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For: prospective students, students, teachers
Topics: Flexible studying, sustainable studying, individual course of study, pilot study programs and projects, cross-course transfer, university-wide project week
Sub-project of making the study programs at Fulda University more flexible
Location: Fulda University
Development of an international Applied Liberal Arts course at HS Fulda
The starting point for the project idea is partly shared (Domke/Fischer in the ZDK) and partly personal experiences about the potential of interdisciplinary, project-related course content. The focus is on analytical and media practical as well as organizational and social-communicative skills, which are highly relevant for numerous modern professional profiles. “Liberal Arts” courses that have so far only been available at universities in the German higher education landscape include some of these aspects, but from the perspective of applied sciences they have the desideratum of a concrete, already scientifically “applied” foundation. As a research-strong, interdisciplinary campus university, Fulda University has an excellent structure whose potential in interdisciplinary academic training has not yet been fully exhausted.
This is where the project idea comes in: We would like to analyze how we can set up the first and so far only “Applied Liberal Arts” degree program at a university at the HS Fulda. Through a targeted approach to colleagues from all departments at HS Fulda and through an in-depth analysis of previous liberal arts courses, their operation in the primarily Anglo-American region, as well as a further examination of project-related teaching and current approaches to interdisciplinary teaching, a Structure for the possible process and the establishment of the course of study has been developed. The content of such a course of study should also be compared with the pillars of HS Fulda and its mission statement. In addition to the content, it is particularly important to work out the structure, structure and integration of this new course of study into the structure of HS Fulda.
