Central Student Advisory and Orientation Office (ZSB)

The “Principles for Studying and Teaching”, adopted in November 2022, are the result of a broad discussion at the university in which all status groups actively participated over a period of twelve months.

This document reflects our understanding of teaching and learning. It presents guidelines and quality goals for the design of our study programmes and takes into account current social and technical challenges. This includes considerations on how the digitalisation of studies and teaching should be sensibly designed, how to deal with diversity, how the issue of sustainability should be included in the curricula of our degree programs, how to include broad international experiences when studying at TU Darmstadt as well a statement to promote the health of our student body. Long established profile elements of study at our university, such as research-oriented teaching and interdisciplinarity, have of course been retained.

The principles for studying and teaching formulate quality goals on:

• outstanding academic performance
• focus on our students‘ needs
• personal education and development
• appreciative interpersonal relationships
• culture of openness
• good studiability

In addition to being aimed at students, the principles also focus on the teachers who, as outstanding researchers and didactically competent teaching personalities, are central to achieving the quality goals that have been set.

The principles for studying and teaching adopted in 2022 will be taken into account in the development of Bachelor's, Master's and teaching degree programmes. They also form the basis of the academic continuing education programmes. The principles for studying and teaching are thus part of the quality management of TU Darmstadt and support the implementation of changes.