- Semester duration: 4 April 2022 - 15 July 2022 (course duration may vary, compare course descriptions)
- Stated course times are listed in Central European Time (CET)
- All courses on offer are going to be in a virtual format
- Contact your international office for further instructions
Course Descriptions
Below you will find all available details on courses. Courses have been grouped per faculty.
Please note:
- Course hours are stated in CET (Central European Time: Paris, Berlin)
- Language of instruction is English (unless stated otherwise)
- Course participation does require solid English-competency (at least B2)
- Some courses are available for students from a closely related study field only or may require certain pre-knowledge
- Availability upon capacity - make sure to pick a second choice of course as well
- Courses are rewarded with 3, 6 or 9 ECTS - 1 ECTS equals a workload (pre- and post-course work included) of 30 hours
- Course formats. Lectures (rather passive student role), Seminars (active participation expected, group work, group discussions)
Courses on offer
And now: sports. Europeanization, post-colonialism, and globalization through the lens of modern sports
International Office
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History of modern sports is also a history of modern and contemporary Europe. Critical questions in terms of europeanization, post-colonialism as well as globalization are closely linked to the invention, evolution, and establishment of what we nowadays call „sports“.So, this course covers modern and contemporary history of Europe in a global context, from the 18th century to the present. The approach is: learning by examples (e.g. football, tennis, olympics etc.) about the methodologies and sources of history in general, and about the history of sports in special. The overall course objective is to enable participants to independently break up and (re-)question apparently taken-for-granted perspectives, narratives, and contexts, especially with regard to issues of race, class, and gender.
Culture, Politics, and Education in context of Radical Democracy
Economic Principles and Regulation of European Energy Markets
International Office
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When governments regulate energy markets, they might have different goals in mind. They can aim at reducing market power in a monopoly in order to keep prices at a certain level, maintain security of supply of critical goods such as natural gas or, in light of climate change, incentivize firms and consumers to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. This course introduces the economic principles of energy markets in Europe and investigates the reasons and consequences of various forms of regulation. Students will learn how the European Union and individual member states interact in the regulatory process and understand the reasons for implemented policy measures.
European Art from the Renaissance to the Present
International Office
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This course is an introduction to visual art in Europe since the 14th century. While the course cannot provide a comprehensive summary of the development of art since that time, it focuses on a roughly chronological set of case studies, which will help us understand the character and purpose of art in different historical circumstances. We will take into account the cultural and political environment of the time and will pay particular attention to the places they were created in. The course will be held online. Hybrid sessions (face-to-face for those able to attend in person plus online for virtual students) as well as excursions to see art at museums are planned for those who are presently in Cologne. Active student participation is a central element of this course.
Gender and power in Africa
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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Lecturer: Dores Girao da Cruz
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Time/Date: Tues. 14:00 - 15:30
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Gender is a socially inclusive concept and refers to social constructs. It is variable, flexible, unlimited, and encompasses specific beliefs, attitudes, symbols, behavior and actions that define women and men, third genders, and non-normative sexualities. Debates and studies of African gender and sexuality have been extensively addressed by Western analytical tools and theoretical frameworks, particularly Western feminism and queer theories. This course explores gender and sexuality in sub-Saharan Africa. It critically examines Western conventional categories and approaches that emphasize African feminism and theories from the South. Insights into how variably masculinity and femininity are depicted in the cultures of sub-Saharan Africa are drawn primarily from the perspective of anthropology and historical anthropology, through the analysis of ethnography, films, novels and other types of material. Theoretically, the course raises the question of how African contexts challenge Western conventions of gender and sexuality. In particular, case studies will examine the effects of colonial heritage, women-centric development policies, homosexuality and transsexual practices, and the construction of masculinity and femininity, among others.
International Environmental Law
Faculty of Law
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The course deals with international environmental law. The historical development of international environmental law is systematically traced and illustrated by practical examples. The course is taught from a US perspective and uses US jurisdiction as a benchmark. In this way, the course complements the CUSL program. Students are required to write an essay at the end of the course.
Introduction into Theories of European Integration
International Office
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Lecturer: Thilo Zimmermann
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What is European integration? When did European integration start? How did people try to modelize and legitimate European integration? Where should Europe, according to these theories, lead to? This course provides an introduction into theories of European integration. We will analyse the origins and presumptions of the most important theories, such as federalism, neo-functionalism and liberal intergovernmentalism. The course will highlight the historic background on which these theories have been developed. Furthermore, it will be shown how theories of European integration combine theories of polical science and economics. It will be demonstarted that different presumtion of these theories do also lead to different understandings of what is the scope of European integration. Should Europe become a federal super state, or a loose economic confederation? Troughout the course students will also be invited to compare European integration to other processes of regional integration, such as in Latin America, the Arab world, in Africa (African Union), Asia (e.g. ASEAN) and especially the historical evolution of the United States political system. Finally, the course will give an outlook on current topics in European integration (such as Brexit or the consequences of the Corona pandemic), how do the different theories anayse these challenges?
Justice, inequality and discrimination (special EUniWell course offer)
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Course open to all Eduventure participants. Students from EUniWell partners particularly welcome.
Lexicology
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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In the first part of this course our main interest will be in philosophical questions about the nature of time, the identity of persons across time, and the conditions for free will. In the second part of this course our main interest will be in questions about the nature of human knowledge: what is knowledge, what are our sources of knowledge, and how–if at all–we can show that we have knowledge and deal with the problem of skepticism. Throughout the course there will be various introductory lectures on inductive and deductive logic.
Recent Issues in Epistemology
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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In the first part of this course our main interest will be in philosophical questions about the nature of time, the identity of persons across time, and the conditions for free will. In the second part of this course our main interest will be in questions about the nature of human knowledge: what is knowledge, what are our sources of knowledge, and how–if at all–we can show that we have knowledge and deal with the problem of skepticism. Throughout the course there will be various introductory lectures on inductive and deductive logic.
Triangulating Research Methods
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
US Legal Culture
Faculty of Law
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"In this [course], we address the audience of [students] for whom American culture is not the mother culture. It may well also provide some insights to the U.S. American student as well. The U.S. American student may find that this sort of approach helps one to hold the relationships of American law to American culture up to the light, rather than passively allowing the culture to rest as unexamined wallpaper in the background, or worse – as a static set of facts. The [course] is divided into what we call „reference frames“. Each reference frame is a way of seeing U.S. law as a set or responses to perceived problems, which can then be studied through a variety of frames, or lenses. Studying the law through the lenses of lawyer himself is only one way to do so, and when doing so, far too often we find that a student stops with only one, over-simplified distinction of common law from civil law in that the former is derived from judicial decisions and the latter is derived from statutes. Were it so simple, the exercise of comparison would hardly be worth considering, and would be a short, rather boring exercise of listing and juxtaposing sources of law. To understand the law is to understand the culture in which the law operates. In this [course], the non-U.S. student will have the opportunity to consider the various aspects of study which constitute the comportment by which the American lawyer approaches the law, and recognize that the process of study in the common law is not to memorize a list of norms [...]."
