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Module number

A301

Name of the Module

Sociology – Introduction to Social Sciences

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Semester: 1

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Social Sciences – an Introduction

·       Economic Activities

·       Social Action

·       Theories of modern societies

·       Knowledge societies

·       Knowledge and social systems

·       Science and knowledge as a productive factor

·       Knowledge as a commodity

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A302

Name of the Module

Political Science

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Semester: 1

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Government relations and managing businesses

·       Policy processes and strategic options

·       Rational choice concepts

·       Public choice approaches

·       Corporate preferences for public policy

·       The organisation of the “firm”

·       Employer and employee associations

·       Policy networks and lobbying

·       Policy analysis

·       Why government could be a problem

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A303

Name of the Module

Public Administration I – Human Factors

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Semester: 1

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Managing the human resources

·       Labour-management cooperation

·       Networking

·       Public employment

·       Personal management in public organisations

·       Leadership in public management

·       Managing a career

·       Dysfunctionalities in human resource management

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A304

Name of the Module

Public Administration II – Management and Reengineering

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Semester: 1

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Organisational communication

·       Conflicts, bargaining and negotiations

·       Leadership roles in group dynamics

·       Management decision methods

·       Organisational development and change

·       Public management reform

·       Non-profit management reform

·       Administrative reform and technology

·       Thriving by innovation

·       Strategies for improving productivity and quality

·       The future of public service

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A210

Name of the Module

Advanced Cultural and Educational Management

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Semester: 2

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       On the ethics of education

·       Morals, education and culture

·       The use of culture in education

·       Contest and competition

·       Gender aspects

·       Intercultural aspects

·       Transmission of culture

·       Development of a modern peace culture

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A305

Name of the Module

Public Administration III – Political Aspects

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Semester: 2

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Differentia specifica between public administration and business

·       Decision making in a democratic environment

·       Legality, bureaucracy and efficiency

·       Influencing public organisation

·       Public service as a distinguished profession

·       The political context of public administration

·       Reinventing government

·       Milestones of the policy making process

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A306

Name of the Module

Public Administration IV – Intergovernmental Relations

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Semester: 2

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Public administration in the interorganisational context

·       Development of intergovernmental relations

·       Governance – issue of globalisation

·       Transformation of governance

·       To balance the power

·       Working with nongovernmental organisations

·       Privatisation of public tasks

·       Management of Non-profit organisations

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A307

Name of the Module

Public Administration V – Ethical Problems

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Semester: 2

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Ethics of public service

·       Moral philosophy aspects

·       Moral psychology perspectives

·       Moral action possibilities

·       Awareness for public participation

·       The ethics of privatisation

·       Interest conflicts within the ethical context

·       Managing ethics

·       Intervening techniques for integrating ethics into agency operations

·       Implications for ethical action

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A308

Name of the Module

Public Administration VI – Policies and Strategies

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Semester: 2

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Organisations and its environment

·       Designing public organisations

·       Managing public organisations

·       Functional and institutional management

·       Political Economy versus organisational development

·       Guidelines for public management

·       Strategic management and organisational culture

·       Structures and processes in public management

·       Planning, implementation and evaluation

·       Performance management issues

·       Empowering the organisation

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A309

Name of the Module

Public Administration VII – Financial Aspects

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Semester: 2

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Specifica of financing the public administration

·       Instruments of fiscal policy

·       Budgeting and financial management

·       The budget as a managerial tool

·       Managing deficits and surpluses

·       Debt and risk management

·       Public budgeting execution

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A310

Name of the Module

Economic Geography I – Different Worlds

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Economic Geography”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Economic geography as a science

·       Invention, institutionalisation and imperialism

·       Regions and differentiation

·       Institutional approaches in economic geography

·       Modelling in the contemporary context

·       Historical-geographical materialism, the alternative

·       Economic geography in a gender perspective

·       Towards a global-local (dis)order

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A311

Name of the Module

Economic Geography II – Geography of Production

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Economic Geography”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Industrialisation today

·       International division of labour

·       Geography of industry

·       Geography of production sites

·       Geography of skills

·       Location of firms and corporate geography

·       New industrial spaces and places of work

·       Restructuring industrial regions

·       Flexibilising economic spaces

·       Localising labour markets

·       Placing industrial districts

·       Competition for spaces and places

·       Urban and regional change

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A312

Name of the Module

Economic Geography III – Resources and Ecology

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Economic Geography”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Economic aspects of natural resources

