Teaching
Our Chair of Corporate Governance offers a broad spectrum of teaching and deals with comprehensive mechanisms for ensuring good corporate governance. A basic understanding of the subject matter is conveyed in our chair's foundation courses. Building on this, differentiated economic issues are analysed in the in-depth courses, which focus on sustainability, business ethics or empirical management research.
Prof Dr Fahr offers the modules listed below. Detailed information is available by clicking on the respective module. The complete module handbook of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics can be found here. The learning materials for the individual courses can be found on the Paderborn University learning platform PANDA.
We would like to take this opportunity to inform you about the current lecture series "UPB for Future", which we are organising together with the Office of Educational Innovation and University Didactics in the winter semester 2023/24. Further information can be found here.
Teaching programme
Bachelor
Module number | Module name | Semester | ECTS | Language | Contact person |
M.184.2164 | Fundamentals of Corporate Governance | Summer term | 10 | DEU | Marius Protte |
M.184.2166 | Sustainability: Sustainable management of scarce resources | winter semester | 5 | DEU | Sabrina Plaß |
M.184.2169 | Exploratory module Economics | winter/summer term | 2 | DEU | Alina Elrich |
M.184.2179 | Wrongdoing & Whistleblowing in Organisations | winter/summer term | 5 | DEU | Marius Protte |
M.184.2185 | Principles of Business Ethics (container module*) | winter/summer term | 5 | DEU | Alina Elrich |
M.184.2186 | Seminar on business ethics (container module*) | winter/summer term | 10 | DEU | Alina Elrich |
* Please note the information on the container modules (see below).
Master
* Please note the information on the container modules (see below).
Container modules
Various cooperation modules can be credited via the container modules. Lectures and seminars can be attended across faculties and interdisciplinary subjects. There is no direct link to enrolment via the PAUL system. The specific registration procedure for the individual cooperation modules can be found in the respective course description provided as a PDF document. After completing the examination, the completed course will be credited by the chair via the corresponding container module.
The following cooperation courses will be offered in the summer semester 2024
- Links ist nicht woke, creditable as a Bachelor Management or elective module via"W2185 Principles of Business Ethics" (5 ECTS).
- Distance and freedom, creditable as a Master's management or elective module via "W4185 Topics in Business Ethics" (5 ECTS)
The following cooperation course will be offered in the winter semester 2023/2024
- Introduction to Christian Social Ethics, creditable as a Bachelor Management or elective module via "W2185 Principles of Business Ethics" (5 ECTS).
- Between Freedom and (Self)Exploitation, creditable as a Master's Management or elective module via "W4185 Topics in Business Ethics" (5 ECTS)
In addition, individual in-depth study achievements from the field of management can be brought in via the container modules. Please note that each container module can only be credited once during the course of your degree programme.
Business ethics
Bachelor modules in the cooperation area of business ethics
Module no. | Module name | Semester | ECTS | Lecturer |
W2172 | Behavioural Environmental Economics | winter semester | 5 | Prof. Dr. Wendelin Schnedler |
W2166 | Sustainability: Sustainable management of scarce resources | winter semester | 5 | Prof. Dr René Fahr |
W2167 | Sustainable Economics and Management | winter semester | 5 | Prof. Dr René Fahr |
ThF* | Introduction to Christian Social Ethics | winter semester | 5 | Prof. Dr Günter Wilhelms |
ThF* | Market or morality? | summer semester | 5 | Prof. Dr Günter Wilhelms |
ThF* | Left is not woke | SoSe | 5 | Prof. Dr Günter Wilhelms |
Master's modules in the cooperation area of business ethics
Module no. | Module name | Semester | ECTS | Lecturer |
W4122 | Economics, ethics and thinking | summer semester | 10 | Prof. Dr. Wendelin Schnedler |
W4416 | Environmental Economics | winter semester | 10 | Prof. Dr Thomas Gries |
W4149 | Spirituality & Management | summer semester | 5 | Prof. Dr Martin Schneider |
W5140 | Interdisciplinary seminar in human resources management | winter semester | 5 | Prof. Dr. Martin Schneider |
W4128 | Social Entrepreneurship | summer semester | 10 | Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kabst |
W5162 | Interreligious perspectives on business ethics | winter semester | 5 | Prof. Dr René Fahr |
W5123 | Perspectives on economic philosophy | winter semester | 5 | Prof. Dr. Wendelin Schnedler |
W4166 | Seminar on corporate policy | summer semester | 5 | Prof. Dr René Fahr |
W4169 | Seminar on business and corporate ethics | summer semester | 5 | Prof. Dr René Fahr |
W4188 | Corporate responsibility and sustainability | summer semester | 5 | Prof. Dr René Fahr |
ThF* | Distance and freedom | summer semester | 5 | Prof. Dr. Günter Wilhelms |
*For the crediting of cooperation modules with the Faculty of Theology:
There is no direct registration and administration via the PAUL system. If you are taking a module at the Faculty of Theology, you will be given a form for secondary enrolment at the introductory event, which must be completed and signed. The applications will be forwarded collectively to the Paderborn University Registrar's Office.
