VM1-9 Block of Elective Modules: Emphasis Transdisciplinary Development Research (45 ECTS)

VM1 Political aspects of development research (15 ECTS)

• 240006 VO Lecture Series: Environment and Development
• 240057 VO Commodities and Development: Current Issues and Historical Context - Globale Warenketten und ungleiche Entwicklung
• 240008 VO Karl Marx’ Critical Science. Global and Universal?
• 240102 SE [ en ] VM1 / VM2 - International trade, global production and geopolitics
• 240012 SE VM1 / VM5 - Frantz Fanon and Fanonism - Colonialism, theories of political liberation and emancipation movements
• 240007 SE VM1 / VM3 - Introduction to Peace and Conflict Research
• 240140 SE [ en ] VM1 / VM2 - International Environment and Economic Development - Globalization and its implications, financial crises, trade liberalization, migration, foreign aid
• 240118 VO+UE [ en ] VM1 / VM4 - Development in Post-Mao China
• 240105 VO+UE VM1 / VM2 - Ressources and Development - Sustainable Development on Basis of Ressources: Debates, Conflicts and Strategies
• 240117 VO+UE [ en ] ( MIXED ) VM3 / VM1 - Migration and Identity - Discourses of Belonging and Othering
• 240011 SE VM1 / VM4 - Towards a peripheral/postcolonial Gramsci
• 240116 SE [ en ] VM5 / VM1 - Refugees and Forced Displacement in a Global Historical Perspective
• 240015 SE VM1 / VM5 - Infected Environment - a view of the development of the human web from a global history perspective with a special focus on energy sovereignty and resource extractivism
• 240074 SE VM1 / VM6 - Social and Global Disparity as the Basis for Political Change and Revolution? - The Case of the Middle East
• 240111 VO+UE VM6 / VM1 - Bottom-up decolonisation: The New Latin American Constitutionalism
• 240148 SE VM1 / VM7 - Transnational Feminist movements and international gender equality policies
• 240036 SE VM1 / VM8 - Palestine: Occupation, War, and Development Policy
• 240021 SE VM1 / VM3 - Why should we compare political participation in Africa and Europe?
• 150138 SE [ en ] Political Systems in East Asia

VM2 Economic aspects of development research (15 ECTS)

• 240057 VO Commodities and Development: Current Issues and Historical Context - Globale Warenketten und ungleiche Entwicklung
• 240006 VO Lecture Series: Environment and Development
• 240008 VO Karl Marx’ Critical Science. Global and Universal?
• 240102 SE [ en ] VM1 / VM2 - International trade, global production and geopolitics
• 240147 SE [ en ] VM7 / VM2 - Sex, lies and economics
• 240140 SE [ en ] VM1 / VM2 - International Environment and Economic Development - Globalization and its implications, financial crises, trade liberalization, migration, foreign aid
• 240105 VO+UE VM1 / VM2 - Ressources and Development - Sustainable Development on Basis of Ressources: Debates, Conflicts and Strategies
• 040166 KU Solidary Economic (MA) - Cooperative economy and Cooperatives
• 040195 KU Alternative management - entrepreneurial organizations and social ingetration system (MA) - MA
• 040292 VO Cooperative Business (BA) - unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Kooperationen

VM3 Sociological Aspects of Development Research (15 ECTS)

• 240057 VO Commodities and Development: Current Issues and Historical Context - Globale Warenketten und ungleiche Entwicklung
• 240006 VO Lecture Series: Environment and Development
• 240008 VO Karl Marx’ Critical Science. Global and Universal?
• 240125 SE [ en ] VM3 / VM6 - Borders and development: concepts, practices, struggles
• 240007 SE VM1 / VM3 - Introduction to Peace and Conflict Research
• 240016 SE [ en ] VM3 / VM7 - Sexual orientations, identities, relationship models, and the western view
• 240021 SE VM1 / VM3 - Why should we compare political participation in Africa and Europe?
• 240010 SE VM3 / VM6 - Transformation of urban spaces in times of the Anthropocene
• 240009 VO+UE VM3 / VM4 - Inclusion, Diversity and the critique of racism at the University - Evaluierung digitaler Lehrinhalte aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive
• 240117 VO+UE [ en ] ( MIXED ) VM3 / VM1 - Migration and Identity - Discourses of Belonging and Othering
• 240120 SE [ en ] VM7 / VM3 - Gender, Culture and Development - Women, Work, and Development; The Ethiopian Experience

VM4 Cultural Studies Aspects of Development Research (15 ECTS)

