Philosophical Faculty
The Philosophical Faculty is divided into 16 Institutes, with around 60 chairs and 150 academic and non-academic staff positions.
The institutes of the Faculty can be divided roughly into two main concentrations:
As part of a linguistic and cultural concentration one can count the institutes for Antiquity, for English/American Studies, for Baltic Studies, for German Philology, for Church Music and Music itself, for Romance Studies and for Slavic Studies. Further part of this concentration are the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Institute, the History Institute and the Nordic Institute, as well as a modern languages and media centre.
Belonging to the sociological concentration are the institutes for Educational Science, for Philosophy, for Political Science, for Psychology and for Sport Science.
As part of a linguistic and cultural concentration one can count the institutes for Antiquity, for English/American Studies, for Baltic Studies, for German Philology, for Church Music and Music itself, for Romance Studies and for Slavic Studies. Further part of this concentration are the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Institute, the History Institute and the Nordic Institute, as well as a modern languages and media centre.
Belonging to the sociological concentration are the institutes for Educational Science, for Philosophy, for Political Science, for Psychology and for Sport Science.
Strengths of the Philosophical Faculty
- Attractive due to a concentrated range of available subjects. Some subjects can, within Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, only be studied in Greifswald, others are available almost nowhere else in Germany (Baltic Studies, Finnish Studies, Ukrainian Studies).
- Linked interdisciplinarily in research and teaching, where University research interests in particular as well as the successful graduate programme 'Contact zone Mare Balticum: Alienation and Integration in the Baltic Sea Area' should be highlighted. Good relationships also exist in the American and Far Eastern regions (Vietnam).
- Internationally linked in a network of academic relationships in the Baltic Sea Area, where the relationships for Philosophy, History and Slavic, Baltic and Nordic Studies are of particular note. Numerous institutes are involved in student exchange programmes (e.g. Socrates, Campus europae).
- Innovative in the modularisation of courses in the Bachelor and Master areas ('Greifswald Model'); it is intended that the model will, with the agreement of the responsible ministry, be transferred onto teacher training ('Y Model').
- Successful in the incorporation of third-party funds and the supervision of courses; this led in 2004 to good positions in various rankings (e.g. Political Science, Psychology, English Studies).
- Effective in the public sphere through the radiation of culture into the town and region.
Teaching Emphases
The Philosophical Faculty has a traditional orientation: it includes beside the core subjects of Philosophy and History a large number of different Philologies, which enable a wide choice of disciplinary combinations. Further to this, sociological choices are made available by their corresponding institutes. Art and Music complete the palette. Courses are taken as combinations of at least two and often three subjects, as is usual for Master or teacher training courses.
The resulting research areas arise either from individual institutes or from interdisciplinary cooperation.
Research Emphases
Northeast European Cultures combine the linguistic, literary and cultural approaches which apply to the corresponding cultural areas or contact zones respectively in the chosen geographical area. This focus finds its completion through Philosophy and History with their correspondingly orientated chairs. Many foundation and DFG-promoted projects are conducted.
Medieval Studies is made up of the contributions of research into the Middle Ages in the History Institute in connection with the Historical Linguistics chairs in individual Philologies. Contributions from Art History and Music complete the picture.
Gender research is carried out in the cooperative space of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Women's and Gender Research. Male and female researchers brought together comfortably from various as well as combined disciplines have, since 2004, devoted themselves to the issues raised by age, health and society.
The Philosophical Faculty has a traditional orientation: it includes beside the core subjects of Philosophy and History a large number of different Philologies, which enable a wide choice of disciplinary combinations. Further to this, sociological choices are made available by their corresponding institutes. Art and Music complete the palette. Courses are taken as combinations of at least two and often three subjects, as is usual for Master or teacher training courses.
The resulting research areas arise either from individual institutes or from interdisciplinary cooperation.
Research Emphases
Northeast European Cultures combine the linguistic, literary and cultural approaches which apply to the corresponding cultural areas or contact zones respectively in the chosen geographical area. This focus finds its completion through Philosophy and History with their correspondingly orientated chairs. Many foundation and DFG-promoted projects are conducted.
Medieval Studies is made up of the contributions of research into the Middle Ages in the History Institute in connection with the Historical Linguistics chairs in individual Philologies. Contributions from Art History and Music complete the picture.
Gender research is carried out in the cooperative space of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Women's and Gender Research. Male and female researchers brought together comfortably from various as well as combined disciplines have, since 2004, devoted themselves to the issues raised by age, health and society.
Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
Deanery of the Philosophical Faculty
Rubenowstrasse 3
17487 Greifswald
Germany
Tel: +49 (0)3834 86-3001
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