Bachelor Political Science (624 [3] - Version 2024)

BAK 1 Introductory and Orientation Period (16 ECTS)

BAK 1.1 Introduction to the Methodology of the Social Sciences (6 ECTS)

• EXAM Basics of Methodology in Social Sciences

BAK 1.2 ntroduction to the Discipline (10 ECTS)

• EXAM BAK1.2 Module Exam Introduction to the Discipline
• 210001 VO STEOP Propeadeuticum Political Science
• 210002 VO STEOP BAK1.2 Introduction to the Discipline

BAK 2 Basics of Social Sciences (15 ECTS)

• 220074 VO INSOWI A: VO WITHEGI Theory and History of Science
• 210003 VO BAK2 Current Societal Issues and Social Science Research
• 210004 VO BAK2 Basics of Social Sciences

BAK 3 Academic Research and Writing (27 ECTS)

BAK 3 Academic Research and Writing (27 ECTS)

• 210005 VU BAK3 Introduction to Scientific Work
• 210136 VU BAK3 Introduction to Scientific Work

BAK 3 Academic Research and Writing (27 ECTS)

• 210006 VO BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210007 UE [ en ] BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210008 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210009 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210010 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210011 UE [ en ] BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210012 UE [ en ] BAK3 Qualitative Methods - Engaged Qualitative Methods: Learning to do Interpretive Research

BAK 3 Academic Research and Writing (27 ECTS)

• 210013 VO BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210014 UE BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210015 UE [ en ] BAK3 Quantitative Methods
• 210016 UE [ en ] BAK3: Introduction to Network Analysis
• 210017 UE BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210018 UE [ en ] BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210019 UE [ en ] BAK3 Quantitative Methods
• 210020 UE BAK3 Quantitative methods

BAK 4-7 Core Subjects (44 ECTS)

BAK 4 History of Political Ideas and Political Theory (11 ECTS)

• 210021 VO BAK4 History of Political Ideas and Political Theory
• 210022 PS BAK4: Contested Terms in Political Theory. From Anarchy to Civil Disobedience
• 210023 PS BAK4: Basic concepts of political theory
• 210024 PS [ en ] BAK4: The Political Philosophy of the Caribbean and Latin America in the 20th and 21st Centuries
• 210025 PS BAK4: The Struggle for Interpretive Authority.
• 210026 PS BAK4: Capitalism and democracy
• 210027 PS BAK4: Freedom in the History of Political Thought
• 210028 PS BAK4: Affects, Interests, Purposes, and Norms Justifications for Political Practice

BAK 5 The Political System of Austria and of the European Union (11 ECTS)

• 210029 VO BAK5 The Political System of Austria and of the EU
• 210030 PS [ en ] BAK5: Austrian Political System Development in Context of Europeanization and EU governance.
• 210031 PS [ en ] BAK5: Policing, Intelligence and Counter-terrorism in the EU
• 210032 PS [ en ] BAK5: The EU’s Foreign Policy
• 210033 PS [ en ] BAK5: The consequences of populism on national and EU politics
• 210034 PS [ en ] BAK5: European Union: polity, politics, and policies
• 210035 PS BAK5: The political system of Austria and the EU: fundamentals, structures, and processes
• 210036 PS BAK5: The rule of law under pressure - challenges in the European multi-level system

BAK 6 Comparative Politics (11 ECTS)

• 210037 VO BAK6 Comparative Politics
• 210038 PS BAK6: Gender regimes in care and social policies: changing theoretical perspectives
• 210039 PS [ en ] BAK6: Care, Family Policy, and Social Inequality: Theoretical and Comparative Approaches
• 210040 PS BAK6: Einführung in die Disability Studies
• 210041 PS BAK6: Politics and Crime
• 210042 PS BAK6: Current social analyses in times of multiple crises: Democracy and inequality
• 210043 PS [ en ] BAK6: Comparative Politics
• 210044 PS [ en ] BAK6: Political Representation, Public Opinion, and Electoral Behaviour

BAK 7 International Politics and Globalisation (11 ECTS)

