Games have long been used as powerful training instruments. They help create working models of human interaction, which enable students to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills. They are especially useful for sensitive topics as they engage players emotionally in the low-risk environment created by an artificial field of play.
The Game "New Horizons" (Crawford, 2016, S. 1) is based on the concept of "Diversophy" (S. 2) and engages intercultural and social interaction through a specific card game.
The game empowers those who play it to work and communicate constructively across differences. The game takes players from "ethnocentricity" (S. 2) - being centered in one's own culture, the way we find ourselves when we first face diversity - to "diversophy" (S. 2), a state of higher cultural sensitivity and skill. These skills will be transferred to and enrich students`work and private life.

Lecture, games, discussion, presentation, group work, self reflection.

On their path to improved cultural competence, students, through actively creating and playing this game, facilitate interaction and dialogue through game play, with the overall goal of increasing awareness, understanding and empathy in intercultural situations.
A: Self competence:

• comprehension and awareness in intercultural situations
• empathy for a diverse society
• tolerance for ambiguity

B. Professional expertise: students know and apply the basic theories for intercultural communication
C. Methods competence:

• Reproduction of intercultural competences
• challenge students´factual knowledge about specific cultural topics
• enhance communication and teambuilding skills
• put students in situations that are beyond their control. Some situations are "positive" (+) and some "negative" (-). These situations allow students to experience, in a non-threatening way, how differences can create unexpected benefits or costs
• experience knowledge from different cultures and recommendations that encourage students to look for opportunities to apply it in their work or life.

D. Social competence: Application of intercultural competences in regional settings

Performance record:
Item of work A: classroom activity, presentation
Item of work B: preparing, participating and executing on cultural significant situations through game cards
Attendance: 80%

Grading

Performance record:
Item of work A: classroom activity, presentation
Item of work B: preparing, participating and executing on cultural significant situations through game cards
Attendance: 80%

Fakultätsübergreifendes Wahlfach:
Es gelten spezielle Anmeldemodalitäten.

When we talk about communication, we usually assume that it is oral or written communication. It is often forgotten that there is also communication in non-verbal form. Posture or facial expressions usually complement or underline the spoken word. In this module students will research how it is possible to complete a narrative through their own body perception. Is it possible to tell a story or give a speech without words? Can a person appear more present or attract more attention through a certain posture? Are there differences in mood or tension when someone tells a story in different places in the same room? These and many other questions related to non-verbal communication will be explored in this workshop through practical exercises.

- Practical theatre exercises
- conversations/discussions about the exercises
- Presentation of scenes and exercises rehearsed during class to the other students of the class

- introduction to work as actor/artist in theatre and on stage
- Increasing the perception of one's own body
- Sharpening of the senses for the environment/the space
- Basic knowledge for dealing with non-verbal communication
- Telling a short story/having a short speech without using spoken words in front of an audience
- development of a consciousness acting/speeking for an audience

- the students are requested to come to class in comfortable clothes and shoes (tracksuits, t-shirt, light sneakers or thick socks)
- writing material (for an individual workshop-diary)

• Please bring a camping mat.

Teilleistung A: Progress/personal development in exercises of theatrical techniques (25%)
Teilleistung B: cooperation in joint and individual exercises, trainings and tasks (50%)
Teilleistung C: reflection/analysis of the theatrical exercises and presented results in written and in oral form (25%)
Compulsory attendance (min. 80%)

Grading

Teilleistung A: Progress/personal development in exercises of theatrical techniques (25%)
Teilleistung B: cooperation in joint and individual exercises, trainings and tasks (50%)
Teilleistung C: reflection/analysis of the theatrical exercises and presented results in written and in oral form (25%)
Compulsory attendance (min. 80%)

Fakultätsübergreifendes Wahlfach:
Es gelten spezielle Anmeldemodalitäten.

The relationships between migration and various aspects of democracy are manifold: How do democracies integrate their emigrants and immigrants (e. g. foreigners' right to vote, access to citizenship, dual citizenship, etc. )? On the other side, how do migrants contribute to their host societies? How do democracies change through migration? These and other questions regarding the relationship between migration and democracy will be explored.
The module will be conducted as a workshop. In small groups an exhibition concept will be developed - in terms of content and graphics. At the end of the workshop the outcome of every group will be discussed. It is envisaged that the contents developed can then be exhibited publicly.

