List of English courses VO – lecture SE – seminar course VOSE – lecture/seminar course PR – practical course UE – exercise course KO-conversational course This course list contains an overview of English courses that have been offered to Sociology students since 2011. Further information is available online: https://ufind.univie.ac.at/en/index.html
Winter term 2016/17 Department of Sociology Course number 230019 (group 4)
230057 230071
Course Course name type UE Methods of Empirical Social Research (“Einführung in die empirische Sozialforschung”) SE Selected Paradigms: Complexity of a Complex World UE Statistics II - Exercise VO+SE Urban Sociology
230078 230087
TR WS
230128
VO
230108
UE
230044
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Vincent Louis
4
BA
Sandra Kytir
5
BA
3 4
BA BA
4 4
BA BA
4
MA
4
MA
Vincent Louis Yuri Kazepov, Roberta Cucca Scientific Communication: English Julia Dahlvik Diagnosis of Society: Social Robotics Michaela Pfadenhauer, Glenda Hannibal The Challenge of Multilevel Yuri Kazepov Governance in Social Policy Analysis: Processes, actors and territories The Art of Argument: Reading and Vincent Louis Writing Sociological Texts in English
Department of Science and Technology Studies (for M.A. students, only!) Course number 230147 230143
Course Course name type VO Science, Technology, Society (STS): Key Questions and Concepts KO Discussion Class Key-Questions and Concepts
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Ulrike Felt
4
MA
Ulrike Felt
1
MA
1
Course number 230128
Course Course name type SE Re-constructing epistemic cultures in the age of technoscience
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Karen Kastenhofer
5
MA
230129
SE
Jutta Weber
5
MA
230138
SE
Erik Aarden
5
MA
230142
VO
Maximilian Fochler
4
MA
230143
KO
Maximilian Fochler
1
MA
230145
SE
Clark Miller
5
MA
230140
VO
Ulrike Felt
4
MA
230123
KO
Ulrike Felt
1
MA
230131
SE
Sonja Schmid
5
MA
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Vincent Louis
4
BA
Vincent Louis Hyunjin Song
3 3
BA BA
Markus Wagner
3
BA
Yuri Albert Kyrill Kazepov Gerda Neyer
4
MA
4
MA
Slavomira Ferencuhova Marc-Henry Soulet
4
MA
6
MA
Tracking - Targeting - Predicting. On Technologies of Surveillance and Control Translation between Bench, Bedside, and Beyond: Discourses and Practices of Biomedical Innovation Knowledge and Technology Cultures: Central Issues, Questions and Concepts Discussion Class Knowledge and Technology Cultures Energy, Climate, and Society: Perspectives from STS Techno-Science and Society: Communicating and Interacting. Central Issues, Questions and Concepts Discussion Class Techno-Science and Society: Communicating and Interacting Risk in Contemporary Culture
Summer term 2016 Department of Sociology Course number 230019 (group 7)
230061
Course Course name type UE Methods of Empirical Social Research (“Einführung in die empirische Sozialforschung”) UE Statistics I - Exercise UE EC: Moderation and Mediation analysis (for students with basic knowledge in quantitative methods) UE EC: Logistic Regression ((for students with basic knowledge in quantitative methods) VO Introduction to Urban Sociology
230065
SE
230080
SE
230090
SE
230155 230206 230207
Population Change, Social Change and Welfare-State Development Theory and research on cities in the 20th century sociology Sociology of social intervention
2
230141
UE
The Art of Argument: Reading and Writing Sociological Texts in English
Vincent Louis
4
MA
Department of Science and Technology Studies (for M.A. students, only!) Course number 230128 230129 230138
230142 230143 230131 230140
230123
Course Course name type SE Re-constructing epistemic cultures in the age of technoscience SE Tracking - Targeting - Predicting. On Technologies of Surveillance and Control SE Translation between Bench, Bedside, and Beyond: Discourses and Practices of Biomedical Innovation VO Knowledge and Technology Cultures: Central Issues, Questions and Concepts KO Discussion Class Knowledge and Technology Cultures SE Risk in Contemporary Culture VO Techno-Science and Society: Communicating and Interacting. Central Issues, Questions and Concepts KO Discussion Class Techno-Science and Society: Communicating and Interacting
