Directorate of Studies 21 - Political Science

Bachelor Political Science (624 [3] - Version 2024)

BAK 1 Introductory and Orientation Period (16 ECTS)

• 210001 VO STEOP Propeadeuticum Political Science
• 210002 VO STEOP BAK1.2 Introduction to the Discipline

BAK 1.1 Introduction to the Methodology of the Social Sciences (6 ECTS)

• 230001 VO ( STEOP ) B1 STEOP - Basics of Methodology in Social Sciences

BAK 1.2 ntroduction to the Discipline (10 ECTS)

BAK 2 Basics of Social Sciences (15 ECTS)

• 210003 VO BAK2 Current Societal Issues and Social Science Research
• 210004 VO BAK2 Basics of Social Sciences

BAK 3 Academic Research and Writing (27 ECTS)

• 210005 VU BAK3 Introduction to Scientific Work

BAK 3 Academic Research and Writing (27 ECTS)

• 210005 VU BAK3 Introduction to Scientific Work

BAK 3 Academic Research and Writing (27 ECTS)

• 210006 VO BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210007 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210008 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210009 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210010 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210011 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210012 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210013 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods

BAK 3 Academic Research and Writing (27 ECTS)

• 210014 VO BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210015 UE [ en ] BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210016 UE BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210017 UE BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210018 UE BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210019 UE BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210020 UE BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210021 UE BAK3 Quantitative methods

BAK 4-7 Core Subjects (44 ECTS)

• 210022 VO BAK4 History of Political Ideas and Political Theory
• 210025 PS BAK4: Legitimation and Delegitimation of Domination in Political Theory
• 210026 PS BAK4: State, society and political movements. Classical and contemporary perspectives
• 210027 PS BAK4: Capitalism and democracy
• 210028 PS BAK4: Utopias in the history of political thought
• 210029 PS BAK4: Ecological and materialist perspectives on the classical canon
• 210030 VO BAK5 The Political System of Austria and of the EU
• 210031 PS BAK5: The dynamics of political representation in Austria and the EU
• 210032 PS BAK5 The Political System of Austria and of the European Union: basics, structures and processes
• 210033 PS [ en ] BAK5: Development, institutions and policymaking of the EU

BAK 4 History of Political Ideas and Political Theory (11 ECTS)

• 210022 VO BAK4 History of Political Ideas and Political Theory
• 210023 PS BAK4: Power and Dominion
• 210024 PS [ en ] BAK4: Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Political Thought
• 210025 PS BAK4: Legitimation and Delegitimation of Domination in Political Theory
• 210026 PS BAK4: State, society and political movements. Classical and contemporary perspectives
• 210027 PS BAK4: Capitalism and democracy
• 210028 PS BAK4: Utopias in the history of political thought
• 210029 PS BAK4: Ecological and materialist perspectives on the classical canon

BAK 5 The Political System of Austria and of the European Union (11 ECTS)

• 210030 VO BAK5 The Political System of Austria and of the EU
• 210031 PS BAK5: The dynamics of political representation in Austria and the EU
• 210032 PS BAK5 The Political System of Austria and of the European Union: basics, structures and processes
• 210033 PS [ en ] BAK5: Development, institutions and policymaking of the EU
• 210034 PS BAK5: Political science analysis of high court rulings
• 210035 PS BAK5: The Austrian Political System in the Context of Social and Political Transformation
• 210036 PS BAK5: The political system of Austria and the EU: basics, structures and processes

BAK 6 Comparative Politics (11 ECTS)

• 210038 VO BAK6 Comparative Politics
• 210039 PS BAK6: Analyses of society in times of crisis: Democracy and inequality
• 210040 PS [ en ] BAK6: Introduction to Climate Policy
• 210041 PS BAK6: Analyses of society in times of crisis: Democracy and inequality
• 210042 PS [ en ] BAK6: Political institutions and courts
• 210043 SE BAK6: Key concepts
• 210044 PS BAK6: Politics and Crime
• 210045 PS BAK6: Policymaking on assisted reproductive technologies

BAK 7 International Politics and Globalisation (11 ECTS)

