BA Biology

Teach Life Sciences: Biology is a multifaceted, experimental science for prospective teachers to study in equal balance with another subject. You will get to know and use Organismic and Molecular Biology in theory and practice. Alongside well-established training in Biology, you will receive knowledge in specialised didactics and education in preparation for being a teacher. Our partner schools offer various options in order to get to know the teaching profession up-front as early as during your studies. The Master of Education degree then continues teacher training.

Biology is the science of living things, studying their diversity, development, functioning, and the relationship among individual organisms and their environment; from the physical and chemical processes in the individual cell to complex ecosystems. How exciting but challenging is it to teach the diversity of the subject to young pupils?

In the bachelor's program (teaching profession), the focus is on the subject content of the two chosen subjects, supplemented by Biology didactics and pedagogical content.

The subject Biology imparts a basic education in Biology and other basic natural science subjects in the first study period ("orientation year" in the first and second semesters).

In the second stage of study (third to sixth semesters), students gain exemplary experience in one organismic and one Molecular Biology subject from a wide range of options and acquire basic knowledge of Central European flora and fauna as well as biological didactics. In one of the two subjects, the bachelor's thesis is written in the fifth or sixth semester.