Disciplinary Courses
ZEF offers three disciplinary courses, which are mandatory for the students of the respective deparment. These courses have a duration of three months.
1. A Social Science Perspective on Development: Development Theory, Practice and Research Methods (ZEFa)
2. Course on Economic Analysis of Development and Development Policy (ZEFb)
3. Course on Ecology and Development (ZEFc)
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1. A Social Science Perspective on Development: Development Theory, Practice and Research Methods (ZEFa)
Course Coordinator: Aram Ziai
The Disciplinary Doctoral Program of ZEFa (see course plan below) consists of altogether nine weeks of modular training courses.
Module 1 - Statistic, Questionnaire Design and Survey Conduction
Module 2 - Development Research and Practice
Module 3 - Qualitative Research Methods
Module 4 - Development Cooperation
Module 5 - Skills training
In the first two weeks, the students are taught quantitative methods together with their batch fellows from ZEFb and ZEFc. In the following weeks, a range of development theories and theoretical approaches that repeatedly are applied in our research projects are discussed. The course has an intense training component of social science methods and academic skills. In the course's final week, the students are offered an insight into German and European development practice. This includes several office visits of state and non-state organizations of national and international development cooperation.
Additionally, the students participate in a weekend seminar 'Intercultural Training'. Here special emphasis is given to aspects of intercultural communication in Germany, the research projects and project teams as well as the research countries.
The course ends with a two hours written examination.
December 2011 - January 2012
Downloads:
The list of involved lecturers in the ZEFa course
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ZEFa research colloquium, Wednesdays, 13.30-15.00, for program/questions contact: Dr. Conrad Schetter
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2. Course on Economic Analysis of Development and Development Policy (ZEFb)
Coordinated by Dr. Daniel Tsegai
Part I: Econometrics and Models
Part II: Development Economics
The course has two hours written examination.
December 2011 - March 2012
Downloads:
The list of involved lecturers in the ZEFb course
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3. Course on Ecology and Development (ZEFc)
Coordinated by Dr. Julia Schindler
The course has four thematic blocks:
1. Ecology: Systems (which aims at providing a system perspective)
2. Ecology: Selected topics (which gives an impression on the variety of topics in ecology)
3. Ecology: Tools and techniques (which aims at providing more technical help)
4. GIS course
Course schedule January - March 2012
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