ZEF Disciplinary courses

List of courses

Contact

BIGS-DR coordination team

Dr. Günther Manske
Ms. Maike Retat-Amin

Email: bigs-dr[at]uni-bonn.de

Address

BIGS-DR
Genscherallee 3
53113 Bonn
Germany

Tel. +49 (0)228 73 1792

Fax +49 (0)228 73 1839

Disciplinary courses

BIGS-DR offers three disciplinary courses organized by its three research departments. Attendance is mandatory for the students of the respective department. The courses have a time frame 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)

ZEFa

Time frame: December 3rd, 2018 - February 15th, 2019
Coordination: Andreas Gohlke
Downloads: ZEFa course plan

The ZEFa disciplinary course offers total eight weeks of distinct training modules:

1) Development Theory and Practice
2) Quantitative Methods
3) Qualitative Methods
4) Development of Research Proposals
5) Research Colloquia*
6) Excursions to Development Organisations
7) Time for Readings and Assignments

*ZEFa Colloquium (Wednesdays 11:00-12:00) and ZEF Research Colloquium (Thursdays 13:00-14:00)

The ZEFa course ends with a written examination on February 15th, 2019.

ZEF junior researchers will present their doctoral research proposal in March and a revised version of it in April. They will also present and defend their research approach to the ZEF Ethical Committee.

Lecturers:

Prof. Dr. Solvay Gerke
Rabia Chaudhury
Dr. Irit Eguavoen
Dr. Jan Janosch Förster
Dr. Girma Kelboro
Dr. Wolfram Laube
Dr. Guido Lüchters
Volker Merx
Christian Petersheim
Dr. Henning Sommer
Dr. Till Stellmacher
Dr. habil. Eva Youkhana

ZEFb

Time frame: November 28th, 2017 - February 23rd, 2018
Coordinator: Dr. Chiara Kofol
Downloads: ZEFb course plan (tentative)

Part I: Quantitative Methods for Research in Development Economics

Part II: Development Economics

The course contains two written exams and assignments.

Lecturers:

Prof. Dr. Jan Börner
Dr. Lukas Kornher
Dr. Chiara Kofol
Dr. Guido Lüchters
Dr. Alisher Mirzabaev
Prof. Dr. Joachim von Braun

External lecturers:

Dr. Arjun Bedi (Economics of Sustainable Development, Institute for Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
Prof. Dr. Michael Kosfeld (University of Frankfurt)
Jun. Prof. Dr. Devesh Rustagi (Department of Management and Microeconomics, University of Frankfurt)
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer (University of Göttingen)

ZEFc

Time frame: December 4th, 2018 - March 29th, 2019
Coordinator: : Dr. Navneet Kumar
Downloads: ZEFc course plan

The ZEFc disciplinary course offers different lectures on the topic related to natural sciences.
The training modules are designed to cover the thematic fields such as:

Hydrology: Integrated water resource management, Irrigation, Hydrological Modelling
Ecology and Biodiversity: System perspective, tools and techniques
Agriculture (Future of agriculture, food security, plant nutrition and soil management)
Public Health (One health concept, vector borne diseases)
Climate (theoretical and practical concepts)

2 special modules are designed for training in:

Remote sensing and GIS
R course (Statistics)

3 Excursions are planned

Drinking water treatment Plant
Crop science Bayer and Bee care Center
Museum König