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[ 905GLOMINTK15 ] VU Global Studies: Interdisciplinary

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Workload Education level Study areas Responsible person Hours per week Coordinating university
3 ECTS M - Master's programme Social Science Veronika Wittmann 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Pre-requisites (*)keine
Original study plan Master's programme Sociology 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
+ Students understand social science and IR theories and concepts.

+ Students are able to analyze and critically evaluate global social systems, institutions and processes.

+ Students are able to analyze global trends and look beyond the European horizon.

Skills Knowledge
+ Students are able to compare and analyze different social science and IR theories.

+ They are able to analyze social systems and institutions and evaluate their function and effectiveness.

+ They know how to analyze and understand global political processes and decision-making mechanisms.

+ They are able to reflect critically about global political issues and events and make informed judgements.

+ They understand how to develop empirical methods that can be used to understand global processes.

+ They are able to work independently on selected areas of social science research

Students have knowledge about:

+ analyses and comparisons of the social science theories and concept;

+ basic knowledge of social theories as well as fundamentals of international relations.

They know debates about:

+ Sustainable Development Goals: A Global Agenda to Transform the World?; Old Terms and New Worlds.

+ Challenges for Global Studies in the 21st Century;

+ Global Risk Society; Global Culture;

+ and Global Trends: Time for Afropositivism

Criteria for evaluation (*)Partizipation in Diskussionsforen, Abschlussklausur
Methods (*)Vorträge mit Diskussion
Language German/English
Study material (*)Die themenspezifische Literatur wird von den Vortragenden der Ringvorlesung Global Studies ins KUSSS gestellt.
Changing subject? No
Corresponding lecture (*)2SGLVUII: VU Global Studies II (3 ECTS)
Earlier variants They also cover the requirements of the curriculum (from - to)
1SBGSIVU: VU Global Studies: Interdisciplinary (2012W-2014W)
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 200
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority