Courses offered in foreign languages
Winter Semester 2015/16
6
European University Viadrina
Courses offered in foreign languages
- Winter Semester 2015/16 (As of 04.09.2015)
Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences
Courses in English
Lecturer
Title
Type
ECTS
Level
Comments
Abay
Muslims in
Germany and
Europe: SocioAnthropological
Perspectives
Blockseminar
8/9
Bachelor
This course is a bloc seminar which
will be held on various dates. The
first session will be held on 22th
October 2015 from 10am till 2pm,
follow-up sessions are held then on
picked dates the weeks later. The
last session will be held in december.
All participants should attend the first
session. The number of participants
to this course is limited to 30
participants, therefore registration for
the course is demanded till 19th
October 2015. Registrations should
be send per mail to:
euv06447@europa-uni.de
First session: October 22, 2015, 10
am – 2 pm, HG 217.
Following sessions: October 29 (HG
217); November 12 (HG 104);
November 26 (AM
204); December 10 (AM 204),
always 10 am – 4 pm
Aleksandrowicz
/ Vogel
Facing Future
Anticipation,
Prediction,
Planning…
Seminar
6/8/9
Bachelor
Prerequisites: good command of the
English language
Hoffmann
On the
Complementarity
of Strategies and
Tactics Agency
and Power
Revisited in Old
Terms
Blockseminar
6/8/9
Bachelor
JakubowskiJeshay
The Afterlife of
the Holocaust…
Seminar
6/8/9
Bachelor
Klípa
Global Migration
Blockseminar
6/8/9
Bachelor
Prerequisites: Continuous
attendance and taking charge of an
input-presentation of no more than
10 minutes.
First session: October 14, 2 pm –
3.30 pm
Following sessions: Oct 28, Nov 11,
Nov 25, Dec 9, Jan 6, Jan 20, Feb
03.
Exam type: Essays, a term-paper or
a BA-thesis can be submitted.
Prerequisites: Participation will be
allowed only after a personal talk
with the lecturer. For appointment
apply/contact: jsjj48@gmx.net.
Exam type: seminar paper
Prerequisites: A good command of
English.
Students are requested to attend to
classes in order to get graded. More
than 2 absences will automatically
lower your final grade after your point
total is calculated, unless you can
document that all the absences are
related to an illness and/or official
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Klípa
Ethnic Conflicts
in Central and
Eastern Europe
Blockseminar
6/8/9
Bachelor
Lewicki
Europeanization
Seminar
6/8/9
Bachelor
Picker
Urban
Anthropology of
Europe
Seminar
6/8/9
Bachelor
Szajbel-Keck
How Many Slavic
Languages Are
There? Tensions
between
typology and
politics
Seminar
6/8/9
Bachelor
Trofimov
Thinking
Prostitution
Seminar
6/8/9
Bachelor
university event. For each additional
absence your final grade will be
lowered by 1/3 (a B becomes a B-,
etc.).
Sessions: Oct 13, Oct 27, Nov 10,
Nov 24, Dec 8, Jan 5, Jan 19, Feb 2.
Exam type: Home essay (8 pp.): 30
%; Presentation (20 minutes): 30 %;
In-class test: 20 % ; Participation/
Engagement: 20 %
Prerequisites: A good command of
English.
Students are requested to attend to
classes in order to get graded. More
than 2 absences will automatically
lower your final grade after your point
total is calculated, unless you can
document that all the absences are
related to an illness and/or official
university event. For each additional
absence your final grade will be
lowered by 1/3 (a B becomes a B-,
etc.).
Sessions: Oct 14, Oct 28, Nov 11,
Nov 25, Dec 9, Jan 6, Jan 20, Feb 3.
Exam types: Home essay (8 pp.): 30
%; Presentation (20 minutes): 30 %;
In-class test: 20 % ; Participation/
Engagement: 20 %
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge on
theories of culture, interest in
postcolonial theory.
Exam types: abstracts, presentation,
essay/ Hausarbeit
If you intend to take the course,
please send a presentation email to
Dr Picker (Picker@europa-uni.de),
including your interests and
experiences, academic or not, that
motivate you to follow the course.
Please send your presentation email
by September 30th, 2015.
Exam types: Active participation, oral
presentation and term paper.
Knowledge of a Slavic language is
desired but not required.
