Degrees:

Masters in sociology (specialisation sociology of science) and a PhD

With regard to teaching, the department does not have a full curriculum in social studies of science, but offers a wide range of topics in the field of STS. Sociology students can choose a specialisation in the sociology of the sciences on the master's level. Students having done their master's in the humanities or social sciences can choose to do doctoral theses at our department. Besides this, virtually all curricula inculde a certain amount of courses in history, philosophy or social studies of science. Students are free to choose their courses. This means that the Institute is confronted with a large variety of students coming from very different backgrounds, which makes teaching rather challenging and which makes interdisciplinary work possible fairly early on. As for teaching, guest professors and other invited lecturers are regularly invited to enable a broad range of subjects to be covered.