Coburg way
The Coburger Weg is an interdisciplinary project of the University of Applied Sciences Coburg , which has been offered to students of various courses since the 2012/2013 winter semester. It is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research through the "Teaching Quality Pact" funding program. In 2019, the Coburg University of Applied Sciences was awarded the Genius Loci Prize for teaching excellence for the project by the Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft
history
The project has been running since October 2011. In the first funding phase until September 2016, it was funded with a total of 7.3 million euros from the Quality Pact for Teaching. From the 2012/13 winter semester, the Coburg University of Applied Sciences was initially offering four interdisciplinary elective modules in seven bachelor's programs. Originally only the three faculties of social work and health, business and design were involved. The faculties of applied natural sciences, mechanical engineering and automotive engineering, electrical engineering and computer science did not participate. In the second funding phase, project funding was extended to December 31, 2020 with EUR 8.9 million from the Teaching Quality Pact. Ten bachelor's degree programs from four faculties are now taking part in the project.
Content
In 2010/2011, the former president of the university, Michael Pötzl, and the former general manager of the Coburger Weg, Eckardt Buchholz-Schuster, developed the model for the project. The “Coburger Weg” is characterized by the fact that interdisciplinarity is “more than an 'add-on'”.
During the course of their studies, the students of the ten participating bachelor’s degree programs are repeatedly confronted with other subjects. For this purpose, four interdisciplinary modules that build on each other were integrated into the elective area of the ten courses. Interdisciplinary seminars and individual projects are held for around 1,200 students per semester. The Coburg University of Applied Sciences is characterized by these modules in that the project was developed internally on the one hand and is intended to serve as an attempt to improve university teaching on the other.
The participating courses are:
- Faculty of Applied Sciences
- Bioanalysis
- technical Physics
- Faculty of Design
- architecture
- Civil engineering
- Interior design
- Faculty of Social Work and Health
- Integrative health promotion
- Social work
- Faculty of Economics
- Business administration
- Industrial economy
- Insurance industry
The project is divided into four program pillars, the content of which is an integral part of the timetable:
- The concept pillar: Interdisciplinary study was anchored in a total of four modules in the curriculum of the degree programs involved in the project (24 ECTS. One focus is on practical projects with partners from business, technology and social affairs, and the use of new teaching / learning formats).
- CO qualification pillar: Individual support is implemented with the help of freshman events ("anCOmmen"), freshman and specialist tutorials, grade monitoring, advisory services and the writing laboratory.
- COInnovation pillar: Each semester, EUR 35,000 in funding is provided for innovative teaching, learning and examination formats. Students and lecturers of all bachelor and master courses can apply with their creative project ideas
- Didactics & Evaluation team: The various offers of the project are evaluated and supported in terms of university didactics. In addition, the area is managed by the Institute for Educational Sciences at the University of Mainz. scientifically accompanied.
Data
The total funding amount is 16.2 million euros.
The Coburger Weg has 37 employees in the following areas: project management, teaching, advice and funding, didactics and evaluation, innovation funds, communication and project management. Birgit Enzmann is the project leader for the individual project. The three professorships created by Coburger Weg are filled with Julius Heinicke, Elke Schwinger and Julia Prieß-Buchheit. In the funding period from October 1, 2011 to December 31, 2020, the project was supported in two funding periods with EUR 16.2 million. Ten courses and 1,300 students took part in the modules each semester.
Awards
In 2019, the Coburg University of Applied Sciences was awarded the Genius Loci Prize for excellent teaching for the project "Der Coburger Weg". This makes the Coburg University of Applied Sciences the first in Bavaria to receive this award. The jury justified its decision with the fact that the Coburg Way "carries out a profound shift from teaching to learning" and enables students to take on responsibility in society, i.e. to develop their personalities and to give them a view of the bigger picture. In addition, the jury of the Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft praised the sophisticated strategy with its holistic concept.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claudia Schlager: Of stumbling blocks and milestones in the field of interdisciplinary teaching. In: Carmen Schier, Elke Schwinger (Ed.): Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity as a challenge of academic education. Bielefeld 2014, pp. 197–210, here p. 202.
- ↑ a b qualitaetspakt-lehre.de
- ↑ Birgit Enzmann: The interest in interdisciplinary questions must be aroused. Interview on the “Coburger Weg”. In: nexus newsletter. 2/2019, ed. from the University Rectors' Conference. (hrk-nexus.de , accessed December 4, 2019)
- ↑ Birgit Enzmann: The interest in interdisciplinary questions must be aroused. Interview on the “Coburger Weg”. In: nexus newsletter. 2/2019 Interdisciplinary, ed. from the University Rectors' Conference. (hrk-nexus.de , accessed December 4, 2019)
- ↑ radioeins.com
- ↑ hs-coburg.de
- ↑ a b studieren-in-coburg.de
- ↑ Kilian Kirchengeßner, Marc Krüger, Löffl, Claudia Schlager, Yasmin Schunk: Good prospects. Interim assessment of the Coburger Weg project. 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-053868-1 , pp. 90–91.
- ↑ a b stifterverband.org
- ↑ infranken.de