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Karen Kastenhofer
5
MA
Jutta Weber
5
MA
Erik Aarden
5
MA
Maximilian Fochler
4
MA
Maximilian Fochler
1
MA
Sonja Schmid Ulrike Felt
5 4
MA MA
Ulrike Felt
1
MA
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Vincent Louis
4
BA
Yuri Albert Kyrill Kazepov Sandra Kytir Vincent Louis
5
BA
5 3
BA BA
Michal Ruzicka
4
MA
Christopher Schlembach
2
MA
Winter term 2015/16 Department of Sociology Course number 230019 (group 4) 230055 230063 230141 230039 230075
Course Course name type UE Methods of Empirical Social Research (“Einführung in die empirische Sozialforschung”) VOSE Stadtsoziologie (Urban sociology), held in English and German SE Complexity of a Complex World UE The Art of Argument: Reading and Writing Sociological Texts in English SE Sociology of European Roma (Gypsies) SE Reading Seminar: The Cultural Turn in Contemporary Social Theory
3
230079
SE
230117
SE
230034
SE
The Challenge of Multilevel Governance in social policy analysis: Processes, actors and territories Population Issues in Contemporary Central European Countries Children, Society and Risk
Yuri Albert Kyrill Kazepov
4
MA
Beatrice Chromková Manea Ravinder Barn
4
MA
4
MA
+ courses from other departments (e.g. Department of Cultural Anthropology, Department of Science and Technology Studies) Department of Science and Technology Studies (for M.A. students, only!) Course number 230139 230143 230156 230157 230163 230165 230158 230164 230153 230155
Course Course name type VO Science, Technology, Society (STS): Key Questions and Concepts KO Discussion Class Key-Questions and Concepts SE Exploring research-in-the-making: Excursions into different knowledge cultures SE Open Science, the better science? SE Assembling Cities: Networks, Spaces and Practices in Urban Regeneration SE Doing Difference in Medicine: Gender, Chronicity and Diagnosis in Medical Classification Work SE SE Science, Technology and ‘the Law’ SE SE Governing socio-technical futures. Science, democracy and innovation in the 21st century VO Politics of Innovation and its Institutional Dimensions: Central Issues, Questions and Concepts KO Discussion Class Politics of Innovation and its Institutional Dimensions
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Ulrike Felt
4
MA
Ulrike Felt
1
MA
Judith Kröll
5
MA
Katja Mayer Monika Maria Kurath
5 5
MA MA
Milena Bister
5
MA
Xaq Frohlich
5
MA
George Alan Irwin
5
MA
Lisa Sigl
4
MA
Lisa Sigl
1
MA
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Monica Titton
5
BA
Vincent Louis
4
BA
Summer term 2015 Department of Sociology Course number 230017 (group 3) 230019 (group 7)
Course Course name type UE Theoretical Foundations ("Reading Classics of Sociology") UE Methods of Empirical Social Research
4
230024 230047
SE VO
Sociology of Political Economy Introduction to urban sociology
230103
SE
Population Change, Social Change and Welfare-State Development
Sandra Kytir Yuri Albert Kyrill Kazepov Gerda Neyer
4 4
MA MA
4
MA
+ courses from other departments (e.g. Department of Cultural Anthropology, Department of Science and Technology Studies)
Department of Science and Technology Studies (for M.A. students, only!) Course number 230142
230143 230147 230148 230140
230141
Course Course name type VO Knowledge and Technology Cultures: Central Issues, Questions and Concept KO Discussion Class Knowledge and Technology Cultures SE Political and cultural economics of Pharmaceuticals SE Pictures, Practices, and Power: Social Studies of Scientific Imaging & Visualization VO Techno-Science and Society: Communicating and Interacting. Central Issues, Questions and Concepts KO Discussion Class Techno-Science and Society: Communicating and Interacting
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Maximilian Fochler
4
MA
Maximilian Fochler
1
MA
Sergio Sismondo
5
MA
Regula Valerie Burri
