Studies
Study programmes
Our chair offers courses in selected areas of human geography for a variety of Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes:
Bachelor
- Business Administration
- Economics
- Primary school teaching degree, subject: science
- Civil Engineering
Master's degree
- Technical Logistics
- Markets and Business
- Cultural Economics
- Business Administration (M.Sc.) - specialising in Sustainability Management and Reporting
- Sustainable Innopreneurship
- Socioeconomics
- International Relations and Development Policy
- Globalisation and Migration
- Primary school teaching degree, subject: science
In addition, we are integrated into the degree programmes of the Ruhr University Bochum with selected courses as part of the cooperation in the Ruhr University Alliance:
- Bachelor Geography
- Master Geography, specialising in urban and regional development
Teaching formats
As part of our teaching, we offer various teaching formats with different didactic concepts:
- Lectures
- seminars
- project studies
- excursions
Teaching programme in human geography
Our range of courses is designed to be both introductory in the sense of basic courses as well as in-depth in the context of the Master's degree programmes and research-oriented. Examples of regularly offered courses are
- Geography - an introduction to perspectives and concepts
- Fundamentals of economic geography
- Spatial systems and locations of economic activities
- World economic geography
- Transport economics and policy - geography of logistics and transport
- Transport and sustainability - perspectives of transport geography
- Europe - geographical perspectives of a continent
Excursions
Excursions are one of the most interesting - and popular - components of our course programme. On our multi-day excursions, a geographical area at a greater distance from the university is observed and analysed "on site". The theoretical content from the degree programme becomes tangible in the real space or terrain, where it is addressed, discussed and evaluated. An important part of excursions is also the exchange with local stakeholders from science, administration, business and society.
The destinations of the major excursions we have organised in recent years have included
- Capital city Berlin
- Hamburg with Lower Elbe: urban and economic area in transition
- Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava - Danube capitals in comparison
- Mallorca - spatial characterisation through tourism
- Armenia and Georgia: countries in transition in the Caucasus
- Dubai and the United Arab Emirates: "From tomorrow to the day after tomorrow!" - Urban, economic and cultural transformation processes
- Northeast of the USA: the BosWash megalopolis