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Elective Modules according to § 10 Para 4 Z. 1 - 35 (30 ECTS-Credits)
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Elective Module 1: A not yet passed module (7.5 ECTS-Credits) from the offer of special business administration (SBWL fundamentals or advanced) acc. to par. 2 (no courses)
Elective Module 2: A not yet passed module (7.5 ECTS-Credits) from the offer of special economics (fundamentals or advanced) acc. to par. 3 (no courses)
Elective Module 3: Gender, Diversity and Management (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory modules Introduction to Business Administration and Fundamentals of Economics
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- explain basic concepts of gender and diversity in the context of organizations and management;
- identify and analyze gendered structures and practices in organizations, and critically assess their implications for different management tools;
- design and critically evaluate change strategies aimed at achieving equality in organizations;
- reflect on their own attitudes and competencies in dealing with diversity.
Elective Module 4: Integrated Management with Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of four compulsory modules from the core business administration area
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- explain basic knowledge of a company's business processes;
- explain how these business processes are mapped in standard business management software;
- process business cases across modules using a live ERP system.
Elective Module 5: Integrated Management with SAP S/4HANA (7.5 ECTS credits, 4 credit hours) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of four compulsory modules from the core business administration area
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- map business processes in various SAP S/4HANA modules;
- process business cases across modules in a live SAP S/4HANA system;
- assess the potential applications of SAP S/4HANA in organizations.
Elective Module 6: Strategic Management with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) (7.5 ECTS credits, 4 semester hours) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of four compulsory modules from the core business administration area
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- explain the potential uses of business intelligence for strategic management;
- prepare data, define, and calculate strategically relevant key performance indicators;
- visualize these key performance indicators;
- create a key performance indicator-based dashboard using SAP Analytics Cloud.
Elective Module 7: Digital Business (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of four compulsory modules from the core business administration area
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- explain and discuss the specific characteristics of digital markets and goods;
- describe core aspects of digital transformation;
- independently evaluate platform business models with regard to success factors;
- critically reflect on the business analytics process.
Elective Module 8: Tax Management (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory module Accounting 1: External Accounting as well as three further compulsory modules from the core business administration area
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- identify the links between taxation and business activity;
- explain the relationship between corporate taxation and accounting;
- explain the basic taxation concepts for different legal forms and derive reasoned recommendations for the choice of legal form;
- address the basic requirements for companies from a VAT perspective;
- assess the tax consequences of business termination and derive reasoned recommendations for their structuring.
Elective Module 9: Accounting and Business Restructuring (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory modules Accounting 1: External Accounting and Accounting 2: Internal Accounting as well as two further compulsory modules from the core business administration area
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- identify corporate crises based on relevant indicators;
- classify them as strategic earnings and liquidity crises;
- develop restructuring measures and proposals based on the crisis status;
- support the relevant legal restructuring procedures throughout their implementation
Elective Module 10: Corporate Governance (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of four compulsory modules from the core business administration area
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- describe the legal framework of corporate governance;
- explain the purpose and functioning of key corporate governance mechanisms;
- critically discuss the design of corporate governance mechanisms;
- reflect on different perspectives regarding the social responsibility and political role of corporations.
Elective Module 11: Corporate Sustainability (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of four compulsory modules from the core business administration area
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- explain key concepts, theories, and dimensions of CS and sustainable corporate management;
- critically reflect on the complexity of effective corporate implementation of CS and the associated trade-offs between stakeholders;
- evaluate the influence of corporate structures, processes, and factors on the achievement of sustainable corporate goals;
- work as a team to critically examine real-life corporate decision-making cases with regard to their impact on corporate and systemic sustainability and propose their own solutions;
- work as a team to scientifically analyze their own complex corporate sustainability problem and develop solutions for management practice
Elective Module 12: Teaching and Learning in Organisations (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of four compulsory modules from the core business administration area
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- explain basic business and management education knowledge on learning and work processes;
- identify the specific characteristics of learning in the work process;
- analyze conflicting objectives in corporate training;
- develop didactic proposals for designing corporate learning and work processes;
- present and critically reflect on self-developed corporate education concepts.
Elective Module 13: Workplaces as Learning Environments (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of four compulsory modules from the core business administration area
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- define and address sustainability as a guiding principle for vocational training;
- explain fundamental cognitive psychology and didactic approaches to trainer qualification;
- develop proposals for designing action areas and problem areas for promoting sustainability-oriented skills development;
- present self-developed concepts for the qualification of company training staff and critically reflect on them with reference to sustainability.
Elective Module 14: Specific Topics of Management (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of four compulsory modules from the core business administration area
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- explain and reflect on specific business problems and apply the results to their own business context;
- evaluate specific business measures;
- apply theoretical and conceptual expertise to solve business problems in this area;
- present and critically discuss research results and business conclusions.
