B. Master Degree Programme in Development Studies

01. Compulsory Module 1: Principles of Development Research

• 140369 VO GM1 Principles of Development Research
• 140375 KU GM2 Development Policy and Development Cooperation Architecture
• 140377 KU GM2 Development Policy and Development Cooperation Architecture
• 140379 KU GM3 Development Theories and Paradigms from a Transdisciplinary Perspective - De/Constructing the ‚Modern Man‘: Revisiting Concepts of Subjectivity and Society in Modernization Theories
• 140380 KU GM3 Development Theories and Paradigms from a Transdisciplinary Perspective
• 180028 VO Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

02. Compulsory Module 2: Methods of Developmetn Research

• 140262 UE MM1 Methods of Quantitative Research
• 140381 UE MM1 Methods of Quantitative Research
• 140265 UE MM1 - T1 Methods of Qualitative Research
• 140266 UE MM1 - T1 Methods of Qualitative Research

03. Emphasis Transdisciplinary Developmetn Research

03. Emphasis 1: Political aspects of development research (VM1)

• 140157 SE T III - VM1 - VM6 - State Building as Conflict Prevention?
• 140158 SE T III - VM1 - VM6 - Strategic and Security Implications of Global Challenges - Globale Herausforderungen
• 140162 SE T I - T III - VM1 - VM3 Social Protection and Social Policy in Developing and Transition Countries - und Transformationsländern
• 140197 SE T I - T III - VM1 - VM2 The Transnational Exploitation of Natural Resources - New Spaces, New Actors, New Conflicts
• 140213 VO T III - VM1 - VM5 - Statelessness in an International Context - Meaning, Origin, Countermeasures
• 140216 SE T II - VM1 - VM6 Neoliberalism, Development, and Protest in the Arab World
• 140376 VO T I - T III - VM1 - VM3 - Quantitative Research in International Development
• 140533 SE T III - VM1 - VM6 - Social and Political Transformation Processes in the Middle East
• 140163 SE T I - T III - VM3 - VM6 Social Protection and Social Policy in Developing and Transition Countries - Social Movements and Critique of Development Policy in Latin America
• 140272 VO Migrationregimes and Refugee Protests - Connecting research and political activism

04. Emphasis 2: Economic aspects of development research (VM2)

• 140160 SE [ en ] TIII - VM2 - VM6 - Regional Development - Regional Pathways and Policies in a Comparative Perspective
• 140161 VO+UE [ en ] TIII - VM2 - VM6 - Economics of Transition - Democracy, Markets and Firms in Eastern Europe (engl)
• 140197 SE T I - T III - VM1 - VM2 The Transnational Exploitation of Natural Resources - New Spaces, New Actors, New Conflicts
• 140201 SE [ de en ] SE IE - VM2 - VM5 Transdisciplinary Research - History and Economics: Works by Elinor Ostrom
• 140203 SE T II - TIII - VM2 - V5 - International Economy of Structural Imbalances - Center and Periphery in the Shadow of the Crisis in Europe
• 140224 SE SE IE - VM2 - VM7 Gender, Economics & Postcolonial Critique
• 140534 SE [ de en ] T I - TIII - VM2 - VM3 Sustainable Natural Resource Management Food and Nutrition Security
• 040023 VO+UE Decision and Game Theory
• 040052 VO International Capital Flows, Debt Overhang, and Development
• 040128 SE International Capital Flows, Debt Overhang, and Development (SE) - International Capital Flows, Debt Overhang, and Development

05. Emphasis 3: Sociological Aspects of Development Research

• 140162 SE T I - T III - VM1 - VM3 Social Protection and Social Policy in Developing and Transition Countries - und Transformationsländern
• 140163 SE T I - T III - VM3 - VM6 Social Protection and Social Policy in Developing and Transition Countries - Social Movements and Critique of Development Policy in Latin America
• 140165 SE T IV - VM3 - VM4 - Global Learning
• 140167 VO+UE T I - VM3 - Whose Knowledge for Whose Development: Sociology of Knowledge and Development - Wissenssoziologische Ansätze der Entwicklungsforschung
• 140196 SE T IV - VM3 - VM4 - El Pueblo. Transnationality and the Culture of Resistance
• 140223 SE [ en ] T IV - VM3 - VM7 - Feminist Political Ecology
• 140230 VO+UE T I - VM3 - VM8 - Group Dynamics: Understanding and Designing Social Processes
• 140376 VO T I - T III - VM1 - VM3 - Quantitative Research in International Development
• 140534 SE [ de en ] T I - TIII - VM2 - VM3 Sustainable Natural Resource Management Food and Nutrition Security
• 140275 SE T I - VM3 - VM4 Foundations of Social Criticism II
• 140111 KU Methods: Data Collection and Data Processing 2
• 230079 SE Processes of exclusion in rural-peripheral social environments
• 230088 SE High culture and popular culture - A relationship of tensions between globalisation, national identity formation and local appropriation.
• 230094 SE Figurations of Help and Care in Contemporary Society
• 230109 SE Society in economic and social crises? - Analyses of the causes and consequences
• 230123 SE [ en ] Comparative Migration Research
• 140272 VO Migrationregimes and Refugee Protests - Connecting research and political activism

