2. Development Studies

First Stage of the Degree Programme

1. Orientation Period

• 140313 VO Lecture Series International Development: Problems, Mechanisms and Theories - in Development and Underdevelopment
• 140002 AG Discussion Class: Introduction to Development Studies
• 140003 AG Discussion Class: Introduction to Development Studies
• 140005 AG Discussion Class: Introduction to Development Studies
• 140010 AG Discussion Class: Introduction to Development Studies
• 140187 VO Lecture Series: Development Co-operation
• 140264 AG Discussion Class: Development Co - operation
• 140472 AG Discussion Class: Development Co-operation

2. Core Subjects

• 140318 VO Introduction to Development Economics
• 140316 VO Einführung in die Entwicklungssoziologie
• 140337 VO Culture and Development. Intercultural Philosophie and cultural studies in a Contested Terrain.
• 140007 PS Philosophy and Critique of Social Science
• 140009 PS Philosophy and Critique of Social Science
• 140011 PS Introd. Sem. Development Policy: Democracy in Southeast Asia
• 140012 PS Introd. Seminar Development Policy: Conflicts in Southeast Asia
• 140014 PS Introd. Sem. Development Policy: Theories and Concepts in Political Science
• 140022 PS Introductory Seminar Development Policy: Financial Flows to Developing Countries - the concept of development finance
• 140015 PS Introductory Seminar: Development Economics
• 140016 PS Introductory Seminar: Development Economics
• 140026 PS Introductory Seminar: History of North-South Relations
• 140050 PS Introductory Seminar: African History
• 140325 PS Introductory Seminar: North-South relations in historical perspective
• 140468 PS Introductory Seminar: North-South relations in historical perspective
• 140246 PS Philosophy and Critique of Social Science

3. Transdisciplinary Development Research

• 140019 PS Trans-disciplinary Development Research I: - An International Political Economy Approach
• 140020 PS Trans-disciplinary Development Research: - An International Political Economy Approach
• 140023 PS Introductory Seminar: Transdisciplinary Development Research II - An International Political Economy Approach
• 140188 PS Introductory Seminar: Transdisciplinary Development Research II - Theories in Global Political Economy
• 140211 PS Introductory Seminar: Transdisciplinary Development Research II - Theories in Global Political Economy

4. Continental Analysis

• 140272 VO Lecture Series: Migration and Global History - Migration patterns and dynamics in selected world regions, c. 1850 to the present
• 140319 VO Lecture Series: Tourism and Development - Entwicklung durch Tourismus oder Tourismus als Folge von Entwicklung?
• 290142 RV Lecture Series: Cultures of Difference - Transformation Processes in Central Europe V
• 240083 VO Ozeanien: Gesellschaft und Geschichte, 18.-20. Jahrhundert

Second Stage of the Degree Programme

1. Transdisciplinary Development Research (T I - T IV)

T I Socio-Cultural Development

• 140013 AG International Migration - causes, types, processes and the political regulation of migration
• 140189 VO+UE Transnational social analysis: problems and perspectives
• 140190 VO+UE Environment and Development - sustainable development - Notwendigkeit & Hemmnisse nachhaltiger Entwicklungen
• 140330 VO+UE Racisms
• 140224 SE Islamism
• 150013 SE Seminar I: Japan and global migration
• 010053 SE Cosmopolitanism - philosophical conceptions, past and present
• 290010 VO Environmental Problems, Use of Resources and Aspects of Sustainable Development in Asia
• 290092 PS Third World Development in Theory and Practice - Focus on Asia
• 290233 VO Problems of mass tourism in third world countries
• 140241 VO+UE Qualitative methods of development research
• 140244 SE Migration and Development
• 190219 VK Basics of Social Network Analysis I

T II Historical-Geographical Analysis/Socio-Economic Dimensions of International Development in Spatial and Temporal Perspectives:

