Practise listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills and competences to reach B2 level (cf. CEFR descriptors)

Interaction, coaching

Develop skills and competences to reach B2 level (cf. CEFR descriptors)

• listening:

o understand extended speech and lectures and follow even complex lines of argument provided the topic is reasonably familiar

• reading:

o understand articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in which the writers adopt particular attitudes or viewpoints

• speaking:

o interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible
o take an active part in discussion in familiar contexts, accounting for and sustaining own views
o present clear, detailed descriptions on a wide range of subjects related to own field of interest
o explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options

• writing:

o write clear, detailed texts on a wide range of subjects related to own interests
o write an essay or report, passing on information or giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view

Develop skills and competences to reach B2 level (cf. CEFR descriptors)

• listening:

o understand extended speech and lectures and follow even complex lines of argument provided the topic is reasonably familiar

• reading:

o understand articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in which the writers adopt particular attitudes or viewpoints

• speaking:

o interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible
o take an active part in discussion in familiar contexts, accounting for and sustaining own views
o present clear, detailed descriptions on a wide range of subjects related to own field of interest
o explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options

• writing:

o write clear, detailed texts on a wide range of subjects related to own interests
o write an essay or report, passing on information or giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view

will be uploaded in Moodle

Grading

Prüfungsmodus:
Teilleistung A: classroom activity (written and spoken)
Teilleistung B: final assessment (spoken)

Anwesenheitspflicht: 80% required

Grading

Prüfungsmodus:
Teilleistung A: classroom activity (written and spoken)
Teilleistung B: final assessment (spoken)

Anwesenheitspflicht: 80% required

cross-faculty course:
Rules for registration: www.uni.li/cross-faculty

• Beschreibende Statistik
• Häufigkeitsverteilungen (Aufbereitung qualitativer und quantitativer Daten)
• Kennzahlen für uni- und bivariate Daten (Lage-, Streuungs-, Konzentrations- und Zusammenhangsmaße)
• Graphische Darstellungen (Stab-, Balken-, Streudiagramme, Histogramme, Box-Plot)

• Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung
• Wahrscheinlichkeitsraum und Additionssätze für Wahrscheinlichkeiten
• Bedingte Wahrscheinlichkeiten (Pfadregeln, Satz von Bayes, Unabhängigkeit von Ereignissen)
• Zufallsvariablen und ihre Verteilungen, Lage- und Streuungsmaße sowie Schiefe und Kurtosis (Binomial-, Poisson-, Normal-, Exponential-, Student-t-, Chi-Quadrat-, F-Verteilung & zugehörige Grenzwertsätze)
• Unabhängigkeit von Zufallsvariablen und Rechenregeln für Erwartungswert und Varianz

• Induktive Statistik
• Punkt- und Intervallschätzungen für Mittelwert, Varianz und Wahrscheinlichkeiten
• Grundlagen des Testens von Hypothesen über Mittelwerte und Mittelwertdifferenzen
• (Teststatistik, Fehler 1. Art, Fehler 2. Art, Entscheidungsregeln)
• Chi-Quadrat Test auf Unabhängigkeit zweier Zufallsvariablen

• Einfache lineare Regression
• Prinzip der kleinsten Quadrate
• Standardfehler der Residuen
• R^2-Koeffizient
• Überprüfung der Modellannahmen (Tukey-Anscombe-Plot; Q-Q-Plot)
• Varianzanalyse (ANOVA-Tabelle)

Vorlesung

• Technik des Jahresabschlusses (mit/ohne Abschlusstabelle),
• Elemente des Jahresabschlusses (Bilanz, Gewinn- & Verlustrechnung, Anhang, Lagebericht),
• Bilanzierung im Allgemeinen,
• Bewertungsmassstäbe (Anschaffungskosten, Herstellungskosten, beizulegender Wert),
• Bilanzierungsgrundsätze (Vorsichtsprinzip, Realisationsprinzip, Niederstwertprinzip, Höchstwertprinzip),
• Gewinn- & Verlustrechnung nach Gesamtkosten- und Umsatzkostenverfahren,
• Ergebnisverwendung bei Kapitalgesellschaften (mit/ohne Ausschüttungssperren) und bei Personengesellschaften,
• Aktivierungswahlrechte, Passivierungswahlrechte,
• Anlagenspiegel, Forderungenspiegel,
• Fremdwährungsforderungen und -verbindlichkeiten,
• Rückstellungenspiegel, Verbindlichkeitenspiegel,
• ausgewählte Sonderformen der Rückstellungen,
• Eventualverbindlichkeiten,
• Verbuchung verschiedener Zuschüsse,
• gewinnabhängige Steuern und Mehr-Weniger-Rechnung,
• Unternehmen in der Krise (Überschuldung),
• latente Steuern (aktive und passive latente Steuern).

