Erasmus and Incoming Students

Course Title: 3D Construction & Visualisation 1, Solid works
Course Code: DPMM13DKUIL
Number of Credits: 3 ECTS
Observation: Restricted number of places available for Incoming studentes
Exam Modalities: Final exam
Course Contents: Introducing 3D modelling (volume modelling); orientation in the virtual arena; creating simple to semi-complex construction parts; creating simple assemblies using links; basics of drawing and dimensioning; importing templates and drawings; assigning materials to bodies and surfaces; basic rendering techniques (camera, stage, light, shadow).

Course Title: Anthropology and Design
Course Code: DPMBPool
Number of Credits: 1 ECTS
Course Contents: Similarities of Design and Anthropology: Design in Nature, Natural Selection vs. Productselection, Natural Selection vs. Sexual Selection; Responsibilities of Designers: Sustainability, Durability; Society Problems and Design Solutions: Distribution, Education, Health

Course Title: Brand Development 
Course Code: DPMBINC
Number of Credits: 4 ECTS
Course Contents: In this course you will get a good understanding about brand strategy and management: the value of brands, how we set up brands strategically from scratch and how we then create a coherent and distinct, attractive experience of the brand across multiple touchpoints. You will learn to analyze existing brands, experience outstanding brand touchpoints in real life, learn from them and create a new brand in small interdisciplinary teams. We will work at the intersection of brand management, marketing and customer experience design and bring together strategic thinking and design.

Course Title: Design Leadership
Course Code: DPMM3DLEUE
Number of Credits: 2 ECTS
Course Contents: With the ever-growing necessity of organizations and industries to become more global in scope, managers are increasingly being challenged to develop strategies applicable across countries and cultures. This course seeks to provide students with the skills, knowledge, and sensitivity required to become proactive problem-solvers of organizations no matter the context (Ethno Capability). Competitive Intelligence is the practice of gathering and analysing information about competitors in order to gain an advantage in the marketplace. The primary purpose of this course is to attempt to provide students with an ethno capability that will gain them a competitive advantage upon graduation.

Course Title: Freehand Drawing (Professionalisation portfolio: Propaedeutic Freehand Drawing 1)
Course Code: DPMM1ADAIL
Number of Credits: 1 ECTS
Observation: Restricted number of places available for Incoming students (5 places), also open for undergraduate students.
Course Contents: Basics design sketching, analogue and digital.

Course Title: Intercultural Communication
Course Code: DPMM3ICCUE
Number of Credits: 1 ECTS
Course Contents: This course aims to help you develop the negotiating skills needed to meet the challenges facing today’s executives. The course integrates the experiential and intellectual components of negotiation. First, it will help to develop the sophistication to analyze bargaining and conflict relationships and to learn (through class discussion and self-assessment) about your own individual bargaining style.
Second, this course uses various techniques to help to understand the basic elements of negotiation; when to reach a deal and when to walk away; how to negotiate in teams; how to negotiate with multiple opponents; and how to handle international negotiations.

Course Title: Multi-Role-Project (Design, Marketing, Tec)
Course Code: DPMM1MRPPT
Number of Credits: 7 ECTS
Observation: Admission depends on portfolio and availability of places. 
Exam Modalities: Project
Course Contents: Carrying out several short projects in various roles within the groups 1. Product design, art direction: graphics, advertising; 2. Product management: marketing, strategy;  3. Technology/production.

 Only open for Master students

Course Title: Photo Design & Image Composition
Course Code: DPMMPool
Number of Credits: 1 ECTS
Course Contents: Specialisation: Architecture / Interior, Landscape / Nature, Product / Still Life, People / Action, Improve images; Practice session; Create your portfolio; Digital Workflow. Focus: Develop your own style

Course Title: Photography in context (run by the MultiMediaArt Department)
Course Code: DPMMPool
Number of Credits: 4 ECTS
Exam Modalities: Project
Course Contents: Image and Text - beyond illustration: In the context of graphic design, images and text are usually reserved for representation and illustration. A text provides written information, images provide visual information. At best, these elements may be graphically manipulated to serve their illustrative purposes, but what happens when the context of an image is changed through the use of text? We will be exploring the many possibilities of combining image and text. The first half of the semester will be brain-storming, collecting and talking about the aesthetics of text, language, symbolism and their relationship specifically to photography. The second half of the semester will be dedicated to personal projects, fom their conception to completion by the end of the semester.

