Apart from writing and doing research, I particularly enjoy teaching, not least to pass on whatever I myself learned from my great teachers. I also enjoy the collaborative angle to this side of academia, both in terms of interacting with eager students and in co-teaching with interesting colleagues. Since 2007, I taught roughly 200 contact hours by offering the following classes:
2012 (spring term)
2010/11 (winter term)
2008/9 (winter term)
2007/8 (winter term)
In addition to these full classes, I also organized writing labs together with colleagues, and tought select sessions in other courses (both in Marburg and elsewhere). Most of my own classes have been centrally evaluated by the university (and genereally received good or even very good feedback from students). As a central objective in my teaching, I strive to encourage regular academic writing in peer groups, in order to strengthen students' analytical skills - and to break up the isolation of writing (more on academic writing in my blog). Likewise, I usually stress the quality of argumentation towards answering a research question as a key factor when I conduct or take part in examinations.
Some of the materials I developed for my teaching can be found below; please let me know if you find them useful (or not), especially if you are a student (most of them are in German, given that I wrote them during my time in Marburg). I'd also like to draw your attention to a small booklet on academic skills, called "Der Einstieg in das (politik)wissenschaftliche Arbeiten: Ein Leitfaden" and published at Universität Marburg, which I overhauled together with Ingrid el Masry in 2010 (Lasse Cronqvist, Anja Lieb and Volker Mittendorf wrote the original version some years before that).