Vorlesung

The phenomenon of migration can be understood and explained in various ways.
It depends on the discipline and on the perspective. What we know with certainty is that people are increasingly mobile. Commonly, we talk of migration when crossing a national border is involved and when migrants intend to stay in the target state for longer than a touristic sojourn. Usually, people migrate because they wish to improve their life situation. This might be defined on the level of economy (work migration or tax saving migration), of emotionality (marriage migration and family reunion), of life-saving necessity (refugee migration), of learning (student/training migration), of health (treatment migration), etc. Although migration is connected to the nation state and legal regulative measures are important regarding the opportunities of the migrant population and regarding the political demands on security, international and human rights are equally important. Immigration has an impact on social dynamics within the network of the sending as well as of the receiving country; and integration policy goes along with antidiscrimination measures.

In order to gain a perspective from within, the seminar starts with an introduction to migration literature. Reading literature written by migrants enables us to listen to the migrant 'speak'. There is a vast body of fiction covering different genres, different topics, and different points of view on migration. With those perspectives in mind, we will take a global perspective on migration and look at the consequences of globalization and its effects on people. A gender approach is taken here as well, since there is a worldwide increase of female migration (feminization of migration), especially in the field of care work.
Then, we will study various ways of classifying migration as well as critically discuss theoretical models that endeavor to explain migration and how they have changed over time.
An important focus will be on flight migration in general and aspects of mental health in particular.
Eventually, we shall discuss the importance of the nation state when looking at immigration regulation and in particular on integration policies. How are people included into the labor market? How does a given nation state deal with multilingualism, racism and religious freedom? How is the process of naturalization organized?

Seminar, workshops

Participants will be able to:

• Describe different points of view in the debate about migration literature and familiarize themselves with a view from 'within'
• Understand the effects that globalization has with regards to migration and the role of gender in international migration
• Know a selection of models that explain migration
• Realize what flight migration entails, and what its possible consequences on health can be

Develop critical thinking with regards to the various immigration and integration regimes

Participants will be able to:

• Describe different points of view in the debate about migration literature and familiarize themselves with a view from 'within'
• Understand the effects that globalization has with regards to migration and the role of gender in international migration
• Know a selection of models that explain migration
• Realize what flight migration entails, and what its possible consequences on health can be

Develop critical thinking with regards to the various immigration and integration regimes

Grading: University of Liechtenstein Grading System

Parts of assessment:
Part A: 25 % developing a case study (group work)
Part B: 25 % individual work presentation (literature review)
Part C: 25% writing a blog contribution
Part D: 25% presentation integration policy (group work)

Grading: University of Liechtenstein Grading System

Parts of assessment:
Part A: 25 % developing a case study (group work)
Part B: 25 % individual work presentation (literature review)
Part C: 25% writing a blog contribution
Part D: 25% presentation integration policy (group work)

This year again, CFA Society Switzerland will be hosting the CFA Institute Research Challenge in Switzerland which is the local competition within the global CFA Institute Research Challenge. We also welcome all other universities and especially universities of applied sciences in Switzerland and Liechtenstein to join the Challenge this year.

The Challenge is an annual competition between teams of students in preparing an investment case consisting of a detailed research report and a presentation of a listed Swiss company. For the coming competition Straumann has been selected. The Swiss company is headquartered in Basel and listed at the Swiss Stock exchange since 1998. Straumann is a global leader in implant, restorative and regenerative dentistry which offers products and services to dentists and dental laboratories in more than 70 countries world-wide.

The students will be supported by industry mentors and will have to present their final results in front of a panel of senior investment professionals. The Challenge provides students with a unique opportunity to gain first-hand experience in the investment world and to interact intensively with investment professionals and CFA charterholders.