B.A. Management (two-subject area Bachelor)
How do you calculate the entrance fees for a festival, a reading or a visit to the theatre? What channels are used for the application of such events and what incentives can be used to attract as many people as possible to museums or exhibitions?
The management of cultural organisations and projects brings its own special features and challenges. With the mix of culture, society and business in the dual-subject Bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, you will be prepared to analyse problems from different perspectives and use methods and subject areas from two disciplines to develop and implement sustainable solutions.
You can freely combine the Management subject area with all other subjects involved. Are you interested in Media Studies or studying a foreign language in English, French or Spanish? Or rather history, art, music, fashion, education, theology or philosophy?
The subject area of management supplements your knowledge of cultural studies with basic business knowledge and management methods so that you can plan, calculate, apply for, organise and evaluate projects in the cultural sector.
As soon as you have acquired the basic knowledge in the first two semesters, we offer you the opportunity to take part in a variety of practical lectures, for example on business ethics or from corporate partners, with the "exploratory module". In this way, you will familiarise yourself with current economic developments and issues. An accompanying course will support you in preparing for and following up on the lectures.
You can find more information about the Management sub-degree programme here.
M.A. Management (dual-subject Master's programme)
As part of the two-subject Master's degree programme "Culture and Society", the Management sub-degree programme can be freely combined with another sub-degree programme in equal measure from the winter semester 2017/2018. The Management sub-degree programme offers the opportunity to acquire in-depth knowledge of business management within a cultural studies degree programme. In this context, ethical and fundamental orientations are taught and intertwined with methodological and theoretical knowledge of selected key areas of business administration and some of its related subject areas. Students can also choose between two specialisation options within the sub-degree programme: "Management and Philosophy" and "Management and Theologies in Dialogue".
The skills of ethically-reflective leadership and decision-making, evaluated and discussed in terms of guiding values, acquired in the Management sub-degree programme fulfil the professional requirements profile placed on university graduates in a knowledge society to a high degree. These core skills correspond to many professional fields, all in general management as overall company management, but also fields such as marketing, personnel and organisational management as well as governance tasks (e.g. ethics-oriented reporting, practical corporate philosophy, customer and social contact group management, etc.). In addition, the content of the degree programme is relevant to the field of modern media and business-orientated IT tasks. Cultural scientists and theologians who are employed in publishing houses, museums, cultural institutions, media institutions, associations, foundations and authorities are also increasingly required to perform management tasks, which are taught in combination with the Management sub-degree programme.
You can find more information about the Management sub-degree programme here.
Further courses
Lecture series
Module name | Semester | ECTS | Language | Contact person |
UPB for Future - the sustainability lecture series | winter semester | 5* | DEU | Prof Dr René Fahr / Amanda Fiege |
* Crediting is only possible under certain conditions, e.g. as part of the Studium Generale. More information can be found here under the "Participation" tab.
Additional modules
Module number | Module name | Semester | ECTS | Language | Contact person |
M.184.2187 | Research Seminar Corporate Governance | winter/summer term | 5 | DEU | Marius Protte |
Doctoral courses
Module number | Module name | Semester | ECTS | Language | Contact person |
M.184.6161 | Experimental Economic Research | winter semester | 5 | DEU | Dr Behnud Mir Djawadi |