The following programmes were available at the faculty prior to August 2018:

• Geography
• Education
• Professional research with a focus on teacher education and school
• Psychology
• Social anthropology
• Social work
• Sociology
• Political Science
• Interdisciplinary Child Research

These programmes are now discontinued and continued as specializations under the two new PhD programmes in Social Sciences and Educational Sciences.

For active PhD candidates on these former PhD programmes, the latest current version of the course description from the academic year 2017/2018 applies. The course description consists of one part that is specific for the particular PhD programme (see respective links), and one common part shared by all PhD programmes at the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences.