Faculties

Faculty 1 covers a wide range of disciplines—education, Protestant theology, history, elementary school teaching and general studies, Catholic theology, psychology, social and organizational pedagogy, social sciences, and sports science—using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches. The main areas of research focus on the topics of "variety in education," "diversity, empowerment, and inclusion," and "social upheaval and new digital living environments." Faculty 1 has traditionally been strongly represented in Hildesheim's educational research with various subject didactics, applied educational science, and primary school didactics/ general studies. Furthermore, Psychology is a university-level area of expansion and a profile-shaping field. The faculty's research has regional, national, and international appeal.

Research in Faculty 2 reflects the cultural studies focus of the University of Hildesheim. We investigate how cultural practices and artistic processes are transformed by current social change processes and how aesthetic practice in turn triggers, takes up, reinforces, or changes social transformation processes. Our research also addresses the social and political conditions that enable artistic activity and cultural participation. Methodological reflection on the diverse forms of aesthetic practice is ultimately linked to transdisciplinary and intercultural discourses in order to contribute to theory formation in international cultural studies.

Faculty 3, Linguistics and Information Sciences, is divided into the teacher training institutes IdSL (Institute for German Language and Literature) and IeSL (Institute for English Language and Literature) and the institutes IIK (Institute for Intercultural Communication), IÜF (Institute for Translation Studies and Technical Communication) and IWIST (Institute for Information Science and Language Technology).

Research is highly transdisciplinary and focuses on the following profile elements:

• Linguistic structures and linguistic action
• Literature and culture
• Linguistic and literary learning
• Linguistic and cultural heterogeneity
• Information and communication processes.

Faculty 4 is responsible for STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and economics. Its focus is particularly on computer science and economics, environmental sciences, and teaching methodology across the entire range of subjects. The department sees itself as a center of research in these areas with national and international influence.