• 210046 VO BAK7 International Politics and Globalization
• 210047 PS [ en ] BAK7: Navigating Global Dynamics: Imbrications and intersections in International Politics
• 210048 PS BAK7: Security, democracy, populism - perspectives from Latin America
• 210049 PS BAK7: Political Ecology and Digitalisation
• 210050 PS BAK 7: Feminist International Political Economy
• 210051 PS [ en ] BAK7: The International Political Economy of Energy
• 210052 PS BAK7: A continent in crisis - recent developments in Latin America
• 210053 PS BAK7: Theories of International Relations
• 210055 PS BAK7: International Relations of Africa

BAK 8-12 Group of Elective Modules: Advanced Subjects (26 ECTS out of two Modules)

BAK 8 History of Political Ideas and Political Theory (13 ECTS)

• 210056 VO BAK8 History of Political Ideas and Political Theory
• 210057 SE BAK8: Discourse, Power and Democracy: Fundamentals of Radical Democratic Theory
• 210058 SE BAK8: Iconoclasm and the destruction of monuments
• 210059 SE BAK8: Theory history: canon and feminist reflections
• 210060 SE BAK8: Democratic Theatre and theatrical democracy

BAK 9 The Political System of Austria and of the European Union (13 ECTS)

• 210061 VO BAK9: Austria and the EU
• 210062 VO BAK9: Welfare state Austria
• 210063 SE [ en ] BAK9:The EU’s digital foreign policy and politics
• 210064 SE BAK9: Political communication of inequality: Austria in comparative perspective

BAK 10 Comparative Politics (13 ECTS)

• 210066 VO BAK10: Theories of party competition
• 210067 SE BAK 10: Europe-China Relations: Discourses and Policies in Beijing, Brussels, and Major Capitals
• 210068 SE BAK10:Right-wing actors in Southeast and Eastern Europe
• 210069 SE [ en ] BAK10: Comparative European Politics
• 210135 UE EC: The thinking of Silicon Valley. Californian ideology and technological soluzionism

BAK 11 International Politics and Globalisation (13 ECTS)

• 210070 VO BAK11: Conflicts over social and ecological restructuring: wage earners in the multiple crisis
• 210071 VO BAK11: EU enlargement
• 210072 SE [ en ] BAK 11: Nation, State and Religion in Eastern Europe
• 210073 SE BAK11: UK after Brexit: Model of capitalism, regulation and organic crisis
• 210074 SE BAK11: Mental health as a policy field of international relations
• 210099 SE [ en ] M3: Understanding conservatism
• 210100 SE M3: Radical Political Imagination

BAK 12 Gender Studies in Political Science (13 ECTS)

• 210075 VO BAK12: Introduction to Sexuality, Gender, Power, Politics
• 210076 SE [ en ] BAK12: Horizons of Feminisms in 21st century: Theories, Discourses and Movements
• 210077 SE [ en ] BAK12: On the concept of violence in queer and feminist theory

BAK 13 Fields of Application of Political Science (10 ECTS)

• 210078 VO BAK13: Politics and law
• 210079 VO BAK13: Politics and economics
• 210080 VO BAK13: Historical foundations
• 210081 UE BAK13: Strategies in the context of climate crisis and global inequality
• 210082 UE BAK13: UE on peer mentoring in political science for beginners
• 210083 UE BAK13: UE on peer mentoring in political science for experienced mentors
• 210137 UE BAK13:Discourse analysis working at the interface of theory and practice

BAK 14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis (12 ECTS)

• 210084 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210085 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210086 SE [ en ] BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210087 SE ( MIXED ) BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210088 SE [ en ] BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210089 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210090 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210091 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210092 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis

Bachelor Political Science (624 [3] - Version 2024)

Bachelor Political Science (624 [2] - Version 2011) - discontinued

BAK1 Introductory and Orientation Period (15 ECTS)

• 210001 VO STEOP Propeadeuticum Political Science
• 210002 VO STEOP BAK1.2 Introduction to the Discipline

BAK1.1 Basics of Methodology in Social Siences (6 ECTS)

• 230001 VO ( STEOP ) B1 STEOP - Basics of Methodology in Social Sciences

BAK1.2 Introduction to the Subject (9 ECTS)

BAK2 Basics of Social Sciences (22 ECTS)

