Teaching

Goals - Qualification Profile

The pedagogical goal is to make students familiar with related concepts, doctrines, problems and methods and to find answers to fundamental theoretical, practical and moral questions through a critical and systematic approach. The aim is to

• trace interdisciplinary relations

• foster competence in expression and argumentation

• develop  flexible conceptual skills

• analyze and reflect on problem solutions and convictions

• cultivate reflective perspectives on moral, political and ideological issues

• participate in multi- and interdisciplinary discourses

Occupational Areas

Philosophy is not a vocational subject, but studying it prepares graduates for a number of occupations because the increasingly specialized knowledge in modern society demands a corrective, action-oriented, encompassing way of looking at things, and because it develops a wide range of transferable skills such as the ability to argue, reason and express oneself clearly.

Occupational areas are

• education (e.g. universities, colleges, adult educational programs)

• publishing, literature

• (print) media

• library science

• information and knowledge management

• (inter-) cullural communication, cultural politics, administration and mediation

• economics (e.g., public relations)

• political, ethical and social counselling

• health services

• freelance work (writers and journalists)