Exams

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Basic information about the exam in religious pedagogy

by Prof. Dr. Annegret Reese-Schnitker (as of: October 2016)

You can in religious education

1. write the examination or master thesis

2. take the oral exam  or

3. take the written examination. 


To 1.

If you are considering writing the exam or master's thesis with me, please come to my office hours in good time so that the topic can be discussed early and gradually narrowed down before it is then registered punctually with the examination office.
In religious education it is possible to write both a theoretical literature paper and an empirical paper. Usually I supervise the candidates in the context of my all-semester exam colloquium, but also individually, depending on how many students register with me.


Re 2.

If you want to take the oral exam in Religious Education, you can usually choose me as second examiner (I am the first examiner if you choose Mr. Flammer as second examiner). Please register in advance in my office hours or by e-mail and take the obligatory exam colloquium.


Re 3.

If you want to take the written exam in Catholic Theology, you have to choose me as first examiner. Please register in advance in my office hours or by e-mail and come to the obligatory exam colloquium. There you have to inform me in which subjects you want to be examined. You must inform me of your chosen topic in religious education by mid-January at the latest for the examination period in the spring, and by the end of June at the latest for the examination period in the fall.

Supervised exam papers (Reese-Schnitker)

Winter semester 2023/24

  • Tina Krasenbrink (L3)
    A gender-sensitive analysis of students' conceptions of God. An empirical-qualitative interview study
  • Niklas Baierl (L3) (second reviewer)
    Is religiosity bound to spaces? Biblical and practical theological considerations

 

Summer semester 2023

  • Paula Kahlmeyer (L3)

    Current challenges in school pastoral care. An empirical-explorative interview study with religious education teachers and school chaplains

  • Sophia Richter (L2)
    Bringing up sexualized violence in religious education. A compilation and critical analysis of religious education modules

 

winter semester 2022/23

  • Judith Roth-Smileski (L2)
    The examination of contemporary art as a learning opportunity for religious education (concretized and reflected on two examples in connection with Documenta 15)
  • Elina Wehner (L2) (second assessor)
    Church marriage of homosexual couples? Arguments of a current debate

 

Summer semester 2022

  • Saskia Romeis (L2) (second reviewer)
    Biblical world knowledge meets rap: exegetical-intertextual considerations
  • Martin Richwien (L3)
    Potentials of the use of media in religious education. An empirical study of individual videotaped lessons
  • Anna Müller (L2)
    A critical, realistic look at current social developments with regard to faith and the church. Problematizing opportunities and challenges for religious education
  • Jonas Alberding (L1)
    Why is music important in religious education? An individual case study on didactic feasibility
  • Luisa Becker (L1)
    Selected teaching modules for interreligious learning in elementary school. An analysis of opportunities and challenges
  • Seline Boßek (L2)
    Partnership and marriage as a topic in religious education. A theological-didactic reflection on the possibilities and challenges in the present

 

Winter semester 2021/22

  • Sarah Weidemann (L2)
    Encounters in the social internship. A survey of students on the Compassion project in the context of ethical learning
  • Dorothea Günther (L1) (second reviewer)
    Women as priests? Arguments of a current discussion
  • Johanna Rudolph (L2)
    Digital learning in religious education. A religious pedagogical evaluation of digital tools in religious education at lower secondary level
  • Natalie Friedrich (Master's thesis L4)
    How are protection concepts implemented through use in the institution of school? A critical comparison from a practical theological perspective based on two schools

 

Summer semester 2021

  • Monique Abel (L2)
    Addressing sexualized violence by working with biblical texts in religious education. Conception and analysis of concrete teaching modules based on 2 Sam 13:1-22 and Gen 39
  • Phuong-Vi Lisa Nguyen (L3)
    Vegetarianism as part of global learning in religious education - challenges and opportunities
  • Diana Mans (L2)
    Inclusion and religious education. Challenges and opportunities
  • Amelie Schmitz (L1)
    Children's Bibles in comparison - a topic-specific approach to their design, impact and their didactic and theological potential
  • Isabel Bodensohn (L1)
    Theodicy as a topic in elementary school religious education. A religious education analysis of the opportunities and challenges
  • Miriam Selmi (L1)
    The importance of space and spatial design for religious learning. An empirical survey of religious education teachers on the effects of the corona pandemic on religious education
  • Friederike Kuhaupt (L1) (second reviewer)
    The Flood Narrative in Selected Children's Bibles

