Moodle.UP

This hands-on course focuses on themes and skills useful to War and Conflict Studies. It serves as an introduction to relevant central concepts and theories of the historical and political sciences and international relations. It also equips students with relevant methods to tackle interdisciplinary questions.

By touching upon a series of topics, and by being exposed to a variety of academic genres and styles, students will familiarize themselves with specific issues of War and Conflict – while understanding the differences between those formats written for a variety of audiences and using distinct language. Students will train valuable academic skills by producing and reviewing a series of short academic texts.

Finally, this course aims to improve students’ proficiency in the English language

by providing a space for the practice and reflection of academic essay writing.

This course deals with the history of German development cooperation, with its actors, paradigms and problems. Development policy mirrors not only the contemporary history of the Federal Republic of Germany, but also that of development theory: We follow the rise of development cooperation from a subordinated field of German foreign policy to an original contribution to global structural policy. In this context, a particular focus is laid on the links to the other policy areas of German foreign relations, especially diplomacy, external trade policy and security policy.