01-Welcome to Germany

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14 April 2012 Klaus G. Troitzsch: Welcome ... 1

Welcome to Germany

Welcome to Rhineland-Palatinate

Welcome to Koblenz

Prof. Dr. Klaus G. Troitzsch

Prof. Dr. Serge V. Chernyshenko

Ulrike May

Find these slides at http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~kgt/Welcome.pdf


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Summary

Welcome to Germany


Welcome to Koblenz

The German education system

Welcome to our university


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The Federal Republic of Germany

is composed of 16 federal states(Bundeslnder, comparable tothe states of the US or thecantons of Switzerland, withfar reaching competences oftheir own).

Three of these federal states(Berlin, Bremen andHamburg) are city states, theothers cover larger areas andare composed of a big number

of municipalities (some 14,000of very different size).


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The Federal Republic of Germany

On all three levels (national, state, municipal)parliaments are elected every four or five years which inturn elect the federal chancellor and the state primeministers, respectively.

On the municipal level, mayors and district magistratesare elected by the people (at least in some of the federalstates).

The most important competence of the federal states iseducation. Only the federal states have legislation overschools and universities


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Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz)

is one of the smaller federal states (with

approximately 4.9 % of the population

and 5.5 % of the area but 70 % of the

wine grown in Germany). It was founded after World War II

(under French occupation) and is

composed of parts of former Prussia,

Bavaria and Hesse.


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Its coat of arms, however, reminds of pre-Prussian times; it is composed of the armsof the archbishops of

Trier and

Mainz (who were electors and territorial

princes of the Holy Roman Empire until theFrench Revolution) and of

Bavaria (more precisely, of the PalatinateCount, another elector, whose territory waspart of Bavaria from 1816 to 1945).

Note: In the HolyRoman Empire,archbishops were alsoterritorial princes!


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The northern part of

Rhineland-Palatinate

The region betweenBingen and Koblenzis also known as theMiddle Rhine WorldHeritage.

Kaub: Pfalzgrafenstein

Loreley
http://www.loreley-touristik.de/http://www.loreley-touristik.de/


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The inner city of Koblenz

university campus


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Some history

Koblenz was founded by Celts in pre-Roman time. The Romansbuilt a castle a few years B.C. (castra apud confluentes= the

military camp at the confluence of Rhine and Moselle). Place of a palace of the Frank kings in the fifth century.

Place of the negotiations (842) of the Verdun treaty (in 843,Charlemagnes empire is divided among his three grandsons Lothar, Ludwig the German, and Karl II) in St. Castors Churchnear the Rhine Elbow (Deutsches Eck, German Corner,

German Intersection,called after the German Order orTeutonic Order or, officially, House of the Hospitalers of SaintMary of the Teutons in Jerusalemwho built an estate there in1216, their first residence in the Rhine region, which was rebuilt in1953 and is now a museum of modern art).


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More history

Part of the territory of the Elector andArchbishop of Trier (11th century to 1798).

During this time, the fortification of

Ehrenbreitstein was first built by expandingCount Ehrenberts castle (built about 1000).The present fortification was built by thePrussian state from 1817 to 1878.

Capital of the French departement of Rhinet Moselle (1798 to 1815).

Capital of the Prussian Rhine Province (1815to 1945).

Capital of Rhineland-Palatinate (1947 to1950).
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The German education

system

kindergarden

primary school

several branches oflower secondary school

even more branches of

upper secondary school

polytechnics, universities,


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Koblenz-Landau University

originated from a collection of teachers training colleges

in the late 1960s

of which only two campuses are left, one in Koblenz, one

in Landau (200 km to the south) computer science faculty in Koblenz psychology faculty in Landau

3 teachers training faculties in each

education

humanities

sciences

central administration in Mainz

Koblenz campus, built 1998-2000
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Computer science faculty

institutes: computer science

software engineering

computational visualistics

information systems

management

programs

computer science (Diplom) since 1978

computational visualistics (Diplom) since 1998

both converted into BSc/MSc programmes in 2006

information management (BSc, MSc) since 2000 (firstaccreditation of a BSc/MSc program in Germany, re-accreditedin 2006)
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