Understand the World of Computer Science: Gain an initial overview of the field of computer science, understand the fundamental concepts of computer architecture, operating systems, and networks, and develop the mindset needed to systematically analyze and solve simple problems.

Think logically and systematically: You will learn set theory, relations, functions, and logic, apply proof techniques, and use graph theory to reason mathematically and solve simple computer science problems in a structured manner.

Broaden Your Horizons: Choose a course outside the field of computer science and expand your knowledge beyond your core discipline.

Write your first programs: You will learn the fundamentals of imperative and object-oriented programming in Java, use typical development tools, and independently implement algorithms to develop software applications.

Understand the technology behind computers: Learn how processors, memory, and digital circuits work, how computers process numbers and characters, and how software interacts directly with hardware. You will also explore modern processor architectures, high-speed memory systems, and the collaboration of multiple computers in networked and distributed environments.

Deepen your mathematical foundations: You will learn about number theory, linear algebra, and the fundamentals of cryptography. Using mathematical proof techniques, you will analyze and solve problems in computer science.

Develop complex software: You build on the object-oriented programming concepts in Java introduced in Programming 1 and apply modern Java techniques to develop complex software independently and as part of a team.

Develop software systematically: You'll learn object-oriented analysis and design and will be able to implement the entire software development process—from modeling to testing to integration—in a practical way.

Program close to the hardware: Develop software in C/C++, learn how processors and graphics cards work, and understand how computers process data and signals. You will also explore common computational problems and the efficient control of hardware.

Understand the Foundations of Computer Science: Explore logical reasoning, formal systems, and mathematical models that explain how computers solve problems. You will also learn how information is processed, what computers are capable of, and where their limitations lie.

Structure and Manage Data Effectively: Model relational and NoSQL databases, design and manage data structures, use query languages effectively, and integrate databases into applications through modern interfaces.

Analyze data systematically: You will learn combinatorics, probability theory, and statistics to solve data-driven problems in computer science in a well-founded manner.

Harness the Full Power of Modern Computers: Learn how multiple tasks can be processed simultaneously and how software efficiently utilizes multiple processors and threads. Explore synchronization, safe data access, and the development of high-performance parallel applications.

Explore different programming paradigms: You become familiar with a variety of programming languages and styles, ranging from scripting languages to systems programming and functional programming. Along the way, you develop an understanding of which languages and concepts are best suited for different types of applications.

Design professional software solutions: You systematically create and design user-friendly software according to high quality standards. Using practical examples, you gain a deeper understanding of the software development process, from analysis to delivery.

Build Modern Web Applications: Analyze the requirements of web applications, select suitable technologies, and develop websites and simple backends using technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and REST.

Turn Projects into Reality: Plan and implement your own IT project and apply your knowledge directly to real-world scenarios.

Lead Projects to Success: Plan, manage, and control projects using both traditional and agile methods such as Scrum and Kanban. Coordinate tasks, schedules, and roles to deliver projects efficiently and with high quality.

An Operating System for every Purpose: you learn to set up and administer different server and desktop operating systems for different use cases. In teams, you help each other and discuss problems and possible solutions.

Turn Projects into Reality: Plan and implement your own IT project and apply your knowledge directly to real-world scenarios.

Become a Problem Solver: Explore current topics in computer science and apply your knowledge to develop real-world systems.

Communicate Confidently in English: Strengthen your English language skills for professional environments, conduct meetings and negotiations, write technical documents, and present project results confidently in English.

Deliver Practical Solutions: Work in a small team to complete a real-world project from requirements analysis to customer delivery. Apply project management methods and combine your technical expertise with your interpersonal skills to successfully lead your team.

Work Successfully in Teams: Learn how to build effective teams, understand team roles, define goals, communicate effectively, provide constructive feedback, resolve conflicts, and coordinate teamwork in practical settings.

A Full Semester in Industry: Work in a company over an extended period, take responsibility for tasks within a team, document your work, and gain valuable professional experience. At the end of the internship, present your results in a final colloquium.

Reflect on Your Practical Experience: Present the results of your internship project, reflect on your work in a practical context, and demonstrate how you successfully applied theoretical knowledge in a professional environment.

Experience Professional Practice: Work in a company over an extended period, take responsibility for tasks within a team, document your work, and gain valuable professional experience.

Develop Your Key Skills: Strengthen essential skills such as teamwork, communication, and social responsibility through involvement in social or other relevant projects outside the regular curriculum.

When Computers Understand Language: Work with modern AI, develop applications such as chatbots or translators, and understand how machines analyze and generate text.

