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Modul

Digitalization and Society [M-WIWI-106281]

Credits
9
Recurrence
Jedes Semester
Duration
2 Semester
Language
German
Level
3
Version
1

Responsible

Organisation

  • KIT-Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Part of

Bricks

Identifier Name LP
T-GEISTSOZ-112798 Introduction to Sociology 4.5
T-WIWI-110342 Applied Informatics – Information Security 4.5
T-WIWI-109816 Foundations of Interactive Systems 4.5
T-WIWI-102908 Personnel Policies and Labor Market Institutions 4.5
T-WIWI-111307 Digital Services: Foundations 4.5
T-WIWI-106569 Consumer Behavior 4.5

Competence Certificate

The assessment of success is described for each course of this module. The overall grade of the module is formed from the credit-weighted grades of the partial examinations and truncated after the first decimal place.

Competence Goal

The student

  • Is introduced to issues of sociology with regard to digitalization aspects - this concerns, among other things, measures in companies, organizations, communities, large-scale projects and politics
  • understands concepts of digital security and privacy and learns about measures for user-friendly security, privacy protection, and awareness and education training
  • learns the connection between digitalization and human resources in companies and the labor market; topics range from the future of work to the use of IT and AI in recruiting to aspects of crowdworking
  • learns the basic principles of user-oriented design of interactive systems and reflects on their individual and social acceptance
  • gets an overview of digital service ecosystems, their framework conditions, design options and networking.
  • is introduced to issues of digital sovereignty on an individual and societal level
  • learns to analyze empirical methods for evaluating consumer behavior on the basis of case studies

Prerequisites

Please check with individual courses for any prerequisites and recommendations.

Content

The module "Digitalization and Society" deals with individual and societal aspects of digitalization. The courses present various aspects of sociology, information security, human resources policy and the design of information systems. The focal points covered vary depending on the course. In principle, all courses can be freely combined with each other.

Workload

The total workload for this module is approximately 270 hours (9 credit points).

The distribution is made according to the credit points of the courses of the module. The workload for courses with 4.5 credit points is approx. 135 hours.
The total number of hours per course is calculated from the time spent attending the lectures and exercises, as well as the examination times and the time required for an average student to achieve the learning objectives of the module.