The number of participants will be
restricted. You must register for a
class by sending an e-mail titled
“WS2015/16 Slavic Languages” to
szajbel@europa-uni.de before the
class starts. Include your name,
major and languages you know.
Exam types: Active participation, oral
presentation and term paper.
Prerequisite: active participation in
class.
2 extra sessions on Nov 11 and Dec
2 from 6 pm – 8 pm
Exam types: oral presentation, term
paper
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Vallentin
Doing
Ethnography
Seminar
6/8/9
Bachelor
Walter
Human Rights
and Global
Communication:
How the World
Wide Web
Shapes the
Struggle for
Human Rights
Blockseminar
6
Bachelor
Zobel
Introduction to
Party Politics
European
Radical Right
Parties in
Comparative
Perspective
Seminar
6
Bachelor
Minkenberg
Capitals
National Identity,
Urban Design
and the
Functioning of
Capitals in their
Seminar
6/8/9
Bachelor
Prerequisite: The condition for
participation in the seminar is the
disposition to collaborate with a
Writing Fellow. S/he will give you
constructive written feedback on the
two writing assignments during the
semester to help you improve the
structure and comprehensibility of
your text. Furthermore, they will meet
you twice for an individual writing
consultation.
The number of seminar participants
is restricted to 25 due to the
involvement of the Writing Fellows. If
you want to participate please
register at http://www.kuwi.europauni.de/de/lehrstuhl/sw/sw1/lehre/inde
x.html starting on the 1st of October
2015, 10 am.
Exam types: 6 ECTS: Writing a
position paper (4-5 pages) and a
mini-ethnography of about 10 pages,
short presentation of the fieldwork
project. 8 ECTS: Writing a position
paper (4-5 pages) and a miniethnography of about 15 pages,
short presentation of the fieldwork
project. 9 ECTS: Writing a position
paper (4-5 pages) and a miniethnography of about 18 pages,
short presentation of the fieldwork
project.
Prerequisite: Regular and active
participation, English.
Please register by sending an e-mail
to LWalter@europa-uni.de until
October 16, 2015.
Session dates: Nov 19+20: 10 am -6
pm; Nov 25-27: 2 pm - 6 pm.
Prerequisite: A good command of
English (passive and active) is
necessary to participate in this
seminar.
The seminar is an introduction to
party politics, with a special focus on
radical right parties in Europe. No
prior knowledge of party politics is
required, but students should be
willing to read assigned texts,
participate in class and comment on
the work of other students.
Exam type: Send questions on texts
and moderate discussion in one
session. In preparation for final
paper, hand in research question
and design during semester. Final
research paper.
Prerequisite: A good command of
English (passive and active) is
necessary to participate in this
seminar.
Exam type: Oral participation, incl.
student presentation with handout
9
Political Systems
(50%). Final research paper, incl.
outline during class (50%)
Kaluza
Media
Competence:
Production of
Audio Podcasts
Blockseminar
3/5/6
Bachelor
/ Master
Buchowski
Other Europe
Blockseminar
3/6/9
Master
Buchowski
Nationalism in
Europe
Blockseminar
3/6/9
Master
Fabiszak
Metaphor,
Memory,
Multimodality
Cognitive and
discourse
approach to
collective
memory
Blockseminar
3/6/9
Master
Please sign up for this course via
email: poststelle@martinkaluza.de
Sign up starts Monday, Oct. 26th
2015, 10 am. First come, first served.
Sessions: Nov 6, 27. and 28, 10 am
– 6 pm
Prerequisite: Good knowledge of
English
Thursdays, every two weeks, 1 pm –
5 pm, CP 152
Sessions: Oct 5, Oct 29, Nov 12,
Nov 26, Dec 10, Jan 7, Jan 21, Feb
4, Feb 18
Exam type: Active participation and
final essay
Prerequisite: Good knowledge of
English
Thursdays, every two weeks, 9 am –
1 pm, CP 20
Sessions: Oct 5, Oct 29, Nov 12,
Nov 26, Dec 10, Jan 7, Jan 21, Feb
4, Feb 18
Exam type: Active participation and
final essay
Prerequisite: Previous acquaintance
with conceptual metaphor theory
and/or memory studies maybe an
advantage, but is not required.
Please enroll in the course in the
period from 1 October (10am) to 11
October (6pm) online at
http://www.kuwi.europauni.de/de/lehrstuhl/sw/sw0/Linguistikan-der-Viadrina/index.html
Session dates: Nov 02, Nov 9, Nov
23, Nov 30
Exam types: 3 ECTS: reading (and
understanding) literature; active
participation in classroom discussion.
Performing in-class tasks (3 tasks).
Submitting them to Moodle.
6 ECTS: reading (and
understanding) literature; active
participation in classroom discussion.
Performing in-class tasks (3 tasks).
Submitting them to Moodle + group
project – oral presentation of a smallscale case study analyzing a
selected memorial practice
9 ECTS: reading (and
understanding) literature; active
participation in classroom discussion.
Performing in-class tasks (3 tasks).
Submitting them to Moodle +
individual project – oral presentation
of a small-scale case study analyzing
a selected memorial practice
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Hennig
Education policy
in the Context of
Cultural
Pluralization
Case studies in
comparison
Seminar
3/6/9
Master
Prerequisite: Very good command of
English (oral and written), curiosity
and ability to do research
independently and to work in groups.
The seminar has research character.
Students are required to elaborate
own case-studies with the help of
tutors and the teacher.
There will be a one-day symposium
at the end of the semester.
Exam type: Text presentation,
research proposal, final paper
Janczak
European
Borders and
Cross-Border
Cooperation in
Comparative
Perspective
Seminar
3/6/9
Master
Prerequisite: Fluent English
Exam type: Attendance, presentation
and seminar paper
Students who are interested in taking
this seminar need to register online
from Oct 1 (10 am) to Oct 11 (6 pm):
http://www.kuwi.europauni.de/de/lehrstuhl/sw/sw0/Linguistikan-der-Viadrina/index.html
Exam type: Regular attendance, own
empirical analyses, presentation of
results in class.
Language: English or German
depending on the preferences of the
class members.
For attaining certificates, students
must give an oral presentation in
class and submit two short essays.
The students will be supported by
Writing Fellows who feedback their
essays and help improving their
writing skills.
Please register via Moodle from Oct
15 – Nov 4. Session dates will be
announced.
Exam type: presentation, essay
Ladewig
Gesture and
Language – An
introduction
Seminar
3/6/9
Master
Neyer
States,
Sovereignty, and
International
Organisations
Seminar
3/6/9
Master
Poprawski
Reading Cultural
Policy Classics
Seminar
3/6
Master
Poprawski
Cultural
Entrepreneurship
Seminar
tba
Master
Tba
Sojka
Intercultural
Management
Seminar
3/6/9
Master
Please register via Moodle from Oct
1 – Oct 15.
Exam type: presentation, essay
Tyszka
Alternative
Theatre in
Contemporary
Multicultural
World
Master
Please register via Moodle from Oct
1 – Oct 15.
Session dates: Oct 15, Oct 16, Oct
22, Oct 23, Oct 29, Oct 30
Master
Prerequisite: All texts need to be
entirely read for the each session of
the seminar. Reading these texts
carefully before attending the
seminar is a vital prerequisite.
Please note that the seminar is
limited to a certain number of
students. Please send a short
abstract (150 words max.) stating
Vollmer
Irregular
Migration and
Border Regimes
Blockseminar
Seminar
3/6/9
3/6/9
11
Zaporowski
Beliefs and
Values.
An Intercultural
Approach
Blockseminar
3/6/9
Master
why you would like to participate in
this seminar:
bastian.vollmer@compas.ox.ac.uk.
Session dates: Jan 22+23 and Feb
5. Rooms: Feb 22.01. in
Stephansaal, Postgebäude, Jan 23
and Feb 5. in GD 102
Exam type: Participation in seminar
and presentation (3 ECTS), and
paper (9-12 pages for 6 ECTS; 20-25
pages for 9 ECTS) in English
Max. 25 participants. Please register
via Moodle (Oct 1- Oct 15). Session
dates: Fridays, Oct 16, Oct 23, Oct
30, Nov 6, Nov 13, Nov 20, Nov 27
Exam type: presentation or paper
(short or long) or oral exam
Courses in French
Lecturer
Title
Type
ECTS
Level
Offenstadt
Mémoires et
enjeux
politiques de la
Grande Guerre
en Europe, 1914
– 2014
Seminar
3/6/9
Master
Type
ECTS
Comments
Prerequisite: good knowledge of
French
Courses in Spanish
Lecturer
Title
Level
Jungbluth
Lengua-UsoVariedades
Seminar
3/6/9
Master
Streb
Plurilinguismo
na escola
Blockseminar
3/6/9
Master
Comments
If interested, please register online
from April 1, 10 am:
http://www.kuwi.europauni.de/de/lehrstuhl/sw/sw1/lehre/inde
x.html
Session dates: Oct 27, Nov 3, Nov
10, Nov 17, Nov 24, Dec 1, Dec 12,
Dec 19, Jan 26, Feb 2.
