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Semester Orientation Meeting on 02.04.2024, 10:00am
Welcome to all Master students at Cologne University of Applied Sciences for the new summer semester 2024. We cordially invite you to the Semester Orientation kick-off event on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at 10:00 am (CET). The kickoff meeting will be held in English, and will take place online. It is intended to answer organizational questions, and to provide an overview of the modules, courses, and projects offered in the coming semester. The registration procedure for the modules will be explained. Most modules will begin between April 3 and Apr 19, 2024. ... read more »
Semester Orientation Meeting on 29.09.2023, 10:00
There will be a semester kick-off meeting as an online meeting on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023 from 10:00 to approximately 11:30. No registration is required. ... read more »
Guided Project Presentation Day for SS23
The Guided Project Presentation Day will take place on Mon 17.07.2023 and Fr 21.07.2023, in a hybrid format (in presence in room 0503, and remote via Zoom). These are open events, all interested parties (with TH Köln and external guests) are welcome. ... read more »
New Guided Projects for SoSe 2023
Summer Semester 2023 Guided Projects in Master Digital Sciences have been announced. ... read more »
Kickoff Summer Semester 2023
DigSc students of all specializations are invited to the academic semester orientation 22.03.2023, 12:00-13:30. The event will take place remotely via Zoom at the following link: https://th-koeln.zoom.us/j/3741374320 (pwd=4711). This is the agenda:
- Organization of the summer semester (lecture and exam periods, registration of exams)
- Modules offered and procedure for registering
- Discussion
Brief description of the study program
The study program Digital Sciences is offered cooperatively by the Faculties of Computer Science and Engineering, and Information and Communication Sciences at the TH Köln and offers a diverse range of courses in the disciplines of Computer Science, Information Science and Data Science giving a flexible and highly customizable master’s program (Master of Science degree). It leads to a degree in three or four semesters, depending on the student’s prerequisites.
The Master’s program is designed for students who wish to build on a completed Bachelor’s degree from one of the above-mentioned disciplines (e.g. Computer Science, Business Information Systems, Media Information Systems, IT Management, Code & Context, Data and Information Science, etc.). It is designed to address individual student goals, support tailored personalized learning paths, and create space for interdisciplinary and agile learning projects as well as appropriate didactic-methodological approaches across disciplinary and faculty boundaries. Large parts of the study program can be completed in English due to a broad range of English-language modules. Therefore, the study program is opened up to international students.
The current module manual (as PDF version, in German) can be downloaded here. Further information can be found on the TH Köln website: https://th-koeln.de/studium/digital-sciences-master_83002.php.
Four fields of study
The study program Digital Sciences is offered cooperatively by the Faculty of “Computer Science and Engineering” (F10) and the Faculty of “Information and Communication Sciences” (F03) and is international, seminar-based and strongly project-oriented. The master’s program includes four fields of study.
Graduates of the Digital Sciences program are qualified for management and leadership tasks at the interface between technology and application. In relation to the fields of study, these are the following focal points.
Business Information Systems (BIS)
The field of study prepares students to take on bridging functions at the interface between business and information technology. In particular, this includes the ability to develop a deep understanding of the business activities of a company, to penetrate economic fields of action and to derive requirements for IT as well as potentials of digitization in order to contribute to the success of the company through their implementation.
A detailed description of the field of study can be found at the URL https://digital-sciences.de/en/studyprograms/business-information-systems/.
Data and Information Science (DIS)
The field of study aims at generating and making available knowledge gained from data and information. Graduates work in companies that depend heavily on the generation of business-relevant knowledge, e.g. from web data, e.g. digital information platforms, online merchants, social networks, online media, etc. Also a use in research or in the facilities of research infrastructures (e.g. scientific libraries, Leibniz institutes, etc.) is conceivable due to the high proportion of research-centered modules.
A detailed description of the field of study can be found at the URL https://digital-sciences.de/en/studyprograms/data-and-information-science/.
IT Management (ITM)
The field of study builds on broad knowledge and skills in operational IT management and focuses on strategic IT management. From this perspective, the tasks of setting up, operating and further developing IT are considered. Effectiveness, efficiency and security on the one hand, as well as the design of IT in line with requirements and the support of digital transformation are always in focus. The ability to explore new IT deployment scenarios and technologies and to assume management and budget responsibility are also part of this.
A detailed description of the field of study can be found at the URL https://digital-sciences.de/en/studyprograms/it-management/.
Software Architecture (SAR)
The field of study teaches software engineering oriented towards large and complex systems, which understands IT as a socio-technical system and pays particular attention to people and their ways of thinking and acting when creating software systems. It reflects the growing importance of software for innovative digital products and services in our society by enabling graduates to design and implement complex software systems in the context of social, technological and economic conditions.
A detailed description of the field of study can be found at the URL https://digital-sciences.de/en/studyprograms/software-architecture/.
Six Focus Areas
Six focus areas serve as an integrative framework, corresponding to the perspectives of Technology, application and social-cultural impact are defined as follows: