The Chair of Lifestyle and Socioeconomics of the Private Household offers various courses at Bachelor's and Master's level for the following degree programmes:

• Teaching degree B. Ed. Haupt-, Real-, und Gesamtschulen (HRSGe) subject area Home Economics
• Teacher training programme B. Ed. Grundschulen NuGW (Sachunterricht)
• Teacher training programme B. Ed. Berufskollegs (BK) Nutrition Science and Home Economics at Paderborn University
• Teacher training programme B. Ed. Vocational Colleges (BK) Nutrition Science and Home Economics (TH OWL)
• Teaching degree M. Ed. Vocational Colleges (BK) Nutrition Science and Home Economics
• Bachelor of Occupational Health Management

Below you will find an overview of the courses offered for the winter and summer semesters as well as information for final theses.

The frequency of the programme may vary.

• Introduction to home economics
• Occupational field: Nutrition and home economics
• Lifestyle in the consumer society
• Households in the area of conflict between consumer protection and consumer responsibility
• Private lifestyle and everyday culture
• Demands on private lifestyles
• Individual and society
• Socio-economics of the household
• Sustainable lifestyles and consumption
• Selected socio-economic issues
• Consumer protection
• Basics of counselling
• Counselling: in-depth study
• Fundamentals of household science: Introduction to household science
• Extension of household science: consumer education and consumption
• Care: Care and support

The frequency of the programme may vary.

• Socio-economic and socio-cultural foundations of lifestyle
• Sustainable lifestyle in the consumer society
• Fundamentals of eating culture
• Households in the area of conflict between consumer protection and consumer responsibility
• Requirements for private lifestyles
• Food culture
• Household science basics: Introduction to household science
• Economics of the large household
• Individual and society
• Social Hospitality
• Catering management
• Facility management
• Socioeconomics of the household
• Sustainable lifestyle and consumption

Thank you for your interest in writing a thesis at our department. For a possible research question, consider, for example, which topic from your studies has particularly interested you. The video tutorial Hausarbeit from the German Didactics MLU will give you an initial guide to finding a research question.

Please contact the members of the group for the exact topic. In order to write a thesis at the Chair of Lifestyle and Socioeconomics of the Private Household, an exposé is required before registration. This should show the relevance of the topic, the research gap, your research question and give an initial overview of the state of research and your approach. (incl. literature and timetable).

The Learning Centre for Nutrition, Consumption and Health (LEKG) and the Competence Centre for Writing at Paderborn University can provide you with further assistance in the course of your work. Please also refer to our guidelines (see LEKG).

You should use the Paderborn University library for your literature research. A VPN client is required to access the library's online media. Furthermore, we recommend that you work with the reference management programme Citavi, which is available free of charge via the IMT with the campus licence.

The thesis must be submitted in duplicate to the central examination office and digitally to your supervisors. An inexpensive perfect binding (no hardcover) is sufficient.

For qualitative theses, please send us the anonymised transcripts digitally.

The guidelines for the preparation of the exposé at the Chair of Lifestyle and Socioeconomics of the Private Household can be downloaded in this Panda course: https://panda.uni-paderborn.de/course/view.php?id=42964