Studying at the University of Innsbruck

Students of the Bachelor’s Programme Classica et Orientalia may not pass the Minor “Classics”.

Module structure

Compulsory Modules »

• 5 ECTS-Credits History of Roman Literature
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Greek and Roman History
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Antiquity and the Present
  

Elective Modules »

• 5 ECTS-Credits Highlights of Greek Literature
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits History of Greek Literature
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Philosophy of Antiquity
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Greek Archaeology of the Classical Period
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Greek Archaeology of Hellenism
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Roman Archaeology of the Republican Period
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Roman Archaeology of the Imperial Period
  

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Minor “Classics” have acquired a broad overview of the literature and culture of classical antiquity in its historical context. They have also gained an insight in either the philosophy or the art of antiquity. They are competent in dealing with significant texts, myths, ideas and events from antiquity and are aware of the reception processes through which these are present in the cultural memory of posterity up to the present day.  

Contakt
Mag. Dr. Lav Subaric

Module structure

Compulsory Modules

• 10 ECTS-Credits Fundamentals of Political Science
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Sociological Perspective and Approaches
  

Elective Modules »

• 10 ECTS-Credits Political Theory and Political Institutions
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Political System of Austria
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits European Integration
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits International Relations
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Political Communication and Electoral Analysis
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Sociological Theory
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Structures and Change in Modern Society
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Market, State, Social Institutions
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Life-World – Life Forms: Individual and Society
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Rural and Regional Sociology
  

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the minor “Society and Politics” know the basic theories of political science and sociological theories, know about the influence of social and political structures and systems on human behaviour and social processes and are able to apply

Dean of Studies
Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Petra Missomelius

Module structure

Compulsory Modules »

• 10 ECTS-Credits Writing and Communication Skills (Advanced)
  

Elective Modules »

• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Linguistics of Writing and Speaking
  
• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Rhetoric
  
• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Writing for Public Relations and Businesses
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Fundamentals of Media Studies
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Media Research and Media Practice
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Applied Linguistics
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Text Editing
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Gender Studies
  

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Minor “Communicative Skills for the Profession” can plan written and oral communication processes in a goal-oriented manner, carry them out appropriately and evaluate them critically as well as classify, analyse and assess writing products and rhetorical genres. They possess the competence to critically analyse oral and written communication, especially from professional practice and the media, with regard to the argumentative, stylistic and multimodal techniques observed in each case. They can assess the respective special characteristics and requirements of oral and written communication and take them into account appropriately in their own communication behaviour.

Contact
Mag. Dr. Beatrix Schönherr

Students of the Bachelor’s Programme Comparative Literature may not pass this Minor.

Module structure

Compulsory Modules »

• 10 ECTS-Credits Literature and Culture
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Media
  

Elective Modules »

• 10 ECTS-AP World Literature
  
• 10 ECTS-AP Theory of Literature

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Minor “Comparative Literature: Literature – Culture – Media” have a first insight into the entire breadth of the subject of Comparative Literature (General and Comparative Literary Studies). They have - from the general point of view of the transgression of disciplinary, medial and linguistic-cultural boundaries in view of the international or globalised production, distribution, reception and communication of artistic and cultural phenomena - a knowledge of current positions in literary studies and are competent in dealing with texts of world literary significance, with literature and art in the areas of inter-/transculturality and intermediality as well as with theories of literature, culture and media.  

Associate Dean of Studies
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Sexl

Module structure

Compulsory Modules »

• 12.5 ECTS-Credits Art, Culture, Management
  

Elective Modules »

• 10 to 17.5 ECTS-Credits Advanced Study
  
• 2.5 to 7.5 ECTS-Credits Practice
  

Structure

The Minor consists three parts:

1. Two compulsory courses (7.5 ECTS-Credits / 4 h) dedicated to "Current Developments in Economy and Society", which analyse current economic topics both theoretically and empirically and deepen selected contents.
   
2. A compulsory excursion/practical course (5 ECTS-Credits/ 2 h) offered by practitioners and critically reflecting on fields of practice in the arts and cultural sector.
   
