Universität Wien

290072 SE Bachelorseminar Human Geography: Regional Innovation, Transformation and Resilience (2023S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 29 - Geographie
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Der Termin am 23.03.2023 ist entfallen

  • Thursday 09.03. 13:15 - 15:15 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 23.03. 13:15 - 17:15 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 20.04. 13:15 - 17:15 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 04.05. 13:15 - 17:15 Digital
  • Thursday 22.06. 13:15 - 17:15 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 29.06. 13:15 - 17:15 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This seminar familiarizes the students with current issues, concepts, as well as real-world examples around spatial and temporal aspects of sustainability transformations and resilience. Drawing on approaches from economic geography, the geography of innovation, and geography of sustainability transitions, the seminar will use economic, institutional, social-ecological, and political approaches. The seminar will address topics closely related to the currently urgent societal challenges such as renewable energy, housing and construction, structural regional change, food, nature-based innovation, innovation districts, recycling and circular economy, and innovation policy.
The underlying core questions are: Why do regions and industries differ in their capacity for innovation and transformation? How can resilience be built in different types of regions and economic structures? What factors and conditions determine the dynamics and direction of transformational change? What are the implications for innovation policy?
In addition to the content and theoretical-conceptual learnings, the goal is to provide students with basic skills of scientific work. Special emphasis is placed on the ability to identify literature and data sources, to gain knowledge of a selected sub-problem, and furthermore to report through a presentation and a scientific seminar paper.

Assessment and permitted materials

The process of the seminar paper is guided and supported by the course leader – from the theoretical conception and formulation of a research question to the submission. Seminar papers can also be written in small groups.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Obligatory (Group-)Discussion meetings with the course leader (dates to be defined on an individual basis)
Active participation in the course: 10% (one-time absence permitted)
Work assignments (e.g. writing discussion paper): 10%
(Group) presentation: 30%
Seminar paper: 50%
(for a positive overall assessment, all partial performances must be achieved)

Examination topics

Seminar contents, see above

Reading list

Eine Literaturliste (inkl. Pflichtliteratur) wird über moodle bereitgestellt.

Association in the course directory

(BA GG 7.1) (BA UF GW 16)

Last modified: Th 11.05.2023 11:28