Land management and land law – access to land and buildings by legal instruments, the use of lands and buildings, the impact on land real estate markets, the transfer of lands and property and tenure rights within the land management and building trades in dynamic metropolitan spaces and adjacent peri-urban areas
Land administration – institutional tools to secure property and tenure rights, adaptation of a land management and real estate system to the local and global application
Land and property valuation – the five methods for experimental valuation and building research
Land use planning practices in an international perspective
Land use planning in Germany – preparatory land use plans and binding land use plans
General introduction to scientific research, including research standards, research design, project proposals, empirical research methods, such as surveys, questionnaires, working with data, map-based analytical tools
Key elements of academic essays, projects and theses
Different referencing styles and norms and their correct usage
Use of qualitative data and visual materials (drawings, photos, models, charts)
Erweiterte Lexik (Alltag und Studienfach) und erweiterte Morphosyntax
Schriftliche und mündliche Kommunikation in deutscher Sprache im Alltag und in studien(fach)bezogenen Kontexten, z.B. Telefonate, E-Mails
Lesen von dem Sprachniveau angemessenen, noch eher kurzen Texten in einfach gehaltener Standardsprache zu vertrauten Themen des Alltags und des Studienfachs
Schreiben auf Deutsch
Vertiefung und Ausbau der Phonetik und Intonation des Deutschen, insbesondere im Hinblick auf bestehende Akzente
Lernstrategien wie die Nutzung von Wörterbüchern, auch elektronischen.
Systematic project work partly done in interdisciplinary groups on selected issues out of the different fields and scales (from the neighborhood to the region) of urban agglomerations.
Collection, evaluation and synthesis of quantitative and qualitative information
Mapping and other graphical and visual representations are a key part of project work
Lectures relevant to the chosen project are provided
Whole of class workshops as well as one-to-one guidance in project work are provided
Students travel to one of our 20 partner universities and gain valuable skills, competencies and knowledge
Understanding of selected matters and specialized fields of urban agglomerations – such as social-cultural aspects, public participation, project management, sustainable urban and regional development, urban and landscape design, transport planning, infrastructure provision, planning methods and others – depending on the selected master program at one of the international partner universities.
Development of a high level of intercultural reflection and sensibility
Increased awareness of global development phenomena due to exposure to international, socio-cultural and academic environments
The Master Thesis synthesizes the different knowledge gained in the previous modules of “Urban Agglomerations” and proves that the candidate is capable of pursuing a scientific career
It consists of conceiving and writing a thesis and/or developing a conceptual planning study under the supervision of two professors involved in the master program “Urban Agglomerations”
One of the supervisors can also be a professor of one of the international partner universities
Each student develops his/her topic independently in consultation with the supervisors
Finally the results are presented in a scientific colloquium