·       Exploitation of natural resources

·       Resources and sustainability

·       Political economy of agriculture

·       Agro-food commodity chains

·       Privatisation of the nature

·       Industry resource towns

·       Strategies of political ecology

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A313

Name of the Module

Economic Geography IV – Labour and Social Classes

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Economic Geography”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Classes, work, production and consumption aspects

·       Labour unions today

·       The state and economic geography

·       Governance in the context of economic geography

·       Local state and local government

·       Strategy and culture in the corporate world

·       Time and space in the corporate world

·       Ethnicity and intercultural networks

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A314

Name of the Module

Economic Geography V – Global Circulation

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Economic Geography”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Economic geography of global trade

·       Changes in sectoral competition

·       Economic transformation of space

·       International labour migration

·       Political economy of sending and receiving areas

·       Issues on transportation geography

·       International Transportation – speed and sustainability

·       Telecommunications and the bridging space

·       Geopolitics of the internet

·       Globalisation and state capacity

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A315

Name of the Module

Political Ecology I – Environment and Policy

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Political Ecology”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Policy and environment

·       Ecological anthropology and cultural ecology

·       Land-use conflicts

·       Political ecology of the water resources

·       Models and analytic frameworks

·       Environmental hazards and disaster management

·       Acting and reflecting with political ecology

·       The problem of sustainability

·       The natural world and human engagement

·       Environmental conflict resolution

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A316

Name of the Module

Political Ecology II – Local-Global Relationships

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Political Ecology”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Local-global links

·       Social hierarchies in local-global relations

·       Power and social differences

·       Common property regimes

·       Political economy of consumption

·       Finding the global in the local

·       Transformation perspectives of space and place

·       Shaping asymmetric exchanges

·       Geography of interdependence

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A317

Name of the Module

Political Ecology III – Collective Ethnic Identities

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Political Ecology”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Actors and arguments in the environmental policy process

·       Environmental discourses and negotiations

·       Conceptual encompassment as power

·       Global political ecology of bioprospecting

·       (Dis)Interaction among the global actors

·       Emergence of collective ethnic identities

·       Biodiversity networks

·       Social movements and progressive politics of ecology, ethnicity and territory

·       Alternative political ecology frameworks

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A318

Name of the Module

Political Ecology IV – Crisis Management Policies

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Political Ecology”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       On the nature and ubiquity of crises

·       Crisis management in political systems

·       Crisis management and political leadership

·       Critical tasks in crisis management

·       Barriers to crisis recognition

·       Threat perception

·       Conditions for reliable crisis simulation

·       Management of crisis specialist teams

·       Psychological dimensions of crisis management

·       Specifica of governmental crisis decisions

·       Fostering crisis coordination

·       Political communication on crises

·       Strategies of crisis termination

·       Learning from crisis and the politics of reform

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A319

Name of the Module

Political Ecology V – Ecology and Quality Standards

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Political Ecology”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Preliminaries of ecological quality management

·       Policies and procedures of ecological quality standards

·       Quality standard for ecological housing

·       Quality standard for organic products

·       Quality standard for food & beverages

·       Quality standard for tourism & leisure sites

·       Quality standard for health and wellness

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A320

Name of the Module

Diplomacy I – Diplomatic History

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Diplomacy and International Relations”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       History of Diplomatic Thought

·       Careers of outstanding statesmen

·       On Machiavelli, Guicciardini and Grotius

·       On Richelieu, Wicquefort, Callières and Satow

·       On Nicolson and Kissinger

·       Comparison of historic diplomatic approaches

·       Learning from diplomacy in past and present

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A321

Name of the Module

Diplomacy II – Diplomatic and Consular Matters

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Diplomacy and International Relations”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Settling diplomatic matters

·       Settling consular matters

·       International conventions – functions and instrumentalisation

·       The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations

·       The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A322

Name of the Module

International Relations I – History and Legislation of the European Union

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Diplomacy and International Relations”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       International Organisations

·       Democracy and the European Union

·       History of the EU

·       Political philosophy and principles of the EU

·       Problems of the legal basis and legislation

·       Structure of the EU

·       Processes within the EU

·       Implementation of EU decisions

·       Perspectives of the community

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A323

Name of the Module

International Relations II – Challenges and Changes of World Politics

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Diplomacy and International Relations”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       The nature of international relations

·       The modern international system

·       Competing concepts of world politics

·       Main issues on world politics

·       Realism and the balance of powers

·       Intellectual history of liberalism

·       Against anarchy – building world politics

·       Institutional framework of world politics

·       Facing the confrontation with terrorism

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A324

Name of the Module

International Relations III – Dimensions of Globalisation

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Diplomacy and International Relations”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Globalisation and international relations

