Supplementary Courses & Minor – “Gender, Diversity & Equality” (GDE)

Gender equality is not only one of the 17 sustainable development goals of the United Nations but constitutes the base of all other goals. Without gender equality, a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable future is out of reach. Nonetheless, this goal remains unachieved. To understand and overcome the barriers to persisting inequalities between genders, interconnected knowledge and transdisciplinary thinking is key.

The cross-faculty „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“- modules support students of all disciplines in developing a broad but differentiated understanding of the interplay of gender, power, and inequality. Students do not only gain theoretical and empirical insights into the challenges to and consequences of gender equality, equal opportunities, and inclusion but also acquire practical knowledge that helps promoting equality and diversity in all spheres of life. Gathering knowledge attained in various courses of the GDE cross-faculty course offer, students can acquire a certified additional qualification as part of their elective study program.

The „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“- program comprises research-based teaching of the digital, social, and natural sciences as well as theology, law, and cultural studies. The broad spectrum of courses offered encourages a critical view on gendered differences, gender identities, and role models. Highlighting other structural categories of discrimination (e.g., race, ethnicity, sexual orientation) the teaching opens the view to the challenges of intersectionality.

GOALS

The Gender, Diversity, and Equality“ (GDE)- modules offer different perspectives on diversity, antidiscrimination, and equal opportunities. Research-based cross-faculty courses:

  • foster a basic understanding of both the historical and current discourse of intersectional gender research
  • raise awareness for different forms of inequality on the individual but also the structural level as well as their interplay
  • facilitate the ability to critically evaluate gender relations
  • enable students to reflect and adapt behaviors that reproduce unequal power relations and hierarchies

MODULES

The study offer „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“ consists of three modules that build upon one another: the Basic Module (12 ECTS), the Supplementary Study Programme (24 ECTS), and the Specialisation Programme (36 ECTS). The bundling of courses from various research areas allows students to develop a nuanced view of the discourses surrounding gender, diversity, and (in-)equality. 

The „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“- program thus offers courses tailored to Bachelor, Master, Diploma and Doctoral students of all faculties and can be attended by students of all faculties likewise. Please keep in mind that only courses that are not part of the obligatory (elective) study programme students are enrolled in can be considered for certification.

Basic Module „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“ (12 ECTS-Punkte)

Courses in the basic module provide the foundations of gender studies and introduce the basic terms, theories, and methods that form the backbone for further investigations of the discourses on gender, diversity, and inequality.

Basic Module „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“ (12 ECTS)

  • At least one introductory lecture (see below) – 3 ECTS
  • Courses of the cross-faculty GDE-program – 9 ECTS

Total – 12 ECTS

 Supplementary Study Programme „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“ (24 ECTS)

The Supplementary Study Programme builds upon the basic module and extends the knowledge acquired. The specific issues that intersectional women and gender studies revolve around, are discussed from various points of view. Complementarily, students can choose to complete an internship in an organization that focuses on women, gender, diversity, or equality. For the approval of your internship position consult the „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“ coordinator (beforehand.

 Supplementary Study Programme „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“ (24 ECTS)

  • Requirements: Basic module „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“ – 12 ECTS
  • Courses of the cross-faculty GDE-program and internship (if desired; max. 6 ECTS) – 12 ECTS

Total – 24 ECTS

Specialisation Programme „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“ (36 ECTS)

The Specialisation Programme „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“  further deepens the knowledge acquired in the Supplementary Study Programme and offers complementary perspectives on ongoing discourses around gender. To obtain the minor certificate, students have to complete additional GDE-courses of a total of 12 ECTS.

Specialisation Programme „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“ (36 ECTS)

  • Requirements: Basic module „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“ – 12 ECTS
  • Requirements: Supplementary study program  – 12 ECTS
  • Courses of the cross-faculty GDE-program – 12 ECTS

Total – 36 ECTS

CERTIFICATION

Having completed the required courses, students can request the following certificates:

  • Basic module „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“: after acquiring 12 ECTS
  • Supplementary Study Programme „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“ (supplementary study program): after acquiring the Basic module and the Advanced module, adding up to 24 ECTS
  • Specialisation Programme „Gender, Diversity, and Equality“: after acquiring the Basic module, the Supplementary Study Programme, and the Specialisation Programme courses adding up to 36 ECTS

CERTIFICATION PROCESS

To receive the corresponding certificate, send the following documents to by the 20th of each month. 

  • Examination pass (linked forms)
  • Transcripts of record collected in one PDF file
  • If you want to receive credit for a course that is not listed below, please include the official course description including syllabus in your mail attachment.

