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• The annual focus and the corresponding selection criteria are determined by the Vice President for Academic Affairs. The focus is published with the announcement of the award.
• The Vice President for Academic Affairs bases his/her decision on the topics suggested in the last nomination process as well as on the vote of the Deans of Studies.

• Prof. Dr Pauline Endres de Oliveira
  Introduction to German and European asylum and residence law
  The weekly course "Introduction to asylum and residence law" deals with the international, European and national legal foundations of migration law against the background of its legal policy dimensions. In addition to imparting knowledge, the course offers a participatory framework for a reflective examination of issues relating to the sustainable organisation of migration and social participation, also in view of current challenges due to climate-related migration.
  Theoretical inputs are supplemented by guest lectures that promote the exchange between academia and practice. The lecture is designed to be inclusive in that it is open to students from all disciplines as well as non-students and enables broad access to education through its hybrid format. The course represents an innovative and participatory learning format as part of the training cycle of the Refugee Law Clinic Berlin e.V. (RLC), a voluntary association of students based at the HU that offers advice on migration law.

• Dr Matthias Schulz
  AG Criminal Law Introduction and AT

• Florian Dietz
  Institute of Educational Sciences
  Literacy and Media Environments | Berlin Literature Triangle | FD
  The "Berlin Literature Triangle" course brings together Berlin children's book authors, primary school teaching students and primary school classes. In project lessons, workshop discussions and author readings, all participants come together to discuss current topics based on children's books.
• Georg Lilitakis
  Institute of Mathematics
  Pre-course maths
  This pre-course aims to reduce students' anxiety about studying mathematics, maths and studying in general. It therefore takes place before the first semester for students with actual or self-perceived weaknesses and acts as a link between school education and entry into university education.
  The concept combines an anxiety-free learning atmosphere with an introduction to university structures and learning concepts and an outlook into both the first semester and the first maths course and attempts to close gaps in maths knowledge.
• Prof. Dr Shintaro Miyazaki
  Institute of Media Studies
  Planetary Computation
  The lecture "Planetary Computation" dealt with the planetary megastructure - the stack - described by Californian media theorist Benjamin Bratton, consisting of six mega-layers (Earth, Cloud, Address, City, Interface, User). It served as a critical introduction to the problem of the unsustainable goals of powerful, transnational private companies that track, calculate and simulate all processes on Earth in order to exploit them as part of the capitalist growth imperative. In a second step, communism (commoning) in the digital age and the role of critical media studies were considered. This made the lecture sustainable, although the format was rather old-fashioned.
• Dr Ullrich Scheideler
  Institute of Musicology
  Beethoven's last piano sonatas
  The subject of the nominated course "Beethoven's last piano sonatas" was Ludwig van Beethoven's last three piano sonatas op. 109-111, composed in the years 1820-1822. The content of the seminar was determined by the premise that musical works in the 19th century were essentially shaped by genre-specific formal and aesthetic guidelines. In addition to this general aspect in the context of a genre history (hence the inclusion of the seminar in the module "Genres and Canonisation Processes"), we attempted to approach the widely discussed category of the late work in musicology, which is generally used to describe the unconventional, alienating or even disturbing aspects of a musical language. The work-analytical focus was supplemented by sociological, philological and work-genetic perspectives and questions about the history of reception.
• Dr Juliane Augustin
  Institute for Rehabilitation Sciences
  45832: Fundamentals of didactics in language support
  This seminar teaches special education teacher trainees in language support (FSPS) the range of tasks and competences of special education teachers in FSPS. They also learn about language support methods, media, assistance and the planning of classroom-based language support in theory and practice. This takes place through an alternation of theoretical principles and practical exercises with increasing levels of difficulty, whereby the content builds on each other and is ultimately linked together. The didactic concept is based primarily on neurodidactic and action-orientated principles, with the aim of achieving a sustainable and professionally relevant increase in skills.
• Prof. Dr Karsten Krauskopf
  Institute of Rehabilitation Sciences
  Fundamentals of lifelong learning
  This course provides a basic understanding of psychological and psychoanalytical approaches for students preparing for careers in education. A particular focus is on the role of diversity in living together - especially in the context of special, inclusion and rehabilitation education. The focus is on understanding educational relationships as a context for and driver of lifelong development: How do they develop? What psychological mechanisms are at work in pedagogical interactions? How can teachers and educators build scientifically sound, sustainable relationships with their target groups? The aim is not to simply memorise theories of developmental or motivational psychology. Rather, students should use these concepts to better understand pedagogical situations - both their own as well as the actions, thoughts and feelings of others. Through this reflective dialogue, mutual understanding is promoted as a central competence for pedagogical professionalism. This lecture thus lays the foundation for a scientifically sound, reflective pedagogical practice.