Guided self-study seminar

• Ability to identify sources of value in a business and transform them in investment thesis
• Write an equity analyst report
• Perfect an equity analyst pitch
• Develop soft skills in handling Q&A sessions

Effective communication requires generosity. By contrast, a "competitive" atmosphere - where ideas are shut down, and where each person attempts to block the other or seeks to raise their profile at the cost of the others - is enemy number one for successful communication. Trust can be created when people are free to assume that their ideas and opinions will be given a ready ear, will be taken seriously, and that others may pick up the ideas so that innovation may occur. The "yes, and" principle is, therefore, one key to successful communication, teamwork and innovation.
Of paramount importance for every communication and presentation is also the personality of the speaker, which can create an atmosphere of trust and real interest. Body language plays a very important part and, very often, is used only unconsciously. Usually, "Status" is connected with a certain position or power, which someone enjoys in an organization or in society. However, in everyday life, we constantly play with our personal Status, which is somewhat independent from our professional Status. Everyone prefers a certain Status. By raising your own Status, you gain more authority and assertiveness. By lowering your own Status, thereby increasing the Status of someone else, you convey empathy and sympathy. Both raising and lowering your own Status are important and useful in different situations. Students will learn their preferred status and how to change it, when appropriate.
In this course, students will improve their communication and presentation skills, working with the methods of improvisational theater to also enhance their spontaneity, creativity and ability to deal with unknown situations.

• Presentations with feedback
• Group work
• Video recording
• Exercises from improvisational theater
• Role Playing

The participants

• professionalize their appearance and learn how to present their ideas using authentic voice, language and body language
• learn how to speak with presence and charisma
• get to know the basic principles of presentation techniques
• learn how to create inspiring stories using incidents from their lives - bringing personality and life into public speaking
• improve their ability to plan a public speech tailored to their audience
• develop strategies on dealing with difficult participants
• get to know the "yes and" principle as the key to successful communication, teamwork and innovation
• enhance their spontaneity, creativity and ability to deal with unknown situation

The participants

• will become familiar with the "yes and" principle as the key to successful communication, teamwork and innovation.
• professionalize their appearance and learn how to present their ideas using authentic voice, language and body language.
• sharpen their perception of non-verbal communication.
• learn more about their own status when communicating with other people, and learn to alter it as necessary
• develop strategies on dealing with difficult participants during communication and presentations.
• enhance their spontaneity, creativity and ability to deal with unknown situations.

will be announced in class

Grading

• Part A: Active participation during the course (50%)
• Part B: Reflection/analysis of the learnings in written and in oral form (50%)

Compulsory attendance (min. 80%)

Grading

• Course based on continuous assessment.
• Meeting attendance obligations and active participation are an essential pre-requisite for successfully completing a course based on continuous assessment.
• Attendance must be proven for at least 80% of the stipulated contact time.
• In the case of absenteeism that exceeds the specified limits of absence, a medical certificate is required.
• Participation in other activities of the university are not recognized as an excused absence.
• Final Paper

cross-faculty course:
Rules for registration: www.uni.li/cross-faculty

Freie Meinungsäußerung ist ein grundlegendes Menschenrecht. Die Freiheit der Meinung und der Presse sowie die Unabhängigkeit der Medien sind Voraussetzungen für eine Demokratie. Nicht jede Journalistin, nicht jeder Journalist auf der Welt kann ohne Angst berichten und Öffentlichkeit herstellen. Wir schauen uns an, in welchen nicht-europäischen Ländern es diesbezüglich Probleme gibt, aber auch, welche Chancen sich durch den Wandel der Medien - Stichwort Social Media - ergeben können. Welche Möglichkeiten gibt es, Öffentlichkeit dort herzustellen, wo sie behindert wird? Wie unterscheiden sich journalistische Kulturen und welche Modelle gibt es über die westliche Welt hinaus? Fokus auf arabische, asiatische, afrikanische Sphären.

