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Seminar: 08-zsp-GS-1030 Urban History and Geography of Bremen and Northern Germany - Details

Seminar: 08-zsp-GS-1030 Urban History and Geography of Bremen and Northern Germany - Details

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Course name Seminar: 08-zsp-GS-1030 Urban History and Geography of Bremen and Northern Germany
Subtitle Stadtgeschichte und Geographie Bremens und Norddeutschlands (englischsprachig)
Course number 08-zsp-GS-1030
Semester WiSe 2025/2026
Current number of participants 22
expected number of participants 20
Home institute Fachbereich 08: Sozialwissenschaften
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
Next date Thursday, 18.12.2025 14:00 - 16:00, Room: GW2 B1580
Type/Form
Participants International guest and exchange students only
Pre-requisites English at or above B1 level.
Learning organisation Lectures, excursions, student presentations. This course is not suitable for remote only students.
Performance record Exam and presentations with handout in seminar (3 ECTS),
for full day field trips extra credit: oral presentation 10 min per day
for spotlight lectures extra credit point: review paper
Nachhaltigkeitsziel Yes
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja
Miscellanea Some sessions will be longer than 2 hours (excursions), other sessions will be cancelled to compensate for this. If you want to achieve more than 3 CP/ECTS, you need to participate in the excursions (december or january full-day) or international spotlight lectures offered in winter semester (tbc)
International exchange students from Faculty 8 who plan to do the whole International Module (12 ECTS/CP including summer semester, please contact me in the beginning of the semester -> show your learning agreement)
ECTS points 3-6

Rooms and times

GW2 B1580
Thursday: 14:00 - 16:00, weekly (11x)
(Meeting 14:15 in front of Bremen Hauptbahnhof (main entrance towards city))
Thursday: 14:00 - 16:00, weekly (1x)
(Excursion, meeting at Elephant (hbf nord))
Thursday: 14:00 - 16:00, weekly (1x)
(The Politics of (Climate) Science 1 CP extra session in Cartesium/Rotunde)
Wednesday, 05.11.2025 18:00 - 20:00
(GW2 B1150 / extra credit session)
Wednesday, 12.11.2025 16:00 - 18:00
(Extra credit all day excursion)
Friday, 05.12.2025 08:00 - 20:00
(extra session - cartesium-Rotunde . Mark Schuerch lecture)
Wednesday, 07.01.2026 18:00 - 20:00

Module assignments

Comment/Description

Inhalt: This course is a special offer for international students who are interested in Regional and Urban Geography, and the local history of Bremen and Northwest Germany.
- Students understand the historical development of cities and the processes connecting historical events and urban development
- Students understand the basic ideas of (Regional) and Urban Geography and History as a university science
- Students understand the most important historical events that shaped today’s Germany
- Students are able to give presentations about topics that they researched on their own (about an excursion destination as well as a unique city quarter of Bremen

Registration mode

After enrolment, participants will manually be selected.

Please come to the first session, even if you are still waitlisted. I will accept up to 22 students on the first day of the lecture period, but even if you are still be waitlisted at this time, please come, as students who do not come to the first class without an excuse will be unlisted to make place for you.