Create Modern Interactive 3D Worlds: Model 3D objects, develop materials and animations, work with lighting, rendering, and visual programming, and create interactive applications ranging from prototypes to complete games.

How Modern Software Runs Today: Install and manage containers, combine applications into distributed systems, and ensure that software runs reliably, scalably, and efficiently.

Behind the Logic of Software: Learn how software is structured, develop your own formal models, and use them to solve complex computational and software engineering problems.

Discover How Real Teams Work: Apply agile methods such as Scrum, Kanban, and XP while understanding the principles behind them, why they are effective, and how to use them successfully.

Computing with Modern Computer Architectures: Gain insight into processor architectures such as CPUs and GPUs and their areas of application. Explore parallel programming, hardware-software interaction, and program optimization. You will also learn about virtual machines and GPU programming for computationally intensive tasks.

Build Modern Web Applications: Learn how modern web applications are structured, develop your own applications, integrate APIs, and implement secure authentication and authorization systems.

Make Data Understandable: Analyze requirements, develop interactive visualizations, and apply appropriate visualization techniques to communicate data effectively.

How Secure Are Modern Vehicles? Investigate connected vehicles, identify vulnerabilities, and develop solutions to protect both systems and their users.

Your Own Research Project: Analyze a complex problem, research current technologies and methods, develop and validate your own solutions, and present your findings in a well-founded bachelor`s thesis.

Big Data Engineering and Analytics: Analyze massive datasets, develop high-performance systems, and use modern tools for large-scale data processing and analysis.

Understand how modern medicine looks inside the body: You learn how key imaging techniques such as X‑ray, MRI and ultrasound work, how they support the diagnosis of heart, lung and brain diseases, and gain insights into the planning and delivery of modern therapies. You also see how computers and AI assist physicians in analyzing medical images and making clinical decisions.

Connect Computer Science with Biology and Medicine: Learn how large biological datasets, such as genetic and protein data, are analyzed and interpreted. Apply algorithms and databases to better understand biological processes and support modern applications such as personalized medicine.

Teach computers how to see: You learn how to turn pixels into structured information – from color spaces and image operators through feature engineering and segmentation to deep learning methods for object detection, with a focus on medical imaging applications.

From Idea to Working Prototype: Develop creative solutions, work with hardware and software, and turn innovative ideas into practical prototypes.

Develop Applications for the Cloud: Build cloud-based applications, analyze security risks, and ensure that systems are reliable, secure, and resilient.

Cloud Forensics: Investigate incidents in cloud environments, use specialized forensic tools, and understand the challenges of modern cloud-based digital forensics.

Build distributed Applications collaboratively: Teams use Go to develop containerized microservices, which are then deployed in a public cloud in a scalable, reliable, and secure manner.

One App for Every Platform: Develop applications for smartphones, the web, and desktop systems from a single codebase using the Flutter framework.

Protect Industrial Systems: Analyze risks, identify vulnerabilities, and develop security concepts for industrial control systems.

The Human Factor in Cybersecurity: Identify people-based security threats, develop awareness campaigns, and evaluate their effectiveness.

Work Like a Security Consultant: Analyze customer requirements, develop practical solutions, and present your results professionally in a project report.

Understand How Computers See and Analyze Images: Learn how cameras capture data, how images are analyzed, and how information about shapes, motion, and 3D structures is extracted. Apply these methods in fields such as autonomous driving and industrial computer vision.

Design Software with Functional Programming: Learn how software is developed using the functional programming paradigm and how traditional design patterns evolve or are replaced by new approaches. Focus on structured software development in a functional programming language. In addition, develop a distributed application using common architectural patterns in a practical project.

Understand Financial Markets: Learn everything from investing to retirement planning and use programming to make data-driven financial decisions.

Develop Your Own Game: Work as part of a team, take on different roles, and develop a game — from the idea through story and design to the technical implementation.

In this elective course, you will develop project-based supplementary materials for the book "Game Engineering: Fundamental Concepts and Techniques", which will be published online under your own name.

Make Data Visible: Learn how to present information clearly, create your own visualizations, and evaluate what makes them effective.

Understand How AI Really Works: Develop your own neural networks, understand their architecture, and analyze how they learn and make decisions.

Improve and Automate Business Processes: Analyze business processes, optimize them, and apply modern automation methods.

Understand and Use Networks: Work with connections and structures, develop algorithms, and apply them to solve practical problems.

Understand Reliable and Scalable IT Systems: Learn how distributed systems remain stable and high-performing. Focus on fault tolerance, monitoring, and modern cloud and container architectures. You will also explore data distribution and the operation of highly available services.

Design Sustainable IT: Develop technologies that conserve resources and evaluate their impact on the environment, the economy, and society.

