Faculty of Human Sciences Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

The faculty specializes in research and teaching at the Humanum. The interdisciplinary cooperation of our specialist cultures across eight institutes is dedicated to people and the human being in a fundamentally oriented and applied science.

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The faculty devotes itself to the fundamental and application-related, methodologically diverse, complex problems and questions of future-oriented discourses of human beings and faces the challenges of socio-social tasks, the fundamentals of culturally global formations and critical-ethical boundaries in the field of the human. In this way, structurally and institutionally, it uniquely intertwines scientific findings with cultural-scientific contexts, empirical analyzes with reflections on the humanities. In short, the subject of the faculty is the center of every science: the humanum. Her research is the explications of the human, genealogically critical, groundbreaking constructive.

In this field, the faculty marks a gathering of subjects and subject cultures , which are necessary for reflexive human sciences. The eight institutes of our faculty, the institutes for philosophy, psychology, pedagogy, special education, sports science, possibly theology and religious education, political science and sociology, as well as human-computer media, combine different scientific approaches, which are specific and yet together devote their attention in research and teaching to humans and humans.

Faculty Culture | For the Faculty of Human Sciences, the goal of excellence education is to strengthen each subject through the interplay of their subject cultures, respect their autonomy and set up structures in which interaction with the other subjects is encouraged, at the same time heightens scientific curiosity keeps you awake. Research into the human being has no less claim than that human beings constitute themselves as the object of thought. Therefore, the human sciences can only exist in plural, in diversity: The human sciences of the University of Würzburg understand human beings in their diversity and see themselves as the empirical sciences of human beings. Committed to Humboldtian tradition, the faculty pursues the requirement that the individual, different moments of the human as well as their subjects enter into an interdisciplinary connection through the mutual interaction. Whilst maintaining the respective specialist culture, a whole is created, a faculty that is able to depict the Humanum in all its facets.

Teaching in the faculty | The Faculty of Human Sciences does not understand teaching as an encyclopedic knowledge transfer, but aims to contribute to the personal and scientific education of students. Education goes far beyond training. For von Humboldt, people's education consists in demanding and promoting all of their individual skills. The educational idea aims at an attitude that is characterized by curiosity and interest in science and its questions in the context of society and culture. The Faculty of Human Sciences therefore understands academic teaching as a place for realizing individual, socio-political or cultural opportunities in the medium of science. The course thus aims at dealing with the students with subject-related content, taking into account the ethical, social and political relevance with a view to personal development. In particular, academic teaching aims to qualify students for the requirements of various professional fields and research activities. The students are introduced to questions and possible solutions in the respective research areas at an early stage and are given the opportunity to actively conduct research. Research and teaching thus interlock to inspire each other.

Research | Research and teaching are based on the current state of international research and are committed to the search for truth as a regulatory idea, aware of the responsibility of science towards society and history. The Faculty of Human Sciences expresses its research through outstanding achievements. In doing so, it relates to human problems, historically, systematically and empirically. The human sciences base their research settings on important research questions, to which they seek and provide answers as the sciences of human solutions. Unlike many other fields of research, the humanum itself is by no means historically static, but rather at the same time dynamic subject and object of research. Human faculty research in our faculty only acts with the constitutive dynamics of the human being and not against it to a maximum of reflective methodical self-assurance.