ARS REFLECTIONIS. Thinking and Acting Responsibly in Engineering, Science, and Innovation

  • Type: Block (B)
  • Chair: Zentrale Einrichtungen - House of Competence (HoC)
  • Semester: SS 2025
  • Time: Tue 2025-04-01
    09:00 - 09:05, once


    Tue 2025-05-27
    08:00 - 09:30, once

    Tue 2025-06-24
    08:00 - 09:30, once

    Tue 2025-07-29
    08:00 - 09:30, once


  • Lecturer: Elisabeth Does
    Marcel Krüger
    Dr. phil. Simon Derpmann
  • Lv-No.: 9003013
  • Information: Blended (On-Site/Online)
Content

Rs ReflecTIonis is a modular online course for self-study. The aim is to enable students to critically reflect on the ethical challenges of their own subject and their own future professional activities. In doing so, course-specific components on concrete questions of assuming responsibility can be combined with general components on the basics of ethics and normative argumentation. The individual components each contain a video-recorded micro-lecture, which can be viewed via ILIAS, as well as additional course material for self-study. Optional Q&A sessions and workshops are offered to clarify questions and deepen discussions in exchange with the lecturers.

The course is completed via a multiple-choice test in presence. Three dates per semester are offered for the final test.

The course is continuously developed and supervised by the Academy for Responsible Research, Teaching, and Innovation (ARRTI) and is offered in cooperation with the House of Competence (HoC).

No restriction on participation, registration possible at any time.

Procedure:

  1. Registration for the online seminar in self-study ILIAS.
  2. Exam registration for the multiple-choice final test in presence on studium@hoc.kit.edu

Workload for ECTS:

2 ECTS: Multiple-choice final exam

Lecturers:

Elisabeth Does and Marcel Krüger are academic staff members of the KIT-Academy for Responsible Research, Teaching, and Innovation (ARRTI). In the ARRTI pillar "Teaching", they are responsible for developing and offering innovative courses on issues of ethics and responsibility. Together, they support students in further developing their ability to make ethical judgments and reflect.

Michael Kühler is Professor of "Applied Ethics of Social Responsibility" at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Previously, from 2020 to 2024, he was also an academic assistant at ARRTI. During this time, he and Elisabeth Does designed and implemented the online course ARS REFLECTIONIS.

Marcel Krüger administers the online course and conducts the final exam together with Elisabeth Does.

Language of instructionGerman
Organisational issues

Ablauf:

  1. Anmeldung zum Online-Seminar im Selbststudium auf ILIAS
  2. Prüfungsanmeldung zum Multiple-Choice-Abschlusstest in Präsenz auf studium@hoc.kit.edu