Wintersemester 2010/2011

Wintersemester 2010/2011

 

Course catalogue WS 2010/2011
for the study courses at the Institute for European Urban Studies

(version 18.10.2010)

Lectures:

Dr.-Ing. Harald Kegler
wo 2 V        Urban Design        3 Credits

Urban Conversion – History, Strategies, Concepts, Projects (Germany, Europe, USA)
Urban Conversion (Redevelopment) is a response to social, functional and technical, but also ecological change.
What lies behind the term “Urban Conversion” in theory and practice? There are three large-scale fields of action intended: firstly, the conversion of the city-centre, also known as ‘rejuvenation’; secondly, the redevelopment of areas that are not being used and have become wasteland (traditionally known as conversion like brown- or greyfields); thirdly, the redevelopment of large-scale monofunctional housing estates (slaburbs) which was formally known as ‘adjustment’. There are different historical dimensions and strategies behind these types of urban conversion.
This new type of city-development could be characterized as the “Third phase of the European Urban Renewal”. The successful European Year of the Preservation of Monuments in 1975 marked the high-point of the radical change of the leitmotif.
The importance of strategies, cult events, cult locations, cult plans and projects and the ‘prophets’ of the urban conversion is a mean point in the understanding of the new era of the city development.
Today there could be considered: there are new subjects – the redevelopment of the urban region and the “resilient city” as a reaction of the climate change issue.

Language: English
Time: Thursday, 17:00 – 18:30
Location: IfEU, Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 2, Red Hall
Start: October 28, 2010
Registration: during first lecture


Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Dieter Hassenpflug
wo 2 V        Urban Sociology        3 Credits

The European City in History "farewell lecture"
The lecture offers an insight into the social and cultural history of the European city from its beginning until today. Emphasis will be put on basic categories of social history and urban sociology, urban typology of traditional and modern society, the big transformation (Renaissance and Absolutism), the capital city, the modern big city (metropolis, mega city, world city), big city enmity, big city alternatives (garden city, machine-city), liberal and Fordistic city, the city in our time.
The lecture gives an interdisciplinary approach. It provides a broad understanding for the social and cultural implications of urban, urbanised and even rural space to all future experts for urban space. It aims at improving the competence of socio-spatial reflection of architects, urban designers, urban planners etc. and thus contributes to a “dialogical” understanding or urban design and construction.

Language: English
Time: Monday, 17:00 - 18:30
Location: Marienstraße 13, Lecture Hall D
Start: October 11, 2010
Registration: during the first lecture


Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt
wo 2 V        Urban Sociology        3 Credits

Research in Urban Studies
This lecture will provide a general overview about principles in urban research. It will cover subjects related to the theory of science, the logics and paradigms of research, different procedures of research, methodological discourses and ethics of research. The lecture will be organized by firstly providing a lecture in a traditional style and secondly with practical exercises. This course requires compulsory reading and writing between the meeting dates and will thus be organized only every two weeks.

Language: English
Directed at: Urban Heritage, IPP, MSc European Urban Studies, MA Urbanistik, MA Advanced Urbanism, MA Architecture
Time: Wednesday, fortnightly, 09:15 - 12:30
Location: Marienstr. 13, Lecture Hall C
Start: November 03, 2010; next dates Nov 17, Dec 8, Jan 12, 2011, Jan 26, Feb 9
Registration: before October 15 at Sieglinde.Meinberg@uni-weimar.de


Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Nentwig
wo 2 V        Project Development        3 Credits

Basics and Methods of Real Estate Project Development
This lecture focusses main topics of real estate and urban development, analysis trends of the real estate market, economic calculation in phases of the development. Additional to this course the participants have to take part in the course „Real Estate Development“

Language: English
Time: Wednesday, 17:00 - 18:30
Location: IfEU, Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 2, Yellow Hall
Start: October 20, 2010
Registration: during the first lecture


Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt
wo 2 V        Spatial Planning        3 Credits

Media, Urban Context and Social Practices

Today, media create opportunities for diverse forms of connections between people and spaces, enabling and forming flows of information. New digital places for information and communication emerge, and the context of existing spaces is transformed by the joint impact of media and architecture, thus leading to new forms of social and cultural practices. The public sphere, the communication in ubiquitous networks, and the interaction with digital content will be a thematic focus. The conference addresses different approaches and methods of research. It will consist of three sessions and a workshop, exploring these themes in a focused way.

