Current Courses

Current Courses

Berta Martín-López

Introduction to Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions

Colloquium Social-ecological system research

Das Kolloquium wird inhaltlich verschiedene Methoden, Ansätze und Ergebnisse sozial-ökologischer Forschung behandeln und unterschiedliche Formate anbieten: Studierende präsentieren ihre Forschungsvorhaben und/ oder Ergebnisse, die dann mit den Betreuuenden und anderen Forschern diskutiert werden können

Ziel: Ziel der Veranstaltung ist ein Austausch zwischen den Forschenden und Promovierenden, aber auch eine Präsentation des Promotionsvorhabens und eine Reflexion über die Fortschritte der Promotion

Environmental Sciences - an Introduction

First part: key scientific background necessary to work in environmental sciences; second part: social-science components of environmental sciences, including value systems and governance.

Ziel: Despite disciplinary boundaries: introduction to environmental sciences including two different perspectives, the natural and the social sciences. In this introductory course we combine basic knowledge in environmental sciences with knowledge of relevance to application to major challenges of our time. This will prepare the way for making cross-cutting connections between the different modules of the environmental science major in later semesters of the bachelor degree.

Environmental Sciences - an Introduction. Humanities seminar A (for GESS)

The main content includes:

• Conceptualization of paradigms of value-systems with practical exercises

• Identification of relevant stakeholders and institutions for environmental decision-making

• The importance of social relationships in environmental governance

• Social conflicts and the role of deliberation

The knowledge in seminars is constructed through role-play teaching method that allows students to understand social-ecological dynamics and to assimilate the contents learned in lectures by facing realistic situations and environmental problems

Ziel: The seminar aims to get knowledge about social aspects that determine sustainability decisions, particularly value-systems, conflicts between social actors, and power relations.

Environmental Sciences - an Introduction. Humanities seminar. Group B (for UWI)

The main content includes:

• Conceptualization of paradigms of value-systems with practical exercises

• Identification of relevant stakeholders and institutions for environmental decision-making

• The importance of social relationships in environmental governance

• Social conflicts and the role of deliberation

The knowledge in seminars is constructed through role-play teaching method that allows students to understand social-ecological dynamics and to assimilate the contents learned in lectures by facing realistic situations and environmental problems

Ziel: The seminar aims to get knowledge about social aspects that determine sustainability decisions, particularly value-systems, conflicts between social actors, and power relations.

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Dr. Aymara Victoria Llanque Zonta

"When we stand up, they have to negotiate with us" - South-North North-South proposals from local to global sustainable changes

The course proposes to reflect on participation and contributions for sustainability transformation from the perspective of knowledge generation. We will focus on sustainability from the point through lectures and workshop style methodology; for an understanding of political participation of social movements. We will emphasize in social learning and the adoption of a transdisciplinary approach to the interface between science, policy and practice. The inspiration will be local proposals to global changes, mainly examples of South-North North, and their pragmatic responsible towards sustainability.

There are 2 threads under which sessions will be organized in the seminar:

1. Interface of Science, Policy and Practice, resonance with social movements from North and South.

2. Understanding meta topics- transformative, transgressive and transdisciplinary learning.

Ziel: It is expected that at the end of the seminar, we have:

1) Develop broader understanding of the concept of sustainable development

Environmental Sciences - an Introduction. Humanities seminar C (for UWI and GESS)

The main content includes:

• Conceptualization of paradigms of value-systems with practical exercises

• Identification of relevant stakeholders and institutions for environmental decision-making

• The importance of social relationships in environmental governance

• Social conflicts and the role of deliberation

The knowledge in seminars is constructed through role-play teaching method that allows students to understand social-ecological dynamics and to assimilate the contents learned in lectures by facing realistic situations and environmental problems

Ziel: The seminar aims to get knowledge about social aspects that determine sustainability decisions, particularly value-systems, conflicts between social actors, and power relations.

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M.Sc. Milena Groß

Ecological restoration for sustainability - second module

With the increasing human pressure on ecosystems and cultural landscapes, one of the main challenges is to design and develop ecological restoration that supports the preservation of biodiversity, ecosystem services and livelihoods security. A central theme here is to integrate the ecological dimension with the socio-cultural dimension in order to create sustainable landscapes and equitable societies. Therefore, restoration does not only focus on ecological functions and biodiversity, but also on human communities, their knowledge and values. Indeed, restoration requires of society as agents of sustainable transformations.

During the seminar in the second module we will examine how we can restore nature, how we can engage different social actors and how we can measure the impacts of restoration strategies on human wellbeing and biodiversity.

Ziel: Upon completion of this module, students should be able to:

1. Get knowledge about basic ecological and social methods for implementing restoration practices;

2. Be familiar with the restoration project in a traditional orchard

3. Identify relevant research questions and design a methodological approach to answer them

Students will also get competencies on:

1. Ability to systematically research information

2. Ability to work in interdisciplinary teams

3. Ability to communicate in writing and oral formats.

Current Courses