Directorate of Studies 21 - Political Science

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EXAM ON-SITE BA 1.2 Foundations of Social Methods
210002 VO ( STEOP ON-SITE ) BAK1.2: STEOP Subject-specific Introduction
210003 VO ( OV STEOP ON-SITE ) BAK1.2: STEOP Propeadeuticum Political Science

BAK2 Basics of Social Sciences (22 ECTS)

220006 VO INSOWI A: VO WITHEGI Theory and History of Science
210004 VO ( ON-SITE ) BAK2 Current Societal Issues and Social Science Research
210005 VO ( ON-SITE ) BAK2 Historical Basics of Policy
210006 VO ( ON-SITE ) BAK2 Policy and Economy
210007 VO ( ON-SITE ) BAK2 Policy and Law

BAK3 Introduction to Scientific Work (5 ECTS)

210008 PS [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) BAK3: Introduction to scientific work - (engl.)
210009 PS ( ON-SITE ) BAK3: Introduction to Scientific Work
210010 PS ( REMOTE ) BAK3: Introduction to Scientific Work
210011 PS ( ON-SITE ) BAK3: Introduction to Scientific Work
210012 PS [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) BAK3: Introduction to Scientific Work

BAK4 Methods (18 ECTS)

BAK4 Methods of empirical social sience (18 ECTS)

210013 VO ( ON-SITE ) BAK4.2 Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research
210014 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) BAK4.2 Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research - (engl.)
210015 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) BAK 4 Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research - (engl.)
210016 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) BAK 4 Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research - (engl.)
210017 UE ( ON-SITE ) BAK 4 Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research
210018 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) BAK 4 Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research - (engl.)
210019 UE ( ON-SITE ) BAK 4 Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research
210020 UE ( ON-SITE ) BAK 4 Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research
210021 UE ( ON-SITE ) BAK 4 Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research
210022 UE ( ON-SITE ) BAK 4 Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research
210023 UE ( ON-SITE ) BAK 4 Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research
210024 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) BAK 4 Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research - (engl)
210025 UE ( ON-SITE ) BAK 4 Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research
210026 UE ( ON-SITE ) BAK 4 Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research
210027 UE ( ON-SITE ) BAK 4 Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research

BAK5 - BAK8 Core Subjects of Political Science (36 ECTS)

BAK8 International Politics (9 ECTS)

BAK9-BAK16 Block of Alternative Compulsory Modules: Specialisation (27 ECTS)

BAK9 Political Theories and Research on Theories (9 ECTS)

210052 VO ( ON-SITE ) BAK9: SpezialVO Political Theories and Research on Theories - Antisemitismus in Zeiten globaler Krisen
210053 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK9: Political Theories and Research on Theories - Demokratiebildung. Theoretische Ansätze von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart
210054 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK9: Political Theories and Research on Theories - Democracy between belief in progress and regression
210144 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK9 Political Theories and Research on Theories - Protest and Democracy: From Disobedience to Resistance

BAK10 International Politics and Development (9 ECTS)

210055 VO ( ON-SITE ) BAK10 International Politics and Development - Global challenges for politics and democracy - emancipatory alternatives
210056 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK10 International Politics and Development - International raw materials policy - between green extractivism, re-shoring & geopoliticization
210057 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK10: International Politics and Development - Current Political Challenges in Latin America: Background and views
210058 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK10: International Politics and Development - Between geoeconomization and deglobalization: Recent crisis debates in international political economy

BAK11 European Union and Europeanisation (9 ECTS)

210059 VO ( ON-SITE ) BAK11 European Union and Europeanisation
210060 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK11 European Union and Europeanisation - Refugees in international relations and the (foreign) policy of the EU
210061 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK11 European Union and Europeanisation - Terrorism and the EU Counterterrorism Policy
210062 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) BAK11: European Union and Europeanisation - The EU and the governance of migration uncertainty

BAK12 Austrian Politics (9 ECTS)

210063 VO ( ON-SITE ) BAK12 Austrian Politics - Austrian foreign policy
210064 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK12 Austrian Politics - Party Organizations in Austria: Members, Elites, Strategies
210065 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK12 Austrian Politics - Austrian Asylum and Border Politics

BAK13 State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses (9 ECTS)

210066 VO ( ON-SITE ) BAK13 State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Political attitudes and voting behaviour
210067 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK13 State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Save us if you can: Health policy and politics in the 21st Century
210068 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) BAK13 State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Social inequality and politics of health
210069 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK13: State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Corruption research: state of the art and future perspectives
210070 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) BAK13: State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Toward more equitable public education systems: A cross-national exploration of policy approaches

BAK14 Gender and Politics (9 ECTS)

210071 VO ( ON-SITE ) BAK14: SpezialVO Gender and Politics
210072 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK14: Gender and Politics - Inersectional perspectives on criticism and resistance
210073 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK14: Gender and Politics - Inersectional perspectives on criticism and resistance
210074 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK14: Gender and Politics - Democratic times and spaces: queer-feminist and post-colonial perspectives
240107 VO+UE VM7 - One out of Five - Violence in the health sector

BAK15 East European Studies (9 ECTS)

210075 VO [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) BAK15: SpezialVO East European Studies - Eastern Europe´s Great Transformations
210076 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) BAK15: East European Studies - Nation, State and Religion in Eastern Europe
210077 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK15: East European Studies - Right-wing parties in Eastern Europe

BAK16 Culture and Politics (9 ECTS)

210078 VO ( REMOTE ) BAK16: SpezialVO Culture and Politics - Visual literacy of the political
210079 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK16: Culture and Politics - Law and political culture in Austria under Austrofascism, 1933 to 1938
210080 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK16: Culture and Politics - Cultural studies as a political-theoretical project
210081 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK16: Culture and Politics - politics and art

BAK17 Alternative Group of Compulsory Modules: Consolidation (15 ECTS)

BAK17a Alternative Compulsory Module a: Consolidation (15 ECTS)

BAK17b Alternative Compulsory Module b: Consolidation (15 ECTS)

210082 UE ( ON-SITE ) BAK17b.1: Political Science in practice - PEER-Mentoring Political Science
210083 UE ( ON-SITE ) BAK17b.1: Political Science in practice - Science communication: How do socio-ecological topics get into the media
210084 UE ( ON-SITE ) BAK17b.1: Political Science in practice - Framing and political communication - consulting in practice
220101 VU INSOWI A: VU SOGES Social Sciences and Society

BAK18 Bachelorseminar and Bachelorthesis (12 ECTS)

210085 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) BAK18: Bachelor's Seminar - (engl.)
210086 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK18: Bachelor's Seminar
210087 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK18: Bachelor's Seminar
210088 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK18: Bachelor's Seminar
210089 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK18: Bachelor's Seminar
210090 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK18: Bachelor's Seminar
210091 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK18: Bachelor's Seminar
210092 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK18: Bachelor's Seminar
210093 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK18 Bachelor's Seminar
210094 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK18 Bachelor's Seminar
210095 SE ( ON-SITE ) BAK18 Bachelor's Seminar

Suggested Lectures

010108 FS Philosophy of Life: Henri Bergson and Ortega y Gasset
010118 SE Departures and Resistances: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Feminism and Religion
010119 SE "Querdenker", Science Deniers, Enemies of Democracy- a political-ethical challenge. - Reading and socio-ethical discussion of the book "Gekränkte Freiheit - Aspekte des libertären Autoritarismus
070165 VO Lecture Series: Education - Democracy - Inequality
090103 VO ( MIXED ) Im/Perceptions: Texts and Images of Migration
090107 UE [ en ] Cold War at the Borders: Civil War, Reconstruction and Dictatorship in Greece, 1945-1974
090109 SE ( MIXED ) Europe: Foundation - Fable - Fortress
150122 VU [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Strategic Gaming: The South China Sea Dispute
233001 UK Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit, Demokratie - Ambivalente Beziehungen zwischen Vermittlung, Konflikt, Dialog und Zusammenarbeit
233002 UK Technology and Society
233005 UK Nature, Risk, Society - Science, technology and nature in the Anthropocene
233008 UK Innovation, Politics, Society - Wie gehen wir mit technologischen Risiken gesellschaftlich um?
490400 VU PM1 Digital Transformations

Master Political Science (824)

Compulsory Modules (16 ECTS)

M1 Basics of Political Science (8 ECTS)

210096 VO ( ON-SITE ) M1a: Basics of Political Science
210097 VO [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) M1: SpezialVO Basics of Political Science - (engl.)

