Since 2010, Leuphana has had four faculties: Education, Culture, Sustainability and Business. Now a fifth is to be added: Political Science. To this end, the university wants to re-tailor previous responsibilities. The whole thing should cost almost nothing.
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Since 2010, Leuphana has had four faculties: Education, Culture, Sustainability and Business. Now a fifth is to be added: Political Science. To this end, the university wants to re-tailor previous responsibilities. The whole thing should cost almost nothing.
Lüneburg. Due to the corona, the Leuphana campus currently looks quite deserted. But under the calm surface a large wave is building up, which could cause massive changes – and is currently already causing unrest, according to reports. At the top of the university, plans are being developed to establish a new, fifth faculty.
The Leuphana Presidium sees a “strategic development” in the merging of the subjects political science, law and economics, as can be seen from the submission for the Senate meeting on November 13th. The working title of the new faculty is “Political Science”.
Political scientists, cultural scientists and economists should deliver
Will the central building now become a forge for future ministers and political advisers? Conceivable, although the planning on the Leuphana is “still in a very early phase”, as press spokesman Henning Zühlsdorff announced when asked by the LZ. According to the thesis paper, the top of the university recognizes intersections in the faculties of cultural studies and economics, which have also been expressed in the joint master’s degree program “Political Sciences” since 2008.
Although in a working paper of the university senate on the plans the keyword “model experiment state examination law” is, in the future no judges and lawyers will be trained at the Ilmenau, announced Zühlsdorff. Heinke Traeger, press spokeswoman for the Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK), adds: The university is “pursuing the goal of further developing the range of law courses in the Bachelor and Master system so that some of the graduates have access to the first state legal examination becomes.”
Only after a subsequent two-year presentation and the second state examination is the term “fully qualified lawyer” spoken.
In the Ministry, the “further development of law” in Lüneburg is viewed positively – despite the existing law faculties in Hamburg, Hanover, Göttingen and Osnabrück. “In view of the high demand, the nationwide drop-out rates and the state’s interest in very well-trained” lawyers, this is “generally to be welcomed”. Especially since no classical law faculty is planned in Lüneburg, but only an additional option for the “innovative offer in Bachelor and Master courses”.
Since 2010, Leuphana has had four science departments
In 2010 the Leuphana increased from three to four faculties: education, culture, sustainability and economics. Now is the next growth spurt. According to the previous planning, the new “Political Sciences” faculty will consist of 26 professorships – seven for political scientists, twelve for lawyers and seven for economics. In future, 26 professors would be responsible for “Kuwi” and 50 for economics.
When asked whether forced transfers by professors are necessary or planned, Leuphana press spokesman Zühlsdorff replied: “No”. Since the fifth faculty would only be created through restructuring, “only low costs can be assumed”.
In the working paper for the university senate, however, a total of around seven semester hours are estimated for the future dean’s office, i.e. the management of the faculty. In Lower Saxony, the standard teaching obligation for university professorships is estimated at eight to nine hours per week. According to this, the leap in growth could almost be financially reflected in the cost of a professorship.
Uni hopes to sharpen its profile
When asked why the university was working on such plans, Henning Zühlsdorff replied: “Leuphana expects the possible establishment of a further faculty to sharpen its profile – both for the areas of political science, law and economics in a new faculty as well as for the Areas of business administration, computer science and engineering in the existing business faculty. “
The new faculty could be launched in April 2022.
By Joachim Zießler
Since 2010, Leuphana has had four faculties: Education, Culture, Sustainability and Business. Now a fifth is to be added: Political Science. To this end, the university wants to re-tailor previous responsibilities. The whole thing should cost almost nothing.
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