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[ 505GLSTGRUS15 ] SE Global Studies: Basics

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Workload Education level Study areas Responsible person Hours per week Coordinating university
3 ECTS B2 - Bachelor's programme 2. year Social Science Veronika Wittmann 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Pre-requisites (*)keine
Original study plan Bachelor's programme Sociology 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
  • Students understand social science and IR theories and concepts.
  • Students know how to analyse and critically evaluate global social systems, institutions and processes.
  • Students are able to analyse global trends and look beyond the European horizon.
Skills Knowledge
  • Students are able to compare and analyse different social science and IR theories.
  • Students are able to analyze institutions and social systems and assess their efficacy and function.
  • Students are able to evaluate and comprehend international political processes and decision-making systems.
  • Students are able to think critically about global political issues and events and make informed judgements.
  • Students know how to develop empirical methods that can be used to understand global processes.
  • Students know and understand concepts and theories of social science, as well as the foundations of international relations.
  • Students lhave knowledge on selected areas of social science research on global trends: World Society, Global Politics, Cultural Transformation Processes in the Global Age and the North-South Dimension
Criteria for evaluation participation in discussion forum;
presentation;
seminar paper.
Methods Presentation;
literature research;
writing of a seminar paper.
Language German/English
Study material A bibliography will handed out to the students at the beginning of the seminar.
Changing subject? No
Earlier variants They also cover the requirements of the curriculum (from - to)
1SBGSGSE: SE Global Studies: Basics (2012W-2014W)
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 25
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority