Psychology of Digitalisation || Digitalisation of Psychology
In the Master program Psychology of Digitalisation || Digitalisation of Psychology (PD||DP), students examine how the increasing availability of digital tools and services affects human behavior in everyday life generally, and in psychological professions specifically. This specialisation places a particular focus on the interactions between psychology and technology. As the name suggests, PD||DP consists of two tracks: In the first track, Psychology of Digitalisation, students engage with topics such as online communication, media effects, and human-computer interaction. In the second track, Digitalisation of Psychology, they will learn a range of technical, methodological, and statistical skills to better evaluate psychological research, separate facts from rhetoric, and understand the evidential basis of the public discourse around digitalisation. Taken together, students acquire digital competencies related to data and services they will encounter in their careers – be it in clinical settings, human resources, or research – such as privacy and data protection, statistical and methodological literacy, and programming.
This topic area offers graduates a wide range of career opportunities, such as in research, consulting, data analytics, development of digital applications, usability testing, or in the fields of data protection and IT security. For those seeking careers in academic research, this specialisation provides a rigorous training in critical analysis of research, as well as technical, coding, and Open Science skills that are highly desirable when recruiting PhD students. In PD||DP, students have the opportunity to work on practical projects and apply their knowledge directly. For example, students may manage a project to test the reproducibility and robustness of results from published research using modern digital tools, or support the transformation towards “industry 4.0” in a company. The importance of digitalisation will continue to increase in the future. Understanding the interaction between psychology and technology, and being trained in a variety of skills in this area, will prepare graduates of the PD||DP specialisation for dynamically changing job demands for psychologists.
PD||DP Main Topic Area (30 ECTS) according to SP2021
- Psychology of Digitalisation (Vorlesung) - 3 ECTS
- Digitalisation of Psychology (Vorlesung) - 3 ECTS
- Improving the credibility of future research: Digital project management, data preparation and visualisation (Seminar) - 5 ECTS
- at least 19 ECTS, free choice of other PD||DP seminars
total 30 ECTS
PD||DP Supplementary Area (15 ECTS) according to SP2021
- free choice of PD||DP seminars
total 15 ECTS
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