Discover your potential beyond your degree programme
The Studium fundamentale of the UW/H
What is the Studium fundamentale?
The Studium Fundamentale (Stufu) is a central component of your studies at Witten/Herdecke University – it is a space for discussion, personal development and creative expression. Here, students from all disciplines and semesters come together to try new things, discover new perspectives and deepen their interests beyond their own field of study.
Whether it's music, theatre, philosophy or political debates – you are free to choose from around 100 interdisciplinary seminars whatever piques your curiosity. Thursday is traditionally Stufu day, when Stufu and subject studies complement each other perfectly.
Stufu encourages you to break out of familiar patterns of thinking, discover new talents – and challenge yourself. Are you ready to get to know yourself in a new way?
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.
For me, Studium fundamentale is the good soul of the UW/H and embodies what holistic education means: looking beyond your own subject, challenging your own perspectives with great students and committed lecturers, acquiring new interests and skills through mutual exchange and being able to grow as a person, not 'just' as an expert in your own degree programme.
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.
