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SSME Recommended Study Plan

The following study plan is meant to help make effective choices with a view to earning the required number of credits. It specifies the sequence of required courses that is deemed to be the most effective study plan for students enrolled in the Applied Informatics – Service Science, Management, and Engineering programme. The sequence of selective courses is not specified.

The strategy is specified so as to ensure that students would have gained 120 credits by the end of the programme. In each of the first three semesters, students are advised to take three to five required courses (specified in the table below) and two selective courses. From the second semester students are advised to register for the course Diploma Thesis (code SDIPR). The thesis has to link to the courses of the chosen field of study. Students need to obtain 20 credits in total for the thesis. At the thesis registration students select a number of credits, which they wish to use towards the thesis in each semester. It is therefore possible to spread the thesis work over several semesters or complete it during one semester only. Students are awarded with a course-unit credit upon completion of the SDIPR course.

In the fourth semester students are advised to register for some elective courses needed for gaining 120 credits. Students register for the course Defence of Thesis (code SOBHA) in the semester in which they intend to defend their thesis. Students in their last semester also register for the Final State Exam (code SZMGR).

PA180 Interim Project Business or PA185 Interim Project – Research 1 can be enrolled in any semester after completing five required courses — PA116 and PA179 and PA181 and PV203 and PV207 — mentioned in 1st semester and 2nd semester.

Recommended study plan starting in the autumn semester:

1st semester – Autumn

  • Required courses
    PA116 Domain Understanding and Modeling
    6 ECTS, exam
    PA179 Project Management and Service Life Cycle
    6 ECTS, exam
    PV206 Communication and Soft Skills
    7 ECTS, exam
  • Information Technology selective courses, e.g.
    PV080 Protection of Data and Information Privacy
    4 ECTS, exam
  • Human Oriented selective courses, e.g.
    IV029 Logical Analysis of Natural Language I
    3 ECTS, colloquium
    PV205 Seminar on Complex Systems
    3 ECTS, colloquium

2nd semester – Spring

  • Required courses
    PA181 Services – Systems, Modeling, and Execution
    6 ECTS, exam
    PV203 IT Service Management
    4 ECTS, exam
    PV207 Business Process Management
    5 ECTS, exam
  • Information Technology selective courses, e.g.
    IV109 Modeling and Simulation
    5 ECTS, exam
    PV213 Enterprise Information Systems in Practice
    3 ECTS, exam
  • Management and Economics selective courses, e.g.
    PV098 Management of Information System Implementation
    4 ECTS, exam
  • Human Oriented selective courses, e.g.
    IA157 Logical Analysis of Natural Language II
    4 ECTS, exam
    VV040 Theatre Play
    5 ECTS, colloquium

3rd semester – Autumn

  • Required courses
    PA180 Interim Project
    16 ECTS, colloquium
    SDIPR Diploma Thesis
    10 ECTS, credit
  • Human Oriented selective courses, e.g.
    PV182 Human Computer Interaction
    4 – 5 ECTS, exam or colloquium

4th semester – Spring

  • Required courses
    PA104 Team Project Leadership
    4 ECTS, exam
    SDIPR Diploma Thesis
    10 ECTS, credit
    SOBHA Defence of Thesis
    0 ECTS, final state examination
    SZMGR State Exam
    0 ECTS, final state examination
  • Information Technology selective courses, e.g.
    PV157 Authentication and Access Control
    3 – 4 ECTS, exam or colloquium
    PV214 Information Technology Infrastructure Library
    3 – 4 ECTS, exam or colloquium
    PV217 Service Oriented Architecture
    3 ECTS, colloquium
  • Management and Economics selective courses, e.g.
    PV215 Management by Competences
    5 ECTS, exam
    PV216 Marketing Strategy in Service Business
    5 ECTS, exam