• 210045 VO BAK7: International Politics and Globalization
• 210046 PS [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) BAK7: Globalisation at the Periphery: - The Political Economy of Geopolitics and Dependency in Eastern Europe
• 210047 PS BAK7:Focus on Feminist International Relations
• 210048 PS BAK7: International political ecology, climate policy and conflicts
• 210049 PS BAK7: Theories of International Relations
• 210050 PS BAK7: A continent in crisis - recent developments in Latin America
• 210051 PS BAK7: Global Environmental Politics and socio-ecological Transformation
• 210052 PS [ en ] BAK7:The International Political Economy of Energy - Energy security, Carbon Capitalism and social-ecological transitions
• 210053 PS BAK7: Global social-ecological transfomations

BAK 8-12 Group of Elective Modules: Advanced Subjects (26 ECTS out of two Modules)

BAK 8 History of Political Ideas and Political Theory (13 ECTS)

• 210054 VO BAK8: Community without sovereignty. Butler, Derrida, Badiou, Foucault a.o.
• 210055 SE BAK8: On the political culture of democracy - material culture (clothing) as a source of conflict and anti-democratic tendencies
• 210056 SE BAK8: Theories of political hegemony (Gramsci, Laclau, Mouffe
• 210057 SE BAK8: Theory and practice of civil disobedience
• 210058 SE [ en ] BAK8: Contemporary threats to democracy

BAK 9 The Political System of Austria and of the European Union (13 ECTS)

• 210059 VO BAK9: Austria and the EU
• 210060 VO BAK9: Parliaments and Parliamentarianism in Austria
• 210061 SE [ en ] BAK9: EU Foreign Policy in Times of Multiple Crises: - The EU's Role in a Changing International Environment
• 210062 SE BAK9: EU economic policy, the digital single market, and the EU member states
• 210063 SE BAK9: Actors and interests in EU politics

BAK 10 Comparative Politics (13 ECTS)

• 210064 VO BAK10: Justice, solidarity, and ethics in the context of medicine and health policy
• 210065 SE [ en ] BAK 10: What holds us together? Democracy, solidarity, and resilience in comparative perspective
• 210066 SE BAK10: Autocracies on the Rise? Trends and Dynamics in Global Comparison
• 210067 SE [ en ] BAK10: Migration Politics in International Comparison
• 210068 SE [ en ] BAK10: Comparative Democratic Politics

BAK 11 International Politics and Globalisation (13 ECTS)

• 210069 VO BAK11: Contested Transformation: Between Fossil Backlash and Socio-Ecological Realignment
• 210070 VO BAK11: Introduction to Latin American Studies
• 210071 SE [ en ] BAK11:China in Global Context: Politics, Culture, and Society in the Xi Jinping Era
• 210072 SE BAK11: World order(s), cultural practice and intersectional critique of power
• 210073 SE BAK11: Property in Marx's Critique of Political Economy - An Introduction
• 210074 SE [ en ] BAK11: How to research multilateral environmental negotiations?

BAK 12 Gender Studies in Political Science (13 ECTS)

• 210075 VO BAK12: Gender and Politics
• 210076 SE [ en ] BAK12: Gender, Power and Resistance
• 210077 SE BAK12: Climates of Violence: Gender and the political economy of (green) extractiv

BAK 13 Fields of Application of Political Science (10 ECTS)

• 210078 VO BAK13: Politics and law
• 210079 VO BAK13: Politics and economics
• 210080 UE BAK13: Law and Politics in the European Union. A Practical Research Seminar with R
• 210081 UE BAK13: UE on peer mentoring in political science for beginners
• 210082 UE BAK13: UE on peer mentoring in political science for experienced mentors
• 210083 UE BAK13: Political education

BAK 14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis (12 ECTS)

• 210084 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210085 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210086 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210087 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210088 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210089 SE [ en ] BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210090 SE [ en ] BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210091 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210092 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis

Bachelor Political Science (624 [3] - Version 2024)

• 210134 VO [ en ] EC: Mixed Methods - The joy of research
• 233002 UK Wissen, Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft: Wie sozial ist wissenschaftliches Wissen? - Eine Einführung in die Science and Technology Studies
• 233003 UK Internationale Raumfahrt - Wechselwirkungen zwischen Innovation, Politik und Gesellschaft im neuen 'Space Race'
• 233004 UK Wissenschaft, Technik, und Geschlecht - Welche Rolle spielen Sex and Gender in Wissensproduktion und Innovation?
• 240022 VO BM6 Southeast Asia in Focus: Current Research and New Perspectives