Intellectual Property Law
Intellectual Property Law
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Master's degree programme in IT and Business Process Management
Project Description
Transition Module - please contact the module director for details about passing the module
> Introduction to law, including contract law and general terms and conditions
> Introduction to intellectual property rights
> Licensing
> Software development agreements
> Certain aspects of unfair competition
> Introduction to E-Commerce and E-Signature
> Introduction to law, including contract law and general terms and conditions
> Introduction to intellectual property rights
- Trademark law
- Design law
- Patent law and utility model law
- Copyright law
> Licensing
> Software development agreements
> Certain aspects of unfair competition
> Introduction to E-Commerce and E-Signature
Teaching Method
Interactive lecture, group work, case studies, discussions
Learning Objectives
- Basic understanding of contract law
- Basis understanding of scope of application of the intellectual property rights
- Increased awareness of legal problems in connection with the use and exploitation of intellectual property rights
C15 Systems Analysis & Design
C15 Systems Analysis & Design
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Master's degree programme in Information Systems
Project Description
Short description
The course focuses on systems analysis and design, including methods and approaches for developing and implementing information systems in organizations.
Topics
Learning objectives
Methods
Recommended previous knowledge
Compulsory reading
The course focuses on systems analysis and design, including methods and approaches for developing and implementing information systems in organizations.
Topics
- Introduction to object-oriented systems
- Project planning and initiation
- Requirements analysis (i.e., requirements gathering and structuring)
- Systems modeling (i.e., UML modeling languages)
- Systems implementation
Learning objectives
- Students will know how information systems can be modeled and designed.
- Students will know basic methods of systems modeling and design (i.e. UML modeling languages) in order to analyze, design, and implement information systems.
- Students will use methods of systems modeling in order to analyze, design, and implement information systems.
Methods
- The module integrates theoretical knowledge and practical skills in an interactive lecture.
- The e-learning platform Moodle will be used throughout the course for the dissemination of course material and discussions.
Recommended previous knowledge
- Gries, P., Campbell, J., & Montojo J. (2013). Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python 3. Pragmatic Bookshelf: Frisco, TX, USA.
- Valacich, J. S., & George, J. F. (2016). Modern Systems Analysis and Design. Pearson: New York.
Compulsory reading
- Rosenberg, D. & Stephens, M. (2007). Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML. Apress: New York.
- Kölling, M. (2015). Introduction to Programming with Greenfoot: Object-Oriented Programming in Java with Games and Simulations. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River.
C15 Quantitative Finance
C15 Quantitative Finance
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Master's degree programme in Finance
Project Description
Quantitative Finance will cover:
- Classical linear regression model assumptions and diagnostic tests
- Expansions of the simple linear regression model to multiple linear regressions
- Long-run relationships in finance
- Models of time series volatility and covariances
- Simulational methods in finance
- Introduction to ThomsonReuters Eikon
Assessment Methods
See lectures within this module.
Class participation in "Data Sourcing and Analysis" is obligatory.
Class participation in "Data Sourcing and Analysis" is obligatory.
Building Construction II
Building Construction II
Study Programmes
Bachelor's degree programme in Architecture
Project Description
Basiswissen für Entwurfsstudios. Anforderungen und Standardlösungen zu Bauteiltypen wie Fundament, Aussenwand, Geschossdecken, Dach, sowie Anschlüsse und Treppen. Entwurfsstrategien bei der Detailplanung und Diskurs zu Standarddetail gegenüber Architekturdetail.
Teaching Method
Blockunterricht, Exkursionen zu Baustellen und Bauindustrie, Impulsvorträge mit Konstruktionsübungen. Leseaufträge, Recherchen, Freihandskizzen, Diskussionen, Konstruktionsentwurf via Beamer + Live Kamera. Dozenten- und Peerfeedback
Learning Results
Fachkompetenz
Methodenkompetenz
Sozialkompetenz
Selbstkompetenz
- Die Studierenden kennen die Palette zeitgenössischer Baumaterialien durch die eigene Materialsammlung und wissen um Eigenschaften und Einsatzbereiche. Daraus abgeleitete Bauweisen und Standardkonstruktionen sind den Studierenden bekannt und können in ersten Konstruktionsentwürfen eingesetzt werden.
Methodenkompetenz
- Die Studierenden führen ein Lerntagebuch, in dem sie verschiedene Quellen und Konstruktionen analysieren, sowie mit Freihandskizzen Gebäudeschnitte M 1:20 entwickeln. In Präsentationen argumentieren und verteidigen sie ihre Konstruktionen.
Sozialkompetenz
- In heterogenen Teams tauschen die Studierenden Erfahrungen und Vorwissen aus und entwickeln so kooperativ innovative Lösungen.
