Module Description
Non-technical Courses for Bachelors
Module Responsibility:
Dagmar Richter
Admission Requirements:
None
Recommended Previous Knowledge:
None
Educational Objectives:
Professional Competence
Theoretical Knowledge
The Non-technical Academic Programms (NTA)
imparts skills that, in view of the TUHH’s training profile,
professional engineering studies require but are not able to cover
fully. Self-reliance, self-management, collaboration and
professional and personnel management competences. The department
implements these training objectives in its teaching
architecture, in its teaching and learning arrangements,
in teaching areas and by means of teaching offerings in
which students can qualify by opting for specific
competences and a competence level at the Bachelor’s or
Master’s level. The teaching offerings are pooled in two different
catalogues for nontechnical complementary courses.
The Learning Architecture
consists of a cross-disciplinarily study offering. The centrally
designed teaching offering ensures that courses in the nontechnical
academic programms follow the specific profiling of TUHH degree
courses.
The learning architecture demands and trains independent
educational planning as regards the individual development of
competences. It also provides orientation knowledge in the form of
“profiles”
The subjects that can be studied in parallel throughout the
student’s entire study program - if need be, it can be studied in
one to two semesters. In view of the adaptation problems that
individuals commonly face in their first semesters after making the
transition from school to university and in order to encourage
individually planned semesters abroad, there is no obligation to
study these subjects in one or two specific semesters during the
course of studies.
Teaching and Learning Arrangements
provide for students, separated into B.Sc. and M.Sc., to learn
with and from each other across semesters. The challenge of dealing
with interdisciplinarity and a variety of stages of learning in
courses are part of the learning architecture and are deliberately
encouraged in specific courses.
Fields of Teaching
are based on research findings from the academic disciplines
cultural studies, social studies, arts, historical studies,
migration studies, communication studies and sustainability
research, and from engineering didactics. In addition, from the
winter semester 2014/15 students on all Bachelor’s courses will
have the opportunity to learn about business management and
start-ups in a goal-oriented way.
The fields of teaching are augmented by soft skills offers and a
foreign language offer. Here, the focus is on encouraging
goal-oriented communication skills, e.g. the skills required by
outgoing engineers in international and intercultural
situations.
The Competence Level
of the courses offered in this area is different as regards the
basic training objective in the Bachelor’s and Master’s fields.
These differences are reflected in the practical examples used, in
content topics that refer to different professional application
contexts, and in the higher scientific and theoretical level of
abstraction in the B.Sc.
This is also reflected in the different quality of soft skills,
which relate to the different team positions and different group
leadership functions of Bachelor’s and Master’s graduates in their
future working life.
Specialized Competence (Knowledge)
Students can
- locate selected specialized areas with the relevant
non-technical mother discipline,
- outline basic theories, categories, terminology, models,
concepts or artistic techniques in the disciplines represented in
the learning area,
- different specialist disciplines relate to their own discipline
and differentiate it as well as make connections,
- sketch the basic outlines of how scientific disciplines,
paradigms, models, instruments, methods and forms of representation
in the specialized sciences are subject to individual and
socio-cultural interpretation and historicity,
- Can communicate in a foreign language in a manner appropriate
to the subject.
Capabilities
Professional Competence (Skills)
In selected sub-areas students can
- apply basic methods of the said scientific disciplines,
- auestion a specific technical phenomena, models, theories from
the viewpoint of another, aforementioned specialist
discipline,
- to handle simple questions in aforementioned scientific
disciplines in a sucsessful manner,
- justify their decisions on forms of organization and
application in practical questions in contexts that go beyond the
technical relationship to the subject.
Personal Competence
Social Competence
Personal Competences (Social Skills)
Students will be able
- to learn to collaborate in different manner,
- to present and analyze problems in the abovementioned fields in
a partner or group situation in a manner appropriate to the
addressees,
- to express themselves competently, in a culturally appropriate
and gender-sensitive manner in the language of the country (as far
as this study-focus would be chosen),
- to explain nontechnical items to auditorium with technical
background knowledge.
