Distance Mode (Online-Teaching):

• Students will make short video clips of their presentations.
• Students will discuss those presentations online in the forum at learn.wu.
• Video conference sessions are planned to sumamrize and discuss after every module

• History and evolution of capitalism
• The role of fossil energy in capitalism
• Social-ecological metabolism and work as mediation between nature and society
• From industrial to platform capitalism: Work, capital and the envrionment

Students learn about the historical development of capitalism and its implications for work, capital and the environment. They learn about the role of fossil energy for the evolution of capitalist production and its dependency on it. Students learn to assess problems of climate change as a direct consequence of the economic growth paradigm. Furthermore the course introduces into the concept of social-ecological metabolism and the role of work in society as a mediator between nature and society. Students learn to assess work and its conditions as a central indicator for the evolution of economic systems.

Courses with continuous assessment (PIs) have mandatroy attendance. Please contact lecturer in advance in case of absence.

More info in the first lecture.

theoretical impulses by the lecturers, particpiation, group and plenary discussions, group presentations and co-speeches, individual final paper

Students are assesses as given in the following:

Active particpiation in discussions (10%)

Group presentation to a slected topic (30%): presentation ~30 mins; thesis paper (~700 words pdf), contains brief summary of the topic and individual statement

Co-speech - Group work (10%): Commentary statement about ~10mins, comprehensive understanding of the article and topic; spontaneous commentary and asessment to group presentation; prepare and moderate plenary dicsussion

Final individual reflection paper (50%):  commentary, summary and statement of 2 selected presenation topics (~2000 words pdf)

first-come first served during registration time frame; contact lecturer if list is full

manuel.scholz-waeckerle@wu.ac.at