• 210003 VO BAK2 Current Societal Issues and Social Science Research
• 210004 VO BAK2 Basics of Social Sciences

BAK2 Basics of Social Sciences (22 ECTS)

• 220074 VO INSOWI A: VO WITHEGI Theory and History of Science

BAK3 Introduction to Scientific Work (5 ECTS)

BAK3 Introduction to Scientific Work (5 ECTS)

BAK4 Methods (18 ECTS)

• 210006 VO BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210007 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210008 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210010 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210015 UE [ en ] BAK3 Quantitative methods

BAK4 Methods of empirical social sience (18 ECTS)

• 210006 VO BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210007 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210008 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210010 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210012 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210013 UE BAK3 Qualitative Methods
• 210014 VO BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210015 UE [ en ] BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210016 UE BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210017 UE BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210018 UE BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210019 UE BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210020 UE BAK3 Quantitative methods
• 210021 UE BAK3 Quantitative methods

BAK5 - BAK8 Core Subjects of Political Science (36 ECTS)

• 210025 PS BAK4: Legitimation and Delegitimation of Domination in Political Theory
• 210027 PS BAK4: Capitalism and democracy
• 210030 VO BAK5 The Political System of Austria and of the EU

BAK5 History of Theory and Debates on Theory (9 ECTS)

• 210023 PS BAK4: Power and Dominion
• 210024 PS [ en ] BAK4: Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Political Thought
• 210025 PS BAK4: Legitimation and Delegitimation of Domination in Political Theory
• 210027 PS BAK4: Capitalism and democracy
• 210028 PS BAK4: Utopias in the history of political thought
• 210029 PS BAK4: Ecological and materialist perspectives on the classical canon

BAK6 The Austrian Political System and the EU (9 ECTS)

• 210033 PS [ en ] BAK5: Development, institutions and policymaking of the EU
• 210035 PS BAK5: The Austrian Political System in the Context of Social and Political Transformation
• 210036 PS BAK5: The political system of Austria and the EU: basics, structures and processes

BAK7 Comparative Analysis of Politics (9 ECTS)

• 210039 PS BAK6: Analyses of society in times of crisis: Democracy and inequality
• 210041 PS BAK6: Analyses of society in times of crisis: Democracy and inequality
• 210043 SE BAK6: Key concepts
• 210044 PS BAK6: Politics and Crime
• 210045 PS BAK6: Policymaking on assisted reproductive technologies
• 210054 PS ( MIXED ) BAK7 International Politics and Globalization

BAK8 International Politics (9 ECTS)

• 210046 VO BAK7 International Politics and Globalization
• 210047 PS [ en ] BAK7: Navigating Global Dynamics: Imbrications and intersections in International Politics
• 210048 PS BAK7: Security, democracy, populism - perspectives from Latin America
• 210049 PS BAK7: Political Ecology and Digitalisation
• 210050 PS BAK 7: Feminist International Political Economy
• 210051 PS [ en ] BAK7: The International Political Economy of Energy
• 210052 PS BAK7: A continent in crisis - recent developments in Latin America
• 210053 PS BAK7: Theories of International Relations
• 210054 PS ( MIXED ) BAK7 International Politics and Globalization
• 210055 PS BAK7: International Relations of Africa

BAK9-BAK16 Block of Alternative Compulsory Modules: Specialisation (27 ECTS)

BAK9 Political Theories and Research on Theories (9 ECTS)

• 210056 VO BAK8 History of Political Ideas and Political Theory
• 210057 SE BAK8: Discourse, Power and Democracy: Fundamentals of Radical Democratic Theory
• 210058 SE BAK8: Iconoclasm and the destruction of monuments
• 210059 SE BAK8: Theory history: canon and feminist reflections
• 210060 SE BAK8: Democratic Theatre and theatrical democracy

BAK10 International Politics and Development (9 ECTS)

• 210070 VO BAK11: Conflicts over social and ecological restructuring: wage earners in the multiple crisis
• 210071 VO BAK11: EU enlargement
• 210072 SE [ en ] BAK 11: Nation, State and Religion in Eastern Europe
• 210073 SE BAK11: UK after Brexit: Model of capitalism, regulation and organic crisis
• 210074 SE BAK11: Mental health as a policy field of international relations

