Plug-in Modules

This module offers TUM students a comprehensive introduction to prompt and bot engineering for text generation with large language models (LLMs). Combining practical skills in prompt engineering with a focus on legal, ethical, and societal implications, the course covers topics such as prompt effectiveness, responsible deployment, human-computer interaction, and intellectual property issues.

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• Lecture: Academic Prompt Engineering and Management: a Reflexive Introduction
• Workshop: Academic Prompt Engineering and Management: Responsible Use in Action

After this class, students will be able to apply advanced computational methods to their own research projects. They will be able to collect and manipulate data. The students will then be able to utilize existing packages in the Python programming language to analyze large text corpora and network data. They will also learn how to use standard machine learning methods on their data.

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In this module, students will gain a deep understanding of how to align generative AI systems with societal values, focusing on fairness, accountability, and transparency. Through hands-on experience, they will learn to identify and mitigate biases in AI models, while developing the skills to balance innovation with ethical responsibility in real-world applications.

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• Lecture: Aligning Generative AI to Social Values
• Seminar: Aligning Generative AI to Social Values

Upon successful competition of this module, students will have a theoretical and practical understanding of methods of social network analysis, and will further be able to apply this knowledge to their own projects. Students will be able to: (1) collect, manipulate, and visualize network data, (2) apply methods of social network analysis, and (3) utilize existing packages in the Python programming language to analyze network data.

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This module offers a comprehensive understanding of open science principles, including open access, research data, and open-source projects, with a focus on democratizing knowledge. Through hands-on activities and case studies, you’ll gain practical skills to apply open science practices in your future career, contributing to a more inclusive and accessible knowledge economy.

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• Lecture and seminar: Open Data – Open Science

In this module, students deal with the psychological foundations of learning and effective instructional design for AI-based systems. They learn to make use of cognitive learning theories in the context of AI applications and to understand and analyze the interaction between humans and AI from a psychological perspective

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The course takes you on an immersive journey into the fascinating world of AI, offering a comprehensive, 360-degree view of the field. Designed to be highly interactive and hands-on, the course is centered around practical applications that have been tested in real-world scenarios.

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Discover your entrepreneurial potential with our Business Plan Basic Seminar, ideal for aspiring entrepreneurs. Are you bursting with ideas but unsure where to start? Our program is designed as a gentle introduction, prioritizing creativity over perfection. Delve into ideation, prototype development, market analysis, and business models with agile methodologies. Receive personalized coaching to refine your ideas and gain confidence in presenting your vision. Whether dreaming of your venture or simply curious, our seminar supports you every step.

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Set in a future scenario, students will be confronted with scenes (based on scientific projections) that make clear what circumstances we may live in in the future. In interdisciplinary project teams, students will create a real-life practical solution for a larger societal problem they encounter in these scenarios.

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In the three-month Digital Product School, students learn to build innovative digital products that solve real problems and offer users real added value.

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In this program, students, supported by experienced coaches, work in international and interdisciplinary teams to develop a sustainable, innovative, and profitable business model. At the end of the semester, they will present it to the public – and become part of a global community of change agents.

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Learning to lead: This course teaches the fundamental aspects of corporate management and their application in the practice of national and international companies.

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In this module, students work in interdisciplinary teams to develop entrepreneurial solutions based on a self-chosen challenge with societal relevance. These solutions are also created and analyzed in terms of their impact on our social, economical and environmental systems.

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In five days, students learn to develop innovative, customer-focused and impact-driven business ideas by taking on a partner's challenge in an interdisciplinary team.

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In this course, participants gain insights from the practice of founders and entrepreneurs, and work on their own project to improve self-leadership.

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This course will challenge the next generation of leaders and entrepreneurs to think critically about how their personal values and principles inform the difficult decisions they will have to make as they grow their business.

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After completing the seminar, students will be able to choose the appropriate legal form for the establishment of a start-up, as well as to identify the appropriate financing method for the foundation. In addition, students are able to understand the essential legal regulations of intellectual property law, product labelling, data protection law and competition law.

