Available Courses within the 'Studium Integrale'
These courses of the Cologne Global Study Program are available to Bachelor and Erasmus students of the University of Cologne within their 'Studium Integrale' during the winter semester 2020/2021. Each Course is for two hours a week and you will recieve 3ECTS. The teaching lesson will be english. All courses will be held in a digital format.
Registration: Request via email (cgsp@verw.uni-koeln.de) or during the Klips registration phases.
Economy and Society
European and Global Economic Cooperation and Development
Lecturer: Dr. Wulf Reiners
Course Nr.: 15304.000104
Date/Time: Mon, Nov 2 2020, 16:00-17:30 (weekly)
Location: virtual
The course provides an introduction to economic cooperation and its relationship with sustainable development in Europe and beyond. It concentrates on two main components. First, we will analyse the contemporary global architecture for economic cooperation and development and its main characteristics, including relevant actors, international organisations, treaties, and patterns in trade and development economics. Second, we will examine the European Union as an example of regional economic integration, its internal market, the framework for economic coordination and its external economic relations. The course will take up topical economic and political processes such as the United Nation’s 2030 agenda for sustainable development, China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the EU’s trade and economic partnership agreements. In this way, the course seeks to contribute to the understanding how economic cooperation and development are interconnected with environmental and social questions.
Philosophy of Inclusion and Community Building
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frank Schulz-Nieswandt
Course Nr.: 15304.0108
Date/Time: Mon, Nov 2 2020, 17:45-19:15h (weekly)
Location: virtual
Inclusion does not happen overnight. We can not understand inclusion as if we switch on and off the light. Beyond legal frameworks and economic incentives as important preconditions to generate social change by Pareto-optimal solutions in allocation, successful inclusion is a process of social change understood as cultural transformation.
Inclusion as metamorphosis (Gestalt-switch) of the collective agreement about the question of a good life needs time but during this time-span, society has to organize social learning processes that transform the psychodynamics of individuals and the cultural grammar of exclusion.
This broad problem has to be located in the legal context of the EU and the UN, connected with the national legal regime development in the structure of multi-level-system with final results on the local level.
Politics and Law
The Dynamic Institutional Architecture of the EU Political System
Lecturer: Dr. Oliver Höing
Course Nr.: 15304.0101
Date/Time: Wed, Nov 4 2020, 17.45-19:15h (weekly)
Location: virtual
This course is designed as an introduction to the institutional architecture of the European Union. It will critically assess the democratic legitimacy of the EU system with a focus on its major decision-making bodies
Further information will follow soon.
Introduction to European Legal Tradition and European Union Law
Lecturer: Rada Popova
Course Nr: 15304.00102
Date/Time: Wed, 4 Nov 2020, 14:00 - 15:30h (weekly)
Location: virtual
In its first part, by outlining the relevant historical background, this course will introduce the genesis of the European legal tradition. In its second part, the institutional basis, the structure and the basic principles of European Union law will be presented. On the basis of case studies on milestone jurisprudence of the ECJ, the role of European Union Law for Member States will be explained.
• The genesis of modern European legal systems: historical and economic factors
• The main elements of Roman Law, the Germanic legal tradition and English (common) law and their influence on the European legal tradition
• Overview on the system of European Union Law: history, structure, organs institutions and principles
• The sources and hierarchy of European Union Law
• The role of European Union law for the legal systems in Member States: case studies of milestone judicial decisions of the European Court of Justice
Culture and History
Germany from Division to Unification (1945-1990)
Lecturer: Dr. Johannes Müller
Course Nr.: 15304.0106
Date/Time: Mon, 2 Nov 2020, 14:00-15:30h (weekly)
Location: virtual
Germany’s history in the second half of the 20th century was overshadowed by the disastrous outcome of World War II, both with regard to domestic policies and international affairs. The atrocities committed by Nazi-Germany left a monstrous legacy for generations of Germans to deal with. The aftermath of the defeat of the German Army by a discordant alliance set the scene for the division of Europe and the rise of the Cold War. Germany’s own trajectory from division to unification, with a history split into a Western and an Eastern narrative (still today difficult to merge into a common perspective), is as peculiar as it is emblematic for the history of Europe in this epoch.
This introductory course, taught in English, attempts to approach German history from the outside. The course is based on a broad selection of original texts and sources as provided by the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. (http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/home.cfm?language=english) and will rely predominantly on international studies (in English). German students are very welcome, if they are ready to take on an external point of view; international students are invited to bring in their own perspective on German history based on studies/monographs from their home countries
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The Holocaust and European’s culture of Remembrance in Global Contexts - Sugihara Chiune – between „Persona non grata“ and Japan’s Schindler.
Lecturer: Benjamin Naujoks
Course Nr.: 15304.0105
Date/Time: Tue, 3 Nov 2020, 10:00 - 11:30h
Location: virtual
The course deals with the person and biography of Sugihara Chiune, also called „Sempo“. Sempo’s life and biography include an almost global perspective: a Japanese diplomat, in service in Lithuania during WWII, and Righteous Among the Nations. In this course the focus will therefore be on the following: an introduction to European history before and during WWII (macro perspective), illustrated by exemplary biographical stations of Sempo (micro perspective). The connecting link is Lithuania: besides Lithuania, Eastern and Central Europe as an important region is taken into consideration, and within in the case of Lithuania, one of the decisive starting points for the Shoa/ Holocaust (cf. C. Dieckmann), the course will concretely ask about places, people and memories. Sempo’s biography functions at the same time as a „view from outside“ as well as a bridge into a global perspective. The overall aim of the course is to gain basic knowledge about key developments of the European history by using digitally prepared materials, which are then deepened in teamwork in video conferences and finally enable the participants to perform an independent transfer of learning.
Recommend for introduction Jonathan Safran Foer: „Everything is Illuminated“, a popular key to the topic „Holocaust and memory“ - Book, 2002 - Film, USA, 2005 Film: Persona non grata, JPN, 2015. Biographical drama about Chiune Sugihara. Book: Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands, 2010. https://www.yadvashem.org - „The World Holocaust Remembrance Center“ http://www.holocaustatlas.lt/EN/ - Atlas about the Holocaust’s sites in Lithuania
Intercultural Issues in Academia
Lecturer: Judith Berns
Course Nr: 15304.0107
Time: Tue, 3 Nov 2020, 14:00-15:30h
Location: virtual
Credit Points: 3
Intercultural Competence meets Study Competence
Today´s world, in both, private as well as professional aspects, is characterized by fast changes, quick means of travel and instant communication. Physical distance has become less and less of an obstacle for interaction between people. COVID-19 was a push for digitalization and intensified digital communication across any kind of distance. Intercultural encounters, whether physical or digital, are very common, but the challenges that come along with that are often underestimated.
Universities are aiming to become more international and intercultural competence is considered a key skill to be expected by university graduates.
This course will not only provide knowledge, but more importantly help students to incorporate means to face intercultural challenges adequately in everyday life. A special focus will be put on academic challegenes.
Topics dealt with are (selection):
- What is culture and what is intercultural competence?
- Intercultural theories and models
- Working on real-life cases (critical intercultural incidents)
- Introduction to Communication
- Performing in classes
- Support on how to deliver requested performances (e.g. how to do a presenation)
- Proper teacher-student-/student-student-interaction
- Comparing participants´ home Universities