Workshop

Development of the content of the topic migration and democracy; independent work in a group within a limited period of time; preparation of the content and graphics of the topic in an easily understandable presentation for others.

Professional competencies, social competencies (group work), personal competencies

Will be announced at the start of the workshop.

Laptop, paper, writing utensils

The group work, which will be presented at the closing event on 28 March 2020, also represents the proof of examination.

Grading

The group work, which will be presented at the closing event on 28 March 2020, also represents the proof of examination.

Fakultätsübergreifendes Wahlfach:
Es gelten spezielle Anmeldemodalitäten.

Untersucht werden das gemeinsame & ausschliessliche von Schrift und Bild,
das Buch in seiner umfassenden Gestaltbarkeit.
Unternommen wird der Versuch ein modernes Gedicht zu illustrieren, zu illuminieren, zu edieren.
Unter die Lupe genommen werden alle relevanten bucheditorische Gesetzmässigkeiten,
das Buch in seinem architektonischen Aufbau.

Seminar und Übungen

Das Erlernen editorischer Grundlagen: Format, Satzspiegel, elementares zu Typographie u. Buchmanufaktur
Das Problembewusstsein schärfen: Text und Bild, Text oder Bild, Text versus Bild
Angewandtes Verstehen durch Illustration eines Gedichts durch Linolschnitt
Die Fähigkeit digitale mit analogen Bildsprachen zu vernetzen.

Roland Reuß: Die perfekte Lesemaschine, Wallstein 2014;
Jost Hochuli: Bücher machen, Agfa Compugraphis, 2004;
quaderno I-III, Robert Altmann Projekt, Hrg.v. Norbert Haas, Vreni Haas, Hansjörg Quaderer, 2010-2012

Mappe der Übungen

Anwesenheitspflicht: mindestens 80%

Benotung

Mappe der Übungen

Anwesenheitspflicht: mindestens 80%

Fakultätsübergreifendes Wahlfach:
Es gelten spezielle Anmeldemodalitäten.

Weiterschreiben und kreatives Schreiben eigener Texte stehen im Mittelpunkt. Wir greifen die Themen von zwei Vorträgen aus der Reihe "Fakt, Fake, Fiktion" auf und setzen uns mit diesen auseinander. Dafür legen wir individuell Termine nach den Vorträgen fest. Es geht darum, im Selbstauftrag Textformen (Gedicht, Essay, Erzählung, Reportage, u.v.a.m.) zu finden, um die eigenen Gedanken, Positionen und Gefühle zu verbalisieren. Mittels einer offenen Erzähl- und Schreibwerkstatt erarbeiten die Studierenden eigene Positionen, Einschätzungen und Beurteilungen des Themas.

Vorträge:
Prof. Dr. Philip Manow: Fiktion, Fakten und der Populismus - 04. März 2020
Prof. Dr. Jan Söffner: Fake, Fiktion und die Demokratie - 06. Mai 2020

Schreibprojekt, Schreibwerkstatt

Einen eigenen Weg zum Text finden und die eigenen Positionen in Text fassen.

