK [ en ] BAK7: LK Comparative Politics - (engl.)
• 210046 LK BAK7: LK Comparative Politics
• 210047 LK BAK7: LK Comparative Politics
• 210048 LK BAK7: LK Comparative Politics
• 210049 LK BAK7: LK Comparative Politics
• 210050 LK BAK7: LK Comparative Politics

BAK8 - Core Area of Political Science: International Politics

• 210051 VO BAK8: VO International Politics
• 210052 LK BAK8: LK International Politics - International Relations of Africa
• 210053 LK BAK8: LK International Politics - European Security Governance
• 210054 LK BAK8: LK International Politics - International environment and resource politics
• 210055 LK BAK8: LK International Politics - Critical theories of international relations
• 210056 LK BAK8: LK International Politics - Feminist International Relations
• 210057 LK BAK8: LK International Politics - Culture and Foreign Policy
• 210058 LK BAK8: LK International Politics - Neo-Gramscian International Political Economy
• 210059 LK BAK8: LK International Politics - Migration and globalisation
• 210060 LK BAK8: LK International Politics - contradictons and conflicts of democracy in Latin America
• 210061 LK [ en ] BAK8: LK International Politics - Nuclear Proliferation: Theories and Case Studies
• 210062 LK [ en ] BAK8: LK International Politics - Geopolitics from a Global South perspective
• 210063 LK BAK8: LK International Politics - Politics Peace and Conflict Research. An Introduction

Specialisation Modules (Alternative Required Modules)

BAK9 - Political Theories and Research on Theories

• 210064 SE BAK9: SE Political Theories and Research on Theories - Revolutionary Thinking on the eve of the English, French and American Revolution
• 210065 SE BAK9: SE Political Theories and Research on Theories - Disciplining and Control - Theories of the Police
• 210066 SE BAK9: SE Political Theories and Research on Theories - Theories of Anti-Semitism

BAK10 - International Politics and Development

• 210070 VO BAK10: VO International Politics and Development - SpezialVO: World Policy in Rapid Transition
• 210071 SE BAK10: SE International Politics and Development - Rise of the global middle class? Class analysis and theory in the global south
• 210072 SE BAK10: SE International Politics and Development - International Political Economy of Trade. TTIP and CETA in the Context of the Economic Crisis
• 210073 SE [ en ] BAK10: SE International Politics and Development - Peacebuilding after the Local Turn

BAK11 - European Union and Europeanisation

• 210075 SE [ en ] BAK11: SE European Union and Europeanisation - Theorien der europäischen Integration
• 210076 SE [ en ] BAK11 European Union and Europeanisation - Policies and politics for a knowledge-based society in Europe (engl.)
• 210077 SE BAK11: SE European Union and Europeanisation - The Reluctant Hegemon? Grexit, Brexit, and Germany's New Role in the EU
• 210078 SE BAK11: SE European Union and Europeanisation - Europäische Integration - eine verfehlte Politik- und Sozialunion?
• 210153 SE [ en ] BAK 11: SE European Union and Europeanisation - EU in Crisis? Institutions, Policies, and Politics (engl)

BAK12 - Austrian Politics

• 210074 SE [ en ] BAK12 Austrian Politics - Migration and Social Movements: Austria in comparative perspective
• 210079 SE BAK12: SE Austrian Politics - Local and regional politics
• 210080 SE BAK12: SE Austrian Politics - The political systems of Austria between theory and practice. Current issues.
• 210081 SE BAK12: SE Austrian Politics - Parteien und Wohlfahrtsstaat

BAK13 - State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses

• 210082 VO BAK13: State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - SpezialVO Introduction to policy analysis
• 210083 SE [ en ] BAK13: SE State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Individual preferences and collective decision making
• 210084 SE BAK13: SE State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Menschenrechte zwischen Anspruch, Verpflichtung und Umsetzung
• 210158 SE BAK 13: State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Herrschaftslegitimation im Vergleich

BAK14 - Gender and Politics

• 210086 SE BAK14 : SE Gender and Politics - Feminist Materialisms. Untertitel Englisch: How Materiality Matters to Feminist Theory
• 210087 SE BAK14: SE Gender and Politics - Politics, Power and Masculinity

BAK15 - East European Studies

• 210088 VO BAK15: VO East European Studies - SpezialVO Introduction in Transition Studies
• 210089 SE BAK15: SE East European Studies - Forms of post-Soviet rule in the Southern Caucasus and Central Asia
• 210090 SE [ en ] BAK15: SE East European Studies - The Eastern Enlargement of the EU: From European Integration to Differentiation
• 210091 SE BAK15: SE East European Studies - Transformation to Illiberal Democracy? The Crisis of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

