GMLP 1 focusses on key concepts of the concentration area. It deals with a variety of understandings and uses of governance, multi-level governance, space, globalization and power.

It deals with interrelated development processes on various spatial levels (from urban/local/regionalto European and global). We will deal with uneven development at these levels, theoretical concepts for understanding this development, the role and behaviour of key actors (firms, policy agents) and institutions as well as with multilevel governance approaches targeting this development.

After completion of Globalization and Multi Level Policy (GMLP) students

• have obtained an overview of multi-levelpolicy strategies and mechanisms including urban, regional, European and global goverance
• are capacitated to mobilise multiple(interdisciplinary) perspectives, concepts and theories to understand contemporary global policy challenges and to shape respective policies
• dispose of conceptual and analytical tools to understand and problematize policy discourses and strategies
• understand the importance of actors, institutions, power and the governance of knowledge to tackle real world processes

In the course of the semester you will have to prepare 4 short Study Reports and 1 Synthesis Report (500 words each). There is also the option to deliver an additional “bonus activity”.

Detailed information on the aim of the reports, the respective research questions and the assessment criteria as well as on the bonus activity are available on learn@wu

Grading:

• 4 Study Reports (15 points each - 60%)
• 1 Synthesis Report (20 Points  20%).
• Participation– including preparation of small tasks for classes (20%)

Bonus points – e.g. preparing empirical cases for classroom discussion (max 5 points)

Successful completion of semester 1 of MSc SEEP