| • Students are able to structure and manage their dissertation topic as a long-term project (k3). This includes time management, resource planning, and the efficient organization of research steps.
 • Students are able to review the current state of research and, based on this, identify research gaps and innovative research topics (k4, k5, k6).
 
• Students are capable of integrating various academic perspectives and disciplines into their research work and can identify relevant interfaces between social and economic sciences and/or between social and cultural studies (k4).
 
• Students are able to design complex research frameworks that meet the requirements of their specific research project (k6). They have an overview of qualitative and/or quantitative research methods (k2), master the methodology appropriate for their project, and can apply it to their research question (k3).
 
• Students can appropriately assess the scope and limitations of the research results they achieve (k5).
 
• Students are able to work effectively in research groups and interdisciplinary teams and are capable of constructively commenting on the research results of others (k4, k5).
 
• Students are able to present their research results clearly and understandably both within the academic community and to a broader audience (k3). This includes both written and oral presentations.
 
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                              • Time and resource management.
 • Paradigms within theory of science with a specific focus on the social and economic sciences, or on the social and cultural sciences.
 
• Quality criteria of research in the social and economic sciences and/or the social and cultural sciences. 
 
• Advanced literature research, literature reviews, and the derivation of research questions. 
 
• Advanced hermeneutic, quantitative-empirical and/or qualitative-empirical research methods. 
 
• Ethics in science and research. 
 
• Processes of publication and dissemination. 
 
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