3. Einem Wahlangebot (17,5 ECTS-AP) aus unterschiedlichen Bachelor-Studienrichtungen (Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Architektur, Europäische Ethnologie, Französisch, Germanistik, Italienisch, Kunstgeschichte, Philosophie, Slawistik, Spanisch, Translationswissenschaft, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft) mit der Möglichkeit, bis zu 7,5 ECTS-AP Berufspraxis anrechnen zu lassen.
   Elective modues (17.5 ECTS-Credits) from various Bachelor's programmes (English and American Studies, Architecture, European Ethnology, French, German Philologie, Italian, Art History, Philosophy, Slavonic Studies, Spanish, Translation Studies, Comparative Literature) with the possibility of receiving credit for up to 7.5 ECTS-Credits of professional practice.
   

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Minor "Cultural Management" are familiar with theoretical concepts and empirical findings on the topics of art, culture, organisation and management and can combine and systematically reflect on theory and insights into organisational practices of art and cultural organisations. They are familiar with the analysis of cultural management as an inter- and transdisciplinary research object as well as with the paradox of the management of art and culture and have insights into the framework conditions of artistic and cultural forms of expression (theatres, opera houses, museums, the literary business, the film industry, European cultural capitals as a form of temporary organisations, etc.) using the example of selected forms of operation and projects in the field of art and culture.

Associate Dean of Studies
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Sexl

Module structure

• 10 ECTS-Credits Social Communication and Media Change
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Theoretical and Methodological Fundamentals
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Specialisation in Media and Communication Science
  

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the minor “Media and Communication” know fundamental theories and methods of media and communication research. They are able to analyse and reflect on media and communication processes in individual, social and international environments. They are able of applying their knowledge to work on relevant problems in their area of science.

Graduates of the minor “Media and Communication” are able

• to understand and apply theories and models in media and communication research,
• to model, analyse and reflect on media and communication processes,
• to establish media references in the context of their own field of study,
• to classify technologically and ideologically abridged views of media and communications dynamics.

Dean of Studies
Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Petra Missomelius

Students of the Bachelor’s Programme German Philology may not select the Minor “Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis”.

Module structure

Compulsory Modules »

• 10 ECTS-Credits Written and Spoken Language Analysis
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Specific Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis
  

Elective Modules »

• 5 ECTS-Credits Applied Linguistics
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Practice of Linguistic Research
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Digital Humanities
• 5 ECTS-Credits Advanced Topics in Linguistics
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Applied Linguistics (Advanced Course)
  

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Graduates of the Minor “Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis” are familiar with a broad spectrum of methods for the collection, processing and evaluation of language date (including methods of text analysis, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, especially variation linguistics, qualitative and quantitative methods, digital methods). They are able to apply different methods and tools for the analysis of language data, to assess the suitability of methods for specific questions and types of language data (spoken and written language data, multimedia/multimodal data, historical language data) and to use the acquired knowledge for questions from their own disciplines.
• Graduates of the Minor “Methods of Empirical Language Data Analysis” are able to reflect on the specific (e.g. medial) characteristics of different types of linguistic data, to apply different methods and tools of linguistic data analysis to questions and problems in the profession and science, to critically deal with the social relevance of linguistic data and the methods of their analysis.
  

Contact
Dr. Cordula Meißner

Module structure

Compulsory modules »

• 10 ECTS-Credits Introduction to Empirical Social Research
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Statistics
  

Elective modules »

• 10 ECTS-Credits Applied Methods – Enhanced Level
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Qualitative Social Research
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Multivariate Analysis Methods and Statistics –Advanced Study
  

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the minor “Methods in Empirical Social Research” know the characteristics of qualitative and quantitative social research, are aware of the special features of data collection and data evaluation and are capable of understanding basic social-scientific methods (such as questionnaires, interviews, analysis of content, discourse, text and network) and statistical procedures (hypothesis tests and regression analyses) and apply them to the solution of pertinent problems from their field of research.

The graduates are able,

• to develop social science research designs and implement them in the context of their own field of study,
• to select and apply methods in social science in the context of their own field of study
• to collect and evaluate data independently.

