The basis for this interactive seminar is a business game with group work, which has to be run as a real business with real Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Students from different disciplines and countries work together in intercultural teams to create a business plan and marketing strategy for a fictitious hotel. The teaching units address both theoretical and practical concepts.

By using an Online platform, the course combines virtual and real-life components, in which students demonstrate their strategic thinking, time management, creativity and communication skills. The cooperation with international partners represents an added value of the module and is reflected in the intercultural knowledge transfer of the underlying student teams.

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Modern data science methods of various disciplines will be addressed. Among other things, reference is made to different types of data (e.g. economic data, text as data, behavioral data, eye-tracking data), their modeling and the goals of data analysis. As part of the accompanying seminar, students will learn the basics of data processing and programming using a sample programming language.

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War, Society and Responsibility

This course provides a critical examination of modern warfare by tackling three fundamental questions: What is war and why do states fight? What is it like to fight in war? Does society have a responsibility towards the state, soldiers and veterans?

Students will first analyze the political and normative concepts or war, authorization of violence by the state and how Just War Theory is used to establish constraints. The focus then shifts to explore the lived experience of soldiers in armed conflicts to understand the psychological and philosophical dimensions of moral injury. The final section examines the public and cultural management of “ethical debt”. Through systematic evaluation of media (film, memoirs, literature), memorials and political discourse, students will analyze how cultural narratives function as interpretive ascriptions. The course ultimately aims to identify the universal mechanisms by which modern democratic states justify war and translate the cost of war into public memory, recognition and how this process reinforces or challenges the civil-military divide.

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