AK Teaching and studies

If you are interested, please feel free to contact our coordinators, or stop by at the meetings:

Responsible & contact

         Tom                                   Matthias

• General inquiries by email: gaf-lehre@fs.lmu.de 
• Next sessions in the winter term 2023/24 (takes place in presence in the GAF-office, room B038):
  • 24.10.2023 6pm c.t.
  • From that on every 2 weeks on Tuesday until the end of lecture

We are responsible for

• critical examination of current study situations (especially deficits)
• Discussions about problems concerning teaching and studying (legal information can be found here)
• Information gathering and preparation, elaboration of improvement suggestions in the area of ​​study and teaching
• Contact and communication with professors, especially deans of study or within the framework of teaching commissions
• Training of committee representatives and preparation for committee meetings
• University Politics
• Organization of the "Good Teaching Award"

Current projects

• Updating the web page: Examination regulations FAQ
• Organization: Prize for good teaching, physics science fair
• Expansion and standardization of the e-learning offer
• Improvement of the learning room situation
• Better evaluation of general student satisfaction
• Networking with alumni
• Service for firsts / seconds: exam rights
• Self-assessment for prospective students

News from our meetings

update: 24.10.2023 - Trial session

• Report from the Faculty Council 16
• Discussion about women's tutorials
  • The purpose of the women's tutorials should be better communicated by the professors
• Report from the Convention

update: 08.10.2023

• First results of the teaching awards survey were discussed.
• The situation regarding the software engineering lecture will be further monitored.
  • We will make make the compromise proposal to offer official lecture notes.

update: 24.01.2023

• New Campus Management System
• Feedback for the organization of the teaching award 2022
• Survey for study situation

update: 10.01.2023

• Survey for study situation

update: 13.12.2022

• Final organization for the teaching award and setting of the date on 12.01.2023
• Planning a collection for learning strategies: a kind of FAQ on how to deal with problems with exercise sheets and exam preparation.

update: 29.11.2022

• Planning of the teaching award ceremony: Probably in January.
• Objective: More transparency of our work in order to attract more new gafika
• Planning of a FAQ for frequently asked, general questions to gaf@.

update: 08.06.2022

• Posters for the teaching awards were completed
• Staffing of the Commissions

update: 25.05.2022

• Preparations for the nomination of the teaching awards 2022
• Revise and add to the e-learning and study abroad sections of the website.
• Creating a web page section scholarships (web page is not yet accessible!!)

update: 11.05.2022

• The planning of the 2022 teaching awards continues. Currently we are creating the posters and ordering the awards
• The university election advertising for the next weeks has been planned

update: 27.04.2022

• The 2022 university election is coming up soon. Right now, we are planning our lists of candidates. (More info here und here)
• Planning for the 2022 teaching awards continues. Currently we are creating the survey for the nomination in June

update: 22.03.2022

• From next semester onwards, you will be informed here when we have discussed something important in the working group. If you have any questions, you can contact us at any time!
• The planning of the 2022 teaching awards has begun. This year we will award three prizes: "Goldener Sommerfeld" (physics), "Goldener Carathéodory" (mathematics) and the teaching award of computer science.