This lecture is partly integrated into the MEDIACITY 2010 MediaArchitecture, Urban Context and Social Practices 3rd international conference on the interaction of architecture, media and social phenomena Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, 29 to 31 October 2010

A preparatory and obligatory meeting will take place on 29.10.2010.

Language: English
Time: Block course, October 29 – 31, 2010; preparatory meeting on October 29, 2010
09:15 - 19:00
Location: Audimax, Steubenstraße 6
Registration: at the professorship "Urban Studies and Social Research", Belvederer Allee 4


Prof. Dr. Hans-Rudolf Meier
Theresa Dietl, M.Sc.

wo 2 V        Urban Preservation        3 Credits

Lecture Series: Urban Heritage – Exploring Meanings, Definitions and Case Studies
To date, no clear definition of Urban Heritage exists. Broadly, it incorporates not only physical historic preservation practices of the built environment, but increasingly is also understood to encompass political, sociological and economical aspects of urban development.
Through a combination of lectures by professors at the Institute for European Urban Studies and guest lecturers, as well as students from the Urban Heritage doctoral programme at Bauhaus-Universität, this lecture series unpacks the numerous meanings, understandings and practices inherent in the field of Urban Heritage.
The lectures provide a framework in which participants can critically reflect on the questions: What is Urban Heritage? What does Urban Heritage mean for different disciplines and actors (urban politicians, sociologists, historians, planners, preservationists, architects etc.)? And how has the approach to heritage changed in political and urban policies over the last decades?

Language: English
Time: Tuesday, 17:00 - 18:30
Location: Marienstr. 13, Lecture Hall B
Start: October 12, 2010
Registration: during the first lecture



Seminare/Seminars:

Jerzy Elzanowski, M.Arch.
wo 2 S        Urban Design        3 Credits

WarSaw ReConstructed. Witnessing war and culture in the post-catastrophic city

This course will analyze the conflicting ideologies of reconstruction in Warsaw, Poland.  In 1945, Warsaw became an international symbol of the total destruction of both human and urban fabric. During the next decades the city heaved under a superhuman reconstruction effort that catapulted it from an international symbol of total annihilation to a symbol of total reconstruction. Students will be introduced to a political and cultural reading of the post-catastrophic city and its architecture. In a series of lectures focussed on Warsaw’s reconstruction and its resulting memorial landscape, students will be challenged to read the city.
The aim of this course is to find creative and exciting ways to interact with the city’s post-catastrophic landscape. In a local twist, students will be inspired to critically probe Weimar’s complicated relationship to its wartime and postwar history through studying the conflicts inherent to Warsaw’s memorial landscape. Students will then participate in a short design project culminating in a public art installation or happening in Weimar. 
Participants will be periodically asked to write short reflections on their work, which will then be posted as blog entries on the Urban Heritage website. Class discussions on the structure and style of academic writing in English will help international students to enhance their critical writing skills. The final requirement will be a short critical essay in English (3000 – 3500 words), comparing and contrasting issues confronted in Weimar and Warsaw. 
Students participating in this course need not have specialized knowledge in the field, but must have an intense connection to detail in the built environment and an interest in the relationships between history, politics, culture and architecture. Students must have advanced knowledge of English. 
In order to create continuity, this course is envisioned as an intensive block seminar including excursions and workshops from invited guests.

A voluntary (self-financed) excursion to Warsaw is strongly recommended, but is not obligatory. Students should state in their registration email if they are willing to participate.

Further information and registration by e-mail: jerzy.marek.elzanowski@uni-weimar.de

Language: English
Time: Block course
Location: IfEU, Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 2, Room 107
Start: October 26 (13:30 - 16:30) (introductory lectures)
Further dates: November 4 (13:30 - 16:45) (lectures on Warsaw)
November 5-7: excursion (including 3 blocks in Warsaw if most students attend)
November 11 (13:30 - 16:45)
Nov 12: 1 or 3 blocks depending on Warsaw attendance - (9:00 - 12:15 and 13:30 - 15:00)
Nov 13: 3 blocks (9:00 - 12:15 and 17:00 - 18:30) (full day design studio; morning lecture, evening progress report)
Nov 14: 3 b locks (9:00 - 10:30 and 15:15 - 18:30) (full day design studio; morning progress, evening critique)
Registration: October 11, 2010, IfEU, Room 104



Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Philippe Schmidt M.Sc.
o 2 S        Urban Design   3 Credits

From EXPO to EXPO. Vom Pavillon zur Stadt.
This seminar focuses on an array of questions that will be analysed through the group while finding points of interferences between the EXPO as a global event and Shanghai as a global city. As the cultural gap is surely not as easy to understand and to bridge in its full dimension, our visit therefore asks for a rather individual perception and detailed observation about single aspects, that we find in the realm of the temporary architecture of the world exhibition, a macrocosm by itself, but at the same time in situations outside the exhibition, within everyday urbanism. Our interest is spanned from the traveller’s observation of the ephemeral architecture and “temporary city” to the discovery of specific local factors and the overarching topic of a “Better City, Better Life”, the world’s fair’s slogan and how it is represented within that realm.

