• According to the chosen concentration in the MSc Degree-Program at Hochschule Liechtenstein, students can direct their studies in a similar orientation, or study complementary courses that can be integrative to their concentration.
• The content is given by partner universities.

Generally studio delivered and project based, with students being tutored individually and in groups. This is supported by lectures that explain the principles that underlie architectural design and provide the intellectual and cultrual context for the study in achitecture.
Lectures, seminars.

The module Study Abroad/ Special Studies gives the opportunity to study in an architectural program proposed by one of our none german speaking partner universities in Europe, America, Asia and Africa. The module aims to establish intercultural relationships and learning experiences. Students are confronted to new building cultures and traditions.

At the end of the module each student should have the ability to demonstrate and/or work with:

• Cultural awareness and sensibility.
• A researched understanding of design in order to take a position as a designer reflected in the ability to devise and implement strategies.
• A critical understanding of the intellectual and aesthetic content of self-selected buildings that supports architectural judgement.
• Researched and critical evaluation of the briefing and performance of buildings.
• The ability to define what type of research is relevant, what questions to ask, and which formats to record the findings to best serve as a springboard to design decisions.
• Execute complex defined and self-defined projects of research, development or investigation and identify and implement relevant outcomes.
• Ability to plan and compose buildings exhibiting complexity in terms of function, scale and context.
• Knowledge on the humanistic currents through the reading of selected literature
• Demonstrate the ability to work with other students for.
• The ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts comprehensibly in visual, oral and written forms.
• Present and evaluate arguments, information and ideas concerning the various fields discussed in this module, and the ability to integrate these aspects in their individual design thinking and work.

• According to partner university

The module has to be passed with a sufficient grade (minimum grade of 4.0).

• According to partner university

The module Study Abroad/ Special Studies is composed of following courses:

• according to courses proposed by partner universities
• according to related research/ special studies project in the concentration

Dieses Modul fördert grundlegende kommunikative Kompetenzen in der deutschen Sprache.
>mündliche und schriftliche Kommunikationsformen für den Alltag
>kulturelle Kompetenz

Interaktiver Unterricht mit den vier Fertigkeiten (Hören, Sprechen, Lesen und Schreiben)

Die Module "Deutsch als Fremdsprache" vertiefen die während der "Introduction Week" für internationale Studierende erworbenen Kompetenzen. Sie können aber auch unabhängig davon besucht werden.
Die Einführungswoche für internationale Studierende: "Introduction week: German and Culture in Liechtenstein" bietet neben der Begleitung der Studierenden während ihrer ersten Woche an der Hochschule Liechtenstein auch die Gelegenheit, andere internationale Studierende kennen zu lernen und Deutschkenntnisse für den Alltag praxisbezogen aufzufrischen.
Bitte melden Sie sich für die Introduction Week beim International Office an.

• The irrelevance of corporate finance with respect to company value
• Cost of capital
• Capital value as decision element for investments
• Investment controlling and management
• Capital budgeting and risk
• New share issues and increase in share capital (problems with insider trading)
• Asymmetrical information, agency problems, manager compensation and measuring success
• Corporate financing in the case of conflict of interests
• between owners and managers
• between creditors and owners
• among several creditors
• Optimal finance structure in consideration of taxes
• Evaluation of options
• Real options
• Balance sheet analysis and methods for corporate rating (DCF, EVA, EBIT, EBITDA, ROE, ROI)
• Mergers and acquisitions

Interactive lecture with integrated practice through use of case studies.

After completing the module, the students have a broad and integrated knowledge in the area of corporate financing and corporate rating as well as an overview of the state-of-the-art research. They understand various modelling approaches where the influence of special aspects or institutions (e.g. asymmetrical information or taxes) on corporate financing is described, and they can develop and present solutions to these problems. They are additionally able to apply a range of mathematical procedures and to use them in scientific contexts to describe and solve presented problems. They are further able to employ subject-specific vocabulary according to the situation and to apply well-honed reasoning skills.

The principal concentration of the course is:

• Demonstrating the concept of irrelevance of corporate financing
• Explaining the cost of capital terminology
• Illustrating the capital value method as decision instrument
• Delineating investment controlling and management
• Outlining the principal of new share issues and increase in share capital
• Clarifying the problem of financing in the case of asymmetrical information
• Providing examples of the agency problem and illustrating various conflicts of interest
• Investigating the influence of taxes on investment activities
• Scrutinising the forms of option rating
• Practicing various methods of corporate rating
• Differentiating between mergers and acquisitions

Voraussetzung für die Anmeldung zur Modulprüfung ist:

• der erfolgreiche Abschluss aller Module des 1. Vollzeit-Regelstudienjahres
• der erfolgreiche Abschluss von Modulen des 2. Vollzeit-Regelstudienjahres (ohne Berufspraktika-Module) im Umfang von mindestens 35 Credits

Bei Studienbeginn 2008 zusätzlich wahlweise:

• der erfolgreiche Abschluss des Moduls "Communication in English for Business"
• die Anerkennung BEC II

Bei Studienbeginn ab 2009 zusätzlich:

• der erfolgreiche Abschluss des Moduls "Communication in English for Business"

Ausnahme für das Studienjahr 2009/2010:
Bei Studienbeginn vor WS 2008/2009 keine formale Voraussetzungen.

