Teaching in the Complementary Studies
The Complementary Studies at Leuphana College offers a dynamic forum for interdisciplinary exchange along central social and scientific topics. As lecturers, you are invited to contribute your expertise and innovative teaching concepts in order to open up new perspectives for Bachelor students from all departments and semesters.
Our students benefit from the opportunity to look beyond the boundaries of their own subject, to examine current issues from different angles and to work at interdisciplinary interfaces. This creates a unique space for creative thinking, critical reflection and forward-looking education.
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The subject areas avoid clear faculty and discipline categorisations. Instead, they aim to reflect the diversity of scientific and social problem areas and enter into a dialogue. Courses therefore approach the subject areas of the individual subject areas from different academic perspectives, combined with a critical analysis of disciplinary strengths and potentials as well as the aim of interdisciplinary syntheses.
The focus of the courses can be on theoretical positions and current discourses at the interfaces of different fields of knowledge, values and action, as well as on the approaches with which these phenomena can be systematically analysed and explained in terms of regularities, or the possibilities of changing them in practice.
In the complementary study programme as a forum of sciences, each subject area corresponds to a 5 CP module.
- Digitality & Technology: In this module, students address both analogue production technologies and aspects of automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence associated with the digital transformation. With a view to buzzwords such as Industry 4.0 or data literacy, the interaction between man and machine is always negotiated.
- Individual & Society: In this module, students examine the entire diversity, complexity, structure and dynamics of social interactions of individuals and groups and their social systems, from intimate interpersonal relationships to formal cultural or political relationships and their institutionalisation on a lifeworld to global level.
- Art & Communication: In this module, students deal with practices, actors and contexts of expression, perception and communication, which include aesthetic and artistic forms as well as everyday or institutionalised ways and modes of exchanging information.
- Nature & Environment: In this module, students deal with the phenomena, processes and systems of the animate and inanimate environment. They also examine the complexity of human-nature and human-environment relationships.
- Values & Identity: In this module, students explore what makes people who they are. They examine the formation of values and identities on an individual level (from mentally conscious, but also unconscious schemes and processes) and the emotional, material, institutional and social concomitants (but also transcendental phenomena) that are involved in their materialisation.
- Economy & Innovation: In this module, students consider structures and practices of economic activity in the social market economy from the local to the global level. Wherever possible, these are linked with aspects of economic and business history and futurology in order to explore how technical inventions become economic successes or which innovative processes produce new forms of economic activity. The forms, mechanisms and experiences of working environments within and outside the economic context will also be explicitly considered: from the company to the family and other social communities.