Given the documents are complete, you will receive the corresponding certificate at the beginning of the following month.

Important: Please keep in mind that only courses that are not part of your obligatory (elective) study program can be considered for certification.

COORDINATION AND INFORMATION

The GDE-modules are coordinated by the Professorship for Politics and Gender, Diversity and Equality of the PLUS and is supported by the Interdisciplinary Commission for Gender Studies (IER). For inquiries, please contact . 

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Course Offerings for the Academic Year 2026-2027

INTRODUCTORY LECTURES

Political Science

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CROSS-FACULTY GDE COURSE OFFERINGS

Course offerings of the Professorship for Gender 

External courses in GDE

Interdisciplinary lectures from the interfacultary teaching offer: 

  • 999.901 Gesundheitliche Chancengerechtigkeit (Gut, C./ Kapferer, E./ Kinskofer, F.)

Arts, Musicology & Dance Studies

  • 315.000 Fragilité. Mediale und ästhetische Konjunkturen im französischen 18. Jahrhundert (Kloss-Weber, J.) – 3 ECTS
  • 315.001 Geschichte und Theorie der Performance (Art) (Weiß, M.) – 3 ECTS
  • 315.035 Wer hat Angst vor Zaha Hadid? Architektinnen in einer Männerdomäne (Brandt, S.) – 9 ECTS
  • 315.037 Problematische Objekte (Weiß, M.) – 9 ECTS
  • 315.537 Die Sammlung Milein Cosman (1921–2017). Musik und Bewegung in Bildern (Kloss-Weber, J.) – 9 ECTS
  • 315.028 Moderne in dunkler Zeit. Kunst in Österreich 1900-1945 (Allerstorfer-Hertel, J.) – 2 ECTS
  • 315.527 Multiple Modernities. Moderne Kunstbewegungen in globalen und transkulturellen Kontexten (Allerstorfer-Hertel, J.) – 2 ECTS
  • 316.103 Einführung in die Tanzwissenschaft (Althammer, M.) – 2.5 ECTS
  • 316.246 Praktiken der Weitergabe: Körperwissen und Teilhabe in Tanz und Performance (Althammer, M.) – 6 ECTS
  • 316.112 Nacktheit, Nationalismus, Normierung – Körperkulturen und Lebensreform im Modernen Tanz (Althammer, M.) – 5 ECTS
  • 316.371 Globale Vorkriegszeit: Szenische Künste in den 1930er Jahren und ihre Resonanzen (Haitzinger, N.) – 6 ECTS
  • 316.452 Musical Fiction (Riedel, F.) – 6 ECTS
  • 316.412 Social & Cultural Theory for the Performing Arts (Absaroka, R.) – 5 ECTS
  • 316.411 Global Music Historiographies (Absaroka, R.) – 5 ECTS
  • 316.421 Alternative Musikgeschichten: Pionier:innen elektroakustischer und elektronischer Musik (Kollinger, F.) – 5 ECTS
  • 316.251 Kompositionsgeschichte (Kollinger, F.) – 5 ECTS

Classical studies

  • 341.101 Griechische Autor:innen, Literaturgattungen oder -epochen (Antike Philosophie: Staatsphilosophie Platons) (Schirren, T.) – 3 ECTS
  • 341.601 Griechische Autor:innen, Literaturgattungen oder -epochen (Frühgriechische Lyrik) (Schirren, T.) – 3 ECTS
  • 310.556 Katastrophen in der Antike. Naturereignisse, Krieg und gesellschaftliche Krisen (Friedl, F.)
  • 314.501 Wohnst du noch oder lebst du schon? Haus und Haushalt in der griechischen Antike (Hoernes, M.)

Anglistics

  • 812.g09 Archipelagic Storytelling: Caribbean Short Fiction (Poole, R.) – 5 ECTS
  • 612.c06 History of Photography (Parker, J.) – 6 ECTS
  • 812.g13 Period Films (Parker, J.) – 6 ECTS
  • 812.g11 Queer Ecologies (Poole, R.) – 5 ECTS

German studies

  • 332.209 Sprache und Geschlecht (Kaiser, I.) – 4 ECTS
  • 332.220 Spracheinstellungen und Sprachideologien (Unterberger, E. & Elspaß, S.) – 4 ECTS
  • 332.219 Historische Soziolinguistik des Deutschen (Elspaß, S. & Unterberger, E.) – 6 ECTS
  • 332.708 Sexualität und Jugendliteratur (Holmes, D.) – 4 ECTS
  • 332.825 Migration und Mehrsprachigkeit in Literatur und Film (Ní Dhúill, C.) – 3 ECTS