The topics will be discussed in a joint workshop with Chinese colleagues and students of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji-University. Participation in the excursion to Shanghai is required, credits will be given on a written and illustrated contribution as part of a documentation. Supportive material is provided in the library’s semester apparatus "From Expo to Expo".

Supported by the DAAD from funds of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Language: English
Time: Workshop and study trip from October 14-25.
Block meetings.
Preparatory meeting: 09.10.2010, 9:00-11:30
Location: upon announcement
Start: October 14, 2010
Registration:
during first meeting


Katrin Kanus-Sieber, M.Sc.
wo 2 S        Urban Preservation        3 Credits

Gentrification versus Urban Heritage Preservation. Gentrification as a challenge to Urban Heritage and the issues of migration, displacement and the global society
"Nearly every field of study has, at its core, a fundamental essence that defines the very existence and survival of the field. For the study of gentrification, the issue of displacement constitutes this fundamental essence. Displacement, the forced disenfranchisement of poor and working class people from the spaces and places to which they have legitimate social and historical claims, is what constitutes and defines gentrification, with its remaking of space for the middle classes and elite." ( Lees/Slater/Wyly 2010: 317) This seminar asks, how gentrification processes interrelate with the decay, revitalization and renewal of historic urban districts.
Gentrification is an ongoing process in urban areas worldwide. Often it is associated with the change of character of whole existing quarters of the cities. How do these changes effect the Urban Heritage? The seminar approaches these questions in case studies chosen by the students.

Schedule:
After a short introduction, the first block will discuss the terms “gentrification” and “urban heritage”. The students are asked to group in couples and propose a city for their field study. The second block will discuss readings on gentrification. For the third block the students will prepare a 5min introduction on "their" city. Thereafter processes of gentrification within a historic district of the city are pointed out. The fourth block starts with a lecture on urban heritage and cultural rights, followed by a discussion. The students are asked to analyze the process of gentrification in “their” town, in preparation for the fifth block. The outcome of the analysis will then be discussed. The sixth block will try to pinpoint reasons for unwanted gentrification and discuss change and continuity in cities as well as gentrification in history. Different methods to further analyze the case studies will be proposed to the students. For the seventh block the students should test those methods and report their findings. The final session should find out, what the students learned through the process of their investigation and how this influenced their view on the towns and the practice in heritage preservation. In comparing the different towns the students are asked to point out differences and similarities. The students are asked to write a short report on their impression of "their" town. The presentations, regular attendance and the final report are requirements to complete the seminar.

Literature:
Leo Schmidt (author): "Architectural Conservation: An Introduction" Westkreuz-Verlag, 2009
L. Lees; T. Slater; E. Wyly (ed.): "The Gentrification Reader“, Routledge NY 2010
R. Etkinson; G. Bridge (ed.): "Gentrification in a Global Perspective: The New Urban Colonialism", Housing and Society Series, Routledge 2005

Language: English
Time: Wednesday, 09:15 - 12:30, block course, fortnightly (odd weeks)
Location: IfEU, Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 2, Room 107
Start: October 13, 2010
Registration: October 11, 2010, IfEU, Room 104


Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt
wo 2 S        Urban Sociology    3 Credits

Experiencing urban change
Urban change is a complex phenomenon. In this seminar, the experience side of urban transformation processes are centrally discussed. The focus lies on the psychological dimension of processes which are affecting the direct environment of citizens. To understand more of the coping strategies people develop in situations of change, we will compare the situation in a Portuguese and German neighbourhood. The Portuguese situation will be examined during a five day journey to Lisbon which takes place in the frame of a two year exchange programme with the TU Lisbon. Compulsory reading will be delivered before the excursion to Portugal.

