Study and teaching

General information on studying

You can find information about the courses in ViaCampus and Moodle. Please do not forget to also register in ViaCampus so that we can enter your achievements and grades.

Current courses in the winter semester 2024/25

Prof. Dr Stephan Lanz

Introduction to qualitative methods of empirical social research (elective compulsory course) | BA | Moodle
Start of event:
Tuesday, 15 October 2024, 11:15-12:45, Location: GD 06

Cultural Representations of the Urban: Metropolises in Film | MA | Moodle
Start of event:
Tuesday, 15.10.2024, 16:15-17:45, Location: GD 06

Who owns the city? Historical and contemporary urban struggles and movements | BA | Moodle
Start of event:
Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 11:15-12:45, Location: GD 07

Urban Citizenship, Solidarity Cities, Sanctuary Cities? Struggles for urban citizenship beyond national affiliations | MA | Moodle
Start of event:
Wednesday, 23 October 2024, 14:15-15:45, Location: GD 04

Research Colloquium: Urban Studies | MA | Moodle
Start of event:
Wednesday, 23 October 2024, 16:15-17:45, Location: GD 04

Previous courses

  • Introduction to qualitative methods of empirical social research
  • Berlin: a city of immigration and refuge
  • Institutional and everyday forms of racism in the city
  • Between 'green gentrification', 'urban resilience' and 'last generation': cities in a climate emergency
  • Research colloquium Urban Studies

  • Introduction to qualitative methods of empirical social research (elective compulsory)
  • Emancipatory potentials and political activism (in) the digitalised city
  • Research colloquium Urban Studies
  • Why we (can or must) live the way we live: The urban housing question
  • "What could a non-sexist city look like?" Feminist approaches to urban studies

  • Introduction to qualitative methods of empirical urban and social research (compulsory elective)
  • Research colloquium Urban Studies
  • "Hip, hipper, Neukölln"? Researching a Berlin neighbourhood
  • Kritique der Globalisierung / Critique de la mondialisation / Critique of Globalisation
  • Precarious Margins, Social Laboratories, Experimental Fields of Governance: Urban Peripheries in the Global South and North
  • Searching for Traces: Jewish and Other Berliners in the Spandauer Vorstadt. Project seminar part 2: Urban Studies perspectives
  • Searching for Traces: Jewish and other Berliners in the Spandauer Vorstadt. Part 1: Migration studies perspectives