If your question has not been answered by the FAQs listed here, please contact the Sociology study office or the contact person responsible for your request.
You can reach us at the Sociology study office by e-mail or during our office hours.
Important: when contacting the student advising office by e-mail, please always provide the following information:
- Your name
- Your student ID number
- Your academic semester (e.g.: 5th semester Sociology)
- Core or minor
- Name of the course (e.g.: Practice class “Fundamentals of Sociology – Course B”)
- Semester of the course (e.g.: SoSe 2010)
Please check your university e-mail address regularly. The study office or the university will contact you via this e-mail address.
Further information about your e-mail account at Mainz University can be found on the pages of the Data Center (ZDV).
DT: On September 14, 2023, the automatic forwarding of emails to external email addresses will be deactivated. Further information can be found here: https://www.zdv.uni-mainz.de/automat-weiterleitung-von-e-mails-deaktiviert/
EN: On September 14, 2023, the automatic forwarding of emails to external email addresses will be deactivated. More information: https://www.en-zdv.uni-mainz.de/2023/07/10/auto-forwarding-emails-deactivated/
If your question has not been answered by the FAQs listed here, you will find the contact person responsible for your query here.
Information about the program of study and its planning can be found here, as well as special information for first-year students.
You can find a good overview of terms and procedures and general useful tips in the current brochures on starting your studies:
Comprehensive explanations can be found on the help pages of the Jogustine portal.
A comprehensive FAQ on these topics is available for download as a pdf file on the website of the FB 02 examination office.
The recommended sequence of your program of study with descriptions of the individual modules can be found in the module catalog and the study plans.
You can also get reports and helpful tips from your fellow students at the student council.
Yes, in order to complete a module, all partial achievements must have been completed and, accordingly, all courses must have been successfully attended. Successful attendance of a course naturally requires registration in Jogustine.
Here you will find information on compulsory attendance as it is handled at JGU and at the Institute of Sociology according to the University Act of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate: https: //www.soziologie.uni-mainz.de/anwesenheitspflicht/
The following applies to modules 09 and 10 (major (subject)) and module 06 (minor): Students who are absent from the first session without an excuse are deemed to have given up their place. A prior informal apology to the teacher by e-mail is sufficient. No medical certificate is required.
If you log in to Jogustine for a course that you are still missing in a module, you will first be listed as actively participating once you have been accepted into the course. If this active participation was the last credit that was missing to complete the module, the module will now be shown as completed. However, if you lose your active participation in the course during the semester, it will of course be missing from the module again and it will be shown as not completed again.
The display of courses (and examinations) in the calendar lists all available courses and unfortunately not just the ones you have taken. This seems to be a problem in Jogustine that occurs from time to time. In the “Registration status” section of Jogustine you will find a more reliable view of the courses you are logged in for.
Do not exclude parallel courses under any circumstances! In the case of parallel events (small groups/registration groups), you should always set priorities for all events; also prioritize those that you cannot attend under any circumstances. These events should then be given the lowest/last priority.
If you have logged in for more courses than you can attend in one semester, please deregister in one of the three registration phases. So-called “hoarders” – i.e. students who register for many courses and do not attend all of them without logging in – are recorded by the system and may be disadvantaged in the allocation of places in the next semester. Deregistration by the student advising office outside the registration deadlines is only possible in cases of “hardship”.
Try again in the 2nd registration phase. During the 1st registration phase, the number of places for individual courses is reduced by 20%, so that there are still enough places available for first-year students, subject and university transfer students in the 2nd registration phase. If you did not get the places you wanted in the 1st registration phase, you can also use the 2nd registration phase to try again to get a place that was previously refused. Do not exclude any event! This gives you the best chance of getting a place. We make sure that there are enough places available in the parallel courses. However, it is not always possible for everyone to get their desired place. Please only contact the student advising office if you still have not received a place after the 2nd registration phase.
If you are unable to attend the parallel course assigned to you due to overlaps with other courses, please write an e-mail to the student advising office and indicate all overlapping courses. We will then find a solution.
Yes, absolutely! You can attend more than three lectures in the module “Subject-related Sociologies (Orientation)”. In order to successfully complete the module, you must be examined in three lectures.
No. You can “stretch” the module. You take the lectures that interest you in one semester and the others in another semester.
No. For reasons of content, we recommend that you attend the relevant introductory lecture before attending an in-depth seminar. If this was not possible (for whatever reason), you can still attend any in-depth seminar you wish.
No. During the examination registration phase, you can decide which and how many examinations you would like to log in for. You can “postpone” the exam and take it in another semester if you have not yet logged in for this exam.
Please note: Not all examinations are offered every semester and exam registration in Jogustine is mandatory for participation in the examination!
However, you can also take another subject-related Sociology and complete the examination there. However, if an examination procedure in one of the subject-related Sociologies has been started by logging in for the examination, the examination must also be completed in this subject-related Sociology.
Students of other subjects who wish to attend as auditors can simply attend the first session (lectures are generally open to all students.) If no link is visible for digital events: Please contact the Sociology student advising office.
No. If you have logged in for an examination in a subject-related Sociology and have failed, you have started an examination relationship that you must complete. It is therefore not possible to take and be examined in another subject-related Sociology as a substitute.
Try again in the 2nd registration phase. As a rule, places will become available again and you will have another opportunity to get a place in the desired course. Do not rule out any courses. This gives you the best chance of getting a place. We make sure that there are enough places in the seminars overall. However, it is not always possible for everyone to get a place in their preferred seminar.
In most cases: not at all. It is not always possible for students to see in retrospect in which modules which courses have been logged in. You should therefore make a note of which seminars you have logged in for which module!
Yes, you can attend several specializations in one semester. Please consider whether it makes sense to log in these two specializations in modules 09 and 10 separately.
In contrast to the in-depth seminars, the elective courses do not build on the content of the orientation lectures, so it is entirely up to you how you prioritize the elective courses offered in a semester when you log in. For the in-depth seminars, however, we strongly recommend that you have attended the corresponding orientation lecture beforehand.
When you log in to Jogustine for registration, you prioritize all elective courses offered in a semester. This prioritization is taken into account when allocating places. Please bear in mind that some elective topics are very popular and you will have to be lucky to get a place in these courses. Therefore, do not exclude any of the seminars offered if you definitely want to attend an elective course in the semester.
Unfortunately, this is not possible for technical reasons.
As modules 09 and 10 are identical, they also contain the identical courses. The courses only exist once; if the courses offered in modules 09 and 10 were different, students who have already completed a module would no longer be able to choose this course.
Yes, but you can only complete the module if you have attended at least one specialization seminar and one elective course.
Unfortunately not. Since attendance of an orientation lecture is not a prerequisite, we cannot make any definite commitments for the in-depth seminars.
For reasons of content, we recommend that you attend the relevant introductory lecture before attending an in-depth seminar. If this was not possible (for whatever reason), you can also attend another in-depth seminar in which you will be offered a place.
During the examination registration phase, you can decide which and how many examinations you would like to log in. You can “postpone” the examination and take it in another semester in a different seminar.
No, this arrangement does not replace the registration for examinations in Jogustine! The registration of the term paper as examinations must always be done in Jogustine during the examination registration phase.
No. The registration of the term paper as an examinations is mandatory, but does not replace the agreement of a topic with the supervisor. The topic of the term paper must be agreed in advance (usually with the teaching staff of the relevant seminars). Term papers whose topic has not been discussed in advance may be rejected.
Yes, this is actually possible in modules 09 and 10 (major (subject)) or module 06 (minor). The examinations are not linked to the course, but to the module.
Attention: This procedure does not work in any other module!