Präsenz-Unterricht am 4.9.23, 5.9.23, 6.9.23: jeweils von 9 Uhr bis 17.30 Uhr; Onlinetermin am 27.11.2023: 17.30 - 19.45 Uhr (via Zoom)

• Untersuchung der Lage der Pressefreiheit auf allen Kontinenten. Die Rolle der Journalistinnen und Journalisten global: Lautsprecher:innen versus Widersprecher:innen

• Erklärungsmodelle für journalistische Kulturen im globalen Kontext: demokratisch-korporatisches Modell versus polarisiert-pluralistisches Modell versus liberales, atlantisches Modell

• Untersuchung der Rolle der sozialen Medien: Gefährden soziale Medien Pressefreiheit oder befeuern sie Pressefreiheit?

siehe Lehrziele

… werden digital zur Verfügung gestellt.

Benotung

Prüfungsmodus:
Teilleistung A: Schreibportfolio I
Teilleistung B: Schreibportfolio II

Anwesenheitspflicht: 80%, aber verpflichtend

siehe Prüfungsmodalitäten

The module aims at understanding technology and innovation management in companies, answering questions such as the definition of innovation and how it can be promoted or the connection between strategy and innovation. In addition to inputs in general lecture style, the students will develop and prototype a product or service based on a given technology.

Für die Anmeldung zu Modulen des sechsten Semesters müssen alle Module der Semester 1 – 3 erfolgreich absolviert sein. Zusätzlich müssen Module im Umfang von mindestens 12 ECTS Credits aus Semester 4 erfolgreich absolviert sein.
Wahlfächer bleiben für diese Regelungen vollständig ausser Betracht.

Teil 1: Funktion von KI und generativer KI

• Einführung in KI: Was ist KI? Geschichte und Evolution von KI
• Verstehen von maschinellem Lernen und neuronalen Netzen
• Einführung in Generative KI: Was sind generative Modelle und wie funktionieren sie?
• Deep Dive: Funktion und Funktionsweise von Large Language Models und GANs
• Praktische Übersicht über gängige generative KI-Modelle: ChatGPT, DALL-E, etc.

Teil 2: Hands-On KI, ChatGPT / Bard, Microsoft & Google KI-Lösungen sowie einzelne KI-Startups

• KI: Übersicht und Echtbeispiele
• Hands-on ChatGPT / Bard: Funktionsweise und Promptcrafting / Code Interpreter / Plugins
• Hands-on Microsoft & Google KI-Lösungen: Übersicht, Echtbeispiele und Hands-On
• Exploration weiterer KI-Startups (elevenlabs, Midjourney, RunwayML usw.)
• Entwicklung eines eigenen kleinen KI-Projekts

Teil 3: Ethische und rechtliche Aspekte der Anwendung von KI

• Einführung in die KI-Ethik: Kernfragen und Debatte
• Datenschutz und Datensicherheit bei der Anwendung von KI
• Rechtliche Aspekte der KI

+ Kernfrage: Verantwortung und Kontrolle in KI-Systemen
+ Überblick über relevante Gesetze und Vorschriften

• Fallstudien: Analyse und Diskussion von realen Fällen im Zusammenhang mit KI-Ethik und -Recht

Interaktive Lehrveranstaltung (Seminar)

Fachkompetenzen

• Grundlegende Kenntnisse in KI und speziell generativer KI
• Verständnis für Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von KI in verschiedenen Bereichen
• Kenntnis der ethischen und rechtlichen Aspekte von KI

Methodenkompetenzen

• Fähigkeit, KI-Tools wie ChatGPT und KI-Lösungen von Google und Microsoft effektiv zu nutzen
• Fähigkeit, die geeignetste KI-Lösung für bestimmte Probleme oder Situationen auszuwählen

Sozialkompetenzen

• Fähigkeit, die Auswirkungen der KI auf die Gesellschaft zu verstehen und zu diskutieren
• Fähigkeit, ethische und rechtliche Aspekte der KI-Nutzung in Teamdiskussionen und -entscheidungen zu berücksichtigen

Selbstkompetenzen

• Fähigkeit, unabhängig zu lernen und sich an veränderte KI-Landschaften anzupassen
• Fähigkeit, KI-basierte Lösungen eigenständig zu erarbeiten und umzusetzen

siehe Lehrziele

Bekommen Sie während des Kurses

siehe Beurteilung

Benotung

Prüfungsmodus:
Teilleistung A: Präsentation
Teilleistung B: KI-Praxisprojekt
Teilleistung C: Prüfung

Anwesenheitspflicht: mind. 80%