Takes place at Campus Urstein

Course Title: Professionalisierungs-Portfolio: Social Design
Course Code: DPMMPool
Number of Credits: 1 ECTS
Course Contents: Design should foremost serve to solve existing problems rather than creating new ones. Through the ability of moving from a given is situation to a could or would situation, design is an important key to helping people directly. In short, this class will explore how to design for the real world. We will look at important fields such as design for social innovation, humanitarian design and design for prosocial behaviour.  For the completion of the course, students are required to write a short scientific essay on a social subject of their choice.

Course Title: Symposium: Ethics and Sustainability (Different lecturers)
Course Code: DPMM1ENAVO
Number of Credits: 1 ECTS
Course Contents: The need for professional-ethical orientation has never been as great as it has become in the past decade. At this stage, we are being confronted with the topic of ethics from all directions: bioethics, medical ethics, animal ethics, ethics and politics, ethics and economy, ethics as a school subject instead of religion …from personalized ethics to environmental ethics, from day-to-day to systems ethics …. our very existence seems to be sailing in a sea of ethical and morally charged issues – particularly because the two terms – ethics and sustainability – are being used more and more ambiguously and prolifically. This symposium will therefore attempt to shed some light on the question of terminology and to sensitize participants to the questions behind professional ethics and sustainability. Through this symposium, participants will gain an initial general overview of the issues which will then be followed by a deeper insight into the material via follow-up workshops held under the guidance of associated supervisors.

Course Title: Visual Activism 
Course Code: DPMBPool
Number of Credits: 4 ECTS
Exam Modalities: Project
Course Contents: Visual Activism is a hands-on class teaching visual communication skills of modern poster design. Through a series of lectures and creative exercises, basic graphic design knowledge and current visual trends are transmitted. During the lectures, students will learn to implement a range of techniques such as abstraction, composition,the use of typography an other modern techniques such as animation in their designs, resulting in one larger project. Part of the class is also the critical reflection of design qualities. This unit is suitable for both beginner and advanced capabilities.

Takes place at campus Urstein

Course Title: Business English 1
Course Code: DPMBPool
Number of Credits: 2 ECTS
Language Level: B1/B2 (CEFR)
Course Contents: Students will be able to hold conversations (especially in the professional business sector) in English. Among other things, alumni can present products in official (formal) contexts, use clear and appropriate formulations for the respective situation and express themselves grammatically correctly. 

Course Title: Second Foreign Language 1: Italian, Spanish, Swedish,
Italian: DPMBPool
Swedish: DPMBPool
Spanish:  DPMBPool
Number of Credits: 2 ECTS
Language Level: A1 (CEFR)
Course Contents: The use of everyday expressions and simple sentences, both spoken and written, in order to be able to describe people, places and countries, to be able to give a detailed account of themselves and their own environment, as well as the ability to express their objectives and interests.

Course Title: Second Foreign Language 2: Italian, Spanish, Swedish
Course Codes:
Italian: DPMBPool
Swedish: DPMBPool
Spanish: DPMBPool, 
Number of Credits: 2 ECTS
Language Level: A2 (CEFR)
Course Contents: Developing communication skills; different topics such as: describing a usual day; describing places/destinations; talking about preferences, clothes, travel, means of transport, climate etc.

Course Title: Accompanying Project Management 1 (Basic Skills & Teambuilding)
Course Code: DPMM2BPMRC
Number of Credits: 2 ECTS
Course Contents: Accompanying management training of the team leaders with a focus on constructing a team with meaningful and effective interventions in the various phases; creating suitable framework conditions for effective teamwork acquiring the most important leadership tools. Differentiating between functions and roles within the team. Group dynamic processes.

