The compulsory fundamental subjects in core studies establish the specialist academic skills and support your professional competences.
In the chosen field of specialisation, you will enhance and specialise – depending on the degree programme – your professional access based on your interests and career goals.
In a selection of more than 20 modules, you cross the boundaries between:
Your degree programme takes you through all three basic elements. This process allows you to deepen and broaden your skills while letting you incorporate your personal interests in your programme of study.
Contextual Studies are a module offer, from which the master students and the alumni of the FH Vorarlberg can choose.
The Contextual Studies at Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences (FH Vorarlberg) provide customized courses as part of our master’s degree programmes. It offers students diverse opportunities to pursue personal areas of interest, to do independent work and to push the limits of their knowledge and abilities in research, intercultural contexts and numerous disciplines.
Be active and incorporate your own questions and thoughts into your learning and understanding: In the Contextual Studies you can adopt new points of view and unconventional perspectives, discover and reconfigure relationships.
Crossing boundaries and tread new ground: The Contextual Studies allow you to work on current interdisciplinary issues and questions. The topics cover challenges of our working world as well as sustainability issues, but also societal coexistence and social economics, cultural change and value orientations, security and many others.
FH Vorarlberg offers you plenty of scope for being involved in the design of your degree programme. Depending on your motivation and ambition, the Contextual Studies provides you:
Innovation Classes give you the opportunity to develop your own product ideas at the University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg – in a small team and with access to the laboratories of the university.
| Element of degree programme | "Contextual Studies" |
| ECTS points | 12 |
| Module offer 2021 | Download |
| Format | In the 1st semester you orientate yourself and choose your individual path through the Contextual Studies. Modules are offered in the 2nd and 3rd semesters (6 ECTS per semester). Each module is completed in the same semester. You will also find English-language modules and field trips in an international offer. |
All master students of the 19th and earlier years who still need modules from the Contextual Studies, please contact the administration.
The individual steps of the module selection for the master's students of year 21 will be announced in summer 2021.
As a rule, the current alumni year is informed by a newsletter containing all relevant information.
Interested alumni can contact kontextstudium@fhv.at directly.
For alumni, registration for the individual modules takes place exclusively via the administration of Contextual Studies.
Mag. Sabine Frick
Administration Contextual Studies
+43 5572 792 1112
kontextstudium@fhv.at
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Prof. (FH) Dr. Oskar Müller
Lecturer, Course organization
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