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Welcome to the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology! Winter term 2021/22 officially starts on 18 October, and planning is underway. Regardless of whether you are an “Ersti” beginning your studies or already in a higher semester: The individual programmes, institutes and service institutions of the faculty are here to support you.

The perfect start at uni for those who are completely undecided

Fun in the sun – that is what summer holidays should look like for children. The city of Nuremberg together with the Chair for Teaching German as a Second Language and the Bürgerstiftung are offering a summer camp in the first two weeks of the summer break, so those who stay home can be active, too....

Have you worked with your students in an interdisciplinary, practical or a specific digital format? Apply for the Faculty's teaching award for innovative teaching concepts by 7 May 2021! To apply, please send an e-mail with a teaching concept from one of the last two terms including evaluation re...

Just like the previous, the upcoming summer term will be affected by the pandemic. The focus in the lecture period from 12 April to 16 July will be on online teaching. But the faculty and the individual programmes will be offering support to all students. Students who are starting a master’s prog...

A warm welcome to Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi, the new chair for 'Science, Technology and Gender Studies' since 1 January 2021. She has been trained as physicists and as historian of science and technology. Her research focus is a highly interdisciplinary field at the intersection of science and technology studies, history of science, diplomatic history, political sciences, and international affairs.

To honour the great importance of teaching, the Faculty of Humanities and Department of Theology has tendered a teaching award for the faculty for the first time in 2020. From now on, the new teaching award will be awarded every year to two innovative teaching concepts.

Dr. Krisztina Kovács of the Hungarian Szeged University is spending the winter term teaching and researching at the Institut für Grundschulforschung. Her stay is being funded by the DAAD’s programme for funding foreign guest lecturers (Förderung ausländischer Gastdozenten zu Lehrtätigkeiten an deutschen Hochschulen), which Dr. Günter Renner of the institute has successfully applied for.

Six new professorships as part of the High-Tech Agenda Bavaria

Just before the first Advent rolls around, the two Christian university congregations KHG and ESG are launching their ecumenical Christmas tree campaign. From 25 November, Christmas trees decorated with colourful ‘wish cards’ will be waiting on campus in the Regensburger Straße between the seminar and auditorium buildings, as well as at other FAU locations in Nuremberg.