Publish Your Own App on the App Store: Develop applications for iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch and guide them through the entire publication process.

Everything is connected: You develop applications that enable devices to communicate with each other and exchange data for industrial and everyday use.

Understand IT and Its Impact: Explore how technology shapes society and critically examine its social, economic, and ethical implications.

Turn ideas into real products in an interdisciplinary team: Develop business models, implement creative concepts, and present your results in a compelling way to inspire potential customers, partners, or investors.

How far does a team get when AI is part of development from the very first idea? You will go through the entire path from concept through prototype to deployment — using local language models, your own coding harness, and a direct comparison with commercial systems.

How Can Data Remain Error-Free? Learn how information can be transmitted reliably despite interference, develop your own error-correcting codes, and understand how they are used in communication, image processing, and encryption.

Understand and Use Data and Knowledge as a Network: Learn how information is represented and structured as a network in knowledge graphs. The focus is on modeling relationships between data, integrating different data sources, and ensuring data quality. You will also develop simple knowledge graph applications and learn how to formulate queries and evaluate their results.

Make Machines Intelligent: Develop AI systems that act autonomously—for example in image recognition, speech processing, or motion control—and apply them to solve real-world problems.

Protect Secrets: Learn how data encryption works, how digital signatures ensure authenticity, and how secure communication is achieved.

Understand Life Through Mathematics: Learn how mathematical models describe and predict biological processes such as population growth and evolution. Use equations, discrete mathematics, and combinatorial concepts to identify and analyze patterns in nature. You will also develop an understanding of how to choose suitable models and adapt them to real biological data.

Teach Computers to Learn: Train machine learning models, apply different learning methods, and develop applications that automatically recognize patterns in data.

Backend Development Made Easy: Develop server-side applications, build APIs, and implement the business logic behind modern web applications.

Detecting Network Attacks: You analyze network traffic, identify suspicious activities, collect digital traces and evidence, and present the results in a clear and understandable way.

Develop an innovative solutions for a real world problem: Work in interdisciplinary teams on open-ended challenges, develop user-centered concepts using design thinking, build prototypes in a makerspace, and present your solutions to clients and a larger audience.

Test Systems Like a Hacker: Identify vulnerabilities, simulate cyberattacks, and demonstrate where systems need improvement.

You have an idea, which you want to develop further to a digital or physical products? Then experiment with different approaches, learn methods for digital fabrication and present a functional prototype as solution.

Unlocking the secrets of programs: You analyze binary programs without access to their source code, determine how they work, selectively modify their behavior, and exploit vulnerabilities.

Information security is always about risks—they must be identified, assessed, addressed, and mitigated in order to manage security within the organization. The methodologies used play a crucial role in this process, and you will learn about them in this module.

Program and Control Robots: Learn how robots are built and teach them to move and perform tasks.

Secure Smart Factories: Analyze networked production systems, identify security risks, and develop protection strategies for modern industrial environments.

Securing web applications: You protect applications against attacks, secure data transmission, and develop robust web systems.

Compute, Simulate, and Solve Real-World Problems: Learn the Julia programming language and the fundamentals of scientific computing, including numerical methods and the handling of rounding errors. Then develop your own simulations and applications for engineering, healthcare, and business while gaining insight into modern computational methods and their practical implementation.

Increase Online Visibility: Learn how websites achieve better search rankings and how to strategically use social media to drive growth.

Write secure programs: You identify common vulnerabilities in Java applications and learn how to prevent them effectively.

Monitor Cyberattacks in Real Time: Learn how a Security Operations Center (SOC) works and how cyber threats are detected, analyzed, and mitigated.

Your Own Project: Work independently on a research or development question, develop your own solution, and present your results clearly and effectively.

Support Others in Learning: Design and supervise exercises for fellow students and actively help them develop effective solutions while supporting their learning process.

Developing physical systems for people: You'll build intelligent phyiscal systems that solve real-world problems and are user-centered.

Turn Great Ideas into User-Friendly Solutions: Analyze problems, develop solutions, and design intuitive applications with an outstanding user experience.

Create Modern Interactive Media: Transform ideas into digital concepts, design user journeys and prototypes, and implement projects in teams—from practical product enhancements to visionary interaction design concepts.

Immerse Yourself in Virtual Worlds: Develop your own virtual reality applications, combine creative and technical approaches, and create engaging interactive experiences.

Develop Scalable Applications: Analyze the requirements of distributed information systems, select suitable architectures and software, and design, implement, and operate distributed software solutions in practical settings.

Work Methodically and Scientifically: Learn the principles of scientific research, critically evaluate academic literature, write scientific papers, and use models and structured argumentation to support your research.