Selbstkompetenz
- Im Selbststudium organisieren sich die Studierenden selbst und erstellen zeitgerecht und effizient Unterlagen auf universitärem Niveau.
Assessment Methods
Schriftliche Prüfung und Studientagebuch welches umfasst: Schriftliches Selbststudium, Konstruktionsübungen, Präsentation mit Kritik, Vorträge/Referate, Recherchearbeit, Mitarbeit im Unterricht Anwesenheitspflicht: min. 75% verpflichtend
Architectural History V
Architectural History V
Study Programmes
Bachelor's degree programme in Architecture
Project Description
- Architektur kann nicht ausserhalb eines gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Systems gedacht werden. Die Rolle der Architektur innerhalb dieses Systems gilt es zu vermitteln und zu hinterfragen. Der Student soll als kritischer Zeitgenosse fähig sein, das eigene Schaffen in einem historischen Kontext zu reflektieren sowie den politischen Wert der Geschichte im digitalen Zeitalter zu erkennen. Es gilt zudem, dieses Wissen und die Zusammenhänge diskursiv zu vermitteln und zu formulieren. Weiter wird ein Nachdenken über das Verhältnis von Architekturtheorie und -geschichte gefordert.
- Grundbegriffe der Architekturgeschichte und der Architekturtheorie
- Besprechung relevanter architekturtheoretischer Begriffe (Körper, Kontext, Objekt, Subjekt, Natur, Kultur, temporär, permanent, Analogie, Metapher, ...)
- Einbettung dieser Begriffe in einen historischen Kontext mit Schwerpunkt auf die Zeit ab der Moderne
Teaching Method
Diskurs, Exzerpieren, Fallstudie, Film, Foto, Impulsreferat, Lesen, Recherche, Reflexion, Schreiben, Video, Visualisierung, Vortrag
Learning Results
Die Studierenden...
Fachkompetenz
Methodenkompetenz
Sozialkompetenz
Selbstkompetenz
Fachkompetenz
- haben eine vertiefte Kenntnis der Architekturtheorie.
- haben eine vertiefte Kenntnis der Geschichte der Architektur in ihrem Verhältnis zur Architekturtheorie.
- haben die Fähigkeit, das eigene Schaffen im kulturellen und politischen Kontext zu situieren und über die Besprechung weiterer architekturtheoretischer Begriffe historische Zusammenhänge zu schaffen.
Methodenkompetenz
- können anhand von architektonischen Beispielen und Texten die wichtigsten architektonischen Grundsätze einer Epoche nennen und sie in einen gesamtheitlichen, geschichtlichen Zusammenhang stellen.
- können mit Texten und den Grundzügen des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens umgehen.
Sozialkompetenz
- erkennen und verbalisieren aus dem vorgegebenen Material Zusammenhänge und/oder Differenzen, Tendenzen, Grundhaltungen, gestaltungstheoretisch relevante Kriterien.
- sind befähigt in Gruppen zu recherchieren, vertiefen und präsentieren.
Selbstkompetenz
- situieren das eigene Schaffen im kulturellen und politischen Kontext.
Requirements (formal)
Positiv bestandene Studieneingangsphase
Assessment Methods
Übungen, Schriftliche Hausarbeit
Anwesenheitspflicht: min. 75% verpflichtend
Anwesenheitspflicht: min. 75% verpflichtend
C15 International Finance
C15 International Finance
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Master's degree programme in Finance
Project Description
- Global Financial Environment
- International Parity Conditions
- Foreign Exchange Rate Determination and Forecasting
- The Foreign Exchange Market and the Use of Foreign Currency Derivatives
- Foreign Exchange Exposure
- Financing the Global Firm
- Foreign Investment Decisions
- International Trade Finance
- Working Capital Management
Teaching Method
Interactive lecture with exercises.
An excursion could be offered, lasting several days, and with relation to the content of the lecture.
Business leaders will be invited to give a speech with practical insight.
An excursion could be offered, lasting several days, and with relation to the content of the lecture.
Business leaders will be invited to give a speech with practical insight.
Learning Results
- Having at ones disposal comprehensive and integrated knowledge of the majority of core areas in international business finance.
- Independently solving problems in international business finance by means of acquired concepts.
- Applying procedures and techniques that are specialised and always state-of-the-art.
- Identifying, conceptualising and defining new and abstract issues and problems in international business finance.
- Communicating acquired information comprehensibly to specialists and laities.
Course Materials
Continuously updated Syllabus and lecture slides will be available on moodle.
Assessment Methods
See lectures within the module.