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This project-based course brings together multidisciplinary teams to explore the commercial potential of groundbreaking technologies being developed at TUM for climate impact, building the first version of a startup concept throughout the semester.

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After the completition of the module the students will be able to understand the core concepts and implicatons of data, privacy and data protection law. By the end, students will be equipped to analyze and discuss current research on data protection and assess the societal impact of these regulations, preparing them for the challenges of data governance

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• Lecture: Data Regulation and Law
• Exercise: Data Regulation and Law

This module familiarizes students with the most important topics, questions and debates in the field of applied ethics and ethics of responsibility. By analyzing case studies and presenting and discussing their own work, they learn to critically evaluate ethical conflicts of interest, reflect on their own points of view, and convincingly present scientifically sound arguments.

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This module introduces the students to the approaches of measuring and modeling the responses of (travel) behavior to (mobility) policies. Students will be equipped with the methodological tools to analyze policy impacts in various sectors. Through practical training in surveys, discrete choice experiments, and econometric modeling, students from all fields can apply these skills to real-world policy analysis, from mobility to health and beyond

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• Lecture: Advanced Methods for Measurement and Modeling of Choice Behavior (with Application to Mobility Policy)
• Exercise: Advanced Methods for Measurement and Modeling of Choice Behavior (with Application to Mobility Policy)

The module provides a basic introduction to the comparison and analysis of political systems. It covers the most important concepts, theories and methods of comparative analysis of political systems.

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• Lecture: Fundamentals of Comparative Politics
• Exercise: Fundamentals of Comparative Politics

Technology is often promoted as providing “miracle solutions” to longstanding developmental problems like hunger, poverty, or gender discrimination. Upon completing this course, students will be able to look behind the curtain of the potential of technology in global development, by exploring its promises and challenges. Through interactive discussions, projects, and exercises, they will be able to critically evaluate the role of technology in addressing key global issues like poverty and inequality, while developing practical solutions to implement real-world change.

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This module explores the impact of information technologies on political mobilization, focusing on how they shape collective action, political violence, and government strategies in both autocratic and democratic settings. Additionally, it introduces research designs in conflict studies, addressing challenges like data quality, causal inference, and ethical considerations, with a strong emphasis on quantitative analysis.

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After successfully completing the module, students will have a comprehensive understanding of risk and crisis communication. They understand what constitutes a crisis, know the most important concepts and theories of risk and crisis communication, and are familiar with the typical phases of a crisis. They have an understanding of the overlap between communication strategies, political decisions, and public attitudes. They will be able to critically evaluate the communication practices of past and current crises and to design, plan and implement their own communication strategies for crisis situations.

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• Lecture: Risk an Crisis Communication: Theories and beyond
• Seminar: Risk an Crisis Communication

The participants of this course learn to generate attention for scientific content in an increasingly complex media world and to communicate scientific content in different formats.

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The linear “throwaway society” relies on increasing resource consumption and is reaching its limits on a planet with finite resources, contributing significantly to greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. Circular economy presents a sustainable alternative by decoupling prosperity from environmental harm, though consumer adoption remains limited. This interdisciplinary project introduces students to circular economy and behavioral economics, encouraging them to develop practical solutions through a team challenge, supported by both theoretical foundations and input from industry and academic partners.

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At the virtual SDG Campus, students can attend a wide variety of courses related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and technologies that might be helpful to reach them, collect ECTS and earn a certificate.

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In this course, students get to explore the theoretical foundations of sustainable development and examine its impact on economic, social, environmental, and health policies. Through lectures and discussions, students will analyze key sustainability challenges, such as global competition, environmental degradation, and resource scarcity, while understanding how policies differ in their approach to achieving long-term sustainability.

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This module introduces students to the challenges and opportunities of sustainability transitions, for example in the areas of innovation, finance, or development, and examines the role of public policy in managing these transitions. The focus is on analyzing the pace and direction of technological change using the energy sector as an example.

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