Universität Wien

290066 EX Field Trip: Global Cause - Urban Effect: Tracking Major Geopolitical Events in Urban Space (2022S)

Wirkungen und Spuren geopolitischer Großereignisse im städtischen Raum

2.00 ECTS (1.50 SWS), SPL 29 - Geographie
Continuous assessment of course work

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. 24 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Pyhsical or digital

Introductory lecture (mandatory)
Tuesday 01 03 2022
1800 - 1900 hrs
Institutshörsaal 5A
NIG 5. Floor

Excursion dates
(so physically possible, dates will remain the same for digital execution)
Friday 25 03 2022, entire day 09:30-16:00 hrs
Friday 29 04 2022, entire day 09:30-16:00 hrs
Friday 03 06 2022, entire day 09:30-16:00 hrs

Tuesday 01.03. 18:00 - 19:30 Hörsaal 5A Geographie NIG 5.OG A0518

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The students have gained an overview to consequences of major global geopolitical developments and their effects on urban space.

In the course of the excursion days, three topics:

1. Public health and pandemics
2. Mobility and climate change
3. Violence and remembrance

will be considered under different factors of human geography in urban space.

Each day, the excursion will lead to four selected stops which are of political-geographic relevance to the topic (e.g. hospitlas and health institutions, vaccination and test facilities; traffic control and guidance systems, mobility agencies, climate change initiatives; cemeteries, statues and places of remembrence).

There, exemplary factors are considered how Vienna and her inhabitants deal(t) with an global challenges, how the discourse is being led, how effects can be localised in urban space and which traces are recognizeable.

Assessment and permitted materials

The students are expected to prepare short presentation to the respective given topics and present them at the various stops of the excursion. The task includes 1. a summary to the issue discussed, 2. the attempt of a geopolitical analysis of the importance of Vienna with regards of the issue presented and 3. a personal assessment.

The topics will be presented in the preparatory lecture – presence is a must, as the signing up will happen then. For each topic, a short (maximum one A4 page) hand-out with the key points, data, facts etc. needs to be prepared and handed out to all students at the respective day of presentation.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Active participation on all three days, written hand-out as well as oral presentation on the topic at the respective stop of the excursion, preparatory literature research.

Examination topics

No written exam or minutes of the excursion.
Participation on all three days as well as the preparatory lecture.
Short oral presentations with hand-out at the individual stops, active participation in the discussion.

Reading list

Wird bei der Vorbesprechung bekanntgegeben

Association in the course directory

(MG3-EX) (BA UF GW 18)

Last modified: Th 03.03.2022 15:29