Unsere Kurse
Global Awareness Education has fantastic, educational and fun courses to improve your understanding of global issues and challenges and get you involved in addressing them. Our courses cover a wide range of topics including globalization, human rights, indigenous knowledge, and disaster risk reduction. Many of these provide interactive, hands-on learning experiences and opportunities, and are taught by experienced and international teams of educators, researchers, and practitioners who are active in social and natural sciences fields.
Learn more:
Courses in Summer Semester 24
- Understanding Island/World Identities in a Global Setting
- Climate crisis solutions: start up your own global carbon sink business
- Disaster Risk Reduction for a Resilient World
- Climate Risk in vulnerable mountain regions of the world
- Global soil health: protecting & restoring soils for climate regulation food & water security
- Global challenges to development: No poverty
- What is globalization?
- Human Rights: An Introduction
- Understanding Risky Sexual Behaviours among Adolescents in Uganda
- Globalization, Power & Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa
- Into the wild: observing fragile alpine nature through lenses of art & science
Courses in Winter Semester 23-24
- The Image of Africa in the International Relations
- State and Non-state Actors’ Collaboration in Empowering Women Farmers
- Human Rights, Witchcraft and Mediation in Africa
- East African Diasporas and its Representations
- Transcending Borders Through Translation Between India and Germany
- Asking Those Who Feel It. Local and Indigenous Knowledge on Climate Change
- Science and Practice of Environmental Communication
- Disaster Risk Reduction for a Resilient World
- Environmental Impact Assessments at Local and Global Levels
- What is Globalization? (Parallel group 1 and 2, parallel group 3)
- Global Markets
- Global Challenges to Development: No poverty!
Teaching Philosophy
In our teaching and learning, we value and incorporate:
- Inter- and transdisciplinary approach
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Project-based learning in teaching and assessment
- Transfer of learning from theory to practice
- Self-reflection on creating and overcoming global issues
- Peaceful coexistence and cooperation
- Student diversity, background and needs
- Active individual and group learning
Team of International Experts
Dr. Inka Koch
+49 7071 29 -77164
inka.koch @uni-tuebingen.de
Dr. Glaucia Peres da Silva
Global Awareness Education
+49 7071 29 -77135
glaucia.peres-da-silva @uni-tuebingen.de
Dr. Solmaz Mohadjer
+49 7071 29 -77164
solmaz.mohadjer @uni-tuebingen.de