BAK11 European Union and Europeanisation (9 ECTS)

• 210061 VO BAK9: Austria and the EU
• 210062 VO BAK9: Welfare state Austria
• 210063 SE [ en ] BAK9:The EU’s digital foreign policy and politics
• 210064 SE BAK9: Political communication of inequality: Austria in comparative perspective

BAK12 Austrian Politics (9 ECTS)

• 210061 VO BAK9: Austria and the EU
• 210062 VO BAK9: Welfare state Austria
• 210063 SE [ en ] BAK9:The EU’s digital foreign policy and politics
• 210064 SE BAK9: Political communication of inequality: Austria in comparative perspective

BAK13 State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses (9 ECTS)

• 210066 VO BAK10: Theories of party competition
• 210068 SE BAK10:Right-wing actors in Southeast and Eastern Europe

BAK14 Gender and Politics (9 ECTS)

• 210075 VO BAK12: Introduction to Sexuality, Gender, Power, Politics
• 210076 SE [ en ] BAK12: Horizons of Feminisms in 21st century: Theories, Discourses and Movements

BAK15 East European Studies (9 ECTS)

• 210068 SE BAK10:Right-wing actors in Southeast and Eastern Europe
• 210070 VO BAK11: Conflicts over social and ecological restructuring: wage earners in the multiple crisis
• 210071 VO BAK11: EU enlargement
• 210072 SE [ en ] BAK 11: Nation, State and Religion in Eastern Europe

BAK16 Culture and Politics (9 ECTS)

• 210056 VO BAK8 History of Political Ideas and Political Theory
• 210057 SE BAK8: Discourse, Power and Democracy: Fundamentals of Radical Democratic Theory
• 210058 SE BAK8: Iconoclasm and the destruction of monuments
• 210059 SE BAK8: Theory history: canon and feminist reflections
• 210060 SE BAK8: Democratic Theatre and theatrical democracy

BAK17 Alternative Group of Compulsory Modules: Consolidation (15 ECTS)

• 210081 UE BAK13: Strategies in the context of climate crisis and global inequality
• 210137 UE BAK13:Discourse analysis working at the interface of theory and practice

BAK17a Alternative Compulsory Module a: Consolidation (15 ECTS)

BAK17b Alternative Compulsory Module b: Consolidation (15 ECTS)

• 220088 VU INSOWI A: VU SOGES Social Sciences and Society

BAK18 Bachelorseminar and Bachelorthesis (12 ECTS)

• 210085 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis

BAK18 Bachelorseminar and Bachelorthesis (12 ECTS)

• 210084 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210086 SE [ en ] BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210087 SE ( MIXED ) BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210088 SE [ en ] BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210089 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210090 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210091 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis
• 210092 SE BAK14 Bachelor’s Seminar and Bachelor’s Thesis

Suggested Lectures

• 233004 UK Körper, Wissen und Gesellschaft im Zeitalter der Genetik und KI

Master Political Science (824)

Compulsory Modules (16 ECTS)

M1 Basics of Political Science (8 ECTS)

• 210093 VO M1a: Basics of Political Science
• 210094 VO M1b: Basics of Political Science

M2 Methods of Political Science (8 ECTS)

• 210095 UE M2: Methods of Political Science qualitativ
• 210096 UE [ en ] M2: Methods for Political Science qualitative
• 210097 UE [ en ] M2: Methods of Political Science quantitativ
• 210098 UE M2: Research Methods for Political Science quantitativ

Block of Elective Modules: Specialisations (44 ECTS)

M3 Political Theories and Research on Theory (22 ECTS)

• 210099 SE [ en ] M3: Understanding conservatism
• 210100 SE M3: Radical Political Imagination
• 210140 SE M3: Socialization and commoning as transformative practices

M4 International Politics and Development (22 ECTS)

• 210101 SE M4: Crisis of Globalization: The "West" and China
• 210102 SE [ en ] M4: The Politics of Knowledge in Global Environmental Negotiations
• 210136 SE [ en ] M4: Prospects and Challenges for a New International Economic Order

M5 EU and Europeanisation (22 ECTS)