BAK16 - Culture and Politics

• 210092 VO BAK16: VO Culture and Politics - SpezialVO Political Culture of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-1916
• 210093 SE BAK16: SE Culture and Politics - Social identity, collective identity, stereotypes, prejudice and categorization
• 210094 SE BAK16: SE Culture and Politics - The reclamation of the public sphere
• 210095 SE BAK16: SE Culture and Politics - The emergence of political awareness in salons and coffeehouses

BAK17 Consolidation

• 210096 UE BAK17b.1: UE Political Science in practice - Peer Mentoring in Political Science
• 210097 UE BAK17b.1: UE Political Science in practice - Field trip to Albania and Kosovo
• 210098 UE BAK17b.1: UE Political Science in practice - Unions and globalisation
• 210155 UE BAK17b.1: UE Political Science in practice - Conflict management in the UN-System
• 210157 UE BAK17b.1 Political Science in practice - Scientists and Civic Education

BAK18 Bachelorseminar

• 210099 SE BAK18: Bachelor's Seminar
• 210100 SE BAK18: Bachelor's Seminar
• 210101 SE BAK18: SE Bachelor's Seminar
• 210102 SE BAK18: SE Bachelor's Seminar
• 210103 SE BAK18: SE Bachelor's Seminar
• 210104 SE BAK18: SE Bachelor's Seminar
• 210105 SE BAK18: SE Bachelor's Seminar
• 210161 SE BAK18 Bachelor's Seminar

BAK19

• 230051 VO Society and Environment
• 230052 VO City for all?! - Between Local Border Practices and Urban Citizenship - Ringvorlesung

21.02. Master Degree Programme in Political Science (824)

1. Required Modules

M01 Basics of Political Science

M02 Methods of Political Science

• 210106 UE [ en ] M2: UE Research Methods for Political Science - (engl.)
• 210107 UE M2: UE Research Methods for Political Science
• 210108 UE M2: UE Research Methods of Political Science

Group of Elective Modules - Specialisations

M03 Political Theories and Research on Theory - Introduction and Advanced Studies

• 210109 SE M3a: VertiefungsSE Political Theories and Research on Theory - Kritische Theorie des Zionismus Zionistische Theorien zu Staatlichkeit vor dem Hintergrund aktueller nationalismustheoretischer Debatten
• 210110 SE M3a: VertiefungsSE Political Theories and Research on Theory - Theory Current positions in democratic theories
• 210111 SE M3b: SpezialisierungsSE Political Theories and Research on Theory - Mapping the Political: Liberalism, Socialism, Conservatism, Republicanism, and Radical Democracy

M04 International Politics and Development - Introduction and Advanced Studies

• 210112 SE M4a: VertiefungsSE International Politics and Development - Recent Research on Transformation
• 210113 SE [ en ] M4a: VertiefungsSE International Politics and Development - War and Humanitarian Military Interventions (engl.)
• 210114 SE M4a: VertiefungsSE International Politics and Development - Politische Ökologie von Umwelt- und Ressourcenkonflikten
• 210115 SE M4a: VertiefungsSE International Politics and Development - Legal Pluralism and Multinationalism in Latin America between utopia and reality
• 210116 SE M4b: SpezialisierungsSE International Politics and Development - China's role in globalisation

M05 EU and Europeanisation - Introduction and Advanced Studies

• 210117 VO M5a: VO EU and Europeanisation: SpezialVO
• 210118 SE [ en ] M5a: VertiefungsSE EU and Europeanisation - European integration in crisis
• 210119 SE M5a: VertiefungsSE EU and Europeanisation - The internal and external security of the European Union
• 210120 SE [ en ] M5b: SpezialisierungsSE EU and Europeanisation - Meeting the challenge of competitiveness: EU policies and politics (engl.)

M06 Austrian Politics - Introduction and Advanced Studies

• 210121 SE M6a: VertiefungsSE Austrian Politics - Political system of National Socialism
• 210122 SE M6a: VertiefungsSE Austrian Politics - Party financing in Austria
• 210123 SE M6b: SpezialisierungsSE Austrian Politics - deportation policies

M07 State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Introduction and Advanced Studies

• 210124 SE [ en ] M7a: VertiefungsSE State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Politics and Polarization (engl.)
• 210159 SE M7a: VertiefungsSE State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Stabilität und Veränderungen von Policies
• 210160 SE [ en ] M7a: VertiefungsSE State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Public Policy Analyses
• 210125 SE [ en ] M7b: SpezialisierungsSE State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Democratic Theories and Public Opinion (engl.)