06. Emphasis 4: Cultural Studies Aspects of Development Research

• 140165 SE T IV - VM3 - VM4 - Global Learning
• 140183 SE SE IE - VM4 - VM5 Transdisciplinarity. Concepts, Debates, Models of Trans-thinking - Denkschulen der Transdisziplinarität: Konzepte - Debatten - Modelle des Querdenkens
• 140196 SE T IV - VM3 - VM4 - El Pueblo. Transnationality and the Culture of Resistance
• 140220 SE T IV - VM4 - VM7 NGO-Activists and Soldiers as Photographers - Feminized and Colonized Images of Famine and War
• 140226 VO+UE T I - T IV - VM4 - VM8 - Asylum Seekers as Rights Claimants?! - a Transdisciplinary Approach to Asylum Realities and the Role of Rights, Dignity and Empowerment
• 140288 AG [ en ] T IV - VM4 - VM8 - Research within Prison Settings: Ethical and Methodological Concerns
• 140330 VO+UE T I - TII - VM4 - VM5 - Racism
• 140565 SE [ en ] T IV - VM4 - VM7 - Reconsidering Home (engl.)
• 140275 SE T I - VM3 - VM4 Foundations of Social Criticism II
• 010044 BA Religion and Politics in a (post-) colonial context - Latin-American Philosophy of Liberation and Neohinduism
• 010132 SE [ en ] The role of religion in the acculturation of migrants: Psychological perspectives.
• 230046 VO Picture Theories in Socio-historical Contexts. Developments and Basic Concepts
• 230088 SE High culture and popular culture - A relationship of tensions between globalisation, national identity formation and local appropriation.

07. Emphasis 5: Historical Aspects of Development Research

• 140183 SE SE IE - VM4 - VM5 Transdisciplinarity. Concepts, Debates, Models of Trans-thinking - Denkschulen der Transdisziplinarität: Konzepte - Debatten - Modelle des Querdenkens
• 140201 SE [ de en ] SE IE - VM2 - VM5 Transdisciplinary Research - History and Economics: Works by Elinor Ostrom
• 140202 SE T II - VM5 - VM6 Practices of "Development Aid" in a West-East Comparative Perspective
• 140203 SE T II - TIII - VM2 - V5 - International Economy of Structural Imbalances - Center and Periphery in the Shadow of the Crisis in Europe
• 140210 SE T I - T II - VM5 - VM6 - Eurocentrism and Its Critique
• 140213 VO T III - VM1 - VM5 - Statelessness in an International Context - Meaning, Origin, Countermeasures
• 140229 SE T II - T III - VM5 - VM6 - East Asia since 1900 - Vom nationalen Unabhängigkeitsstreben zu regionaler Kooperation
• 140330 VO+UE T I - TII - VM4 - VM5 - Racism
• 140296 PS Introductory Seminar History and Literature - Discourses on Gender and Nigeria in Narratives and Scholarship
• 070193 VO Late Modern Times (Contemporary History) (approx. 1800 to present) - Australien, 18. bis 21. Jahrhundert. Geschichte und Gesellschaft
• 010044 BA Religion and Politics in a (post-) colonial context - Latin-American Philosophy of Liberation and Neohinduism
• 140178 PS Introductory Seminar African History: Johannesburg - A History of the Largest City in South Africa
• 070196 GR [ en ] Guided Reading - South Asia and Globalisation: Historical Perspectives
• 140046 VO Audio Recordings as Scientific Sources for African Studies: History, Theory and Practice
• 140133 VO History of Southern Africa
• 070194 KU [ en ] Global Studies - Food and Society in Global Studies
• 140359 VO [ en ] African Film

08. Emphasis 6: Geographic and Regional Aspects of Development Research

• 140157 SE T III - VM1 - VM6 - State Building as Conflict Prevention?
• 140158 SE T III - VM1 - VM6 - Strategic and Security Implications of Global Challenges - Globale Herausforderungen
• 140160 SE [ en ] TIII - VM2 - VM6 - Regional Development - Regional Pathways and Policies in a Comparative Perspective
• 140161 VO+UE [ en ] TIII - VM2 - VM6 - Economics of Transition - Democracy, Markets and Firms in Eastern Europe (engl)
• 140202 SE T II - VM5 - VM6 Practices of "Development Aid" in a West-East Comparative Perspective
• 140210 SE T I - T II - VM5 - VM6 - Eurocentrism and Its Critique
• 140214 SE SE IE - VM6 - VM7 Interculturality and Development Co-operation: a Transdisciplinary Approach - Between Geopolitical Interests, Civic Resistance and Humanitarian Crisis: the Western Sahara Conflict
• 140216 SE T II - VM1 - VM6 Neoliberalism, Development, and Protest in the Arab World
• 140229 SE T II - T III - VM5 - VM6 - East Asia since 1900 - Vom nationalen Unabhängigkeitsstreben zu regionaler Kooperation
• 140533 SE T III - VM1 - VM6 - Social and Political Transformation Processes in the Middle East
• 140296 PS Introductory Seminar History and Literature - Discourses on Gender and Nigeria in Narratives and Scholarship
• 070193 VO Late Modern Times (Contemporary History) (approx. 1800 to present) - Australien, 18. bis 21. Jahrhundert. Geschichte und Gesellschaft
• 140166 SE African Nationalism, Panafricanism and Marxism in Africa - (George Padmore and Kwame Nkrumah)
• 140151 KU Rethinking African Democratization: Elections without Democracy
• 140138 VO East Africa in the Indian Ocean Network
• 150004 SE [ en ] SE GG: Transforming Taiwan: Social, political and cultural aspects

09: Emphasis 7: Gender-specific Aspects of Development Research

• 140214 SE SE IE - VM6 - VM7 Interculturality and Development Co-operation: a Transdisciplinary Approach - Between Geopolitical Interests, Civic Resistance and Humanitarian Crisis: the Western Sahara Conflict
• 140220 SE T IV - VM4 - VM7 NGO-Activists and Soldiers as Photographers - Feminized and Colonized Images of Famine and War
• 140223 SE [ en ] T IV - VM3 - VM7 - Feminist Political Ecology
• 140224 SE SE IE - VM2 - VM7 Gender, Economics & Postcolonial Critique
• 140565 SE [ en ] T IV - VM4 - VM7 - Reconsidering Home (engl.)
• 140142 VO Feminist Approaches to Development - Critical Perspectives / Political Interventions / Global Challenges
• 070086 VO Lecture Specialisaton 2 - Sexualität im 20. Jahrhundert - Globale Perspektiven und internationale Entwicklung
• 140185 SE Conversion Narratives and Gender Constructions in 19th Century South Africa
• 140296 PS Introductory Seminar History and Literature - Discourses on Gender and Nigeria in Narratives and Scholarship
• 230102 SE Gender and Globalisation - Genderaspekte ökonomischer Globalisierung. Analysen und Perspektiven

10. Emphasis 8: Areas of Practice and Applied Develpmetn Cooperation

• 140230 VO+UE T I - VM3 - VM8 - Group Dynamics: Understanding and Designing Social Processes
• 140347 VO+UE [ en ] PR1 - P II - PFA Engaging Development Research into Action: Challenges and Considerations - A Conceptual and Analytical Introduction to Systems Thinking
• 140288 AG [ en ] T IV - VM4 - VM8 - Research within Prison Settings: Ethical and Methodological Concerns
• 140226 VO+UE T I - T IV - VM4 - VM8 - Asylum Seekers as Rights Claimants?! - a Transdisciplinary Approach to Asylum Realities and the Role of Rights, Dignity and Empowerment

11. Transdisciplinary Research Module

• 140267 UE FM1: Research Seminar (Part 1) - Research Design
• 140268 UE FM1: Research Seminar (Part 1) - Research Design - Archives of Helping? The Early History of Austrian Development Cooperation

12: Master Module