2.2.4. Electives: Designed to Enhance In-Depth Specialisation and Scientific Project Work Skills

2.2.4.1. Specialisation on Regional Development

• 290065 VU Theories of spatial development
• 290103 VU Nature Conservation Politics and Land Use Management in Europe
• 290203 PS Proseminar Regional Development
• 290163 SE Seminar: Regional economic development in the European Union: the structural funds period 2007-2013 - Strukturfondsperiode 2007-2013
• 290162 SE SE: Approaches to managing current problems of social and spatial development in spatial planni - und Raumentwicklung in der Raumordnung

2.2.4.2. Specialisation on Spatial Aspects of Population Studies / Regional Demography

• 140013 AG International Migration - causes, types, processes and the political regulation of migration
• 140272 VO Lecture Series: Migration and Global History - Migration patterns and dynamics in selected world regions, c. 1850 to the present
• 290059 SE Seminar: Suburbanization in the Vienna Region - Structures, Planning and Scenarios - Die Suburbanisierung der Stadtregion Wien - Strukturen, politische Maßnahmen und Szenarien

2.2.4.3. Specialisation on Development Research / Third World Studies / Co-operation and Development: Emphasis on Asia

• 140313 VO Lecture Series International Development: Problems, Mechanisms and Theories - in Development and Underdevelopment
• 290092 PS Third World Development in Theory and Practice - Focus on Asia
• 140318 VO Introduction to Development Economics
• 040589 VO Foundations of Development Economics
• 140316 VO Einführung in die Entwicklungssoziologie
• 290167 VO South Asia - Current Problems and Development Trends I
• 290233 VO Problems of mass tourism in third world countries
• 290010 VO Environmental Problems, Use of Resources and Aspects of Sustainable Development in Asia

2.2.4.4. Specialisation on Applied Geomorphology

• 290212 VO Applied Geomorphology
• 290227 SE Course of Physical Geo: - wird im SS 2009 mit Teil II, 3-st., fortgesetzt
• 290140 PR Geomorphology and GIS

2.2.4.5. Specialisation on Landscape Ecology and Natural Environmental Research

• 290209 PS Introductary seminar course about palaeopedology
• 290132 UE Laboratory Methods in Physical Geography for Advanced Students I (Methods of Chemical Analysis)

2.2.4.6. Specialisation on Spatial Tourism and Leisure Research

• 290100 VO Introduction into the Economics of Tourism
• 290095 VU New Media and Webdesign in Tourism
• 290233 VO Problems of mass tourism in third world countries
• 140319 VO Lecture Series: Tourism and Development - Entwicklung durch Tourismus oder Tourismus als Folge von Entwicklung?
• 290035 SE Seminar (Human Geography / Regional Geography): Austria as a tourist destination - structures, problems, trends