Building on your previous media, communication science or technical studies, you will expand and deepen your profile for the interface between information, media technology and communication in the Master's degree course in Digital Communication and Media Technologies.
You will expand your technical expertise and acquire additional communication science skills, which you will apply in a practical and research-oriented manner to current subject areas. Your fundamental and in-depth knowledge of individual and social contexts of communication and impact processes promotes the transfer to society. The interdisciplinary approach and elective options of the Master's degree program allow you to prepare yourself individually and flexibly for the demands of the job market.
The four-semester course teaches coordinated skills from selected fields of research in communication science, communication technology and media and business informatics.
The core area (compulsory modules)
In the interdisciplinary area, the connection between the core areas of digital communication and media technologies is made clear to you at the beginning of your studies, the added value of interdisciplinary thinking is conveyed and interface skills are promoted. At the same time, you will gain an initial understanding of the different disciplinary perspectives on the subjects of the course. The interdisciplinary module thus also forms a basis for your own specialization in the further course of your studies.
In the field of digital communication, fundamental structures and processes of digital communication are analysed and researched on an individual and societal level. You will be trained to recognise and assess the social significance and impact of technology - e.g. in the form of social media or language assistants. They learn the in-depth methodological skills and statistical analysis procedures required for this and implement these in their own empirical projects. In the field of science communication research, you will reflect on various normative communication models for the relationship between science and the public and deal with current issues such as the perception of the comprehensibility of experts or the relationship of trust.
In the field of media technologies, you will deal with the basic models and concepts of information and communication technology, software development, methods of probability theory and statistics, the basic functioning and technologies of current communication networks and the conceptual architecture of modern communication systems. You will learn the principles and the current standard of mobile radio, the basic channel, system and signal models of communications engineering and basic knowledge of the field of human-machine interaction.
Project area (compulsory elective modules)
In the communication science or media technology project module, you will apply the knowledge and skills you have acquired in a research project in your chosen study profile. You will further develop new technical and scientific problems or test new ideas in professional tasks.
Specialisation area (compulsory elective modules)
The specialisation area (23 LP) allows you to focus and specialize according to your individual interests and abilities. For orientation purposes, related profiles are suggested to you when choosing your specialization:
- Digitalisation and technology
- Communication of science and technology
- Business communication and information
However, it is also possible to select individual modules according to your interests and career goals, giving you the greatest possible freedom of choice.
Master's Thesis
The topic of the final Master's thesis can be chosen independently, depending on your specialisation. The Master's thesis can either focus on media technologies (Graduation: Master of Science) or digital communication (Graduation: Master of Arts). It is also possible to combine the Master's thesis with modules from the specialisation area.
