Colloquium

Dozent: Prof. Dr. Lauri Wessel   The purpose of this colloquium is to introduce you to writing a master’s thesis at the chair for Information Management and Digital Transformation. We will briefly build on some concepts and methods that have been taught earlier such as systematic literature reviews, selected theories and methods and will apply these directly to your master’s thesis. This course is structured along three segments that will help you shape your project: business-related theory, sociological theory, and finally methods such as design science and action design research that will help you to put your project on a solid theoretical basis. In each of these segments, you will receive theoretical input from your course instructor and then apply this input to your project. We may group projects together as we move along in case they are very much aligned in spirit.

Dozent: Prof. Dr. Philipp Hacker This course offers ENS students the possibility to present and discuss their individual course projects for the MoDE and to discuss ideas for their master’s thesis. Student and peer feedback will be particularly encouraged. The course is supposed to provide a platform for peer exchange and the continuous development of individual projects. The course is limited in size to 13 students. Slots are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. Students seeking to qualify for 2 ECTS credits need to give one presentation during the semester and regularly attend the class. The course is open to all students of the ENS. The working language for the entire course will be English. ATTENTION: The last session will be on Feb 17, 10 am - 3 pm

Dozent: Prof. Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth The STS Workbench focusses on current topics in Science & Technology Studies. Alternating more or less weekly, we discuss guest presentations by international experts and young scholars as well as current (pre)publications at the interface of science, technology and society. The term “workbench” is synonymous with the program: we are looking at rough and unpolished work, data and analysis from ongoing projects and conceptual and theoretical experiments – and we screw apart and reassemble issues, concepts and methods of current STS research.