• Dr Meike Brückner
  Albrecht Daniel Thaer Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences
  The Perfect Cup of Coffee? The Economy, Ecology and Culture of Coffee
  In the master's seminar, we looked at coffee from an agro-sociological perspective and considered various dimensions of coffee production and consumption - economic, ecological and socio-cultural. Coffee production is mainly concentrated in the Global South. Even though coffee has become one of the largest agricultural commodities, many of the coffee-growing regions are affected by the climate crisis, which also affects the livelihoods of the farmers producing it. At the same time, coffee consumption has an important socio-cultural significance and plays a central role in the eating and drinking habits of consumers, especially in Europe.
  A special feature of the course was the high everyday relevance of the topic, which directly brought about a change: for many of the students, coffee consumption was an everyday practice with little reflection in terms of socio-ecological sustainability. During the seminar, however, this practice gained context, and through the discussion of questions such as: Where, by whom and under what conditions is coffee produced? the students acquired critical-reflective competences to question their role in the food system as well as the dominant position of the food industry. This enabled them to place sustainability within their own horizon of meaning.

• Prof. Dr. Eckhardt George
  Albrecht Daniel Thaer - Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences
  Fertilisers and Fertilisation
  The course addresses the question of whether fertilisation is still appropriate and how it can be designed responsibly and sustainably. The students contribute their expectations, experiences and views. Topics include the connection between climate change, fertilisation and soil carbon content at
  . Social expectations and political guidelines on fertilisation are discussed with guests. Are carbon certificates just a "fake" or
  a sensible idea after all? This creates a differentiated picture of the objectives of legal regulations and agricultural practice.

• Prof. Dr John A. Nyakatura
  Institute of Biology
  MB005 Focus on zoology
  This basic zoology lecture "Morphology, phylogeny and systematics of animals" recapitulates the evolution and diversification of animals from the simplest multicellular (heterotrophic) organisms to the megadiverse winged insects, the highly derived octopuses or mammals (including the evolution of humans). Not only is biodiversity placed in a natural-historical context, but the genealogy of homologous characteristics and the history of ideas in evolutionary research are also dealt with. Particular attention is paid to the emphasis on the non-hierarchical organisation of biological diversity and on the methodology for elucidating natural groups (phylogenetic systematics). A special feature is the varied use of objects from the HU's valuable zoological teaching collection. The lecture is aimed at first-year biology students and future biology teachers.

• Dr Thomas Jan?en
  Institute of Biology
  Ecological Exercises 2024- Exercise 8: Alps (South Tyrol) as part of the module MB 18 Ecology and Biodiversity

• Responsible for the tutorials
  Institute of Biology
  Mathematical Foundations of Biology 1 & 2

• Dr Mareike Bayer
  Institute of Psychology
  Autism, ADHD and intellectual development disorder (seminar, special disorders and procedures in psychotherapy
  Autism, ADHD and intellectual development disorder are characterised by changes in brain development that lead to changes in experiencing, feeling and cognitive functions. Many people therefore report a feeling of being "different" and experience exclusion, discrimination and stigmatisation, which in turn leads to an increased risk of mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety disorders.
  The seminar provides knowledge about the characteristics of the disorders, but also deals with definitions of normality, diversity and how society deals with deviations from the norm. It ranges from theoretical models and neurobiological foundations of the disorders to implications for psychotherapy, in which students work out how therapeutic strategies can be adapted to the needs of these patient groups. Finally, it is also about the people behind the symptoms: two guests tell the students about their lives and experiences with autism and ADHD and answer questions, giving the students an insight into the perspective of the experts.

