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Instructors: Dr.Dr. Carl David Mildenberger
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Sociology, Politics & Economics
Displayed in timetable as:
Märkte & Gesells
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
6,0
Note: In your exam regulations, differing credits may have been specified.
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
10 | 35
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
The purpose of this course is to shed some light on the intricate relationship between market and society. It is a highly interactive course, which prompts the students to make their own decisions about which particular issues they want to talk about, and which emphases they want to set. Because virtually all course contents will be developed “on the go” during the contact hours, this course requires a high commitment (and features a rather high workload) from September 3 to September 6.
Based on their personal interests, different groups in the course will work on different sub-questions of the overarching question of the relationship between market and society. For these sub-questions, the students will first acquire knowledge on their own, and then act as tutors for their fellow students.
Educational objective:
When having finished the course, students will have gained deeper insights into the complex relationship of market and society. They will have decided which emphases they personally want to set, have gained deeper knowledge on the respective subfields, and passed on their acquired knowledge to others. They will have received analogous insights from other participants. This course also has the methodological goal of allowing participants to understand and visualize complex conceptual relationships by teaching them a new method and letting them apply it to the topic of market and society..
Further information about the exams:
The course will be assessed based on an oral presentation during the contact phase, and on an individual paper which will be written after September 6. How long that paper has to be depends on whether students likewise take the other course in the module (“Money and markets”). If so, they can write a longer paper of about 40’000 words to validate both courses. If not, they will have to write a shorter paper of about 20’000 solely to validate this course.
Mandatory literature:
Which literature exactly the course will feature will only be decided in the contact phase from September 3 to 6. Two good pieces for preparing the course are:
Walzer, Michael (1983). Spheres of Justice. New York: Basic Books. Chapters 1 & 4.
Sandel, Michael (2012). What money can’t buy. London: Allen Lane. Introduction & Chapter 1.
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