Discover your potential beyond your degree programme
The Studium fundamentale of the UW/H
What is the Studium fundamentale?
Studium fundamentale (Stufu) is at the heart of our university, as it brings together students from our various degree programmes in around 100 different courses. You will get to know the working and thinking methods of an economist, a dentist, a nursing scientist or a psychologist and thus have the opportunity to further your education and try things out beyond your degree programme.
You choose the seminars that match your personal interests and curiosity. And you might even discover new talents within yourself!
Inspire the audience at our concerts as part of the choir or the orchestra or slip into a different role on the theatre stage. Perhaps you are more interested in discussing current social issues with others and finding solutions. There is something for every interest and you are free to choose what your Stufu timetable looks like.
Stufu is a conscious step out of your comfort zone to learn new things about yourself and realise your full potential.
You will like the Studium fundamentale in Witten if you ...
- want to discover new areas of interest.
- want to have the opportunity to express yourself creatively during your studies.
- want to train your interdisciplinary thinking.
- want to get to know other ways of thinking and avoid professional one-dimensionality.
- want to develop your own language skills beyond your own specialised knowledge.
- want to think and act in a future-orientated and cosmopolitan way.
- want to develop your own powers of judgement and critical faculties.
- want to develop your personality.
- want to have a free choice from a range of around 100 interdisciplinary courses.
More than just a university.
Stufu is the chance to develop myself by trying out different ways of thinking in different disciplines. It is precisely this competence - allowing and applying different ways of thinking - that I believe a university should provide: it should help you to become a complex, well-rounded and interested person.
Through the Stufu programme, I gain a more flexible perspective on the content of my main study programme by learning to integrate the perspectives of other disciplines into my thinking. Apart from that, the Stufu can become a saving anchor in times of compulsively focussed learning phases.
Education instead of training - what better way to fulfil this formula than by engaging with the world's cultural assets? Whether it's artistic piano lessons, speech training for actors or night-time rhetoric seminars in a monastery. This is the Stufu: a colourful format in which everyone can learn a lot for life.
