Bachelor's Programme Islamic Religious Education

Curriculum (2013W)

As of winter semester 2023/2024 this programme is no longer open to new entrants. For information on the succeeding bachelor’s programme please consult this page »

Bachelor of Arts

Duration/ECTS-Credits
6 semesters/180 ECTS-Credits

Mode of Study
Full-time

Language
German

Requirements
Secondary school completion certificate or equivalent and Language Certificates

Faculty
Faculty of Teacher Education

Level of Qualification
Bachelor (First Cycle)
ISCED-11: Level 6, EQF/NQF: Level 6

ISCED-F 
0114 Teacher Training with Subject Specialisation

Study code
UC 033 674

*Information on the Curriculum (2013W)

The complete version of the curriculum reflects the currently valid version of the curriculum. It is for informational purposes only and is not legally binding. The legally binding version of the curriculum, including any amendments, may be found in the University of Innsbruck Bulletins.

In order to determine which version of the curriculum is applicable in your case, see the Catalogue of Studies
available at: https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/lfuonline_meinestudien.studienblatt
Section: Current curriculum version

Studies Induction and Orientation Stage (STEOP)

(1) Within the scope of the Studies Induction and Orientation Stage, which takes place in the first semester, the following course examinations must be passed:

1. SL Introduction to Quran Studies (CM 1 lit. b/2 hrs. /3 ECTS-Credits),
2. VO Biography of the Prophet (CM 5 lit. b/ 2 hrs. / 5 ECTS-Credits).

(2) Successful passing of all exams of the Studies Induction and Orientation Stage entitles to passing all further courses and examinations as well as to writing the Bachelor's Thesis.

(3) Before successful completion of the Studies Induction and Orientation Stage courses amounting to 22 ECTS-Credits may be passed. The requirements specified in the curriculum must be met.

(1) The Studies Induction and Orientation Stage (STEOP), with a duration of one semester (30 ECTS-Credits), provides an overview of the study programme and its structure in order to give students an objective basis to assess their decision to pursue their chosen subject(s).

(2) During the Studies Induction and Orientation Stage, the following course examinations, which may be repeated twice, must be completed satisfactorily:

  1. SL Introduction to Academic Procedure (Module 1 lit. a / 1 h / 2 ECTS-Credits)
  2. SL Introduction to the Qur´an Science (Module 1 lit. b / 2 h / 3 ECTS-Credits)

(3) A positive result (passing grade) on the examinations specified in Paragraph 2 permits students to attend all courses and take all examinations following the Introduction and Orientation Phase for Students (STEOP) and to write a bachelor's thesis as described in the curriculum. The registration requirements specified by the curriculum must be met.

General Information

Recommended Course Sequence

The exemplary course sequence given below is recommended for full-time students beginning their study programme in the winter semester. The table shows one possible course sequence for the bachelor's programme and is not compulsory. Delays resulting from repeated examinations are not taken into account.

The standard duration of the study programme is 6 semesters or 180 ECTS-Credits, whereby according to the Universities Act of 2002, a workload of 1,500 (real) hours per academic year must be fulfilled, corresponding to 60 ECTS-Credits (one ECTS-Credit is equivalent to a workload of 25 hours).

2.0 ECTS-Credits: SL Introduction to Scientific Working
3.0 ECTS-Credits: PS Theories and Methodology of Islamic Research
2.5 ECTS-Credits: VO Introduction into Islamic Theology
2.5 ECTS-Credits: VU Arabic 1
2.5 ECTS-Credits: VU Arabic 2
3.0 ECTS-Credits: SL Introduction to the Qur'an Science
5.0 ECTS-Credits: SE Islamische Normen (Fiqh)
5.0 ECTS-Credits: VO Biography of the Prophet (Sira)
2.0 ECTS-Credits: VO School as Educational Institution and the Role of the Teacher
2.0 ECTS-Credits: VO Teaching and Learning

2.5 ECTS-Credits: VU Arabic 3
2.5 ECTS-Credits: VO Statements of Faith of Islamic Religion
5.0 ECTS-Credits: SE Hadith and Methodology of Hadith-Science
2.5 ECTS-Credits: SE Genesis and Exegesis of Written Sources
2.0 ECTS-Credits: SE Islamic Art and Cultural History
3.0 ECTS-Credits: VO History of Islam
2.5 ECTS-Credits: VO Islamic Gendered Discourse
2.5 ECTS-Credits: VO Islam and Massmedia
2.5 ECTS-Credits: VO Primary Level Pedagogy
3.5 ECTS-Credits: VO Introduction to Migration Education
3.0 ECTS-Credits: VO Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Youth

