Master of Arts (MA) in Public Management & Digitalization | PMD

Mandatory Modules 

Research Methods 

• Research Design & Methods I
  
• Research Design & Methods II
  

Modules from the core area of Public Management & Digitalization

• Public Management & Digitale Transformation

• Public Administration

• Digitization in the public sector

• Administrative Law

Elective Modules core PMD

• Governance and Controlling of Public Sector Organizations

• Administrative Informatics and Artificial Intelligence

• Selected Topics: Public Management & Digitization I + II

^{(e.g. International Administration & Conflict Management; Digital services of general interest; data spaces & digitization of the media)}

• Comparative Public Policy Analysis
• Human Decision Making
• Fundamentals of Law
• Leadership
• Mobility Innovations & Digitalization

Other Elective Modules 

Advanced Methods

• Advanced Methods I
• Advanced Methods II

• International Relations
• Global Governance
• War & Peace
• European Institutions
• Comparative Politics & Institutions
• Political Behavior & Public Opinion
• Modern Political Theory
• Inequality & Justice
• Computational Political Science
• Applied Data Analysis

Max 2 elective modules from other study programs. E.g. on Mobility, Trade & Logistics; Chair of Economic & Transport Policy; innovation management & transformation.

Research Project (optional)

• Research Project (Elinor-Ostrom-Projekt)
• Research Colloquium
• Advanced Methods

Internship (minimum of 6 weeks, optional)

Semester 4 | to the extent of 24 ECTS

Final Module 

• Masterthesis
• Disputation

Semester 1-4 | to the extent of 4 ECTS

Optional modules that do not count toward the final grade.

• Workshop Creativity & Performativity
• Workshop Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship
• TandemCoaching