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Archive: Teaching News in the WS 22-23

Here you can find what was new from Global Awareness Educaiton in WS 22-23.

Lectures of the seminar "Global Challenges to Development"

If you are interested in the topic "Global challenges to development", you can watch the lectures on the YouTube-channel of Global Awareness Education after the live presentation. Presenters are:

Prof. Badar Alam Iqbal (Tshwane University of Technology, Südafrika)
Prof. Javier Ruiz-Tagle (Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
Prof. Gilberto Fraga (State University of Maringá, Brasilien)
Prof. Sally Matthews (Rhodes University, Südafrika)
Prof. Ronney Ncwadi (Nelson Mandela University, Südafrika)
Natalia Kryg, PhD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IMF)

Registration for this seminar is through alma. Credit points earned in this seminar may count toward elective (d) Joint Projects of the Global Awareness Certificate.

Pilot project of a virtual world trip in the format of a serious game will be offered again in WS 22-23

After the successful pilot project in SoSe 22, the seminar "What is globalization?" will be offered again in WS 22. Students can enroll in three dates: Thursdays at 12pm, 2pm, and 4pm. This project is a partnership with the Master Profile Digital Humanities and the Center for Teaching and Learning. Together we have developed a virtual world trip in a serious game format to teach and discuss the basics of the globalization debate. This seminar will be credited in the compulsory area of the Global Awareness Certificate.

Seminars in partnership with the Doctoral Certificate Program in ‘Global South Studies‘ in WS 22-23

In this WS 22-23, four seminars from the Doctoral Certificate Program in "Global South Studies" will be offered in the Global Awareness Education program:

"Precarities and Spaces of Exclusion in the Global South" with Aaron Chando (University of Witwatersrand, Südafrika)
"Unlearning Orientalism: Gender in the Middle East" with Ana Clara Alves de Oliveria (Fluminense Federal University, Brasilien) and Reyhan Özşahın (Universität Tübingen)
"Immigrants and Xenophobia in South Africa" with Doris Ngoh (University of Witwatersrand, Südafrika)
"Global Disability and Health Representations" with Precious Muzite (University of Witwatersrand, Südafrika)

All four seminars are interdisciplinary courses on current issues discussed from the perspective of the Global South. Registration for these seminars is done through ALMA. The credit points earned in these seminars can be counted towards elective (a) Thematic Courses of the Global Awareness Certificate.

Student Research Projects in WS 22-23

A seminar in the Student Research Projects format this WS 22-23 will explore a thematic area:

"The Roma Holocaust in the Roma Transnational Civil Rights Movement."

The course will be offered by Glaucia Peres da Silva. Registration for these seminars is through ALMA. Credit points earned in these seminars may be applied toward elective (c) Student Research Projects of the Global Awareness Certificate.

Global Digital Work in WS 22-23

In this WS 22-23 you will be able to learn more about digital platform work:

"Global Digital Platform Work" with Konstantin Hondros (University of Duisburg-Essen).

Registration for this seminar is through Alma. Credit points earned in this seminar can be counted towards elective (a) Thematic Courses of the Global Awareness Certificate.