Banzer, R., Quaderer, H. & Sommer, R. (Hrsg.). (2017). Demokratische Momente (Liechtenstein erzählen, Bd. 1). Zürich: Limmat Verlag.
Koschorke, A. (2012). Wahrheit und Erfindung. Grundzüge einer allgemeinen Erzähltheorie. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer.
Martinez, M. M. M., Martinez, M. & Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl-Ernst-Poeschel-Verlag, J. -B. -M. (2017). Erzählen Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch.
Nünning, V. (2013). Erzählen und Identität: Die Bedeutung des Erzählens im Schnittfeld zwischen kulturwissenschaflticher Narratologie und Psychologie. In A. Strohmaier (Hrsg.), Kultur - Wissen - Narration. Perspektiven transdisziplinärer Erzählforschung für die Kulturwissenschaften (Kultur- und Medientheorie, S. 145-169). Bielefeld: transcript.
Saupe, A. & Wiedemann, F. (2015). Narration und Narratologie. Erzähltheorien in der Geschichtswissenschaft, Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte. Verfügbar unter http://docupedia.de/zg/Narration?oldid=98435
Sommer, R. (2013). Erzählforschung als Kulturwissenschaft. Erkenntnisinterssen, Ansätze und Fragestellungen der klassischen Narratologie. Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, 63 (1), 85-101. Zugriff am 01.06.2015.
Sommer, R. (2017). Kollektiverzählungen: Wie narrative Wirklichkeitsentwürfe gesellschaftlich wirksam werden. In R. Banzer, H. Quaderer & R. Sommer (Hrsg.), Demokratische Momente (Liechtenstein erzählen, Bd. 1, S. 213-236). Zürich: Limmat Verlag.
Strohmaier, A. (Hrsg.). (2013). Kultur - Wissen - Narration. Perspektiven transdisziplinärer Erzählforschung für die Kulturwissenschaften (Kultur- und Medientheorie). Bielefeld: transcript.
Strässle, T. (2019). Fake und Fiktion. Über die Erfindung von Wahrheit. München: Hanser.

• Besuch von zwei Vorträgen aus der Reihe "Fakt, Fake, Fiktion"
• Die geforderten Leistungsnachweise werden entsprechend der unter "Beurteilung" aufgeführten Modalitäten ausgestellt.
• Bei prüfungsimmanenten Lehrveranstaltungen besteht grundsätzlich Anwesenheitspflicht.
• Die Erfüllung der Anwesenheitspflicht ist eine notwendige Voraussetzung für den positiven Abschluss einer prüfungsimmanenten Lehrveranstaltung.
• Die Anwesenheit muss für mind. 80% der Kontaktzeiten nachgewiesen werden.
• Die Überprüfung und schriftliche Dokumentation der Anwesenheitspflicht obliegt dem/der jeweiligen Dozierenden, der/die diese zumindest bis zum Abschluss des Semesters aufbewahrt.
• Für Fehlzeiten, die über die definierten Abwesenheiten hinausgehen, gilt Attestpflicht.

Es obliegt der Leitung der Koordinationsstelle für fakultätsübergreifende Wahlfächer den Versäumnisgrund zu genehmigen.

• Der Besuch einer anderen Veranstaltung der Universität gilt nicht als entschuldigte Abwesenheit.

Benotung

Prüfungsmodus:
Teilleistung A: 70 % eigene Wirklichkeitserzählung
Teilleistung B: 30 % Diskurs und Feedback

Besuch von zwei Vorträgen aus der Reihe "Fakt, Fake, Fiktion"

Anwesenheitspflicht: 80%, aber verpflichtend

Fakultätsübergreifendes Wahlfach:
Es gelten spezielle Anmeldemodalitäten.

Brexit marks a turning point in the history of the European Union (EU). The main questions of this lecture are what are the reasons for Brexit and how Brexit affects European integration. In addition, the lecture will explore how referendums and other forms of democratic decision-making shape the European integration process. Finally, the lecture Brexit will compare other challenges of the EU.

Lectures, written examination, discussion

Understanding of fundamental processes of European politics; insight into the political system of the United Kingdom; overview of alternative models to the EU; overview of the procedures and functioning of direct democracy in Europe; overview of the main challenges for Europe
Expertise on relevant issues; analysis of political processes

Additional readings will be provided for every lecture

Slides will be provided for every lecture

written exam 100%

Grading

written exam 100%

Fakultätsübergreifendes Wahlfach:
Es gelten keine speziellen Anmeldemodalitäten.

Short description
The course focuses on developing research proposals in the field of data science.

Topics

• Conducting literature reviews
• Developing research questions
• Designing qualitative, quantitative, and design oriented research
• Writing research proposals
• Ethical issues in data science

The module integrates theoretical knowledge and practical skills in an interactive seminar.The e-learning platform Moodle will be used throughout the course for the dissemination of course material and discussions.

• Students will know the professional code of conduct of the academic IS discipline.
• Students will effectively communicate academic research designs.
• Students will produce rigorous research proposals in the area of data science.
• Students will recognize and analyze ethical problems of designing and conducting research in the field of data science.