• 140225 SE Global History - 16th Century
• 140274 VO+UE Eurocentrism
• 140226 SE India - new powerhouse in the neoliberal race and social conflicts
• 140332 PS Political Islam in Palestine
• 140340 SE From national development to open world market region. Transitions to neoliberal - development models in comparative perspective.
• 140352 SE Recipient Country Leadership: Tanzania as a Role Modell?
• 140047 KU Africa: Democratisation without Democracy? Actors, Processes and Discourses in Comparison
• 140072 KU Religions and Politics in Nigeria in the 20th Century
• 140088 SE Seminar in African History: The Interwar Depression
• 150009 SE Current Affairs in East Asia
• 290167 VO South Asia - Current Problems and Development Trends I
• 070305 VO Late Modern History (approx. 1800 to approx. 1914) - Fundamentalismus und Terrorismus
• 070350 VO Theorien und Methoden der Globalgeschichte - Ost-West-Beziehungen in Europa: Zwischen Atlantik und Zentralasien

T III Development Policy

• 140192 SE History of neliberal development politics: origins (1950s) until the "Washington Consensus" - zum "Washington Konsens"
• 140194 SE From World Bank to Knowledge Bank?
• 140227 AG Social Protection and Social Policy in Developing Countries
• 140342 AG Policy Coherence for Development - an Approach with Limited Liability
• 140416 VO+UE [ en ] Development Economics
• 140399 SE Uneven Development
• 040589 VO Foundations of Development Economics
• 040128 SE Development Policy
• 150062 SE Economic Systems in East Asia
• 150090 VO+UE Governance in East Asia
• 140232 VO+UE Natural Ressources - Curse or Blessing?
• 140234 VO+UE Financial Markets
• 140237 VO+UE [ en ] International Agricultural Commodity Markets
• 140238 SE [ en ] The Millennium Development Goals in Africa: - Issues in Delivering Education and Health in the Third World.
• 140242 SE Development policy: recent topics and new challenges

T IV Culture and Development/Gender Studies

• 140024 AG [ en ] Transcultural Theatre Work with participants from different countries of origin - Focus Africa
• 140025 AG [ en ] Transcultural Theatre Work with participants from different countries of origin - Women's Group
• 140215 SE Global Learning
• 140217 VO+UE Education for Sustainable Development
• 140229 SE Sex in Development. Theories, Politics, Sexualities
• 140230 AG Whose Empowerment? Concepts, interests and assumptions behind a development buzzword.
• 140231 AG Everyday 'Common Sense' and Consciousness - Zur Dialektik von Kultur und Entwicklung am Würstelstand und in der Straßenzeitung.
• 140090 SE Resistance and Gender in Colonial Africa
• 140222 SE Growth or Sustainability - outlines of the Right to Development"
• 030640 PR Working for Human Rights in Practice - Working for Human Rights in Practice
• 030108 KU Development and the right of self-determination of peoples - Secession - autonomy - decentralisation
• 150161 UE Gender and Sexuality in Japan
• 140240 SE Globalization and Gender

2. Development Planning and Management (P)

P I Introduction to Development Planning

• 140202 AG Basics for planning in Human Development
• 140223 VO+UE Basics for planning in Human Development
• 140248 AG Grundlagen der Entwicklungsplanung

P II Introduction to Development Management and Evaluation

• 140006 AG Design of goal-oriented projects
• 140008 AG Desing, Monitoring and Evaluation of Co-operation Projects
• 140200 AG [ en ] Engaging development research into action: challenges and considerations
• 140201 AG Just social change - challenges in community based project planning and implementation in - East Africa
• 190218 VK Interdisciplinary Research : from Project Planning to Evaluation

P III Intercultural Communication

• 140196 VO+UE Interculturality: Concept - Approaches - Adoptions
• 140199 VO+UE Intercultural acting
• 140339 VO+UE Constructive coping with conflicts
• 140195 AG Workshop: Academic Writing and Knowledge Transfer
• 190216 VK Communication Culture at Universites and at Work I
• 140250 AG Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding in Development Cooperation

3. Special Seminars

• 140198 SE Concepts of Poverty and Poverty Reduction: a transdisciplinary approach
• 140341 SE Gender and Economics
• 140354 SE History and Politics: Ethnicity and Racism
• 140074 SE Master Course
• 140233 SE DiplomandInnenseminar
• 140239 SE Diplomacourse