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Double Degree – Joint DegreeStrategic (and practical) considerations
Barbara Hasenmüller – University of Bremen
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General Facts
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University of Bremen
• founded in October 1971
• guiding principles: modernisation and restructuring of academic self-
government and administration interdisciplinary research and teaching
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Students
• 22.123 students in total
• thereof 3.340 (15%) international students
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Agenda
• academic excellence
• interdisciplinary cooperation
• research and teaching of practical relevance and social responsibility
• internationalization
• gender equity
• environmental sustainability
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Academic Structure
Faculty of physics and electrical engineering
Faculty of geo sciences
Faculty of culturalstudies
Faculty of languages and literary studies
Faculty of human and healthsciences
Faculty of educational sciences
Faculty of social sciences
Faculty of productionengineering
Faculty of mathematics / computer science
Faculty of business studies and economics
Faculty of lawFaculty of biology /chemistry
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BA / MA- Structure
• U of Bremen has been the forerunner in introducing BA and MA structure in Germany
• Many international (English taught) MA courses have been introduced over the last 7 years, especially in the Natural Sciences
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International Degree Programs• ISATEC- International Studies in
Aquatic Tropical Ecology (M.Sc.)
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (M.Sc.)
• MARMIC –Marine Microbiology (M.Sc./PhD)
• Environmental Physics (M.Sc.)
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International Degree Programmes• Communication and Information
Technology (M.Sc.)
• Digital Media (M.Sc.)
• Information and Automation Engineering (M.Sc.)
• Environmental and Marine Geoscience (M.Sc.)
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International Degree Programmes
• Comparative and European Law/Hanse Law School (B.A.)
• Integrated European Studies (B.A.)
• Social Policy Research (M.A.)
• Global Governance and Social Theory (M.A.)
• European Labour Studies (M.A.)
• Business Studies (M.A.)
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Perspectives of international cooperation
•exchange on postgraduate levelin research + teaching
•development of joint degree programs
with international partners
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Rationale for internationalisation• Excellence
• Offer excellent education for our students
attract excellent students
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Academic programmes
• Students exchange programme (Sokrates)
• Internationalised Curricula
• International BA and MA Courses
• Joint and double degree programs
• Faculty mobility programs
• PhD Programs and Graduate Schools
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From Exchange programmes to double/ joint degrees
• Exchange Programmes with credit transfer;
easiest approach;
• Double Degree / Joint Degree
More overall involvement of the institution needed
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Difference: Double Degree – Joint Degree
• Double Degree: Students receive two certificates from each participating university
• Joint Degree: Both universities award one certificate
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What does it mean for the institution?
• Big organisational effort
close co-operation with partner universit(ies) on all levels
participation of teaching and administrative staff
development of a common curriculum
more involvement of teaching staff
more money!!!
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Double / Joint Degree Programms at the University of Bremen
• Double Degree Programme in Economics with Università degli Studi di Trento
• Joint Degree: Master of European Labour Studies
• Double Degree in Marine Sciences with University of Bremen, University of Kiel and the Ocean University, Qingdao, China
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To Be Developped:
• Double Degree programme in Marine Geoscience with University of Waikato, New Zealand
• Joint Ph D programmes
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Double Degree in Economics with University of Trento in Italy
• Developed before the introduction of BA / MA degrees; based on traditional Italian and German system
problems:
language
Difficult to find students with sufficient knowledge of Italian and German!
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Joint Degree: Master of European Labour Studies
• One – Year Master programme
• Network of 12 European universities
• Students have the opportunity to go abroad for one semester to one of the 11 partner universities
• Degree awarded: Master Degree of the University of Bremen + Certificate of the Network „Master Européen en Science du Travail“
• One of 11 selected examples of good practice by the EUA (joint master project)
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Master of European Labour Studies
• First semester: teaching language: German
• Second semester: teaching language: English
In order to receive incoming students
• With their application for the master course, students indicate in which partner university they want to study
• Financial support: Sokrates /Erasmus programme, (DAAD)-Free Mover programme
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Organisational Challenges
• Good coordination: regular meetings of the partner universities
• Fine tuning of curricula
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Double Degree: Master in Marine Science
• Development of project is funded by the BMBF and the Chinese Ministry for Education for a period of 3 years
• The development includes the setting up of summer schools held alternatively in China and Germany
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MA Marine Science
The following (2 year-) English taught Master Courses are involved:
• Marine Geosciences
• Environmental Physics
• Aquatic Tropical Ecologoy
• Marine Biology
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MA Marine Science
• Exchange of 20 students each way for 1 academic year
• Organisational challenges:
tuning of curricular
definition of admission requirements (language + content)
selection of students
linguistic and cultural preparation
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MA Marine Science
• Financial Implications:
• One full-time coordinator at the University of Bremen
• Money for mobility of students and staff
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Conclusion
• Double Degrees /Joint Degrees are wanted!
• They are important for the internationalisation of the institution
• They attract excellent students and are thus important for marketing issues
• But: they are cost – intensive
the institution has to strategically decide in what areas and fields double/joint degrees should be implemented