Data literacy teaching labsData Literacy Education: Many new courses in the winter semester 2022/23 - register now!

6 September 2022

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In the Data Literacy Teaching Lab, in which lecturers from different faculties and institutions design and implement a total of 14 new courses, many of them will now be available for students to choose from in the coming winter semester 2022/23.

Some subject-specific and transfer-oriented courses already started in the summer semester 2022, including

• ‘Data skills for teachers’ and “Fake news, bots & algorithms | opinion formation as a topic of teaching development” at the Faculty of Education
• ‘Digitising cultural assets: digitally accessing and researching analogue documents’ and “Data Analysis for Linguists” at the Faculty of Humanities
• "Innovation by Legal Design Thinking" at the Faculty of Law,
• ‘Data-driven Solutions for the Smart City Hamburg’ at the MIN Faculty and
• ‘Workshop Research Data Management’, a course offered by the Centre for Research Data Management.

These will also be continued in the winter semester 2022/23.

Further courses will start for the first time in winter, namely

• ‘Algorithmic Optimisation in Democratic Public Spheres - Interdisciplinary Design of a News Recommendation System’ at the WiSo Faculty,
• ‘Introduction to Causal Inference and Digital Causality Lab’ at the Faculty of Business Administration
• ‘Crossing Perspectives: Illustrating, analysing and normatively evaluating media ecosystems through architectures’ at the MIN faculty and
• ‘Data Literacy in Medicine - Analysing Data and Reading Literature Critically’ at the UKE.

The seminar ‘Understanding the digital transformation and shaping it sustainably - Mikropolis.org’ starts in the Studium Generale. It is open to students from all disciplines and invites participants to take an in-depth look at the historical development of digitalisation and current digital transformation topics. The aim is to develop a product in the form of a video, podcast or essay that can be presented on the MikroPolis.org platform. In addition, another Studium Generale project is working at full speed on the Digital Propaedeutic on the teaching and publication platform PECE Hamburg.

The DDLitLab core project also offers a comprehensive programme in the Studium Generale in winter: for example, the lecture series Data Worlds I, which is dedicated to the concept of data, data management and various analysis techniques, or the block seminar ‘Data Thinking’, in which students develop data-driven innovation ideas using creative techniques.

In addition, Dr Michaela Regneri (House of Computing and Data Science) offers a seminar on ‘Artificial intelligence for everyone: the example of chatbots’. This course can also be credited in the free elective area.