Elective Module 15: Corporate Decision-Making and Societal Responsibility (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of four compulsory modules from the core business and/or economics areas
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- explain the fundamental background of human behavior and its impact on climate, inequality, and ethical principles;
- critically examine human decisions and their social and ecological impacts;
- apply the content to the economic, ecological, ethical, and social challenges of the
future
Elective Module 16: Nudging (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of four compulsory modules from the core business and/or economics areas
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- explain their expertise in behavioral economics with a focus on nudging;
- apply decision architectures and nudges to practical problems;
- critically examine nudging and its effects.
Elective Module 17: Tourism (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of a compulsory module from the core business or economics area
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- design sustainable destination strategies;
- analyze and discuss developments in the tourism system;
- evaluate tourism developments;
- apply selected qualitative or quantitative methods
Elective Module 18: Cultural Management (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory modules Introduction to Business Administration and Fundamentals of Economics
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- distinguish between various management approaches for organizations in the arts and culture sector;
- critically reflect on the consequences of applying various management approaches in both permanent and temporary project-based organizational forms and assess the significance of the context of demands from the artistic, economic, and socio-political fields;
- evaluate specific cases from the cultural sector and develop innovative concepts for context-appropriate cultural management.
Elective Module 19: Current Topics in Strategy and Innovation (7.5 ECTS credits, 4 semester hours) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory module Fundamentals of Management: Strategy and Marketing as well as three further compulsory modules from the core business administration area
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- identify, describe, and analyze the latest developments in strategy and innovation;
- apply theoretical concepts from the latest strategy and innovation research to
practically relevant topics;
- develop and present innovative solutions to strategic problems in various industries.
Elective Module 20: Digital Markets (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory modules Introduction to Business Administration and Fundamentals of Economics
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- analyze the competitive strategies of digital service providers;
- identify behavioral determinants of digital service consumers;
- develop and implement competition policy measures.
Elective Module 21: Economic Policy (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory modules Introduction to Business Administration and Fundamentals of Economics
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- name and explain relevant theoretical models, depending on the economic policy application area, and evaluate the model assumptions in context;
- correctly apply empirical methods and interpret the empirical results obtained;
- explain the findings of economic analysis in the respective application area.
Elective Module 22: Economic and Social History (7.5 ECTS credits, 4 semester hours) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: Positive assessment of the compulsory modules Introduction to Business Administration and Fundamentals of Economics
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- describe the key economic and social historical and theoretical developments relevant to the global economy;
- deepen this knowledge using examples and place these examples in a broader context;
- communicate the results of their own research both orally and in writing.
Elective Modulel 23: Macroeconomics of Open Economies (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory modules Introduction to Business Administration and Fundamentals of Economics
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- describe important current macroeconomic issues and their underlying causal mechanisms;
- characterize, in particular, key theories regarding the dynamics of the European economic area and demonstrate possible applications;
- apply macroeconomic models to specific problems, i.e., explain and evaluate the assumptions, mechanisms of action, and results of the models, and critically reflect on the underlying models;
- read scientific articles with comprehension, present the underlying model to fellow students, and place the results in a specific context;
- apply fundamental macroeconomic concepts and models to practical cases and make appropriate assessments.
Elective Module 24: Firms, Markets, Competition (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory modules Introduction to Business Administration and Fundamentals of Economics
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- characterize imperfectly competitive markets in contemporary economic life using the most important models of competition theory;
- discuss and classify competition policy issues using welfare economic analysis tools for various market forms;
- explain anti-competitive practices and illustrate them using case studies.
Elective Module 25: Economics of Leisure and Sport (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory modules Introduction to Business Administration and Fundamentals of Economics
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- identify and analyze key backgrounds of the circular economy, competition, employment, and foreign trade impacts of the leisure and sports sector;
- identify and critically evaluate resulting economic policy options;
- elaborate and present methodologies, results, and implications from subject-specific academic work;
- critically classify and evaluate relevant research literature in the fields of leisure and sports economics;
- lead and moderate presentations by other students.
Elective Module 26: Health Economics and Social Security (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory modules Introduction to Business Administration and Fundamentals of Economics
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- describe the specific characteristics of health and health goods and assess their consequences for the design of the healthcare system, taking efficiency and equity into account;
- describe the economic characteristics of health risks and their coverage through health insurance, and relate them to the design of real healthcare systems;
- explain the key principles and methods of health economic evaluation and apply them to simple health policy problems;
- read health economic publications, interpret the empirical evidence in scientific studies, and apply it to real healthcare decision-making situations.
Elective Module 27: Environmental Economics (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory modules Introduction to Business Administration and Fundamentals of Economics
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- explain key background information on prevailing incentive structures in markets with environmental externalities;
- critically reflect on the feasibility, efficiency, and ecological effectiveness of individual policy instruments in environmental economics;
- present and discuss the research question, methodology used, and results obtained from selected academic publications in the field of environmental economics.