History

  • 603.421 Gesundheit und Krankheit im Mittelalter (Isser, R.) – 5 ECTS
  • 603.431 Der herrschaftliche Körper. Macht – Krankheit – Körperlichkeit in der Frühen Neuzeit (Oetzel, L.) – 5 ECTS
  • 603.551 Alter, Armut und Krankheit im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit (Weiss, A.) – 5 ECTS
  • 603.721 Frauen im Mittelalter (Antenhofer, C.) – 6 ECTS
  • 603.732 Frühneuzeitliche Hexenverfolgung als Phänomen der Populärkultur (Oetzel, L.) – 6 ECTS
  • 603.781 Behinderungen – Disability Studies (Weiss, A.) – 6 ECTS
  • 603.424 Weibliches Mäzenatentum im Mittelalter (Isser, R.) – 5 ECTS
  • 603.772 Missionen und Kolonialismus (Bührer, T.) – 6 ECTS

Linguistics

  • 327.615 Einführung in den Forschungsbereich Gebärdensprachen (Krebs, J.)
  • 327.618 Grammatik der Österreichischen Gebärdensprache (ÖGS) (Krebs, J.)
  • 327.616 Österreichische Gebärdensprache (ÖGS) 1 (Unterasinger, W.)
  • 327.628 Österreichische Gebärdensprache (ÖGS) 3 (Unterasinger, W.)
  • 327.617 Österreichische Gebärdensprache (ÖGS) 2 (Unterasinger, W.)
  • 327.629 Experimentelle Erforschung von Gebärdensprachen (Krebs, J.)
  • 645.843 Diversity in der Erziehungswissenschaft (Mocevic, H.) 

Practical Theology

  • PHB.092 Angewandte Ethik I
  • PHB.111 Politische Philosophie I
  • PHB.093 Angewandte Ethik II
  • T33.040 Theologische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (Arzt, S.) 

Romance Studies

  • 646.268 Le reportage littéraire. Enquêtes sociales depuis les bas-fonds dans le journalisme français (Izzo, S.)
  • 646.567 Frauen lieben Frauen. Lesbisches Begehren in der italienischen Literatur des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts (Izzo, S.)
  • 646.666 João Guimarães Rosa, Grande Sertão: Veredas (Laferl, C.)
  • 646.464 Parole in cattività – Gefangenschaftsnarrative der italienischen Literatur (Casarini, M.)
  • 646.080 Theorien und Methoden der Inter- und Transkulturalitätsforschung (Corti, A.)
  • 646.868 Voces al margen: crónicas latinoamericanas (Corti, A.)
  • 646.131 Bias: Macht der Diskurse. Macht der Emotionen (Corti, A.)
  • 646.934 Sujeto, cuerpo y mercado en la economía de los países de habla hispana (Ríos Flores, D.)
  • 646.634 O preço do império colonial português e do seu fim (Fernandes, C.)
  • 646.494 Il volto molteplice della donna nella novella italiana dal Decameron a Pirandello (Powell, C.)

Sociology and Human Geography

  • 122.335 Social Movements (Karabegovic, D.) – 6 ECTS
  • 122.026 Armut im Sozialstaat (Schels, B.) – 6 ECTS
  • 122.223 Moderne – Macht – Mode (Hahn, K.) – 6 ECTS
  • 122.317 Gender Studies (Stempfhuber, M.) – 6 ECTS
  • 122.330 Arbeitsmarkt und Ungleichkeit (Schels, B.) – 6 ECTS
  • 122.336 Introduction to Critical Border Studies (Fischer, M.) – 6 ECTS
  • 122.338 Herausforderungen der Sozialintegration in Europa (Aschauer, W.) – 6 ECTS
  • 122.339 Intimitätssoziologie (Stempfhuber, M.) – 6 ECTS
  • 122.032 Gesellschaftliche Geschlechter- und Naturverhältnisse (Bagheri, R.) – 6 ECTS
  • 122.033 Socialisation, Identity, and the Workplace (Malesevic, L.) – 6 ECTS
  • 122.023 Super-Diversity, Racism, and Institutional Whiteness (Shinozaki, K.) – 6 ECTS

Systematic Theology

  • RPM.053 Seminar Dogmatik: Klassiker feministischer Theologie (Spies, F.) – 5 ECTS
  • S05.002 / RSM.002 Islamischer Feminismus (Gmainer-Pranzl, F.)

GDE Courses in English 2026-2027

Winter Semester 2026-2027

Summer Semester 2027