Development Studies

Theoretical and methodological approaches from development sociology and development theories and their competing epistemologies

Critical reflection of current approaches, measures, methods and tendencies of theory and practice in development politics and the critique of the term development

Relevant actors, their actions and interactions within the practice of development politics

Political and social structures and processes concerning selected states or topics

Development issues and geographical knowledge of specific regions

Spatial dimensions of processes in development politics

Methods, concepts, programmes, and institutions in the field of development cooperation

Regional economic structures and development concepts (spatial economy approach, relational concept, regulation theory, evolutionary economic geography)

Approaches to urban and regional planning

Theories of space, society and development including different epistemological approaches

Intensification of methodological qualifications concerning questions of human geography

Theoretical debates in political economy, debates in development politics from an economic perspective

Knowledge about conditions of sustainable development processes from a political and economic perspective

Economic and ethical foundations and debates on corporate governance