Autonomy
Personal Competences (Self-reliance)
Students are able in selected areas
- to reflect on their own profession and professionalism in the
context of real-life fields of application
- to organize themselves and their own learning
processes
- to reflect and decide questions in front of a broad education
background
- to communicate a nontechnical item in a competent way in writen
form or verbaly
- to organize themselves as an entrepreneurial subject country
(as far as this study-focus would be chosen)
ECTS-Credit Points Module:
6 ECTS
Workload in Hours:
Independent Study Time: 96, Study Time in Lecture: 84
Course: Academic Research and Writing (Seminar)
Lecturer:
Thomas Hapke
Language:
German
Period:
Summer and Winter Semester
Content:
The seminar offers an introduction into the diverse aspects of
academic research and writing: Finding the topic, finding
specialized information, knowledge organisation, writing,
presenting and publishing. Suggestions for reflecting own processes
of learning, informing and writing - in addition to practical
recommendations and tips - facilitate the start and the creation of
bachelor and master theses, works, which bring
thoroughly self-fulfillment and make fun.
Topics of the seminar will be in particular
- Scientific scholarship and academic research methods:
- Introduction, organization, attributes of science:
How is scientific knowledge created?
Work scheduling, finding topics, time management, specialities
of academic research in engineering
- Finding specialized information: Full texts and library
resources,
databases http://www.tub.tuhh.de/en … orming-points-to-survive/
- Reference management:
http://www.tub.tuhh.de/en/publishing/reference-management/
Knowledge organisation and creating publications with Citavi
- Citing correctly and avoiding plagiarism
- Preparing and doing presentations
- Academic writing: Formal and practivcal requirements for
academic writing processes in engineering. Why writing? Criteria
for good writing, methods of structuring, reading and extracting,
revising text
- Writing with LaTeX (Short introduction)
- Personality and academic research and writing: Getting
confidence and fun to write! Discovering your own type of writer,
methods to avoid writer's block (free-writing) and to structure own
thoughts (mind-mapping).
Literature:
- Semesterapparat "Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten" in der
TU-Bibliothek:
http://tinyurl.com/Semesterapparat-Wiss-Arbeiten
- Weblog Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten der TU-Bibliothek:
https://www.tub.tuhh.de/wissenschaftliches-arbeiten/
- Online-Tutorial VISION der TU-Bibliothek zum wissenschaftlichen
Arbeiten: https://www.vision.tuhh.de (funktioniert nur mit
installiertem Flash)
- Andreas Hirsch-Weber, Stefan Scherer: Wissenschaftliches
Arbeiten und Abschlussarbeit in Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften
: Grundlagen, Praxisbeispiele, Übungen. Stuttgart: Ulmer,
2016.
- Werner Sesink: Einführung in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten :
inklusive E-Learning, Web-Recherche, digitale Präsentation u.a. 9.,
aktualisierte Aufl. München : Oldenbourg, 2012.
- Judith Theuerkauf: Schreiben im Ingenieurstudium : effektiv und
effizient zur Bachelor-, Master- und Doktorarbeit. Paderborn :
Schöningh, 2012.
- Wolfsberger, Judith: Frei geschrieben : Mut, Freiheit &
Strategie für wissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeiten. Wien: Böhlau,
2010
- Biedermann, Wieland u.a.: Forschungsmethodik in den
Ingenieurwissenschaften : Skript vom Lehrstuhl für
Produktentwicklung, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Udo Lindemann, Technische
Universität München (TUM), 2012.
https://www.mw.tum.de/fil … chungsmethodik_Skript.pdf
- Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten - HOOU Angebot der HCU Hamburg:
https://blogs.hoou.de/wissarbeiten/
- Course Reserves Collection "Scholarly Research Methods" in the
TUHH library: http://tinyurl.com/Semesterapparat-Wiss-Arbeiten
- Scholarly research methods via TUHH library
Website: https://www.tub.tuhh.de/en/scholarly-research-methods/
- VISION - Online-Tutorial on research methods by the TUHH
library: http://www.vision.tuhh.de (Flash has to be installed)
- Scientific papers and presentations / Martha Davis. 3. ed.
Amsterdam: Elsevier / Academic Press, 2013.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123847270
- Writing for science and engineering : papers, presentations and
reports / Heather Silyn-Roberts. 2nd ed. Amsterdam : Elsevier,
2013. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080982854
- How to research / Loraine Blaxter, Christina Hughes and Malcolm
Tight. Maidenhead : Open Univ. Press, 2010.
- Managing information for research : practical help in
researching, writing and designing dissertations / Elizabeth Orna
and Graham Stevens. Maidenhead : Open University Press McGraw-Hill,
2009.
- Writing scientific research articles : strategy and steps /
Margaret Cargill and Patrick O’Connor. Chichester :
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Examination:
Written elaboration
ECTS-Credit Points Course:
2 ECTS