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Towards responsible digital transition & business

The minor provides Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Information Sciences students with the theoretical framework and skill set that are necessary to be successful in the Master’s programme Information Sciences.

The courses build upon your technical background, and introduce topics around the theme of Digital Transformation and Sustainability, which is the focus of the Master’s programme Information Sciences.

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Course Overview

  • Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation

    In this course students learn to critically evaluate innovation management concepts from academic literature and popular management press.

  • Introduction to Digital Humanities and Social Analytics (1 out of 3)

    A first step in data-oriented research is a critical understanding of the providence, characteristics, shape and limits as well as the potential of a given dataset. In this course, students will familiarize with the ‘research data lifecycle’: Starting with the critical analysis of how data are generated or how they are created through digitization of original sources (objects), how data are formatted and structured, how they can be cleaned and annotated, how they can be modelled and analyzed, and finally documented, stored and published.

  • Grand Challenges for Sustainability (1 out of 3)

    In order to eradicate poverty and to prevent environmental catastrophes, a transition needs to me made from the business as usual (BAU) to a sustainable development (SD) path. Making this transition requires good governance, not only by governments, but also by citizens and businesses. The objective of this course is to characterize a path of sustainable development and to identify the Grand Challenges that the world faces in making the transition from BAU to the SD path.

  • Environment and Development (1 out of 3)

    What do we mean by the concepts of environment and development and how are the two related? What are the causes and consequences of global environmental change? How is the global community dealing with ecological problems? How can the world adequately feed more than 9 Billion people by 2050? Is sustainable development, with its notions of environmental 'friendliness', really achievable?

  • Information Retrieval

    This course covers the core aspects of information retrieval and search engines, including indexing, Boolean retrieval, the different types of queries, query execution, the vector space model, web crawling, networks, link analysis, PageRank, classification, and clustering.

  • Sustainable Business Processes

    This course aims to introduce students in operationalizing sustainability in supply chains and business processes.

  • Designing Solutions for Global Sustainability

    This course aims to guide the student in designing solutions to complex challenges in global sustainability, within their own field of interest (e.g. energy, climate, water, waste, nature, food security, gender).

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