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The range of courses offered by the History Department covers a compulsory area focusing on history education and a specialist compulsory elective area. The compulsory area includes a supervised school placement and advanced studies in the field of history education. In the compulsory elective area, students are offered courses in advanced modules on the regional and epochal specialisations covered by the chairs at the History Department (e.g. on the history of Africa or Latin America and the Caribbean, or on the Ancient History, Medieval History, Early Modern and Modern History / Contemporary History of Germany and Europe).
The courses in history education and, where possible, in the subject discipline are of a high standard, requiring completion of a Bachelor’s degree. The school placement gives students an opportunity to gain initial insight into school-based teaching practice.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
After completing the Master’s Teacher Training Course, graduates who want to become teachers must complete a teacher training period before they can enter the teaching profession. Historians can generally be found working in politics, culture and business. Graduates have found work in schools and higher education institutions, institutions of further and continuing education, documentation and publishing, archives, libraries and museums, the Foreign Office, international organisations and the media. • Teaching at grammar schools and comprehensive schools
- University and science
- Memorials and museums
- Libraries and archives
- (Cultural) journalism, media (press, publishers, radio, television)
- Political institutions, organisations and facilities
- Political parties, associations and administrative bodies
- Media enterprises
- Historic tourism
AREAS OF FOCUS
- In the compulsory area of the Master’s Teacher Training Course for Grammar Schools, students undertake an in-depth examination of issues relating to history education in addition to school-based studies (classroom observation, lesson planning and first attempts at teaching).
- In the compulsory elective area, systematically differentiated approaches (global history, social history, cultural history and historical culture) from the regional and sectoral specialisations at the History Department are offered besides epochal and regional courses.