University of Hildesheim

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The University of Hildesheim is a foundation university in Hildesheim.

  • 4.1 Center for World Music
  • 4.2 Center for education and research on teaching
  • 4.3 Didactical Research Forum
  • 4.4 Herder College - Centre of transdisciplinary research culture
  • 4.5 Competence Centre Early Childhood Lower Saxony
  • 4.6 Centre for Interdisciplinary Women 's and Gender Studies ( ZIF)

History

That company was formed in 1946 from a teacher training college Alfeld, which relocated in 1970 as a department of the University of Education Lower Saxony Hildesheim, Hildesheim University in 1978 as a scientific and independent again in 1989 to the University of Hildesheim. On 1 January 2003 the University of Hildesheim body has gone from the sponsorship of the State of Lower Saxony in the ownership of the public University of Hildesheim Foundation and was one of the first foundation universities in Germany. This step is the foundation high school at the same time have completed four other universities in Lower Saxony. President of the Foundation is Wolfgang -Uwe Friedrich.

The proportion of women among students is due to the programs offered traditionally well above the national average. In elementary education, there are, for example, almost 90 %, in total there are over 75%. The proportion of female professors is around 40 percent, well above the national average.

Within ten years, the University from 2002 to 2012 has experienced strong growth. Thus, the number of students increased by 60% from 3,785 to 6,055 students, the number of professors grew from 50 to 77 on the number of courses could be doubled. An even more pronounced increase was in income in the area of ​​third-party funds, which were increased by 353 %.

Faculties and Institutes

The University of Hildesheim is divided into four departments, with 27 institutions are assigned.

Division I: Education and Social Sciences

  • Institute of Education ( Department of Applied Educational Science, Department of Education Studies )
  • Institute of Primary School Curriculum and General Studies
  • Department of Psychology
  • Institute of Social Sciences
  • Institute of Catholic Theology
  • Institute of Protestant Theology
  • Department of History
  • Institute for Social and Organisational Education
  • Institute of Sport Science

Section II: Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Communication

  • Institute for Cultural Policy
  • Institute of Philosophy
  • Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Studies
  • Institute for Media, Theatre and Popular Culture
  • Department of Music and Musicology
  • Institute of Fine Arts and Art Studies

Division III: Language and Information Sciences

  • Department of German Language and Literature
  • Department of English Language and Literature
  • Institute for Intercultural Communication
  • Institute of Translation Studies and Technical Communication
  • Institute of Information Science and Language Technology

Department IV: mathematics, natural sciences, business and computer science

  • Department of Biology and Chemistry
  • Department of Geography
  • Institute of Physics
  • Institute of Technology
  • Institute of Mathematics and Applied computer science
  • Department of Business and Economics computer science
  • Institute of computer science

Courses of Study

The range of subjects includes courses in the educational and social sciences, cultural studies, linguistics and information science as well as in mathematics, natural sciences, business and computer science. The close links between theory and practice has become a feature of the Hildesheimer courses.

Today, " teaching at primary - secondary and secondary schools " (Bachelor / Master) enrolled about 40 percent of students in the degree program. Around 75.8 % of these students are female. The " Hildesheimer model" of teacher education includes - in close cooperation with more than 250 partner schools in the region - practical study in schools from the first semester and is unique in Germany. Hildesheimer student teachers receive from the beginning the opportunity to meet their future work environment and spend every Friday morning in the first and second semesters in a school, hospitieren, making first attempts at teaching. The practical phases drag continuously through the entire course of study and are accompanied by scientists from the University and teachers of the partner schools, prepared and followed.

The Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences, the Bachelor's degree programs International Communication and Translation are ( Ikue ) and International Information Management offered (IIM ). It is also possible the Master's degree in International Technical Communication - Languages ​​and Technology ( SuT ) study. The study program " International Information Management " responds to the increasing globalization and the impact of new information and communication technology, with its two focal points Applied Linguistics and Applied Information Science. The course is intended for students, the inclinations and skills in languages ​​and translation, as well as bring interest in the information processing and communication by means of information technology. It includes a main compartment and two side pockets.

The front-runner took the Hildesheim University in introducing the internationally oriented Bachelor and Master degrees. Already on October 1, 1998, with the further education course "Information Technology (IT)" for the first time, a master 's degree program with the degree " Master of Science" ( M.Sc.) introduced the successfully evaluated in 2005, as a postgraduate study program " Educational and Information Technology ( BIT ) "was reakkrediert. Since the winter semester 2000/ 01 there is an undergraduate bachelor's degree in Information Management and Information Technology ( IMIT ), which information technology, business administration and information science introduces the basics of the areas of expertise, providing a training base for qualified IT and business management professionals. Through the acquired basic knowledge the students gain a first insight into the topics that allows an informed decision for graduate programs. Thus follows the Bachelor of Science degree in this field since 2003, deepening the master course at. Since the winter semester 2007 /08, the bachelor's degree program in computer science is offered.

Other studies exist in the field of the humanities and cultural studies. Nationwide unique bachelor's degree programs are cultural studies and aesthetic practice, creative writing and cultural journalism, Scenic Arts and Philosophy Performing Arts Media and Masters Degrees staging of the arts and media, intercultural communication, creative writing and philosophy and arts intercultural.

A major construction project at the University of Hildesheim is completed in 2012: the renovation and expansion of the protected domain Marienburg for the Department of Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Communication. In addition to the conversion of the former stables and the high medieval palace ( "High House " ) to seminar and conference rooms, a modern theater building ( " Castle Theatre " ) and a courtyard café was born. The Marienburg Castle is one of the most valuable medieval monuments in northern Germany. The cultural studies courses lead students from the entire German-speaking area to Hildesheim on the campus culture Marienburg castle. Among the approximately 6000 students in the winter semester 2011/12 are around 1000 cultural studies students, of whom three-quarters come from other states or from abroad.

The department of mathematics, natural sciences, business and computer science provides, inter alia, to the degree programs of information management and information technology and computer science economy. Forward- looking profile elements of the Master's program is one of " environmental science and conservation " with the majors Historic Environment Analysis, Applied environmental conservation and environmental education. At the Institute of computer science, there is the offer of a young student in the courses IMIT or economic computer science and the first students were able to regularly attend events in 1999.

Research centers

The University of Hildesheim has six research centers.

Center for World Music

The Center for World Music, the ethnomusicological research facility of the University of Hildesheim, has more than 6000 musical instruments from around the world, around 50,000 records and more than 10,000 books on ethnomusicology. It stands for ethnomusicological research and cross-cultural music education and contributes to the understanding of cultures. Director Raimund Vogels, professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover and support of the Lower Saxony Science Award 2008.

Center for education and research on teaching

The Centre initiated for education and research on teaching ( Cebu ), promotes and communicates the education and teaching research in the fields of the university and therefore combines interdisciplinary and innovation-oriented cooperation. With explicit reference to educational processes of teaching and learning, education and socialization research is the willing stationary and studied in a wide range nascent forms of organization.

Forum Didactical Research

The Forum promotes research on teaching skills as a research center within the Cebu interdisciplinary didactic research with the aim to strengthen the quality of research and teaching in the subject teaching, and to promote young scientists. The forum linked various didactic issues and promotes knowledge transfer between both teaching methodology and with the professional and educational sciences.

