Future Skills

11BF666

Bachelor

German, English

5.0

winter and summer term

The specific courses offered in the Future Skills module can be found in the course catalogue, which is updated every semester, resulting in regular changes to the specific courses on offer. The LearningCentre is responsible for coordinating and monitoring the content of the offer. 

6 semesters

The Future Skills module aims to acquire interdisciplinary and general future skills. It enables an individually selectable profile that is designed to be interdisciplinary. Although the Future Skills module is formally located in a specific Bachelor's semester in the study regulations/timetables, the total of 5 ECTS points can be acquired by students over the entire duration of the Bachelor's degree programme through successful and demonstrable participation in individual elements to varying degrees (minimum 15 work units (WU), maximum 150 WU).

For this purpose, the "SkillsBook" - a new form of examination to be included in the ATPO - is used to reflect on the thematic content learnt and subject-specific references as well as the student's own skills development on the basis of predefined key questions. The module is marked as passed when a total of 150 AE have been completed and a total of 5 ECTS points have been earned. Voluntary work in addition to the 5 ECTS credits within the framework of the module is generally possible and is to be welcomed. A certificate containing an overview of all courses successfully completed as part of the module is issued with the Bachelor's degree certificate.

As part of the interdisciplinary Future Skills module, the main aim is to broaden one's view beyond the subject content of one's own degree programme and to expand one's own skills portfolio to include skills that are personally considered important but have little or no place in the subject curriculum. The Future Skills module enables an individually selectable, interdisciplinary profile.

In addition to the two disciplinary Future Skills modules of their respective degree programme, students should explicitly take courses that enable them to acquire future skills other than those considered particularly important for the respective degree programme.

The Future Skills module aims to acquire interdisciplinary and general future skills. Students should acquire important future skills as part of their degree programme, regardless of their respective degree programme. Future skills are the competences required for a successful and happy working, private and social life.

In the Future Skills module, students decide for themselves which future topics they would like to focus on and which future skills they would like to develop. Depending on which courses and subject areas students choose, they may acquire very different competences.
Due to this fact, the following descriptions of competences remain rather abstract and have an exemplary character. The specific targeted learning outcomes can be found in the respective descriptions of the selected courses.

Future skills and future topics that are derived from the needs that university lecturers and the world of work see, but also from the needs of students.

The following catalogue of topics and content does not claim to be exhaustive and is subject to the dynamically changing world and the resulting changes in the importance of individual topics:
- Digitalised (working) world
- Sustainability/climate change - Artificial intelligence
- Health - Diversity
- Diversity
- Political changes/populism - Interdisciplinarity
- Internationalisation/globalisation
- Cybersecurity/data protection
- Energy supply
- Robotics/Automation

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

The teaching and learning forms of the various courses within the Future Skills module can correspond to all possible teaching and learning forms to be selected. Therefore, "Other" was selected.
Lectures are excluded, as the development of Future Skills requires individual activity.

The division into "lecturer-based" and "non-lecturer-based" learning should not be regarded as definitive. Depending on what the specific programme in the interdisciplinary Future Skills module looks like in a specific semester and how it develops in the coming years, the division into "lecturer-based" and "non-lecturer-based" learning may vary.

• Other

There are no graded examinations in the interdisciplinary Future Skills module.
The choice of ungraded examination type(s) is the responsibility of the respective lecturer, who must adhere to the applicable study regulations.

A new form of examination for the interdisciplinary Future Skills module is to be included in the ATPO as soon as possible (SkillsBook). 

None

By engaging with a specific future topic, students gain access to fundamental aspects of the topic and are sensitised to the challenges associated with the topic, be they of a personal or social nature.

Students are enabled to generate knowledge in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary working groups and to relate this to their own specialist background. They are encouraged to work out their own disciplinary perspective and explain it to others, as well as to adopt and discuss the perspective of other disciplines.

Students acquire transversal competences that they can use in their working life and/or in the context of social commitment.

If students attend courses in which research-related projects are carried out, e.g. as part of research-based learning, students generate research- and project-based knowledge. Depending on the application context, they develop their own research questions, apply different research methods and explain the results of their research.

Depending on the type of event, students communicate and cooperate in interdisciplinary working groups on the respective specific future topic. They can reflect on and take into account the different perspectives and interests of other participants.

Students are able to adequately assess their individual portfolio of future-oriented competences and use them profitably for their life and career planning.

• Mayer, Frank

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