The British Empire

England and Portugal: A Relationship

Kernkompetenz Projektmanagement

Längst ist Projektmanagement nicht mehr als Spezialgebiet von Ingenieuren anzusehen. Immer mehr Organisationen und Unternehmen setzen auf projektorientiertes Arbeiten und fordern Projektmanagementkenntnisse von Mitarbeitern und Bewerbern. Dabei ist der Umfang der erforderlichen Projektmanagementaktivitäten sehr verschieden. Grundsätzlich gilt es in einer bestimmten Zeit und mit einem begrenzten Budget eine komplexe Aufgabe zu lösen. Je größer das Projekt, desto mehr Managementaufgaben müssen durch die Projektleitung erbracht, und rein fachliche Aufgaben an Mitarbeiter delegiert werden. Modernes Projektmanagement ist einerseits der Blick aus der Vogelperspektive und auf der anderen Seite das Führen auf Augenhöhe. Zur PM-Kompetenz gehört aber auch, die im Kontext richtigen Methoden auszuwählen und die empfängergerechte Kommunikation von Annahmen, Anforderungen und Ergebnissen.

Aus dem breiten Spektrum werden in diesem Kurs Methoden erklärt und an Beispielen geübt, die den Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern ermöglichen, einfache Projekte selbst zu organisieren und in komplexen Projekten sachverständig mitzuarbeiten.


U.S. Women's History

This course looks at the history of the United States through women’s eyes and explores what has, and has not, changed for American women by looking historically at the ideas and experiences of women in the United States since 1865. Gender classification, central to the economic and social organization of U.S. society, presented an ongoing challenge to the American constitutional order as the country transitioned from the pre-industrial economy into a rapidly industrializing nation. Notwithstanding severe constraints formalized in law and imposed by custom, American women participated fully in the nation’s rapid economic development, which operated sometimes to lighten, sometimes to increase, the burdens of their civic inequality. Studying women’s history also means being aware of the way women have been divided by class, race, ethnicity, and more, and that while the voices of white, elite women tend to predominate, the experiences of less privileged women and women of color have also had significant effects on shaping the American past. By the end of the course, students will be able to use gender perspectives in making critical evaluations of historical change in post-1865 American society, identify major phases of U.S. women’s activism post-1865 and the factors that shaped them, and recognize elements of post-1865 U.S. society that shaped women’s lives differently from those of men. 


Transnational Lives of European Migrants in the United States

The United States is a nation of immigrants, or so the saying goes. This popular mythology continues to loom large in the twenty-first century. Even today, despite the Trump Administration’s policies of family separation, enhanced border security, and limited refugee admissions, many Americans continue to regard immigration as one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the United States. The myth is not only problematic, but it also ignores the transnationality of migration. This course will explore the lives of European migrants in the United States through a transnational perspective, moving from the antebellum era to the present day. More broadly, the course will investigate Europeans’ immigration patterns, U.S. immigration policies targeting European immigrants, and the lives of European migrants in the United States within a transnational context. Students will examine the impact that these experiences had on the European immigrants themselves, on the families they left behind, on U.S. society, and on the sending countries. By the end of this course, students will be able to compare and contrast how different groups of European immigrants have adjusted to life in the United States and maintained transnational lives. They will also gain an understanding of how factors such as national origin, gender, class, generation, religion, sexuality, and nationality have shaped Europe immigrants’ transnational experiences. 


Die spanische Transición in der medialen Darstellung