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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 Rhineland-Palatinate
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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Welcome to Rhineland-Palatinate
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
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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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