Master’s program focus “Digitization and Social Change” at FAU
Digitization is linked to a fundamental change in social conditions. In an interdisciplinary focus at FAU, master’s students in the social and cultural sciences can examine the background, analysis and design options for this change.
The focus is currently already integrated into the
Master of Political Science (focus on digitalization and politics) – student advisor Prof. Dr. Thomas Demmelhuber
Master Cultural Geography (focus on Digital Geography & Society) – student advisory Profs. Dr. Georg Glasze and Dr. Blake Walker
In addition, Sociology, Media Studies, Japanese Studies and Book Studies participate in the program.
The Department of Digital Humanities & Social Studies initially feeds mainly methodological seminars from the Master’s area.
In the concentration, MA students can choose a total of 20 ECTS from a pool of interdisciplinary offerings.
a total of 10 ECTS from two thematically appropriate main seminars in the subject area “Society & Technology
a total of 10 ECTS from two methodological seminars in the digital humanities and social sciences and other participating subjects.
In the winter semester 2023/2024, the following seminars can be selected (please contact the respective lecturers if you are interested) (All lectures are in German)
| Fach | Dozent/in bzw. Ansprechpartner | Hauptseminar (HA) oder Methodenseminar (MS) | Titel | |
| Kulturgeographie | Dr. Finn Dammann
Dozent: M. Summerer, Amt für Digitalisierung der Stadt Nürnberg |
Externe Expertise (Blockseminare, 5 ECTS) | Externe Expertise I: Digitalisierung und öffentliche Verwaltung gemeinsam gestalten | |
| Kulturgeographie | Prof. Dr. Blake Walker; Prof. Dr. Georg Glasze; Dr. Finn Dammann | Forschungswerkstatt; Blockseminare; 2*5 ECTS | Konzeption und Organisation Tagung AK Digitale Geographie 2024 in Erlangen | |
| Kulturgeographie/DHSS | Dr. Finn Dammann; Dr. Dominik Kremer | Methodenseminar; 5 ECTS | Seminar vertiefte Methoden: Geographische Informationssysteme in der Human-/Kulturgeographie | |
| Kulturgeographie | Prof. Dr. Georg Glasze | Seminar 5 ECTS | Hauptseminar: Politische Geographien der digitalen Transformation | |
| Kulturgeographie | Dr. Finn Dammann mit Prof. Dr. Boris Michel (MLU Halle) | ca. dreitägiges Geländeseminar (2 ECTS!) | Digitale Infrastrukturen Geographien digitaler Infrastrukturen –
Soziotechnische Assemblagen von Datenzirkulation (Region Nürnberg und Region Halle/Leipzig) |
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| Computerlinguistik/DHSS | Andreas Blombach | Seminar 5 ECTS | Wörter, Texte & Frequenzen: statistische Analyse von Sprachdaten | |
| Medienethik/DHSS | Prof. Höhne | Seminar 5 ECTS | Zwischen Filterblasen und Teilhabehoffnung. Der digitale Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit in medienethischer Perspektive | |
| Japanologie | Prof. Dr. Fabian Schäfer | Methodenseminar; 5 ECTS | Digitale Methoden der qualitativen Analyse | |
| Japanologie | Prof. Dr. Fabian Schäfer | Methodenseminar; 5 ECTS | Digitale Diskursanalyse | |
| Soziologie | Jasmin Schreyer; Amelie Tihlarik | Hauptseminar, 5 ECTS | Absolute Wahrheit durch KI? Soziologische (De)-Konstruktionen von Künstlicher Intelligenz | |
| Soziologie | Dr. Katrin Drasch | Methodenseminar; 5 ECTS | Quantitative Methoden | nur in Kombination besuchbar |
| Dr. Katrin Drasch | Methodenseminar; 5 ECTS | Datenanalyse mit Stata |