Language: English
Start: November 12 - 16, 2010
Registration: until September 15, 2010 (via e-mail: Frank.Eckardt@uni-weimar.de)
Note: Costs for the journey to Lisbon are covered by the DAAD


Delphine Regnauld, DEA
wo 2 S        Urban Sociology        3 Credits

Attachment to the city under globalized conditions
This course will address the question of migrants’ attachment to the city in the context of global/local processes.
As they leave their home country to settle in a host country, men and women gain a status of emigrate/immigrate, which may lead to a double absence, or to an identification to a “here” and “there”. Greater mobility and mass mediation have facilitated different migration trajectories. Moreover, time and space compression have changed social relations, which are more and more lift out of their local contexts. How then, do global influences affect migrants’ attachment to the city they live in?
The seminar will question the sense of place by focusing on specific issues such as diaspora, ethnic identity (hybridity, creolisation), locality, local transformation etc. We will examine the role of transnational ties, electronic mediation and of imagination in the debate.
We will consider both theory and practice, based on ethnographic studies.
I’ll bring up the case study of Rome – where the sense of belonging is strictly connected to the locality and tend to be challenged by massive arrival of immigrants. Students will choose another case study -among a reader that will be submitted or may propose one- and discuss it.

Language: English
Time: Block course
Location: IfEU, Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 2, Room 107
Start: Friday, November 19; 09:15-15:00
Further dates: Saturday, November 20; 09:15-15:00
Friday, January 21, 2011; 09:15-15:00; Saturday, January 22, 2011; 09:15-16:45
Monday, January 24, 2011; 09:15-12:30
Registration: October 11, 2010, IfEU, Room 104


Dr. phil. Bernhard Stratmann
wo 2 S        Urban Sociology        3 Credits

Green Dreams of Suburbia: Climate Change, Sustainability and Urban Form
When looking at suburbs, people and planners often see something very different. Whereas the former dream of a better lifestyle, the latter often talk about urban sprawl and point to a long list of negative aspects of this kind of urban from. Particularly in view of rising energy consumption, Peak Oil and possible climate change continuing trends towards global suburbanization have caused concerns. However, more recently the “reading” of suburbs has changed. The prevailing critical discourse has been challenged by the assumption that suburbs – if designed and managed well – can be aligned with the overall goal of sustainability. This includes a reappraisal of “suburbanism as a way of life” that might offer a lot. The seminar will examine the current debate by taking American, Australian, Chinese and German cities as an example. To this end concepts of sustainable urban development will be explored, followed by a practice review. It will be argued that the debate on suburbia is embedded in a much larger, underlying debate on the good life.

Performance record will be achieved by giving a presentation and handing in a written report at the end of the semester.

Language: English
Time: Tuesday, 15:15-16:45
Location: IfEU, Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 2, Room 107
Start: October 12, 2010
Registration: October 11, 2010, IfEU, Room 104


Dipl.-Ing. Kristina Hoffmann
wo 2 S        Project Development        3 Credits

Real Estate Project Development / Projektentwicklung
Constitutive on the course Basics and Methods of Real Estate Project Development a development task is the main topic of this course. Characteristics are market and location analysis, concepts for estimated usage and economic calculations. Additional information will be given in the first course.

Language: English
Time: Wednesday, 17:00 - 18:30, weekly consultation appointments
Location: IfEU, Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 2, Yellow Hall
Start: October 20, 2010
Registration: October 11, 2010, IfEU, Room 104


Sinem Yardimci, M.Arch.
wo 2 S        Spatial Planning        3 Credits

Space, City and Contemporary Urbanization in Critical Theory
Parallel with the political and social turmoil of 1972, simultaneous shift occurred in the methods and theories for studying city. This shift could be read in the body of post-1968 urban studies which seek for examining the city in the context of capitalist social organization and understanding the city as an integral part of capital accumulation processes. In this stream, political economy became an essential tool for the study of the city. Given the stance of this stream, this seminar covers a series of reading and consequent discussion sessions which primarily aims at bringing student body in understanding contemporary urbanization in capitalist societies from the perspective of this stream. In doing so, the focus will be on the political economic dynamics in the city – accumulation processes, land speculations, investment and disinvestment processes, state intervention and privatization- and their interconnections with social dynamics in urban context. These sessions are structured in two main parts: (1) First theoretical part deals with the essential concepts; space and city and aims at re-defining these concepts in capitalist social organization. (2) Second part seeks to understand the contemporary political economic processes through addressing and questioning postmodern urbanization and neoliberal urbanization. Doctorate and master students will have chance to introduce critical approach into their researches by the end of the seminar.