5
MA
Ulrike Felt
4
MA
Ulrike Felt
1
MA
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Vincent Louis
4
BA
Monica Titton
5
BA
Michal Ruzicka
4
MA
Gerda Neyer
4
MA
Michal Ruzicka
2
MA
Vincent Louis
3
BA
Claire Levy-Vroelant
5
BA
Winter term 2014/15 Course number 230019 230010 230074 230103 230116 230141 230159
Course Course name type UE Einführung in die empirische Sozialforschung PS Proseminar Einführung in die Soziologie SE Sociology of European Roma (Gypsies) SE Population Development, Gender Dynamics and Social Change SE Reading Seminar: Pierre Bourdieu and Social Theory UE The Art of Argument: Reading and Writing Sociological Texts in English VO+SE Sociology of Housing
5
230175
WS
Diagnosis of Society: Culture and Monica Titton 4 BA Society in Poststructuralism and Postmodern Theory + courses from the Department of Cultural Anthropology; Department of Science and Technology Studies (for example)
Summer term 2014 Course number 230005 230047 230074 230103 230141 230017 230019 230142
Course Course name type SE Sociology of Political Economy SE On the relationship of sociology and psychology: Herbert Marcuse revisited PR Introduction to SPSS SE Population Change, Social Change and Welfare-State Development UE English Reading and Writing for Sociologists UE Reading Classics of Sociology UE Methods of Empirical Social Research WS Diagnosis of Society: Routes to new feudalism (Englisch/German)
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Sandra Kytir Karin Stögner , Friedhelm Kröll
4 4
MA MA
Julian Aichholzer Gerda Neyer
2 4
BA MA
Laura Wiesböck
3
BA
Monica Titton Vincent Louis
4 4
BA BA
István Grajczjár
4
BA
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Julian Aichholzer Michal Ruzicka
2 ECTS 4 ECTS
BA MA
Gerda Neyer
4 ECTS
MA
Michal Ruzicka
2 ECTS
MA
Lisa Gugglberger
3 ECTS
BA
4 ECTS 4 ECTS
MA MA
4 ECTS
MA
Winter term 2013/14 Department of Sociology Course number 230052 230056 230103 230116 230141 230159 230171 230175
Course Course name type PR Introduction to SPSS SE Sociology of European Roma (Gypsies) SE SE Population Development, Gender Dynamics and Social Change SE Reading Seminar: Pierre Bourdieu for Enthusiasts UE English Readings: Englisch für SoziologInnen SE Sociology of Housing VO The transformation of the social question SE Sociology of social intervention
6
+ Master courses at the Department of Science and Technology Studies (if you are a Master student and if there are places left)
Summer term 2013 Department of Sociology Course number 230011
Course type SE
Course name
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Selected Paradigms: Role theory
5 ECTS
BA
230071
PR
Introduction to SPSS
Christopher Schlembach Julian Aichholzer
2 ECTS
MA
230123
SE
Comparative Migration Research
2 ECTS
MA
230125 230139
SE SE
4 ECTS 2 ECTS
MA MA
230157
SE
Open Social Systems Reading Seminar: Deleuze for Social Sciences Issues in Contemporary Immigration
Nancy Foner, Christoph Reinprecht
Nancy Foner, Christoph Reinprecht
4 ECTS
MA
Course name
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Techno-Science and Society: Communicating and Interacting. Central Issues, Questions and Concepts Knowledge and Technology Cultures: Central Issues, Questions and Concepts Discussion Class Techno-Science and Society: Communicating and Interacting Discussion Class Knowledge and Technology Cultures
Ulrike Felt
4 ECTS
MA
Philippe Björn Sormani
4 ECTS
MA
Ulrike Felt
1 ECTS
MA
Philippe Björn Sormani
1 ECTS
MA
Ruth Müller
5 ECTS
MA
Tereza Stöckelová
5 ECTS
MA
Alexandra Supper
5 ECTS
MA
Xaq Frohlich
5 ECTS
MA
Michael Ruzicka
Department of Science and Technology Studies Course number 230137
Course type VO
230140
VO
230138
KO
230141
KO
230142
SE
230143
SE
230144
SE
Living in NatureCulture Worlds. An Introduction to feminist science studies Practices and policies of 'Science in Society' Sensory Studies of Science
230146
SE
Science, Technology & 'the Law'
7
230155
SE
230147
SE
Science Dynamics: The Emergence of New Research Fields Digital Methods - How Do We Know?
