Humanities and Social Sciences

In the self-study course "MeToo in Science" offered by the Marie Jahoda Center for International Gender Studies, you will get valuable information about sexism, intersectionality, discrimination, and masculinity.

On this map, the topography of the fictional novel landscape from Ernst Jünger's Heliopolis (1949) is presented as an online map.

The professor needs your help! Valuable medieval books have disappeared from the library.

Are you ready for a journey back in time to the Middle Ages to find the books again?

This website aims to bring the movements of travelers into a virtual environment in order to open up German-Turkish-Ottoman history.

This course deals theoretically and practically with virtual reality applications in memorial sites, which are viewed more closely from the perspective of digital history, historical theory, historical game studies and the didactics of history.

This self-study course was designed for anyone interested in the topic of (digital) health literacy.

Data has no form. It is therefore above all the medial communication of data that plays a decisive role. After all, it is only by making data available that it becomes addressable for human observation.

Nowadays, it is practically impossible for media and cultural professionals not to come into contact with platforms. Whether as product platforms such as Spotify or Netflix or as AI-based production platforms such as Dall-E (for images) or ChatGPT (for text) - platforms are inscribing themselves into our media practices as intermediaries and infrastructures.

‘The metaverse’ does not yet exist. It merely exists as many different visions of a future of computing, especially a future that Meta and Mark Zuckerberg would like to shape.

This self-study course offers an overview of the development of Buddhist traditions in South Asia.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to data literacy in the context of Learning Analytics (LA) for students.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to data literacy in the context of Learning Analytics (LA) for educators.

The course "Working Techniques in Literary Studies" is a propaedeutic exercise in which students of German Studies are introduced to working in literary studies and the necessary working techniques using a manageable object of study as an example and then try them out in practice.

This OCW course provides the materials and assignments that were part of the course "Performance and Health Sport from a Psychological Perspective" in the summer semester 2020. The aim of the course was the active exchange of students on applied sport psychological content.

Jesus rose from the dead, he was raised from the dead - this is the basic confession of the Christian faith. How is this faith expressed? Is it an illusion or a reality? What is its theological meaning?

This course is the lecture "Death" in Modern German Literary Studies, which was held in the winter semester 2022/23. From the point of view of literary studies, death is, of course, a motif: characters die or are brought to death in novels, tragedies, and tragedy plays, characters take their own lives, death is feared or longed for, sung about and lamented.

This course is a past course on VR in different application context.

This podcast series looks at the difficulties faced by people from the LGBTQIA+ community and how they can be supported. For this purpose, experts were invited for interviews.

Conferences and mini-series on current topics in gender studies from the Marie Jahoda Center for International Gender Studies.

This open course presents selected materials and results from the proseminar "Media (everyday) worlds between formal and informal contexts", which was held in the winter semester 2020/2021.

This course provides an introductory overview of the historical development and the various currents of Hinduism.

This OCW-course serves as a demonstration course for the creation of Escape Room Games. The course took place in the winter semester 2020/2021. The purpose of the course is to explore practical and theoretical questions on how digital games represent, implement, and construct space.

The workshop "East Asia and the EU as Partners in Global Economic Governance" took place on 4 July, 2017. International participants and speakers addressed questions of actorness, role conceptions and forms and venues for EU cooperation with East Asia. This course presents video recordings of the workshop.