Students acquire, for tayloring their methodologies of designing socially embedded systems, theoretical knowledge in the fields of

Information Ethics;

information concepts;

Philosophy of Science. 

Students develop skills

to reflect different perspectives of computer science;

to get aware of impacts of technology design on society;

to understand multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary needs;

to discriminate between mathematical, empirical and engineering approaches;

to choose and tailor the appropriate methodology;

to better master complexity.

Students are capacitated

to feel comfortable with teams going beyond disciplines;

to respond to the requirement to take social responsibility;

to balance formal and informal requirements.

Location of informatics in the classification of disciplines;

ways of thinking (reduction, projection, dichotomisation, integration);

transdisciplinarity in science and engineering;

information processing and information generation;

concepts of system theory; 

Information society theory and empirical studies;

global challenges;

technological systems as social systems;

the quest for automation and impacts on society (desaster analysis);

design requirements for socially embedded systems.

ECTS breakdown:

1.5 points lectures

1.5 points one test for each lecture

This course will be entangled with course 187.B05. 

tests 

none