• 240057 VO Commodities and Development: Current Issues and Historical Context - Globale Warenketten und ungleiche Entwicklung
• 240006 VO Lecture Series: Environment and Development
• 240128 VO+UE VM8 / VM4 - Photography in the context of humanitarianism and development
• 240118 VO+UE [ en ] VM1 / VM4 - Development in Post-Mao China
• 240009 VO+UE VM3 / VM4 - Inclusion, Diversity and the critique of racism at the University - Evaluierung digitaler Lehrinhalte aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive
• 240141 VO+UE VM4 / VM5 - A Common Struggle? - Antisemitism and Racism in the Context of International Development and Postcolonial Studies. Possibilities of Adjacency
• 140232 VO+UE ( MIXED ) South Africa and Palestine - intertwined stories of solidarity
• 240143 SE [ en ] VM4 / VM6 - Cultures and politics of memory 30 years after the genocide in Rwanda
• 240011 SE VM1 / VM4 - Towards a peripheral/postcolonial Gramsci
• 240144 SE VM5 / VM4 - Progress as Epistemic Governance in the modern world
• 240111 VO+UE VM6 / VM1 - Bottom-up decolonisation: The New Latin American Constitutionalism
• 150224 VO [ en ] ( MIXED ) Intercultural Negotiation Patterns
• 142231 PS [ de en ] Post-colonial and Subaltern Studies: from South Asian to Global Concepts
• 420002 SE "aus-ein-an-der-setzen" - Current German-language debates on cultures of remembrance in a global perspective

VM5 Historical Aspects of Development Research (15 ECTS)

• 240057 VO Commodities and Development: Current Issues and Historical Context - Globale Warenketten und ungleiche Entwicklung
• 240006 VO Lecture Series: Environment and Development
• 240012 SE VM1 / VM5 - Frantz Fanon and Fanonism - Colonialism, theories of political liberation and emancipation movements
• 240144 SE VM5 / VM4 - Progress as Epistemic Governance in the modern world
• 240116 SE [ en ] VM5 / VM1 - Refugees and Forced Displacement in a Global Historical Perspective
• 240015 SE VM1 / VM5 - Infected Environment - a view of the development of the human web from a global history perspective with a special focus on energy sovereignty and resource extractivism
• 240141 VO+UE VM4 / VM5 - A Common Struggle? - Antisemitism and Racism in the Context of International Development and Postcolonial Studies. Possibilities of Adjacency
• 420002 SE "aus-ein-an-der-setzen" - Current German-language debates on cultures of remembrance in a global perspective
• 141077 SE [ en ] The State, Epistemology and Economy: Environmental History of Southern and Central Africa
• 140232 VO+UE ( MIXED ) South Africa and Palestine - intertwined stories of solidarity
• 142240 VO [ en ] The History of Colonialism in South Asia

VM6 Geographic and Regional Aspects of Development Research (15 ECTS)

• 240006 VO Lecture Series: Environment and Development
• 240057 VO Commodities and Development: Current Issues and Historical Context - Globale Warenketten und ungleiche Entwicklung
• 240125 SE [ en ] VM3 / VM6 - Borders and development: concepts, practices, struggles
• 240010 SE VM3 / VM6 - Transformation of urban spaces in times of the Anthropocene
• 240074 SE VM1 / VM6 - Social and Global Disparity as the Basis for Political Change and Revolution? - The Case of the Middle East
• 240111 VO+UE VM6 / VM1 - Bottom-up decolonisation: The New Latin American Constitutionalism
• 240143 SE [ en ] VM4 / VM6 - Cultures and politics of memory 30 years after the genocide in Rwanda
• 150135 VU [ en ] Strategic Gaming: The South China Sea Dispute
• 150180 VU [ en ] Human Rights in Asia
• 230142 VO [ en ] Urban Sociology: Debates and Developments
• 240067 SE [ en ] VM7 / VM3 - Gender and Development in South Asia
• 240079 SE [ en ] VM6 / VM7 - Gender and Development in the Global South

VM7 Gender-specific Aspects of Development Research (15 ECTS)

• 240057 VO Commodities and Development: Current Issues and Historical Context - Globale Warenketten und ungleiche Entwicklung
• 240006 VO Lecture Series: Environment and Development
• 240016 SE [ en ] VM3 / VM7 - Sexual orientations, identities, relationship models, and the western view
• 240148 SE VM1 / VM7 - Transnational Feminist movements and international gender equality policies
• 240147 SE [ en ] VM7 / VM2 - Sex, lies and economics
• 240065 SE ( ISK ) VM8 - Radio Orange Audio-LAB
• 210135 VO [ en ] M8: SpezialVO Gender and Politics - Gender, Illiberalism, Neoliberalism
• 141058 VO Identity, Sexuality, and Positionality in African Literatures
• 142265 UE [ en ] LGBTQIA+ in South Asian Press and Literature
• 240079 SE [ en ] VM6 / VM7 - Gender and Development in the Global South
• 240120 SE [ en ] VM7 / VM3 - Gender, Culture and Development - Women, Work, and Development; The Ethiopian Experience

VM8 Areas of Practice and Applied Development Cooperation (15 ECTS)

• 240057 VO Commodities and Development: Current Issues and Historical Context - Globale Warenketten und ungleiche Entwicklung
• 240006 VO Lecture Series: Environment and Development
• 240065 SE ( ISK ) VM8 - Radio Orange Audio-LAB
• 240128 VO+UE VM8 / VM4 - Photography in the context of humanitarianism and development
• 240036 SE VM1 / VM8 - Palestine: Occupation, War, and Development Policy
• 330026 VO [ en ] ( MIXED ) Global Nutrition

VM9 Transdisciplinary free elective Modul (15 ECTS)

• 180031 VO-L Innovation, cognition and knowledge generation - (summer course)
• 180033 KU Innovation Lab: from idea to prototype - (summer course)
• 233060 UE [ en ] Science in Society Laboratories
• 233062 UE [ en ] Science Communication Laboratories