Lectures

Here you can find some details on exemplary courses of the study programme "Geography: Society - Environment - Future":

Integrative Introduction:

Right from the introductory week, students will get to know applied society-environment problems at an interesting off-campus location and investigate them together. Based on small projects on applied society-environment problems, data is recorded in the field, analysed, interpreted and finally presented in the plenum. The lecture series is another event of this module and addresses current issues from the subject areas of geographies of the future, climate change and environmental protection, sustainability as well as globality and locality. On the basis of these topics, important basics of human geography and physical geography for the understanding of the study contents are taught in a compact form.

Study Project:

The module includes 1) the preparation of a written project draft/project proposal, 2) practical project implementation in the form of empirical fieldwork, and 3) data analysis and discussion of results. The study project can include human geography, physical geography as well as interdisciplinary cross-sectional subjects. The field research takes place abroad as far as possible. Potential topics are, for example, "Forest and Land Management in Indonesia" or "Migration and Tourism in Greece".

Future Workshop:

Possible method seminars in this module include "Model-based scenario development and analysis for sustainable water management (WEAP)", "Social space analysis", "Qualitative methods using the example of local negotiations of migration", "Land use change", "Social network analysis" or "Methods for designing and evaluating visions of the future". First ideas for the Future Lab are "Urban Futures", "Future of Rural Areas", "Methods of Transformative Research" and "Future of University Locations".

Profiling:

Examples of master's seminars that are offered regularly are: "Migration Regimes and Space", "Introduction to Geographical Migration Research", "Economic Geographies of the Future", "Climate Change and Migration", "Environmentally Oriented Economic Geography", "Landscapes", "Future of City Centres", "Water -sensitive Urban Development", "Land System Archetypes", "Water-Energy-Food Nexus", "Adaptive Resources Management".