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"]