 

winter semester 2020/21

  • Miriam Riemer (L2)
    Addressing images of God in religious education. What opportunities does working with poetry offer?
  • Sarah Nachtwey (L2)
    Remembering the Holocaust as a topic in religious education. A religious education analysis of various teaching modules
  • Maria Kiwa (L3)
    Sexuality as a topic in religious education. Challenges and opportunities in implementation
  • Alina Allendorf (L1)
    How to talk to primary school children about death and dying? An examination of the role of the religious education teacher and possible intervention options when dealing with a sudden death
  • Sophia Riethmüller (L1)
    Talking about death in elementary school religious education lessons. What ideas do children have about death?
  • Christian Henkel (L1)
    How can we talk to children about God in a pedagogically and theologically appropriate way today? A religious education analysis of the use of children's books in elementary school religious education lessons
  • Anna Teresa Slany (Master's thesis L4)
    Migration and flight in contemporary art as inspiration for religious education. A reflection on cross-fertilization
  • Matthias Brudek (Master's thesis L4) (second reviewer)
    "Belief in the same God? The image of God in Christianity and Islam" He who created me knew a resting place for my tent (Sir 24:8). The Torah as the dwelling place of wisdom

 

Summer semester 2020

  • Isabella Candela (L1)
    Promoting talk about God in religiously heterogeneous elementary school classes. An analysis of different religious education modules.
  • Anika Grünberg (L3)
    Inclusion and religious education. A religious education analysis of the possibilities and challenges  
  • Leandra Haas (L2)
    How can gender-sensitive religious education be designed? Tasks and challenges of the present
  • Lisa Marker (L1)
    Creation as a topic in elementary school religious education - a religious education analysis of teaching concepts

 

Winter semester 2019/20

  • Anh Duc Cao (L1)
    What contribution can religious education make in a multicultural society? An empirical study on the opportunities and challenges for religious education from the perspective of teachers
  • Carolin Lange (L2)
    What do extracurricular places of learning do for interreligious learning? An interview study with religious education teachers
  • Jan Mikuda (L1)
    What potential do children's books have for addressing death in religious education? A critical religious education analysis
  • Clara Seng (L2)
    Fridays for Future. The current protests by pupils as a challenge for sustainability in the context of religious education concepts
  • Stefanie Emde (L2)
    The method of the animated film in religious education. A development of a teaching unit using an exemplary case study
  • Lena Drott (L2)
    Dying and death as a topic in religious education - opportunities and challenges of extracurricular places of learning
  • Alena Kewitz (L1)
    Silence exercises in religious education lessons at elementary school - a religious education analysis of opportunities and challenges
  • Friederike Nägler (L1)
    What happens in the first few minutes of religious education? A religious education study on lesson beginnings and introductory phases using teaching videos
  • Isabell Wolf (L1)
    What role does praying play in the reality of primary school children's lives? Empirical study and religious pedagogical analysis
  • Lea Engelhardt (L2)
    Sex education in Catholic religious education. An empirical study with teachers on dealing with "other-loving" ways of life in the context of teaching at lower secondary level

 

Summer semester 2019

  • Jonas Gabel (L3) (second reviewer)
    "Yes, I do!" - Or not? On the situation of Christian marriage in the postmodern age
  • Florian Knippschild (L2) (second reviewer)
    Mangas - a laboratory of Christian theology?
  • Lara Kara (L2) (second reviewer)
    Belief in the same God? The image of God in Christianity and Islam
  • Vanessa Böhle (L1)
    Ideas about God and suffering. An empirical study with primary school children
  • Isabella Krefta (L1)
    Death as a topic in religious education. A religious education analysis of picture books

 

Winter semester 2018/19

  • Friederike Lemoine (L2) (second reviewer)
    Ending God-given life in a self-determined way. Is Christian euthanasia compatible with faith? Second opinion

  • Francesca Murano (L3) (second reviewer)
    Active euthanasia as a moral-theological challenge - a debate about the self-determined end of life, second opinion

  • Ramona Peters (L1)
    How can tolerance and empathy be strengthened in inclusive religious education? A religious education analysis of children's books
  • Annika  Rudolph (L1)
    How can children's grieving processes be accompanied in elementary school? A religious pedagogical analysis 
  • Cynthia Burchard (L1)
    Children's books on the topic of "flight". Opportunities and challenges for religious education
  • Jessica Schawerna (L2)
    How do children of primary and lower secondary school age imagine "heaven" and "hell"? An empirical and religious education study
  • Johanna Krenzer (L1)
    "I want to be like ..." - Biblical figures as role models for children today? Opportunities and challenges


Summer semester 18

  • Martha Görth (L3)
    Pupils' questions in religious education and their significance for the classroom discussion. Empirical explorations and religious pedagogical analysis


winter semester 2017/18 

  • Stefanie Dugonjic (L1)
    The relevance of world religions in religious education. A religious education and empirical study on interreligious learning 
  • Chanise Kalb (L1)
    Literary texts on the topic of "death" in elementary school religious education. Analysis of the children's book "How to become immortal" by Sally Nicholls and conception of teaching modules.