Martina Merz
5 ECTS
MA
Katja Mayer , Astrid Mager
5 ECTS
MA
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Lisa Gugglberger
3 ECTS
BA
Michal Ruzicka
2 ECTS
MA
Gerda Neyer
4 ECTS
MA
Winter term 2012/13 Department of Sociology Course number 230054 230116 230103
Course Course name type UE English Readings: Englisch für SoziologInnen SE Reading Seminar: Pierre Bourdieu for Enthusiasts SE Population Dynamics and Social Change (german-english)
Summer term 2012 Department of Sociology Course number 230032 230139
Course type VOSE SE Reading
Course name
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Urban Sociology Deleuze for Social Sciences
Claire Levy-Vroelant Michal Ruzicka
5 ECTS 2 ECTS
BA MA
230181
VOSE
Loic Wacquant
6 ECTS
MA
400008
SE
Martin Ejnar Hansen
4 ECTS
PhD
230183
SE
Loic Wacquant
2 ECTS
MA
230102
VO
Christoph Reinprecht
4 ECTS
MA
230103
SE
Urban Marginality - Urban Marginality, Ethnicity, and the Penal State in the Neoliberal Age Seminar für DissertantInnen: Methoden - Research Seminar in Application of Quantitative Methods and Data Collection Urban Ethnography - The Ring, the Street and the Prison: Lessons from a Research Journey Sociology of Globalization Conceptual and methodological issues Population Dynamics and Social Change (german-english)
Gerda Neyer
4 ECTS
MA
8
230180
PR
Conceptual and Empirical Issues associated with Evidence in Law and Medicine - Workshop with Aaron Cicourel
Reinhard Kreissl Aaron Cicourel
2 ECTS
MA
Course name
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Imagination and imaging in scientific practice The 'Same' Person? Past, Present, and Future of Identification Practices and Techniques Global Problems and Local Solutions? Co-Enacting 'Sustainability' on Different Scales Doing and analyzing interviews: Qualitative research in STS Science, Technology and their Publics Practicing Difference Science, Medicine, and Gender Analysing the practices of scientific knowledge production Risk in Contemporary Culture Geographies of Science A triple helix? - How to combine Science & Technology Studies (STS), Luhmann's social systems theory, and scientometric operationalizations
Katja Mayer
5 ECTS
MA
Christoph Musik Stephan Gruber Daniel Meßner Andrea Schikowitz Judith Igelsböck
5 ECTS
MA
5 ECTS
MA
Ulrike Felt
5 ECTS
MA
Michael Strassnig
5 ECTS
MA
Sandra Eder
5 ECTS
MA
Martina Merz
5 ECTS
MA
Sonja Schmid Morgan Meyer Louis Andre Leydesdorff
5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS
MA MA MA
Course name
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Religion in the United States The role of religion in the acculturation of migrants: Psychological perspectives
David Václavik Halina GrzymalaMoszczynska
3 ECTS 5 ECTS
Department of Science and Technology Studies Course number 230155
Course type SE
230156
SE
230157
SE
230161
SE
230162
SE
230163
SE
230172
SE
230174 230175 230176
SE SE SE
Faculty of Catholic Theology Course number 010124 010132
Course type VO SE
MA MA
Winter term 2011/12 Department of Sociology Course number 230050
Course type UE
Course name
Course Coordinator
Credit
Level
English Readings: Englisch für SoziologInnen
Lisa Gugglberger
3 ECTS
BA 9
400001
SE
400002
SE
400003
SE
400004
SE
400005
SE
