MA/MS in Higher Education

This consecutive master's is run by Hamburg's Centre for University Teaching and Learning and targets, among others, university teaching staff who already hold a first degree and want to deepen their understanding of higher-education didactics at university level. It gives a research-oriented grounding in the knowledge, skills and methods relevant to teaching and learning in higher education. Beyond general teaching theory and findings, the curriculum draws on teaching-and-learning research, science studies, higher-education research and media-education research, together with an extensive scholarly project component in which students apply these frameworks to a question of their own choosing. The target group extends beyond active teaching staff to people involved in planning, organising, developing, evaluating or reforming university teaching more broadly, and applications are accepted for both the winter and summer semesters.