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Teaching - Overview of the courses

SS 2026

Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas

  • Practical Training: Urban Development in Bangkok: Multiple Disaster Risk Reduction - Awareness, Preparedness and Adaption of Built Environment
  • Graduate and research seminars

M.Sc. Anissa Vogel

  • Seminar: Economy and Development (in German)
  • Seminar: Climate-Resilient Urban Development: Climate-Sensitive Urban Planning and Adaptation Pathways in European Cities (in German)
WS 2025-26

Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas

  • Lecture: Population and the cities (in German)
  • Seminar: Megacities in India and Southeast Asia: Urban Resilience (in German)
  • Practical Training: Urban Development in Northwest Thailand - Creative and Heritage Cities: Culture, Handicrafts, Food and Arts
  • Excursion: Japan
  • Graduate and research seminars

M.Sc. Anissa Vogel

  • Seminar: Population and the cities (in German)
SS 2025

Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas

  • Ringvorlesung/Lecture: Geographie
  • Seminar: Urban development in Cologne and Berlin: transformation processes, climate and environmental change, urban risks (in German)
  • Practical Training: Urban development in mountainous regions in Switzerland (in German)
  • Graduate and research seminars

M.Sc. Niklas Elverich

  • Seminar: Economy and development (in German)
WS 2024-25

Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas

  • Lecture: Population and the cities (in German)
  • Seminar: Cities and climate change: urban risks, resilience and health (in German)
  • Practical Training: Urban Development in Northeast Thailand
  • Graduate and research seminars

M.Sc. Niklas Elverich

  • Seminar: Population and the cities (in German)
SS 2024

Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas

  • Seminar: Research Frontiers: Urbanisation in Mountain Areas of South Asia
  • Practical Training: Stadtentwicklung in Nordost-Indien

M.Sc. Niklas Elverich

  • Seminar: Wirtschaft und Entwicklung
WS 2023-24

Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas

  • Lecture: Bevölkerung und Stadt
  • Excursion: Transformative nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung in Südostasien: Malaysia und Singapur
  • Graduate and research seminars

M.Sc. Niklas Elverich

  • Seminar: Bevölkerung und Stadt
SS 2023

Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas

  • Practical Training: Stadtentwicklung in Island
  • Practical Training: Tourismusbasierte Stadtentwicklung in Gebirgsregionen der Schweiz

M.Sc. Niklas Elverich

  • Seminar: Wirtschaft und Entwicklung

M.Sc. Anissa Vogel

  • Seminar: Klimawandel, Katastrophen und Konflikte – Urbane Resilienz im 21. Jahrhundert
WS 2022-23

Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas

  • Lecture: Bevölkerung und Stadt
  • Practical Training: Urban Heritage in der Megastadt Pune/Indien
  • Excursion: Transformative Sustainable Urban Development in Southeast Asia (Thailand)

M.Sc. Niklas Elverich

  • Seminar: Bevölkerung und Stadt

M.Sc. Yasmin Heinrichs

  • Seminar: Bevölkerung und Stadt

M.Sc. Anissa Vogel

  • Seminar: Urban Blue Future – Strategien und Perspektiven für eine wassersensible Stadtentwicklung im Kontext des Klimawandels
WS 2022-23

Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas

  • Lecture: Bevölkerung und Stadt
  • Practical Training: Urban Heritage in der Megastadt Pune/Indien
  • Excursion: Transformative Sustainable Urban Development in Southeast Asia (Thailand)

M.Sc. Niklas Elverich

  • Seminar: Bevölkerung und Stadt

M.Sc. Yasmin Heinrichs

  • Seminar: Bevölkerung und Stadt

M.Sc. Anissa Vogel

  • Seminar: Urban Blue Future – Strategien und Perspektiven für eine wassersensible Stadtentwicklung im Kontext des Klimawandels
SS 2022

Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas

PD Dr. Carsten Butsch

  • Seminar: Geographische Gesundheitsforschung

B.A. Yasmin Heinrichs

  • Seminar: Wirtschaft und Entwicklung

B.Sc. Niklas Elverich

  • Seminar: Wirtschaft und Entwicklung

M.Sc. Anissa Vogel

  • Seminar: Komplexe Mensch-Umwelt-Systeme: (Mega-)Deltas in Südostasien
WS 2020/21

All courses will be held in german.

Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas

  • No course, as research semester off

Dr. Tine Trumpp

  • Seminar: Population and City

B.A. Yasmin Heinrichs

  • Seminar: Urban Risk Research
SS 2021

All courses will be held in german and online.

Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas

  • Seminar: Future Visions and Risks in Asian Megacities: Smart cities, Digitalization, Culture, Tourism and Health
  • Excursion: Island: "Urban and Regional Development in the European Periphery"

Dr. Tine Trumpp

  • Seminar: Economy and Development

B.A. Yasmin Heinrichs

  • Seminar: Europe's cities - Current Processes, Problems and Approaches to Solutions
WS 2020/21

All courses will be held in german and online.

Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas

Franziska Krachten

  • Seminar/Practice: Population and City

PD Dr. Carsten Butsch

  • Seminar: Urban Transformation in Asia
  • Practical Training: Digitisation finds City
SS 2020

All courses will be held in german.

Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas

  • Lecture: Urban development in Asia
  • Lecture: Environment and Society in Iceland
  • Seminar: Urban risk research
  • Internship: Integrated urban development in Cologne: risks and safety
  • Excursion: Urban and regional development in the south of Myanmar and Thailand (if this can take place due to the Corona pandemic)

MA Sarah Luft

  • Seminar: Border cities in Asia and Europe

Dr. Sophie-Bo Heinkel

  • Seminar: Introduction to Geographical Health Research

PD Dr. Carsten Butsch

  • will not be holding any courses at the University of Cologne this semester, as he will be representing the Chair of Human Geography at the Institute of Geography at the University of Heidelberg.

Details and all other courses of the institute can be found on klips 2.0.

No guarantee for completeness.