The objective of this course is the critical reflection of different diversity management concepts as well as the opportunities, risks and challenges of diversity management for organizations. In doing so, the students deal in depth with essential concepts of diversity and work on current issues. They learn to critically discuss commonalities and differences between individual dimensions as well as intersectional perspectives, and to understand inclusion and exclusion processes abstracted from them. After completing the course, they will be able to reflect theoretically on their dimension-specific knowledge in the field of diversity management and anti-discrimination and apply it to different practical contexts.

(Guest) lectures, reading and editing of scientific literature, presentations, discussions, reflection exercises, case studies, etc.The course is planned as a face-to-face course with two online classes for focusing on group assignments.Prerequisites for online sequences:- Participation with webcam & microphone- Stable internet connection- Active participation- Reporting of absences

This course deals with the implementation of diversity strategies in organizations as well as central differentiation categories/diversity dimensions (age, believe, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and social class). A continuous transformation between implicit and explicit diversity-specific knowledge is discussed. The transfer of theoretical concepts to current discourses and problems takes place by means of integrative teaching and learning methods.

Completed Bachelor's degree

Admission to the master's program is a prerequisite for participation. Subject to available places, the following exception can be made: Students of the Bachelor's program can participate if they have completed 90% of the ECTS to be taken according to the Bachelor's curriculum. This proof of academic achievement must be presented by the student to the course instructor before the first course without being requested to do so.

Group assignments: presentation of an analysis of diversity management in concrete organizations, presentation on intersectionalityIndividual assignments: reflection on a case study, feedback guest lecture, small presentation on the visibility of a diversity dimension, active participation

Selected content of the course based on the assignments.

The following criteria must be met in order to pass the course:- Attendance (at least 80% during the course)- Individual and group assignments in due time- Active participation- 51% of 80 pointsIf one of the above mentioned requirements is not fulfilled during the course of the semester, the course will be graded negatively with immediate effect and must be repeated in its entirety in a subsequent semester.