Elective Module 28: Regional Economics (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory modules Introduction to Business Administration and Fundamentals of Economics
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- explain and critically discuss academic publications on regional economics;
- analyze and classify specific regions from a regional economic perspective in order to identify and address relevant (academic) questions in a targeted manner;
- present the results of data analysis in an appealing and understandable manner, both verbally and in writing.
Elective Module 29: Managerial Economics (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory modules Introduction to Business Administration and Fundamentals of Economics
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- assess the competitive situation of companies from a management perspective and
draw appropriate conclusions regarding pricing options;
- characterize the incentive structures in the presence of asymmetric information from the perspective of the various market participants and derive the corresponding optimal contracts;
- justify the necessity of market interventions in the event of various types of market failure and explain their implications.
Elective Module 30: Data Analytics (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory modules Introduction to Business Administration and Fundamentals of Economics
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- identify statistical problems in application-oriented questions;
- select appropriate methods for analysis;
- implement these methods independently in statistical software;
- communicate the results.
Elective Module 31: Current Developments in the Economy and Society (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory modules Introduction to Business Administration and Fundamentals of Economics
Learning Outcome: Students can:
- recognize the relevance of theoretical concepts;
- research the current state of scientific discussion and the empirical basis;
- systematically organize, critically comment on, and present the material appropriately.
Elective Module 32: Thinking Further About Economics (7.5 ECTS credits, 4 semester hours) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of the compulsory modules Introduction to Business Administration and Fundamentals of Economics
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- provide an overview of the paradigmatic diversity within economics;
- consider and critically reflect on different approaches holistically;
- discuss and present their findings;
- communicate their findings in writing according to the rules of good academic practice.
Elective Module 33: Italian Law and Economics I: Public Commercial Law and Labor Law (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of four compulsory modules from the core business and/or economics areas
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- explain key economic elements of Italian public law and Italian labor law;
- critically reflect on this knowledge using concrete examples;
- apply this knowledge independently.
Elective Module 34: Italian Law and Economics II: Commercial and Business Law, Company Law, Bankruptcy Law (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of four compulsory modules from the core business and/or economics areas
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- explain key elements of Italian commercial, corporate, company, and bankruptcy law;
- critically reflect on this knowledge using concrete examples;
- apply this knowledge independently
Elective Module 35: Italian Tax Law (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive assessment of four compulsory modules from the core business and/or economics areas
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- explain key elements of Italian tax law;
- critically reflect on this knowledge using concrete examples;
- apply this knowledge independently.
Elective Module 36: Additional Business Foreign Language (7.5 ECTS credits, 4 semester hours) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: The registration requirements specified in the respective curriculum must be met.
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to communicate both verbally and written in a foreign language in a business context. They will be able to prepare and present business content in the foreign language and communicate with different target groups in that foreign language.
Elective module 37: International Management I (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 semester hours) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: The registration requirements specified in the respective curriculum must be met.
Learning Outcome: Students are able to distinguish between different forms of international business activity. They can make theory-based recommendations regarding which form of international business activity is advisable for companies under which circumstances. Students understand generic corporate strategies and can derive corresponding internationalization strategies. They can evaluate investment projects abroad qualitatively and quantitatively. Students can explain the fundamental interrelationships between the functional components of international management, apply them to practical case studies, and demonstrate social, ethical, and intercultural implications.
Elective module 38: International Management II (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 4 semester hours) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: The registration requirements specified in the respective curriculum must be met.
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to analyze in-depth issues of international management and derive theory-based solutions. They will be able to present and discuss specialized academic literature in their respective functional areas, as well as solve and critically evaluate complex case studies. Students will be able to establish connections between the various functions, apply this knowledge to various business management issues, and explain them.
Elective Module 39: Social Sciences (7.5 ECTS-AP) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: The registration requirements specified in the respective curriculum must be met
Learning Outcome: Based on the specific focus of the chosen module, students will be able to:
- explain and reflect on social science problems;
- apply the results to their own business-related context;
- evaluate business and/or economic measures from a social science perspective.
Elective Module 41: Practice (15 ECTS credits, 1 semester hour) (no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: Academic achievements amounting to 30 ECTS credits
Learning Outcome: Students will be able to:
- apply the knowledge and skills acquired during their training in a professional environment;
- critically and reflectively engage with their experiences;
- assess the conditions of professional practice and recognize connections between

different organizational functional areas;
- establish and critically reflect on the connection between theoretical knowledge and practical action.

Notes:
  • There may still be changes in the courses offered as well as room allocation and course dates.
  • The course descriptions found in the English version of the course catalogue are for informational purposes only. Authoritative information can be found in the "Vorlesungsverzeichnis" (German version of the course catalogue).