C15 Financial Economics and Markets
C15 Financial Economics and Markets
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Master's degree programme in Finance
Project Description
- Introduction to Financial Markets
- Interest rates and bond prices
- The structure of interest rates
- Market efficiency
- Monetary policy
- Money markets
- Bond markets
- Mortgage markets
- Derivative markets
- Introduction to Financial Economics
- Expected utility, Mean-variance and Prospect theory
- Ambiguity
- Capital Asset Pricing Model
- Behavioral CAPM
- Basic two-period models
- Arbitrage Pricing Theory
Teaching Method
Interactive lecture with compulsory pre-readings.
Learning Objectives
After the completion of the module the students know how the most important financial markets work and which instruments are traded on them. They know and are able to use in examples the groundwork of decision theory and asset pricing models. An insight into behavioral aspects is approached.
Learning Results
Students...
> know how interest rates and bond prices are related and influence each other
> know different structures and theories of interest rates
> are able to explain what market efficiency is and know evidence for different stages
> can explain how monetary policy is used to influence financial markets
> know the dynamics of money, bond, derivatives and mortgage markets
> are able to use all classic decision theories to solve exemplary problems
> know the assumptions underlying each decision model
> understand what ambiguity is and how it influences decisions
> understand and are able to use different pricing models on basic exemplary problems
> know how interest rates and bond prices are related and influence each other
> know different structures and theories of interest rates
> are able to explain what market efficiency is and know evidence for different stages
> can explain how monetary policy is used to influence financial markets
> know the dynamics of money, bond, derivatives and mortgage markets
> are able to use all classic decision theories to solve exemplary problems
> know the assumptions underlying each decision model
> understand what ambiguity is and how it influences decisions
> understand and are able to use different pricing models on basic exemplary problems
Assessment Methods
See lecture within the module.
C15 Empirical Finance
C15 Empirical Finance
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Master's degree programme in Finance
Project Description
Empirical Finance will cover:
- Foundations of Modern Standard Capital Market Theory and Capital Asset Pricing Model
- Market Anomalies
- The Event Study Method
- Empirical Asset Pricing Tests
- Key concepts of experimental research approaches
- Testability of market and trader behavior
- Introduction to R (Syntax, program structure, programming concepts)
Teaching Method
Interactive lecture with exercises
Assessment Methods
See lectures within the module.
Class participation in "Programming in Finance" is obligatory.
Class participation in "Programming in Finance" is obligatory.
C15 Corporate Finance
C15 Corporate Finance
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Master's degree programme in Finance
Project Description
- Cost of capital and capital budgeting
- Discounted cash flow valuation and financial multiples
- Payout policy
- Equity and debt financing
- Applications of option pricing theory
- Corporate control and recapitalizations
- Enterprise Risk Management
Teaching Method
Lecture
Learning Results
After successful completion of this course, students
- are able to apply relevant concepts of corporate finance on an advanced level
- know how to integrate and implement theoretical knowledge in solving practical problems
- are able to explain coherences in financial divisions of undertakings active in global competition
- expand the ability to participate in a critical dialogue within the framework of a team project
- describe enterprise risk management (ERM) and compare and contrast differing definitions of ERM, distinguish between components of an ERM
- compare the benefits and costs of ERM and describe the motivations for a firm to adopt an ERM initiative
- describe the role and responsibilities of a chief risk officer (CRO) and assess how the CRO should interact with other senior management
Assessment Methods
See lectures within the module.
C15 Supply Chain Management
C15 Supply Chain Management
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Master's degree programme in Information Systems
Project Description
Short description
The course covers the fundamentals of supply chain management, so it focuses on the coordination of problems related to the provision of products and services and the flow of goods.
Topics
Learning objectives
Methods
Recommended previous knowledge
Compulsory reading
The course covers the fundamentals of supply chain management, so it focuses on the coordination of problems related to the provision of products and services and the flow of goods.
Topics
- Demand forecasting
- Process flow analysis
- Service process management
- Inventory management
- Location planning
- Production planning
- Scheduling
- Network management
Learning objectives
- Students will know about the main concepts, theories, and methods in supply chain management.
- In a business game, students will recognize and analyze typical coordination problems along the supply chain.
- In exercises, students will use analytical methods like linear programming, dynamic programming, regression analysis, and exponential smoothing, and state-of-the-art algorithms and heuristics like Silver-Meal and Branch-and-Bound.
- In case studies, students will use these methods to identify business problems, generate solutions, and compare their solutions in terms of quality and accuracy.
Methods
- The module involves interactive lectures with exercises to integrate theoretical knowledge and practical skills.
- Case studies are used to show how the course contents are related.
- A business game is used to illustrate typical coordination problems along the supply chain.
- The e-learning platform Moodle will be used throughout the course for the dissemination of course material and discussions.
Recommended previous knowledge
- Students are expected to have basic knowledge and skills in operations management.
Compulsory reading
- Chopra, S., & Meindl, P. (2012). Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation (5th edition). Pearson: Edinburgh Gate et al.