• Prof. Dr Manuel Voelkle
  Institute of Psychology
  Methodology
  In the nominated course "Methodology", students learn the methodological basics of empirical work. In times of fake news and an apparent arbitrariness of information sources, representations and interpretations, the course imparts well-founded and sustainable knowledge about empirical-scientific work that distinguishes scientific findings from subjective opinions. For this large compulsory module, my teaching concept is based on a close interlinking of lectures, practical seminars (using open source software) and student tutorials. In all three formats, we specifically combine traditional classroom teaching with digital media, including flipped classroom events, virtual meetings and accompanying online materials such as interactive digital quizzes and assignments, a GitHub-based learning platform and supplementary individual methodological advice.

• Prof. Dr Jonathan Beere
  Institute of Philosophy
  Introduction to Aristotle's theoretical philosophy/In-depth reading on Aristotle's theoretical philosophy

• Audrey Fausser
  Institute for English and American Studies
  Written Academic Discourse: Writing Academic Essays

• Dr Antonia Wenzel
  Department of German Literature
  Aspekte literarischer und sprachlicher Bildung (WS 2023/2024),Einführung in die Didaktik des Deutschunterrichts (SoSe 2024)
  The basic course provides a framework for teaching German today, while the seminar deals with psychological, sociological and gender-specific aspects and can look at one area of learning in detail. The module as a whole thus offers a comprehensive overview of didactic issues, but also allows students to try out an individual topic as an example

• Xavier Bihan
  Institute of Romance Studies
  Traductions de films
  The course "Traduction de films/Film Translation" builds a bridge between the university and the professional world. Theory and practice are combined in an exemplary manner. One feature of this concept is that students' work is assessed by professionals and only accepted once the required standards have been achieved. The traditional grading system no longer plays a role here; what is important is the assessment by professionals. A special feature of the nominated course is that it is closely linked to the "Die Berlinguisten" project. The project participants, called "Die Berlinguisten", take part in film and theatre festivals such as the Oscars, Cannes, Sundance, Interfilm, Kuki, Cinéfête, the French Film Week... In 2024, we translated 51 films that were seen by more than 130,000 viewers. With the project "Human vs IA - Filmtranslation in the 21st century", they are sensitised to questions of the human-machine relationship and its influence on our environment. Sustainability has become a matter of course for them. By taking bad AI translations out of circulation and replacing them with human or intellectual translations, they are making a contribution to this. By subtitling films instead of alienating them through dubbing, we also show the diversity of languages and cultures in the world and thus contribute to their preservation.

• Prof. Dr Gabriel Ahlfeldt
  Introduction to econometrics

• Prof Dr Joachim Gassen
  External accounting

Lucas Müller
Bible Studies Old Testament
The course "Bible Studies Old Testament" offers a sound introduction to the structure, content and central themes of the Old Testament canon and its writings. The aim is to provide students with the ability to read the Old Testament scriptures independently and to analyse their content in depth. These texts are not only of fundamental importance for Judaism and Christianity, but also characterise parts of the Islamic tradition. Dealing with the Old Testament writings therefore not only promotes students' knowledge of literary history, but also their intercultural skills. Understanding the historical origins and long-term impact of the texts discussed in the exercise makes it possible to problematise simplistic discourses in the present and to develop a differentiated understanding of religious and cultural differences and similarities.

• Dr Lucas Pohl & Prof. Dr Henning Füller
  Institute of Geography
  Main excursion Vienna: Conflicts over urban metabolisms
  Self-organised research days. Excursion to Vienna with a perspective on urban substance and material flows. How are human/nature relationships intertwined? Which inequalities are made permanent? What influences do metabolic processes have on the sustainability of the city?