400024
SE
400014
SE
230103
SE
230125
SE
Seminar für DissertantInnen: Methoden - Causality inference in the social science Seminar für DissertantInnen: Methoden - Explorative Data Analysis Seminar für DissertantInnen: Methoden - Ideal Point Estimation Seminar für DissertantInnen: Methoden - Measurement in Survey Research: Scaling and Indices Seminar für DissertantInnen: Methoden - Research Design in the Social Sciences SE Seminar für DissertantInnen: Methoden - Ethnographic research Seminar für DissertantInnen: Theorie - Migration and Integration Research Welfare States and Social Change (german- english) Measuring migration - Quantitative developments of international migration and its consequences in Europe (german- english)
Marcelo Jenny
4 ECTS
PhD
Eva Zeglovits
4 ECTS
PhD
Martin Ejnar Hansen
4 ECTS
PhD
Kenneth Horvath
4 ECTS
PhD
Sylvia Kritzinger
4 ECTS
PhD
Stefan Hirschauer
4 ECTS
PhD
Christoph Reinprecht, Sieglinde Rosenberger Gerda Neyer
4 ECTS
PhD
4 ECTS
MA
David Reichel
4 ECTS
MA
Department of Science and Technology Studies Course number 230160
Course type SE
230168
SE
230167
SE
230176
SE
230169
SE
Course name
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Spaces and practices of knowledge brokering Knowledge relations under changing communication and information structures Collaboration and competition: On forms and formats of being together in science Enacting the social: How the social sciences participate in "making up" contemporary societies Coping with trouble I: Seminar for Master Students in "ScienceTechnology-Society" (STS)
Morgan Meyer
5 ECTS
MA
Ulrike Felt
5 ECTS
MA
Niki Vermeulen
5 ECTS
MA
Katja Mayer
5 ECTS
MA
Ulrike Felt
5 ECTS
MA
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Faculty of Catholic Theology Course number
Course type
Course name
10
010022
SE
Ethics of Human Rights
Ingeborg Gerda Gabriel
4 ECTS
BA
Course name
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
New Media, Technology & Society Foucault, medicine and critique Rethinking Civilization Qualitative Methods: Situational Analysis - Doing Situational Maps Seminar für DissertantInnen: Methoden - Fortgeschrittene Regressionsanalyse
Rick B. Duque Monica Greco Robert van Krieken Adele Clarke
5 ECTS 4 ECTS 4 ECTS 4 ECTS
BA MA MA MA
Markus Wagner
4 ECTS
PhD
Course name
Course Coordinator
Credits Level
Imagination and imaging in scientific practice Understanding scientific and technological controversies Counting & Accounting: Using quantitative methods to understand S-T-S relations Using Video Ethnography in doing Science Studies Research Microscopic romances, female skeletons and immortal cells - An introduction to feminist science studies Coping with trouble II: Seminar for Master Students in "ScienceTechnology-Society" (STS)
Katja Mayer
5 ECTS
MA
Ulrike Felt
5 ECTS
MA
Rick B. Duque
5 ECTS
MA
Rick B. Duque
5 ECTS
MA
Ruth Müller
5 ECTS
MA
Rick B. Duque, Ulrike Felt
5 ECTS
MA
Summer term 2011 Department of Sociology Course number 230145 230047 230126 230135
Course type SE SE -
400016
SE
Department of Science and Technology Studies Course number 230150
Course type SE
230153
SE
230154
SE
230155
SE
230159
SE
230157
-
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