MIEPP News

Dear MIEPP Students,

I hope by now you are all enjoying your well-earned semester breaks. I am aware that I am committing the cardinal sin of reminding you of the coming semester with this newsletter, even worse making you actively think about next semester, but I have to wake you from your sweet bliss of semester break for just a brief moment.

Today I have for you:

• Seminars
• Political Science Course
• No office hours Friday, Sep 3

First of all, the seminars are finally ready to be announced. The list of seminars, including detailed descriptions, is attached to this email.

For those of you not familiar with the process of choosing a seminar (others can skip to the timeline below), the registration for seminars is not done via Jogustine but by email (you also do not have to do anything in Jogustine after sending the email).

To register for a seminar, please write an email to me (MIEPP AT uni-mainz.de) including your name, matriculation number, specialization, and a ranking of all of the available seminars, including the instructors name, according to your preferences (highest preference 1, lowest preference 9). I will then place you into the seminars while keeping your preferences and specializations in mind as much as possible. If, due to your specialization, you have to take a seminar in a certain area (i.e., you are in international economics student and already have taken a public policy seminar), please also mention that in your email. In the same way, if you want to take two seminars, please include this information as well.

Now, some useful pointers:   

·         If you only rank one or two seminars, I will simply assume that all the other seminars are of equal utility to you below the ranked ones. Choice 3 is still high on the list so you might be placed anywhere. It will in no way guarantee that you receive one of the seminars listed. 

·         If you want to write your master thesis at a chair, you can mention it in the email to me, but it will also not guarantee you a spot in the seminar. 

·         This is not a first come, first serve procedure, I will look at all the preferences at the end of the time period and try to get everyone situated as well as possible.

·         Simply because you have a certain specialization, does not mean that you have to take both seminars in this area. In fact, it is very likely that one of the two seminars is not in your specialization area.   

Registration will start today, August 26 and end Monday, September 13. This should give all of you enough time to tell me your preferences.

Secondly, there is the option for MIEPP students to take “Policy-Making in the European Union” a political science course in the winter semester. Alas, there is a limit of 10 MIEPP students who can take the course. Therefore, if you are interested, please send me an email and I will make a list to hand over to the political science people to register. In case there are more than 10 interested in the course I will perform a random draw.

This also means that if you might be interested, please be absolutely sure that you actually want to take this course. You might be taking a spot form someone else.

Finally, and probably of no interest of you during the semester break, there will be no office hours Friday September 3.

That is all from me this week, you can now go back to enjoying your semester break (hopefully) and pretend that next semester is still a looooong ways away (if only).

Sincerely,

Christoph Wirp

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Christoph Wirp

Program Manager Master in International Economics and Public Policy

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Studienbüro des Fachbereichs Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Jakob-Welder-Weg 4

55128 Mainz

Room 01/321

Phone numer: +49 6131 / 39 - 23099

E-Mail: MIEPP AT uni-mainz.de

http://www.master.economics.uni-mainz.de/index.php

Office Hours: Thursday 14-16 Uhr

                            Friday 10-12 Uhr

Info- und Servicebüro time: Monday to Friday 9-12 as well as Tuesday and Wednesday 14-16