M08 Gender and Politics - Introduction and Advanced Studies

• 210126 VO M8: VO Gender and Politics - SpezialVO: From the all-male-nation-state army to the private security market. An introduction into the relations between military, state and gender
• 210127 SE M8a: VertiefungsSE Gender and Politics - Governance and Gender
• 210128 SE M8b: SpezialisierungsSE Gender and Politics - Political representation of gender. Body and power

M09 East European Studies - Introduction and Advanced Studies

• 210129 SE M9a: VertiefungsSE East European Studies - Social and cultural conditions of sustainable democracies
• 210130 SE M9b: SpezialisierungsSE East European Studies - Crisis and Protest: Comparing Political Protest Movements in (South-)Eastern Europe

M10 Culture and Politics - Introduction and Advanced Studies

• 210131 VO M10: VO Culture and Politics - SpezialVO: Visual Politics
• 210132 SE M10a: VertiefungsSE Culture and Politics - Political Photography
• 210133 SE M10a: VertiefungsSE Culture and Politics - Politics of space
• 210134 SE M10 b: SpezialisierungsSE Culture and Politics - Political Image and Metaphor
• 230029 VO Visual Sociology: Cinematic Cultures and Gender in the Age of Digitalization

M11 Research Utilisation

• 210135 SE M11: FOP Research Practice - The Comparative Politics of Nuclear Energy
• 210136 SE M11: FOP Research Practice - Visual Studies in Political Science
• 210137 SE M11: FOP Research Practice - Focussing on social policy: Typological assignment and political practices
• 210138 SE M11: FOP Research Practice - Das Ende der Zukunft und die Realität der Utopie
• 210156 SE M11: FOP Research Practice - Top Girls: Gender as human capital? Gender regimes in neoliberalism

M12 Elective Area

• 020061 KU Course Medicine and Nursing Ethics - Gleiches Recht für alle? Migration und Gesundheit aus medizinrechtlicher sowie kultur- und sozialanthropologischer Perspektive
• 140121 VO [ de en ] ( SGU ) VM1 / VM7 - Coloniality under De_Construction - Decolonial Perspectives and Activisms
• 140254 SE Nation, Gender, Race, and Religion - in the Imaginaries of the Collective Memories of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in South Africa and Marocco
• 140316 VO Postcolonial, Post-secular, and Gender Theory - exemplified by Discourses of Sexual Violence and Homophobia versus Solidary Self-imaginations in Africa
• 140359 SE Performativity and Agency in African Films - Gender and Religion as Categories of Analysis in Contemporary Visual Discourses

M13 Masterseminar

• 210085 SE M13: Master's Seminar
• 210139 SE M13: Seminar for MA- and PhD-students old
• 210140 SE M13: Seminar for MA- and PhD-students old
• 210141 SE M13: Seminar for MA- and PhD-students old
• 210142 SE M13: Seminar for MA- andPhD-students old
• 210143 SE M13: Seminar for MA- and PhD-students old
• 210144 SE M13: Master's Seminar
• 210145 SE M13: Seminar for MA-and PhD-students old
• 210146 SE M13: Seminar for Ma- and PhD-students old
• 210147 SE M13: Seminar for MA- and PhD-students old
• 210148 SE M13: Master's Seminar
• 210149 SE M13: Seminar for MA- and PhD-students old
• 210154 SE M13: Master's Seminar - Diss-Seminar alt

21.03. Doctoral Programme Philosophy (Dr. phil.) / Dissertation Subject Area: Political Science (092)

21.04 Erweiterungscurricula Politikwissenschaft

21.05. EC Basics of Politics (211-3)

• 210004 VO BAK2.3: VO Historical basis for politics
• 210005 VO BAK2.4: VO Policy and Economy
• 210006 VO BAK2.5: VO Law and Politics
• 210030 VO BAK5: VO History of Theory and Debates on Theory
• 210037 VO BAK6: VO The Austrian Political System and the EU
• 210044 VO BAK7: VO Comparative Politics
• 210051 VO BAK8: VO International Politics

21.04.02 EC Staatlichkeit und Demokratie im Wandel (213)

• 210070 VO BAK10: VO International Politics and Development - SpezialVO: World Policy in Rapid Transition
• 210082 VO BAK13: State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - SpezialVO Introduction to policy analysis
• 210088 VO BAK15: VO East European Studies - SpezialVO Introduction in Transition Studies
• 210092 VO BAK16: VO Culture and Politics - SpezialVO Political Culture of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-1916

21.04. EC European Integration (212)

• 210150 SE [ en ] EC: SE EU institutions and decision-making (engl.)
• 210151 SE [ en ] The EU’s regulatory policies - Liberalization and Re-regulation
• 210152 SE [ en ] EC: SE The EU and global governance (engl.)