• 210103 VO M5: European Union and Europeanisation
• 210104 SE M5: Formal and informal governance in EU asylum and migration policy
• 210105 SE M5: European Public Policy for the Digital Age
• 210139 SE M5: EU reform perspectives: Institutions, policies, and instruments

M6 Austrian Politics (22 ECTS)

• 210106 SE M6: Political corruption and corruption prevention in Austria
• 210107 SE M6: Party structures, internal party power dynamics and their effects on party behavior

M7 State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses (22 ECTS)

• 210108 VO M7: Weltweite Krisenerfahrungen: Extremwetter, Gesundheit und Politik
• 210109 SE [ en ] M7: Political Psychology
• 210110 SE [ en ] M7: Party Competition and Communication Strategies
• 210111 SE M7: The political economy of data. Between datafied biopolitics and techno-rationality

M8 Gender and Politics (22 ECTS)

• 210112 VO [ en ] M8: Feminist theorizations of Social Reproduction
• 210113 SE M8: From tender to toxic: masculinities in the digital condition
• 210138 SE [ en ] M8: The Gender of Labour Struggle, Past and Present

M9 East European Studies (22 ECTS)

• 210114 SE M9: Illiberalism in East-Central Europe

M10 Culture and Politics (22 ECTS)

• 210115 VO ( REMOTE ) M10: Iconoclasm and the destruction of monuments
• 210116 SE M10: Visual culture and avant-garde

Research Utilisation (12 ECTS)

M11 Research Utilisation (12 ECTS)

• 210117 SE [ en ] M11: What is political representation?
• 210118 SE M11:Social policy legislation in Austria
• 210119 SE M11: The parliament as a discursive arena: use of gender in struggles over democracy
• 210121 SE M11: Multiscalar transformation processes in the current world order.
• 210141 SE M11:The state, political regimes and international relations in the MENA region

Electives Module (16 ECTs)

M12 Elective Area (16 ECTS)

• 210122 UE From the Idea to the Master Thesis Concept
• 210123 UE Manage the Master Thesis
• 233060 UE [ en ] Science in Society Laboratories
• 233062 UE [ en ] Science Communication Laboratories

Masterseminar (2 ECTS)

• 210094 VO M1b: Basics of Political Science
• 210116 SE M10: Visual culture and avant-garde
• 210124 SE ( MIXED ) M13: Master's Seminar
• 210125 SE [ en ] M13: Master's Seminar
• 210126 SE [ en ] M13: Master's Seminar
• 210127 SE [ en ] M13: Master's Seminar
• 210128 SE M13: Master's Seminar
• 210129 SE M13: Master's Seminar
• 210130 SE M13: Master's Seminar

M13 Masterseminar (2 ECTS)

• 210126 SE [ en ] M13: Master's Seminar
• 210127 SE [ en ] M13: Master's Seminar
• 210130 SE M13: Master's Seminar

Extension Curriculum European Integration and Global Multi-Level Governance (212)

European Integration and global multi-level governance (15 ECTS)

Extension Curriculum Statehood and Democracy in Change (213 [1] - Version 2013)

Statehood and Democracy in Change (15 ECTS)

Extension Curriculum Understanding and Shaping Policy (214)

PM1 Comparative Policy Analysis in the Context of Current Societal Problems (6 ECTS)

PM2 Shaping and Implementing Policy (9 ECTS)

Extension Curriculum Political Science I: The ABC of Politics (211 [5] - Version 2024)

Modul 1 Subject-specific Introduction to Political Science (10 ECTS)

Modul 2 Core subject Political Science (5 ECTS)

• 210098 UE M2: Research Methods for Political Science quantitativ

Extension Curriculum Political Science II: Basic Problems and Challenges of Politics (213 [3] - Version 2024)

Modul 1 Research Areas of Political Science (15 ECTS)

Extension Curriculum Interviews, Focus Groups and More: Understanding Society with Qualitative Methods (215)

PM1 Introduction to Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (6 ECTS)

PM2 Qualitative Comparative Research (9 ECTS)

Extension Curriculum Basics of Politics (211 [3] - Version 2013) - discontinued

Basics of Politics (15 ECTS)

• 210114 SE M9: Illiberalism in East-Central Europe