Dean of Studies
Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Petra Missomelius

Module structue

Elective Modules »

• 5 ECTS-Credits German Medieval Studies
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits History of the Middle Ages
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Medieval Philosophy
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Art History of the Middle Ages
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Medieval and Neo-Latin Language and Literature
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Archaeology - Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Medieval and Modern Archaeology
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Epochs of Musical History I
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Church History and Canon Law
  

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Minor “Medieval Studies” know fundamental theories, methods and contents of medieval studies. They are able to grasp these from different perspectives, reflect on them and relate them to their own subject. Thanks to their thematic focus on this field, they also have an overview of medieval studies through the interdisciplinary breadth, the multi-perspective approach to different areas of medieval studies and the transdisciplinary way of thinking and working on medieval objects and questions.  

Associate Dean of Studies 
Mag. Dr. Elisabeth De Felip-Jaud

Module structure

• 5 ECTS-Credits Governance and Partnership
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Climatic Conditions and Ecological Challenges
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Sustainable Use of Resources
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Basic Human Needs – “Right to a Good Life”
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Social and Economic Development
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Universal Values
  

Expected Learning Outcomes

The minor “Sustainability” at the University of Innsbruck is aimed at students who wish to place specialist knowledge acquired in their studies in the context of ecologically, socially and economically sustainable development.

The minor “Sustainability” is based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2015. The SDGs are understood as a global plan of action for people, planet and prosperity, whose explicit goal is to counteract inequalities and "leave no one behind". The diversity of the topics addressed and to be deal with, between which there are numerous tensions, is at the same time the strength and weakness of Agenda 2030. This variety is reflected in the minor.

Graduates of the minor “Sustainability”

• have an understanding for systemically networked thinking,
• have the ability to handle multidimensional and complex decision situations, which have economic, ecological and social restrictions, to analyse them and name the conditions for participatory and fair decision-making,
• have developed an understanding of power structures that sustain the exploitation of human and non-human beings,
• have basic knowledge of the phenomenon of climate change,
• have knowledge of sustainable use of resources in different areas,
• understand how education systems contribute to maintaining or overcoming unsustainable structures,
• are aware of the challenges of sustainable development in a wide range of practical fields and have relevant knowledge in selected specialist areas that complement the field of their Bachelor’s programme,
• have an advanced ability to think and act in a transdisciplinary way and have the ability to consider the sustainability perspective in different professional fields as well as to promote its implementation.

Dean of Studies
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Kurt Nicolussi

Module structure

Compulsory Modules »

• 5 ECTS-Credits Fundamentals of Slavonic Studies
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Culture and Society
  

Elective Modules»

• 10 ECTS-Credits Command of Language Russian (Basic Course)
• 10 ECTS-Credits Command of Language Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Command of Language Polish
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Comparative Politics
  
• 7,5 ECTS-Credits International Relations - Advanced
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Sociology
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Region and History
  
• 7,5 ECTS-Credits Advanced Topics in Austrian History
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Historical Excursion
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Periods of Art History I
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Periods of Art History: High Medieval Ages to Present
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Painting, Graphics and New Media
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Architecture, Sculpture, Arts and Crafts
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Excursion: Art History II
  
• 2,5 ECTS-Credits Slavonic Literary Studies
  
• 2,5 ECTS-Credits Film in Eastern/Central/South-Eastern Europe
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Slavonic Excursion
  

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Minor “Eastern European Studies” have language skills in Russian or Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian or Polish at level A1/A2. They have an overview knowledge of the Slavic languages and cultures of Eastern, East-Central and South-Eastern Europe as well as specialised knowledge of the history, society, art or politics of this region.  

Contact
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andrea Zink

Module structure

Elective Modules »

• 10 ECTS-Credits Language and Society
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Linguistic Diversity
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Humans and Space
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Culture and Region
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Society and History
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Social Structure and Identity
  

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Minor “Language – Space – Society” know the basic theories and methods of sociolinguistics, human geography, European ethnology, history or sociology. They understand language as a social phenomenon and can recognise, reflect and analyse processes of social transformation in the context of their socio-spatial anchoring. They know about the importance of social and regional spaces for the development of social relations and cultural conflicts. They are able to describe and critically question the mutual relationship between language, space and society on the basis of scientific methods and theories. They can relate the knowledge they have acquired to their own field of study and thus expand their ability to reflect on social processes.