• Anna Hinderer & Torben Rode & Prof. Dr Dagmar Haase
  Institute of Geography
  Studium Oecologicum: Lecture series and seminar
  The Studium Oecologicum (StudOec) at HU Berlin is a long-standing project of the student initiative "Sustainability Office". It enables students from all disciplines to take an in-depth look at sustainability. The programme teaches the basics, perspectives and practical skills needed to critically reflect on socio-ecological challenges and act responsibly. The programme consists of two modules. Studium Oecologicum I ("The Green Thread"), a lecture series in which experts from various fields give weekly lectures on sustainability topics, and Studium Oecologicum II ("Studieren Transformieren"), a project tutorial in which students put their knowledge into practice, e.g. by helping to organise the lecture series or working on other projects in the field of sustainable development. What is special about the Studium Oecologicum is that students develop design skills and become change agents themselves, spreading the word about sustainability issues. Both modules are part of the ?WP and each earn 5 ECTS credits as well as a certificate attesting to the student's commitment to sustainability. The programme is very popular. Every year, around 150 students register for the lecture series and 25 for the project tutorial. Thanks to the interdisciplinary nature of the programme, they take sustainable ideas beyond the university and into society, making an important contribution to a sustainable transformation.

• Prof Dr Patrick Hostert
  Institute of Geography
  Main excursion Left and Right of the Moselle

• Dr Jana Bielagk
  Institute of Mathematics
  Stochastics
  In the lecture and the associated stochastics exercise, students in the combined Bachelor's or Master's of Education should become familiar with the technical foundations of stochastics and statistics. In particular, they practise setting up suitable models to mathematically solve problems in which chance plays a role. They learn the necessary concepts and methods from probability theory and statistics and acquire the elementary proof techniques for this discipline, recognising the limits of school mathematics and gaining an insight into what is still possible beyond these limits. The stochastics lecture is a particularly exciting lecture for me, as the modelling and recognition of patterns can be easily experienced here, which is an essential part of mathematics as a discipline. I therefore particularly enjoy teaching stochastics and I always try to pass this enjoyment on to the students, who will hopefully also enjoy teaching stochastics at school in the future.

• Dr Luise Fehlinger
  Institute of Mathematics
  Geometry and its didactics (didactic part)

• Dr Giovanni Ligorio
  Institute of Physics
  Fundamentals of Physics

• Natalia Nagler
  91301 A1 Russian

• Dr Tatjana Lischitzki
  91321 Russian B1.1
  In this course, participants discover the fascinating world of general Russian. They will expand and deepen their knowledge of lexis and grammar, focussing on verbs of movement with and without prefixes. Not only is language comprehension improved, but also the ability to formulate precise directions is trained and actively practised in the city. A unique feature of our course is the thematic focus: Living conditions, public holidays, external appearance and character traits - Поодёжкевстречают, поумупровожают (clothes make the man...). These practical topics ensure that you can express yourself confidently and competently in various real-life situations. And there's plenty of fun too! With interactive exercises, exciting reading and listening comprehension exercises and creative activities, every course visit is an entertaining experience. Listening and reading comprehension are tested at the end of the semester, while all language skills are practised and tested throughout the semester. At the end, participants can clearly track their progress (I can already do that...).

• Daniel Tyradellis
  Research colloquium
  The colloquium focuses on issues that are suitable for promoting inter- and transdisciplinary exchange within the university and between the university and society. The choice of topic is based on the disciplinary expertise contributed by the participating students. In the first phase, a joint search process was used to identify a perspective to which all participating disciplines have a connection: the motif of "touching" can be found in criminal law as well as in sports science, psychology and theology, linguistics, materials science and other subjects. It became apparent that the similarities and differences in the use of the term are not merely of a rhetorical or metaphorical nature, but represent fundamental questions of the coding of reality that can be analysed comparatively. The second phase of the colloquium focussed on this comparison, i.e. the mediation between the different forms of knowledge. This allowed the students to present their own knowledge and at the same time view it from a distance and familiarise themselves with other perspectives. A key motivation here was to translate the research content into forms and formats that would serve both the students' mutual understanding and a possible presentation of university research in the sense of the Third Mission as a long-term and sustainable task of Humboldt-Universit?t.