Teaching - Information Systems, in particular Sustainability

Teaching programme

Our courses aim to teach students the concepts of sustainable digitalisation. The orientation of the courses is based on our research focus areas: digital resilience, information security and compliance as well as "Dark and Bright Sides of Information Systems". Accordingly, our teaching covers the interfaces between sustainability, IT security and strategic IT management.

Module overview

Bachelor modules

Module name	Semester	ECTS	Language	Person responsible
M.184.3344 - Student research project: Information security management	winter semester	5	DEU	Prof. Dr. Simon Trang
M.184.3345 - Fostering sustainability: a digitalisation perspective	winter semester	5	ENG	Prof. Dr. Simon Trang
M.184.3341 - Student research project: Sustainable Information Systems	summer semester	5	DEU	Prof. Dr. Simon Trang
M.184.3342 - Methods of information security management	summer semester	5	DEU	Prof. Dr Simon Trang

Master modules

Module name	Semester	ECTS	Language	Person responsible
M.184.5343 - Strategic IT Management	winter semester	5	ENG	Prof. Dr. Simon Trang
M.184.5341 - Project seminar: Digitalisation of Critical Infrastructures	summer semester	10	DEU	Prof. Dr. Simon Trang

Final theses

General information

Start time	Any time
Language preference	English preferred
Duration	Bachelor thesis (12 weeks), Master thesis (24 weeks)
Application	Please send an application (short cover letter on your motivation and a current transcript of records) to the relevant supervisor.
Finding a topic	You can choose from advertised topics or make your own suggestion within the research areas of the staff or the chair.
Contact for questions	Gilbert Hövel (gilbert.georg.hoevel@upb.de)

Note: We offer some topics in cooperation with the Information Security and Compliance research group at the University of Göttingen. If you are interested, please contact the relevant supervisor and put Gilbert Hövel in CC.

Bachelor topics

Topics advertised:

Bachelor thesis topics will be called for proposals here shortly (flexible start time). If you are interested, you can then contact the supervisor.

Topics for your own proposal:

Subject area	Methods	Contact person
Technostress in the context of healthcare	Experiments, scenario-based surveys, interviews, literature review	Gilbert Hövel
Nudging and compliance	Experiments, scenario-based surveys, interviews, literature review	Gilbert Hövel
(ML-based) fraud detection	Design science, quantitative methods	Tizian Matschak
IT security measurements	Design Science, Quantitative Methods	Tizian Matschak

Master topics

Topics written out:

"Do you ever come out of the basement?" Qualitative Analysis of the Role of User-Involvement in the Development of Health Information Systems

The diffusion of health information systems such as Electronic Health Records is rapidly increasing in both inpatient settings (hospitals) and outpatient settings (e.g., medical practices or pharmacies). However, users complain that these systems poorly integrate processes, are difficult to use, and do not align with the user's perspective. The cause of the lack of acceptance of health information systems is that the actual context of use receives insufficient consideration in the development process. Against this background, the goal of this thesis is to capture the status-quo of the development process in regard to user involvement. To achieve this, expert interviews will be conducted with different roles (developers, project managers, product owners) within the development process of health information systems.

Topics for own proposal:

Subject area	Methodologies	Contact person
Technostress in the context of healthcare	Experiments, scenario-based surveys, interviews, literature review	Gilbert Hövel
Nudging and compliance	Experiments, scenario-based surveys, interviews, literature review	Gilbert Hövel
(ML-based) fraud detection	Design science, quantitative methods	Tizian Matschak
IT security measurements	Design Science, Quantitative Methods	Tizian Matschak

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