Prospected Student Skills:
Believing that an understanding of historical geography of capitalism and of parallelism between the shift in mode of production and urban form and experience is critical for an understanding of urbanization; at the end of this seminar students will have basic and essential theoretical knowledge which facilitate introducing a political economic framework for their own research. Besides theoretical knowledge, students are expected to improve the skill below;
-Reading skills; the student body will have been familiar with the idea of comprehensive reading and summarizing the principal concept of the books and drawing mental map with highlighted ideas. (Map of highlighted ideas will be prepared at the end of each lesson.)
-Writing skills; the student body will have developed creative writing skills through using the map of ideas. Furthermore, the seminar seeks to give the student basic knowledge in software for managing bibliography and footnotes and promote them to organize ideas and concepts via online interfaces.

The final grade is evaluated by 40 % participation, 30 % presentation and 30 % final essay.

Language: English
Time: Wednesday, 13:30-16:45, block course, fortnightly (odd weeks)
Location: IfEU, Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 2, Room 107
Start: October 13, 2010
Registration: October 11, 2010, IfEU, Room 104


Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Philippe Schmidt M.Sc.
o 2 S        Model Project Seminar    3 Credits

Model Project Seminar/Model Project Forum

The seminar consists mainly of three parts. 1. Reporting and evaluating the Model Projects through individual presentations and group discussion, 2. Introduction to the Model Project Forum including the preparation of and feedback on individual presentation concepts for the forum, 3. Coached rehearsals for presentations, and last but not least the final presentations on the 11th International Model Project Forum (end of February 2011) itself.

Directed at: Master EU only (third semester)
Language: English
Time: Tuesday, 11.00 - 12:30 (block meetings and individual arrangements)
Location: IfEU, Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 2, Room 107
Start: October 12, 2010
Registration: October 11, IfEU, Room 104


Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Philippe Schmidt M.Sc.
o 2 S        Model Projects / Introduction

Introduction to the Model Projects
The seminar serves the preparation for the Model Projects in the summer semester 2011. Besides an introduction to the 'Model Projects European Urban Studies', students will prepare their application for the model project partners at an early stage in the semester. This also consist of individual presentations. First semester students (only European Urban Studies) are also invited to take part in the third semester's meetings of the model project seminar to get first impressions of the projects.

Participation is obligatory and only for EU students, and will be credited as part of the Model Projects.

Directed at: Master EU only (first semester)
Language: English
Time: Tuesday, 11.00 - 12:30 (block meetings and individual arrangements)
Location: IfEU, Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 2, Room 107
Start: October 12, 2010
Registration: October 11, IfEU, Room 104


Liza KAM, M.Arch.
o 2 S        Preparatory Course AdUrb        3 Credits

Urbanism in China. Traditional and Contemporary Chinese urban settlements at a glance

Like many other Asian cities, Chinese cities have been fundamentally undergoing a transformation process in the previous decades, as a result of globalization and intensive modernization. This development however, is accompanied by the destruction of the unique cultural heritage and identity expressed by the built environment in the region.
The broad discussion is, ‘Who are the actors contributing to the formation of the current China?’ This course enables students to throw a glance to both the traditional and contemporary built environment in the Chinese region in an interdisciplinary approach. The course aims at providing an introduction to several selected Chinese cities in a thematic basis, e.g., The Imperial urban settings in Beijing, The vernacular architecture and urban settings for the Hakka tribe in the Southeast Region of China, Development Vs Destruction in the contemporary Shanghai and etc. The students are encouraged to interpret city and its urban settings by understanding and considering its traditions, culture, politics, climate and geography as well as the inbetween dynamics and tensions of these issues.
A range of themes and locations will be introduced to the students and they will be studying and investigating a Chinese city/ town/ region with a theme of their choice as a case study. We shall glimpse these Chinese cities through the aides of different resources such as films, photography alongside with theoretical readings and literature.