·       Reconfiguring world politics

·       International political economy

·       Globalisation, the big transformation

·       Concepts of globalisation

·       Problems of globalisation

·       Anti-globalisation movements

·       Humanitarian interventions and international law

·       Challenging globalisation

·       Contemporary challenges in international relations

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A325

Name of the Module

Geopolitics I – Geopolitics of Imperialism

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Geopolitics”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Historical concepts of geopolitics

·       On critical thinking about geopolitics

·       Geopolitics as a discourse

·       Cultural embeddedness of geopolitics

·       Geopolitical power networks

·       Geopolitics in times of globalisation

·       Geography versus geopolitics

·       Appraisal of geopolitical activities

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A326

Name of the Module

Geopolitics II – Geopolitics of the Cold War

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Geopolitics”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       The Origins of the Cold War

·       Historical aspects of the Cold War

·       The Cold War as a geopolitical system

·       Stages of the Cold War

·       U.S.A policy and world politics

·       Soviet policy and world politics

·       Danger and disarmament

·       The end of the history!

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A327

Name of the Module

Geopolitics III – Geopolitics of the Twenty-First Century

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Geopolitics”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Empires and burdens

·       Concepts of U.S. administration

·       On Clinton

·       On Bush jr.

·       The role of terrorism

·       New imperialism

·       Rogue power

·       Clash of civilisations?

·       Politics driven by religion

·       Possibilities for the future – right or wrong geopolitics

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A328

Name of the Module

Geopolitics IV – Geopolitics of Global Dangers

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Geopolitics”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Environmental geopolitics

·       Rethinking security

·       Wars on resources

·       Was Malthus right?

·       Threats of anarchy

·       Emerging disasters

·       Mapping a hostile environment

·       Dependencies and escape opportunities

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A329

Name of the Module

Geopolitics V – Anti-Geopolitics

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Major “Geopolitics”

 

Semester: 3

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Colonial anti-geopolitics

·       Cold-war anti-geopolitics

·       Contemporary anti-geopolitics

·       Orientalism reconsidered

·       Violence all over the world

·       On Frantz Fanon, Subcommandante Marcos and Osama Bin Laden

·       Barbarisms at the clash

·       Beyond imperialism

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A228

Name of the Module

Thesis Coaching

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Semester: 4

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

6 ECTS                       180

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Private study:  180

 

Learning outcomes:

The participants of the course are sensitised to coherences and problem areas within the scope of the course topic. The students will have the skills to notice attentively and to scrutinise the effects of administrative activities in the international context. They are enabled to develop awareness and responsibility as well alternative lines of action and prospects.

 

Knowledge is transferred in the course both on a theoretical and a practical background. Based on the insights gained in the module the participants learn to prepare strategic decisions and to design their implementation within the framework of operational sequences.

 

After having successfully participated in the study course the students know the theoretical conceptions and methodical approaches of the contents and are in a position to evaluate them critically. In addition to expertise students gain knowledge to develop suitable innovative concepts.

 

Contents:

 

·       Writing and revising

·       Creating a preliminary template

·       Recalling the purpose of the thesis

·       Organisation of the ideas

·       Searching information actively

·       Reviewing of literature

·       Structuring the chapters

·       Using the material

·       Taking notes

·       Organising professional scientific work

·       How to deal with advisers

·       Avoiding plagiarism

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: none

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Alternative exam (assignments/case studies/course paper): 50 %

Written exam (120 min)                                                                    50 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module number

A229

Name of the Module

Master Thesis

Lecturer(s)

Coaching team

 

Degree:

Master of Arts (MA)

 

Academic Course:

Public Administration

 

Semester: 4

 

Credits:           Workload (in hrs.):

24 ECTS         720

 

Teaching and learning methods in hours:

Project work by oneself:                     660

Preparation of colloquium:    60

 

Learning outcomes:

The students demonstrate that they are able to solve an economic problem with scientific approach on their own. They dispose of the capacity to familiarise oneself with the current subject area, to edit the state of affairs and the results in an academic form, to document the work progress in the Master thesis as well as to present and discuss the results in the context of a scientific speech.

 

Contents:

 

·       Choice and fixing of a topic for the Master project (in agreement with the coaches)

·       Preparation of the results / drawing-up of the Master thesis

·       Presentation of the most important aspects of the Master thesis respectively the Master project

 

Prerequisites / previous knowledge: courses of semester 1-3

 

Assessment/exams

Type of exams:

Master thesis                                                                         70 %

Oral exam (colloquium, 30 min)                                                       30 % 

 

Pre-conditions: none