Contact
Dr. Maria Stopfner

Students of the Bachelor’s Programme Translation Studies may not pass the Minor “Translation: Translating and Interpreting”.

Module structure

Compulsory Modules »

• 7 ECTS-Credits Translation Studies
  
• 8 ECTS-Credits Translation in Practice
  
• 7,5 ECTS-Credits Translation
  
• 7,5 ECTS-Credits Interpreting
  

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Minor “Translation: Translating and Interpreting” know the differences and special features of the various forms, modes and settings of translation and have developed an awareness of the necessity of professional translation. They have gained a first insight into the activity of professional translation and interpreting as well as into translation studies. 

Studienbeauftragter
Mag. Dr. Saverio Carpentieri

  Module structure

• 10 ECTS-Credits Linguistics and Culture I
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits English Literature and Culture I
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits American Literature and Culture I
  

Students of the Master’s Programme English and American Studies may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) English and American Studies.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• possess a specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills and competences in the fields of English and American Studies, required for finding and implementing methodically sound solutions to subject-specific questions.
• have a critical awareness of factual questions in the field of English and American Studies.
• are able to successfully work on complex fields of knowledge in English and American Studies in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.

Dean of Studies
Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Gerhard Pisek

 Module structure

• 10 ECTS-Credits Forms of Scientific Communication
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Research Seminar I
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Selected Topics in German Philology I
  

Students of the Master’s Programme German Philology may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) German Language and Literature.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• are able to analyse and reflect language and communication events in their different expressions.
• are able to analyse, optimise and produce texts and different linguistic forms of expression with regards of the target group, thanks to their advanced knowledge of linguistic regularities and language norms as well as their comprehensive understanding of their dependence on extralinguistic factors.
• know about historic developments and contemporary forms of the German language and/or German-language literature.
  
• are able to critically reflect and relate to other fields knowledge and findings in German Philology and to use this transfer also for new perspectives and for tackling complex tasks in other disciplines.
• have the competence to use findings of complex and also unpredictable working and learning contexts in German Philology and/or at the interface of German Philology and other fields for innovative approaches in their working and learning area.

Associate Dean of Studies
Mag. Dr. Elisabeth De Felip-Jaud

Module structure

• 10 ECTS-Credits German as a Foreign Language/ German as a Second Language
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Research Seminar I
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Selected Topics in German Philology I
  

Students of the Master’s Programme German Philology may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) German as a Foreign/Second Language.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• possess a specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills and competences in the fields of German as a Foreign/Second Language, required for finding and implementing methodically sound solutions to subject-specific questions.
  
• have a critical awareness of key issues in the field of German as a Foreign/Second Language.
• are able to successfully work on complex learning contexts of German as a Foreign/Second Language in an innovative and interdisciplinary manner.
  

Associate Dean of Studies
Mag. Dr. Elisabeth De Felip-Jaud

Module structure

• 15 ECTS-Credits American Film, Media and Culture
• 15 ECTS-Credits Film as Cultural Practice 1
  

If the module American Film, Media and Culture has already been completed within the scope of the Master’s Programme English and American Studies (elective module 9), then the minor (complementary subject area) Film Studies (B) may be chosen.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• have specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills as well as subject-specific competences in the field of film and media studies, in film theory and film-cultural practice.
• are able to critically reflect and implement questions in film studies on a high methodological level.
• have intercultural competences in film and cultural studies and are able to develop complex knowledge areas in an interdisciplinary way.

Dean of Studies
Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Gerhard Pisek

Module structure

• 15 ECTS-Credits Film History
  
• 15 ECTS-Credits Film as Cultural Practice 2
  

If the module Film History has already been completed within the scope of the Master’s Programme Romance Studies (elective module 6 acc. to §7 par. 3), then the minor (complementary subject area) Film Studies (A) may be chosen.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• have specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills as well as subject-specific competences in the field of film and media studies, in film theory and film-cultural practice.
• are able to critically reflect and implement questions in film studies on a high methodological level.
• have intercultural competences in film and cultural studies and are able to develop complex knowledge areas in an interdisciplinary way.
  

Dean of Studies
Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Gerhard Pisek

Module structure

• 7.5 ECTS-Credits French 1
  
• 7.5 ECTS-Credits French 2
  
• 15 ECTS-Credits Language, Media Politics I
  

Students of the Master’s Programme Romance Studies or the Master’s Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (General Education) in the subject of French may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) area in French linguistics.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• use the French language independently and have a command of the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing at the language level B1+ to B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
• have specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills as well as subject-specific competences in the field of French linguistics for finding and implementing sound solutions to subject-specific questions on a high methodological level.
• have a critical awareness of issues of knowledge in the field of French linguistics.
• are able to successfully work on complex learning contexts in the field of French linguistics in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.
  

Associate Dean of Studies
Assoz. Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Dr. Julia Pröll

Module structure

• 7.5 ECTS-Credits French 1
• 7.5 ECTS-Credits French 2
• 15 ECTS-Credits Literatures and Cultures Transversal I
  

Students of the Master’s Programme Romance Studies or the Master’s Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (General Education) in the subject of French may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) in French Literary and Cultural Studies.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• use the French language independently and have a command of the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing at the language level B1+ to B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
• have specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills as well as subject-specific competences in the field of French Literary and Cultural Studies for finding and implementing sound solutions to subject-specific questions on a high methodological level.
• have a critical awareness of issues of knowledge in the field of French Literary and Cultural Studies.
• are able to successfully work on complex learning contexts in the field of French Literary and Cultural Studies in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.
  

Associate Dean of Studies
Assoz. Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Dr. Julia Pröll

Module structure

• 7.5 ECTS-Credits The Languages of Greece and the Aegean
  
• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Asian Languages
  
• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Anatolian Languages
  
• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Western Indo-European Languages
  

Students of the Master’s Programme Linguistics may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) of Indo-European Linguistics.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• are able to successfully work on complex learning contexts in the field of Indo-European Linguistics in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.
• have specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills as well as subject-specific competences in the field of Indo-European Linguistics for finding and implementing sound solutions to subject-specific questions on a high methodological level.
• have a critical awareness of issues of knowledge in the field of Indo-European Linguistics.
  

Associate Dean of Studies
Mag. Dr. Elisabeth De Felip-Jaud

Module structure

• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Italian 1
• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Italian 2
• 15 ECTS-Credits Language, Media, Politics I
  

Students of the Master’s Programme Romance Studies or the Master’s Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (General Education) in the subject of Italian may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) in Italian Linguistics.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• use the Italian language independently and have a command of the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing at the language level B1+ to B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
• have specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills as well as subject-specific competences in the field of Italian linguistics for finding and implementing sound solutions to subject-specific questions on a high methodological level.
• have a critical awareness of issues of knowledge in the field of Italian linguistics.
• are able to successfully work on complex learning contexts in the field of Italian linguistics in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.

Associate Dean of Studies
Assoz. Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Dr. Julia Pröll

Module structure

• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Italian 1
• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Italian 2
• 15 ECTS-Credits Romance Literatures and Cultures Transversal I
  

Students of the Master’s Programme Romance Studies or the Master’s Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (General Education) in the subject of Italian may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) in Italian Literary and Cultural Studies.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• use the Italian language independently and have a command of the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing at the language level B1+ to B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
• have specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills as well as subject-specific competences in the field of Italian Literary and Cultural Studies for finding and implementing sound solutions to subject-specific questions on a high methodological level.
• have a critical awareness of issues of knowledge in the field of Italian Literary and Cultural Studies.
• are able to successfully work on complex learning contexts in the field of Italian Literary and Cultural Studies in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.
  

Associate Dean of Studies
Assoz. Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Dr. Julia Pröll

Module structure

• 5 ECTS-Credits Grammar I
• 10 ECTS-Credits Latin Reading
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Interpretation I
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Specialisation
  

Students o the Master’s Programme Classical Philology – Latin or the Master’s Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (General Education) in the subject of Latin may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) Latin.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• have specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills as well as subject-specific competences in the field of Latin for finding and implementing sound solutions to subject-specific questions on a high methodological level.
• have a critical awareness of issues of knowledge in the field of Latin.
• are able to successfully work on complex learning contexts in the field of Latin in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.

Associate Dean of Studies
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Sexl

Module structure

• 10 ECTS-Credits Print Production and Trimediality
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Social Media and Public Communication
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Media-Practical Focus
  

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the minor “Media Practice” are qualified to understand and apply basic aspects of media practice in the fields of print media, audiovisual media and social media.

Graduates of the minor “Media Practice” are able

• to select and apply media and media tools,
• to understand, analyse and implement media, their forms of design and the respective output channels,
• to take up current events and implement them in the media,
• to plan and carry out practical media projects, also in the context of one’s own field of study.

Examination Office
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Dean of Studies
Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Petra Missomelius

Module structure

• 10 ECTS-Credits Media Linguistics
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Media and Literature
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Aspects of Media Practice
  

Students of the Master’s Programme Media Studies may not pass the complementary subject area Media Studies.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• have specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills as well as subject-specific competences in the field of Media Studies for finding and implementing sound solutions to subject-specific questions on a high methodological level.
• have a critical awareness of issues of knowledge in the field of Media Studies
• are able to successfully work on complex learning contexts in the field of Media Studies in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.
  

Dean of Studies
Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Gerhard Pisek

Module structure

• 5 ECTS-Credits Grammar I
• 5 ECTS-Credits Medieval and Neo-Latin Language and Literature
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Advanced Topics in Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Extensive Reading I
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Extensive Reading II

Students of the Master’s Programme Classical Philology – Latin or the Master’s Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (General Education) in the subject of Latin may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) in Medieval and Neo-Latin.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• have specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills as well as subject-specific competences in the field of Medieval and Neo-Latin for finding and implementing sound solutions to subject-specific questions on a high methodological level.
• have a critical awareness of issues of knowledge in the field of Medieval and Neo-Latin
• are able to successfully work on complex learning contexts in the field of Medieval and Neo-Latin in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.
  

Associate Dean of Studies
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Sexl

Module structure

• 10 ECTS-Credits Command of Language Russian (Basic Course)
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Russian/Slavic Literature(s)
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Culture and Media
  

Students of the Master’s Programme Slavonic Studies may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) in Slavonic Literary and Cultural Studies.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• use the Russian language independently and have a command of the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing at the language level A1/A2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
• have specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills as well as subject-specific competences in the field of Slavonic Literary and Cultural Studies for finding and implementing sound solutions to subject-specific questions on a high methodological level.
• have a critical awareness of issues of knowledge in the field of Slavonic Literary and Cultural Studies.
• are able to successfully work on complex learning contexts in the field of Slavonic Literary and Cultural Studies in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.

Associate Dean of Studies
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Helmut Weinberger

Module structure

• 10 ECTS-Credits Command of Language Russian (Basic Course)
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Linguistics
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Slavonic Linguistics
  

Students of the Master’s Programme Slavonic Studies may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) in Slavonic Linguistics.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• use the Russian language independently and have a command of the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing at the language level A1/A2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
• have specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills as well as subject-specific competences in the field of Slavonic linguistics for finding and implementing sound solutions to subject-specific questions on a high methodological level.
• have a critical awareness of issues of knowledge in the field of Slavonic linguistics.
• are able to successfully work on complex learning contexts in the field of Slavonic linguistics in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.

Associate Dean of Studies
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Helmut Weinberger

Module structure

• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Spanish 1
• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Spanish 2
• 15 ECTS-Credits Language Media Politics I
  

Students of the Master’s Programme Romance Studies or the Master’s Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (General Education) in the subject of Spanish may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) in Spanish Linguistics.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• use the Spanish language independently and have a command of the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing at the language level B1+ to B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
• have specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills as well as subject-specific competences in the field of Spanish linguistics for finding and implementing sound solutions to subject-specific questions on a high methodological level.
• have a critical awareness of issues of knowledge in the field of Spanish linguistics.
• are able to successfully work on complex learning contexts in the field of Spanish linguistics in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.
  