Compulsory reading

• Creswell, J. W. (2013). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. Sage

An attendance of min. 80% is necessary to obtain a positive grade in this course.
Seminar Paper (100%)

Grundlagen, Abgrenzung und Zielsetzungen der Jahresabschlussanalyse, Jahresabschlusspolitik (sachverhaltsgestaltende, materielle, formale), Arten der Jahresabschlussanalyse (intern, extern), Aufbereitungsmassnahmen des Jahresabschlusses, Kennzahlen der traditionellen Jahresabschlussanalyse im Überblick, finanzwirtschaftliche Kennzahlen, erfolgswirtschaftliche Kennzahlen, Liquiditäts-Kennzahlen, Quicktest nach Kralicek, Kennzahlensysteme (ROI, ZVEI), Diskriminanzanalyse, Bilanzkosmetik und Bilanzbetrug, Fallstudie zur umfassenden Jahresabschlussanalyse, moderne Jahresabschlussanalyse (inkl. aktienbasierte Jahresabschlussanalyse).

Internationale Rechnungslegungssysteme im Überblick, Aufbau der Internationalen Rechnungslegung, Komponenten des Einzelabschlusses nach IFRS, Behandlung der wichtigsten IFRS-Standards und Ausarbeitung der Unterschiede zur handelsrechtlichen Rechnungslegung, Überleitung eines handelsrechtlichen Abschlusses auf IFRS, Grundlagen der Konzernrechnungslegung (nach Handelsrecht bzw. IFRS).

Short description
The course focuses on developing research proposals in the field of business process management.

Topics

• Conducting literature reviews
• Developing research questions
• Designing qualitative, quantitative, and design oriented research
• Writing research proposals
• Ethical issues in business process management research

The module integrates theoretical knowledge and practical skills in an interactive seminar.The e-learning platform Moodle will be used throughout the course for the dissemination of course material and discussions.

• Students will know the professional code of conduct of the academic IS discipline.
• Students will effectively communicate academic research designs.
• Students will produce rigorous research proposals in the area of business process management.
• Students will recognize and analyze ethical problems of designing and conducting research in the field of business process management.

Compulsory reading

• Bryman, A. & Bell, E. (2015) Business research methods (4th ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Creswell, J.W. (2013) Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (3rd ed.). Sage Publications
• Oates, B. J. (2006). Researching information systems and computing. London, UK: Sage Publications.
• Recker, J. (2012). Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner’s Guide. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany.

Further reading

• Kumar, R. (2014). Research methodology: A step-by-step guide for beginners. London, UK: Sage Publications.

An attendance of min. 80% is necessary to obtain a positive grade in this course.
Seminar Paper (100%)

Short description
In their Master’s thesis, students use scientific methods and work in accordance with standards of scientific writing. The Master’s thesis is typically related to the major (BPM or Data Science) chosen by the student.

• The thesis is supervised by a supervisor who should be members of the Institute of Information Systems.
• The Master’s thesis is defended in an oral exam, where students may be asked questions related to their studies that may go beyond the content of their Master’s thesis.
• The official editing time is defined on the thesis proposal and may not exceed 22 weeks. A shorter editing time is possible.

• Students will formulate appropriate research questions.
• Students will identify appropriate theories to explain empirical phenomena.
• Students will identify suitable research methods in order to seek answers to specific research questions.
• Students will use appropriate qualitative, quantitative, and design-oriented approaches to seek answers to their research question/questions. Mere conceptual works are also possible.

Compulsory reading

• Bryman, A. & Bell, E. (2015) Business research methods (4th ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Creswell, J.W. (2013) Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (3rd ed.). Sage Publications
• Oates, B. J. (2006). Researching information systems and computing. London, UK: Sage Publications.
• Recker, J. (2012). Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner’s Guide. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany.

Submissions and deadlines

• A copy of signed thesis proposal (Exposé) must be submitted until July 1st (for the winter term) and February 1st (for the summer term).
• The master's thesis must be submitted until November 30th (for the winter term) and June 30th (for the summer term) to the the central service desk.
• The submission of master's thesis must include: Please have a look at the current "Guidelines for Writing Academic Papers in Economics".
• If any of the dates above falls on a weekend or public holiday, the deadline is automatically extended until the next working day. Please also check the opening times of the central service desk, especially during summer months.