Course Title: Anthropology and Design
Course Code: DPMBPool
Number of Credits: 1 ECTS
Course Contents: Similarities of Design and Anthropology: Design in Nature, Natural Selection vs. Productselection, Natural Selection vs. Sexual Selection; Responsibilities of Designers: Sustainability, Durability; Society Problems and Design Solutions: Distribution, Education, Health

Course Title: Brand Development 
Course Code: DPMBINC
Number of Credits: 4 ECTS
Course Contents: In this course you will get a good understanding about brand strategy and management: the value of brands, how we set up brands strategically from scratch and how we then create a coherent and distinct, attractive experience of the brand across multiple touchpoints. You will learn to analyze existing brands, experience outstanding brand touchpoints in real life, learn from them and create a new brand in small interdisciplinary teams. We will work at the intersection of brand management, marketing and customer experience design and bring together strategic thinking and design.

Course Title: Design Management
Course Code: DPMM2DMMIL
Number of Credits: 2 ECTS
Course Contents: The Design Management course covers the topics of design theory, design strategy, design planning, design thinking, design leadership, design-orientated cor-porate structure and interdisciplinary cooperation.

 Takes place in June

Course Title: Global Competitiveness
Course Code: DPMMPool
Number of Credits: 2 ECTS
Course Contents: This course seeks to provide students with the skills, knowledge, and sensitivity required to become proactive problem-solvers of organizations no matter the context (Ethno Capability). Competitive Intelligence is the practice of gathering and analyzing information about competitors in order to gain an advantage in the marketplace. The primary purpose of this course is to attempt to provide students with an ethno capability that will gain them a competitive advantage upon graduation.

Course Title: Integrated Project 1 (Brand - Design - Communication)
Course Code: DPMM2ITPPT
Number of Credits: 6 ECTS
Course Contents: Comprehensive project in design & product management with focus on branding, brand management, (online) marketing.

Course Title: Professionalisation portfolio: Prototyping with Arduino
Course Code: DPMM2PWAIL
Number of Credits: 1 ECTS
Course Contents: The 'Prototyping with Arduino' course is an introductory course to using Arduino in design. In this course you will learn how to use Arduino to create interactive prototypes incorporating elements such as light, gesture, touch, and sound. The course structure is a mix of lectures and workshops.

Course Title: Photo Design & Image Composition
Course Code: DPMMPool
Number of Credits: 1 ECTS
Course Contents: Specialisation: Architecture / Interior, Landscape / Nature, Product / Still Life, People / Action, Improve images; Practice session; Create your portfolio; Digital Workflow. Focus: Develop your own style

Course Title: Visual Activism 
Course Code: DPMBPool
Number of Credits: 4 ECTS
Exam Modalities: Project
Course Contents: Visual Activism is a hands-on class teaching visual communication skills of modern poster design. Through a series of lectures and creative exercises, basic graphic design knowledge and current visual trends are transmitted. During the lectures, students will learn to implement a range of techniques such as abstraction, composition,the use of typography an other modern techniques such as animation in their designs, resulting in one larger project. Part of the class is also the critical reflection of design qualities. This unit is suitable for both beginner and advanced capabilities.

Takes place at campus Urstein

Course Title: Photography in context (run by the MultiMediaArt Department)
Course Code: DPMMPool
Number of Credits: 4 ECTS
Exam Modalities: Project
Course Contents: Image and Text - beyond illustration: In the context of graphic design, images and text are usually reserved for representation and illustration. A text provides written information, images provide visual information. At best, these elements may be graphically manipulated to serve their illustrative purposes, but what happens when the context of an image is changed through the use of text? We will be exploring the many possibilities of combining image and text. The first half of the semester will be brain-storming, collecting and talking about the aesthetics of text, language, symbolism and their relationship specifically to photography. The second half of the semester will be dedicated to personal projects, fom their conception to completion by the end of the semester.

Takes place at Campus Urstein

Course Title: Business English 1
Course Code: DPMB1Pool
Number of Credits: 2 ECTS
Language Level: B1/B2 (CEFR)
Course Contents: Students will be able to hold conversations (especially in the professional business sector) in English. Among other things, alumni can present products in official (formal) contexts, use clear and appropriate formulations for the respective situation and express themselves grammatically correctly.