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Good Practice-courses in the winter semester 2024/25
The Study Commission regularly honours very good courses. The award-winning examples show the diversity and quality of good teaching at the faculty - and are also intended to contribute to interdisciplinary exchange and inspiration. The winners for the winter semester 2024/25 have now been published.
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Press release: Exploring the dynamics of change in urban and rural spaces
Global urbanization is one of the major challenges of our time. A new interdisciplinary Research Unit based at the Universities of Kassel and Göttingen investigates the diverse phenomena that emerge from the interwoven development of urban and rural areas — and the distinct underlying patterns and dynamics of change they give rise to.
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10th to 31st of July 2025 Special application round for Master's degree programs
Are you at the end of your Bachelor's degree and would like to continue studying for a Master's degree in Göttingen? Then you have an additional chance to apply for the upcoming winter semester 2025/26 from July 10 to 31, 2025.
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Joint AI declaration of the Faculty of Social Sciences
A cross-status working group of students and teaching staff from the faculty has drawn up a joint declaration “Standards for the use of AI tools in studying and teaching at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen”.
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Resolutely countering attacks on the freedom of research and teaching
The Faculty Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences fully supports the resolution “Resolutely countering attacks on the freedom of research and teaching” by the Gender Studies Association.
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Mission statement for Teaching and Learning
The University of Göttingen has summarized its understanding of good teaching in a mission statement for teaching and learning. This mission statement was developed in a broad, university-wide, participatory process involving teaching staff, students and members of the academic administration.
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