2.5 ECTS-Credits: VU Arabic 4
2.5 ECTS-Credits: VU Qur’an Recitation
3.0 ECTS-Credits: SE Methodology of Usul al Fiqh
2.5 ECTS-Credits: SE Islamic Norms (Fiqh) – Advanced Study
2.0 ECTS-Credits: VO Contextual Theology
5.0 ECTS-Credits: VO Systematic Islamic Theology (Kalam)
2.5 ECTS-Credits: VO Schools of Jurisprudence (Math 'hab and History of Math 'hab in the Islam
4.0 ECTS-Credits: VO Islamic Anthropology
2.5 ECTS-Credits: VO History of Islamic Religious Education
3.0 ECTS-Credits: SE Basic Competences: Conflicts and Crises

2.5 ECTS-Credits: VU Qur’an Recitation 2
5.0 ECTS-Credits: SE Tafsir – Qur’an Exegesis
4.0 ECTS-Credits: VO Islamic ethics (Ahlaq)
2.5 ECTS-Credits: VO Interreligious Learning from an Islamic Perspective
2.5 ECTS-Credits: VO Introduction to Christianity
3.5 ECTS-Credits: VU Philosophie Special Themes in the History of Philosophy - Islamic Philosophy
2.5 ECTS-Credits: VO Contemporary Approaches in Islamic Religious Education
3.0 ECTS-Credits: SE Empirical Research in Educational Contexts
2.0 ECTS-Credits: VO Fundamental Religious Didactics
3.0 ECTS-Credits: SE Fundamental Religious Didactics

2.5 ECTS-Credits: VO Questions of Faith in the Present
5.0 ECTS-Credits: VO Current Approaches in Hadith Research
2.5 ECTS-Credits: VO Qur'an Research in the Present
2.0 ECTS-Credits: SE Didactic of Quran
3.0 ECTS-Credits: SE Islamic Mysticism
3.0 ECTS-Credits: SE Approaches in Religious Education in Islamic Mysticism
2.0 ECTS-Credits: PR Basic Internship School Teaching and Learning Settings
2.0 ECTS-Credits: VO Canonical Norms for Education, Counselling and Pastoral Care
2.0 ECTS-Credits: SE Subject Didactics Primary Schools
3.0 ECTS-Credits: PR Special Practical Training II
2.0 ECTS-Credits: SE Subject Didactic I

3.0 ECTS-Credits: PR Special Practical Training II
3.5 ECTS-Credits: SE Cooperative Didactics of Religious Education I: Didactics of Islamic Religious Education
3.0 ECTS-Credits: SE Project Development
3.5 ECTS-Credits: SE Special Subject-Didactics: Hadith-Didactics
3.5 ECTS-Credits: VO Islamic Pastoral Care
3.5 ECTS-Credits: SE Islamic Non-School Education
10.0 ECTS-Credits: SE Seminar with Bachelor’s Thesis

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Information about examination regulations, assessment and grading

Examination regulations

The examination regulation is an integral part of the curriculum, detailed information can be found under the paragraph examination regulations.

The grade distribution table is a statistical representation of the distribution of all successfully completed examinations in a given programme of study or subject (based on all registered students for the programme or subject). The grade distribution table is updated in regular intervals.

ABCDE
 Austrian grading  scheme Definition  %-age
 1 EXCELLENT:  Outstanding performance 51.9= 100%
 2  GOOD:  Generally good, but with some errors 29.8
 3 SATISFACTORY:  Generally sound work with a number of substantial errors 13.3
 4 SUFFICIENT:  Performance meets the minimum criteria5
 5 INSUFFICIENT:  Substantial improvement necessary; requirement of further work

December 2021


Overall classification of the qualification

Not applicable
Explanation: An overall classification (mit Auszeichnung bestanden/pass with distinction, bestanden/pass, nicht bestanden/fail) – is awarded only for examinations that conclude a programme of study and consist of more than one subject (an examination of this type is not specified in the curriculum of this programme of study).

Information about the Programme (in German only)

Contact and Information

Examination Office
Standort Innrain 52d

Piktogramm barrierefreier Zugang

Associate Dean of Studies
Mehmet Hilmi Tuna, BSc MA PhD

Dean of Studies
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martina Kraml

Information for Studends with disabilities

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martina Kraml

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martina Kraml
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