Universität zu Köln International

Lecturer: Dr. Wulf Reiners

Course Nr.: 15304.0151

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Lecturer: Dr. Anan Alsneik Haidar

Course Nr.: 15304.0150

Date/Time: Mon

Location: S34

The module is intended to introduce the students to the permanent judicial organ established by the European Convention on Human Rights: the European Court of Human Rights. After providing a historical background on the Council of Europe and the European Convention of Human Rights in relation to the Court, the module focuses on the Court’s structure, jurisdiction, and the conduct of proceedings, providing an understanding of key doctrinal concepts that are adopted by the Court. It also considers a selection of the most important cases the Court has dealt with and which impact positively the development of international human rights law.

Lecturer: Dr. Johannes Müller

Course Nr.: 15304.0152

Date/Time: Wed, 16:00-17:30h

Location: S34

Historiography tends to focus its objects like through an optical device: From bird’s eye view World History and panoramic European History, to macroscopic National History, to microscopic Local History. However, these levels are, of course, interconnected and overlapping. 
In this course we will look at the historical trajectory of Cologne from the rise of National Socialism and Adolf Hitler to the End of the Millennium within the troublesome History of Europe from the Second World War throughout the Cold War period until the elusive “end of history” at the turn of the millennia. We will ask how the local events and experiences reflect Europe-wide or even global historical processes, in which ways they are interconnected with overarching transnational trends, and if and how they are comparable or contrasting to contemporary developments in urban centers elsewhere in Europe. In doing so, we will recreate the history of Cologne from a Prussian Centre in Weimar Germany’s “far West” to the Federal Republic’s fourth biggest City and Rhineland metropolis in reunified Germany. But at the same time, we will identify the European legacy within this development and outline the specific “Rhenish” variant of the European Identity in Cologne. 
As we will try to argue during this course: European Identity – as any identity in historical perspective – is polymorphic and a result of local, regional, national and transnational experiences. But it relates to a core of common historical references, common developments and trends, of which the particular local historical mix is one possible combination. Some European Identities are more spicy than others, some are less contoured than others. 
Let’s see, what defines the European Identity of Cologne during the 20th century, or as Eric Hobsbawm put it, during the “Age of Extremes”.

Reading Recommendations:
Eric J. Hobsbawm: The Age of Empire (1975-1914), London (1962/1975), London 1988
Konrad Jarausch: Out of Ashes. A new History of Europe in the Twentieth Century, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, 2015
Carl Dietmar/Werner Jung: Köln. Die große Stadtgeschichte, Essen, 2015
Horst Matzerath: Köln in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus.  Geschichte der Stadt Köln Bd. 12, Greven, Köln, 2009
Werner Schäfke: Köln nach 1945. Die Geschichte unserer Gegenwart, Regionalia, Köln, 2017
 

All core courses listed under Basic Module 1 may be chosen as an elective course as well (granted that three BM1 courses have been selected as BM1 core courses).

The offers of the Department for German as a Foreign Language may be counted towards the Elective Module, if the requirements for the Basic Module 2 have been fulfilled already. 

Semester German course (9CP)

Complementary German courses (3CP, depending upon availability)