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Methodological Competence
Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten (qualitativ und/oder quantitativ)
Professional Competence
Mit der Masterthesis wird ermittelt, ob folgende Ziele erreicht wurden:

  • Eine umfassende Ausbildung auf universitärem Niveau
  • Befähigung zu wissenschaftlicher Arbeitsweise
  • Die für die Ausübung des Berufes erforderlichen Grundlagen und fachlichen Kompetenzen und Kommunikationsfähigkeiten vorhanden sind.
Methodological Competence
  • Apply a variety of design- and research methods and visualisation techniques
  • Have knowledge of scientific or artistic methods within an interdisciplinary context
Professional Competence
MASTERSTUDENTS:
  • Execute complex defined and self-defined projects of research, development or investigation and identify and implement relevant outcomes.
  • Develop an architectural idea into a sustainable proposal, carefully taking into consideration the project's historical, theoretical, environmental (ecological), cultural, economic and social context.
  • Communicate and articulate ideas and information fluently in English language and work comprehensively in visual, oral and written forms.
  • Make formal presentations about specialist topics to informed and general/ community audiences.
  • Exercise autonomy and initiative in carrying out set project briefs and self-directed programmes of study.
  • Demonstrate ability to manage time and physical resources in relation to set project briefs and self-directed programmes of study as an individual and a group member.
  • Deal with complex ethical and professional issues.
  • Show confidence in analysing case studies and the ability to infer principles and motivations.
Social Competence
  • listen to students and their ideas and opinions
  • work in teams to develop solutions to complex problems
  • evaluate ideas from team members
  • take responsibility in a team
  • distribute tasks in teams
  • assign task according to skills of team members
  • justify solutions in front of team members and teachers
Methodological Competence
  • Reproduce the contents of software engineering and programming cases
  • describe various problems and the appropriate solutions as encountered in the cases
  • explain the differences and similarities of various methods of software engineering by means of case studies
  • explain the differences and similarities of relational and object-oriented approaches to modeling using case studies
  • explain the differences and similarities of various data and control structures of programming
  • Solve case studies with the help of the learned concepts and methods
  • Apply IDE and CASE tools
  • analyze complex issues and identify appropriate concepts and methods for their solution
  • Create simple object-oriented programs (e.g., in the learning environments Scratch or Greenfoot)
  • Apply best practices (e.g., design patterns, CASE tools, quality factors)
Professional Competence
  • list methods of software engineering (e.g., waterfall model, agile methods)
  • list relational and object-oriented approaches to modeling (e.g., ERM, UML)
  • understand the elements of different modeling languages (e.g., ERM, UML)
  • understand key concepts of SQL
  • understand key concepts of object-oriented programming (e.g., classes, attributes, methods, relationships, inheritance)
  • create data and system models (e.g., ERM, UML)
  • perform normalization of database tables
  • write queries in SQL
  • write simple object-oriented programs
  • compare and contrast key programming structures (e.g., data structures, control structures)
  • identify best practices of software engineering and programming (e.g., design patterns, quality factors)
  • design object-oriented applications by applying the methods learned
  • choose appropriate methods for given tasks
Personal Competence
  • Understand and critically discuss the arguments of fellow students.
  • React and critically reflect their solution without being offended.
  • Show that they are able to stick to a complex topic.
Social Competence
  • Listen carefully exercise patience needed to understand the logic and mathematics behind models.
  • Know how to respond to questions and critique in a follow-up discussion after a presentation in front of class.
  • Take responsibility and organize/explain their solutions to others who have problems and tend to give up.
Methodological Competence
  • Understand how to manage risks with complex concepts and learn to connect the different roles of financial institutions.
  • Understand the logic and drivers behind current economic topics in financial services.
  • Apply methods and models on unknown decision situations. Find and calculate optimal hedging strategies.
  • Are able to write a term paper according to principles of scientific writing.
  • Develop abilities to understand and analyze mathematical relationships and models.
  • Summarize and explain their findings in a presentation.
  • Critically evaluate models and argue which of the models fits their needs best.
  • Evaluate the outcomes of their term paper
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