Event details

Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

Most people have probably gained some experience with generative AI by now. Many already use chatbots routinely in their everyday lives. In the future, life, study, and work will take place in an AI-dominated world. What should we fear, what should we hope for? Do we welcome this development? Can we influence it? Based on selected, exciting, and profound text excerpts (in German and English), students from Konstanz and Karlsruhe discuss a wide range of AI topics (technology, humans, intelligence, psychology, creativity, education, information, work, competition, capitalism, democracy, and much more) in weekly online sessions (2 SWS). In addition to 3 ETCS credits (graded or ungraded), the course provides many new thought-provoking ideas and insights into the future topic of AI.

Workload in ECTS

3 ECTS: Reading the seminar texts in preparation for the sessions, 
active participation in the sessions (online), 
one-time: giving a presentation (individually or as a group, duration: approx. 30 minutes), 
one-time: one-page reflection report (personal results) after completion of the course

 

Lecturers

Dr. Monika Oertner has been a writing consultant and lecturer in academic writing at the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz since 2011. She also works as a freelance editor, author, and copy editor for various publishers and agencies. Since completing her studies, she has been involved in artificial intelligence and has published literary narratives, her own prompting tool (GOLDWAAGE), and several specialist articles on this topic. From 2006 to 2012, she was a publishing editor at Waldgut Verlag Frauenfeld. Prior to that, she completed an internship at Unionsverlag Zurich. In 2005, she received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Konstanz, where she had studied philosophy and German literature until 2001.

Kevin Schumacher has a master’s degree in German studies and studied at the University of Mannheim and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Since 2022, he has been a research assistant at the House of Competence (HoC) writing lab. In cooperation with the KIT Library, he develops online courses on collaborative academic research and writing. Since 2024, he has also been a member of the Office for Good Scientific Practice and Ethical Principles at the KIT Library.

Lisa Sielaff studied German language and literature (M.A.) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and has been a research assistant at the House of Competence (HoC) Writing Lab since 2022. Here, she is involved in designing online courses on collaborative writing and research and supervises the training of tutors for the Writing Lab’s writing consultation service.