• Das Modul verweist auf die enge Verflechtung personalwirtschaftlicher, organisatorischer und organisationspsychologischer Managementherausforderungen.

• Die Lehrveranstaltung ¿Verhalten in Organisationen' setzt auf der Ebene des Individuums auf und stellt die Wechselwirkung zwischen den Ebenen Individuum, Gruppe und Organisation in den Vordergrund. Besondere Berücksichtigung findet die Systematisierung von organisationspsychologischem Wissen sowie das eigene Erleben und der Anwendungszusammenhang in die Praxis.

Interaktive Vorlesung mit Einzel- und Gruppenübungen inkl. Plenumsdiskussionen

• Enge Verzahnung zwischen personal- und organisationswirt-schaftlichen und -psychologischen Fragestellungen bewusst machen (z.B. enger Zusammenhang zwischen Honorierung und Art der Aufgabenteilung).
• Organisationspsychologie als eigenständiges Fach beschreiben.
• Individuelles Verhalten in Organisationen erklären.
• Strukturen und Prozesse in Gruppen erleben und auf das

alltägliche Verhalten anwenden.

• Organisation, Team und Individuum als dynamisches, einer

Wechselwirkung unterworfenem System beschreiben.

• Dynamik von Organisationen erklären.
• Fähigkeit zur kritischen Reflexion grundlegender

organisationspsychologischer Zusammenhänge entwickeln.

• Introduction of the bank and insurance systems in Liechtenstein, Germany, Switzerland and Austria
• Roles and responsibilities of banks and insurance companies
• Matching maturities
• Matching volume
• Control function
• Risk management
• Models on existence of banks and financial intermediation
• Necessity of bank regulation
• The role of national banks
• Methods for regulation of volume of money in circulation
• Methods for regulation of interest rates
• Basic aspects of deposit and credit transactions
• Practices in overall bank regulation
• Bank accounting
• Basics of bank calculation
• Insurance business
• Insurance of property
• Insurance of persons
• The role of reinsurance

Interactive lecture

After completion of the module, the students recognise the state-of-the-art pertaining to the economic and business-management aspects of the banking and insurance business.
They understand a range of economic explanations on the existence of banks and insurance companies. They realise the necessity of bank regulation and understand the distinct business-management features of banks and insurance companies. They have at their command special knowledge of the development of the banking system and the current methods and modes of operation in daily bank and insurance business.
In addition, the students apply theoretical models on bank theory, on overall bank regulation and insurance business operations in order to argue within a scientific environment as well as to be able to apply these models in a practical context.

The learning outcome of the course is:
" Describing the distinct features of the banking and insurance systems in Liechtenstein, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
" Explaining the responsibilities of banks and insurance companies.
" Justifying and scrutinising the existence of banks
" Juxtaposing models on financial intermediation
" Demonstrating the necessity of bank regulation
" Enumerating the aspects of deposit and credit business
" Making use of practices in overall bank regulation
" Applying special requirements for bank accounting
" Understanding the basics of bank calculation
" Classifying insurance business as insurance of property and insurance of persons
" Explaining the role of reinsurance.

Voraussetzung für die Anmeldung zur Modulprüfung ist:

• der erfolgreiche Abschluss aller Module des 1. Vollzeit-Regelstudienjahres
• der erfolgreiche Abschluss von Modulen des 2. Vollzeit-Regelstudienjahres (ohne Berufspraktika-Module) im Umfang von mindestens 35 Credits

Bei Studienbeginn 2008 zusätzlich wahlweise:

• der erfolgreiche Abschluss des Moduls "Communication in English for Business"
• die Anerkennung BEC II

Bei Studienbeginn ab 2009 zusätzlich:

• der erfolgreiche Abschluss des Moduls "Communication in English for Business"

Ausnahme für das Studienjahr 2009/2010:
Bei Studienbeginn vor WS 2008/2009 keine formale Voraussetzungen.

Dieses Modul fördert grundlegende kommunikative und kulturelle Kompetenzen in der spanischen Sprache.

