Principles and Practices of Scientific Work and Soft Skills
Information on the course for Summer Term 2026 will be updated here!
- Crash Course on Scientific Work and Soft Skills for all international Master Students in English!
- Responsible: Dr. Claudia Krull (lectures), Temitope Ibidunni Akinloye (tutorials)
Organizational Issues
- You can now get 6CP for the course. either for DKE/Fundamentals or DigiEng/Human Factors.
- Signup via elearning.ovgu.de will open by ...
- Enter you availability via elearning for exercise slots, until ...
we will reopen the exercise slot assignment, after the first lecture, depending on available space. - Elearning will also be used to handle exercises and for questions on lecture topics
- Enter you availability via elearning for exercise slots, until ...
- NOTE: If you enroll after ..., you can still participate, however, we would then recommend postponing the course from our experience
- Lectures will start in the third week of the semester
- Tuesday 15-17 G05-H4
- conducted by Dr. Claudia Krull
- Tutorials will also start in the third week of the semester.
- Monday 13-15 by ... G29-335
- Wednesday 13-15 by ... G29-335
Current list of Lecture Topics
The schedule and topic information presented here is preliminary! Most recent update: 04.03.2026
The password for the material will be announced in the organizational lecture.
| Week | Lecture Date | Lecture Topic | Assignment | Tutorial Dates | Tutorial Topic |
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| 1 | 08.04. | no lecture |
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| 2 | 15.04. | no lecture | |||
| 3 | 21.04. | Organizational Information Introduction (video) Thesis Regulations (video) |
22.04./27.04. | Exercise Introduction Life After Masters |
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| 4 | 28.04. | Study Skills (video) | Task 01 | 29.04./04.05. | |
| 5 | 05.05. | Self Management (video) | Task 02 | 06.05./11.05. | |
| 6 | 12.05. | Projects and Teams (video) |
Task 03 | 13.05./18.05. | |
| 7 | 19.05. | Effective Presentations (video) |
Task 04 | 20.05./25.05. | Area of Interest Slides |
| 8 | 26.05. | Research Projects and Thesis Topics (video) |
Task 05 | 27.05./02.06. | |
| 9 | 03.06. | Literature Research and Management Mediasite: Video Link |
Task 06 | 03.06./08.06. | |
| 10 |
09.06. |
Scientific Writing (old slide set) (video) |
Task 07 | 10.06./15.06. | |
| 11 |
16.06. |
preliminary version Writing a Thesis Proposal |
Task 08 | 17.06./22.06. | Q&A Session |
| 12 | 23.06. | no lecture / time to work on proposal |
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| 13 | 30.06. | no lecture / time to work on proposal | |||
| 14 | 07.07. | no lecture | 06.07./08.07. | Final Presentations |
Regulations
- Regular attendance of ALL lectures and tutorials (from the second week)
- Completing ALL assignments
- all assignment deadlines are Sunday 23:59, submission through git.
- when missing the assignment deadline, you will get 2 days extension until Tuesday 23:59
- missing more than two assignment deadlines or missing the extended deadline, will result in not being permitted for the final presentation
- Exam type is Hausarbeit / Report, which consists of all assignments and a proposal to be handed in before the final presentation. deadline: 06.07.2026
- The final presentation is also part of the exam and will take place at the end of the semester no lecture exercise slots. (current plan 06.07.-08.07.)