Sommersemester 2024

The course aims at providing an in-depth understanding of the challenge of environmental sustainability as it may be connected to specific technological and scientific artifacts and infrastructures. The emphasis will be placed on artifacts and infrastructures of relevance to renewable and conventional energy. The course is designed so as to provide an elaborate understanding of the actors, concepts and policies involved in the definition and pursuit of sustainability/renewability. It will introduce to competing definitions of sustainability, debates over the emergence of technical and scientific expertise on sustainability, and comparisons of sustainability policies. The course takes advantage of the EUV participation in the ERASMUS+ project ‘Innovative Ethics Education for Major Technological and Scientific Challenges’.

The course aims at giving students fundamental skills and knowledge of modern web design and web development. The hands-on training will focus on website prototyping, coding (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP), web usability and accessibility standards, web testing, cross-platform compatibility, and content management systems. Throughout the course, students – working in teams or individually – will be expected to develop fully-working, responsive, search-engine friendly websites.

D3  R E S E A R C H   L A B   Sommersemester 2024 (SEPTEMBER) Social-scientific Research Design and Practice Dr. Paul Trauttmansdorff 16 September 2024: 9:15-17:4517 September 2024: 9:15-17:45 Between 18-27 September 2024: Individual slots for feedback and project proposals can be booked (online) Course This research lab engages with the practical aspects of designing and practicing social-scientific research. The course will provide insight into the basic standards, norms, and techniques of scientific practices in the social sciences. Participants can expect to acquire a range of practical skills to conduct and organize research, engage with a specific topic, do literature research and reviews, develop a research idea, and formulate a problem statement. Furthermore, the course will provide collaborative exercises for designing an empirical study, including data collection, analysis, and timeframe, and learning how to make theoretical arguments. The primary way of working in this research lab will be in group collaboration and joint exercise. The research lab gives students the ability to conduct a critical analysis of their concrete project works, question them, and implement them on a sound social-scientific foundation. Literature:Jensen, C., & Laurie, E. (2016). Doing Real Research: A Practical Guide to Social Research. Sage.Eco, U. (2015). The Definition and Purpose of a Thesis. In How to write a thesis. (pp.1-8). The MIT Press Reader.Booth, W., Colomb, G., & Williams, J. (2003). From Topics to Questions & From Questions to Problems [Chapters 3 & 4]. In The Craft of Research (pp. 40-74). University of Chicago Press.