Interaktion, Rollenspiele

>einfache Informationen verstehen und wiedergeben
>an einfachen Unterhaltungen im Alltag teilnehmen
>über Vergangenes berichten
>einfache schriftliche Texte verfassen

• Building Blocks of "Corporate Entrepreneurship" (definition, general frameworks, differences between Corporate Entrepreneurship and Start-Up Entrepreneurship, process of Corporate Entrepreneurship, forms of Corporate Entrepreneurship)
• Creating a Corporate Entrepreneurship Organization (human resource management in entrepreneurial organizations, personality of corporate entrepreneurs, motivations for entrepreneurial behaviour, corporate strategy and entrepreneurship, elements and development of an entrepreneurial culture)
• Entrepreneurial Performance (constraints on entrepreneurial performance, leading an entrepreneurial organization, assessing entrepreneurial performance, sustaining entrepreneurial performance)

Interactive lecture with practical exercises (exercise course) and case studies, private study

"Corporate Entrepreneurship" provides the participants a practical impression of Corporate Entrepreneurship. At the end of the module students will

• know the relevant issues regarding Corporate Entrepreneurship.
• have got in touch with concepts on how to create a company with the spirit of Corporate Entrepreneurship.
• know how to measure Corporate Entrepreneurship related to its performance advantages.

Voraussetzung für die Anmeldung zur Modulprüfung ist:

• der erfolgreiche Abschluss aller Module des 1. Vollzeit-Regelstudienjahres
• der erfolgreiche Abschluss von Modulen des 2. Vollzeit-Regelstudienjahres (ohne Berufspraktika-Module) im Umfang von mindestens 35 Credits

Bei Studienbeginn 2008 zusätzlich wahlweise:

• der erfolgreiche Abschluss des Moduls "Communication in English for Business"
• die Anerkennung BEC II

Bei Studienbeginn ab 2009 zusätzlich:

• der erfolgreiche Abschluss des Moduls "Communication in English for Business"

Ausnahme für das Studienjahr 2009/2010:
Bei Studienbeginn vor WS 2008/2009 keine formale Voraussetzungen.

Dieses Modul fördert Studierende mit leicht fortgeschrittenen bzw. fortgeschrittenen Kompetenzen in Spanisch ab Kompetenzstufe A2 (gemäss europäischer Referenzrahmen für Sprachen).

>Über verschiedene Themen sprechen
>Sich in Diskussionen einbringen
>Texte, TV- bzw. Radiobeiträge verstehen
>Sich selbst bzw. verschiedene Themen präsentieren
>Texte verfassen

Dieses Modul bereitet Studierende auf die Kommunikation in der englischen Sprache im akademischen und beruflichen Umfeld vor.

Interaction, Study skills

Englisch in verschiedenen Kontexten wirksam und flexibel einsetzen
Sich spontan und fliessend ausdrücken können
Komplexe Sachverhalte verstehen und ausdrücken können
Sich schriftlich klar und strukturiert ausdrücken können
Über komplexe Sachverhalte schreiben können

• Introduction to international management
• Key challenges to the global environment
• The cultural context of global management
• International and global strategies
• Organizational structures and strategic alliances in a global

environment

• Global human resources management
• Leadership and control systems in global companies

The interactive course introduces the basics of international management through core lectures, which will be critically considered and discussed afterwards. Case studies, papers, and other student activities which will be done in different forms of group work, facilitate the understanding of the theory.

The course "International Management" will give an introduction into core management and leadership functions of a global company, such as strategy, organization structure, human resources management, etc. Afterwards students will be able to understand better the specifics of international management against the background of global change and the cultural context. This will enhance their ability to manage strategic and structural processes in global companies.

Introduction to international management:

• Students will know the fundamental terms in international management and will be able to distinguish them from each other.
• Students will gain an overview of the key challenges in a global environment and will be able to connect them to the tasks they will have to cope with in global companies.
• Students will understand the important role of the cultural context and will be able to distinguish different cultural dimensions and regions.

International management and strategy:

• Students will recognize the theoretical basics of strategies in an international context and will be able to integrate them into a strategic framework.
• Students will be able to create a consistent global strategy and to adapt this strategy to specific situations.

International management and organization:

• Students will learn about different forms of organizational structure and process organization in the international context and will be able to connect them to different types of global strategies.
• Students will recognize the importance of networks and strategic alliances in the international context and will be able to analyze them systematically as well as to work out recommendations to develop them further.

International management and human resources:

• Students will learn about different forms of international human resources strategy and development and will be able to connect them to the strategic and structural context of the organization.
• Students will be able to distinguish between different leadership styles in global companies and will recognize the decisive interplay between leadership, motivation, and control systems.

Voraussetzung für die Anmeldung zur Modulprüfung ist:

• der erfolgreiche Abschluss aller Module des 1. Vollzeit-Regelstudienjahres
• der erfolgreiche Abschluss von Modulen des 2. Vollzeit-Regelstudienjahres (ohne Berufspraktika-Module) im Umfang von mindestens 35 Credits

Bei Studienbeginn 2008 zusätzlich wahlweise:

• der erfolgreiche Abschluss des Moduls "Communication in English for Business"
• die Anerkennung BEC II

Bei Studienbeginn ab 2009 zusätzlich:

• der erfolgreiche Abschluss des Moduls "Communication in English for Business"

Ausnahme für das Studienjahr 2009/2010:
Bei Studienbeginn vor WS 2008/2009 keine formale Voraussetzungen.