The program offers Bachelor’s and Master’s students from all disciplines the opportunity to engage in a well-founded, interdisciplinary, and practice-oriented study of variety and gender research. Subjects consist of variety, social justice, and power relations. Participants will be made it possible for to seriously take a look at discrimination and power structures, thus also taking a stand against contempt for human beings and hostility to democracy. These competencies strengthen them in their studies, careers, and society.
3 Modules: From Principles to Practice
The certificate makes up 3 modules, in which a total of 15 credit points should be earned. The initial module will be offered for the first time in the winter term 2025/26 and conveys basics of diversity and gender, intersectionality, and social inequality. From the summer semester 2026 onward, more courses may be taken at TU Dortmund University, Ruhr University Bochum, and the University of Duisburg-Essen.
In the sophisticated module, competencies and knowledge can be expanded through two accredited courses. The useful module focuses on analyzing concrete fields of action and likewise consists of an internship with a partner organization.
In the first mate, 15 trainees per university might enlist in the introductory module. To facilitate cross-university involvement, it includes two in-person block sessions and four online conferences. Trainees of TU Dortmund University may register up until 10 October, 12.00 p.m. (twelve noon), via the site of the Equal Opportunities Office. No previous subject understanding is needed.
At TU Dortmund University, Mona Motakef, Teacher of Sociology of Gender Relations in the Department of Social Sciences, is involved in the academic style of the new program: “I anticipate working with the students! The certificate is meant to add to educational work that reinforces democratic concepts and reacts to current difficulties. The timing might not be much better.”
First Joint Certificate of the UA Ruhr
The certificate program Variety and Gender is the first of its kind to be collectively designed by stakeholders from all UA Ruhr institutions and offered all at once to students at all 3 universities.
“The idea of a certificate program concentrating on gender studies and diversity problems has actually been discussed repeatedly and separately at all three universities. That we can now release it as a joint initiative is thanks to the dedication of numerous stakeholders and is also a sign of the times,” states Elisabeth Brenker, Central Equal Opportunities Officer at TU Dortmund University.
At TU Dortmund University, coordination of the certificate lies with the Equal Opportunities Workplace. The Corporate Center University Development and Organization is likewise involved in its design and organization. From the start, the effort has actually been supported by Vice President Diversity, Petra Wiederkehr, and Vice President Academic Affairs, Wiebke Möhring.
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