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Teaching

Courses

The research group Comparative Politics and Public Policy offers courses in the B.A. Political Science, the B.A. Social Sciences (teaching profession), the M.A. Political Science and the doctoral programme.

An overview of current and previous courses can be found here:

Theses

You can find information on formal requirements and procedures on the information pages for your degree programme (e.g. here for the B.A. Political Science and M.A. Political Science.

If you would like to write a thesis in the field of comparative politics and public policy, you should have successfully completed an introductory and advanced course in this field.

What is the procedure if you are interested in supervision of your thesis?

  • Please first contact the desired supervisor with your topic idea by email.
  • Only after this initial consultation should you write an exposé/outline (2-5 pages, see below) and send it by email or discuss it during student consulting hours.
  • This is usually followed by several feedback and revision loops before registration. You will receive advice and revision instructions from the supervisor as well as in the final colloquium.

How should the exposé/outline be structured?

Planned title of the paper; outline of the problem and state of research; research interest and research questions; if applicable, thesis/hypothesis; theoretical approach; methodology, draft outline; bibliography and, if applicable, separate list of sources.

AI declaration for seminar papers and final theses at the AG

Every seminar paper or final thesis at the Comparative Politics and Policy Analysis Group must be accompanied by a declaration of independence and the use of AI-supported writing tools. Firstly, please declare whether you have used AI-supported writing tools or not. Each use must be clearly identified: In that case, explain which AI tools you have worked with, for which purposes and for which areas of the work.

Important: When adopting from AI-supported tools, all thoughts, statements, tables, graphics, etc. that are adopted from other authors (directly or indirectly) must be cited as the source, just as in general. If texts generated by AI tools are adopted verbatim, they must therefore be labelled as a citation, stating the AI tool, the prompt and the date.

Resources

We would particularly like to recommend the following resources on basic terms, concepts and theories in the field of comparative politics and policy analysis for writing degree and seminar papers:

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