Principles and Practices of Scientific Work and Soft Skills

Information on the course for Summer Term 2025 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)

Organizational Issues

  • You can now get 6CP for the course. either for DKE/Fundamentals or DigiEng/Human Factors.
  • Signup via elearning.ovgu.de (use your OVGU login) until 25.04.2025
    • Enter you availability via elearning for exercise slots, also until 17.04.2025
      we will reopen the exercise slot assignment, after the first lecture, depending on available space.
    • Elearning will also be used to handle exercises and for questions on lecture topics
  • NOTE: If you enroll after 29.04, you can still participate, however, we would then recommend postponing the course from our experience
  • Lectures will start in the third week of the semester
    • tuesday 13-15 G29-307
    • conducted by Dr. Claudia Krull
  • Tutorials will also start in the third week of the semester.
    • Tuesday 15-17 by Gabriel Joseph George G29-K059
    • Wedesday 13-15 by Sonam Rohilla G29-K059

Current list of Lecture Topics

The schedule and topic information presented here is preliminary! Most recent update: 19.03.2025

The password for the material will be announced in the organizational lecture.

WeekLecture DateLecture TopicAssignmentTutorial DatesTutorial Topic
1 08.04.  no lecture
     
2 15.04.  no lecture      
3 22.04. Organizational Information
Introduction (video)
Thesis Regulations (video)
   22.04./23.04. Exercise Introduction
Life After Masters
4 29.04. Study Skills (video)  Task 01  29.04./30.04.  
5 06.05. Self Management (video)  Task 02  06.05./07.05.  
6 13.05. Projects and Teams (video)
 Task 03  13.05./14.05.  
7 20.05. Effective Presentations  (video)
 Task 04  20.05./21.05.  Area of Interest Slides
8 27.05. Research Projects and Thesis Topics  (video)
 Task 05  27.05./28.05.  
9 03.06. Literature Research and Management
Mediasite: Video Link
 Task 06  03.06./04.06.  
10

10.06.

 Scientific Writing (old slide set) (video)
(academic writing slide set by Sandro Schulze)

 Task 07  10.06./11.06.  
11

17.06.

Writing a Thesis Proposal

 Task 08  17.06./18.06.  Q&A Session
12 24.06. no lecture / time to work on proposal
     
13 01.07. no lecture / time to work on proposal      
14 08.07.  no lecture    08.07./09.07.  Final Presentations

Regulations

  • Regular attendance of ALL lectures and tutorials (from the second week)
  • Completing ALL assignments
    • all assignment deadlines are Sunday 23:59, submission through git.
    • when missing the assignment deadline, you will get 2 days extension until Tuesday 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: 08.07.2024
  • The final presentation is also part of the exam and will take place at the end of the semester no lecture exercise slots. (current plan 08.07./09.07.)

Letzte Änderung: 19.03.2025 - Ansprechpartner: Webmaster