The participants of the Double Degree Program spend their third semester at the partner university. The third semester is always the winter semester/primo semestre.
Key dates concerning the winter semester at Bielefeld University:
The International Office is responsible for all organizational questions regarding your stay (Accommodation, enrollment, etc.). For questions on these matters, please contact Magdalena Mayer at m.mayer@uni-bielefeld.de. On this site, you'll find informations regarding your study programme in Bielefeld. If you have any questions on the matter, please contact the coordinator of the programme at the Faculty of Sociology.
Students from Bologna have to complete four courses during their semester at Bielefeld University. They receive a list containing the course options from their coordinator around early July. Each course is assigned to one or two thematic areas of the MA Sociology. There are 11 areas in total, while the courses taught in English are mostly offered in the areas "Sociology and Anthroplogy of the Global World" and "Social Structure Analysis and Social Inequality".
In each course students can choose whether they complete only a non-graded study performance (4 ECTS credits), or if they additionally want to complete a graded examination (6 ECTS credits). The form of the study performance gets defined at the beginning of the lecture. Often lecturers choose oral presentations or brief written summaries of academic articles. Examination in the MA Sociology courses are always so-called “Hausarbeiten”, academic papers with a length of 20 to 30 pages. Papers usually have to be handed in at the end of the semester on March, 31st.
When choosing your four courses for your semester in Bielefeld, you have to follow certain rules:
To summarize the requirements for your semester at Bielefeld University:
You have to complete two modules of 14 ECTS credits each, which means four courses have to be attend with a study performance (4 ECTS credits), in two of the four courses an examination (6 ECTS credits) has to be completed additionally.
After your return from Bielefeld, you can get recognized the courses attended in Bielefeld for four courses in Bologna. This table shows which courses in Bologna are assigned to which module (thematic area) in Bielefeld. If you have received credits for a module in Bielefeld, you can choose any two courses which are listed as equivalent at the University of Bologna.