Islamic Religious Education
Islamic Religious Education (Teaching degree)
With the completion of this teaching degree program, you qualify to teach the subject “Islamic Education” at Bavarian schools. You can study this degree program as part of your teaching degree, or if you have completed degree programs related to Islam.
- Degree
- Teaching degree
- Duration of studies in semester
- 3-6
- Start of degree program
- Summer semester, Winter semester
- Study location
- Erlangen, Nuremberg
- Number of students
- 50-150
- Subject group
- Teaching Degree, Language and Cultural Studies, Theology
- Teaching language
- completely in German
- Admission Requirements
- No Admissions Restrictions
What is the degree program about?
The extension subject Islamic Education prepares teachers to complete the subject “Islamic Education” with the state examination (for GS, MS, RS) and to teach at public schools.
A certificate program is offered for the teaching profession at Gymnasiums.
The course content includes an examination of the religious scriptural sources of Islam, the existing traditions, developments in the history of ideas, key theological questions, selected cultural areas of Islam, non-Islamic religions, as well as religious education and the specialized didactics of Islam.
The extension subject “Islamic Education” is interdisciplinary. By attending courses offered by neighboring reference sciences (Islamic Studies, non-Islamic theologies and religious education, religious studies, philosophy…), students should become familiar with the respective change of perspective in the subject. Being able to integrate such multi-layered approaches in a meaningful way is a prerequisite for teaching Islamic religion. There, the focus is on keeping questions alive and paths of knowledge open, which are to be explored by the adolescents as they develop their own worlds of faith.
of their own worlds of faith. The teaching should accompany them in this process and enable them to position themselves freely, but in a personally responsible way, with regard to Islam as a religion and a way of life. The study of Islamic religious education imparts the necessary basic and in-depth knowledge of Islam. Emphasis is placed on the practical aspects of life and teaching, but also on the overall social and global context. In this context, the program also has a decidedly Islamic-theological profile that goes beyond that of religious education.
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Module I: Systematics of Islam
- General introduction to Islam as a doctrine of faith, norms and methods
- Selected religious pedagogical aspects of Islam
Module II: The Koran as the primary source of Islam
- Introduction to the structure and topics of the Quran
- Overview of the genesis and exegesis of the Koran as the central scripture of Islam
- Religious-pedagogical, educational-ethical, social-ethical aspects of the Koran
Module III: Hadith/Sunnah
- Introduction to the genesis and exegesis of the Hadith as the central scripture of Islam
- Selected aspects of the Hadith
- Religious pedagogical significance of the prophetic way of life (Sunna) for the Muslim way of life in the present day
Module IV: Technical language of Islam
- Basic terminology of Islam
- Processes of religious conceptualization and communication skills, technical language-interdisciplinary references
Module V: Islam and Society
- Overview of Islam as a historical, cultural and social phenomenon
- Basic features of Jewish and Christian religious teachings
- Life of Muslims under conditions of intercultural and interreligious conditions
- Selected aspects of Islam, related to the tension between historicity and actuality and to social discourses on guiding principles
Module VI: Pedagogy and subject didactics of Islam
- Islam from a pedagogical and didactical perspective
- Competence-oriented pedagogy and subject didactics
- Interreligious teaching and learning
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The offer of this extension course is aimed at:
- Students of all teaching positions for public schools in Bavaria who are studying at FAU.
- Students of other degree programs at FAU who wish to complete an Islam-related compulsory course or a corresponding thematic specialization
- Students from other universities or universities of applied sciences who are studying to become a teacher, who are training to become a specialist teacher, or who would like to take a compulsory Islam-related course or a corresponding thematic course in other areas.
- Interested students who are enrolled as guest students at FAU and the individual courses are open to guest students.
- Teachers in the teaching profession who would like to acquire the certificate for “Islamic Education” on an in-service basis
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- Admission requirements (first semester)
- No Admissions Restrictions
- Application deadline winter semester
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30.09.
- Application deadline summer semester
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30.03.
Language skills
- German language skills for international applicants
- DSH 2 or equivalent
- Details and notes
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The application deadline for international applicants is July 15th for the winter semester and January 15th for the summer semester.
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