Herder College - Centre of transdisciplinary research culture

Over three decades a focus in cultural studies has developed at the University of Hildesheim, the scientific and aesthetic or artistic practice combines cognitive innovative. The teaching and research approaches arise in the array of theater, music, media and literature and the visual arts, cultural politics, philosophy and linguistics. Bundled they are founded in 2009 " Herder College. Center for Transdisciplinary Research Culture ". Transdisciplinary research culture moves across cultural disciplines through and beyond its borders. Artistic practice in the The scientists at the University of Hildesheim explore rehearsal processes in the theater, writing processes in the literature, visual argument between image and word, strategies musical thought processes of popularization in the media, performative ways of doing philosophy and processes of cultural education in the arts. Currently, the Herder College is one of seven research groups: Artistic research, cultural education, romance between the arts and sciences, culture materials analysis, language and culture, body - body - culture, arts and aesthetics inter-and transcultural. In the "Project Term " the researches of the Herder College with the students are artistically and scientifically tested. The current project semester has the theme ' invent work. "

Centre of Excellence Early Childhood Lower Saxony

In 2007, the Centre of Excellence Early Childhood Lower Saxony was founded at the University of Hildesheim. The university has the focus of education and social sciences many years of experience and provides its expertise niedersachsen and nationwide with the research available. The center is a platform for research projects, for interdisciplinary and international exchange, for scientific promotion of young talent, for regional networking and to support professionalization efforts in the fields of action. Is researching the pedagogy in early childhood, child development, the social situation of children, the organization of educational settings and their legal recognition. On this basis, an important basis for the promotion of early childhood education and development can be worked out.

Center for Interdisciplinary Women 's and Gender Studies ( ZIF)

The ZIF is a joint institution of the HAWK Hildesheim / Holzminden / Göttingen and the University of Hildesheim. The aim is to integrate the cooperating universities women 's and gender studies in teaching and research, taking into account as many scientific disciplines to institutionalize, expand and promote and develop a network of regional, national and international contacts and to maintain.

Honorary doctorates

The following people have received from the University awarded an honorary doctorate from:

  • Lore Auerbach ( music teacher )
  • Norbert Bischof ( psychologist and systems theorist )
  • Jürgen Flimm (theater director and theater manager )
  • Clemens Geissler (architect and development planner)
  • Hilmar Hoffmann ( politician culture ( " culture for all! " ), Former President of the Goethe Institute )
  • Werner Hofmann ( art historian )
  • Hans Kolbe
  • Arwed Löseke (entrepreneurs and supporters of the University of Hildesheim)
  • Carsten Maschmeyer (founder of AWD Holding AG)
  • Michael Pewsner
  • Hermann Rappe ( SPD politician and trade unionist )
  • Charles Strong Tree
  • Rita Süssmuth ( CDU politician, former federal minister and President of the Bundestag )
  • Martin Walser ( writer )
  • Christa Wolf ( writer )

In addition, the university awarded the title of Honorary Senator and Gerald Frank honorary citizenship to Heiko blade and Georg Olms.

Known teachers

  • Franz Flintrop (1920-2012), philosopher
  • Heinz- Wilhelm old ( born 1929 ), mathematician
  • Rudolf W. Keck ( b. 1935 ), educationalists
  • Silvio Vietta (* 1941), literary scholar
  • Hans -Otto Hill (1944 ), cultural theorist
  • Hanns -Josef Ortheil (* 1951), German scholar
  • Uwe Schrader (born 1954 ), film scholars
  • Michael Gehler (born 1962 ), historian
  • Birgit Mandel ( born 1963 ), a cultural scientist
  • Rolf Elberfeld ( b. 1964 ), philosopher
  • Toni Tholen (* 1965), German scholar and literary scholar
  • Joachim Friedmann ( b. 1966 ), dramaturgy
  • Stephan Porombka (* 1967), literary scholar
  • Mathias Mertens ( b. 1971 ), media scholars
  • Annemarie Matzke (born 1972 ), theater scholar

Known students

  • Hartmut El Kurdi (born 1964 ), writer
  • Christiane Schulzki Haddouti (* 1967), journalist and author
  • Sebastian Thrun (born 1967 ), computer scientist and university teacher
  • Alke Martens (born 1970 ), computer scientist and high school teacher
  • Alexandra Müller ( b. 1983 ), artist
  • Aline Westphal ( born 1984 ), Air Guitar World Champion
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