Associate Dean of Studies
Assoz. Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Dr. Julia Pröll

Module structure

• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Spanish 1
  
• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Spanish 2
• 15 ECTS-Credits Romance Literatures and Cultures Transversal I
  

Students of the Master’s Programme Romance Studies or the Master’s Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (General Education) in the subject of Spanish may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) in Spanish Literary and Cultural Studies.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• use the Spanish language independently and have a command of the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing at the language level B1+ to B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
• have specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills as well as subject-specific competences in the field of Spanish Literary and Cultural Studies for finding and implementing sound solutions to subject-specific questions on a high methodological level.
• have a critical awareness of issues of knowledge in the field of Spanish Literary and Cultural Studies.
• are able to successfully work on complex learning contexts in the field of Spanish Literary and Cultural Studies in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.
  

Associate Dean of Studies
Assoz. Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Dr. Julia Pröll

Module structure

• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Business Communication
  
• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Interactive Media
  
• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Communication Theory
  
• 7.5 ECTS-Credits Communication Analysis
  

Students of the Master’s Programme Linguistics may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) Business Communication.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• have specialised knowledge and specialised problem solving skills as well as subject-specific competences in the field of Business Communication for finding and implementing sound solutions to subject-specific questions on a high methodological level.
• have a critical awareness of issues of knowledge in the field of Business Communication.
• are able to successfully work on complex learning contexts in the field of Business Communication in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.

Associate Dean of Studies
Mag. Dr. Elisabeth De Felip-Jaud

Module structure

• 10 ECTS-Credits Comparative Literary Studies
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits World Literature and Intertextuality
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Media Theory and Intermediality
  

Students of the Master’s Programme Comparative Literature may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) Comparative Literature.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates

• have well-founded and specialised insights into the following scientific fields of work: a) international literary phenomena (i.a. within the scope of the “world literature” concept); b) text, literary and cultural theory as well as c) intermediality (literature/film, literature/photography, literature/visual arts, literature/music, literature/dance, literature/architecture, literature/new media).
• are able to independently and critically analyse and interpret literary and other artistic works or phenomena resp. as well as their reception.
• have the competence to reflect on their own cultural location and promote an understanding for other cultures as well as gender-specific differences.
• are able to work in an interdisciplinary way and
• know about the possibilities of practice-oriented application of their competences in the fields of literary and cultural businesses (bookshops, publishing and editorial, journalism, exhibitions, museum pedagogy as well as culture and project management; theatre, repertory cinemas).
  

Associate Dean of Studies
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Sexl

Module structure

• 5 ECTS-Credits Introduction to Programming
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Introduction to Data Management
  
• 10 ECTS-Credits Data Analysis
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Aspects of Digitalisation
  
• 5 ECTS-Credits Data Analysis Lab
  

Students of a pertinent study programme in Computer Science may not pass the minor (complementary subject area) in Digital Science.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Complementary Subject Area Digital Science will be able to understand basic digital methods in the fields of programming, data analysis and data management and to apply them to solving relevant issues in their field of science, particularly in the humanities, social sciences and economics.

Graduates are able

• to understand and create programmes in a programming language suitable for data analysis,
• to model, prepare and manage data,
• to select and apply data analysis procedures in the context of their own field of study,
• to plan and implement data analysis projects in the context of their own field of study.

General information from the Digital Science Center
https://www.uibk.ac.at/disc/teaching/digital-science/

AssociateDean of Studies
Dr. Joanna Chimiak-Opoka

Minors for Bachelor's Programmes

• University of Innsbruck Bulletin July 2 2021, Issue 91, No. 901
• University of Innsbruck Bulletin June 22 2020, Issue 42, No. 485

Minor for Bachelor's and Master's Programmes

• University of Innsbruck Bulletin July 2 2021, Issue 93, No. 903
• University of Innsbruck Bulletin June 3 2019, Issue 71, No. 624

Minors for Master's Programmes

• University of Innsbruck Bulletin August 4 2021, Issue 99, No. 962 and 963 (Amendment)
• University of Innsbruck Bulletin July 2, Issue, No. 902
• University of Innsbruck Bulletin June 22 2020, Issue 42, No. 485
  
• University of Innsbruck Bulletin October 29 2018, Issue 4, No. 59 (Amendment)
• University of Innsbruck Bulletin July 13 2018, Issue 58, No. 542