 

summer semester 2017

  • Patrizia Witzel (L3) (second reviewer)
    God as a guest in the stranger. A systematic theological investigation of a biblical motif
  • Jana Schneider (L1)
    Running, searching, hoping... A religious education analysis  on the use of picture books on the topic of "flight and migration" in elementary school religious education lessons
  • Katrin Hoang (Master's thesis L4) (second reviewer)
    Catholic Church and National Socialism up to the outbreak of the Second World War
  • Christina Koslowski (Master's thesis L4)
    Performance assessment in religious education at vocational schools. An episodic interview study to map the practical school experiences of religious education teachers on performance assessment and dealing with performance in religious education at vocational schools

 

Wise2016/17

  • Elena Stumpf (L3)
    Correlation in classroom discussions. An empirical, religious education analysis of the possibilities and limits of concrete implementation in religious education lessons

 

Summer semester 2016

  • Philipp Schubert
    World religions for beginners. An analysis of teaching materials for interreligious learning in the subject of Catholic religion

 

Winter semester 2015/2016 (Substitution by Prof. Dr. Silvia Arzt) 

  • Jacqueline Kalvelage (L1)
    Images of God as a teaching topic in elementary school under the claim of mystagogical learning
  • Roberto Henning (Master's thesis L4)
    Relationships in the context of religious education. About a self-evident central concept of religious education!

 

Summer semester 2015 

  • Helena Golücke (L1) 
    Memories of religious education and their relevance for one's own biography. An empirical interview study with the 60+ generation 
  • Cornelia Manjak (L2)
    Death and dying in religious education. Religious education considerations on the work of mourning for pupils. 
  • Carolin Riga (Master's thesis L4) 
    Catholic religious education in religiously heterogeneous learning groups at vocational schools - empirical exploration and religious education analysis

 

winter semester 2014/2015 

  • Dominic Iwanowski (L1)
    Approaches to the experience of God in religious education. Empirical explorations and religious pedagogical analyses
  • Katharina Gaul
    Showing a new face of the church. Empirical explorations and pastoral theological analyses of the social church St. Joseph in Kassel

 

Summer semester 2014

  • Lena Bröder
    Joseph and the wife of Potiphar (Gen 39). Design and evaluation of a teaching experiment on the topic of sexual violence in the Bible

 

Summer semester 2013 (supervised by Dr. Alexander Schimmel) 

  • Marion Hessberger (Master's thesis L4) (second reviewer)
    The borderline experience of Moses - Biblical impulses on burnout
  • Natalia Kowalski (L3) (second reviewer)
    "Everything has its hour. For every event under heaven there is a specific time" (Koh 3:1) - How do high school students receive the poem about time from the Book of Kohelet?
  • Christine Pavel (L1)
    Praying in elementary school religious education lessons - didactic considerations and methodological suggestions for practice
  • Madeline Dietrich (L1)
    The symbol of the hand in primary school religious education - design and evaluation of a symbol-didactic lesson plan
  • Caroline Antonie Nieder (L1)
    Dealing with dying and death in religious education lessons at elementary school - didactic considerations and development of a lesson series based on selected children's books
  • Maren Mielke (L2)
    Death and mourning as a topic in religious education. A series of lessons for grades 7/8 using a children's and young adult book
  • Kerstin Kolle (Master's thesis L4)
    Catholic religious education in vocational schools - a contribution to vocational education? - An investigation in the federal state of Hesse

 

winter semester 2012/2013

  • Isabell-Christin Schmelz (L1)
    The textual and pictorial representation of parables in children's Bibles. A critical analysis from a religious education perspective
  • Jessica Raab (L2)
    Interreligious learning in lower secondary school as a challenge and opportunity for religious education
  • Lisa Kraft
    Interreligious learning - off to new shores - building bridges to the unknown!
  • Julia Müller (L2)
    How can we talk about death and dying responsibly in religious education lessons with pupils at lower secondary level? Opportunities and challenges
  • Stephanie Wiegand
    St. Boniface as a topic in religious education. What special opportunities do extracurricular places of learning offer?

 

Summer semester 2011 (Substitution by Prof. Dr. Arzt)

  • Astrid Godehardt (L2)
    Rock, Pop - Amen?! Popular music in religious education
  • Franziska Schmeier (L1)
    Prayers in the everyday life of young families. An empirical study on the significance of family prayers in a comparison of generations.
  • Anna-Lena Surrey (L1)
    Church pedagogy as a possible implementation of performative religious education. Reactions of children in a case study.
  • Katharina Hufnagel (L1)
    Christology in primary school children - Jesus Christ as a being with his characteristics and traits in children's faith
  • Alena Dietrich (L1)
    e-learning in religious education

 

WiSe 2010/11(Substitution by Prof. Dr. Arzt)

  • Alina Isabella Stanischewski (L4)
    What is sacred to vocational students? A qualitative-empirical study at the Paulus-Julius-von-Reuter-Schule

 

Summer semester 2010

  • Linda Damm (L1)
    What is children's happiness? A qualitative-empirical study on children's ideas of happiness from a religious education perspective
  • Elena Komarov (L1)
    Why does God allow suffering? The confrontation with the question of theodicy among young people