Erasmus Mundus Master's Programme TEOS TRANSCULTURAL EUROPEAN OUTDOOR STUDIES (M.A.)

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1 Erasmus Mundus Master's Programme TEOS TRANSCULTURAL EUROPEAN OUTDOOR STUDIES (M.A.) The European Master in TRANSCULTURAL EUROPEAN OUTDOOR STUDIES (TEOS) has been selected by the EU Commission to become an Erasmus Mundus Master within the Erasmus Mundus framework.

2 TEOS masters course is offered jointly by three leading European universities in the field of Outdoor Studies University of Marburg, Germany University of Cumbria in Ambleside, UK Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo, Norway 2

3 Course description The newly developed two-year masters degree programme in Transcultural European Outdoor Studies (TEOS) offered by the Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany, coordinating university), the University of Cumbria (England) and the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo (Norway) is a response to the fact that outdoor practice and the pedagogy connected with it has gained tremendous significance in all industrial countries in recent years. The aim of the course is to impart, on the one hand, embraces the accumulated knowledge of the three central European traditions of the philosophy of outdoor pedagogies - the Norwegian Friluftsliv, the English Outdoor Education and the German Erlebnispädagogik, and that, on the other hand, leads to the development of a transcultural sensitivity which allows students to discern the cultural transitions and open borders between the three national concepts that have been there from the beginning. The degree programme has been designed as a peregrinatio academica, in which a study group remains together throughout the whole course of studies and spends a semester each at one of the three universities in England, Norway and Germany. This organisational frame quite consciously picks up the metaphor of travelling, not as a reminder of a past phase of European university history, but to illustrate the process of temporarily leaving one culture and entering another - the transition, in fact. To read about a culture and study it from books is one thing, to experience it first-hand is quite another. The profile graduates thus acquire will enable them to take on leadership and planning tasks especially on a conceptional level in outdoor centres, in youth work and in clubs, in schools development, in personnel development or in companies of the outdoor industry. The classes of the two-year full-time course of studies (120 credits) will be conducted in English. The first semester will take place at the University of Cumbria in Ambleside and will comprise teaching about the English national outdoor discourse as well as the historical origins of outdoor practice in Europe. Following this the students will travel to the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo to study landscape and outdoor practice and the Norwegian concept of Friluftsliv. The third semester will be offered in autumn/winter at the Philipps-Universität in Marburg, where the topic of adventure pedagogies in Germany will be dealt with as well as the design and processing of cultural transitions. In the middle of December students will choose Ambleside, Oslo or Marburg in order to write their MA thesis at the place of their preference. 3

4 This two year Master s course offers Teaching of knowledge of the individual national disciplines, discourses, traditions and practices of the subject Theoretical and practical study of transitions, thresholds, borders and connection options between concepts and traditions of outdoor pedagogies typical for the individual countries: Outdoor Education in England, Friluftsliv in Norway and Erlebnispädagogik in Germany Promotion of job-relevant attitudes of transcultural thinking, which not only demand theoretical reflexion and subject-related practical processing but which are also based on the informal learning taking place in the half-year stay in each of the countries of the three participating European universities Who does this field of study address? This masters degree aims to supplement and provide more in depth study for students from all over the world who have already completed a degree. It is directed towards graduates of universities and professional schools with a Bachelor degree or a comparable degree in the following fields: Outdoor Education Education Social Science Environmental Science 4

5 Tuition fee and scholarships As the TEOS masters course has been selected by the European Commission as a European Masters Mundus this course will offer between 15 and 20 scholarships for the best students worldwide. This scholarship (depending on your home country) will support you by giving you a monthly allowance of up to 1,000 (as a maximum), by supporting your mobility expenses (e.g. travel between your home to Europe and back, up to ) and by taking over your tuition fee for the whole course (up to ). Only selected students will be nominated for a scholarship. Contact More information about TEOS masters programme will be found on the webpage ( or from the Department of Sport Science at the University of Marburg under the following address: Mr. Martin Lindner (study coordinator) Philipps-Universitaet Marburg Faculty of Education Department of Sport Science and Motology Barfuesserstrasse 1 D Marburg, Germany martin.lindner@staff.uni-marburg.de 5