Computational Social Systems

This study programme is interdisciplinary in a double sense. It enables studies at two universities and in two subject areas. Students may choose from the fields of Business Analytics (Business Administration/Computer Science), Societies, Technologies and Social Research (Sociology/Computer Science), Human Factors (Psychology/Computer Science) and Law and Computer Science (Law/Computer Science).Computational social systems are created through the interaction of algorithms and user behaviour: The interactions of users with each other and with the system itself produce data from which algorithms determine results. In the Master’s programme, you study socio-technical systems in which people, society, the economy and our legal framework are analysed together with IT.All areas of our working life are increasingly permeated by digitisation. To successfully implement this process, boundary role functions that mediate between engineers and other professionals are becoming increasingly important. In addition, jobs in interdisciplinary areas such as human-machine interaction, applied IT law including data protection, and data mining could be considered.