M2 Methods of Political Science (8 ECTS)

210098 UE ( ON-SITE ) M2: Qualitative Methods of Empirical Social Research
210099 UE ( ON-SITE ) M2: Qualitative Methods of Empirical Social Research
210100 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) M2: Methods of Political Science - qualitatively
210101 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) M2: Methods of Political Science - qualitatively

Block of Elective Modules: Specialisations (44 ECTS)

M3 Political Theories and Research on Theory (22 ECTS)

210102 VO ( ON-SITE ) M3: SpezialVO Political Theories and Research on Theory - Politics and Violence
210103 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) M3: Political Theories and Research on Theory - Capitalism, democracy and law: Re-reading Kelsen, Schumpeter and Hayek
210104 SE ( ON-SITE ) M3: Political Theories and Research on Theory - Reform, Revolution, Prefiguration: Figures of Political Transformation
210147 SE ( ON-SITE ) M3: Political Theories and Research on Theory - Plebeianism: A Political Economy of Democracy

M4 International Politics and Development (22 ECTS)

210105 VO ( ON-SITE ) M4: SpezialVO International Politics and Development - Who owns…? The Return of the Property Question from a Global Perspective
210106 SE ( ON-SITE ) M4: International Politics and Development - Authoritarianism and right-wing populism in global contexts
210107 SE ( ON-SITE ) M4: International Politics and Development - The International Political Economy of Cryptocurrencies
210108 SE ( ON-SITE ) M4: International Politics and Development - Conflicts and (para)statehood in Kurdistan

M5 EU and Europeanisation (22 ECTS)

210109 SE ( ON-SITE ) M5: European Union and Europeanisation - Hybrid Governance in the EU‘s multilevel system
210110 SE [ en ] ( REMOTE ) M5: European Union and Europeanisation - A geopolitical turn in European politics

M6 Austrian Politics (22 ECTS)

210111 VO ( ON-SITE ) M6: SpezialVO Austrian Politics - Parties between state and society
210112 SE ( ON-SITE ) M6: Austrian Politics - Citizenship as an Instrument of Legal and Social Inclusion and Exclusion
210113 SE ( ON-SITE ) M6: Austrian Politics - Political Psychology in the Austrian Context: Identity and Emotions

M7 State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses (22 ECTS)

210114 VO [ en ] ( MIXED ) M7: SpezialVO State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Governing Inclusion and Exclusion in Digital Societies. (engl)
210115 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) M7: State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Suffrage Politics from Past to Present
210116 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) M7: State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Political Representation
210117 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) M7: State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses - Equity-focused policy approaches in education: a cross-national exploration of strengths and limitations

M8 Gender and Politics (22 ECTS)

210118 SE ( ON-SITE ) M8: Gender and Politics - Media.Crises.Gender based Violence.
210119 SE ( ON-SITE ) M8: Gender and Politics - Black Feminisms and Environmental Justice
210146 SE ( ON-SITE ) M8: Gender and Politics - Epistemic violence. Feminist-postcolonial theorizations of knowledge and domination

M9 East European Studies (22 ECTS)

210120 VO [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) M9: SpezialVO East European Studies - Eastern Europe in the Polycrisis
210121 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) M9: East European Studies - States, Markets and Democracy in Turbulent Times: Insights from South Eastern Europe
210122 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) M9: East European Studies - Comparative Capitalism - Eastern Europe in Comparative Perpective

M10 Culture and Politics (22 ECTS)

210123 SE ( REMOTE ) M10: Culture and Politics - Visual Studies in Political Science
210124 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) M10: Culture and Politics - The Struggle for Survival - Political Dimensions of Outdoor Reality Formats

Research Utilisation (12 ECTS)

M11 Research Utilisation (12 ECTS)

210125 SE [ en ] ( MIXED ) M11: FOP Research Practice - EU Policy-Making for the Digital Age
210126 SE ( ON-SITE ) M11: FOP Research Practice - Anti-Gender Politics in Europe
210128 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) M11: FOP Research Practice - Science Skepticism

Electives Module (16 ECTs)

M12 Elective Area (16 ECTS)

010112 SE Canonical Issues of Consecrated Life - The Law of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life according to the Code of Canon Law
210142 UE ( ON-SITE ) From the Idea to the Master Thesis Concept - Wie ich meine MA-Arbeit plane
210143 UE ( ON-SITE ) Manage the Master Thesis
233060 UE [ en ] Science in Society Laboratories