Flexibility of study programs at Fulda University of Applied Sciences

At a glance

For: Prospective students, current students, lecturers

Topics: Flexible studying, sustainable studying, individual study plan, pilot study programs and projects, cross-program transfer, university-wide project week

Areas of specialization: Quality of life and health (Department of Health Sciences, Department of Nutritional Sciences), International (Department of Social Work, Department of Economics, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, of Food Technology, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences & Applied Computer Science), Business and Technology (Department of Economics, Department of Applied Computer Science, Department of Applied Computer Science & Social and Cultural Sciences), Campus University (University-wide project week, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Department of Economics)

Location: Fulda University

Enable flexible and therefore sustainable studying

The creation of flexible study programs is central today due to the still inelastic implementation of study structures after the Bologna Reform (especially in Germany) and their design determines the profile. During their studies, many students have to work and/or have family obligations in addition to the learning process.

Due to students' professional and personal biographies and living conditions, they now need more flexible study structures that meet these requirements. Although the Fulda University of Applied Sciences has already developed curricular flexibility in individual study programs and modules, these have not yet been substantially (further) developed conceptually across courses and with reference to the university's profile areas. Such a profile should be multidimensional and include the content, methodological, temporal and spatial dimensions as well as the interconnection of several or all dimensions in individual curricula.

The concept for making Fulda University's study programs more flexible allows for more flexible and therefore sustainable studying, each located in one of the Fulda University's profile areas. In each profile area there are several pilot study programs that soften existing structures in one or two dimensions through innovative design and redesign them in a meaningful new order. The concept includes all degree programs with various pilot projects, which, after their (further) development, are transferred within and/or external to the department in order to be transferable to other suitable degree programs and thus have a broader impact.