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| Detailed information |
| Original study plan |
Master's programme Digital Society 2025W |
| Learning Outcomes |
Competences |
- Students apply basic theories and concepts from international debates on societal digitalization processes to analyze current issues and can work out how these processes affect human behavior.
- Students have selected empirical knowledge of structural and institutional societal developments and issues resulting from digitalization processes.
- Students can analyze current empirical issues of digitalization processes and critically reflect on action-relevant concepts.
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| Skills |
Knowledge |
- Students can develop and reproduce key terms and theoretical concepts from the sociological debates on digitalization processes through independent reading of primary and secondary literature (K1, K2).
- Students are able to discuss the acquired knowledge and relate it to each other (K3, K4).
- Students can apply theories and concepts on digitalization processes in modern societies to current societal issues and analyze them to gain a deeper understanding (K3, K4).
- Students can discuss scientific questions about current processes and problems related to digitalization based on selected theoretical terms and concepts and critically assess action-relevant options (K4).
- Students write scientific seminar papers to discuss sociological issues raised by digitalization processes (K3).
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- Students have knowledge of how selected sociological approaches and intellectual traditions attempt to interpret the societal causes and consequences of digitalization processes.
- Students are familiar with theoretical and empirical debates on the structural and institutional impacts of digitalization processes in modern societies.
- Students have theoretical and empirical knowledge of selected fields of digitalization (social media, AI, platforms, etc.).
- Students are familiar with various research strategies for analyzing digitalization processes.
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| Criteria for evaluation |
Varying: e.g. active participation, oral presentation, discussion, written papers
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| Methods |
Varying: e.g. interactive discussions in different formats (working groups, fish bowl, role play etc.), oral presentations (short lectures, poster session etc.), written papers (seminar reports, in case of given opportunities: conference reports, book reviews, interviews etc.)
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| Language |
German |
| Study material |
varying
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| Changing subject? |
No |
| Further information |
The seminar will be held in German
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