Bachelor Modules, Summer Semester 2014 Module Description Type Language of Instruction Language of Exam Content Type of Exam Hours per week* ECTS-Credit Points y in the European Union Seminar Exam 2 6 Module 2: Physische Geographie Aufbau (Advanced physical geography) Module 3: Humangeographie Basis Vorlesung (Introduction to human geography) Module 5: Vertiefung - Vertiefungsseminare (Specialisation courses) Module 5: Seminars offered this semester - Wasser: Risiko und Lebensgrundlage - Eine integrative Betrachtung (Water: risk and source of life - an integrated approach) - Einführung in die geographische Migrationsforschung (introduction in geographical migration research) - Einführung in die Energiegeographie (Introduction to energy geography) - Einführung in die Stadtgeographie im Kontext Schule (Introduction to Seminar Deepening of theoretical concepts and applied topics of physical geography in all sub disciplines 17 Field courses or some cases) Field course physical geography Lecture Introduction into human geography Seminar or / / / Seminars on various subjects of physical and human geography (see list below) oral presentation, written and written exam 4 9 2 4 Exam 6 10 Written and oral presentation 2 6 1
urban geography in the context school) - Einführung in die Historische Geographie (historical Geography) - Einführung in die Strukturpolitik für nachhaltige Entwicklung: Konzepte und regionale Differenzierung (Introduction to structural politics for sustainable development: conzepts of regional differatentiation) - Geographische Interpretationen aktueller gesellschaftspolitischer Diskurse (geographical interpretations of actual social discourses) - Einführung in die Politische Ökologie des Globalen Südens (Introduction to political ecology of global south) - Einführung in Aktuelle Themen der Biogeographie (Introduction to actual thematics of biogeography) - Einführung in die Limnologie (introduction to limnology) - Einführung in die Naturgefahren und risikothematik (introduction to the thematic of natural hazards and risks) - Einführung in geomorphologische Prozesse und Naturgefahren (introduction to geomorphological processes and natural hazards) Module 6: Methoden Basis I: Methodologie (Introduction to Lecture and tutorial / Introduction to Methodology in geography Written exam Lecture: 2 Lecture: 3 2
methodology II: Methodology) Module 7: Methoden Basis II: Geomatik (Introduction to geomatics II) Module 8: Methoden Aufbau (Advances methodology) Module 8: Seminars offered this semester Lecture and tutorial Seminar Introduction to geomatics Written exam Lecture: 2 or or Seminars on various research methods in physical and human geography (see list below) Lecture: 3 Written 2 4 - Knowing your tools - Einführung in räumliche Analysen mit GIS (Knowing your tools - Introduction to spatial analysis using GIS) - Geomarketing und Standortanalyse mit GIS (geomarketing and spatial analysis with GIS) - Veränderungsdetektion mit Fernerkundungsmethoden (change detection with remote sensing methods) / / / - Statistik mit SPSS (SPSS-Statisics) - Qualitative Sozialforschung (qualitative social research) / - Interviews als Erhebungstechnik der qualitativen Sozialforschung / (Interviews as a method for qualitative research) - Einführung in die Grounded Theory am Beispiel öffentlicher Stadträume (Exercises in Grounded Theory Using the Example of Public Space in Cities) - Methoden der empirischen 3
Sozialforschung am Beispiel Wasser (methods of empirical social research with focus on the example water) - Methoden der Landschaftsanalyse und planung (methods of landscapeanalysis and planing) - Analysis of landscape changes - qualitative approach - Gewässerstrukturgütekartierung - Laborpraktikum Physische Geographie (laboratory practice physical geography) / - Floodmapping (Flutkartierung) Module 9: Regionale Geographie I (Regional geography I) Field trip (1 or 3 days) Field trips in the region/ y Module 10: Regionale Geographie II Lecture Regional geography of (Regional Geography II) South-East Asia Field trip Field trips to different (7 days) locations (see list below) or or Module 10: Field trips offered this semester - Brüssel EU-Integration (Brussels EU-Integration) / / - Schweden (Sweden) - Exkursion Mittelgebirge (fied trip average mountain) / - Nord-Marokko (north morocco) - Engadin - vom natürlichen Prozess zur Naturgefahr (Engadin from a natural process to a natural hazard) 4 days 4 Written exam 2 7 7 days - Hellenistische Städte in Kleinasien (hellenistical cities in Asia Minor) - Hamburg 4
- Niederlande (Netherlands) - Mittlere Exkursion Berlin- Brandenburg oder Großraum Nürnberg Module 11: Studienprojekt (Research project) Lecture Introduction to regional planning Project seminar Module 11: Project seminars offered this semester - Konsumgeographie und Ernährung (consumption geography and nuitrition) or or some cases) - Ableitung von urbanen Planungsparametern aus Fernerkundungsdaten (deduction of urban planinng-parameters with remote sensing) - Dendro-Ecology (Dendroökologie) Module 12: Geography as an occupational field (Geographie als Berufsfeld) Module 13: Seminar bachelor thesis (Seminar zur Bachelorarbeit) Seminar or Research seminars on topics of physical and human geography, the project work is carried out in small groups (seminars offered this semester see list below) Job opportunities for geographers Seminar How to write a bachelor thesis No exam, attendance only Written report, presentation 2 2 2 10 Presentation 2 5 Presentation 2 2 5