Master 2 International master of african studies (DD)

This seminar provides an overview of theoretical and conceptual approaches in the areas of society, environment and development in order to achieve an interdisciplinary understanding of complex problems at the intersection of development and environment in the global South.

In this course, students acquire knowledge about theories, current trends and research approaches to gain an understanding of the environment-society- development nexus in the global South from an interdisciplinary perspective of Human and Physical Geography.

They acquire knowledge about key concepts for the study of both the physical and social dimensions of environmental change.

In this way, they learn how to assess environmental trends, environmental interventions and environmental governance as key factors in development discourse, politics and practice.

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This seminar imparts basic knowledge of regional geography of developing and emerging countries in the global South (Africa, Asia or Latin America).

Based on concrete regional examples and by way of empirical case studies, trends of spatial development, spatial planning, and space-related conflicts are analyzed and put in a global context.

In this course, students will learn on the basis of many different empirical examples how specific local and regional social, economic and physical environments are interlinked and form specific living conditions that are interconnected with global processes.

The students are put in a position to associate idiographic and conceptual knowledge in regional geography and to abstract from the local and regional spatial live-worlds.

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The seminar offers knowledge about the most important theoretical and methodological approaches of Development Studies in Geography.

Students will learn to analyze relevant geographical literature.

At the same time, political and planning instruments as well as organizations in the field of development will be discussed.

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Students will learn about and practice planning tools in Development Studies and practice teambuilding and teamwork.

Students will be put in a position to use and critically assess different socio-economic and spatial planning tools for urban and regional planning in developing contexts like Local Economic Development Planning (LED), Participatory Planning, Planning for Real etc.

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In the preparation and during a scientific conference which deals with development issues, the topics of Socio-economic Development Processes and Development Cooperation / Development Planning will be critically reflected on and discussed with experts.

Students will acquire the ability to critically reflect on theory and practice of various applied topics in development studies.

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The seminar provides concepts of political ecology and political economy relating to environmental/climate change with the global depletion and exploitation of natural resources.

The comparison of current case studies from the Global North and Global South illustrates the unequal causation and distribution of environmental change.

In this interdisciplinary course, students acquire the ability to engage critically with development-related aspects of global environmental change.

They deal with various social and socio-spatial theories and methodologies of human geography and learn to interlink them for practical suggestions and problem-solving strategies.

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Un stage obligatoire de 3 mois minimum est réalisé au semestre 4.

Le stage doit se dérouler en Afrique.

Il donnera lieu à l’écriture d'un mémoire.

L’objectif du mémoire (d’une centaine de pages) est de montrer comment l’expérience du stage (expertise, évaluation, étude, gestion ou suivi de projet, etc. ) s’articule avec le débat scientifique.

Autrement dit, les données et l’expérience du stage doivent être mises en perspective par une problématisation et de la littérature scientifique pour montrer la maîtrise d’un sujet et d’un thème ancrés dans les études africaines. 

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