Principles and Practices of Scientific Work and Soft Skills
Information on the course for Summer Term 2022 will be updated here!
- Crash Course on Scientific Work and Soft Skills for all international Master Students in English!
- Responsible: Dr. Claudia Krull (lectures), Temitope Ibidunni Akinloye (tutorials)
PLEASE NOTE: PPSW will no longer be offered in Winter Terms, but will ONLY be offered in Summer Terms from now on.
Organizational Issues
- You can now get 3CP for the course. either for DKE/Fundamentals or DigiEng/Human Factors.
- Signup via elearning.ovgu.de (use your OVGU login) until 14.04.2022
- Enter you availability via elearning for exercise slots, also until 14.04.2022
- Elearning will also be used to handle exercises and for questions on lecture topics
- NOTE: If you enroll after 28.04, you can still participate, however, we would then recommend postponing the course from our experience
- Lectures will start in the second week of the semester
- Thursday 15-17 G29-307 (FIN lecture hall)
- conducted by Dr. Claudia Krull
- Tutorials will start in the third week of the semester.
- Monday 09-11 by Temitope Akinloye G29-335
- Tuesday 09-11 by Saloni Verma G29-335
- Monday 09-11 by Temitope Akinloye G29-335
Current list of Lecture Topics
The schedule and topic information presented here is preliminary! Most recent update: 14.03.2022
The password for the material will be announced in the organizational lecture.
| Week | Date | Lecture Topic | Assignment | Tutorial Dates | Tutorial Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 14.04. | Organizational Information Introduction (video) Thesis Regulations (video) |
19.04. | Exercise Introduction Life After Masters |
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| 3 | 21.04. | Study Skills (video) | Task 01 | 25.04./26.04. | |
| 4 | 28.04. | Self Management (video) | Task 02 | 02.05./03.05. | |
| 5 | 05.05. | Projects and Teams (video) |
Task 03 | 09.05./10.05. | |
| 6 | 12.05. | Effective Presentations (video) |
Task 04 | 16.05./17.05. | Area of Interest Slides |
| 7 | 19.05. | Research Projects and Thesis Topics (video) |
Task 05 | 23.05./24.05. | |
| 8 | 26.05. PUBLIC HOLIDAY |
Literature Research and Management Mediasite: Video Link |
Task 06 | 30.05./31.05. | |
| 9 |
02.06. |
Scientific Writing (video) |
Task 07 | 07.06. | |
| 10 |
09.06. |
Task 08 | 13.06./14.06. | ||
| 11-13 | 16.06. | Recruiters Event - by Academic Club |
20.06./21.06. | Q&A session |
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| time to work on proposal | |||||
| 14 | 04. & 05.07. | Final Presentations |
Regulations
- Regular attendance of ALL lectures and tutorials (from the second week)
- Completing ALL assignments
- all assignment deadlines are Wednesday 23:59, submission through git.
- when missing the assignment deadline, you will get 2 days extension until Friday 23:59
- missing more than two assignment deadlines or missing the extended deadline, will result in not being permitted for the final presentation
- Exam type is Hausarbeit / Report, which consists of all assignments and a proposal to be handed in before the final presentation. deadline: 01.07.2022
- The final presentation is also part of the exam and will take place at the end of the semester and/or the beginning of the examination period (current plan 04.07. and 05.07.)