Aims of the Programme
The course aims to provide students with an interdisciplinary understanding of Austria’s historical development, cultural identity, and its role within Europe and the wider world. It encourages critical reflection on national identity, cultural transfer, and contemporary social and political challenges through both academic study and experiential learning.
Content & Methods
The programme combines online lectures with an intensive on-site week featuring excursions to cultural and historical sites, interactive seminars, group discussions, collaborative projects, and reflective assignments.
Key Topics
Students explore Austrian history, politics, culture, and identity, with a special focus on Tyrol. Topics include imagined communities, tourism and regional identity, postcolonial migration perspectives, and memory politics, folklore, European integration, and symbolic representations of Austria in literature, film, media, and the arts.
Microcredentials
This course can be combined with “800.861 Perspectives on Europe in a Global Context” to earn the Aurora micro-credential “Reading Austria in European and Global Context.”
Course Details
ECTS: 5
Level: Bachelor
Format: Online & On-site, mandatory
attendance
Language of instruction: English
On-Site phase: 19.10. – 23.10.26
Online phase: 09.10. & 15.10.26
Microcredential Certificate
Course Number: 800.863
Application Period: 01.07.-19.07.26