Dec 1: Session will be held from 2
pm – 6 pm!
Prerequisite: Knowledge of
Portuguese and English (Literature).
If interested, please register online
from Oct 1, 10 am:
http://www.kuwi.europauni.de/de/lehrstuhl/sw/sw1/lehre/inde
x.html
First session: Oct 28, 11 am – 1 pm.
Other sessions will then be
announced.
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Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
Courses in English
Lecturer
Title
Type
ECTS
Level
Deutschmann
International
Management
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Bachelor
Pedley
Marketing
Lecture +
presentation
6
Bachelor
Wüstemann
Financial
Accounting
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Bachelor
Geishecker
Mathematics
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Bachelor
Keiber
Finance &
Investments
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Bachelor
Stadtmann
Macroeconomic
s
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Bachelor
Koberstein
Business
Informatics
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Bachelor
Elschner
Business
Taxation
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Bachelor
Geishecker
Globalisation
and the
European
Labour Market
Lecture +
Blockseminar
6
Bachelor
Becker
The Economics
of European
Integration
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Bachelor
Comments
Prerequisites: IBA-BachelorStudents and Foreign Exchange
Students ONLY!
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required.
Prerequisites: IBA-BachelorStudents and Foreign Exchange
Students ONLY!
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required.
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required.
Prerequisites: IBA-BachelorStudents and Foreign Exchange
Students ONLY!
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required.
Prerequisites: IBA-BachelorStudents and Foreign Exchange
Students ONLY!
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required.
Prerequisites: IBA-BachelorStudents and Foreign Exchange
Students ONLY!
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required.
Prerequisites: IBA-BachelorStudents and Foreign Exchange
Students ONLY!
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required.
Prerequisites: IBA-BachelorStudents and Foreign Exchange
Students ONLY!
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required.
Prerequisites: from 4th semester on.
For details regarding the concrete
and binding registration for a specific
seminar topic see announcements
on Moodle and website.
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required.
Prerequisites: from 4th
semester on. Fundamentals
of Micro- and
Macroeconomics.
Registration in Moodle
Viadrina required.
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Prerequisites: The students should
be able to analyze macroeconomic
shocks in the IS-LM-model and the
AS-AD-model in a verbal,
graphical, and formal way. The
students should be able to apply
mathematical concepts such as the
differential and Cramer's rule.
Furthermore, the students should
have some background in statistics
and should be able to construct
and interpret confidence intervals,
hypotheses tests and univariate
regressions.
Grundlagenausbildung should be
completed.
This course serves as a prerequisite
for the course Applied FX-Trading.
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required.
Prerequisites: You need to register
for this course in Moodle. Please
contact the chair for more
information. Grundlagenausbildung
should be completed.
Prerequisites: Successful
completion of Mathematics,
Microeconomics, Statistics.
Grundlagenausbildung should be
completed.
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required.
Prerequisites: The course is
restricted to 24 students.
Preference will be given to
motivated students who have
already attended one of our
classes successfully. Please apply
via email until 1st October 2015 to
pewoma@europa-uni.de, stating
which of our courses you have
already attended, which grade you
achieved and why you are
particularly interested in this
course.
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required.
Prerequisites: Sound knowledge of
IFRS. The number of participants is
limited to 24. Please send an email
until Oct 19 including your current
grade overview to
accounting@europa-uni.de.
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required.
Stadtmann
International
Monetary
Economics
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Bachelor
Stawnicza
Project
Management
Lecture +
exercises
6
Bachelor
Geishecker
Labour
Economics: A
European
Perspective
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Bachelor
Costas
Business, Ethics
and
Responsibility
(R-Module)
Seminar
6
Master
Beyhs
Case study
seminar:
Enforcement of
IFRS Financial
Reporting (RModule)
Lectures
6
Master
Kämmerer
Marketing
Communication
Seminar
6
Master
Registration in Moodle
Viadrina required.
Keiber
Microeconomics
of Financial
Markets (RModule)
Seminar
6
Master
Prerequisites: Participation in the
track module "Microeconomics of
Financial Markets"
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Strauß
Narrating the
Entrepreneurial
Self: Images,
Stories and
Identity
Seminar
6
Master
tba
Schmid /
Dmytriv
Statistical
Process Control
Seminar
tba
Master
see Chair's website
Simon
The Law and
Economics of
European
Competition
Policy
Seminar
6
Master
Koberstein
Decision
Support under
Uncertainty
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Master
Schmid
Econometrics of
Financial
Markets
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Master
As a prerequisite you need
knowledge in microeconomics, math
and statistics (Bachelor level). The
seminar can be chosen by IBAMaster and MES-Master students.
The overall capacity is limited to 16
students. We expect that students
register until October 13th to
Tselauri@europa-uni.de.
Check
https://www.wiwi.europauni.de/de/studium/modulan
gebot/wise1516/masteriba/index.html
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required.
Prerequisites: Fundamentals of
Microeconomics, Statistics,
Mathematics and Capital Market
Theory.
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required.
Prerequisites: Fundamentals of
Mathematics
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required
Prerequisites: Successful
completion of module Production
& Operations Management would
be an advantage. Registration in
Moodle Viadrina required.
tba
For updates, please check:
https://www.wiwi.europauni.de/de/studium/modulangebot/
wise1516/master-iba/index.html
Keiber
Microeconomics
of Financial
Markets
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Master
Okhrin
Operations
Research
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Master
Okhrin
Service
Operations
Management
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Master
Husmann /
Koberstein
Computerbased Portfolio
Optimization
Seminar /
Project
tba
Master
Costas
Culture,
Leadership and
Diversity
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Master
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required
Elschner
International
Business
Taxation
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Master
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of
business taxation. Number of
participants limited to 20. Please
check Chair’s announcements.
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required
Hein / Vogel
Supply Chain
Management &
Logistics
Lecture +
tutorial
6
Master
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required
15
Courses in English and German
Lecturer
Pajak
Title
Google Online
Marketing
Challenge (RModul)
Type
Seminar
ECTS
6
Level
Comments
Master
The number of participants is
limited to max. 25. Your application
and a copy of your current grade
overview as well as a short
statement (max. 300 words) have
to be sent to pajak@europa-uni.de.
Course will be held in German,
English.
Registration in Moodle Viadrina
required.
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Faculty of Law : Staatsexamen / Bachelor / Master
Courses in English
Lecturer
Title
Type
ECTS
Bland
English for Law 1
Language
Course
8
Heintschel von
Heinegg
Current Issues of Public
International Law
Lecture
4, 3
Bland
Current Legal Affairs in Englisch
(and American) Law (Oberstufe)
Language
Course
4
Bland
English for Law 2 (Angebot im
Rahmen des UNIcert III)
Language
Course
8
Black
Englisch für Juristen im
Schwerpunkt Fallrecht
Language
Course
12, 3
Kocher
Seminar "European Labour Law Europäischer Rechtsvergleich im
Arbeitsrecht"
Blockseminar +
Excursion
Rowe
Introduction to the Common Law
- Part I
Lecture
Registration until Oct 30.
Limited number of
participants. From April 5 –
April 8, the seminar will
take place in Strasbourg!
4, 3
Courses in Polish
Lecturer
Title
Type
ECTS
Szwarc
Polnisches Strafrecht I
Lecture
6, 7
Dlugosz
Polnisches Strafprozessrecht
(Konversatorium)
Lecture
2
Lisson
Polnisches Verwaltungsrecht
Lecture
4
17
Kozlowski
Polnisches Zivilprozessrecht
(Konversatorium)
Lecture
2
MaterniakPawlowska
Geschichte des polnischen
öffentlichen Rechts im
europäischen Kontext
Lecture
3
Kordela
Einführung in die
Rechtswissenschaft
Lecture
2
Kola
Polnisches Verwaltungsrecht
(Konversatorium)
Lecture
2, 3
Kepinski
Polnisches Zivilrecht I: Allgemeiner
Teil
Lecture
6, 7
Moskwa
Polnisches Gesellschaftsrecht
Lecture
3
MaterniakPawlowska
Justizorgane in Polen vom X. bis
zum XX. Jahrhundert
Lecture
4, 3
German for Lawyers
Lecturer
Title
Type
ECTS
Lütjen
Juristische Fachsprache Deutsch
Language
Course
1
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