Course Overview
The contents of the chair's courses are listed below. For the exact dates of the individual courses, please refer to the electronic course catalog KU.Campus. If you have any questions, please contact the secretary's office.
All important information and materials (exercise sheets, lecture notes, slides, etc.) for the current courses as well as useful links can be found in the e-learning system "ILIAS", section Statistics. All you have to do is log in to KU.Campus with your computer center ID and register for the desired course.
Bachelor Courses
Summer Term
Case Studies in Sustainability management - BA Sustainability in Business & Economics
Master Courses
Summer Term
Social Innovation I: Basics and Concept Development - Mandatory Course ENTRE
Advanced Business Ethics
Research and Project Studies School-Economy-Communication
Winter term
Social Innovation II: Implementation and Evaluation
Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Master Theses in the Action Learning Module
Description Action Learning Mastermodule
Based on the collaboration of the WWF with the BAYER Foundations and the conception of the Social Innovation Seminars (since WS 2018/19), the professorship has developed the concept of an Action Learning Master Thesis (ALM) in spring 2020. The pedagogical goal here is to involve students primarily of the MA specialization 'Entrepreneurship & Innovation' (also open to master students of WFI with other specializations) in cooperation with a Social Impact Start-up (SIST) in an action context where learning processes are self-directed. For this purpose, the master thesis will be divided into the following 4 elements:
- After a personal introduction of the student by the supervisor at the SIST (phone calls or a ZOOM conference), there are initially 3-4 weeks for the intensive examination and testing of the SIST business model. After that, the student himself/herself presents a proposal to the SIST as well as to the supervisor in a first PowerPoint presentation of about 30 minutes, what he/she intends to do for the SIST based on the knowledge acquired during the study.
- In a short theory paper (8-10 pages), the student outlines the underlying social problem area in which the SIST is traveling, drawing on scholarly journal literature.
- During the actual five months of working on the self-developed concept, the student keeps a detailed project diary ('logbook'), outlining each new piece of information gained and its consequence for the self-directed context of action. This is always done 'in real time' - thus also accepting possible changes in direction of the action and planning strand in the case of a corresponding change in the information situation. The project diary concludes with a multi-page reflection on the student's own learning process - including the problems that arose and the desiderata for the design of the learning process that the student derives from this.
- At the end of the work the student withdraws to the position of the external consultant and hands over the result step by step to the SIST in a final PowerPoint presentation.
The above four elements are submitted and evaluated together to the professor as a bound master's thesis. According to the examination regulations, the total working time at the ALM amounts to approx. 900 hours (30 ECTS à 30 hours). The following elements accompany the ALM process:
- A group discussion (jour fix) with the supervisor (ALM chat), which takes place every two weeks, offers students the opportunity for queries, exchange, mutual support and reflection on their own progress.
- During the work phase, the student posts a monthly feed on his/her Linked-In account, from which the progress becomes transparent.