Language: English
Time: Wednesday, 13:30-16:45, block course, fortnightly (even weeks)
Location: IfEU, Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 2, Room 107
Start: October 20, 2010
Registration: October 11, 2010, IfEU, Room 104



Study Project:


Prof. Dr. Bernd Nentwig,
Dipl.-Ing. Arch. Kristina Hoffmann
Dipl.-Ing. Arch. Richard Moreta Castillo

wo 14 P    Study Project    21 Credits
 
„Green Container“
Mega disasters are changing everything - nothing will remain as it was before. Natural catastrophies like earthquakes in haiti (01/2010) and the actual floods in pakistan (08/2010 ) are destroying life, cities and society.
Abandoned shipping containers present a viable answer to the lack of housing for the homeless specially after natural catastrophies. The need for speedy provision of housing in case of emergencies was reiterated after the disastrous earthquake in Haiti. Richard Moreta Castillo, a green activists, architect and designer, is proposing recycled and adapted shipping containers for temporary and long-term living needs by following a simple, cost-effective and easy to implement design and assembly process.
Together we will analyse in differant meisures and levels the situation after the desaster which are leading with the green container project to a urban structure of a container city. We will reflect masterplans and think about eco-architecture. We will look to develop a methodology for addressing systemic problems that affect natural disaster-prone nations and search for international container architecture.
 The study project will take place in cooperation between the Institut für Europäische Urbanistik, Professur Baumanagement und Bauwirtschaft (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) an Mr. Richard Moreta Castillo (Richard's A+D, GMZ-Design, Green Containers International Aid). A field-trip excursion will take place in the beginning of October.  

Number of participants: max. 30 students (EU only)
Language: English (partially in German)
Time: Thursday, 9.15-12.30
Location: IfEU, Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 2, Room 107
Start: October 21, 2010
Registration: October 11, 2010, IfEU, Room 104



Moderation


Dipl.-Kaufm. Tore Dobberstein
wo 2 Ü        Moderation            3 Credits

Introduction to Moderation

Meetings with representatives of different interest groups are important milestones in today’s planning processes. The different expectations regarding the outcome of the meeting and the different backgrounds of the participants challenge the diplomatic skills of the planners who lead the discussion.
The lecture teaches fundamental tools to guide group meetings and planning workshops towards a productive output. Practical exercise sessions address techniques to visualize and to moderate planning related issues.
A consensus on multi-interest decisions in the urban context depends on the accurate detection of all different interests of the stakeholders involved and the right analysis of potentially conflicting positions. The implementation of informal planning strategies and dialogue based communication are discussed in the course.

Language: English
Time: Monday, 09:15 - 16:45, block course
Location: IfEU, Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 2, Room 107
Start: Course 1: October 18, 2010. Further dates: Nov 08 / Dec 06, 2010; Jan 10, 2011
Course 2: November 01, 2010. Further dates: Nov 15 / Dec 13, 2010; Jan 17, 2011
Registration: October 11, 2010, IfEU, Room 104



Expertise Mediation


Dr. phil. Bernhard Stratmann

wo 2 Ü        Expertise Mediation        3 Credits

Academic skills and research methodology
The exercise course is about deepening and revising students academic research skills, including methodology, basic statistics and study skills such as essay writing. The course is designed for students enrolled in the Master's and PhD programmes in European Urban Studies. However, the topic might be of use to students of other Master's programmes offered by the Faculty of Architecture as well.

Performance record (attestation) will be achieved by regular attendance and presentation or paper.

Language: English
Time: Tuesday, 09:15 - 10:45
Location: IfEU, Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 2, Room 107
Start: October 12, 2010
Registration: October 11, 2010, IfEU, Room 104



Language Course


Fu, Man Man
o    Language Course            3 Credits

Language Course Chinese
Aim of the course is to give a systematic introduction into the Chinese language and to impart basic communicative competence, preparing for the stay in Shanghai.

Directed at: IIUS/AdUrb only
Time: Thursday, 09:15-12:30
Location: Language Centre, Coudraystr. 13a, Room 205
Start: October 14, 2010




Colloquia:


Lecturers in the field of European Urban Studies/Advanced Urbanism
o 4 Koll    Colloquium            4 Credits

Master-Colloquium
The course is the platform for presentation and discussion of the Masters theses. The candidates will present the intermediate results of their work on their individual topics. Suggestions for further action will be made by fellow students and academics attending the colloquium.

Admission for the Master examination is required for participation.
Performance record (attestation) will be achieved by giving an oral presentation.

Directed at: Master (EU, IIUS/AdUrb)
Language: English
Time: Block course, see notice-board
Location: IfEU, Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 2
Start: See notice-board
Registration: Not necessary, all students accepted for the Master examination have to participate


Lecturers in the field of European Urban Studies/Advanced Urbanism
o 4 Koll    Colloquium            4 Credits

IPP EU / UH Doctorate Colloquium
The course is the platform for presentation and discussion of the Doctoral theses.

Directed at: IPP EU
Language: English
Time: See notice-board
Location: IfEU, Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 2
Start: See notice-board