Courses
Courses in political science offered at the University of Cologne cover a wide range of the discipline. There are courses in Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Democratic Theory, International Relations, European and Multi-Level Politics, qualitative and quantitative methods, Political Theory and History of Ideas, as well as other areas.
The current course catalogue is available via the KLIPS campus management system. You can browse the catalogue by faculty, institute, and so on. Alternatively, you can view available courses by study programme.
Course catalogue in KLIPS
Sample courses
These are some sample courses that can give you an idea of the courses offered at the department. Please also note the current course catalogue in KLIPS.
Bachelor
These are some sample courses that can give you an idea of the courses offered in the Bachelor’s programmes at the department. The current course catalogue is available via KLIPS.
Most courses in the Bachelor’s programmes require proficiency in German.
Core lectures
- Grundlagen der Internationalen Beziehungen
- Einführung in die Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft: Vergleichende Politische Ökonomie
- Grundlagen der Europäischen Politik – Das politische System der Europäischen Union
- Grundlagen der Vergleichenden Analyse Politischer Institutionen
Seminars (examples from the 2024/25 winter term)
- Forschungslogik und -design
- Authoritarian Politics
- Europäische Politik in Krisenzeiten
- Einführung in die politikwissenschaftliche Korruptionsforschungs
- Gender and Politics
- Politische Ökonomie der Digitalisierung
- Die großen Transformationen der politischen Ökonomie
- Political Economy of Inequality
- Neue Räume der Sicherheitspolitik (Blockseminar mit Exkursion)
- Die Zwei-Staaten-Lösung für den Nahen Osten. Akteure und deren Darstellung in den Medien
- Wer könnte einen Waffenstillstand in der Ukraine verhandeln?
- Challenges of Sustainable Development
Master
These are some sample courses that can give you an idea of the courses offered in the Master’s programme at the department. The current course catalogue is available via KLIPS.
Core lectures
- Comparative Political Institutions
- Comparative Political Economy: Theories and Methods
- Democratic Theory and Practice
- International Relations [Seminars]
- Comparing European Democracies
Method courses
- Research Design
- Quantitative Methods (lecture and laboratory)
- Qualitative Methods (lecture and laboratory)
Seminars (examples from the 2024/2025 winter term)
- Citizenship, Multiculturalism and Pluralism
- Politics as Profession: A Comparative Empirical Perspective
- Institutional Reform of the European Union
- Coalition Politics in Parliamentary Democracies
- Democracy in the Twenty First Century
- Who Rules the Economy? The Political Economy of Labor and Business
- Research Design and Research Logic
- The Impact of Brexit on the Political System of the United Kingdom
- Types of Democracy (Research Project)
- We Need to Go Deep: How to Study the Political and Institutional Foundations of Political Economies (Research Project)
