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Dr. Karin Schwiter

Teaching

Fall Semester 2012

  • Master course GEO432: Work, Gender and Space: Ungleichheiten in der neoliberalen Stadt  (team teaching with Christian Berndt)

Spring Semester 2012

Fall Semester 2011

  • Project seminar GEO362 in Economic Geography: The Care Economy (team teaching with Christian Berndt, Pascal Goeke, Peter Latzke, Moritz Schmidt & Jasmine Truong); Programme (PDF, 81 Kb)Details VVZ

Spring Semester 2011

  • Seminar GEO242.2 in Economic Geography: Labour Geographies (team teaching with Elisabeth Bühler & Heidi Kaspar); Details VVZ
  • Workshop "Discourse Analysis" in the Summer School of the PhD Programme "Gender: Prescripts and Transcripts" of the University of Bern.

Fall Semester 2010

  • Project seminar GEO313 in Economic Geography: Low-wage work in the service sector (team teaching with Christian Berndt, Pascal Goeke, Peter Latzke, Catherine Robin & Jasmine Truong); Programme (PDF, 75 Kb) Details VVZ
  • Lecture GEO232.2: Economic Geography II: Processes of Economic Globalization (team teaching with Christian Berndt & Pascal Goeke) Details VVZ

Spring Semester 2010

  • Lecture GEO126/323: Introduction to Spacial Planning (Lectureship of the University and the ETH Zurich); Programme (PDF, 51 Kb) Details VVZ
  • Seminar: Qualitative Research Methods (Lectureship of the University of Basel),Details (PDF, 58 Kb)
  • Contributing to the lecture GEO213.2: Economic Geography II, Details

Fall Semester 2009

Spring Semester 2009

  • Lecture: Introduction to Spacial Planning (Lectureship of the University and the ETH Zurich), Details (PDF, 50 Kb)

Fall Semesters 2006, 2007 and 2008

Assistant Teaching

Summer Semester 2006

Winter Semester 2005/06

Summer Semester 2005

Winter Semester 2004/05

Supervision of Mastertheses

Truong, Jasmine (2011) Arbeit, Arbeitsidentität, Arbeitsplatz. Die neuen Wanderarbeiterinnen in der Sorgewirtschaft. (Co-tutoring with Christian Berndt) Thesis (PDF, 1.0 Mb)

Buner, Gérard (2010) Raumwahrnehmung Agglo Obersee - Eine diskursanalytische Untersuchung der Raumwahrnehmung der Bevölkerung und der Gemeindevertreter in der Agglomeration Obersee

Gisler, Daniel (2010) Positivplannung von verkehrsintensiven Einrichtunge. Eine Fallstudie am Standort Rosenberg, Winterthur (Co-tutoring with André Odermatt)

Benz, Claude (2008) Die "neuen Väter". Eine diskursanalytische Untersuchung über die Darstellung einer sich ändernden Vaterrolle in den Printmedien Tages-Anzeiger und Le Temps. Thesis (PDF, 1.5 Mb)

Salzmann, Stefan (2008) Migration for education: Studying abroad and return to the home country. The example of Kyrgyz University graduates. Thesis (PDF, 3.4 Mb) (Co-tutoring with Susan Thieme of the Human Geography Division)

Services to the University of Zurich

2011-
Representative of the academic staff in the university senate

2011
Member of the commission for the development of the Bsc and MSc curriculum in geography

2010 -
Member of the research commission (Forschungskommission) of the faculty of science

2010 -
Representative of the academic staff in the faculty assembly

2007 - 2008
Member of the organizing group for the Natural-Sciences-Day on April 19th 2008, which was part of the University of Zurich's 175-year Jubilee

2005 - 2006
Member of the commission for the appointment of a new assistant professor in human geography